Posted on 03/21/2009 4:00:40 PM PDT by pissant
I'd like to share an excerpt from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archepelago. It's footnote 5, from Chapter One of Volume One.
"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 if he would return alive and had to say goodbye 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 in terror at every bang of the downstairs door, and every step on the staircase, but had understood that that they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush with half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers and whatever was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that youd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about that Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffer what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalins thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If if We didnt love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! (Arthur Ransome describes a workers meeting in Yaroslavl in 1921. Delegates were sent to the workers from the Central Committee in Moscow to confer on the substance of the argument about trade unions. The representative of the opposition, Y. Larin, explained to the trade workers that their trade union must be their defense against the administration, that they possessed rights which they had won and upon which no one else had any right to infringe. The workers however were completely indifferent, simply not comprehending whom they still needed to be defended against and why they still needed any rights. When the spokesman rebuked them for their laziness and for getting out of hand, and demanded sacrifices from them overtime work without pay, reductions in food, military discipline in the factory administration this aroused great elation and applause.) We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
A few paragraphs later he wrote..."Every man has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself."
Anyone doubt communism is here now?”
I’m still stuck on “How did “we” elect Obama?
It could only have happened with full co-operation from the Republican carpetbaggers.
There isn’t going to be a “civilian security force”. Not if I have anything to say about it.
Not communism but literally Italian model fascism . Yes you can still own your own company ie the means of production ,however the govt. declares that you may only make X amount of profit anything beyond that is siezed by the govt. That is Mussolini style fascism . We are in for a very rough time ahead.
Post pix of Obama’s ACORN goons in Connecticut at the homes of AIG families. Let’s get this reality show going yaheah.
He wants to spend $6 billion on this?
Hmmmmmm....looks like the time to mount a MAJOR tax revolt is getting closer.
I see our newly elected criminal, Roe, voted for this obscenity. Time to start calling his offices ‘from back home’. The fool also voted for the unconstitutional targeted tax on AIG people.
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Great .gif potlatch -
Time to subpoena the names of the ACORN branch heads and their membership lists. This guy needs to be outed, immediately, for the Obamagoon he is! He handles that megaphone just liek the Palestinian goons carry their AKs in street marches.
Here is the link to Which Repub. voted yes.
http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/sublist/5358?party=Republican&vote=Aye
Dems 251 yeas, 1 nay, 2 abstain
Reps 70 yeas, 104 nay, 4 abstain
Thanks devolve.
My computer has slowed to a crawl here in the past couple of minutes. Just so you know.
The Democrat Party platforms hidden Soros Slush Fund
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/20/the-democrat-party-platforms-hidden-soros-slush-fund/
Social Investment Fund Network. The program would provide federal money to social entrepreneurs and leading nonprofit organizations [that] are assisting schools, lifting families out of poverty, filling health care gaps, and inspiring others to lead change in their own communities. The Democrat Party promises to support these results-oriented innovators by creating an office to coordinate government and nonprofit efforts and then showering a series of grants on the chosen groups to replicate these programs nationwide.
This George Soros Slush Fund would be political payback in spades. Obama owes much of his Chicago political success to financial support from radical, left-wing billionaire and leading social entrepreneur Soros.
In concert with his mandatory volunteerism pitch and $6 billion anti-poverty plan, Obama called for the creation of a Social Entrepreneurship Agency to dispense the funds in unspecified amounts.
Even more troubling is how the Democrat Party/Obama plan would siphon away untold millions or billions of public tax dollars into the Soros empire without taxpayer recourse. Obama promises accountability measures to ensure the money is spent wisely.
Soros has donated some $5 billion of his fortune to left-wing non-profit groups through the Open Society Institute which is committed to Soross militant ideology of toppling the fascist tyranny of the United States, which he says must undergo de-Nazification in favor of justice. The mob at Obama-endorsing MoveOn, purveyors of the General Betray Us smear against Commanding General, MNF-I, David Petraeus, is the most notorious Soros-backed political arm.
Point in case: ACORN. As Ive reported before, Obamas old friends at the Chicago-based non-profit now take in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers.
Where are fiscal conservatives on this far-Left boondoggle? Well, if youre wondering why the McCain campaign doesnt raise hell over this proposed left-wing non-profit/government pipeline, its because McCain himself is a Soros beneficiary. His Reform Institute, a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group focused on campaign finance reform, was funded with Soros-funded Open Society Institute and Tides Foundation.
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“CAPITALIS< IS ORGAINIZED CRIME” - “STOP AIG”
Muzzies & ACORN against AIG employers homes
- Funded in the billions now by your income taxes by Congress and Hussein II
I heard the CT State Police were co-ordinating closely with the private security guards hired by AIG employees
That neckscarf has become popular even with some politicians. Pelosi has been pictured wearing it. Arafat wore it on his head with the cord.
Forget what the name of it is.
All right on the money, VR-21. I, for one, am more than ready to let it fly. I’ve watched this crap happen over a long period of time, and I’m sick of it. We only need a handful of leaders to get things rolling, I’m firmly convinced of that. There’s been a slow burn happening across our country for the past 20 years and it will boil over soon. You are completely right that some of us will take the fall on the front end, being among the first to stand up. But that’s always the way it is.
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Pelosi and her husband (on her Senate payroll) made/make millions churning up illegal aliens and Muzzies and unions
But no unions are allowed at her California vineyards and restaurants !!!!!
And let mine give good nourishment to the tree. I owe it.
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