“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 Solzhenitsyn
Amen
Criminal mentality has taken over much of local government in the US. Officials at all levels are party to the criminal abuses that flow like a foul river from bureaucratic offices across the country.
Court systems are complicit in this corruption. Judges have the authority to control these abuses but they do little or nothing, demonstrating their complicity.
District Attorney offices are notorious for enforcing guilty pleas when a not guilty verdict is virtually assured with adequate representation.
Our entire governmental system is riddled with corruption. The extreme vitriolic opposition to president Trump is the clear manifestation of the criminal cabal threatened by his administration. We must do more tan pray for him.
We must develop citizen vanguards aimed at ridding us of the vile creatures that are ensconced in government. Identifying and exposing them is our highest priority.
Re #3. Good quote about government having too much power. Here’s another:
Quotes from “The Russian Revolution” by Alan Moorehead 1958 “…but the fact remained that this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals...”
Yup. Time for someone to take out the trash.