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[John J. Xenakis]

*** 12-Jan-21 World View -- America and the standard Genocide Playbook

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

• What is the standard Genocide Playbook?
  
• Democrats' attitude to Tea Partiers during Obama administration
  
• The January 6 attack on the Capitol building by Trump supporters
  
• How will this end?
  

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**** What is the standard Genocide Playbook?
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Jan 9 announcement by John Matze, CEO of Parler.com, of a coordinated attack by Twitter, Google and Amazon

As regular readers know, everything I write is, as much as possible,
from a historical perspective. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même
chose. As King Solomon said, there's nothing new under the sun.

So before describing how America is in the early stages of the
Genocide Playbook, I have to describe what the Genocide Playbook is,
and how common it is.

I want to emphasize that this is nothing rare. This is going on in
multiple countries today. As regular readers know, I've written
thousands of articles describing current and historical events in
hundreds of countries, and the Genocide Playbook is not only not rare,
but is actually very common, and is the rule.

Here's an outline of how it works:

• In the early stages, the government or the élites target a
  hated ethnic group with abusive policies, including violence, jailing
  without evidence, censorship and punishment of criticism of the
  government, and other forms of discrimination, with the purpose of
  humiliating and infuriating the target group.
  
  
• Frequently there is an analogue to the Nazi Kristallnacht, where
  police stand aside and allow violent mobs to attack homes and
  businesses of the target group.
  
  
• Sooner or later there is some kind of violent incident by a few
  people in the target group. This incident might occur organically, or
  it might be a setup by the élites.
  
  
• The élites use this incident to justify complete censorship,
  violence, abuse and control towards the target group and, in the
  extreme, to commit genocide and ethnic cleansing.

I will repeat several times: This playbook is not rare. It is common.
It is the rule.

Let's look at some examples where the Genocide Playbook is in use
today in its later stages:

• China: For years, the Chinese Communists targeted the Muslim
  Uighurs in Xinjiang province with abusive policies, including
  destroying mosques, mandatory Communist atheist education, forced
  sterilization of Uighur females, and looting Uighur resources. These
  abuses triggered Uighur rioting in 2009. Since then, the Chinese
  Communists have declared all Uighurs to be terrorists, and have
  arrested, tortured, beaten and enslaved millions of Uighurs.
  
  Hong Kong is in the early stages of the Genocide Playbook. The
  Communists are already targeting pro-democracy activists with violence
  and jailing without evidence. If some pro-democracy activist now
  commits an act of violence, whether organic or a setup by the
  Communists, then the Communists will declare all pro-democracy
  activists to be terrorists, and will crack down on them violently.
  
  Of all the countries today, China has been the most effective in using
  censorship in its genocide playbook.
  
  
• Burma/Myanmar: Starting in 2011, Buddhists, led by Buddhist Monk
  Ashin Wirathu, joined with Burma's security forces in committing mass
  atrocities on Muslim ethnic Rohingyas living in Rakhine State, which
  the United Nations described as "a textbook example of ethnic
  cleansing." The atrocities included gang rape, violent torture,
  execution-style killings and the razing of entire villages, in a
  scorched earth campaign.
  
  In 2013 there was a super-Kristallnacht type attack, when a mob of
  Buddhists attacked a Rohingya village, hacking 20 boys to death, and
  reducing an entire established community of 12,000 Muslims, including
  homes, shops and mosques, to ashes and rubble.
  
  In August 2017, Rohingya insurgents carried out a series of
  coordinated attacks against 30 Burma police outposts and an army base,
  killing at least a dozen security force members. This was the event
  that the Burmese were hoping and waiting for. After that, they
  carried out a massive program of genocide and ethnic cleansing,
  forcing hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas across the border into
  Bangladesh refugee camps, where they remain to this day.
  
  
• Syria: The Syrian war began in 2011 when Bashar al-Assad ordered
  his army and air force to attack peacefully protesting civilians,
  including women and children. Things really turned around in August
  2011, when al-Assad launched a massive military assault on a large,
  peaceful Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia, filled with tens of
  thousands of women and children Palestinians. He dropped barrel bombs
  laden with metal, chlorine, ammonia, phosphorous and chemical weapons
  onto innocent Sunni women and children, he's targeted bombs and
  missiles on schools and hospitals, and he's used Sarin gas to kill
  large groups of people. Even so, al-Assad would have lost the war
  until he received massive military support from Russia to continue his
  genocide and ethnic cleansing.

