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One of the toughest challenges for the people behind the New World Order is to reconcile the ideologies and traditions of the various factions of the ruling elite. Apart from a common supremacist, parasitic and psychopathic attitude towards the rest of mankind they are a diverse crowd. They are Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Agnostics and Atheists. They are bankers, industrialists and nobility. They are Nazis, Monarchists, Democrats, Socialists and Communists. In the past, those differences have often caused frictions and stood in the way of their common goal of screwing the rest of us.
The epic struggle between Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia is a classic example. They were both created, financed and controlled by competing factions of the ruling elite. Although highly profitable - as any war, hot or cold - and successful at achieving its prime goal of the creation of a Jews-only state in the Holy Land, it delayed the roll-out of the New World Order by more than 50 years.
The one force that kept everything together is the 200 year old world-wide drug trading franchise co-owned by the Rothschilds and the Windsors. The franchisees are rogue elements within the world's governments in cohorts with the ruling elites. The obscene profits from these government enforced, tax payer funded illegal drug selling monopolies are the strings the London puppet players are using to keep everyone in line.
230 years ago, when the Rothschilds started their quest for world domination, things were so much easier. They could simply rely on fellow Jews, their strong tribal instincts and traditional Jewish supremacist views towards 'Gentiles'. According to the Talmud, non-Jews are animals created in human shape for the purpose of serving and enriching Jews.
After 200 years of intermarriage with the world's old elites, the parasitical network has reached a point where it is no longer exclusively Jewish. What is more, a century of systematic ridiculing and undermining of traditional Christian beliefs by the Jewish controlled media weakened Jewish religious fervour too. Only orthodox Jews are still subscribing to the obscenely racist Talmudian teachings. The rest is in denial that such beliefs even exist.
For the past 100 years, a lot of effort was put into replacing Judaism with a secular religion. Zionism and – later on – the Holocult worked well for the lower ranked shills of the ruling elite, at least for those with a Jewish background. Zionism is increasingly a dirty word because of the genocidal treatment of the Palestinian people. As a result, the Zionist entity has become a liability for the ruling elite, and a constant source of contention between its Jewish and non-Jewish members.
Like everybody else, the non-Jewish part of the ruling elite has also grown tired of being constantly reminded of the alleged Jewish suffering and the special status Jews demand in return. It resents having to enforce the three dogmas of the Holocult: the debunked claims of a plan to kill all European Jews, the use of gas chambers and the murder of 6 million Jews. At the same time, she cannot afford to alienate the Jewish high-priests of the New World Order. Too strong is their strangle-hold over the media and the financial sector.
The ruling elite is in desperate need of a secular religion uniting all of its members and inspiring its top ranking executives. For centuries, Masonic lodges have fulfilled that bridging need to some extent. However, in spite of some connections between different lodges, they remain fiercely independent and primarily focused on advancing the selfish interests of their high-ranking members. They are also faced with the same problem as traditional religions. Their beliefs and rituals look and feel old-fashioned and quaint, making them unsuited as a universal religion of the New World Order.
What would fulfil that need better than the pseudo-scientific story of the Anunnaki, telling the ruling elite that they are genetically designed to rule and enslave mankind?
Working from the same archaeological discoveries, artifacts, and recovered records as archaeologists and linguists have for two hundred years, Sitchin propounds – proves, in the opinion of this author -- that the Anunnaki (Sumerian: "those who came down from the heavens"; Old testament Hebrew, Anakeim, Nefilim, Elohim; Egyptian: Neter), an advanced civilization from the tenth planet in our solar system, splashed down in the Persian gulf area around 432,000 years ago, colonized the planet, with the purpose of obtaining large quantities of gold. Some 250,000 years ago, the recovered documents tell us, their lower echelon miners rebelled against the conditions in the mines and the Anunnaki directorate decided to create a creature to take their place. Enki, their chief scientist and Ninhursag their chief medical officer, after getting no satisfactory results splicing animal and Homo Erectus genes, merged their Anunnaki genes with that of Homo Erectus and produced us, Homo Sapiens, a genetically bicameral species, for their purposes as slaves. Because we were a hybrid, we could not procreate. The demand for us as workers became greater and we were genetically manipulated to reproduce.
Eventually, we became so numerous that some of us were expelled from the Anunnaki city centers, gradually spreading over the planet. Having become a stable genetic stock and developing more precociously than, perhaps, the Anunnaki had anticipated, the Anunnaki began to be attracted to humans as sexual partners and children were born of these unions. This was unacceptable to the majority of the Anunnaki high council and it was decided to wipe out the human population through a flood that was predictable when Nibiru, the tenth in our solar system and the Anunnaki home planet, came through the inner solar system again (around 12,500 years ago) on one of its periodic 3600 year returns. Some humans were saved by the action of the Anunnaki official, Enki, who was sympathetic to the humans he had originally genetically created. For thousands of years, we were their slaves, their workers, their servants, and their soldiers in their political battles among themselves. The Anunnaki used us in the construction of their palaces (we retroproject the religious notion of temple on these now), their cities, their mining and refining complexes and their astronomical installations on all the continents. They expanded from Mesopotamia to Egypt to India to South and Central America and the stamp of their presence can be found in the farthest reaches of the planet.
Around 6000 years ago, they, probably realizing that they were going to phase off the planet, began, gradually, to bring humans to independence. Sumer, a human civilization, amazing in its "sudden", mature, and highly advanced character was set up under their tutelage in Mesopotamia. Human kings were inaugurated as go-betweens, foremen of the human populations answering to the Anunnaki. A strain of humans, genetically enhanced with more Anunnaki genes, a bloodline of rulers in a tradition of "servants of the people" was initiated (Gardner). These designated humans were taught technology, mathematics, astronomy, advanced crafts and the ways of advanced civilized society (in schools, called now "mystery schools" but there was no mystery about them). Gardner has brought to light the fact that there exists a robust, highly documented, genealogical, genetic history carrying all the way back to the Anunnaki, possessed by the heterodox tradition of Christianity, which is only now coming forward, no longer gun-shy of the Inquisition. This tradition, preserving the bloodline, is the one branded "heretical" and murderously persecuted by the Roman Church. There were no Dark Ages for this tradition, only for those whom the Church wanted to keep in the dark about the real nature of human history and destroy the bloodline, a direct threat to the power of the Bishops.[1]
The idea that humans are the result of genetic engineering by aliens makes intuitive sense. What makes this concept dangerous though is its potential to be used by the ruling elite to justify enslaving mankind and treating them like cattle. Believing that they carry more Anunnaki genes than the rest of mankind and being genetically designed to rule mankind is a secular version of traditional Jewish beliefs, only more dangerous because of its modern 'sex appeal'. Neither of them are really religions but a license to kill, torture, prostitute, enslave, cheat, deceive, rob for those with the right genetic makeup.
The Anunnaki myth fits in well with Masonic and Kabalist concepts of bloodlines of current members of the ruling elite going back thousands of years to the building of Solomon's or the Babylonian temple. It is an extremely dangerous thinking and puts all of mankind at risk.
Overcoming Human Nature: The Revolution of the Meek
Current mood: inspired
Category: Religion and Philosophy
Overcoming Human Nature: The Revolution of the Meek
by Peter Chamberlin
What words can I conjure to give meaning to the visions that dominate my brain, images of evil and bloodlust, consuming the flesh of an unwary people. I see the rapidly approaching epic, the cataclysmic convulsion of a violent racist culture, stabbing feverishly at its own womb, hoping to abort the birth of the new man of peace and unity.
I see clearly the rising image of the new race, a new culture dedicated to enlightenment. The new mankind will be hungry for knowledge, in the same way that the current race is hungry for wealth and power. The new man will seek to overcome life's problems through understanding them, instead of forcefully re-ordering them to a more acceptable configuration.
Bringing forth the "New Man" is the core of all religious teaching, as is the coming catastrophic era, which will draw-out the mind of the new man from the debris of the shattered old mind. No prophet or founder of religions has ever been able to convert more than a handful of his closest followers into these New Men, whose minds have been liberated from the baggage of the old. But each of them clearly described the apocalyptic events which would rip the new earth from the old.
All belief systems, even religious ones, have been corrupted by power-mad individuals who intend to keep mankind in the dark, confused about the most basic items of truth and reality. They perverted the faiths, turning each of them away from the nurturing teachings of their Prophet founders, focusing instead, on sowing division among the faithful. Trusted spiritual leaders, by their actions, have hidden the many ways of growing a generation of "New Men," ensuring that mankind would only have one path to mass enlightenment open unto them, the path of cataclysm/conversion. The new man would eventually arise, but, like the Phoenix, he would necessarily arise out of the ashes of the old order.
The great intellectual leaps made in the past are portrayed as ends in themselves, not as steps in a series of enlightening revelations. Religion itself, has been turned into a dead end, where personal enlightenment is allegedly only possible if carried-out in a sanctioned group environment.
The closing of minds is the cornerstone of all efforts to claim illegitimate power on this earth. Conversely, the opening of minds must be the foundation for any effort to call forth the new man, who will naturally assume his rightful place between the majority of the human race and the evil minority that seeks to enslave all life.
In order for us to open a new path to awakening a generation of new men we must expose the corruption and imminent collapse of the old order, which is based on economic control, and visualize the new earth, based on cooperation and shared humanity. We see a new world, not based .. and the idea of domination, but one of unlimited human potential, given free rein to grow and understand the problems that we create for ourselves. The old world order must give way to a new world that has no center, where edicts and coercive dictates do not exist. In the new order, power will flow from each person.
In the old order, everyman was encouraged to want to be king. "Success" was measured by how close you came to fulfilling this kingly ambition. The "aristocracy" ("rule by the best," meaning the wealthiest) came to rule over mankind, with each man giving his consent to the arrangement. The cultivated desire to live like kings is the glue that bound the kingdom together, becoming the basis of the capitalist system.
The "aristocrats" were a minority of individuals possessed of the desire to dominate and control all things within their grasp. The bigger their grasp, the more people there were under their influence, capable of being dominated or controlled. The original kings were the most successful members the self-appointed aristocracy, those most ruthless men who had amassed the most wealth, making them most capable of hiring armies of mercenaries and thugs to enforce their will and to maintain their economic domination.
These were men without consciences, who were never bothered by the human suffering they created in their lust to control and to accumulate the resources now divided amongst the masses.
The aristocratic minority possess abnormal personalities marked by psychopathic obsessions to dominate and control others, as opposed to normal people, whose natures allow them to work and play well with others. The economic system created by the aristocracy is a system of control, enforced by laws and armies, designed to expand, without end, until all life on the planet is brought under aristocratic domination. The expansion of the system will not stop until all resources are brought under their control.
In order for the system to function, the majority of the people have to remain as willing to submit to the economic domination of the wealthy minority as the elite are determined to dominate them. But a funny thing happened on the way to the world dictatorship, just before total resource domination was achieved, the majority began to resist. The "meek" were starting to assert their will to hold onto the little that they had. The resistance of the meek had begun.
For the total global aristocratic dominion to become reality the force levels used to maintain control over the majority have to increase to a level sufficient to eliminate all ideas of further resistance. It had become crystal clear to the elite planners that the only way for the aristocracy to maintain its web of control and to accomplish its plans for total resource domination was to unleash all the force in its arsenal into the heart of the global resistance.
If the key to continued domination of the earth was to unleash a spasm of violence like the world had never before witnessed, culminating in a global thermonuclear war, the death of millions and the destruction of the planet, then so be it! The meek cannot be allowed to inherit anything; everything belongs to the ruling class!
