Study your history, my dear kossacks, and be ever vigilant, because we are living in dangerous times. My husband has been studying how Hitler took over Germany and lots of people are comparing what happened to the Jewish family in Delaware to Brown Shirt tactics from that era.
I am writing this diary not because I'm a paranoid lunatic, but because what scares me most about the Delaware horror is that the media isn't mentioning it anywhere. It's not being spoken of with outrage in the mainstream and that, IMHO, is a sign that things are much worse than they seem.
I hereby send a warning, via Kos, to all here and to every Progressive everywhere:
When ID cards, identifying your ethnicity, religious affiliation and/or political affiliation are issued and mandated by law to be visible, do not wait around to see if it gets any worse. That, IMHO, is the litmus test that should tell all Americans that their country is no longer their own. That is, IMHO, the only example I and my husband will need to pack immediately and flee the fascist/Nazi regime that will soon thereafter begin gathering the opposition and carting them off to concentration camps as "enemy combatants."
Everything is being put into place, starting with the news media. That's also how Hitler took complete control. First, target a minority as the enemy (i.e. that Jewish family that sued to stop the religious fantatics from preaching in their public school.), then use Brown Shirts (teenaged thugs, in Hitler's case) to disrupt any group standing up in protest and control the press so that there is no outrage over the thugs' tactics.
Then, issue ID badges (Hitler used Jewish stars on armbands) and then it's easy. Pass laws denying those wearing the ID from civil liberties. Jews were not allowed to walk on the sidewalks, shop in the local stores, sit in the public parks. They were ostracized, dehumanized and then it was really easy to just pick them up in droves, ship them by train to "camps" where they wouldn't sully the "pure" Germans and when those camps became death camps as the "Final Solution" to the "Jewish problem" - keep it a dirty secret that the other Germans were willing to ignore, lest they be next.
It worked for years, folks, and millions died horrible deaths. It seems incomprehensible that it could possibly happen here, but before Hitler came to power, no one in Germany actually imagined it could happen there, either.
So, please take heed and plan accordingly. (I believe in hope for the best, prepare for the worst.) Keep liquid assets and have some plan and when the IDs are issued, DO NOT WAIT AROUND. Just pack your bags and leave and launch a Resistance from some other country, like the Free French. Waiting around for the other shoe to drop will be foolhardy and life-threatening, IMHO.