I wanted to give examples of genocide taking place today to show
that the Genocide Playbook isn't some science fiction concept,
but is commonly used in many countries.

Of course it was also used in Nazi Germany, when Hitler used the
burning down of the Reichstag to attack all communists, and then used
minor terrorist acts by Jews to claim that all Jews were terrorists,
leading to the Holocaust.

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**** Democrats' attitude to Tea Partiers during Obama administration
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I never thought I'd see the Genocide Playbook being used in America.
This is the darkest time for America in my memory.

As I've said many times, the Democrats' vitriolic hatred for Trump has
nothing to do with Trump. They used to love Trump when he was a TV
star. They only began to hate him when they transferred their
vitriolic hatred of Tea Partiers to him.

And the vitriolic hatred of Tea Partiers was enormous during the Obama
administration. Obama and Joe Biden both referred to Tea Partiers and
Republicans in general as terrorists, racists and teabaggers. The
word "teabaggers" is an especially vile epithet, as bad as the n-word.
Can you imagine someone saying that all Democrats are the n-word?
That would be extremely vile and hateful, and that shows how vile and
hateful the Democrats were to Tea Partiers and Republicans.

And why were Obama and Biden calling them racists, terrorists and
teabaggers? It's because they opposed Obama policies -- Obama's
budget, Obamacare, or gun control for example. No matter what the
policy, if Tea Partiers opposed it, it's not because the policies were
bad (which they were). It's because the Tea Partiers were racists,
terrorists and teabaggers.

The Democrats' hatred went even beyond that, saying that had some kind
of neurological disorder that turned them into violent racists. This
is similar to the kinds of things that Hitler said about the Jews.

The following are excerpts from a newsbusters.org article from 2009
that I saved from my archives. As far as I know, this article is no
longer online.

<QUOTE>"Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black
President

By Noel Sheppard | April 16, 2009 | 23:56

During last year's election campaign, liberal media members
treated Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin with a
hatred most Americans had never witnessed from the press.

On Thursday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and his guest
Janeane Garofalo defamed fellow citizens who attended the prior
day's Tea Parties with the same vitriolic contempt.

Garofalo actually called Party-goers "a bunch of teabagging
rednecks," adding "this is about hating a black man in the White
House. This is racism straight up."

But that's just the beginning, for what Olbermann and Garofalo
engaged in Thursday evening is amongst the most vile, hate-filled
attacks on average American citizens ever conveyed on national
television by so-called journalists.

KEITH OLBERMANN, HOST: Well, the teabagging is all over, except
for the cleanup. And that will be my last intentional double
entendre on this one at least until the end of this segment. Our
number two story tonight, the sad reality behind the corporate
sponsored Tea Parties, visual proof that this is not about
spending, deficits, or taxes, but about some Americans getting
riled up by the people who caused these things, and finally about
some Americans who just hate the president of the United
States. ...

And then there were the protest messages, seething with
hate. [Neil] Cavuto calling that hate bipartisan. "They hate
Republicans who waste money, they hate Democrats who waste money."
...

OLBERMANN: Congratulations, Pensacola teabaggers. You got
spunked. And despite the hatred on display, a few of you actually
violated the penal code. But teabagging is now petered out, taint
what it used to be. ... On a more serious note, we're now joined
by actor, activist Janeane Garofalo. Good to see you.

JANEANE GAROFALO: Thank you. You know, there's nothing more
interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and
angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying. It
sounds right and then it doesn't make sense. Which, let's be very
honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats,
it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party
was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about
hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight
up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there
is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of
right wingers anything and they'll believe it, except the
truth. You tell them the truth and they become -- it's like
showing Frankenstein's monster fire. They become confused, and
angry and highly volatile. That guy, causing them feelings they
don't know, because their limbic brain, we've discussed this
before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or
conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic
brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable
person, and it's pushing against the frontal lobe. So their
synapses are misfiring. Is Bernie Goldberg listening? ...

GAROFALO: Because Bernie might not have heard this when I said
this the first time. So, Bernie, this is for you. It is a
neurological problem we're dealing with. ...

