Where is all the gold?
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To get the poor dog a bone;
But when she got there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel