Dawn raids - Goon squads

Breaking news on TV / radio only so far. Goon squads are raiding homes in Melbourne and Sydney as we squeak.

'And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain 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 St Petersburg, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand . . . . The Goons would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Man-of-steal's thirst, the cursed fascist machine would have ground to a halt! '