False Flag Memetic on 5–30–2020: ”From a good friend who was in the streets in Seattle today”

John Murphy
4 min readMay 31, 2020

The below is a rapid dissection of the current false flag memetic that is circulating after the terrible events that occurred on the streets of Seattle yesterday. Please read this and consider what I have to say. The “Person” who said this will not sign their name, I will stand by what I say, so i hope you give this the credence a signature offers.

Unverified identity with validating term :
From a good friend who was in the streets in Seattle today,

Term to validate their experience was more severe than any other persons:
“I got tear gassed about 7 times today, and avoided way more than that.

The other narratives are wrong, this is what really happened:
don’t know what narrative you’re going to see on local news, but the police literally trapped people, separated a huge portion of the protesters from what would become the “peaceful” section, then gassed us, shot at us with rubber bullet, and maced people.

Initiation of their story by a crime that is attempted murder by the state. I have heard no first person account of anything like this. This is designed to initiate fear there are no pictures at this time of police “crushing heads” there are no reports of cranial fractures from police brutality:
I saw a man sitting on the ground, bent against a building, clutching his head. A cop walked up out of nowhere and smashed him in the face with the butt of his rifle, apparently knocking him out cold; before turning and putting the rifle to the head of the man next to me. Thats about when my group began to retreat, and try to find somewhere safe.

Now that you are upset, they give a story of brutal violence to satisfy the rage that has escalated your drive for action:
I saw a nazi call a man racial slurs, and get his head smashed into the broken window of a police cruiser until his head was bleeding, and the fight was broken up. The nazi was able to walk away relatively in tact.

This one really scares me,to me this may be a plant to make protesters trust people in the gear of accelerationists. This could be a tool to induce camouflage in the next action:
I saw larpers in full armor and shields running around providing medical assistance to anyone who needed it.

This is the Robin Hood Myth. It presents an image of looting as a great giving to the oppressed. There are no images of this anywhere:
I saw the windows get smashed out of nordstroms, and watched as people threw armfuls of goods out to a cheering crowd.
Only one or two of the “looters” were white.
I cant even call it Looting. People literally stole tons of stuff, and threw it to everyone else.
Very few people raided for themselves.

OK BOOMER!
This one actually gives us something. And that is the reality that the OK Boomer meme may have been one of the artificial memetics that was used to sow discord earlier this year. I wonder if this entire “rage at boomers” was started by accellerationists to create a division between the new and old generations:
I watched an old man lay on his horn in disgust, while trapped on I5.

They are winning you back over at the end. Yes we have stoked yoru anger and given examples that will make you feel violence and looting is justified and will satisfy your anger against “The Other”:
I saw a lot of things to happen, but every single one of them had an aspect of community solidarity. I don’t know what to say but that everything that happened downtown today was what needed to happen to make a point.

To me this is a final giver, it is a signature. Accelerationists are attached to “Shining Path” revolutionaries:
If we want a shiny perfect society to live in, if we want nice things, if we want freedom, stop fucking killing black people”

Friends,

Martin Luther King would not write this… hell I do not think Malcolm X would approve of this. I do not know anyone who would make an attempt to make beautiful imagery of looting. There is a joy in this article where the author says “his head smashed” and “windows get smashed”.

This “Post From A Good Friend” is not real, it is not the language of peaceful protest, it is not the language of social justice, it is not the language of our leaders. It is a memetic tool by accelerationists that are trying to stoke civil war.

I am not an African American voice, I can not speak as to what the African American community should do I do not want to speak on what any activist should do right now, I am simply showing how this memetic is manipulating our emotions.

But to counter this, Watch tis video of Killer Mike, because what he said is truth to power. And he did it in front of a camera with tears in his eyes and the community behind him.

It is HERE.

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John Murphy

John is a folklorist and ethnographer that directs The Cabiri, a Seattle based performance company. He also operates the advocacy/outreach organization DuSarea.