Pre war Germany had several hundred thousands of jews. They got "ausgerotten" down to what, - 1000? Those Jews were Germans!
Same went with many other countries. Several officials did turn in on their own countrymen under fascist rule. They would do it even if they didn't have a special gain in it. And some would out of fear.
Facsist/Nazi control really did manage to bite in properly.
You wouldn't have to "storm" areas, and you wouldn't need the military except to guard a sideline, you have special troops for such a job, and you don't do all 1% in one go.
Say the U.S. government turns on a group of......1% of the population 3 million people. ?? Say...all from arabic origin. Say that the official goal was to "camp them up". Would it be possible?
Maybe I ask to much, but I think it would.... The liberals make it less likely though
The Jews were an oppressed minority, considered as a society apart from the formal German culture. Gypsies and Homosexuals as well. Non mainstream and beyond mainstream concern by the German people, unfortunately. One of the video presenters at the Imperial War Museum Holocaust Exhibit said as much, to paraphrase: "My one regret is that we didn't get to know our neighbors better."
Also, one of the first things the Nazis also did was revoke the rights of Jews to own firearms. If you are a powerless minority than too bad, no one will care when the special squads roll over you. And of course, there was the functional history of rolling with the pogroms and surviving as a people after some bloodshed that just didn't work under the Nazi model. Like non resistance to hijacking before 911.
FWIW, although urban American Jews are one of the more liberal forces in the country and often at odds with the 2nd Amendment, one of the most rabid defenders of the 2nd Amendment is Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership. There was just a big discussion among Jewish gun owners on one of the gun sites about the inability of some of their brothers and sisters to learn this particular lesson from history.
As to "camping them up." I don't see the repression of a minority in the US, at least formally, along the lines of what happened to the Japanese. We all know that's bad now
Perhaps a lot of informal hate and violence should there be a devastating strike, etc. -- 911 with a nuke for example. That makes the ownership of a firearm for self protection important for such minorities just as it was for blacks after the civil war. In fact, much of our current firearm regulation has roots in the attempt of whites to deny blacks firearm ownership.
I also think that an a successful nuclear terrorist attack could easily lead to an interim government focused on security at the expense of rights and that the ability of the American people to roll that back once the hysteria is passed is enhanced by being able to back up our concerns. You may like your martial law powers and suspended elections, but we think it's time to change...
Charon
