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Originally Posted by Two Clicks Right
Maybe that's because most Arabs have nothing to lose. Let's see what happens when the white lemmings have nothing to lose. Granted, that will be then, not today; as you say.
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That is the usual explaination for popular uprisings -- having nothing to lose -- but one has to question the courage of whites for a long while now, as someone who has been ther you might want what he had to say:
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
"And how we burned in the camps latter, 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. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur --- what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? 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 spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
From footnote #5, page 13 The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn: