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"For a machine
to run smoothly and predictably,
its parts must be standard and hence
replaceable,
features which contribute, respectively,
to modern
depersonalization and anxiety."
-
Charles
Eisenstein
"We can in the foreseeable future, develop
macroscopic assessments of our social order, predict our future and put social
processes under control. I am reasonably convinced that social technology can
be developed so that it would be possible to gain considerable control over
many societal processes. American social science has been, in large measure,
geared to the needs of the ruling elites of our social institutions. The
literature of social accounting can be thus viewed as an ideology which
justifies the emergence of a new ruling class that will provide "objective",
"scientific" and non-ideological advice to the "rulers" of society." - Michael
Springer 1970,Social Indicators, Social Reports and Social Accounts: Toward
the Management of Society
"The maniacal lunatics in control of our society
know exactly how human beings tick and they are masters at
manipulation." - Bruce McDonald
   
Social control has
and always will be a problem for each and every form of
government.
Government is, after all, simply a
mechanism with which to
control a culture or society.
Laws are written with the intention of
creating a blueprint for the normal functioning
of the society to which they apply.
Social control will
always be a problem for government because
each and every human is unique.
Human uniqueness
is a problem for government because what
makes
one person perfectly
happy is likely to make
another totally dissatisfied.
For this reason it is in the best
interests of government
policy makers to
get the populace to conform to a
certain manner of social
behavior that the
government policy makers
believe to be the best template for
society. To get the populace to
conform
government policy makers will
use any method that is socially acceptable,
including enlisting corporate support and facilitation, to change the manner of
behavior of the populace so
that it conforms to the desired
model of acceptable citizen behavior.
"It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in
their instincts,
that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and
even harmful." - Bertrand
RussellHuman
behavioral modification comes
in many forms and guises.
The most successful modification of
behavioral is done through
methods which leave the modified individual unaware of the
behavioral modifications.
Naturally, as all
humans are unique, there will be some who
can not modified in the
way that those in
control of a society find appropriate.
Government policy makers that
are idealists will want the members of the
society to
conform to their particular
brand of ideology.
Government policy makers that
are fervently religious will
want the members of society to
conform to their
religious beliefs.
Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington and the
other
enlightened men that founded America understood the power of charismatic religious leaders to use religious
dogma to manipulate both the
populace and those that hold the reigns of
power. To guard
against the power of
charismatic religious leaders the Bill of
Rights contains the First Amendment forbidding government establishment of
religion.
Unfortunately these
enlightened men did not foresee the advent of
mass media
and the ability of
wealth and power
to manipulate
popular opinion and
thought through mass
media.
A
democracy can only function correctly is the
voting population is fully
and accurately
aware of the actual issues facing
the social culture.
In America
today monopolized
corporate mass
media defines the
issues to be debated, discussed and
analyzed.
Government,
corporate and mass media power is
dependent upon mass media ability to
manipulate the truth.
Cable companies, television and radio
stations, newspapers, and
magazines are
corporate
institutions founded with the intent of
generating profits and/or manipulating public
opinion - with the hopes of generating future
profits. ("Think tanks" are typically
supported by corporate "sponsers"
while quasi-governmental
corporatist propaganda organizations may generate profits.)
Cable
companies, television and radio stations,
newspapers, and
magazines are not altruistic.
Cable
companies, television and radio stations,
newspapers, and
magazines are hired by
corporations to sell the
public 'goods'.
Mass
media, corporations and
governments are amoral - without
morals. They can not have
morals as they are not
living sentient beings. Rules or laws may be
in place to define the boundaries of acts that can and can not be committed by
mass media, corporations and
government but these
rules do not give a
conscience to a non-living
institution and many times
more money can be made if laws are
disregarded.
In truth
mass media is interested only in generating
advertising
dollars
by selling the
products of the corporations that employ them with
corporate
advertising
dollars.
As mass media totally saturates
the American consciousness during waking hours
Americans have unknowingly been initiated into the cult of
materialistic
consumerism.
American
popular culture in the 21st
century is all about consumption,
consumption of goods or
consumption of
experiences.
Thorstein Veblen's "Theory of the
Leisure Class" (1899) established the notion of conspicuous consumption.
"Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about
someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to
have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some
essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of
ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger,
greater." - Charles
Eisenstein
As a political
economist
ThorsteinVeblen understood consumer
desire and the
commercial
logic that powers
it.
{The reason for conspicuous consumption is easy to
understand. People are enchanted by the possession of material
objects. The more one possess' the
more one becomes godlike. The
godlike man with the 15,000 square foot mansion
on the hill with Monet, Picasso and Andy Warhol hung on the Brazilian Rosewood
walls; a Bentley, a Rolls Royce and a Jaguar in the 8 car garage; a trophy
supermodel wife; a Gulfstream private jet at the local airport and other homes
in Taos, Aspen, the Berkshires, Lahaina and Newport, Rhode Island must be some
kind of wizard or
magician (or perhaps he is just
another vampire!)}
Americans accumulate
possessions quickly to discard them in the
dark
spaces under the stairs as the
anticipated happiness wanes and newly
discovered objects of
desire
distract.
"As we deep-sixed
worn croquet mallets, rusted weed-whackers, magazine back issues and untold
objects that no longer had meaning or use in our current lives, we began to
feel lighter, freer. With each item sold or given away we began liberating
ourselves from an outmoded way of living that had been weighing us down
in more ways than mere bulk. In this journey, we moved away from the
idea that "we
are what we have." - Ciji Ware
When we let go of "stuff" we discover that the only
lasting, dependable security comes from controlling less not more, opening up
to life, loosening the rigid boundaries of self, letting other people in, and
become tied - that is more dependent, not less - to a community of people and
the community of nature."Natural
processes are cyclical.
What comes from the
earth eventually returns to the earth in a form
usable to other living beings.
There is no
linear buildup of waste, no linear drawdown of essential resources.
Industry, on the other
hand, is linear in that it starts with resources and ends with waste -
economically valueless, even biologically hazardous substances that must be
disposed of.
Since "resources"
such as the social, cultural, natural, and spiritual wealth begin outside the domain of
money, their commoditization and depletion
makes us by definition richer, adding to gross domestic product. Meanwhile,
because these resources are not
endlessly recycled, their depletion accompanies a corresponding growth of
material, social, and spiritual waste: slag heaps and slums, toxic
waste dumps and toxic bodies, dying lakes and wrecked
cultures, degraded ecosystems and broken
families.
The
linear character of the modern economy is obviously unsustainable, because
both resources and the
earth's capacity to absorb waste are finite.
The modern economy therefore represents an
outright denial of humanity's participation in nature, and embodies a belief that the laws of nature do not apply to us." - Charles
Eisenstein
Daniel J. Boorstin, a great
American historian,
was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee and
accused of Communist ties. Daniel Boorstin writings had un-American activities
in mind: to undermine gratuitous consumption through
intellectual
sabotage. Daniel Boorstin was a
brilliant de-bunker of celebrity, of the absurdities of
materialism and the ruinous
contradictions of acquiring status
through material objects. (Truly a hero!)
"Nearly
everything we do to make
life more interesting, more varied, more exciting,
more fabulous,
more promising, in the long run, has an
opposite effect." -
Daniel J. Boorstin (See Frank Lloyd Wright
)
Popular
culture, as presented through mass
media:
turns fantasy into myth while driving a false understanding
of reality into the subconscious;
destroys traditional mytholigical
structures and replaces them with ego fulfillment myths;
con-vinces
people possession of material objects defines their individual value in the
social cuture.
How do we deal with the
trap that desires lay for us?
Eliminate as many manufactured desires as possible.
Refuse to
desire that which you do not
need!
Simple pleasures rarely disappoint!
"Consumer product producers empower kids as
shoppers legitimizing their uninformed tastes, mercurial wants and detaching
them from their gatekeeper mothers, fathers,
teachers and pastors."
-
Benjamin R. Barber
"To minimize the role of paternal gatekeepers,
corporations often seek to undermine
the authority of parents. In their advertisements,
corporations portray parents, often in
jocular veins, as stupid, out of date and out of touch with the children's
reality, and they
frequently ridicule parental
concerns for health and safety." - Linda Coco
"How often do you
see adults in children's ads? It's very rare. When you do, the adults either
don't know anything or they try to stop you
from getting what you desire." - Diane
Levin, professor of education and
media culture at
Wheelock College
Children are being taught that
everything is for sale;
that
desired "things" will make you
happy;
that desired "things" have more
value than intangibles like relationships;
(especially those relationships that keep you separate from your desired
things like mom and pop);
and that providers of the
desired "things" love
you and only want you to be happy.
