Democide
The Crime of the Centuries
Democide is a word coined by Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii, who studied the phenomenon of governmental mass killings through history. Since the word genocide really pertains to the killing of a particular race, he preferred the more general term of democide to refer to mass governmental killings in general.
Why on Earth would any modern government, with malice and fore-thought, set about killing millions upon millions of it's own people? It's a thing hard to believe, yet it's been a common practice. The deaths by democide in the Twentieth century were greater than those in open warfare, and consider how deadly the warfare was in the Twentieth Century.
"What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?" ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Easier said than done.
Solzhenitsyn's Russians did not generally have firearms, but he thought they could have used any number of improvised weapons, even just table legs and fireplace pokers.
"The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
They did not stay brave and stay free in his estimation.
In order to prepare the ground for a mass killing a few preparatory steps are required.
First is the registration of weapons, especially firearms, followed by their confiscation. This was done in every case preceding the mass killings. In his book Resistance to Tyranny, author Joseph P. Martino makes it clear that only with a disarmed populace can a small group dominate a so much larger group to such an extent that democides are possible.
After the disarmament, the first step is polarization, separating people into two philosophical orientations.
Next is tribalization, when people form into separate groups, followed by demonization where, one group believes that the other is evil.
The last is the actual killing.
A good description of the unfolding of this process is found in The Citizen's Guide to Fifth Generation Warfare by General Michael Flynn and Sergeant Boone Cutler. The book covers the information war in which we are now embroiled, and can be found on Amazon at:
The University of Hawaii Democide Project, led by Professor R. J. Rummel, which studied mass killings through history, has a website found here:
https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/MURDER.HTM
A book written by Professor Rummel, Death by Government, can be found on Amazon:
The media puts more emphasis on the mass killings of the NAZIs in world war 2 than those of leftists, even though the left has killed far more. But then, weren't the National Socialist German Worker's Party really socialists?
To me, the most chilling phrase in the English language is "for the greater good", a phrase frequently used by Hillary Clinton. You can use it to justify anything. The academic set have enough intelligence to convince themselves of what they want to believe, and think that they are immune to propaganda. Their constant ruminations on creating utopia is fuel for totalitarianism and the associated necessity for democide.
Why do they occur? I think the basic answer is that, having begun their totalitarian utopia, things begin to go bad, and they reach a point where they either give up their utopian plans or they start killing. A dictatorial government comes to power and has grand ideas on re-ordering society to create wealth, harmony and utopia, with themselves as lords over all. Once their ideas begin to founder on the shoals of reality they must either abandon their dreams or turn totalitarian. Recent history implies that the latter is the usual response.
Other dictatorial governments may simply enjoy the power.
The important point is that democides can occur when the power of a government is all encompassing, and there is basically nothing to stop it. More democratic countries are more likely to hold someone accountable for crimes, and the checks and balances of our own system are supposed to protect us. The Bill of Rights provides for four “boxes” of protection: The ballot box, the jury box, the soap box and the cartridge box. The first three may be just swept away by edict, but the last consists of real, physical objects that would need to be confiscated.
Whenever democides have occurred the first practical step has been the registration of firearms, then their confiscation. (Think of gun control as a tyrant enable switch.) People will not willingly get in the boxcars, and must be disarmed before forcing them in. The powerful won't have complete control without people fearing being rounded up, or just slaughtered in place. The more such fear they can produce the more powerful they are, and an armed populace is harder to make fearful.
Solzhenitsyn explains how gaining control of a person is done in stages upon being arrested. The same incremental technique is employed in slowly removing rights from a people and turning them into serfs.
"At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Below is a table taken from the U. of Hawaii website of professor Rummel. The table shows incidents of democide in the twentieth century, in multiples of one thousand, and shows the years in which they occurred. (One must be alert to the possibility that some numbers have been falsified for propaganda reasons, as well as the difficulty of establishing what actually constitutes a death by democied. People were often sentenced to hard labor for political beliefs and died during their sentences. Does that count?)
Solzhenitsyn elucidates that it is not so simple. People will commit great evil if they believe it is for noble reasons:
"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors." ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Ideology or not, evil is evil, and one should not partake therein.
One will note that in the table below the communist countries dominate in terms of sheer numbers. Although down the list, Cambodia wins on deaths per capita. Communism has the property of concentrating a great deal of unaccountable power in the hands of a few.
This essay does not even address the large number of people who seem to be being injured and killed by the MRNA treatments. If the deaths are indeed intentional it would be another massive killing by the powerful, possibly thinking that they are doing good.
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think my essay Be a Warrior in a Garden is relevant:
Be A Warrior in a Garden
There is an old Chinese story concerning a young martial artist learning from a master. While training the master talks frequently about peace, how important it is and his love for it. The young man asks his master this question; “We train constantly for war, but you speak constantly of peace. Why is that?” The master replies; “It is better to be a warr…
Stay Brave, Stay Free
Great essay David. Along those lines ... https://frederickrsmith.substack.com/p/population-control-of-the-peoples-964
I do believe the mRNA deaths are indeed intentional, not necessarily by the scores of duped people advocating and administering them, but by the central planners who have long had depopulation as their goal and a means of maintaining power.
Another powerful essay - great work...