People with autoloading rifles won't willingly load themselves on boxcars or buses.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago

I watched a documentary called the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka about when the Government destroyed the Tamil Tigers.

They committed so many war crimes but because their goal was complete eradication and to prevent any future uprisings they just executed all prisoners and those who surrendered while putting on a happy smiley face to the cameras of the outside world.

The end justifies the means and just like this election they know that once their action is taken its final and there's no going back and no real threat to power except some posturing for the cameras by their rivals.

I was in HS when the boat people started showing up in my tiny town. We had no idea what these people had just been through.