Thread by @YourAnonCentral

"In 2025, the US is France. As impunity and lawlessness have grown in the US over the last several decades, it has also grown everywhere else. Even now, in the days of dwindling US status as a global endo-ideal, US news is watched more than anywhere on earth." #3E #EndImpunity 🧵

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"Active genocides in Sudan and Palestine do not command as much attention as a meme from Donald Trump. In some ways, that makes sense, as memes from Donald Trump directly embolden and contribute to genocides elsewhere." #3E #EndImpunity

"The US is one of a very few states that could influence the UAE and Israel to obey international law, if there ever comes a time when the US itself obeys it." #3E #EndImpunity

"I have watched for decades as movements for change are intercepted and sent into the ditch on either the right or the left of the path forward to progress. This happens in every country but most quickly and effectively in the US." #3E

"Both ditches were and are built and maintained by the people who want to drive you off of your path. It’s time to get clear on principles and plans so that derailment doesn’t happen." #3E

"The ditch on the right is called centrism, although that is far from what it really is. In reality, it is the same road to fascism that the US has always been on, but in this era, it has unique markers." #3E

"My shorthand term for this is the Cheney-Rumsfeld era, because it doesn’t matter what corruption and institutionalized organized crime I am looking at, all roads in the US seem to eventually lead to Iran-Contra and those twin heads of modern coercion and crime." #3E

"No matter who the president has been since Nixon, everything smells like Cheney and Rumsfeld. (That smell is OpDeathEaters.) That is because there are, of course, far more people in the US government that hold the same views as Cheney and Rumsfeld and support the same policies." #3E

"Their methods are just the modern form of what has been done for centuries, but vastly accelerated. The gentle left-right rocking of a ship sailing towards fascism has been replaced by a bullet train, with little fundamental difference between left and right." #3E

"Few people in the US seem to agree with that assessment. In fact, many will react with blind rage at any suggestion of a comparison between politicians or people from different US political parties." #3E

"Many people in the US believe there is a real choice between good and bad governance being offered to them. They seem to believe that increasingly as it becomes more obviously false, a testament to the power of the new forms of coercion being employed." #3E

"Because it is a deeply felt, emotional belief, logic has very little effect on it. The increasing emotional need to believe in one side or the other is a result of emotional exhaustion." #3E

"This is behind the inability to see or accept facts, like the fact that every administration has marched the country farther into fascism. That blind rage is acting to drive protesters straight into the aforementioned ditch on the right." #3E

"If you aren’t allowed to even ask if the road you are on leads to the right, you aren’t going to be able to resist a force driving you there while screaming that it identifies as left, or centre." #3E

"The facts are very clearly in front of us. Epstein, as just one example, has been around for decades. Even if there was a president who did not deal directly with his network, there is no president that was not aware of the files on that network & the people who were implicated in those files." #3E

"This is why, over a decade ago, long before almost anything was reported about organized child rape and trafficking networks in high levels of power, I said that an investigation would catch the entire global oligarchy." #3E

"I did not then, and do not currently, have evidence against every single person in a position of great influence, power and access. I don’t have to." #3E

"I knew, even then, about enough predators with immunity from justice that it was clear that the society of enablers was wide enough to implicate everyone. In these times of global, all-pervasive surveillance, everyone at a certain level of influence knows the secrets of everyone else." #3E

"More importantly, it was obvious that these crimes were not even kept secret. They just had a very light veil of euphemisms thrown over what was being practiced completely openly. Everyone knew; everyone was complicit." #3E

"During the two terms of Reagan’s presidency, over 138 administration officials were investigated, indicted, or convicted. This shows that impunity was not completely entrenched yet at that point." #3E

"It advanced greatly during his [Reagan's] terms, however, most dramatically in the so-called investigation into the Iran-Contra war crime funding, election fraud, and more." #3E

"US media breathlessly covered the testimony of Oliver North, and concluded the exposure of his crimes (or willingness to be a fall guy) by proclaiming him a national hero and potential presidential candidate." #3E

"If one minute could be chosen for the acceptance of impunity as a key part of the US psyche, this is a strong contender." #3E

"Reagan’s vice-president, George H.W. Bush, himself complicit in Iran-Contra crimes, entrenched immunity during his presidency, starting with the pardons he issued to other officials complicit in Iran-Contra." #3E

"This was followed by Clinton, who was acquitted for his perjury and obstruction of justice. And then we get to George W. Bush. In addition to the declaration of an illegal war of aggression in Iraq, CIA atrocities exploded, " ... #3E

... "US black sites for disappearances and torture popped up in many countries with widespread international complicity, and innocent people were abducted from allied countries and shipped off to the world’s most infamous regimes for torture and incarceration." #3E

"This was a regime of open lawlessness, buoyed up by extreme emotional coercion and exceptionalism. This is where so many of the ideas we see today were perfected and normalized, with impunity." #3E

"Laws were reduced to ‘the spirit of‘ the Geneva Conventions, which was code for violating the Geneva Conventions." #3E

