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Title: How "Protect & Serve" become "Search & Destroy"
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Published: Oct 5, 2014
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Post Date: 2014-10-05 14:21:02 by Lod
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#1. To: Lod (#0)

“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 IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. - George Carlin

Luke The Spook  posted on  2014-10-05   16:35:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

#2. To: Luke The Spook (#1)

George and Alek nailed it.

Thanks.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2014-10-05   16:43:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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