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01-06-2015, 06:06 PM
A Review of the State: Do You Trust Government?
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” - Plato
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Mencken
Continuing from YLTSTS: Eugenics (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/19537-You-Live-To-Serve-The-State-Eugenics)
Eugenics and other radical agendas
In the April 1933 Birth Control Review Paul Popenoe writes:
"Eugenic sterilization is one of the many indispensable measures in any modern program of social welfare. It is an integral part of a general system of protection, parole, and supervision, for those who by reason on mental disease or deficiency are unable to meet the responsibilities of citizenship.
It promotes eugenics by cutting off some of the lines of descent that are spreading mental disease and mental defect throughout the population. It is conservatively estimated that there are approximately 5,000,000 people in the United States who will at some time be committed to state hospitals as insane and that there are approximately 5,000,000 more who are so deficient intellectually (with less than 70% of average intelligence) as to be, in many cases, liabilities rather than assets to the race. The situation will grow worse instead of better if steps are not taken to control the reproduction of the mentally handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and certain in its results."
Food as a weapon
NSSM 200 (National Security Study Memorandum), a 1974 memorandum concluded that the United States was threatened by population growth in the former colonial sector. Listed 13 "key countries" in which the United States had a "special political and strategic interest".
These countries were: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, and Columbia. It claimed that population growth in those states was especially worrisome, since it would quickly increase their relative political, economic, and military strength.
Some notes from the report-
Nigeria: "Already the most populous country on the continent, with an estimated 55 million people in 1970, Nigeria's population by the end of this century is projected to number 135 million. This suggests a growing political and strategic role for Nigeria, at least in Africa."
Brazil: "Brazil clearly dominated the continent demographically." The study warned of a "growing power status for Brazil in Latin America and on the world scene over the next 25 years."
There were several measures that Kissinger advocated to deal with this alleged threat, most prominently, birth control and related population-reduction programs. He also warned that even if such measures were adopted "populous growth rates are likely to increase appreciably before they begin to decline".
A second measure was a curtailing food supplies to targeted states, in part to force compliance with birth control policies: "There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID (US Agency for International Development) and consultative groups. Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion."
"Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now," the document continued, adding, "Would food be considering an instrument of nation power? ... Is the US prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?"
It's all about control
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - David Rockefeller
"...the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations." - Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p.324 of the 1966 MacMillan edition
"Never let serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." - Rahm Emmanuel Nov. 22, 2008 The Washington Journal
The infamous Tuskegee study
The Tuskegee Study was a scientific research program in which 400 syphilis-infected black men were recruited from the poorest areas of Tuskegee, Alabama by the US Public Health Service in 1932. The participants were all told that they would be treated for their infections, but instead of treating their illness all medicines were withheld.
The black men were then actively prevented from obtaining treatment elsewhere as their bodies, and the bodies of their wives and children were ravaged by disease. The men who conceived the Nazi-style study justified their atrocity by alleging that scientists needed to learn how untreated syphilis progressed in the human body. The study continued for 40 years until 1972, eight years after the civil rights movement, when one newspaper finally had the courage to break the story to the public.
By that time, only 125 of the original 400 black men had survived. To this day none of the perpetrators of that experiment have ever been accused or indicted for their crimes. Back in 1932, the study began, Margaret Sanger's ideas had already begun to infect the minds and souls of physicians and scientists in America. According to Margaret Sanger's sense of morality, experiments on "human weeds" were fully justified in the name of "science."
In 1966 Peter Buxtun, a PHS venereal-disease investigator in San Francisco, sent a letter to the national director of the Division of Venereal Diseases to express his concerns about the ethics and morality of the extended Tuskegee Study. The Center for Disease Control (which by then controlled the study) reaffirmed the need to continue the study until completion (until all subjects had died and been autopsied). To bolster its position, the CDC sought and gained support for the continuation of the study from local chapters of the National Medical Association (representing African-American physicians) and the American Medical Association.
The nurse in charge of administering this study was black as were several of the local doctors who knowingly assisted in its implementation.
The Club of Rome
"We are at the end of an era – a turning point in history. We are approaching the threshold of runaway climate change. We underline the urgency of radical action to reduce emissions, by both immediate action and longer-term measures; to stress to political leaders the non-linear nature of the processes at work which will generate sudden change; and to assert that the overriding priority must be to avert the impending risk of catastrophic climate change." - Club of Rome/UNESCO
"This is the way we are setting the scene for mankind's encounter with the planet. The opposition between the two ideologies that have dominated the 20th century has collapsed, forming their own vacuum and leaving nothing but crass materialism.
It is a law of Nature that any vacuum will be filled and therefore eliminated unless this is physically prevented. "Nature," as the saying goes, "abhors a vacuum." And people, as children of Nature, can only feel uncomfortable, even though they may not recognize that they are living in a vacuum. How then is the vacuum to be eliminated?
It would seem that humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.
New enemies therefore have to be identified.
New strategies imagined, new weapons devised.
The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.
The old democracies have functioned reasonably well over the last 200 years, but they appear now to be in a phase of complacent stagnation with little evidence of real leadership and innovation.
Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."
"The acceleration of critical trends and cross-impacts among them indicates that the ‘window of opportunity’ for pulling out of the present global crisis and breaking through to a more peaceful and sustainable world is likely to be no more than four to five years from the end of 2008. This is close in time to the Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the current world. The period around the end of 2012 is likely to be a turbulent one for this and other reasons. Predictions coming from the physical sciences foresee disturbances in the geomagnetic, electromagnetic and related fields that embed the planet causing significant damage to telecommunications and impacting many aspects of human activity and health. For the esoteric traditions the end of 2012 will be the end of the known world, although the more optimistic interpretations speak of a new world taking the place of the old."
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C. S. Lewis
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” - Plato
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." - H. L. Mencken
Continuing from YLTSTS: Eugenics (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/19537-You-Live-To-Serve-The-State-Eugenics)
Eugenics and other radical agendas
In the April 1933 Birth Control Review Paul Popenoe writes:
"Eugenic sterilization is one of the many indispensable measures in any modern program of social welfare. It is an integral part of a general system of protection, parole, and supervision, for those who by reason on mental disease or deficiency are unable to meet the responsibilities of citizenship.
It promotes eugenics by cutting off some of the lines of descent that are spreading mental disease and mental defect throughout the population. It is conservatively estimated that there are approximately 5,000,000 people in the United States who will at some time be committed to state hospitals as insane and that there are approximately 5,000,000 more who are so deficient intellectually (with less than 70% of average intelligence) as to be, in many cases, liabilities rather than assets to the race. The situation will grow worse instead of better if steps are not taken to control the reproduction of the mentally handicapped. Eugenic sterilization represents one such step that is practicable, humanitarian, and certain in its results."
Food as a weapon
NSSM 200 (National Security Study Memorandum), a 1974 memorandum concluded that the United States was threatened by population growth in the former colonial sector. Listed 13 "key countries" in which the United States had a "special political and strategic interest".
These countries were: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, and Columbia. It claimed that population growth in those states was especially worrisome, since it would quickly increase their relative political, economic, and military strength.
Some notes from the report-
Nigeria: "Already the most populous country on the continent, with an estimated 55 million people in 1970, Nigeria's population by the end of this century is projected to number 135 million. This suggests a growing political and strategic role for Nigeria, at least in Africa."
Brazil: "Brazil clearly dominated the continent demographically." The study warned of a "growing power status for Brazil in Latin America and on the world scene over the next 25 years."
There were several measures that Kissinger advocated to deal with this alleged threat, most prominently, birth control and related population-reduction programs. He also warned that even if such measures were adopted "populous growth rates are likely to increase appreciably before they begin to decline".
