Are Trudeau's policies killing Canadians?

 

The topic of this podcast on that of democide, namely the murder of citizens by their own governments. This subject is so dark and perverse that I've only been able to do my research and write about it in fits and starts before I have needed to take a break. This episode will prove that the number one source of harm and murder done to the citizenry originates with their own governments who commit atrocities while claiming that their murderous tyranny promotes the good of the many over the rights of the few. Without this lie the real nature of their anti-human agenda would become apparent which is why those in power protect this lie at all costs.

My research includes a review of the work of the late Dr. Rudolph Joseph Rummel (October 21, 1932 – March 2, 2014) who was an American political scientist and professor at the Indiana University, Yale University, and University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Dr. Rummel spent his career studying data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Contrasting genocide, Rummel coined the term democide for murder by government, such as the genocide of indigenous peoples and colonialism, Nazi Germany, the Stalinist purges, Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and other authoritarian, totalitarian, or undemocratic regimes, coming to the conclusion that democratic regimes result in the least democides. Reiterating Rummel’s conclusion, it is fair to state that a preeminent fact about governments (focusing especially on the 20th century) is that many of them “murdered millions in cold blood.” What’s more, tens of millions of additional human beings were slaughtered by governments as a result of foreign aggression and intervention (“war”).

I add to Dr. Rummel’s conclusions on democide the findings of the Commissioner's Report of the National Citizen's Inquiry which can be read at this link https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/commissioners-report/  On Tuesday, November 28, 2023, the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) released the final report of its months-long investigation into Canada’s response to COVID-19. This report follows the September 14 release of an interim report focused on the regulatory approval process and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

The Report was written by NCI’s four independent Commissioners: Chairperson Mr. Ken Drysdale, Ms. Heather DiGregorio, Ms. Janice Kaikkonen and Dr. Bernard Massie. The Report is the culmination of their efforts to:

-listen to the testimony of over 300 witnesses who told the Commissioners and all Canadians what happened to them during the COVID-19 crisis, or shared their expertise on subjects ranging from the economy and education, to mental health and medical science, to media and institutional censorship, to social harms and civic losses—to name just a few.

-learn how Canadians were affected by the policies enacted by governments and other organizations in response to COVID-19.

-recommend ways health and other crises can be better managed in future, to reduce and avoid the many harms that Canadians experienced since COVID-19 began in early 2020.

The Commissioners expressed deep appreciation for the individuals and organizations who courageously came forward to share their experiences, expertise and perspectives, and which led to the report and recommendations now available here.

Summary:

The National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) into Canada's response to COVID-19 released its final report on November 28, 2023⁶. The report was based on the testimony of more than 300 members of the public and expert witnesses during 24 days of hearings in eight cities and additional virtual hearings⁶. The report contains hundreds of recommendations impacting all segments of Canadian society⁶.

The report describes profound damage done to the fabric of Canadian society and the nation⁶. It documents heartbreaking and deeply shocking testimony from people who experienced adverse vaccine reactions, disruption of livelihoods and education, impaired mental health, reputational damage, professional discipline, and censorship⁶.

The report laments that although subpoenas were issued to 63 members of government, regulators, and authorities urging them to testify, none appeared⁶. The Commissioners' Report describes how the widespread acceptance of stringent government lockdowns, which would have previously been deemed inconceivable, represents a remarkable shift within a mere three years⁶.

The report asserts that the policy, legal, and health authority interventions into the lives of Canadians, their families, businesses, and communities were significant⁶. These interventions have impacted the physical and mental health, civil liberties and fundamental freedoms, jobs and livelihoods, and overall social and economic well-being of nearly all Canadians⁶.

The report also criticizes the role that the public and private broadcasters played in terrorizing the public and then merely acting as mouthpieces of the government who relentlessly pounded Canadians with 24/7 propaganda without questions⁶.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2023-12-07

(1) National Citizens Inquiry Issues Commissioners’ Final Report. https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/national-citizens-inquiry-issues-commissioners-final-report/.

(2) NCI Homepage - National Citizen's Inquiry - Canada's Response To Covid-19. https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/.

(3) Citizen-led inquiry into Canada's pandemic response makes stop in .... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/national-citizens-inquiry-covid-19-1.6810121.