The would-be world rulers are faced with an extreme dilemma, "how to conquer the world without destroying themselves with it?" If the plan for total resource domination calls for the full use of all military power to overcome weaker enemies, then how could you attack adversaries with equivalent forces without causing your own destruction?
The self-appointed rulers of the world determined that these powerful competitors could be compromised through the same formula of economic coercion that their kind had always employed – bribes and threats of force. "King's ransoms" would surely bend the most-dangerous resistance forces to their wills. "Low-level conflict," a euphemism for warfare by terrorism, would convey the threat of greater war, along with the exorbitant bribes, for those who were more resistant to the empire's "reasoning."
But even this game is running-up against the will of the resistance, the "meek" are getting really pissed-off, in the face of insane measures meant to ignite world war and to unleash the dreaded nuclear "horseman of the apocalypse" upon the resistant "lower" classes. If a majority of us "get our backs up," no amount of worthless currency will buy us off. We are witnesses to the ongoing attempts by the American government and its foreign minions to ignite an insane world war, for the sake of preserving the illegitimate power that drives their megalomaniacal dreams.
Enough is enough! The time has come for the revolution of the meek. We will not go quietly into the night!
For those who believe in freedom, the revolution calls you. For those who hate freedom for others, the revolution waits for you.
All power which assumes greater powers for itself than those it was originally given is illegitimate power. In an age when illegitimate power is openly moving to seize all available power, all those free men who love the rights and powers granted to them by their Creator must step forward to oppose the seizure. If all good things flow from the mind of God, then those men who move to separate mankind from these good things are clearly evil.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke. This truism applies to all men, for all time, but it is truer today than in any past era. When governments all over the world work together to preserve their collective illegitimate powers, then it is time for a worldwide revolution to set all men free.
As Americans, we are at the epicenter of the world collective of illegitimate power. It is our destiny to be the ones who stand face-to-face with "the Beast, to force a divide within the government collective (Congress), that will disable the forward thrust to crush the rights of all mankind. To all the members of the United States Congress I say, if you, as our representatives, allow the invasion of another country, or the introduction of American troops into the streets of the United States, for the purpose of ending democracy and eliminating the Bill of Rights, then the revolution awaits you.
To President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid, I say to you, if you move forward with your plans for world war or for establishing a police state in America, for the purpose of seizing control of the world's energy sources and creating an illegitimate world government, then the revolution awaits you, with all its fury.
America's illegitimate power can no longer be maintained. America's military and other powers of persuasion can no longer contain the actions of the other governments of the world. Killing is not the solution, the saving and improving of all life is the answer. This country has amassed the largest debt that the world has ever witnessed, for the sake of empowering the military machine used to dominate the world. This debt will never be repaid.
In the time America has left to continue operations under this debt-based system (before our creditors decide to pull the plug on our borrowing) we must move away from war, towards the path of reconciliation. In a world of near-total chaos, brought about by our double-dealing "diplomacy" and our own military and economic aggression, America will find itself broken and alone. If we have any hope of being allowed back into the world community after it begins to recover from the great collapse, then it will only come about by our trying right now, to repair the damage that we have wrought, before it becomes impossible to do so.
This requires that we stop our war of terrorism and devote a large portion of those funds dedicated to waging the war into an international re-building effort, to begin to repair the nations we have destroyed and to alleviate some of the human suffering we have caused. In the new world economy, the illegitimate power of capitalism, which can only be maintained by military force, will have been broken itself. This breakdown will cause unimaginable suffering to intensify, as the food distribution chains break down, as well. What would an investment equivalent to one year of the Pentagon's budget (or the amount spent on new weapons systems in one year) do towards insuring that more people do not starve because of America's mistakes?
Americans must reconcile themselves to the horrendous truth about what has been done to the world in our name. We must face the ugly truth that we have allowed our government to rampage through the world like some rabid beast, devouring the weak and wounding the strong. We have allowed our government to assume illegitimate power to a level that rivals all predecessor progenitors of evil.
