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?
After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria [Government limo] sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked.
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!
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The GULAG Archipelago
An opinion that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
When I was young, there wasn’t nothing scarier than the Commies. They were out there, waiting to destroy all freedom and destroy all the world in a nuclear holocaust. You know, a real problem — not like everyone worrying about it getting a couple degrees hotter because of some so-called global warming.
Initially, I was excited. After Communism, we didn’t really have a good enemy. No one thought them Islamic terrorists were going to actually take over the world. Communists are a real enemy — worthy of America — but then all my hopes were dashed when I took a good look at these new Commies.
They suck.
They’re all just a bunch of lazy, whiny morons. I mean, the Commies of old were stupid and evil, but they at least knew enough to be a threat, like how to build a gulag. I doubt these Commies could build a desk from IKEA without having their mom help them. And they ain’t building no nuclear bombs, because they haven’t read any books on nuclear physics. I doubt they’ve even actually read Marx — ‘cause it ain’t got no wizarding school in it. All these Commies want to do is whine about how they have to pay rent.
Could you imagine Rambo going after these Commies? They’d just be running for their safe spaces. They ain’t going to take over the world; I doubt that Ocasio-Cortez could tie her own shoes without making a mess of it. And they ain’t going to execute dissidents — they’re just going to get you kicked off Twitter then order themselves some avocado toast and call it a day. They are a disgrace to the Commies from the good old days — whom I hated but have respect for.
What those Commies need to do is stop shouting about Russia and Trump and go talk to Putin and ask him nicely how to be big, good, scary Commies. They need to put down their phones and stop their tick-tocking and learn how to be proper, evil Commies — the threat America deserves. And then they need to come back here and try to destroy this country and its freedoms properly — Red Dawn style — so we can have the big war against Commies this country needs.
Go here to read the rest. Maybe the Puppetmasters’ Administration can pay the Chinese in made up money to build the American Gulag?
Let us thank God for the 2nd Amendment. It will save many lives.
Beware some Communists in Congress. They will try to do real harm. Namely Jamie Raskin, lead impeachment manager.
https://www.aim.org/aim-column/progressive-congressman-defends-fathers-soviet-ties/
These communists are just as much a threat as the old communists but in more real and immediate ways.
The old threat was an odious system they intended to impose on an unwilling world by force. Their threat was an unrealistic but potentially globally destructive nuclear holocaust. Threatening, but the threat was easy to see, identify, resist.
This new commie threat is more insidious and more dangerous. These are agents of chaos in our midst. They present themselves, like a virus, as one of us but they carry within (like a virus) hidden, deadly toxin at the molecular level. Given enough time to invade, the invisible virus extends beyond the molecular, makes itself known and takes over the entire body – killing its host. By the time it is known, it is possibly too late.
These are chaos agents. They do not aim to create an alternate entry into the global system of sovereign nation-states. They aim to burn it all to the ground.
The Joker is their patron, their guiding dark force. Theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is to burn it up and make us die.
We do not reason with these types; argue; logic; debate; compromise. We can only identify them as a mortal threat in our Body and impose the antidote medicine by force.