by MountainHiker » Tue 14 Mar 2006, 00:13:43
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Chocky', 'T')he whole camp was run by 25 SS men and 100 Ukrainian police, and was used to kill approximately 800,000 people. So you can see that you don't need large numbers of guards or massive fences for this sort of thing. All you need to do is rely on people's natural optimism, and their belief that if something is too horrible than 'someone' will prevent it from happening.
Well, looks like my ignorance was shining through in the earlier post I made about such camps requiring too many resources. Thank you for the education Chocky. Looks like we need to increase the vigilance.
If they start shutting down or censoring the internet, it will be time for a serious reality check. Right now the internet is our only option for gaining uncorrupted information. When they shut it down or start censoring it, we've got problems.
Here's a quote from "They Thought They Were Free" about the Nazi's coming to power:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."
That brings me back to the questions from last night, when do we realize we've crossed the point of no return, and what do we do then?