"You hoped your little girl's
Disney princess obsession was harmless, didn't you! It will not have escaped
you, Mothers of America, that Disney Princess'
rarely slay dragons, play sports, pilot jets or do open-heart surgery. I was
not thrilled when my 3-year-old informed me that she wants to be "a pwincess"
when she grows up. "You are a commoner," my 3-year-old shrieked, and adjusting
her tiara ran off to watch Disney Princess Enchanted Tales. (In 2007
Disney's "Princess" franchise raked in $4 billion.)" - Rosa Brooks
03/08
"Little girls who want to be princesses and wear cute little
clothes are assuming the classic stereotyping of the many misguided families
who believe that little girls should be the lesser handmaidens of boys who too
frequently grow up to be boys."- Ralph Mitchell 04/08
"Undermining the role of
parents has been a strategy
marketers have exploited to sell their
brands through the development of
"kids only" products and
marketing themes. Kiddie
marketing often strives for the "nag
factor", an actual measurement by the advertising
industry of the extent to which an
ad drives a child to pester the folks
about a purchase." - Jamie Court
The 'nag factor' is a
marketing strategy that takes
manipulation of children to the extreme.
Lucy Hughes and her colleagues at Initiative Media,
with the
help of child psychologists, analyzed nagging
behavior in children and put
it to work.
20 to 40% of all purchases
adults make are made because children have nagged them into making the
purchase.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states that
children under the age of eight years
are unable to understand the intent
of advertising and accept
advertisements as the
truth.
In 1981 the
Federal Communications
Commission lifted restrictions on children's
advertising reflecting the supply
side unfettered market
economic theories
of the Chicago School of Economics -
that market solutions trumped regulatory
solutions.
"The
average American child sees 40,000
advertisements a year on
television. Comparing the
marketing of
today with the
marketing of the past is like comparing the
BB gun to the
smart bomb. All aspects of children's
lives - their health,
education, creativity, and values - are at risk of being compromised by their
status in the marketplace." - Dr. Susan
Linn, psychiatry instructor at Harvard Medical School
-From 1992
to 1997, the amount of money spent on marketing to children doubled, from $6.2
billion to $12.7 billion. Today it is
estimated that over $15 billion is being spent.
-American children
influence purchases totaling over
$600 billion a year.
-American
children spend almost forty hours a week outside of
school
consuming
televised media.
- 65% ofAmerican children eight to
eighteen have a television in their
bedroom as do 32% of children two to seven and 26% of children under two.
-The marketing industry has found
that American babies are requesting
brands as soon as they speak.
- In 2000, a federal report from the General Accounting Office
called marketing in
schools a growth industry.
-More
American children recognize the Budweiser
Frogs than Smokey the Bear.
-85% of
American parents would like to see children's
television programs
advertisement
free.
-Commercial marketing
tactics of fast food have
created epidemic levels of childhood obesity,
type II diabetes and kidney stones. (Kidney stones - too much salt, not enough
water!)
"The aggressive
marketing of
fast food and confectionery to children
does influence their dietary
choices early in life, and it puts them at greater
risk of becoming obese or overweight later in life. A major concern is childhood diabetes. General
practitioners are seeing more children than ever before with type II diabetes,
and that's a disease associated with poor diet and lack of exercise. Children
can be extremely vulnerable to television
advertising promoting
fast food."-
Verity
Newnham
Limit TV
Popular culture as espoused
through television also
works to divert attention from
other things of more importance,
like the
direction in which America is headed, which
mass media does not want you to
think about.
Have the enemies of
liberty already
succeeded by turning
popular culture into the
worship of the
celebrity, a
form of
idol worship?
The truth is the
enemies of liberty have also used the television to create fear and to
militarize our children.
"There is an association between the number of
hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression." -
Catherine Taylor
"They mingled among the pagans and
adopted their evil customs." - Psalm
106:35
Do not allow yourself to
fall for the advertisers
market propaganda and become a
mindless human robot/corporately conditioned consumer clone
!!!
See mass media
See
G. Clotaire Rapaille
See
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
See
F. Scott Fitzgerald
See
Claude-Frederic
Bastiat
Liberal versus conservative!
Left-wing versus right-wing! Socialism versus corporatism!
What
difference does it make in reality?
"I have been saying
for the some time now that America has only
one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party
of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the
other is
Republican." - Gore
Vidal
"There are the
corporate owned candidates on the
left and the corporate owned ones
on the right. A couple of them speak the truth
and have less than a snow-ball's chance in hell of getting the nomination. That
sure is a rich field of choices, yesiree. Almost all are millionaires, and only
one or two speak of a national health plan - the same two that for some odd
reason the corporations wouldn't back
if the alternative were a nuclear holocaust." - Jim Stevens
07/08/07
"The two-party system is the political system of the corporate
elite, who switch party affiliations when they find it convenient; many of them
throw equal money at both parties." - Shamus Cooke
"Washington's
criminal class is bipartisan." - Stephen
Lendman
"We are hammered 24/7 with the "far left" and "far right" points
of view, pounding us, beating us upside the head with purely political
theatrics in order to make us believe it's real. It's not real. It's a con!" -
Bruce McDonald
"Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham,
a delusion. On foreign
policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we
have one-party government, one party press;
conservatives are being played for suckers." – Patrick J
Buchanan
"George Wallace made famous the slogan that there is not
a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties. Many
observers have noted that while the two parties use different rhetoric and aim
their spiels at differing segments of the population, it seems to make little
difference who actually wins the election." - Gary Allen
One of the
best ways to control a population is to turn
one segment of the population against another - divide and
conquer. To divide and
conquer all you have do is find divisive
issues like - abortion, the death
penalty, gay marriage, gun
control, etc. that neatly partition the
population into segments which battle each other while leaving the rapacious
corporate agenda
unchecked.
"We are constantly being manipulated, constantly being played
against each other, political, racially, religiously, sexually, in every way
you can think of. As long as those in power can keep us fighting with each
other, they are free to do whatever the heck they want with utter impunity.
Both parities are responsible for where we are. Both parties totally ignore the
Constitution because if they enforced it they couldn't be doing what they are
doing with the powers of government. It's one big selfish free-for-all. " -
Bruce McDonald
Ideological division,
although working well, does not work swiftly.
The best time to divide a unified
target population is by taking advantage of, or causing, an upheaval.
When the oil companies got the Army Corp of Engineers to dredge the
MRGO on the lower Mississippi river, a straight channel cut through the bayou
to accommodate supertankers, they surely must have
known that a large hurricane focused on the mouth of the
MRGO would send a storm surge directly into the heart of New Orleans. Once the
MRGO was cut all the corporate fat cats and
government bureaucrats had to do was lay the proper "bets" and wait for a large
enough hurricane, Katrina, to clear the land sending the poverty stricken
people of New Orleans into a diaspora.
"In the case of the
war on Iraq, as of September 2005, fully 60%
of the Americans want
America to pull out some or all of the
troops. That is one heck of a base on which
to build a movement and a party. The Democrats, in
the individuals of John Kerry,
Howard Dean, Hillary Clinton and others, are calling for "staying the
course and even sending more troops. This
can be accounted for by the fact that the Democrats are beholden to the same special interests as the
Republicans: the
oil tycoons, the
barons of the
military-industrial-mass
media-corporate
complex and those that thrive on
empire, from the
major banks to
Bechtel and
Halliburton. Take, for example, Senator
Dianne Feinstein (net worth between $43,341,462 and $98,630,021 in 2005), who
is for "staying the course." Antiwar sentiment is solid in California, yet she
refuses to embrace it even though
it would strengthen, not weaken, her. No, the Democrats are simply the
other war party." - John V. Walsh
Corporate interests have hijacked our political system.
"Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or
Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for
obfuscation and
entertainment." -
Catherine Austin Fitts
"The
thought police of the
Democratic and
Republican establishments get to
foment political witch
hunts while pretending they somehow stand above
ideology." - Emanuele Saccarelli
"By
electing pro-war Republicans and
Democrats for office, we effectively choose
bombs, bullets and death instead of healthcare and public
transportation." - Stacy Bermingham
"Democratic government raises taxes and
gives away money to welfare recipients with no
incentive to rise above their situation, and that annoys hardworking
Americans. Republican government
cuts taxes for the wealthiest while using
deficit spending to pay top dollar to no-bid contractors with cozy
political ties. That also annoys hardworking
Americans." - Terrence Hartwell
"Important decisions are not being made on the basis of what
is best for America, for the
democracy or for taxpayers, but what is best for a
corporation or for the
financial coffers of those in government who
believe that being elected or
appointed to public office
provides the very best cover
for the attainment of personal riches. The country and its
citizens are being
ripped off for the gain of a few.
Corporate lobbying should be radically
restricted. Corporations are not
citizens." - Lewis Redding
"Opposition, n. - in
politics the party that prevents the
government from running amuck by
hamstringing it." - Ambrose Bierce.
The myth goes that corporations along with
religious interests dominate the
Republican
party. The
Republican
party platform of 2008 claimed to be winning
the "war on terror";
ushering in an "ownership era"; building an
innovative, globally
competitive
economy; strengthening our
communities and protecting our
families. The
Republican
party claims to be the party of
morality, family
values, the American entrepreneur claiming it will
protect us like a strong stern father.
The myth goes that
government employee associations and unions,
minority interests, immigration interests,
sexual orientation interests and feminist interests
dominate Democratic party ideology.
The Democratic party platform of 2008 touted
honest leadership and
open government;
real security; energy independence;
economic prosperity and
educational excellence; a
healthcare system that
works for everyone and retirement
security. The Democratic
party claims to be the party of the
working American, the underdog, the party of
reason claiming it will protect us like a
gentle compassionate mother.
The
truth is both parties are running blindly working to fulfill short term
corporate needs while many individual members are corruptly increasing their
personal wealth through their position in government. (see revolving door, Dick
Cheny, Donald Rumsfeld)
"From the North
American Free Trade Agreement supported enthusiastically by President
Clinton to the recent Peruvian trade agreement passed by the Democratic
Congress, the gentrification of the Democratic Party is nearly complete. A
party, once proud of its support for organized labor and indeed the working
man, has thrown in with corporate
America. How can this be explained? It's the
way we finance our political
campaigns. The working folk of
America cannot afford the high price tag for
well-paid lobbyists the way multinational
corporate entities can and do." -
Bob Teigan
"Liberals want the
government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your
Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat
you like an adult." – Andre Marrou
"Left-wing
politicians take away your
liberty in the name of children and of
fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians
do it in the name of family
values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become
less free." – Harry Browne
"Liberals believe government should take people's earnings
to give to poor people. Conservatives
disagree. They believe government should
confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and
insolvent banks. The compelling issue to
both conservatives and
liberals is not whether it is legitimate
for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is
over the disposition of the pillage." – Walter Williams
"Multiple
political parties are a fact of
life throughout Europe and most of the West.
Today the only countries without strong
multiparty political systems are
America and a number of
third world military
dictatorships." – Thomas H. Naylor
"I guess it's not the plan
that counts, but the words in which the plan is
wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute
Republicans are better at semantics
than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats."- Bruce
Barnbaum
"The professionalization of political campaigning is moving into
governance. It's taking
structures that were set up to
elect and defeat candidates and saying:
Whenever you have a policy debate, we're going
to come in and we're going to create the same
dividing lines." -Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania's
Annenberg Public
Policy Center
Why have
Americans allowed themselves to be herded into
ideologically division
by politically divisive rhetoric?
Why are moral issues the basis of the difference between
the political parties?
Freedom and liberty are defeated if Americans are forced to return to a time when the government dictated the
morality all 'subjects' were to adhere to and
which idol to
worship!
The
American Constitution does not give the federal
governement the
right to
legislate morality!
election
fraud
Jane Balogh had no problem registering her dog Duncan to
vote. The only way election officials
learned Duncan was a dog was because Jane Balogh pointed it out to them in an
effort to show how easy it is to fraudulently register non-existent citizens to
vote.
Katherine Harris purged the voter rolls of thousands of black
voters who she claimed were "felons" before the 2000
election. Investigative reporter Greg
Palast proved that many of those purged were not felons. Carl Rove and Tim
Griffin initiated the elaborate scheme to purge thousands of
African Americans from the voter
rolls.
Two election
workers were convicted in January of 2007
of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential
election. Jacqueline Maiden, coordinator
of elections of the Cuyahoga County
Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of
a felony count of negligent misconduct by an elections employee. Jacqueline Maiden and
Kathleen Dreamer worked behind closed
doors for three days sorting ballots before a
public recount on Dec. 16, 2004. Ohio gave George W. Bush the electoral votes he
needed to defeat John F. Kerry.
"Casting
ballots is important, but counting the ballots is just as important. It is even
more important that citizen
observers actually see the ballots being counted. This isn't happening.
Election officials in many counties are
at best uncooperative and at worst blatantly hostile to observers. Until that
culture of secrecy is changed voters
have no reason to trust any election
system, electronic or paper." - Diane K. Mitchell
"Those
who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those
who count the votes decide everything."
– Joseph
Vissarionovich Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich
Dzhugashvili)
"Concentrated
political power
is the most thing on earth." – Rudolph Rummel
Neither
the Democratic Party and the Republican Party is concerned with the average
middle-class Americans upon whose backs the prosperity of America was built.
Both parties need massive amounts of money to purchase air time to run their
political campaigns from media companies that are licensed to use the airwaves
which are owned by the American people. Both, due to this need of massive
capital infusions, are dependent upon the only group that has the kind of money
that is necessary to run a political campaign - corporate donors.
For
Americans to regain control of their government Americans need to listen very
carefully to the mass media pundits and then realize that six conglomerates control nearly
all the media in America. Americans need to listen for what they are not
being told is to blindly accept mass media's version of reality. Americans need
to stop tuning in to hear the latest titillating gossip about this missing
person, that sensational murder and the escapades of Britney Spears and Paris
Hilton.
For Americans to regain control of their government Americans
need to listen very carefully to the purveyors of fear and
terror and reject outright those that use fear and
terror as political capital and who
profit handsomely from their
security related investments. Americans need to come to a consensus and
demand unspun reality not the reality of hidden weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq and a nuclear weapons building programs in Iran that never really existed.
Americans have to stop listening to self serving men like
Donald Rumsfeld who has made a fortune selling
stockpiles of Tamiflu to the federal government just in case there is a flu
outbreak or like Dick Cheney who has made a fortune off the war in Iraq through
his Halliburton stock holdings.
Do not allow yourself
to fall for the
propaganda and become a
mindless human robot - a corporately conditioned consumer
clone!!!
See C. S. Lewis
See Louis Lamour
See
John Maynard Keynes
All religious
dogmas require believers to suspend
belief in their senses,
their experience and their
understanding of
natural reality.
(This was done
initially and primarily to give the individual a change to build a
different understanding of reality upon which to rebuild an emotionally
shattered life.)
It is a myth that institutionalized religion is
necessary to create a moral person.
Institutionalized religion is not about
God but about social control.
Adherence to popularly accepted social
controls does not create a moral person.
"The crowd
neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own
interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and
unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear." - Georges
Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
"The primary method by which governments increase
their control is by creating fear." - Charles Eisenstein
"The whole aim
of practical
politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and
hence clamorous to be led to safety - and menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L.
Mencken
"I am watching television,
reading newspapers and
magazines and listening to
radio, and all I get is
fear 24/7. I wonder when we stopped being
the home of the brave." - John Berger
There
are several methods in which to control a
population. One is to instill
fear.
"The actual danger to
the population posed by insurgent operations, notably terrorist tactics, is
often far lower than the perceived danger." - Counterinsurgency Operations
manual prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, October 5, 2009
Most Americans
have very little to fear from
terrorists. If you
happen to work in a monumental
building that has become an icon or
archetype of American wealth
and ideology you may
rightly fear terrorists.
The
Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were
just such as icon. Patriotic
Americans mourn the
slaughter of the innocent
men and women
that were ruthlessly murdered. Patriotic
Americans rue the use of deaths of innocent
men and women
as a cynical tool to
manipulate public opinion.
“It is as a
scientist that I have the most trouble with the official government conspiracy
theory, mainly because it does not satisfy the rules of probability or physics.
The collapses of the World Trade Center buildings clearly violate the laws of
probability and physics.” - Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski
“It has
long been clear that the Bush-Cheney administration cynically exploited the
attacks of 911 to promote its
imperial designs. But the present volume
confronts us with evidence for an even more disturbing conclusion: that the
911 attacks were themselves orchestrated
by this administration precisely so they could be thus exploited." - Raymond
McGovern
“We very seriously need an entirely new very high level
and truly independent investigation of the events of
911. I think you almost have to look at
the 911 Commission Report as a joke and
not a serious piece of analysis at all.” - William
Christison
“I think the 911
Commission has taught me that we need to be extremely rigorous and extremely
tenacious in pursuing that truth, because
there is a corporate mentality
in this country that is working against allowing the truth to surface, even in tragedies, such as the
911 tragedy." - Melvin
Goodman
“There are enough discrepancies and unanswered questions in
the 911 Commission Report that under a
friendly administration, the 911
investigation should be re-opened.” - Robert Baer
"I am forced to
conclude that 911 was at a minimum
allowed to happen as a pretext for war." -
Robert David Steele
“The best I could say about it is they really
botched the job by not really going into the real failures. … At worst, I
think the 911 Commission Report is
treasonous.” - Bogdan Dzakovic
"The commissioners knew a lot more
than they included in the 911 report.
They sold out.”- Steve Elson
“Scholars and professionals with
various kinds of expertise -- including architects, engineers, firefighters,
intelligence officers, lawyers, medical professionals, military officers,
philosophers, religious leaders, physical scientists, and pilots -- have spoken
out about radical discrepancies between the official account of the
911 attacks and what they, as
independent researchers, have learned. They have established beyond any
reasonable doubt that the official account of
911 is false
and that, therefore, the official ‘investigations’ have really been
cover-up operations." - Senator Mike Gravel
“We have an absolute
requirement to know what happened on 911. And no stone should be left unturned.
And the 911 Commission Report was not up
to the task. And there must be a re-opening of the investigation, so that we
the people of the United States know what occurred on that horrific day.”
