[fr_freak]

Now I know how the (freedom-loving) Germans felt in the 1930s, and the Russians under Lenin and Stalin, too, for that matter, watching their country head to a bad end, but apparently powerless to stop it...

We're not powerless to stop it - we're the most heavily-armed civilian population in the world. The Russians and Germans were disarmed. The only question is whether or not we have the balls to do something.

[Unc1e_Ivan]

I may have been a little too subtle with the word “apparently”...

Solzhenitsyn had a good quote about this, saying that if the people had met the secret police with even just pitchforks and clubs, they would have thought twice about arresting anyone.

BTW, do what, exactly? Wait for the goon squads? I made my pitch before the elections, but got shot down right here on FR by the “true conservatives” that stayed home on election day... Accomplices to the crime, in my opinion.