(4) National Citizen’s Inquiry interim report calls on Trudeau to halt .... https://tnc.news/2023/09/19/national-citizens-inquiry-interim-report/.

(5) Call inquiry into Canada’s COVID-19 response, medical journal urges. https://globalnews.ca/news/9854407/covid-canada-inquiry-call-bmj/.

(6) 2 years on, there are calls for a real look at what went wrong in .... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/covid-19-public-inquiry-commission-1.6380698.

(7) Commissioners Report - National Citizen's Inquiry - Canada's Response .... https://nationalcitizensinquiry.ca/commissioners-report/.

There can be no doubt left to any thinking and informed person that the state has exceeded its proper and legal mandate to govern to become the primary source of murderous tyranny as it pursued policies that promoted an illiberal, authoritarian agenda that was entirely detrimental to the health, well-being, social cohesion, and economic prosperity of all Canadians, particularly the most marginalized.

To be blunt, the greatest enemy we are facing as a nation comes from our own government and its bureaucracy accompanied by the incredible unwillingness of many, if not most, Canadians to find the political will to remove these corrupt dictatorial oligarchs from power so that they can be held legally accountable for their treasonous unconstitutional overreach in a court of law since our overlords have blood on their hands!

Experiencing a constant barrage of contradictions from trusted individuals can have significant psychological effects. The human brain is hardwired to seek consistency; when persistent, unresolved internal contradictions arise between people's everyday decisional premises, it can generate mental distress that manifests in mental dysfunction¹.

Many people who are consistently distrusting have good reason for being so. But a tendency not to trust others can have severe consequences in a number of domains—particularly interpersonal relationships—and can exacerbate loneliness, depression, or antisocial behavior³.

Anxiety and depressive disorders may be a function of unresolved contradictions. Evidence from fMRI/lesion studies suggests that anxiety/depression engender contradiction between perfectionist demands and reality perception. Such conflicts in the premises of the person's practical reasoning network generate somatosensory threat feelings¹.

These feelings are conceptualized in terms of linguistic acts of catastrophizing, damning, and thinking that "I can't". A logic-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (LBT) can key into the premises of such self-defeating reasoning¹.

Chronic distrust can affect how you view yourself and all the relationships in your life. You might find you frequently doubt other people will come through on their obligations, for example, or you may be afraid of getting too close to others or feel suspicious when someone is kind to you².

Certain mental health disorders may involve symptoms of distrust or paranoia, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), paranoid personality disorder, dependent personality disorder, psychosis/psychotic disorders, depressive disorders, and anxiety disorders².

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2023-12-07

(1) How Contradiction Can Generate Mental Disorder - Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-would-aristotle-do/202105/how-contradiction-can-generate-mental-disorder.

(2) Trust | Psychology Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/trust.

(3) 'Trust Issues': Signs, Causes, and How to Overcome Distrust - Psych Central. https://psychcentral.com/blog/trust-issues-causes-signs.

Here is an excellent article reviewing Dr. Rummel’s findings which is precisely why I do not trust the MAN. The unlimited government is not your friend. We must demand the restoration of limited constitutional government with rules that permit us to rid ourselves of wicked leaders for that power in the hands of the electorate is essential to peace, order, and good government. The article is entitled, “Nations Kill a Lot of People” by Richard A. Koenigsberg and is available at this link: https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/newsletter/posts/2015/2015-06-18-RAK.html

Reviewing the history of the 20th century, nation-states have something in common: they killed millions upon millions of human beings. Do we wish to say that each event—each instance of death by government—had a unique, idiosyncratic cause? This mode of explanation violates the principle of parsimony.

Although tens of millions of people were murdered by governments in the 20th century, we’d prefer not to consider the possibility that killing or slaughter is one of the basic functions of the nation-state.

Based on a lifetime of research on democide (see previous LSS Newsletter), Rudy Rummel calculates that—for the period of 1900-1999—a total of 262 million human beings were murdered by governments. This figure excludes deaths that occurred based on clashes between armies (direct military conflict).

