Genocide, atrocity and war propaganda pt 1

Part 1

This Fallout series of articles was provoked by thoughts I have already been having on propaganda thoughts, which are already somewhat covered in our upcoming book, Russian Genocidal Warfare (Bellamy, Blood, Du Cane - see end of post) and some recent developments. Its also based around Twitter’s smug feeling of immunity for responsibility for providing Russian genocidal rhetoric a channel.

There is no public service or free speech protection and defence for genocidal and war crime speech. I wonder if the Twitter legal department is too busy handling idiots like Elon Musk and Kanye West, and especially Donald Trump. Yes, they’re all richer than me but they’re just highly specialised predators in parasitic niches. At least as sociopaths if not psychopaths and one needs help.

Well, Kanye is good great genius with music but I find it pretentious and not to my taste. Big up junglist, gwan.

Back to the subject, is Twitter too addicted to engagement? The Facebook trap? There is no public service reason to let Russian government agencies and crypto agencies spew their filth via Twitter.

They are the current-day Nazis. The more freedom they have to vent their bile, the more bile they produce and it seems Russian actors are engaged in a spiral of hate speech which does affect their policy and behavior. Hate comes before action. Always. Giving them social media access is oxygen to their fire of hatred. Its the same with Russian market access, Russian tourism and Russian speech.

Access means atrocities. We can follow the rambling chaos of Russian traditional media and Telegram which contains more evil and genocide than the archives of the SS would over a thousand year Reich.

Propaganda is a key part of preparation and conduct of warfare - and in genocide. Not every war is genocidal, not every genocide requires war but every genocide and involves propaganda.1 Russian propaganda supports their war and their genocide. There must be responsibility.

And I even think Twitter in particular is straying into criminal responsibility before the ICC or national jurisdictions for its executives and employees for facilitating war, genocide and atrocity propaganda via allowing Russian criminals a platform for the calls to illegal action, especially genocide. Twitter, the ICC doesn’t care about your safe harbour provisions - and you’re not covered by the US War Criminal Immunity Act except for extradition.2 Media is a tool of war and social media in particular is still a tool of war.3 It is also a tool in this war and Russian genocide.4 Provide a platform for genocide propaganda? Go to jail.

Twitter bros - you do not have safe harbour protection from this:

Article III The following acts shall be punishable:

The ICC has jurisdiction over you.

Article 25(8) Individual criminal responsibility

1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over natural persons pursuant to this Statute.

2. A person who commits a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court shall be individually responsible and liable for punishment in accordance with this Statute.

3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:

(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission;

…

(c) and (e) above combine.

I will need to do some groundwork so let’s start the (disjointed) legal history lesson.

Iona Nitchenko, Moscow show trial murderer was a terrible lawyer. So was his (from a colleague) concept of war of aggression which was conjured up in his version to appropriate the greatest atrocity of World War Two from the Jews and other genocided people - to the attack on glorious rodina, the USSR (Russia rebranded).

Nitchenko was a legal nihilist - he saw law only as a tool. Trials were only to give the arranged verdict. He protested to the other judges on this and they were embarrassed/shocked (claimed), being naive about Russian ‘law’. He was mostly an embarrassment at Nuremberg - like attempting to blame the Germans for Katyń.8 But he was right with his quote on propaganda (above), in his dissent to the acquittal of Hans Fritzsche, Nazi flunky, who escaped any punishment at Nuremberg.9 Fritzsche was a stand-in for murderer-suicider Goebbels. Friszche convinced the naive Western judges he didn’t know about the Holocaust. Turned out that he most definitely did. He should have hung. Russians know propaganda and know it is used in genocide! The judge murderer was simply applying principles of incitement to violence that he knew - propaganda precedes, catalyzes or causes and justifies the violence! We see that today with smartphones becoming instruments of violence as or more important than guns, machetes and burning tires (Ford, Hoskins, Radical War)

