Well, it looks like the time to choose is nigh–Sherrif Joe claims “the President is going to act“. I don’t think anyone seriously thought that President Obama would curb his natural tendencies to run roughshod over our Constitution, but saying it openly and fearlessly is another thing entirely. We are about to find out exactly what happens when a government turns on its own citizens. It is most certainly not going to be pretty, and we need to seriously ponder our actions as a free people in light of quotes like these:
“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, polkers, 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 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!
If… if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more — we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ……….. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
President Obama knows what he is going to do–the question is, do we?