The typical figure for First World War casualties is 9 million dead, and it is estimated that 56 million died during the Second World War. If we factor in other wars during the 20th century, perhaps a minimum of 325 million human beings were killed as a result of collective forms of violence generated by nation-states (we omit here discussion of the “wounded”).

Whatever the exact figure—and whatever descriptive words we use (genocide or war or mass murder or democide), a salient fact of the 20th century is that hundreds of millions of people were killed based on actions undertaken by governments. Based on his research, Rummel concludes that the “preeminent fact about government” is that “some murder millions in cold blood.”

Historians study specific cases of war or genocide or mass murder. The search for “causes” focuses on the origins of—the factors leading up to—the occurrence of this or that event. A shibboleth of anthropological and historical research (and of post-modernism) is that each event is unique—and can be properly studied only within a particular cultural context.

Still, reviewing the history of the 20th century, nation-states have something in common: they took actions that led to the deaths of millions upon millions of human beings. Do we really wish to argue that each instance of death by generated by a government had a unique, idiosyncratic cause? Is this mode of explanation consistent with the principle of parsimony?

The orbit of Mercury around the sun differs from the orbit of the earth and that of Jupiter. Yet the path of each planet is governed by the Law of Universal Gravitation. We don’t yet have a law or principle allowing us to generalize about state (collective forms of) violence. Still, we can begin to pay attention to—focus our awareness upon—the fact that nation-states kill a lot of people.

Discussing his bibliography on democide approximately 20 years ago, Rummel explains that he teaches a university course, “Introduction to Political Science,” and each semester reviews and considers books for an introductory text (the best measure of the state of a particular academic discipline, he says) to use for his course.

Rummel “shakes his head” at what he finds in these political science textbooks. The concepts and views presented in these standard texts appear “grossly unrealistic.” They do not fit or explain—and are even contradictory to—the existence of a “hell-State like Pol Pot’s Cambodia and a Gulag-state like Stalin’s Soviet Union, or a Genocide State like Hitler’s Germany.”

One textbook, Rummel says, spent a chapter describing the functions of government. Among these were “law and order, individual security, cultural maintenance, and social welfare.” Political scientists write like this even though we have numerous examples of governments that “kill millions of their own people, and enslave the rest.”

Presented through the lens of these standard textbooks, politics is a matter of “inputs and outputs, citizen inputs, aggregation by political parties, government determining policy, and bureaucracies implementing it.” There is especially the “common and fundamental justification of government—that it exists to protect citizens against the anarchic jungle that would otherwise threaten their lives and property.”

Such archaic or sterile views, Rummel says, show “no appreciation of democide’s existence and all its related horrors and suffering.” Rummel concludes that we have “no concept for murder as an aim of public policy, determined by discussion among the government elite in the highest councils, and imposed through government bureaucracy.” What is needed is a reconceptualization of government and politics consistent with what we now know about democide. New concepts have to be invented.

It is true that the field of “comparative genocide” has recently emerged. Political scientists and historians have begun to recognize that the Holocaust was only one instance of genocide. There are other cases of governments intentionally murdering hundreds of thousands, even millions, of human beings.

In examining textbooks on political science and government, however, Rummel says that he found in the indexes of these books “barely a single reference to genocide, mass-murder, killed, dead, executed or massacred.” Most of these texts even omit index references to “concentration camps or labor camps or gulags” (although they may have a paragraph or two on these topics).

Reiterating Rummel’s conclusion, it is fair to state that a preeminent fact about governments (focusing especially on the 20th century) is that many of them “murdered millions in cold blood.” What’s more, tens of millions of additional human beings were slaughtered by governments as a result of foreign aggression and intervention (“war”).

One might say: why spoil the minds of young people—contaminate them—by conveying unpalatable facts in introductory texts? Which is a way of raising a broader question: why be concerned with seeking to discover and to convey the truth?

There is an abundance of “history books” studying events that resulted in the deaths of millions of human beings. The First and Second World Wars and the Holocaust are popular topics. More recently, books on mass-murder by communist states (the Soviet Union, China and Cambodia) have become more common.

Still, we prefer not to make generalizations. We’d like to maintain our belief in or fantasy about the “goodness” of nation-states. We live in a state of denial—preferring to maintain our illusions.

What would happen if we adopted a posture of looking at the truth rather than one of denial? What benefits would accrue?

