Alexander Solzhenitsyn12/11/1918 – 08/03/2008

Foremost Soviet DissidentProphet to the West

Author of The Gulag

ArchipelagoA history of the entire process of developing and administering a police state in the Soviet Union

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like ifevery Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had beenuncertain 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 aquarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling withterror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but hadunderstood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall anambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, polkers, or whatever else was athand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for nogood purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of acutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonelychauffeur -- what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. The Organs would veryquickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all ofStalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

Lord Acton1834 – 1902

English Historian“All power corrupts;

absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the

banks."

John Adams1735 – 1826

One of the authors of the Declaration of IndependenceOne of the most influential founding fathersThe second president of the United States

“Our Constitution was made for a

moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any

other.”

Thomas Jefferson1743 – 1826

The principal author of the Declaration of IndependenceThe third president of the United States

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of

confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the

Constitution.”

Thomas Jefferson1743 – 1826

The principal author of the Declaration of IndependenceThe third president of the United States

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by

deflation, the banks and corporations that will

grow up around them will deprive the people of

their property until their children will wake up

homeless on the continent their fathers

conquered.”

George Washington1733 – 1799

Commander in Chief of the Continental ArmyThe first president of the United States

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is

force. Like fire, it is a

dangerous servant and a fearful

master.“

Michael Chertoff- Secretary of Homeland Security

(Means :“of the Devil”. . . . . )

- Prominent in bringing forth the Patriot Act

- Background includes defense and acquittal of individual who funneled money to the ‘fall guys’ of 9/11.

Michael Chertoff Viet Dinh

Co-Authors of The Patriot Act

Gen. Yevgeni PrimakovFormer head KGB

Markus WolfeFormer head of East German

STASI

A system that, in the 20th Century, was the first to introduce the use of hostages, that is to say, not to seize the person whom they were seeking, but rather a member of his family or someone at random, and shoot that person.

This system of hostages and persecution of the family exists to this day. It is still the most powerful weapon of persecution, because the bravest person, who is not afraid for himself, still shivers at the threat to his family.

It is a system which was the first - long before Hitler - to employ false registration, that is, to say: "Such and such people have to come in to register." People would comply and then they were taken away to be annihilated.

We didn't have gas chambers in those days. We used barges. A hundred or a thousand persons were put into a barge and then it was sunk.

It was a system which deceived the workers in all of its decrees - the decree on land, the decree on peace, the decree on factories, the decree on freedom of the press.

It was a system which exterminated all additional parties, and let me make it clear to you that it not only disbanded the party itself, but destroyed its members. All members of every other party were exterminated. It was a system which carried out genocide of the peasantry; 15 million peasants were sent off to extermination.

It was a system which introduced serfdom, the so-called "passport system."

It was a system which, in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it - 6 million persons!

Words of Warning to the Western WorldAlexander Solzhenitsyn

Russian exile Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, in Washington, D.C., on June 30, delivered a dramatic warning to all the world - and toAmericans in particular. The Nobel Prize winning author, in his first major public address since his expulsion from the SovietUnion in 1974, stripped bare the crimes and excesses of the Communist masters in his native land. And he denounced theWest for a "senseless process of endless concessions to aggressors" in the Kremlin.