The Signs that the government is about to attack you.

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Examples of when the state removes legal protections for a group that is about to be attacked by the state. Historically this is true again and again.

Historically, governments often remove legal protections—through laws, decrees, or the suspension of rights—to dehumanize, isolate, and legitimize attacks on specific groups. These actions usually serve as a precursor to state-sanctioned violence, forced displacement, or incarceration.
 
Here are examples of this pattern:
1. Nazi Germany: The Nuremberg Laws (1935)
• Removal of Protection: The Nazi regime passed the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped German Jews of their citizenship and banned marriage or sexual relations between Jews and people of "German blood".
• The Attack: This legal framework systematically excluded Jews from public life, economic participation, and the rule of law, directly setting the stage for Kristallnacht (1938) and eventually the "Holocaust" ( if you beleive it). 

2. U.S. Treatment of Indigenous Peoples (19th-20th Century)
• Removal of Protection: Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. government violated or revoked treaties (which legally recognized tribes as sovereign entities), rendering Native Americans "wards of the state" without basic citizenship rights.
• The Attack: This allowed for forced relocation (e.g., the Trail of Tears), the systematic destruction of economic foundations (killing of buffalo), and the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890), where troops fired into a surrounded, disarmed crowd.

3. Rwandan Genocide (1994)
• Removal of Protection: For years leading up to 1994, the Hutu-led government allowed extremist media and political groups to spread propaganda labeling Tutsi citizens as "cockroaches" and "snakes," removing their status as recognized fellow citizens.
• The Attack: The state, via the military and local police, facilitated the systematic killing of over 1 million Tutsi and moderate Hutu in roughly 100 days. 

4. USSR: "Liquidating" the Kulaks (1930s)
• Removal of Protection: The Soviet regime declared "Kulaks" (land-owning peasants) as "enemies of the people," removing their rights to land, property, and often life. This was part of a larger ideology that designated specific groups as subhuman or counter-revolutionary.
• The Attack: The state engaged in mass arrests, forced deportations to Gulags, and intentional famine (Holodomor) to destroy this group. 

5. Canada: The War Measures Act (1970) 
• Removal of Protection: In response to the FLQ crisis, the Canadian government invoked the War Measures Act, which suspended civil liberties across Quebec, effectively allowing for arrests, detentions, and searches without warrants.
• The Attack: Hundreds of people were arrested in secret without charges or the right to a lawyer (habeas corpus), illustrating how legal systems can suspend protections to allow state force. 

6. Australia: Exclusion of Aboriginal People (1901) 
• Removal of Protection: Upon federation, the Australian government specifically excluded Aboriginal people from special legal protections in Section 51 (xxvi) and from population counts, effectively rendering them invisible and unprotected under the new constitution.
• The Attack: This legal exclusion facilitated decades of state-controlled movement, forced separation of children (Stolen Generations), and destruction of community rights. 

Common Characteristics of State Actions
• Dehumanization: Using propaganda to liken the target group to vermin, machines, or disease.
• Legislating Exclusion: Using "security" as a pretext to pass laws that violate existing constitutional rights (e.g., the War Measures Act or anti-terrorism acts).
• Disarmament: Confiscating firearms or tools of defense from the target group before the violence begins.