Weeping for a dictator under threat of arrest and execution
This is something the
establishment media has completely failed to explain properly.
All the video
footage of weeping North Koreans stricken with grief over the death of the
“dear leader” Kim Jong-Il is by no means spontaneous or natural.
It’s all part of the fun
of living in a Stalinist dictatorship. If citizens do not show the
appropriately sullen facial expressions, if they don’t produce tears, and if
they don’t properly grieve for the dead dictator, they face imprisonment and
possible execution.
Sure, some of the grief is genuine; it’s the result of a lifetime of brainwashing and the enforcement of the cult of personality.
But in the most arcane and brutal police state on
the planet, not being upset over Kim Jong-Il’s death could mean you’re reported
as an enemy of the state by the local spy and sent to a gulag. Your entire
family could also be targeted for the same treatment.
Identical scenes were
witnessed after the death of the previous “dear leader,” Kim Il-sung.
Millions of North Koreans
have starved to death over the past 20 years as a result of the regime’s
disastrous economic policies and their refusal to accept food aid. Food is
still scarce, so the fact that citizens are also handed small snacks if they attend
these spectacles and put on a fake display of grief is also a massive incentive
for a permanently hungry population.
North Korea is the
perfect illustration of what happens when power is concentrated into the hands
of the few ~ totalitarianism, mass starvation, economic collapse and complete
enslavement.
It’s a warning the
western world would do well to heed, especially in the aftermath of the passage of a law which formally opens up
the chance of Americans being sent to gulags in the name of state security.
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