soc.veterans

Bert Hyman wrote:
> crimenewscenter@gmail.com (Bo Raxo) wrote in
> news:q7WdncaqBubRCGfanZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
>
>> The best protection against tyranny isn't an armed populace - Warsaw
>> proved that,
>>
>
> I'm assuming that you're talking about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of
> April 1943.
>
> There was no armed populace in Warsaw. There was a handful of
> individuals who managed to steal a few guns from the occupying Germans
> and hold them off for a time.
>
> http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/warsawtoc.html
>
> "The fighting organization had been set up, but all the weapons there
> were in the ghetto at that time consisted of just one pistol...!"
>
>
We don 't know what might have happened if the Jews of Warsaw had been
armed, but it couldn't have been worse. I sure as hell will be armed if
the anti-Semites come for me. I may go down, but not like a sheep.

--
Anyone who has ever heard what Santayana said is condemned to hear it repeated.
Good Luck to anyone trying to learn Aramaic.
Kindest Regards,
Peter