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To: Dick Bachert

I’m ready. Some of them won’t be going home. Remember 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! 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.”


16 posted on 08/28/2013 9:20:42 AM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Noumenon
Remember Solzhenitsyn

Solzhenitsyn knew. We don't have to ask Claire Wolfe if it's time yet either. We're grownups and can tell time on our own. The tyranny of bureaucratic despotism is upon us. It's been brought to us by those who want the gov't to be all-powerful so it may right all wrongs, real or imagined. They have no freaking clue as to how corrupting such power is or how to put the genie back in the bottle.

In the back of my mind, my ruthless subconscious is telling me I should constructively notice the fact of the gov't pre-classifying me a terrorist because of what I believe, what I know, and what I think. I may think of myself as "law-abiding" but the gov't controls everything about the law for the convenience of the government at the expense of my rights. Thusly I know I may become a dangerous would-be felon in an instant without any overt act on my part. I live in a world where what I think is "probable cause", and it's a "rebuttable presumption" that I'm thinking those evil evil evil thoughts...

47 posted on 08/28/2013 10:35:11 AM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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