Someone explain to me how we aren’t pre-Soviet Russia? They want to ban travel for “tax-accused” Americans? GTFO! What are we, east Germany pre-1989? JHC!
Certainly looking that way! AS my neighbor pointed out, the government already makes attempts to pull the passport and restrict other basic freedoms for Americans hit with child support or alimony (which given the outrageous excesses of these court-ordered, slave-like appropriations of assets, hit millions of people in the country). So we’re already well on the way, Hatch’s latest betrayal would just be icing on the cake.
We ARE pre-Soviet Russia, with a little Mao thrown in.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Solzhenitsyn