[another cricket]

Staunton is also applying for an order for the Chiwengas to leave the farm and to allow him to return and continue farming.

He doesn't get it. He doesn't believe them. He doesn't think that they are going to kill him and others because of the color of their skin.

It can't happen, right? We are civilized now days. They are just talking big.

And people wonder why that more Jews did not flee Germany in the thirties. This is why. They just don't believe that it could happen. Not to them. Their friends and neighbors and employees wouldn't turn on them.

God help them.

a.cricket
"Who are they? Are they coming at me? Can they be running at me? And why? To kill me? ME whom everyone is so fond of?" -- Tolstoy, War and Peace

[Travis McGee]

Another great Russian quote, somewhat apropos:

"You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you!"

~~~Trotsky, Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.