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To: from occupied ga

When someone suggests incarceration for people who say things they disagree with, Hitler might not be best comparison. Closer to today’s Russian government.

The post I first replied to is the antithesis of free speech. I still believe in free speech.


35 posted on 11/03/2015 12:04:05 PM PST by sakic
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To: sakic
Closer to today's Russian government.

Think of it as a war between those who want to enslave us and those of us who don't want to be enslaved. Politely asking them to respect our rights hasn't worked. And speaking of the Russians

"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."

36 posted on 11/03/2015 1:09:57 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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