One of Trainin’s murderer-pretending-to-be-a-lawyer ‘friends’ (they denounced and murdered each other, promotion was very much over the body of your predecessor) was  Andrey “Give me a man and I will find the crime.” Vyshinsky, who undoubtedly put Rafael Lemkin on the Soviet kill list during the Soviet invasion of Poland with its ally Nazi Germany in September 1939. Vyshinsky particularly despised Lemkin’s idea of limiting state sovereignty. A position held by many other fascists then and now (yes I know he was technically a Russian communist, but the flip side of the same coin).10

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A quick post because this is a subject that has been covered by infinitely more competent writers than I. I however feel could write a mediocre book on the subject off the top of my head. One of the most important steps towards World War 2 was the forging of an alliance between two genocidal regimes - Nazi Germany and the USSR, a Russian empire dressed u…

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Lemkin most famously coined the term genocide with his work Axis Rule in Occupied Europe.11 He was one of the architects of the Genocide Convention, which Vyshinsky tried to sabotage at convention and in committee.12

Lemkin wasn’t only the author of the term genocide. In 1934 he worked with his Lviv (Lwów) University mentor, on the appropriately nicknamed Kodeks Makarewicza, a progressive and humane criminal code that reformed Polish law at a time of growing fascism and legal nihilism throughout Europe.14 Juliusz Makarewicz is a fascinating man. A Jew who hated being Jewish, a Polish nationalist, who taught at Lviv University throughout the war and continued after 1945 when my grandmother was chased out of Lwów and Stalin took the city for the Russian Empire (it’s good that it is now a Ukrainian city, and it should stay that way, my grandmother was half Ukrainian). Lwów University was a genius foundry - then the Nazis annihilated the legacy, to the point that the university didn't know Lemkin was a graduate (Philip Sands pointed this out and now Lemkin is appropriately celebrated)15. Hersch Lauterpacht, QC, another genius of law, a titan of human rights law, and one of the key authors of the European Convention of Human Rights that the fascist Suella Braverman, who soiled the position of QC, despises, was supposedly unable to study law as a Jew at Lwów because of Polish nationalism. However, Makarewicz was Lemkin’s friend and mentor. All Jews. All brilliant lawyers. Two of them claimed Poland very vigorously and rightfully so. Makarewicz was very nationalistic. He was not a fascist. Neither was Lemkin, who became somewhat of a Zionist and attempted to become too friendly with the American right, who despised him as a Jew and Pole, a polyglot who spoke funny.16

I digress. The Kodeks Makariewcza contains:

Art. 113. §1 Whoever publicly agitates for a war of aggression, is subject to imprisonment for up to 5 years.

§2 Prosecution only occurs if the act under §1 is criminalised by the legislation of the country against which the agitation is brought.

This was obviously a reaction to Nazi agitation against Poland, but also Soviet agitation, Poland had won an existential war against Soviet Russia only a decade before.

Lemkin claimed authorship of this provision of law.17 He was in 1934 a noted lawyer, public and private in Poland. This alone would have got him on Soviet kill lists, even before he attacked Soviet legal nihilism and instrumentalism in his commentaries on Soviet pseudo-law.18 His thoughts on international law including banning war of atrocities brought him to genocide. He didn’t however make the Soviet nonsense claim that war was the root of all evil and atrocities. Atrocities occur without war (Holodomor) and are the reason for war (Holocaust on Jews mixed with lebensraum genocide and revanchist behind that was the dominant driver of Nazi war)

This is not the same provision as the Soviet legal appropriation mechanism of war of aggression against rodina… Soviet appropriation reached such absurd levels post-war that even the term genocide was also appropriated:

The prohibition of propaganda to war as well as the prohibition of war itself were subjects that lawyers and politicians were dealing with in the inter-war period and Lemkin was not alone or the leading jurist on the subject.20 He was however making the steps that would lead him to legal greatness.

However, at the same time, others were taking steps towards the Holocaust.21 Lemkin was a genius of law. The Nazis were geniuses of propaganda.

Your eyes will be glazing over by now, so part 2 this week.

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PS Update 29 November 2022

They’re getting worried about the Hague

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