[Junk Silver]

“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? 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 you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[John S Mosby]

Such a poignant passage. This man lived through Hell, and can tell us all about totalitarianism and a police state of the LEFT or the RIGHT.

The need for “order” with all the toys sold cheap to them by the military— means they will use the toys, and that includes completely overboard use of force. This is a police state.

And Aleksander tells us what to do— stand up to them, and know some will be wounded or killed. As we did George III and his agents.