“Consider the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “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!”
It’s funny that you refer to Solzhenitsyn’s comments against the Gulag and a totalitarian state, but you advocate a Gulag-like imprisonment and or summary execution for drug users.
I think your attitude is way premature as we do not YET live in a police state or an unresponsive tyranny. There are still non-violent solutions to the problem of police breaking into the wrong houses. We should try them before burning down the country.
I read Laz’ post at 83 and there was nothing in there about gulag style imprisonment of drug users. In fact from what I read, he’s giving them plenty of freedom to come and go as they please.
However, yes, this is becoming a police state. We need to resist.
By any means necessary.