Clearly there is at least one evilminded person in the Mudcqat who is disposed to ALWAYS assume the worst about me, for some reason that I really can't comprehend, without EVER bothering to find out if their nasty, evilminded, dirty assumptions have any basis whatever in reality.

I don't know why this person has this vendetta that they feel they need to wage against me, but as I've said before, it says far more about them then it does about me.

Someone without such a dirty, nasty, evilminded agenda, might have realized that my post is entirely in keeping with what is being discussed in this thread, and it is entirely reasonable for me to have said what I did in keeping with the discussion.

For those who don't have dirty, nasty, evilminded agendas and personal vendettas against me, they won't have any trouble understanding why what I posted is appropriate to the discussion. For those who do, I will explain.

We have been discussing (at the request of the thread originator) how societies and groups of people can get to the point where they allow horrible things to be done in their midst, or in their names. We can look at our own society if we want to find answers to how this can happen. How does our government (those of us in the US) get away with doing things like what it did with the Ethiopians in Somalia? How do we get to the point where things like that happen, and the people of the country don't even know it's being done (by our government)? And when we do know about it, how is our government able to continue doing those things without being stopped by us?