“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
The above quote was a comment posted on an article detailing the Supreme Court’s decision to not even hear Chris Hedges’ case on unlawful detention of the people at the whim of tyranny. Gulags or FEMA camps, the future of Liberty will be rekindled in the camps. Or maybe even not at all.
But these are just words. How we act and react, mark the measure of a people and their future. If we do not act, our future is set in slavery. Most of the people have not only been robbed of everything, they are in debt to the government. Currently each taxpayer owes over $1.1 million in debt and the government holds most of the people’s mortgages. I do not consider slavery in a police state to be freedom.
Our biggest threats are fear and division. I understand the fear. This is how our founding fathers handled this same fear: “With a firm reliance on divine Providence”. The division is our greatest threat since it comes from both outside and inside. Do we need a major attack against freedom to coordinate? If this is what is takes, I can only say “LOOK AROUND YOU”.
David DeGerolamo
SOBERING. Just like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XA_yW7Z5OM#t=1553
No one writes like Solzhenitsyn…..
One could cry that we never learn from history even when those telling it are still alive or so recently deceased. I wish he was still alive to tell us how close our situation is to what he lived through.