There is a profound difference between knowing history and understanding it. The documented development of Nazi Germany clearly shows a totally internal domestic system of control against its own people. They didn't have thousands of foreign soldiers disguised as civilians wandering among them.
The same is true of Japanese in Hawaii.
Since Kodak is no longer with us, it is impossible to tell how many trillions of photos are taken in the United States annually.
Strangely, you made me stop and think. Have I ever even thought about dropping a dime on a picture taker because he looked middle eastern? No. I am certain of that. Would I under suspicious circumstances? Sure. But as a lifelong amateur photographer wandering among crowds in many countries of the western world, I would hope I would never allow paranoia to kick in, certainly not in my own country.
Would I ever drop a dime on a neighbor? No. Even if he was an Eastern European and rabid as Osama, I would give him the benefit of the doubt, unless he gave me reason to think otherwise, by word or deed. I can only thing of one such example, from decades ago. Long before the current waves of koranimal mayhem and murder.
Behavior by the government, indiscriminately, is a whole other subject altogether.
Exactly where we are headed and we're a fair distance down that road already. The TSA and "homeland" security protecting ?? The kgb protecting the rodina, the stasi protecting the Vaterland. Does anyone really feel safer for having all of these government agents crawling all over your every orifice
They didn't have thousands of foreign soldiers disguised as civilians wandering among them.
And neither do we unless you count illegal 0bama voters. What we have are tens of thousands of secret police (ie armed government agents NOT in uniform with arrest powers) wandering among us.
Have I ever even thought about dropping a dime on a picture taker because he looked middle eastern?
Someone obviously did NOT feel the way you do.