- Maj. Scott Ritter
"When you think about everything this Administration
has done in almost 8 years, the idea that they
might not be giving us the answers we seek because of something
“sinister” is not crazy. In fact, it’s the most logical conclusion one can
come to at this point. After seven plus years of obfuscation, spin, lies,
and cover-ups regarding the 911 attacks,
it is unavoidable to think that criminal complicity is the reason why." - Jon
Gold 9/25/2008
the
facts speak for themselves
"Fox News has learned some United States
investigators believe that there are
Israelis again very much engaged in spying in
and on the United States, who may have known things they didn't tell us before
September 11, 2001." - Brit Hume
"Since
911, more than 60
Israelis have been arrested or detained, either
under the new patriot anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A
highly placed investigator "evidence linking these Israelis to September 11, 2001 is
classified. I cannot tell you about
evidence that has been gathered. It's
classified information.
Numerous
classified documents obtained by Fox
News indicate that even prior to September 11, 2001, as many as 140 other
Israelis had been detained or arrested in a
secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected espionage by
Israelis in America.
Investigators from numerous
government agencies are part of a working group that's been compiling evidence
since the mid '90s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and
towns across the country that investigators say, "may well be an organized
intelligence gathering activity."
Documents state agents, "targeted and
penetrated military bases," the DEA, FBI and dozens of government facilities,
and even secret offices and unlisted private homes of law enforcement and
intelligence personnel. The majority of those questioned, "stated they served
in military intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive
ordinance units." - Carl Cameron
"We are on the
verge of a global transformation.
All we need is
the right major crisis and the nations will accept the
New World Order." - David
Rockefeller
{Aside note:
Disney released the simplistic mega-budget movie, made with full cooperation from
the Pentagon, Pearl Harbor which featured a large ensemble
cast, including Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Josh Hartnett, Kate
Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Jaime King, and Jennifer Garner.
Many Pearl Harbor survivors
dismissed the movie as grossly
inaccurate and pure Hollywood. Pearl
Harbor was widely received with cynicism and overwhelmingly negative
reviews from critics and the public. Released May 25, 2001 and despite
lamentable reviews "Disney unexpectedly decided in August 2001 to extend the
film's nationwide release window from the standard two-to-four months to a
staggering seven months and expanded the number of theaters in which the film
was showing, from 116 to 1,036" according to Matthew Alford. After the
destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 the success of the
movie Pearl Harbor was assured. As well when the
media and federal government
beat the war drums they could point to the attack
on the Twin Towers as the "New Pearl Harbor" and anyone who did not know what
they were talking about could view the wildly inaccurate fictional Pearl
Harbor movie. A win-win
situation for the neo-con
propagandists, the Israelis and
their corporate brethren especially as
Americans then went on to approve of the
invasion of Afghanistan and
Iraq despite no evidence linking the
hijackers to the controlling government of either
Afghanistan and
Iraq. The hijackers were identified
as Saudi.}
The crumpling of the Twin Towers ended an era of
blind confidence, to claim that it was unexpected is
patently ridiculous!
Ramzi Yousef, an Islamic
terrorist, detonated 1,500 pounds of
explosives in the underground garage of the North Tower of theTwin Towers. American structural engineers had allowed for enough
redundancy in the structure to
keep it from failing. Anyone that understands steel high rise
structures
understands that what is to be
most feared in a steel
structure is a
fire. Although this is true there has never
been a fire in a steel structure
which has caused the entire structure to
fail until the Twin
Towers and the Central
Intelligence Agency building collapsed. Oddly enough even
burning jet fuel with plenty of 'office'
combustibles should not have burned hot enough
to cause structural
failure!
If you work in an American
icon, Twin
Towers, the Pentagon, the
White House, the
Capitol building, the
Empire State building, any large
government
structure, you should consider
the fact that the building in which you
work may become a target. This fact alone is likely to instill
fear. When working in an icon you are
taking a risk, presumably you are well compensated.
If you use mass
transit you are at risk. Hijackers may take control of the plane on which you are flying and
fly it into a building. Taking the train is not necessarily safe as the
multiple bombings of the commuter trains in
Spain and London will attest.
If you do not work in a American
icon and do not use mass transit you need not
worry about
terrorist attacks unless you
happen to be downwind of a
nuclear reactor or
chemical manufacturing plant. Maybe you
live near a
oil refinery or near a liquified
natural gas storage facilty. Did you
know that North Korea has long
range missles with, very possibly,
nuclear warheads that can reach the Western
coast of America? San Francisco? Los Angeles
?
Are you scared yet? Have I
succeeded in instilling
fear? or have I made you angry?
Now
that your emotions are aroused you will react on that emotion - as originally
predicted by the speaker or author.
George
Orwell's "1984" long ago recognized that it serves those in
power to keep our
attention focused on perceived
threats. Many a
social psychology
experiment confirms the
principle: A
perceived
enemy serves to quell dissent
within any targeted
social culturalgroup. Emotional fear and anger responses cause
people to vote their "gut" feelings and abandon
reason. Enlightened
individuals will want to check
their fears and
angers against the
facts and to resist those that intend to
cultivate a climate of
fear.
When
working Americans assume that politicians have their best interests in
mind they are using faulty logic.
Of the three major terrorist actions to occur
within the past few years in
America two of them were perpetrated by former
American soldiers.
The
Oklahoma Federal building
bomber, Timothy McVeigh fought in the
Gulf War and was
flunked out of being an
American green beret.
The
sniper, John
Allen Muhammed, was trained as a sniper
by the American
military.
Other American soldiers turned
terrorist
bomber include
Vietnam War veteran Raymond Luc
Levasseur and Eric Robert Rudolph.
In 2009 Major Nidal Malik Hasan,
trained as an army psychiatrist, went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood Texas
killing 13 and wounding 30 others. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan worked at the Darnall
Army Medical Center treating soldiers for stress after returning from
Afghanistan or Iraq. Major Nidal Malik Hasan "worst nightmare" was deployment
to Iraq.
{"Fort Hood base personnel have accounted for
more suicides than any other Army post since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003,
with 75 tallied through this July. Nine of those suicides occurred in 2009,
counting two in war zones." - Robin Abcarian, Ashley Powers and Josh
Meyer}
But what about the other terrorist attack that took place
in 2001 - the weaponized anthrax attacks - presented as perpetrated by the
Baath party Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein?
Letters containing weaponized anthrax spores were mailed
to several news media offices begining on September 18, 2001. Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle
recieved letters containing weaponized anthrax at their offices on October 9.
Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle were stalling passage of the USA PATRIOT Act
(Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism). The USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law on
October 26, 2001. Five people died and another seventeen were infected. It was
later determined that the weaponized anthrax originated at
Fort Detrick or the Dugway Proving
Grounds.
{"Ft. Detrick deputy commander Richard
Spertzel told investigative journalists Bob Coen and Eric Nadler that "the
material that was in the Daschle/Leahy letter was "1.5 to 3 microns in particle
size" and characterized the refinement "as super sophisticated ... phenomenal."
When investigators attempted to examine samples under a microscope, "it readily
floated off the slides."
The "genetic fingerprint" and "extraordinary
concentration" of the weaponized anthrax used in the attack would require a
team of individuals, and not a proverbial "lone nut" to produce a biotoxin
possessing such exquisitely lethal characteristics. The inescapable conclusion
is that the anthrax used to murder five people, sicken dozens of others and
terrorize the rest of us, could only have come from a state program or one
operating under contract to a government agency." - Tom
Burghardt}
In the run up to the invasion of Iraq Secretary of
State Colin Powell told the United Nations in February 2003 that Saddam Hussein
had "mobile weapons laboratories" to wage biological warfare.
"They are
not mobile germ warfare laboratories. You could not use them for making
biological weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the
Iraqis said they were - facilities for the production of hydrogen gas to fill
balloons." - David Christopher Kelly
{David Christopher
Kelly was a member of the Bahá'í Faith, an expert in biological
warfare and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. David
Christopher Kelly's experience with biological weapons at Porton Down led to
his selection as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq following the end
of the Gulf War. Regma Bio Technologies, headquartered at the Porton Down
campus, signed a contract with the U.S. Navy for anti-anthrax research in 2000.
David Christopher Kelly's work as a member of the UNSCOM team led him to visit
Iraq thirty-seven times and his success in uncovering Iraq's biological weapons
program led to Rolf Ekéus nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
British ambassador David Broucher asked David Christopher Kelly what
would happen if Iraq were invaded? David Christopher Kelly replied, "I will
probably be found dead in the woods."
David Christopher Kelly gave
testimony before Parliament and was dead found dead in the woods from a
"suicide" two days later.
David Christopher Kelly allegedly used a
knife to slit his wrists then wiped the his fingerprints clean.
Officially David Christopher Kelly bled to death from self inflicted
wounds and overdosed on painkillers - but he had not lost enough blood nor
ingested enough co-proxamol to kill him.
David Christopher Kelly
discovered a "Porton Down - South Africa connection" linked to a global
bioweapons black market and Dr. Wouter Basson, the former head of the South
African apartheid regime's clandestine biological and chemical warfare program,
Project Coast.
{Project Coast used biological weapons
for extrajudicial executions and had conducted active research into the
fabrication of "ethnic weapons" that would specifically target South Africa's
black population.
"Basson had already put the fear into American
intelligence during his Truth and Reconciliation Committee appearance, where he
handed over fourteen pages of notes from a visit to the United States in 1981.
