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Old 10-09-2008, 12:49 AM
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Political organizations that are in opposition would more likely than not be subjected to mass arrest etc in a time like the end of days described in T2K canon .The number of actual communists in the US in the 1990s would be just high enough to ensure that a couple of hundred feds would have a safe job for a few years still..But in such a frenzied atmosphere hysteria and ruthless opportunism would mean that all sorts of political organizations would be scrutinized and many would be classified disloyal that really have nothing to do with Moscow .McCarthism all over again -but this time the McCArthies would have powerful arguments like actual ruins and bodycounts to make their lunacy stretch out and last longer .

All the people have origins in the enemy nations-that would be the heavy stuff .There are millions of immigrants 1,2,3 generation that hail from one or the other of the countries on the other side .Sure they would protest loyalty,but having a Russian,Polish,Ukranian etc last name surely would be something of a disadvantage in times like those .

The confrontation between Latin America and the US as described in the books would also be a troublesome and disturbing chapter in the civilian populations chapter of the war .

As for the camps - I for one do not believe that such programs or indeed any programs would be started.The radiation ,hunger,cold and disease would be the only enemies left to fight-bar the occasional marauder/desperate refugee out to take what you have.

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