To: Perseverando
4 posted on
11/04/2019 10:08:53 AM PST by
null and void
(Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
To: null and void
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.
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
26 posted on
11/04/2019 10:40:29 AM PST by
Perseverando
(Liberals, Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
To: null and void
Thanks, this is being borrowed and used.
28 posted on
11/04/2019 10:42:47 AM PST by
Grampa Dave
(The line that separated satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (Thanks to jonascord)!)
To: null and void
Good and substantial reason would be to protect myself from the illegal alien criminals that the feds allow into our country.
33 posted on
11/04/2019 10:51:43 AM PST by
Texas resident
(Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
To: null and void
Pretty good assessment...
51 posted on
11/04/2019 11:33:23 AM PST by
DoughtyOne
(Pledge: "...and to the Democracy for which it stands..." I give up. Use the democRat meme...)
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