"Abduction, torture, and murder were presented to an accepting public as justifiable if directed at an arbitrarily designated worst of the worst (a term that has come home to roost as some of us warned it would)." #3E

"Civilian deaths, including the deaths, abduction, and torture of children, were normalized and brushed off. Laws against war crimes that had taken decades to implement as global norms were rendered meaningless, and this regression spread around the world." #3E

"Under Bush, many people resisted the eradication of law and human rights with widespread protests." #3E

"People fought very hard, issued legal challenges, advocated for victims of regime brutality, and became politically active in pursuit of a return to a lawful society. And what happened next?" #3E

"Resisters were rewarded with a joyous moment of triumph. They swept what looked like a new administration into power, armed with vague slogans of hope and change and decorated with an inexplicable Nobel Peace prize." #3E

"Surely such a symbol of global affirmation would bring real change." #3E

"The first evidence that no change would be forthcoming came during Obama’s first campaign, when he announced, “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards” and allow impunity for war crimes, including abduction, torture, and murder of civilians and declaration of an illegal war." #3E

"That is called being an accessory after the fact, which is already a crime. It got so much worse when he took office." #3E

"His followers, however, refused to let go of the euphoria produced by what so many saw as their redemption. Obama, for many voters, was not a person or a president; he was not judged on his actions but on the promise of relief from guilt." #3E

"This hope of relief made Obama’s reflectors particularly vicious and blind in his defence. They covered up and silenced any objections to his war crimes, which he started immediately and continued for eight very long years." #3E

"Obama promised to shut Guantanamo. Instead, he avoided sending more people to black site prisons by increasing assassinations." #3E

"Obama ordered 563 drone strikes, which murdered around 3,797 people, none of which faced any trial and almost none of which were suspected of any crime. For comparison, George W. Bush ordered 57 strikes during his eight years of war and terror." #3E

"In one year alone, in 2016, Obama used 26,171 bombs on seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, none of which the US was at war with at that point." #3E

"While the Obama administration referred to these as 'targeted killings' and 'precision strikes', the US averaged, at the very least, 582 murders of civilians a year under Obama." #3E

"At a 2010 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Obama referenced his prolific war crimes with a ‘joke’ directed at the Jonas Brothers: "Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but boys, don't get any ideas. Two words for you: predator drones. You will never see it coming." #3E

"Obama sat down every Tuesday and added names to a kill list, an accumulation of Stalinist crimes he made the US complicit in. He assassinated large groups of people to target one, then he assassinated anyone who ran out to rescue them, and then he assassinated anyone attending their funerals." #3E

"He increased, institutionalized, and normalized mass surveillance and allowed far wider information sharing among all 18 US spy and coercion agencies, creating a two-tiered country of the surveilled and the surveilling." #3E

"He gave privileged status to special forces that allowed them to commit atrocities and conduct secret wars with no accountability." #3E

"In 2015, his [Obama] regime deliberately bombed a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz for half an hour, killing 42 people and injuring dozens more. When MSF demanded an external investigation, the US military bulldozed the evidence." #3E

MSF on Obama's attack on their hospital, "The view from inside the hospital is that this attack was conducted with a purpose to kill and destroy. But we don’t know why." - Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director. #3E msf.org/kunduz-hospita…

"As he promised during his campaign, Obama refused to prosecute or investigate anyone for the war crimes of Bush’s era. Instead, institutions and elites, especially military and bankers, were rewarded under Obama, following crimes they should have been punished for." #3E

"At the same time, he institutionalized show trials in Guantanamo that provided precedent and frameworks for indefinite detainment without charge, evidence obtained under torture, trials that bypass international and US constitutional law, and flagrant disregard for recognized legal procedure." #3E

"He brought in the 2012 NDAA which allowed the US government to treat US citizens the way he and Bush already treated everyone outside of the US. The 2012 NDAA affirmed and expanded indefinite detentions without trial of anyone the US suspects of ‘terrorism’, including US citizens." #3E

"In 2011, he [Obama] assassinated US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son [Abdulrahman al-Awlaki from Denver, Colorado] in separate drone strikes, without charge, trial, or judicial review." #3E

"He [Obama] oversaw the effective dismantling of the 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law and bypassed habeas corpus entirely, establishing the precedent of indefinitely detaining and killing citizens without any judicial oversight." #3E

"Obama used the Espionage Act more than all previous presidents combined, and he used it, not against spies, but as a tool to repress journalists." #3E

"His Justice Department seized records of personal home and cell phones of Associated Press reporters with no judicial review and conducted electronic surveillance on reporters from the New York Times and Fox News." #3E

"His war on both whistleblowers and journalists directly challenged the First Amendment of the US Constitution and weakened the Freedom of Information Act throughout his two terms. Instead of his promise of hope and change, he delivered secrecy and impunity." #3E

"When Trump came to power the first time, he drove on the road that Bush had cleared and Obama had paved for him. This is objectively factual, but many people will deny that to the last breath in their bodies." #3E georgiebc.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/tra…

"I know this because I fought against all of the above actions taken by Obama, and I was treated with great hostility for it by his reflectors. Instead of insisting on accountability from their representatives, they refused to tolerate any criticism." #3E