GAROFALO: I don't think you do, for most of them. This is a --
it's almost pathological or elevated to a philosophy or
lifestyle. And again, this is about racism. It could be any issue,
any port in the storm. These guys hate that a black guy is in the
White House. But they immigrant bash, they pretend taxes and tea
bags, and like I said, most of them probably couldn't tell you
thing one about taxation without representation, the Boston tea
party, the British imperialism, whatever the history lesson has to
be. But these people, all white for the most part, unless there's
some people with Stockholm syndrome there.

OLBERMANN: And, I didn't see them, the fact that they weren't near
the cameras which is bad strategy on the part of the people that
were staging this at Fox.

GAROFALO: True, and Fox News loves to foment this
anti-intellectualism because that's their bread and butter. If you
have a cerebral electorate, Fox news goes down the toilet, very,
very fast. But it is sick and sad to see Neil Cavuto doing
that. They've been doing it for years, that's why Roger Ailes and
Rupert Murdoch started this venture, is to disinform and to
coarsen and dumb down a certain segment of the electorate. But
what is really, I didn't know there were so many racists left. I
didn't know that. I -- you know, because as I've said, the
Republican hype and the conservative movement has now crystallized
into the white power movement.

OLBERMANN: Is that not a bad, long-term political strategy because
even though your point is terrifying that there are that many
racists left, the flip side of it is there aren't that many
racists left.

GAROFALO: They're the minority, but literally tens of people
showed up to this thing across the country.

OLBERMANN: But if you spear your television network or your
political party towards a bunch of guys looking who are just
looking for a reason to yell at the black president, eventually
you will marginalize yourself out of business, won't you?

GAROFALO: Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage
of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long
as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious,
the Republicans will have some votes. Fox News will have some
viewers. But what else have they got? If they didn't do that, who
is going to watch -- you know what I mean? They have tackled that
elusive clam -- you know, the clam, the 18 to 35 clam --
klan. Klan. With a k demo. But, you know, who else is Fox talking
to? I mean, what is it urban older white guys? And the girlfriend,
and, you know, the women who suffer from Stockholm syndrome
gain. There's a lot of Stockholm syndrome, is what I'm saying
ultimately. What else do you want to know?

OLBERMANN: What happens if somebody who's at one of these things
hurt somebody?

GAROFALO: That is an unfortunate byproduct since the dawn of time
of a volatile group like this of the limbic brain. Violence
unfortunately may or may not ensue. It always, it's like a, the
Republican Party now depends upon immigrant bashing and hating the
black guy in the White House. Will people act on that? It's not
new. But, you know, Fox doesn't mind fomenting it. Michelle
Bachmann doesn't mine fomenting it. Glenn Beck doesn't mind
fomenting it.

OLBERMANN: Lou Dobbs.

GAROFALO: Lou Dobbs. Oh, man he sure doesn't mind. But this is,
this their, what have they got if they don't have this? You know
what I mean? It's like an identity politics of the worst kind. ...

OLBERMANN: Janeane Garofalo, number five, comedian, actress,
political activist, and the expert on the limbic brain, great
thanks as always.

GAROFALO: Very much thanks to you."<END QUOTE>

The reference to "Bernie" is Bernard Goldberg, a hated conservative
commentator, whose web site is still online at
https://bernardgoldberg.com/. The hatemongers also mention
Lou Dobbs and Neil Cavuto, who still have shows on Fox Business
Network.

So those 60 million Tea Partiers have become 75 million Trump
supporters, and the Democrats have the same vitriolic hatred for them.

Once again, I have to emphasize that this isn't rare. This kind of
hatred is common. It's the Chinese hatred of Uighurs. It's the
Burmese Buddhist hatred of Rohingyans. It's the Syrian Alawite hatred
of Arab Sunnis. It's the Rwandan Hutu hatred of Tutsis. It's the
Nazi hatred of Jews.

I wish I understood this kind of hatred. In the American Civil War,
Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans freed the slaves. The Democrats
bitterly opposed ending slavery, and after they lost the Civil War,
they formed the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) militia, which the Democrats used
for the next century to lynch, torture, rape and execute blacks. If
today you're a Democrat who hates Trump supporters, then a century ago
you would have been a Democrat in the KKK, cheering the lynching,
torture, rape and killing of blacks. I don't know why that kind of
thing is in the DNA of the Democrats, or why it's in the DNA of the
Chinese or Burmese Buddhists or Nazis or the other groups I mentioned.
Like the Genocide Playbook, it's not rare. It is very common. It is
the rule.

