Used in Johnny Tremain movie they made us watch in fourth grade. Never read the book.
Their ballot box was taken away long before...
“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! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
If we can’t secure the ballot box...sooner or later...next box.
We ARE at UNSECURED BALLOT BOX.
Just like Patriots dumped tea in the harbor, Patriots need to dump their cable tv
Great post. I just ordered this flag. Thanks.
Proud to say my 5th G-GF John Updike was a “Son of Liberty”, a suspect in the Burning of the Gaspee, a member of RI Committee of Correspondence, RI Council of War, he piloted the French Fleet into Newport Harbor and privateer.
Committees of Correspondence and Committees of Safety