Posted: 9/24/2008 7:42:42 PM EDT
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If we were invaded or the government turned on the citizens and we as a citizenship had a choice of a society like former USSR or present day North Korea, would you fight back with the knowledge that if you die it will be dieing for freedom? No poll, becasue this is a varied question and to many possabilities. I would personally fight for my own and then when it was probable, I fight to defend the area I am in all the way out to the city I am in and so on as the fight progressed. |
I will report to my local ARFCOM SHTF officer: "reporting for duty" |
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Currently I'm reading Ayn Rand's We the Living. For those of you who don't know, it is as close to a biography she ever wrote. It takes place after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. There's a part where the main character's cousin who was an an aristocrat has joined the Communist Party which is normally unheard of do to the fact his family were aristocrats and gets married to another Communist Party member with a peasant back ground. The girl he marries has a father that had been sent to Siberia by the Czar due to being a revolutionary. He is old and in bad health at the wedding. His new son-in-law makes a toast in his honor for being one of the few remaining that actually started the revolution against the Czar. After being toasted by his son-in-law for his heroics that have brought Communism in Russia to where it is at that time, he rises and makes the following statement:
I would think that in that time and age, that would have been a death sentence for that man. I would like to think that I would live up to that kind of bravery. |