I will call him Dan, because his security. His father was goldsmith, quite famous in town. Two of them just waited in the city and looked how everything going to hell with first months of chaos. Father could not survive all changes, lack of medical care and every day uncertainty just finished him and his already sick heart.
Dan buried him with 2 neighbors one night in near graveyard, while city was in flames and battles raged over the reasons that nobody actually cared as soon as TV and TV news were gone with propaganda stories. They had some amount of gold in house, pretty much gold.
They came for Dan at 3 in the morning, did not ask anything, they just search the house in details, beat him and took him to their prison.
If you aren’t yet thinking about the Yugoslavia breakup as a model for what things might be like here in the next few years, you might want to peruse this site.
Shamelessly stolen from Joe Huffman’s blog:
Remember the lessons of the 20th Century:
Lesson No. 1: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes
to knock down your door and take you someplace you don’t want to go
because of who you are or what you think– kill him. If you can, kill
the politician who sent them. You will likely die anyway, and you will
be saving someone else the same fate. For it is a universal truth that
the intended victims always far outnumber the tyrant’s executioners. Any
nation which practices this lesson will quickly run out of executioners
and tyrants, or they will run out of it.
Lesson No. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes
to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms– kill him. The
disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.
Lesson No. 3: If a bureaucrat tells you that he must know if you have a
firearm so he can put your name on a list for the common good, or wants
to issue you an identity card so that you may be more easily
identified– tell him to go to hell. Registration of people and firearms
is the required precursor to the tyranny which permits genocide.
Bureaucrats cannot send soldiers to doors that aren’t on their list.
Lesson No. 4: Believe actions, not words. Tyrants are consummate liars.
Just because a tyrant is “democratically elected” doesn’t mean that he
believes in democracy. Reference Adolf Hitler, 1932. And just because a
would-be tyrant mouths words of reverence to law and justice, or takes a
solemn oath to uphold a constitution, doesn’t mean he believes such
concepts apply to him. Reference Bill Clinton, among others. The
language of the lie is just another tool of killers. A sign saying
“Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes You Free) posted above an execution camp
gate doesn’t mean that anybody gets out of there alive, and a room
labeled “Showers” doesn’t necessarily make you clean. Bill Clinton
notwithstanding, the meaning of “is” is plain when such perverted
language gets you killed. While all tyrants are liars, it is true that
not all political liars are would-be tyrants– but they bear close
watching. And keep your rifle handy.
Sincerely, Armageddon Rex
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