A second measure was a curtailing food supplies to targeted states, in part to force compliance with birth control policies: "There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID (US Agency for International Development) and consultative groups. Since population growth is a major determinant of increases in food demand, allocation scarce PL 480 resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food production. In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion."
"Mandatory programs may be needed and we should be considering these possibilities now," the document continued, adding, "Would food be considering an instrument of nation power? ... Is the US prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?"
It's all about control
"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." - David Rockefeller
"...the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations." - Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p.324 of the 1966 MacMillan edition
"Never let serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." - Rahm Emmanuel Nov. 22, 2008 The Washington Journal
The infamous Tuskegee study
The Tuskegee Study was a scientific research program in which 400 syphilis-infected black men were recruited from the poorest areas of Tuskegee, Alabama by the US Public Health Service in 1932. The participants were all told that they would be treated for their infections, but instead of treating their illness all medicines were withheld.
The black men were then actively prevented from obtaining treatment elsewhere as their bodies, and the bodies of their wives and children were ravaged by disease. The men who conceived the Nazi-style study justified their atrocity by alleging that scientists needed to learn how untreated syphilis progressed in the human body. The study continued for 40 years until 1972, eight years after the civil rights movement, when one newspaper finally had the courage to break the story to the public.
By that time, only 125 of the original 400 black men had survived. To this day none of the perpetrators of that experiment have ever been accused or indicted for their crimes. Back in 1932, the study began, Margaret Sanger's ideas had already begun to infect the minds and souls of physicians and scientists in America. According to Margaret Sanger's sense of morality, experiments on "human weeds" were fully justified in the name of "science."
In 1966 Peter Buxtun, a PHS venereal-disease investigator in San Francisco, sent a letter to the national director of the Division of Venereal Diseases to express his concerns about the ethics and morality of the extended Tuskegee Study. The Center for Disease Control (which by then controlled the study) reaffirmed the need to continue the study until completion (until all subjects had died and been autopsied). To bolster its position, the CDC sought and gained support for the continuation of the study from local chapters of the National Medical Association (representing African-American physicians) and the American Medical Association.
The nurse in charge of administering this study was black as were several of the local doctors who knowingly assisted in its implementation.
The Club of Rome
"We are at the end of an era – a turning point in history. We are approaching the threshold of runaway climate change. We underline the urgency of radical action to reduce emissions, by both immediate action and longer-term measures; to stress to political leaders the non-linear nature of the processes at work which will generate sudden change; and to assert that the overriding priority must be to avert the impending risk of catastrophic climate change." - Club of Rome/UNESCO
"This is the way we are setting the scene for mankind's encounter with the planet. The opposition between the two ideologies that have dominated the 20th century has collapsed, forming their own vacuum and leaving nothing but crass materialism.
It is a law of Nature that any vacuum will be filled and therefore eliminated unless this is physically prevented. "Nature," as the saying goes, "abhors a vacuum." And people, as children of Nature, can only feel uncomfortable, even though they may not recognize that they are living in a vacuum. How then is the vacuum to be eliminated?
It would seem that humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.
New enemies therefore have to be identified.
New strategies imagined, new weapons devised.
The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.
The old democracies have functioned reasonably well over the last 200 years, but they appear now to be in a phase of complacent stagnation with little evidence of real leadership and innovation.
Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."
"The acceleration of critical trends and cross-impacts among them indicates that the ‘window of opportunity’ for pulling out of the present global crisis and breaking through to a more peaceful and sustainable world is likely to be no more than four to five years from the end of 2008. This is close in time to the Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the current world. The period around the end of 2012 is likely to be a turbulent one for this and other reasons. Predictions coming from the physical sciences foresee disturbances in the geomagnetic, electromagnetic and related fields that embed the planet causing significant damage to telecommunications and impacting many aspects of human activity and health. For the esoteric traditions the end of 2012 will be the end of the known world, although the more optimistic interpretations speak of a new world taking the place of the old."