It's been nice knowing you guys. If the gestapo comes knocking on my door, if my only option is life in prison, then I'm going full DEUS VULT mode. Even if I only manage to take one or two out with me, they should be very afraid to enforce this. I was ready during covid, and I'm ready now. The tree needs to start getting watered, eventually, somehow.
“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.” - The Gulag Archipelago
It's been nice knowing you guys. If the gestapo comes knocking on my door, if my only option is life in prison, then I'm going full DEUS VULT mode. Even if I only manage to take one or two out with me, they should be very afraid to enforce this. I was ready during covid, and I'm ready now. The tree needs to start getting watered, eventually, somehow.
Having the penalty of life in prison really gives people nothing to lose.
“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.” - The Gulag Archipelago
Exactly. I always remember that passage when I ask myself if I'm prepared to die.