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"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.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

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And to think...we have way better weapons than axes, hammers, or pokers! That can take them out from 1000 yards. That just may be what happens when the straw breaks the camels back.

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How we gonna take them away to the prison camps, when we're already locked up there?

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They can't get ALL of us! And as it stands a LOT OF OATHKEEPERS ARE PISSED!

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I wish I knew some people like that.

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