Like Sozhenitsyn said "we had no awareness of the real situation". We all need to know the real situation. This time we better understand the "real situation" or we can not take the next step and fight back effectively at all levels.
"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."
“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...”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
- Switzerland has a militia army to this day. Men can take their government-issued assault rifles home if they want and have to practice shooting regularly. Not exactly what you are thinking of, but maybe some inspiration and a source of practical ideas.
- For several centuries, the United Kingdom, while certainly not as militia-friendly as the USA, relied on gentlemen to create their own units/regiments of the regular army by privately funding them. Maybe that can also be a model for today, especially if the militia you talk about needs more than just small arms. Wealthy citizens could create and equip militia units for some advantages in the form of prestige or, if the political power is there, in exchange for tax reductions etc.
Like Sozhenitsyn said "we had no awareness of the real situation". We all need to know the real situation. This time we better understand the "real situation" or we can not take the next step and fight back effectively at all levels.
"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."
“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...”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I think about this quote often
I like the approach! Two thoughts:
- Switzerland has a militia army to this day. Men can take their government-issued assault rifles home if they want and have to practice shooting regularly. Not exactly what you are thinking of, but maybe some inspiration and a source of practical ideas.
- For several centuries, the United Kingdom, while certainly not as militia-friendly as the USA, relied on gentlemen to create their own units/regiments of the regular army by privately funding them. Maybe that can also be a model for today, especially if the militia you talk about needs more than just small arms. Wealthy citizens could create and equip militia units for some advantages in the form of prestige or, if the political power is there, in exchange for tax reductions etc.
See Dr. Edwin Vieira on this topic.
I’ll check it out!
I used to read him on newswithviews.com, but he also published his magnum opus on CD.