From: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 18:29:24 +0800
To: "cypherpunks" <alanh@infi.net>
Subject: Re: pledge status
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On 20 Jul 96 23:12:20 -0800, alanh@infi.net wrote:

>One recalls the Russian novelist (can't think of his name, the one who 
>wrote _Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch_), who stated that if even 1% 
Solzhenitsyn? (Spelling may be wrong) Very good, BTW.
>of all of the Cheka/KGB's arrest-in-the-middle-of-the-night victims had 
>put up some resistance, and maybe have killed a Chekist before being 
>gunned down..... the whole damn system of Stalinist terror would have 
>unraveled, from the lack of police willingness to die for the greater 
>glory of Mr Stalin.

>I think this has
> relevance to the
>black-ninjas-pretending-that-they're-in-a-Hollywood-script thread about
>cops making unanounced search warrant services at 4am. 
>
>I have tremendous admiration for my local LEO's.  It's the federales that 
>are the problem, usually.
I'm thinking of Waco, where, I've heard, more experienced SWAT-types
tried to talk their bosses out of a certain infamous mistake...

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