More about Criminal Regimes

As you may see, I do not care so much about the definition of Criminal Regimes from the external point of view. Such definitions (if we ignore outrageous accusations) are pretty clear. Basically, any regime that would get involve in or would encourage deliberate genocidal acts would fit that definition. What I am interested is in regimes that would do the same internally. Basically, if an ethnic, religious, economic or otherwise defined group of one's own citizenry is being attacked and driven to extinction with the blessing of the political elite, such a regime may find itself accused as criminal.

Obviously, there is a fine line here! Raising taxes within limits on people with financial means in order to finance projects that may or may not be necessary is usually considered a legitimate political action. Closing all segments of the economics for a specific ethnic group in order to starve them to death would clearly be a criminal act. But there is a lot of in-between.

Again, a regime centered around a racist political party (i.e. a political party that put the hatred for a specific ethnic or religious group as the basis for its agenda,) would probably be criminal on the onset. But what about a political party that put the struggle against a class of people as the center of its agenda? We could be sympathetic to such a party when a small group of people own the whole land and basically enslave the peasants. But what about more modern, Western Democracies and a party that want to rob the more industrious and productive (and therefore more well to do) people, in order to bribe unproductive people who would prefer to live on food stamps rather then to go to work? And even more so, when that same elite refuses to protect the interests of all citizens against predatory economic attacks from other countries (well, such refusal bring that elite nice profits!)

We have a fine line. Some people would justify such an elite on the grounds of promoting "free trade" or other such fallacies. And such a regime has a long way to go before that fine line would be crossed, but do we really want to wait until that time?