Last year I posted a book review of The Science of Liberty by Timothy Ferris. Published over a decade ago, and dealing with the world of science in the 1700s as it related to the drive for American independence from England, it wasn’t really a prepping topic. However, it was a unique discussion of the relationship between scientific progress and freedom in our nation’s history. As one who understands that history repeats (or rhymes, whatever verb you want to use), this eleven-year-old book should be enjoying new attention. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Advances in science and liberty were possible because people were free to experiment, to communicate, to share the results of their experiments and their observations. They were free to question and to act. They could report results without fear of punishment from the authorities.
Where are we now? What happens with any real discussion of the COVID “vaccines”? What do Twitter and Youtube do with videos from medical professionals that seek to present information and observations suggesting that the jab may not be all that safe? Why do medical associations threaten to revoke physician licenses? Why are nurses and doctors being terminated from their jobs for refusing the jab?
In the Soviet Union of the mid-1900s, a horticulturalist (and we’re using that term very loosely) named Lysenko rose to prominence and became the director of the Soviet Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Genetics. He said the words Stalin wanted to hear. The agricultural practices he advocated were ridiculous and without scientific support of any kind, but that was irrelevant. If farmers couldn’t get good harvests by implementing these practices, it was because they weren’t doing it right. Off with their heads. The people starved.
And that leads into today’s topic, genocide. I first came across the following list of the ten stages of genocide a few weeks ago and have been pondering it ever since. I accepted the fact years ago that there really are supremely evil people on this planet who want us dead. But it was a little disconcerting to read through the list of stages and recognize our awful situation. This list was compiled by Professor Gregory H. Stanton, vice-president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and the summary comes from the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE
According to academic and activist Gregory H. Stanton, genocide is a process that develops in ten stages, described here. The stages do not necessarily follow a linear progression and may coexist.
Classification. Groups in a position of power will categorize people according to ethnicity, race, religion or nationality employing an us versus them mentality.
Symbolization. People are identified as Jews, Roma or Tutsis, etc., and made to stand out from others with certain colors or symbolic articles of clothing.
Discrimination. A dominant group uses laws, customs, and political power to deny the rights of other groups. The powerless group may not be granted full civil rights or even citizenship.
Dehumanization. The diminished value of the discriminated group is communicated through propaganda. Parallels are drawn with animals, insects or diseases.
Organization. A state, its army or militia design genocidal killing plans.
Polarization. Propaganda is employed to amplify the differences between groups. Interactions between groups are prohibited, and the moderate members of the group in power are killed.
Preparation. The victims are identified, separated and forced to wear symbols. Deportations, isolation and forcible starvation. Death lists are drawn up.
Persecution. Victims are identified and isolated based on their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. In state sponsored genocides, members of victim groups may be forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is often expropriated.
Extermination. The massacres begin. The perpetrators see their actions as “extermination” since they do not consider their victims to be entirely human.
Denial. The perpetrators of the genocide deny having committed their crimes. Victims are often blamed. Evidence is hidden and witnesses are intimidated.
Now, apply this list to the issue of the COVID “vaccine.” Where are we as a nation? I’ll leave that for you to decide.
For those who say it can’t happen here, it most definitely can. It has. It will again. It’s history. Ask the Native Americans who were driven from their homes and murdered with smallpox-contaminated blankets. Ask the Mormons who were driven from their homes numerous times. Governor Lilburn Boggs’ Extermination Order against them wasn’t rescinded until 1976. Ask the Japanese who had their homes and property confiscated following Pearl Harbor and who were relocated to internment camps.
It’s my hope that my neighbors won’t become Germans who allowed the Jews to be murdered. It’s my hope that my neighbors won’t become Jews who allowed themselves to be murdered. It’s my hope that my neighbors will have learned lessons of history and that they won’t make the same awful choices.
But I can’t plan on that. I have to prepare to experience discrimination, persecution, and much more for refusing the COVID jab. I have to prepare to not be able to shop. I’ve got to have food, medicine, and other essentials on hand. Regardless of where we stand, I think we can all agree that respect for the choices of others on this issue is falling and our country, communities, and even families are divided. The situation just doesn’t look good, does it?
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https://museeholocauste.ca/en/resources-training/ten-stages-genocide/
03.27.24
We are between "Polarization" and "Preparation." Polarization happened a while back. Then Biden came out and called us "The Unvaccinated." He then said (paraphrased from memory) "We can't let The Unvaccinated" ruin all of the work we've been doing." At that point he gave tacit approval for a pogrom of sorts, telling people to "encourage" compliance. This is after labeling us "racists," Right-Wing extremists," "Xenophobes," and the like. No, this one is different, as he can portray us as existential threats to the health of "The Vaccinated." This is going to get worse before it gets better. One thing's for sure; if that senile, arrogant ass thinks I'm going anywhere without a fight, he's already lost...
ReplyDeleteOur schools have failed to teach history. I asked around at my local coffee shop where a nice mix of retired folks and "Well Educated" students and teachers and started a chat about Annie Frank.
ReplyDeleteI was appalled how many had no clue who she was. It was disturbing how many seniors that knew her name had been taught fairy tales bout it.
After a while I dropped my shocker that the folks that Hid Annie Frank were breaking the Law and those that turned her in to suffer and die in the Camps were Obeying the Law.
The level of denial about "How the People would have KNOWN about the Death Camps" was scary.