As this evil government moves against the world with the fullness of its military power, we can see clearly that the revolution has come to us. Do we allow the destruction of freedom, God's greatest gift to mankind, or do we follow the example of our own sacred predecessors and stand together as free men, standing between our government and the world? The revolution is all that stands between the evil plans of these men and their fulfillment. What will you do when the rest of us take our stand?
This evil era has been foretold by prophets the world over, for many centuries. Each prophecy spoke of those who stood fast for truth in the face of those who sought to bury freedom and turn the world into a race of slaves. Are you among those few who will place your very life on the frontline of freedom?
The revolution has found you. Can you ignore its call?
Letter of Termination to the White Race
Current mood: disgusted
Category: Blogging
I'm back, temporarily, and to post the below article. After reading this, no more Ms. Nice. I'm sick and tired of this shit! Can anyone imagine the fallout if this article were aimed at any other minority or Jews?
Letter of Termination to the White Race
By Edmund Connelly
If an insightful document is found to be a forgery, does that totally negate its value as an analytical tool or source of useful information? In the case of history's most infamous forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the argument is that the document is worthless—or worse. No matter how accurate or useful the information contained therein might be, The Protocols is consistently dismissed as not only a fraud, but as an anti-Semitic fraud at that.
This week I happened across a much shorter example in the form of a brief letter written to whites of the world. Called "Letter of Termination to the White Race," it was almost certainly not composed by the envious non-white who claims to have penned it.
The letter tersely describes why the white race is toast. The 92% of the world's population who are not white and have not succeeded in building successful civilizations are now demographically swamping every last white homeland. And they are being led by an "out group" that has been using our own "media and government, academia, and law enforcement organizations" to "terminate" us.
Perhaps the most perverse aspect of this dispossession is this pernicious passage:
By carefully controlling and managing the schools, universities, media, and press, this "out group" has managed to convince the great bulk of your racial kinsmen that not only is resistance futile, but that it is immoral, barbaric, depraved, and unworthy of a "thinking" individual. By promoting the stereotype of a "racist redneck resistance", they have made the idea of a struggle for White Identity a veritable sin in the minds of nearly every White person. In short: they have convinced European-derived peoples that a prolonged suicide is preferable to the unmitigated evil of "racism".
The author most certainly gets it right when he says that "you Whites have become a neutered, egoless herd of cattle, easily manipulated and posing no threat to the Out Group."
There is no escaping the fact that the details contained in the letter are perfectly true. For instance, who can think of The Wichita Massacre or The Knoxville Horror without realizing the truth of a statement such as, "We will beat and murder your sons; we will rape your wives and daughters."
Though we whites are the victims, "the Out Group will use their media to label you with shocking epithets and broad smears: racist, hater, bigot, neo-Nazi, nativist, White supremacist, domestic terrorist, etc." I've written about this very thing previously in this blog, and Kevin MacDonald has shown how white identity has become pathologized by the success of several Jewish intellectual and political movements.
What makes this all so demoralizing is the fact that, as the author so cruelly reminds us, a good portion of the white population welcomes our demise. "Adios, White man! You had a good, long run, but your day is over . . . and your race is no longer wanted here. . . . Besides, many of you are even anticipating this with something akin to sick glee. After all, that's how the TV set told them to feel. The brainwashing is almost complete, and the sheep are in line to shear."
Provocative blogger Birdman makes some good points regarding the letter:
Is the following essay serious? It is in at least one sense: There can be little doubt that the future it portrays for the white man is true. Whether it was written by an arrogant Jew dripping with vengeance, burning with white hatred and animated by near-victory, or else one who was feigning arrogance in hopes of shocking us and getting us off our duffs in hopes that we might save the civilization that has been so good to Jews, is anyone's guess. I can only hope we will take it as a much-needed lesson.
Go ahead and read the entire letter. It's not long. You will see how correct the author is, no matter who that author might actually be or why he wrote it.
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Letter to the White Race
White Man!
