arisbe

I think I agree with you entirely that each and every one of those things were monstrous atrocities. However, they were also examples, on a grand scale (numbers of innocents killed) examples of what local governments and industries do to individuals EVERY DAY. (Believe me, I know this; I grew up in the American South, in the middle of the civil rights struggle, when the Feds were the only protectors of civil rights workers, against the daily threat of MURDER perpetrated by locals and the constabularies that were in cahoots with them. The "States' Righters" of that day and age were, indeed, genocidal killers.