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**** The January 6 attack on the Capitol building by Trump supporters
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At the beginning of this article I described the Genocide Playbook,
and these were the last two items: "Sooner or later there is some kind
of violent incident by a few people in the target group. This
incident might occur organically, or it might be a setup by the
élites. The élites use this incident to justify complete censorship,
violence, abuse and control towards the target group and, in the
extreme, commits genocide and ethnic cleansing."

In the current situation, the violent incident was the January 6 attack
on the Capitol building by Trump supporters.

This resulted from Donald Trump's disastrous decision to hold a rally
with hundreds of thousands of supporters, and then tell them to march
to the Capitol building to pressure the politicians to do their jobs
and object to the electors in six states. He's been accused of
purposely inciting violence, which was clearly the opposite of his
intention. He may be accused of stupid blunders and reckless actions,
but it was clearly not his intention to incite violence, even if that
was the unintended consequence.

The violent Capitol building incident is the culmination of the
Genocide Playbook strategy towards Tea Partiers and Trump supporters
that the Democrats have been using since the Obama administration.
It's what they've been hoping for to crush the Trump supporters once
and for all. The Democrats made vile attacks on Tea Partiers during
the Obama administration, as we've described, calling them terrorists,
racists and teabaggers, just for opposing Obama's policies.
Conservatives on college campuses and in businesses could lose their
jobs for saying something as simple as "Marriage is between a man and
a woman."

The Democrats have gotten away with phony and illegal anti-Trump
investigations and impeachments, encouraging antifa-blm fascists to
riot and burn down small businesses, using pandemic lockdowns to shut
down millions of small businesses, censoring any news that criticizes
Biden or exposes Hunter Biden's criminality, and flooding the country
with millions of unsolicited ballots and using the the resulting chaos
to rig the election with voting fraud and steal the election from
Trump -- all with total impunity. The Democrats are gloating that
they can get away with anything, and they are escalating their
threats.

During the last year, antifa-blm fascists, encouraged by Democrats,
tore down statues and burned down not only businesses, but also police
stations, courthouses, and even St John's Episcopal Church, near the
White House. These are clearly terrorist acts, but the Democrats not
only didn't condemn them, but encouraged them and censored them in the
media. That's why these acts by the Democrats are analogous to the
Nazi Kristallnacht.

Biden's vitriolic comments towards Trump supporters at his press
conference last week not only expressed his personal hatred of Tea
Partiers and Trump supporters, but also incited further violence.
Biden even compared Republican Senators to Nazis. I'm tempted to say
that these remarks prove that Biden is the one with the neurological
disorder, not the hated Tea Partiers. Biden even was an admirer of
Robert Byrd, a Great Kleagle (or something like that) in the Ku Klux
Klan that lynched and tortured blacks.

There's increasing evidence that the Democrats provoked the attack on
the Capitol building by providing only a bare skeleton security force
to protect the building, even though it was known for many days that
an attack was imminent.

Obama's Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta criticized the Capitol
Police for being completely unprepared, even though "everyone knew
that there would be people ... creating havoc":

<QUOTE>"What the hell was law enforcement on Capitol Hill
thinking by not having secured the Capitol today? ...

Everybody knew that there would be a disturbance. Everybody knew
that there would be people who were interested in doing nothing
else but creating havoc in the Capitol. And very frankly, it was
the responsibility of law enforcement and the Capitol Hill police
to secure the Capitol, and I'm not sure what happened that allowed
this event."<END QUOTE>

It is now reported that the FBI and the NYPD both warned the Capitol
police that there were groups planning violent attacks, but the
Capitol police only provided a skeleton force to block them, in effect
indirectly provoking those attacks.

These facts may come out in the investigation. But whether the
Democrats purposely provoked the attack, or whether it was simply
incompetence by the police, it is clearly the violent incident that
the Democrats hoped for and are using as part of their strategy to
completely destroy the Republican Party and Trump's supporters.

As I've said repeatedly, these kinds of actions are not rare. They're
common, and they're occurring today in many countries in various
stages. Still, it is almost beyond belief to me that three monopoly
companies -- Twitter, Facebook and Amazon -- have successfully
colluded to completely shut down Parler.com, a successful and growing
online service with millions of users -- for purely political reasons
as part of the Democrats' Genocide Playbook strategy. This is the
kind of thing that occurs in Russia and China and Cuba and North Korea
and Venezuela and totalitarian countries. It was never supposed to
happen in America.

