Great article. If you haven't read the work of Solzhenitsyn, I recommend it. The fact of the matter is that totalitarian rule always requires some veneer of "justice" to function. In the soviet union, and the soviet provinces of Canada, the court system becomes a political weapon. It is far safer to be a run-of-the-mill felon than it is to be a political dissident. It's the dissidents who are targeted while the cities are burnt to the ground by regular looters. Dissidents represent a threat to the powerful, run-of-the-mill murderers don't. The new truth is that the Dissident Right is in ascendance and it will either be crushed (see the UK) or it will re-seize the levers of political power.
At some point soon, it seems likely that a targeted political dissident will decide that they're more likely to find truth and justice in the court of public opinion by active revolt than through a court judge and court-appointed defense. That calculus is run every time some one gets arrested for speech or thought-crimes... and in some places it no longer makes sense to accept state authority and coercion when attacked.
The first book I read in French was Tolkien, the second was Solzhenitsyn. (The First Circle)
The first book I read in English was Tolkien, the second was Solzhenitsyn. (The Gulag archipelago)
I read "A day in the life of Ivan Genisovich" in Hungarian
A couple of months ago I started a post with the Picture of him next a picture of Heather Cox Richardson, the highest earning Substacker. I keep pushing it back because taking on HCR is a daunting task. The title will be Solzhenitsyn's famous work: Live not by lies.
Great article. If you haven't read the work of Solzhenitsyn, I recommend it. The fact of the matter is that totalitarian rule always requires some veneer of "justice" to function. In the soviet union, and the soviet provinces of Canada, the court system becomes a political weapon. It is far safer to be a run-of-the-mill felon than it is to be a political dissident. It's the dissidents who are targeted while the cities are burnt to the ground by regular looters. Dissidents represent a threat to the powerful, run-of-the-mill murderers don't. The new truth is that the Dissident Right is in ascendance and it will either be crushed (see the UK) or it will re-seize the levers of political power.
At some point soon, it seems likely that a targeted political dissident will decide that they're more likely to find truth and justice in the court of public opinion by active revolt than through a court judge and court-appointed defense. That calculus is run every time some one gets arrested for speech or thought-crimes... and in some places it no longer makes sense to accept state authority and coercion when attacked.
You literally made me LOL (laughing Out Loud)
The first book I read in French was Tolkien, the second was Solzhenitsyn. (The First Circle)
The first book I read in English was Tolkien, the second was Solzhenitsyn. (The Gulag archipelago)
I read "A day in the life of Ivan Genisovich" in Hungarian
A couple of months ago I started a post with the Picture of him next a picture of Heather Cox Richardson, the highest earning Substacker. I keep pushing it back because taking on HCR is a daunting task. The title will be Solzhenitsyn's famous work: Live not by lies.
I hope to get to it soon.
Glad we're on the same page.