With regards,

Richard Koenigsberg

PS: I began this inquiry exploring “security studies,” a field that—beginning with Hobbes’ concept of the “state of nature”—proposes (Barry Buzan) that states come into being in the pursuit of “freedom from threats”. The idea or image of a “state of nature” where “unbearable chaos” reigns—gives rise to states as a mechanism to “achieve adequate levels of security” against threats. Governments and the state are born when individuals are willing to “sacrifice some freedom in order to improve levels of security.”

There is no evidence for the existence of a “state of nature.” The theory is pure conjecture, if not fantasy. As for the proposition that states provide “security”—based on the evidence presented here—the less said, the better.

I find Rummel’s views on the following particularly compelling given the effects of COVIDEONISM AND NET-ZERO CARBON EMISSIONS on individual wellbeing, the well documented effects of lockdowns and masking and distancing mandates on the psychological wellbeing of children, the banking industry’s propensity to print money out of thin air to fund illiberal authoritarians policies, and the incredible damage to civil liberties as indicated by the sheer number of cases before the courts where the state is being sued for governmental overreach.

Mortacide

While democide requires governmental intention, Rummel was also interested in analyzing the effects of regimes that unintentionally, yet culpably, cause the deaths of their citizens through negligence, incompetence or sheer indifference. An example is a regime in which corruption has become so pervasive and destructive of a people's welfare that it threatens their daily lives and reduces their life expectancy. Rummel termed deaths of citizens under such regimes as mortacide, and posited that democracies have the fewest of such deaths.[33]

Famine, economic growth, and happiness

Rummel included famine in democide, if he deemed it the result of a deliberate policy, as he did for the Holodomor. Rummel stated that there have been no famines in democracies, deliberate or not, an argument first advanced by Amartya Sen,[32] and he also posited that democracy is an important factor for economic growth and for raising living standards.[34][35] He stated that research shows average happiness in a nation increases with more democracy.[36] According to Rummel, the continuing increase in the number of democracies worldwide would lead to an end to wars and democide. He believed that goal might be achieved by the mid-21st century.[37]

**Title:** The Power of Democracy: An Examination of Rudolph Rummel's Political Position

**Introduction**

Rudolph Rummel, an American political scientist, dedicated his career to studying collective violence and war with the aim of helping their resolution or elimination¹². He is known for his research on war and conflict resolution¹, and his work has significantly influenced the field of political science².

**Rummel's Political Position**

Rummel started his career as a democratic socialist but later became an anti-communist, a libertarian, and an advocate of economic liberalism¹. His political position is deeply rooted in his belief in the power of democracy and its ability to prevent violence and foster peace¹².

**Democratic Peace Theory**

One of Rummel's most significant contributions to political science is the democratic peace theory¹. He argued that democratic states are less likely to engage in mass violence or wage wars against each other¹². This theory suggests that the more democratic a regime, the less likely it is to engage in violence, genocide, and mass murder².

**Democracy as a Means to Wealth and Prosperity**

Rummel also believed that democratic freedom is not only a method of nonviolence but also a means to wealth and prosperity². He argued that the power of freedom to improve human affairs extends to social and economic development².

**Conclusion**

Rudolph Rummel's political position emphasizes the power of democracy in preventing violence and fostering peace, prosperity, and development. His work provides valuable insights into the role of democracy in shaping a peaceful and prosperous society¹².

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2023-12-06

(1) Rudolph Rummel - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Rummel.

(2) R.J. Rummel - University of Hawaii System. https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/PERSONAL.HTM.

(3) AP World History - College Board. https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/apcentral/ap18-world-history-saq1.pdf.

(4) Rudolph Rummel Biography - American political scientist (1932–2014). https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Rudolph_Rummel/.

My conclusions:

I am calling for a day of national repentance. In the absence of God we have made an idol of the state. It has become a metastasizing monster not merely capable of all manner of causing us harm but doing so under the guise of pursuing a progressive agenda. Unless your idea of progress is the death and illness and ruin of the lives of innocents, we must face the fact that without God the god of this world will assume the role of governing us by creating murderous hell on earth.

From the New King James Version Deuteronomy 30:19 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;”