Even though this is very common, I never never thought I'd see the
Genocide Playbook being used in America. This is the darkest time
for America in my memory.

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**** How will this end?
****

Will the Democrats' use of the Genocide Playbook lead to actual
genocide and ethnic cleansing? No. For that they would at least need
backing from the army, which obviously they don't have.

In fact, what the Democrats are doing is so completely bizarre and
outrageous, so destructive and self-destructive, and so un-American,
that it can't possibly last long.

Still, how is this going to end?

First, Donald Trump and his 75 million supporters are not dead and
buried. Every Trump voter I've seen interviewed on TV says the same
thing: That Trump actually speaks to them, and the others in
Washington ignore them. That's why they're loyal to Trump. Trump
says that he has some major announcement coming. We'll see what he
says.

Second, Parler.com is not dead and buried. The Democrats have gotten
Parler offline for now, but Parler has enough support to build its own
datacenter and cloud to replace Amazon's AWS, and it will be online
again.

In fact, if I were a business using Amazon's AWS cloud service, then I
would look at this situation in horror, knowing that Amazon could shut
me down at any time for any foolish reason. No one believes that
shutting down Parler had anything to do with violence. It had
everything to do with isolating 75 million Trump supporters and with
eliminating a competitor to twitter. If Amazon can come after Parler,
they can come after anyone.

Furthermore, Twitter, Google and Facebook made huge amounts of money
because of Trump in the last few years because of Trump. With Trump
gone, and with their contemptuous treatment of Trump supporters,
they're going to lose a lot of money. But, no worry, the execs will
be ok. Many of them are taking jobs in the Biden administration.

It's quite possible that Parler will come back with a vengeance and
become a major business threat to Twitter. If not Parler, then
another service. This is what always happens.

In fact, another conservative social media service, Gab.com, has
signed up millions of new users in the last few days. If you access
the site, the reason that it's slow is because it's being overwhelmed
by new users.

Third, and this is how it will really end.

As I've been saying for years, there will be a global financial crisis
and third world war with China, and this will unify the country, and
end all political divisiveness. That will be the end of silliness and
political correctness, and the beginning of a real existential crisis.

Sources:

• Trump banned from Facebook indefinitely, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says (Washington Post, 8-Jan-2021)
  
• Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump (Twitter, 8-Jan-2021)
  
• SHUT DON Twitter bans Trump but President vows ‘we will not be silenced’ & slams ‘Radical Left’ on official @POTUS account (The Sun, London, 9-Jan-2021)
  
• Leon Panetta / Ex-Defense secretary blasts authorities for not being better prepared to prevent the Capitol siege (CNBC, 6-Jan-2021)
  
• Twitter allows ‘Hang Mike Pence’ to trend hours after Trump ban (NY Post, 9-Jan-2021)
  
• Biden: ‘Tea Baggers’ Preventing New Gun-Control Laws (National Review, 7-Jul-2014)
  
• Sources: Biden likened tea partiers to 'terrorists' (Politico, 2-Aug-2011)
  
• Teabagger vs n-word / Obama Calls Tea Partiers 'Tea-Baggers' (Atlantic, 4-May-2010)
  
• Apple Has Banned Parler, The Pro-Trump Social Network, From Its App Store (Buzzfeed News, 9-Jan-2021)
  
• Parler faces SHUTDOWN: Amazon vows to switch off 'free-speech' site's servers at midnight as Apple follows Google in banning it (DailyMail, 10-Jan-2021)
  
• ABC News Calls For 'Cleansing' Of Trump Supporters (Zerohedge, 9-Jan-2021)
  
• FBI, NYPD told Capitol Police about possibility of violence before riot, senior officials say (NBC News, 11-Jan-2021)
  
• I Now Better Understand the ‘Good German’ (Dennis Prager, 5-Jan-2021)

Related Articles:

• Armed clashes with Uighurs in China's Xinjiang province (31-Dec-2011)
  
  
• Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
  
  
• Violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar/Burma escalates dramatically (28-Aug-2017)
  
  
• Syria war may be fizzling, as al-Assad 'hits a wall' in Idlib (12-Jul-2019)
  

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