American Air Force officers had been eager to develop joint "medical projects"
with South Africa. Basson says that in 1995 his life was threatened on the
street by a CIA agent. The American Embassy in Pretoria admits privately that
the United States government is "terribly concerned" that Basson may start
talking about his sources of information and technology. The Embassy hopes that
an impression of "unwitting coöperation" is all that emerges in the way of
an American connection." -William Finnegan}
David Christopher
Kelly worked closely with two American scientists, Benito Que and Don C. Wiley
and shared his reasearch findings with a few others.
Benito Que was
bludgeoned to death during an attempted carjacking in Miami.
"Strangely
enough his body (Benito Que) showed no signs of a beating." - The Toronto Globe
& Mail
Don C. Wiley, an expert on how the immune system responds to
"doomsday" viral attacks, had a "dizzy spell" and fell off a bridge to his
death (or it was "road bounce"). The coroner, O.C. Smith, who did the autopsy
on Don C. Wiley was found wrapped in barbed wire and left lying in a stairwell
of the medical examiner's building with a live bomb strapped to his chest.
Benito Que and Don C. Wiley were engaged in DNA sequencing that could
provide a genetic marker based on genetic profiling. Research which could play
an important role in developing weaponized pathogens to hit selected groups of
humans - identifying them by race.
"Wiley, Schwartz, and Benito Que
worked for medical research facilities that received grants from Howard Hughes
Medical Institute (HHMI). HHMI funds a tremendous number of research programs
at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and has long been alleged to be
conducting "black ops" biomedical research for intelligence organizations,
including the CIA." - Dee Finney
Vladimir Pasechnik worked in the
Soviet Union at Biopreparat, in the biological weapons program. Vladimir
Pasechnik defected in 1989 and revealed for the first time the immense scale of
Soviet work with anthrax, plague, tularemia and smallpox. For the next 10
years, Vladimir Pasechnik worked at the Center for Applied Microbiology and
Research, part of Britain's Department of Health. Vladimir Pasechnik, the
founder of Regma Bio Technologies, died of a "stroke" shortly after consulting
with authorities about the anthrax attacks.
Robert Schwartz, an expert
on DNA sequencing and analysis, was found dead on the kitchen floor of his
isolated log-and-fieldstone farmhouse near Leesburg, Virginia. Robert Schwartz
had been stabbed to death with a two-foot-long sword, and his killer had carved
an X on the back of his neck.
Set Van Nguyen, 44, was found dead in an
air-locked storage chamber at the Australian Commonwealth's Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization's animal diseases facility in Geelong.
Victor Korshunov, a Russian expert in intestinal bacteria, died of
blunt head trauma assault near his home in Moscow; Ian Langford, a leukemia
specialist, was found dead in his home near Norwich, England, naked from the
waist down and wedged under a chair; Tanya Holzmayer, who worked as a
microbiologist near San Jose was shot seven times when she opened the door to a
pizza delivery man; David Wynn-Williams was hit by a car near his home in
Cambridge, England; and Steven Mostow, died in a plane crash near Denver.
Avishai Berkman, Amiramp Eldor and Yaacov Matzner died in an airplane
crash. Leland Rickman got a headache in Lesotho, a small country bordered on
all sides by South Africa, and died. Ivan Glebov was killed by bandits; Alexi
Brushlinski was killed in Moscow; Dr. David Wynn-Williams was hit by a car
while jogging near his home in Cambridge, England; Michael Perich ran off the
road and drown when his seat belt failed to release; Robert Leslie Burghoff
killed by a hit-and-run driver; Vadake Srinivasan, industrial biologist, died
in car accident from stroke; Antonina Presnyakova a former Soviet biological
weapons, contracted Ebola and died; Assefa Tulu, who designed a system for
detecting a bioterrorism attack, was found dead at hi desk of an apparent
stroke; Paul Norman, the chief scientist for chemical and biological defence at
the Ministry of Defence’s laboratory at Porton Down, died in a plane
crash; Larry Bustard, helped develop a foam spray to clean up congressional
buildings after anthrax attacks; John Badwey, a biochemist who opposed the use
of sewage sludge; John Clark, head of the science lab which created Dolly the
cloned sheep, was found hung; John R La Montagne, a leader of international
research to control infectious diseases - specifically influenza pandemics died
of a pulmonary embolism; David R. Knibbs, Director of Electron Microscopy at
Hartford Hospital, died of heart failure; Michael Patrick Kiley, one of the
world's leading microbiologists and an expert in developing and overseeing
multiple levels of biocontainment facilities, died of a heart attack; Stephen
Tabet, world-renowned HIV researcher working in vaccine clinical trials for the
HIV Vaccine Trials Network, died of an unknown disease; Roger L. Blair, Kennedy
Space center microbiologist, died suddenly.
Leonid Strachunsky, World
Health Organization expert and director of the Anti-Microbe Therapy Research
Institute who specialized in creating microbes resistant to biological weapons,
was found dead bludgeoned to death in a Moscow hotel room; Lee Jong Wook, who
led the World Health Organization as its director general, was announced dead
minutes before he was to have spoken to representatives of the World Health
Organization's 192 member countries at the opening session of its weeklong
meeting, known as the World Health Assembly. Lee Jong Wook died of a blood clot
in the brain.
Barbara Kalow, a veternary microbiologist, is found dead
smothered by a pillow. Tom Thorne and Beth Williams, husband-and-wife
nationally prominent veternary microbiologist experts on chronic wasting
disease and brucellosis, killed in a snowy-weather crash on U.S. 287 in
northern Colorado. David Banks, an expert in the propagation of diseases by
insect vectors, died in a commutter plane crash. Robert J. Lull, a highly
revered expert in the field of nuclear medicine, was discovered on the floor in
the entryway of his hilltop home on Gold Mine Drive at Jade Place stabbed to
death.
Bruce Edwards Ivins was considered all American. Bruce Edwards
Ivins' extracurricular activities in high school, including National Honor
Society, science fairs, the current events club, the scholarship team all four
years, track and cross-country teams, yearbook and school newspaper, and the
school choir and junior and senior class plays.
Bruce Edwards Ivins, as
a senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland received the
Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service - the highest award given to
Defense Department civilian employees.
Bruce Edwards Ivins was found
unconscious July 27, 2008 and died at Frederick Memorial Hospital on July 29
purportedly from an overdose of Vicodin. No autopsy was ordered following his
death.
"He's dead and they can close the case and he can't defend
himself. Nice and convenient isn't it?" - Richard Spertzel, Ivins' former boss
at Fort Detrick
On August 6, 2008,
a federal prosecutor, United States Attorney Jeffrey Taylor, officially made a
statement that Bruce Edwards Ivins was the "sole culprit" in the 2001
weaponized anthrax attacks. The "sole culprit" in the weaponized anthrax
attacks, which galvanized popular
opinion against Iraqi
terrorism, dies when "discovered" and the federal government is able to
ramp up efforts to engage in bioterrorism.
"There are now 15,000 to
16,000 people now working in labs on select agents." - Leonard
Cole
According to Edward Hammond some 20,000 people working at more than
400 sites in America conduct research on organisms that can be used as
bioweapons. This represents a tenfold increase in employment at such facilities
since the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Steven J. Hatfill was exonerated and
received a $4.6 million settlement.
Dr. Philip Zack*, reprimanded several times by his
employers due to offensive remarks he made about Arabs, was caught on camera
entering the storage area where he worked at Fort Detrick in which the
weaponized anthrax was kept.
Apparently
Dick Cheney's claim that democracies do not breed
terrorists is either
incorrect or
we no longer
live in a democracy but a oligarchy or
plutocracy.
"We have quietly
become a plutocracy.
Democracy is dead and the working class descends into
ruin." - Gary Blinn
"In a market-driven
plutocracy shamelessly parading as a
by-the-people democracy, moving toward
true justice
is virtually impossible." - Frederic E. Bloomquist
"It appears that
when George W. Bush says the "America is safer but not yet safe," he means to
begin scaring us again. When we talk about security, we are actually making people
question it. I am saddened that elections are now based on
fear. Terrorism being used for
political ends by our
government against us is a kind of
terrorism and constitutes
psychological abuse.
Americans must become fully
aware of this and, as a
society, reject this unethical,
destrutive type of
manipulation." - Robert E. Griffin
Politicians that
use fear to garner votes are
evil men that pretend to care about citizens but
actually do not!
"The continual drama of
disaster is
anesthetizing. I am numb from the sheer number of . I have
heard the , however
valid, too many times." - Kathleen Clary
Miller
"Those who use
fear to control others inevitably find themselves
controlled by fear as well." - Dan Sewell
Ward
"Throwing around a potent
word like "terrorism" only cheapens it. The federal
Homeland Security Department's list of juicy terrorist targets is so broad and flawed that it includes
the Amish Country Popcorn Factory, a petting zoo and a Mule Day parade among
the vulnerable sites. Indiana - not California, not New York - was the state
with the most terrorist
targets (8,591). With the same lavishness,
the George W. Bush administration is frenetically
classifying documents as "secret", and even
reclassifying information that had
been public for years; "top secret"
will cease to mean anything at all." - Patt Morrison
"By just giving
Americans the good news and
hiding the bad news, the George W. Bush administration undermines the bedrock of
America. Give Americans all the
news and let the citizens give their
elected representatives an up-or-down vote." - Richard Dickinson
Social control
through public
'education'
(or a short
quick trip through the halls of behavioral modification through indoctrination
and conditioning)
"Whenever is found what is
called a paternal government, there is found
State education. It has been discovered that the best
way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence
tyranny in the nursery." – Benjamin
Disraeli
"I've since come to understand the reason school
lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will.
