Thread by @6Voodoo

With all this talk of "amnesty" after the disastrous government/media response to the Bug and a backlash of free people, it is important we look back when elites ignored other warnings and when examples were made of them. Amnesty and the 1221 Destruction of the Khwarazmian Empire

1/ In 1218, a 400 person trade caravan arrived at the Khwarazmian city of Otrar from their eastern neighbors on the steppes of Asia, the Mongol tribes. The Mongols in 1218 were far from the unified juggernaut they would become.

2/ They were still a generation or more from reaching Budapest and threatening the west. They had fought barbaric wars in China, but the Mongol leader Genghis was consolidating his control over the steppe tribes.

3/ The Khwarazmians on the other hand, stretched from the modern Iran through most of the ‘Stans. The Islamic State’s dream of a Caliphate includes Khorasan, which is a direct line from the Sunni Islam Khwarazmians.

4/ Inalchuq, the Governor of Otrar, and uncle of the Shah, through either stupidity or arrogance, decided to imprison the Mongol gesture of peace and trade, steal their goods, and sell them himself.

5/ Genghis sent three emissaries to the Khwarazmian Shah, and offered a peace for the release of the 400 prisoners and the return of the goods. The Shah, in an act of infinite stupidity, responded by executing one of the emissaries.

6/ His head back to the Genghis with the other two. The Governor of Otrar, not to be outdone, executed his 400 prisoners from the caravan.

To say Genghis was displeased would be an understatement. The next year, he sent his army westwards to punish the Shah.

7/ The Shah marched his army towards the Dzungarian Gate, the only practical crossing through the mountains into his empire and waited for the Mongols. The Mongols sent a force around, through chest deep mountain snow to flank the Shah.

8/ When the Shah panicked and pulled his army from the gate, the Mongols poured through it and into the empire.

Besieging the city of Otrar, the Mongols offered no quarter after the treatment of their tribesmen.

9/ In their fear, traitors inside Otrar betrayed their city, and opened the gates to the Mongol fury. The Mongols murdered nearly everyone they found inside the city. Today Otrar no longer exists. A ghostly symbol of the price people paid because of their "Elites".

Otrar Today:

10/ The Governor to his credit, fought to the last, but his arrogance had sealed his fate long before the Mongols poured liquid silver into his eyes and mouth.

The Mongol army then proceeded to Bukhara, the city where Inalchuq had sold the Mongol caravan’s wares.

11/ Again, traitors inside the city betrayed their kin, and let the Mongols into the outer walls. When the inner moat-ringed Citadel held out, the Mongols scoured the trade records of everyone who had bought or sold even the smallest item from the Mongol caravan.

12/ They were taken prisoner, marched into the moat alive, and their bodies used as a bridge across which Mongols rolled siege engines they had brought all the way from China. No one was spared. People were slaughtered by the tens of thousands because of "elite" greed.

Genghis:

13/ As city after city fell, the Shah fled his country, and Genghis sent nearly 10,000 riders under his best general to chase him. The Shah even abandoned his family to the Mongol swords, and fled as the Mongols murdered his entire line.

14/ The Shah died alone in hiding the next year from “disease”, having gone from the Shah of all Central Asia to a pauper in less than two years. He had been warned, he had even been offered a second chance at peace, and then he was taught a lesson.

15/ When the media and the government response to the bug shifted from “Trump is a racist for doing anything” to “shut it all down for just two weeks promise”, those of us who know the risk adverse nature of the government and the cowardice of the media knew it would get worse.

16/ We knew once they took cover, and made taking cover virtuous and those who refused the enemy, there was no going back. The ram had touched the wall and it was going to get ugly. And ugly it got. They accused us of “killing grandma”.

17/ When the Juice came out, they said the unJuiced should be refused other medical treatment. They literally advocated for our deaths. The wanted us tracked with an app, and to wear special markings, and the government pushed private companies to fire anyone who wasn’t Juiced.

18/ But those threats were rarely enforced by law. Why not? Because of you. Government was unwilling to escalate threats to violence, because they do not hold a monopoly on violence.

And while individual atrocities occurred, few lasting impacts on our rights as people exist.

19/ I can’t imagine the pain of a loved one dying alone, of missing the birth of a child, watching your business collapse, or your kids fall behind. I’m not telling you to forgive anyone, but remember individual people make mistakes. Some we forgive, some in power we will never.

20/ Individuals can get better, and your friends can be forgiven if they truly seek it. They were the traitors to leftist virtue signaling that let us in the gate. They lacked the conviction of their zealot friends and folded. Corwardly, but wisely.

21/ The US did not see the UK’s police enforced quaranties, or house arrests where you had to text the government to go to the store in Spain and Greece, or Germany’s curfews, or Australia’s camps. They are still wearing masks on trains in Germany.

22/ Why did it not get that far here? Certainly if the left had its way it would have. The answer is that we are the Mongols, and while we don’t have horse archers, we have something better and it is found between the 1st and 3rd amendments.

23/ Armed protests in blue states reminded those governors inclined toward totalitarianism that while they held the gavel, the people hold the power, and our rights mean something to us, and Americans were not going to see them taken.

24/ They saw the flood of people away from their states towards free states, and they too cowered and surrendered. In the end, it was a few nerds in Washington and California banging a drum no one cared to listen to anymore.

25/ And it was your resistance and your strength that did that. It may not have looked it at the time, or maybe even now, but I watched free America’s response from afar, and you were one of the only people in the Western World to fight back.

26/ I was so proud of all of you strangers, watching you defend what we love. It showed who the true allies and enemies were, and gave everyone a glimpse at how close we are to losing. It shows us who seeks forgiveness and who is pretending and waiting for another chance.

27/ Never forget that it is our united strength that checks the excesses of the government. We are the Mongols, and they get one warning. Luckily for them this time they listened.