"As a human rights activist, I met far less opposition from the US when Bush was president, and saw far more support for justice." #3E

"Support of Obama’s crimes went beyond political cynicism; his supporters, including many who were my close allies in fighting crimes by Bush and Trump, reacted as though I was attacking them personally by pointing out indisputable facts about Obama." #3E

"The reason for such an emotional disregard of facts is because of the denial of redemption and the flood of additional guilt such an admission would bring." #3E

"This same emotional response motivates people to strengthen division between political endogroups, even to the point of civil war. Division is an attempt to dissociate from endogroup guilt." #3E

"When Clinton ran against Trump’s first campaign, I was accumulating a lot of evidence of high level criminality in child trafficking networks, including both Trump and Bill Clinton, but many more besides." #3E

"The Trump campaign created two decoy ops to drown out the information from my OpDeathEaters campaign: first Pizzagate, then Qanon." #3E stellabelle.medium.com/the-origins-of…

"Voters on the right were derailed and duped into supporting Trump. Voters on the left were encouraged to vilify anyone who suggested that high level complicity in child trafficking was real." #3E

"Trump initiated a game of chicken. Clinton swerved, and Trump drove home with the presidency. Imagine if there had been a real opposition that demanded proper investigation, transparency and justice." #3E

"When Biden came to power, after four years of Trump’s continuation and escalation of war crimes and domestic crimes, the US might have had a brief respite from war crime complicity." #3E

"Unfortunately, Biden continued to prop up sadistic war criminals like Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and the genocide backing UAE President, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan." #3E

"He [Biden] refused to prosecute anyone for the crimes of Trump’s administration, including an attempted coup. Democrats refused to challenge Trump’s candidacy for presidential office." #3E

"When Kamala Harris won the 2024 election, the Democrats accepted a statistically impossible, openly rigged result with no challenge, not even a request for a recount or investigation." #3E

"There are still far too many US voters who continue to tell themselves that the Democrats refused to take action because they are just too sweet and kind." #3E

"This is not an excess of civility. This is called throwing the game. It’s what happens when both parties are conspiring with each other. It is a tactic of organized crime." #3E

"Biden allowed the US to steamroll further towards the abyss through his inaction and continuing impunity for the crimes of everyone around him." #3E

"The culmination of this criminal inaction was when his administration stood down and allowed Trump to run again and ultimately take power again." #3E

"In How to Dismantle a Dictatorship, I pointed out that the population creates the dictator. Without widespread change in the population, the tyranny will continue." #3E

"Emotional exhaustion leads people to believe in a fantasy that both parties are not fully compromised and in collusion - that someone is fighting for them so they don't have to." #3E

"This causes them to ignore the evidence in front of their eyes and violently defend half of the people who created their current problem." #3E

"Political representatives are public servants who deserve to be treated as professionals. They ought to be easily and unquestioningly removed when they are no longer deserving of that respect." #3E

"When they start to feel like family members or emotional support icons, you have too strong an endogroup." #3E

"Trump’s followers have been rightfully ridiculed for the very cringe “Daddy’s home” comments they have made, but they are not the only ones looking for a parental figure." #3E

"Tim Walz supporters called him ‘America’s Dad’, and it was every bit as disturbing. So was ‘Mamala’ and depictions of Michelle Obama as the ‘First Mom’ or ‘Mom-in-chief’. #3E

"That strong an identification with politicians creates fertile ground for exceptionalism, fascism, and impunity." #3E

"Unprofessional familiarity causes people to lose objectivity and insist on blind loyalty over principles. It also causes them to overlook the most serious crimes and allow and expect impunity for their chosen icon." #3E

"So this is the ditch to the right, the vote for continuing impunity and ever-escalating war crimes. To progress, you have to build a real opposition, one that follows principles, not parties and definitely not people." #3E

"This means taking over every position in every level of government with people willing to follow agreed upon principles and removing them as soon they start to stray." #3E

"Rapid removal is not currently built into the US system of government, so that needs to be redesigned as well." #3E

"Any resistance that wants to progress to a place of international respect will need to join the ICC and end the decades of criminal impunity, for everyone. That means handing over all the war criminals." #3E

"Which brings us to the ditch to the left. The second you try to agree to principles, you will face the full force of purity tests, nihilism, defeatism, and general trolling that I outlined in detail in Stigmergy: How to Create a Mass Movement." #3E

"One glance at reddit will show you thousands of examples of that." #3E

"The road ahead is not so much a road as it is a tightrope. The safest way to walk a tightrope is with a net underneath, to prevent slipping off into either the ditch of cynicism or the ditch of blind loyalty." #3E

"That net is made of a collaboration of resistance groups and international alliances, woven together by shared principles. Building it requires open difference of opinion and the ability to negotiate difference without sacrificing principles." #3E

"Building it requires open difference of opinion and the ability to negotiate difference without sacrificing principles. This looks like so much more work than just voting every four years. It is so much more work. But the payoff is a world worth living in.

End impunity." #3E #EndImpunity