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Importing Revolution
Fay Voshell / American Thinker
One sign of an imperial government is that it does what it wishes with whole populations. It can shift some here; move some there. It can deport some there; import some here. Who will say “No” when facing armed might? Authoritarian governments can pretty much do what they wish to do.
The motives behind moving whole populations via executive fiat break down into two main categories.
One is to prevent revolution and unrest by moving and quarantining what are considered indigestible peoples in order to weaken their resistance to the powers that be. Thus we find Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon forcing rebellious Jews into exile, there to languish until their return to Jerusalem some seventy years later under the reign of Cyrus the Great. The pattern established by the first diaspora was to be repeated over and over again, a prime example being the exile of the Jews from Spain in 1492 by Isabella and Ferdinand.
Jews (and other peoples) historically have suffered the fates of being stuffed into ghettos, driven from their native countries, sold into slavery, sent to gulags, and crowded into prison camps. Even extermination has been used as a “final solution” to the problem of unwanted peoples.
Such tactics remain ways for any tyrannical government to dispose of people deemed dangerous to the health and power of an almighty state.
But there is a second reason for moving people around, and that is to foster revolution by actively promoting unrest. The goal is to achieve “fundamental transformation” of a country by tearing down existing structures, replacing them with a new order of government.
read more at American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/importing_revolution.html
