"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 , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
We all have to decide at what point we must resist, before we are a minority. I hope and pray it never comes to that, but I like to be mentally prepared. For me and mine, if my 2nd amendment rights are threatened (think confiscation) or if my children are threatened with removal (CPS et al) I am prepared to go hot. It sounds like I have to start considering what my red line is in terms of the IRS. I would urge everyone to consider this and make this decision for themselves. Be ready friends.
"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 , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
We all have to decide at what point we must resist, before we are a minority. I hope and pray it never comes to that, but I like to be mentally prepared. For me and mine, if my 2nd amendment rights are threatened (think confiscation) or if my children are threatened with removal (CPS et al) I am prepared to go hot. It sounds like I have to start considering what my red line is in terms of the IRS. I would urge everyone to consider this and make this decision for themselves. Be ready friends.