It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their
own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment
they will have to endure."- Derrick Jensen
Children who's will can not be broken are diagnosed
as having ADD (attention deficit disorder), ADHD (attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder) or ODD (oppositional defiant disorder).
"Free education for all
children in public schools. Combination of education with industrial
production." - Point 10 Communist
Manifesto, Karl Heinrich Marx aka
Karl Heinrich Mordechai
"Give me four years to teach the children and the
seed
I have sown will never be uprooted." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
"The aim of public education is not to spread
enlightenment at all,
it is simply to
reduce as many individuals as
possible to the same safe level,
to breed and train a standardized
citizenry, to put down dissent and originality." – H L. Mencken
"The state must declare the child to be the most
precious treasure of the people as long as government is perceived as working
for the benefit of children, the people happily will endure almost any
curtailment of liberty." - Adolf Hitler
In 1890 Andrew Carnegie
wrote a series of eleven essays called "The Gospel of Wealth", a treatise which
essentially stated that free enterprise and capitalism no longer existed in the
United States, because he and Rockefeller owned everything, including the
government, and that competition was impossible unless they allowed it.
Eventually, says Carnegie, the young children will become aware of this and
form clandestine organizations to fight against it.
Carnegie proposes
that men of wealth form a synthetic free enterprise system based on
cradle-to-grave schooling. The people who advanced through schooling would be
given licenses to lead profitable lives. All licenses are tied to forms of
schooling. This way, the entire economy can be controlled and people have a
motivation for them to learn what you want them to learn. It also places the
minds of all children in the hands of a few social engineers.
"If this finding were to prove useful to the
committee, it would be necessary to define the
public interest.
We believe this would be found in the principles and the form of the
Federal Government as expressed in our Constitution, and in other basic founding documents.
This will explain why subsequent studies were made by the staff of the size,
the scope, the form, and the functions of the Federal Government for the period
1903-53, the results of which are set forth in detail in the report by Thomas
M. McNiece, assistant research director, entitled "The Economics of the
Public Interest.
These original studies of the
public interest disclose that
during the 4 years 1933-36 a change took place which was so drastic as to
constitute a revolution . They also
indicated conclusively that the
responsibility for the economic welfare of the American people had been
"transferred heavily to the executive branch of the Federal Government,
that a corresponding change in education had taken place from an impetus
outside of the local community, and that this revolution had occurred without
violence and with full consent of an overwhelming majority of the electorate:
In seeking to explain this unprecedented phenomenon, subsequent studies pursued
by the staff clearly showed it could not have occurred peacefully or with the
consent of the majority unless education in the United States had prepared in
advance to endorse it.
These findings appeared to justify two
postulates, the first of which was that the policies and practices of
institutions purporting or obliged by statute to serve the
public interest would reflect
this phenomenon, and second, that foundations whose trustees were empowered to
make grants for educational purposes would be no exception.
On the
basis of these, after consultation with counsel, I directed the staff to
explore foundation practices, educational procedures, and the operation of the
executive branch of the Federal Government since 1903 for reasonable evidence
of a purposeful relationship between them.
Our ensuing studies disclosed such a relationship and that it had existed continuously
since the beginning of this 50-year period .
In addition, these studies
seemed to give evidence of a response to our involvement in
international affairs .
Likewise, they seemed to reveal that grants had been
made by foundations, chiefly by Carnegie and Rockefeller, which had been used
to further this purpose by directing education in the United States
toward an international frame of
reference and discrediting the traditions to which it had been dedicated, by
training individuals and servicing agencies to render advice to the executive
branch of the Federal Government, by decreasing the dependency of education
upon the resources of the local community, and freeing it from many of the
natural safeguards inherent in this American tradition, by changing both school
and college curricula to the point where they sometimes denied the principles
underlying the American way of life, by financing experiments designed to
determine the most effective means by which education could be pressed into
service of a political nature
To insure these
determinations being made on the basis of impersonal fact, I directed the staff
to make a study of the development of American education since the turn of the
century, and of the trends and techniques of teaching, and of the development
of curricula since that time . As a result it became quite evident that this
study would have to be enlarged to include the accessory agencies to which
these developments and trends have been traced. The work of the staff was
then expanded to include an investigation of such agencies as the American
Council of Learned Societies, the National Research Council, the
Social Science Research Council, the American Council on
Education, the National Education Association, the League for
Industrial Democracy, the Progressive Education Association, the
American Historical Association, the John Dewey Society, and the
Antidefamation League.
The select committee of the 82nd Congress
did not ask the representatives of the foundations to explain why they were
indulging in propaganda, in view of large
grants to organizations, projects, and persons which are promoting special
interests or ideologies. These representatives
were also not requested to explain activities of foundations which are, in
fact, influencing legislation, inasmuch as their grants frequently have an
outright political objective rather than
an educational one.
Large foundations
have a tremendous influence on the intellectual and educational life of our
country. These foundations, possessing huge sums of untaxed wealth, seem to be
dedicated to promoting specific views on
such matters as the welfare state, the United Nations, American
foreign policy,
the nature of the American economy, and so on,
rather than presenting objective and unbiased examination of these issues .
Extensive evidence that I have examined shows that organizations which
are primarily committed to a given ideology
have received large grants from some big foundations over many years, and in
numerous instances they have received such grants simultaneously from different
foundations . The assets of the large foundations are tax exempt and,
therefore, ought to be spent on projects and organizations representing the
views of all of the people and not only of a
segment dedicated to a specific ideology.
'Since the activities of some of
the large foundations appear to be biased in favor of a particular
ideology, in reality they are indulging in
propaganda calculated to influence
legislation on both domestic and international matters . Under such
circumstances, these foundations are violating their charters given to them by
the United States Congress and are betraying a public trust.
In the
realm of the social sciences many foundations have not observed the highest
standards of scholarship and ethics, which
require the presentation of only factual and unslanted material. In fact, the
want of ethics and the misrepresentations of
some foundations are so low that a
business corporation doing the same thing would be
condemned by the Federal Trade Commission and
held guilty of false advertising."
HEARINGS BEFORE THE SPECIAL
COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONS AND COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS -
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS - SECOND SESSION ON House
Resolution 217
"In our dreams. . . people
yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. . . . We shall not
try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of
learning or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors,
educators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great
artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians,
statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is
very simple. . . we will organize children . . . and teach them to do in
a perfect way the things their fathers and
mothers are doing in an imperfect way." - Rockefeller's General Education
Board
"Every child in America entering school at the age of five is
insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances toward our Founding
Fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward
the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you teachers to
make all of these sick children well by creating the international children of
the future." - Dr. Chester M. Pierce, Professor of Education and Psychiatry,
Medicine and Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, address to the
Association for Childhood Education International in Denver (1972)
Consider the following:
Children
are dependents.
Children are the
prisoners of their
parents and their
schools.
Children are sentenced by
compulsory
education and truancy laws to school.
Schools/prisons may be used to serve the following
purposes:
teaching literacy and
mathematics - a
goal that can be met in
six years.
vocational
education or preparation for a higher
education -
goals hindered by
compulsion.
Social control,
which requires and justifies
compulsion.
"Education –
compulsory schooling, compulsory learning – is a
tyranny and a crime against the
human mind and spirit." – John Holt
"Public schools open
to everyone were basically put into operation not as a benevolent gesture to
spread knowledge, but as a
system to inculcate
patriotism, national
values, and fill the job gaps in our
social structure, keeping the
economic network running as smoothly as possible.
That is why it was made compulsory." -Lew
Paz
"There is wide use of drugs to medicate boys,
especially, against their natural tendency toward action, the better to "keep
things on track." I taught briefly in a public high school and would have loved
to have set up a Ritalin fogger in my classroom. It is a rare person, male or
female, who is naturally inclined to sit still for 17 years in school, and then
indefinitely at work." - Matthew B. CrawfordUsing pubic schools
(prisons) as
academic institutions for
social control
makes them de facto criminal psychiatric
facilities, depriving children of
liberty and, in some cases, labeling
them with a psychiatric diagnosis in order to
facilitate current and future
social control.
School administrators,
teachers,
child psychiatrists,
child psychologists,
social workers, grief counselors, the
pharmaceutical
industry and the many
other businesses that profit from the education racket are not the friends of
children as they proclaim. The
economic and existential self-interests of these do-gooders are inimical to
real education and rational discipline.
