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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
I remember one of the mayor's lines when the Cuban colonel asked him about potential guerrillas and those who might be aiding them. He said, "...well, there are certain families..." I think he was saving his own hide while trying to get rid of some people he didn't like. No better than a World War 2 Vichy.
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Unfortunately that's human history the world over, you only have to look at neighbours anonymously calling the police to claim that the house next door is a drug lab because they dislike their neighbours to see how current this situation still is. Or worse still, the modern day witch-hunts that plagued North America and the United Kingdom in the 1990s.
But then again the mayor in Red Dawn could have been sacrificing families who were troublemakers or who would not contribute to the greater wellbeing of the town - reducing the overall risk to the towns survival by reducing the bad elements within it. He might have considered that a sacrifice was necessary to appease the enemy and so he selected the towns least useful inhabitants.
Personally I was left with the impression that he's a jerk and was saving his own arse but I'm happy to play the devil's advocate in these circumstances because I do not believe such things are clearly black and white - there's lots of room for shades of gray.