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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