"The regime of
control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video
cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches,
metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police
posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a
record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect
preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!" - Charles
Eisenstein
"When will we have a governor who sends his own kids to
public schools? Maybe then he would see what we parents see every day - bloated
class sizes; few counselors; hardworking teachers who deserve more, not less;
and deteriorating buildings and landscaping that make schools resemble penal
institutions." - Catherine Smith
In the
beginning the current
educational
systems were designed by
foundations set up by industrialists to
inculcate children into their roles in the
industrialized factories, business' and
institutions of an
industrialized
America.
This
education inculcated
children to live by the bell, move through
life as if on conveyor belts and, most
importantly, to follow instructions
mechanically.
This
dark tunnel vision of instruction attempts to
create a conforming army of mindless human robots with their
soul's corrupted
by a split between the highly compartmentalized,
contradictory,
conflicting thoughts and ideas of specialized mechanized
systems and their
life as an organic
being.
The
descendants of these
industrial
corporate
barons have attempted to
create a robust economy for these
mindless human robots.
Industrial
corporations need a never ending stream
of "customer service
representatives" , "aggressive
telemarketing
specialists", "instant food preparation
equipment operators" and "procurement and shipping
experts", in
other words mindless
"factory" workers or
mindless human robots.
"Just beneath the superficial justifications for
mass forced schooling lies the first level of its true motivation: to create a
population suitable for the demands of the industrial economy.
The
artificial reality that the factory system
created was a mass-produced reality, a
generic reality of standardized products, standardized roles, standardized
tasks, and standardized lives. The more we came to live in that
artificial reality, the more separate we became from the inherently
fascinating realm of nature. In schools the standardized curricula, trained
operators, classification of product via "grading" are all reminiscent of the
factory. The resemblance is not accidental - schools were designed by some of
the same efficiency experts who designed factories - and the dehumanization is
the same as well.
Factory discipline was alien to the independent,
self-directed farmers and artisans that made up pre-industrial society, and the
question of how to instill labor discipline was discussed at length by the
intellectuals of the day. One solution was outright force: the driving of
peasants off the land through enclosure, the use of militias to enforce strike
prohibitions, and mostly the motive of extreme economy exigency.
Another
solution was to condition people from childhood to accept, and even to desire,
work that was partial, trivial, mechanical, dull, repetitive, and unchallenging
to thought or creativity." -
Charles
Eisenstein
"Systemically under-educating a population is one
way to ensure future generations are qualified to work at McDonald's without
stepping out of line, or asking too many questions, or asking the wrong
questions, or knowing what questions to ask." - Francine Prose
11/04/07
On June 25, 2007 in a
Supreme Court decision that declared that students
are not protected by the
First Amendment of the Constitution of the United
States:
"Early public schools were
not places for freewheeling debates or exploration of competing
ideas. Rather,
teachers instilled “a core of
common values” in
students. In the earliest public
schools,
teachers taught, and
students listened.
Teachers commanded, and
students
obeyed.
Teachers did not rely solely on the
power of ideas
to persuade; they relied on discipline to maintain order. To meet
their educational objectives,
schools require absolute
obedience." - Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas
The innovative
critical thinking
Americans need to guarantee the viability of
bright future for the American
culture is not on the agenda, in
private or public
schools.
"What are schools for?
I can offer a single answer: in
our culture, you have to follow the
money. Because
teachers aren't paid enough and
school budgets virtually mandate large (and
crowded) classrooms, schools can't be about
teaching and learning. So
teachers baby-sit. That's what
schools are for: to baby-sit the kids until
they're old enough to get jobs to earn money and pay taxes." - John H. Geerken
If
anyone has a question as to this reality, that
American public education is designed
to create mindless human robots that earn
money and pay
taxes, then think about the reality children experience today with the policy of .
A 5
year old pinches a classmates butt. The result - cited for sexual
harassment.
A 12 year old with ADD tells other
students in the cafeteria line to
save some potatoes for him - if they do not
he will "get them". The result - charged with making a "terrorist" threat and
incarcerated for several weeks in a juvenile detention center.
A 12
year old First Class Boy Scout accidently brings his Swiss army knife to
school. The result - 45
days suspension, expulsion and enrollment in
an alternative school for juvenile
delinquents.
A 13 year old is assigned to write a "scary" Halloween
story. He writes a
story about a rampaging
gunman at his
school. The result - six
days spent in jail for making a "terrorist" threat.
A
17 year old shoots a paper clip with a rubber band, misses his target and hits
a cafeteria worker. The result - expulsion.
Students "disciplined" under the
policy of zero
tolerance tend to be even more
disruptive later on - imagine
that!
America's
current educational
system is obsolete in a
time with the waning of the
Industrial Age when the preeminence of a
nation, a culture or a
society is going to depend upon the ability of a
culture to be flexible, to be fluid and to be
dynamic.
Children will
rebel against
school authorities, against
social ethical
norms and against society in general if
Americans continue to attempt to teach
children in a mechanical rote manner
designed to prepare children for a
life in the factory dominated
society, especially when that
society no longer actually has factories -
think "Made in
China"/Wal Mart.
"The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public
control; it ought to be as
free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The
state is justified in insisting that
children shall be educated, but it is not
justified in forcing their education to
proceed on a uniform plan and to be
directed to the production of a dead level of
glib uniformity." - Bertrand Russell
public education in
the mid 20th centuryeducators main
function was to teach
academics.
educators did not forcibly administer
drugs to children.
educators assumed that
parents were competent to
teach their children life
lessons.
educators recognized that
adolescence is a time filled with intense sexual urges
doomed to frustration,
children received neither
sex education nor condoms in
schools and there were fewer teen
pregnancies.
educators
believed some children were
good and some were bad but
children did not use or abuse
drugs, legal or illegal.
public education in the 21st century"educators" main function is
social control,
not academics.
"educators" deny the intensity
of adolescent sexual desires.
"educators" forcibly
administer drugs to children
believing it is their
duty to control a child's mind.
"educators" sentimentalize childhood as an age
of innocence and worry
free happiness
while claiming some
children are mentally healthy and
others are mentally ill.
"educators" assume that parents are not competent to
teach their children life lessons,
that only "professionals" are qualified to teach children "sex
and drug education," "interpersonal skills"
and "conflict resolution."
"In the 1940s a survey listed the
top seven
discipline
problems in
public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise,
running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes,
not putting paper in wastebaskets.
A 1980s survey lists these
top seven: drug
abuse, alcohol abuse,
pregnancy, suicide,
rape, robbery,
assault. " - George F.
Will
"Want young people to want to come to
school?
I have the secret
solution: make it a place they want to
be.
Assume that learning is innate, something that happens all the
time in life,
something that until forced to do, most
people enjoy and seek.
Want
to make sure attendance is as high as possible?
Make it optional - that
is the incentive to do everything possible to make sure people really want to
be there.
Dissatisfaction with the current one-size-fits-all, top-down
bureaucratic public schooling
system has already led to
millions opting out completely.
Forget tired old fixes for a creaky old
system.
Don't make us
opt out.
Let's spend that public school money locally, creating schools unique to each community as places
where people want to be together, living life for real and
learning in the process." -Sally Rosloff
"Usually a twelve year sentence of
mind control. Crushing
creativity, smashing
individualism, encouraging
collectivism and compromise,
destroying the exercise of
intellectual inquiry,
twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." – Walter Karp
commenting on the public school system
"I have witnessed "crafts" that children are
trotted through which consist of children doing as they are told, step by step,
sometimes without even understanding what they are doing, and rarely taking any
pride in their finished work.
Indeed it would be too messy, too
chaotic, to let the children loose with the raw materials of creativity.
Of course, creativity that must be constrained to a controlled area and
result in a predetermined product is not creativity at all; it is labor.
No wonder the children are so lackadaisical, so unmotivated.
They are preparing for an adulthood of following instructions.
They are preparing for an adulthood of work, of labor, of being
functionaries of the Machine." -
Charles
Eisenstein
"My granddaughter in second grade has little
enthusiasm for
school. When she started kindergarten, it
was only a half-day, and I was
shocked to find that they sat together on
the carpet for a solid 1 hour and 45 minutes without even a tiny break - just
memorizing letters, numbers, days of the week,
etc. Even the artwork they did was all pre-cut and
figured out by the teacher, so that
all the children's work looked identical. And
homework is a dull, repetitive, time-consuming waste. What a far cry from the
wonderful kindergarten my own children
had, including dress-up, block play and so much
enrichment, not to mention the all important socialization that took place. All of my children
went to fine colleges, and none were forced
into such heavy academics at such a
young age. I feel sorry for today's
children for they are not permitted to be children at all."- Nancy Horowitz
"A school's curriculum is a
mind altering device.
A
school's curriculum is a means through
which children's minds are shaped with ideas, skills and
beliefs about the Earth. What we teach the young is extremely
important - we need to be careful about what we teach and
equally as careful about what we do not
teach.
Routines may be good for the
assembly line, where surprises are not wanted but creative thinking
abhors routine. Our schools are managed by
an industrial ethos that prespecifies and
then measures outcomes.
Due to this mechanization there is an increased
need for the arts as a
counterbalance.
Arts teach children to exercise that most exquisite of
capacities,
the ability to make judgments
in the absence of rules.
Existing primary
public education emphasizes fealty to rules.
