[Landru]

"...the scenario you paint could arise in response to any number of groups -- illegal aliens, racist blacks, or gays."

Yup.

"When reason and the rule of law are no longer tolerated, violence and madness are the only ways left to settle disputes."

That's right.
Of course you realize that today there'll be many who'll probably call the logic which delivered you to such a conclusion, "radical" & "reckless," right?
While in the (not so distant) future many more might just recognize it for what it really was: inevitable.

...kinda hope I'm no longer around should it come to pass.

[mrustow]

My only disagreement with you, L, is regarding the term "inevitable." It wasn't inevitable, but people will say so after the fact, because they don't want to admit their complicity in letting it happen. (Obviously, that doesn't apply to you, because you have not gone along with the flow.) As the Gerries said after War, "Wir haben nichts gewusst." We didn't know a thing.