10 Steps to Genocide
1. Classification: People are divided into “us and them.”
2. Symbolization: People are forced to identify themselves.
3. Discrimination: People begin to face systematic discrimination.
4. Dehumanization: People equated with animals, vermin, or diseases.
5. Organization: The government creates specific groups (police/military) to enforce the policies.
6. Polarization: The government broadcasts propaganda to turn the populace against the group.
7. Preparation: Official action to remove/relocate people.
8. Persecution: Beginning of murders, theft of property, trial massacres
9. Extermination: Wholesale elimination of the group. It is “extermination” and not murder because the people are not considered human.
10. Denial: The government denies that it has committed any crime.
Saw a version of this carried out against the Branch Davidians at Waco under the Bill Clinton admin and AG Janet Reno.
Weston, would you say we are entering Step 7 ?