The rules that the
arts obey are
located in our children's
emotional interior;
children come to
feel a rightness of fit among the qualities with which
they work. There is no rule book to
provide recipes or algorithms to calculate conclusions. They must exercise
judgment by looking inside
themselves.
The
arts also teach that neither
words nor numbers define
the limits of our
cognition; we
know more than we can tell. There are many
experiences and a multitude of occasions in
which we need art forms to say what
literal
language cannot say." - Elliot W.
Eisner, professor of education and
art at Stanford University
"There are
many kinds of intelligence.
Academics taps only a few of our
abilities. We must offer an education program
for all students, not just the
academically
talented." - Louis Rosen
"The current
evaluation system assumes that
a child must be competent in all areas and makes no allowance for great
variations in skills and interest."- Joe
Konn
"As a third-grade
teacher, I see the problems with the
one-size-fits-all system. We
are losing so many students. There
used to be many options for high school
students - vocational
education, auto shop,
graphic design classes, home economics. Now, with the current
thinking that all
students must go through a college
preparatory program in high school, many
are choosing to drop out. If they could have
other options, they too could make
many successful contributions to
society. We still need plumbers, electricians
and auto mechanics, so why not provide these classes for
students who have no intention of
going to college but are interested in these careers." - Susan
Branman
"Is there any mystery to the
dismal condition of education in
America? We either don't care about it, don't
want to pay for it or are afraid of it. In any case; our growing
ignorant,
arrogant antipathy will prove to be more
to our democracy than any terrorist." - Gary E. Murphy
"Our high schools are obsolete.
They were designed to meet the needs of
another age.
Today, even when they
work exactly as designed,
our high
schools cannot teach
our kids what they need to
know.
In the
international
competition to have the best
supply of workers who can
communicate clearly,
analyze information and solve
complex problems, America is falling behind.
Today only one-third of
our students graduate from high
school ready for college,
work and citizenship.
In district after district
across the country, wealthy white kids are taught
algebra, the
others,
most of whom are
low-income and minority students, are
taught how to balance a check
book.
This is
creating an economic disaster.
Until we
design high schools to meet the needs of the 21st century,
we will keep ruining the lives of
millions of Americans every year."
-Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft,
American aristocrat
(Note: In Bill Gates
vision there are only the
wealthy and low income. What
happened to the
middle class?)
"High
school should be a time for exploring
options and interests so individuals can decide their future
direction. What we seem to have is a very narrow tube that everyone is funneled
through; few fit, and the rest have to fend for themselves." - Linda
England
"After the privatization of
public education everyone will get to choose a
school that
reflects only your own
social values. No need for the
competition of
ideas or
critical thinking. So the
curriculum will be up to the school to
determine. I am certain that the growing percentage of us who have McJobs will
welcome this opportunity to spend a
large portion of our income on education and
choose an ideology at the same time." - David
Strauss
"David Gelernter* points out that global rankings place our seniors 19th among 21 surveyed
countries in science and suggests that all
education be privatized. If any of the 18
countries ahead of us had achieved its position by abolishing
public education, he might have a point. In
fact, none have;
public education is universal among advanced
industrial democracies. Perhaps
logic is not on the curriculum of the
private
school
system David Gelernter wants
to bring in to replace the public
schools that have, in his
words, 'forfeited their right to
exist'." -Eric Mankin
"There's so much stress. I
think we have done our children a great
disservice. They are driven in every part of their lives." - Elizabeth
Downing
"Education, and
the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which
individual initiative is the chief
thing needed; the function of the state
should begin and end with insistence on some kind of
education, and, if possible, a kind which
promotes mental
individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of
government officials." - Bertrand Russell
"No Child Left Behind provides strong
sanctions on schools based solely on performance in English and math. Because
of these aggressive sanctions, many elementary schools have all but abandoned
art, science, social science and physical education to avoid being identified
for sanctions. No Child Left Behind is undermining a rich, balanced
curriculum and will continue to do so unless lawmakers stop the circus acts and
get to work for our students." - Scott P. Plotkin
"It takes only average intelligence to note the
pratfalls of the No Child Left Behind Act. Analyzing a bazillion lines
of student data over a variety of tests reveals few surprises. Fixing some
parts of No Child Left Behind may very well result in a new crop of
inadequate measures. Such is the stuff of standardized testing, and such is the
stuff of investing annual funding in testing to get results we already know." -
Michael F. KatzmanThe No Child Left Behind program was just
another smoke and mirrors game played by the George W. Bush administration. The
reading program, Reading First, was beset with conflicts of interest
according to the Office of the Inspector General. Over $6 billion was given
away in government contracts to implement the Reading First program.
After six years the Department of Education has declared that the
Reading First program failed to improve
reading comprehension. Even though the Reading First program proved to
be a failure in increasing reading comprehension
it was a rousing success in privatizing public
funds and maintaining the status quo of government give-aways to corporations.
I wonder who owned the stock?
"The Inspector General’s report
illuminates the corruption involved in the
Federal Government’s attempts to micro-manage reading instruction.
Numerous states had their applications for millions of dollars worth of
Reading First grants rejected because they did not plan to use the funds
for Direct Instruction." - Gary Stager
Direct Instruction
is a program designed by Zionist
Ashkenazi Siegfried "Zig" E. Engelmann, who married
Zionist Ashkenazi Therese
Piorkowski. So the federal government approved of an indoctrination program
designed to indoctrinate young children in
Zionist Ashkenazi
philosophy.
"A crucial element in
the implementation of Direct Instruction in most cases is change.
Teachers will generally be required to behave differently than before and
schools may need an entirely different organization than they previously
employed. The popular valuing of teacher creativity and
autonomy as high priorities must
give way to a willingness to follow
certain carefully prescribed instructional practices. The urgency for
immediate remedies stems from an understanding that the longer things are not
as they should be, the more difficult it will be to change them." - The
National Institute for Direct Instruction (NIFDI) a non-profit
corporation
After looking at some of the instructional material I found
these sentences to be typical of the type of conditioning used in the program:
Lesson 1 - I am mad; He made me
mad; She is mad at
me - (wrath). The rat is
sad;The cow ate fish; I made a wish -
(fantasy). Is she a rat? - (derogatory). Lesson
2 - Paint that nose; (personal insufficiency); A cat can talk; Is that shark
mad? He was riding a cow; This dog can talk; Did
the bug have a home? She told the ball to
roll; The elephant was sad;
I wish I could fly; The tiger ate ice
cream; A pig had a yellow wig; The animal looked very
angry; The bug was a talking
animal; She was
flying like a bird - (fantasy). My boss
will be proud; You must leave this house; We want to read
good books; You must pay that man;
Can you remember the rule?
(subservience); That snake was a sneak -
(derogatory).
When I learned how to read the primary readers were
reality based. See Spot. See Spot run. See
Jane. See Jane run. See Jane run with Spot.
Think what you will but the
important part of Direct Instruction is conditioning pre-concieved
notions and built-in prejudice. Fantasy is
preferable to reality;
Some people are less than others;
Wrath is acceptable ; Subservience is required of
lesser humans.
Perhaps none of the above about public
education
awakens
anger in you then perhaps maybe you would
like to hear another little
story:
When my youngest son
reached his senior year in public high school my wife was surprised, knowing our
son's views, to
hear from a
military recruiter who asked to speak to our son
stating that he had expressed an interest
in joining the military of the United
States. This recruiter called several times
asking to speak to our son.
Finally I asked my son if he had
expressed an interest in joining the
military and he said "No. Do you
think I am crazy?".
It was only later that I
learned what had truly transpired. A law had been
recently passed, the No Child Left Behind Act, this legislation had been
touted by the George W. Bush administration as the
way to make sure that all children received a quality
education.
I have a sister-in-law and
a sister who are both teachers. They
both feel this law was ill
thought out and did nothing to enhance
education, only created more meaningless testing and paperwork .
(Since then it has been learned that many public
school administrations decided to teach and
test the same way private
schools teach
individuals applying for state
trade licensee - i.e.. lawyers, architects, contractors, cosmetologist,
etcetera . They teach the students how
to take the test as opposed to teaching
them the broad knowledge that such tests are
meant to decipher in the tested individual.)
But this
‘testing' is really beside the point because the real
purpose of the No Child Left Behind
Actwas to obtain lists of children graduating high
school for the
military recruiters!
Your child will not be
‘left' behind because the No Child Left Behind Act was meant to
ensure that your child, as well, could become fodder for the great
American war
machine!
"George W. Bush can brag all he
wants about his No Child Left Behind Act, but anybody who has ever
worked with children knows that its quotas
and threats are more suited to
assembly-line production than
education." - Kurt
Page
See John
Locke
See John
Milton
see
American aristocracy
see
The Subversion of American Democracy
see
The Corruption of the American Dream
see
Wikipedia
: Social_Control
see
Information Control For Social Manipulation
see
Vacilando:
Social Control
see
Social
Control: Common Methods Used by Societies to Maintain Order
see
Social Control After Foucault (pdf)
see
Pirates, sharks and moral crusders: Social Control in p2p
networks
see
Prisons and Social Control
see
Social Control in International Relations
see
The
Social Control Solution
see
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