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Originally Posted by persiphone

no, i know. and i debated with myself about including that lil tidbit of info and what we did to the Native Americans after arriving here. the numbers are pretty shocking. you won't read about that in our history books, either.

what i'm saying is, that the OWS movement contains all races, all political parties, all nationalities, and most cultures. so then how can we say that genocide is possible by the very definition of genocide because for it to be labeled as such, one specific group out of the above mentioned would have to be targeted. or.....are we saying that OWS is it's own political entity, much like a democrat or a republican? because i thought that the movement was much more fluid than that. so, "technically", it couldn't be labeled as on the road to genocide. is it as equally perilous? i think it's possible, yes. could it be as devastating as the holocaust? gawd i hope not. i wouldn't want to lose any more family, chosen or blood related.

I think maybe Nazi/Gestapo references don't translate well. I've been tossing this around in my head trying to put my finger on it. Nazi Germany is synonymous with genocide. I don't see genocide as an issue for the U.S. At least not in that a particular group would be targeted, other than dissenters. If the elimination of dissenting voices can be called a kind of genocide then perhaps we could worry about it.

I think what we are heading toward are police forces more like the Tonton Macoutes, the Haitian paramilitary force created by François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, rather than the Gestapo. That we are looking at evolving paramilitary police forces around the country cannot be denied. That they seek to silence us and make protesting extremely costly is also without doubt. As things worsen and as more people feel the need to point that out, we may see our newly evolving police state turn deadly. The more clearly those who control the paramilitary police understand how easily it is to to shut us down, the more they get away with, the more violence goes unanswered by our elected officials or by anyone at all really, the closer we come to living in fear of our very own Tonton Macoutes.