We regret to inform you that your kind has been slated for termination. We, the various Third World majorities of Africa, Asia, India, South America, and the Middle East assert that your long history of success at building civilizations, developing new technologies, creating stable governments, fostering good will, feeding much of the world, and increasing peace and prosperity even amongst the riotous hordes of our own homelands, has made us envious and resentful of you. We, who make up 92% of the global population, feel that we can no longer accept the great disparity between your success and our abject failure. The solution to this inequality should be obvious to all concerned.
We are planning to invade your ancestral homelands, little by little, and to facilitate this, we have the full cooperation of your controlled media and government, academia, and law enforcement organizations. While we, personally, do not control any of these entities ourselves, we are profiting endlessly from the crypto-Marxist system put in place many decades ago by an ethnic "fifth column" which operates with complete impunity at all levels of your political, academic, and media culture. Their interference in the natural development of your constitutional republics has been indispensable to our efforts to wrest from you the control of everything that you've struggled to build and maintain over the last century. Indeed, were it not for them, none of our present plans would have even been possible.
By carefully controlling and managing the schools, universities, media, and press, this "out group" has managed to convince the great bulk of your racial kinsmen that not only is resistance futile, but that it is immoral, barbaric, depraved, and unworthy of a "thinking" individual. By promoting the stereotype of a "racist redneck resistance", they have made the idea of a struggle for White Identity a veritable sin in the minds of nearly every White person. In short: they have convinced European-derived peoples that a prolonged suicide is preferable to the unmitigated evil of "racism".
While doing this, they have pushed, inch by inch, to open the borders of ALL White nations to our own sullen masses, throwing open the gates to invasion while assuring the public that "race doesn't matter". Since race, in fact, DOES matter (and no one knows it better than We), they have likewise put into place a totalitarian system of "hate speech" and "hate crime" laws, to further alienate and penalize those few Whites who might harbor some simmering resentments at the increasing decay of their society and culture. All of this is in keeping with the far-reaching plans of this particular ethnic "out group", and has been sometimes referred to as the "Long March".
The Out Group, who maintains a sense of racial cohesiveness hitherto unknown among even the most tightly-knit of all dispersed human peoples, maintains a grip on the press and electronic media that is nearly monopolistic in its all-encompassing reach. Since they are so thoroughly in control of these organs for the dissemination of propaganda, they are in the best position to spread hostility against the White peoples of Europe and America, inciting the minority against the majority in these lands: Black against White, Latino against White, Asian against White, Arab against White, Indian against White, and so on, and so forth.
This is facilitated by decades of brainwashing, beginning in early school years, portraying Whites not as the builders of a great civilization, or the admirable leaders of the Free World, but in a lopsided, entirely slanted way as oppressors, enslavers, genocidal "Nazis", southern Klansmen, imperialistic Colonials, and toothless hillbillies just itching for a chance to lynch the first colored individual that comes along. This brainwashing not only inflames the minorities in these now racially-mixed "schools", but also inculcates a sense of "White guilt" that the Out Group finds particularly useful in maintaining control.
Hence, you Whites have become a neutered, egoless herd of cattle, easily manipulated and posing no threat to the Out Group, who live in perpetual terror of your ever waking up to their plans. The Out Group has a long-running resentment and fear of White civilization, and thus have worked within that civilization to undermine its cohesion and sense of purpose. The promotion of homosexuality, pornography, drugs, divorce, illicit sex, moral relativism, atheism, communism, gun control, "anti-racism", and "civil rights", has been the greatest boon to this subversive faction, who are but a tiny minority among you, but who wield awesome, incomparable power.
Thus, in light of the fact that you are socially, morally, mentally, intellectually, and even legally castrated, We, the teeming masses of the Third World who thirst for what you have and what we can never obtain, are going to finally swamp your once noble and advanced societies, your pristine cities and unsullied neighborhoods, and rape your countries for everything they are worth.
We are going to move in, right under your noses, and set our churches, mosques, synagogues, and strange gods up in place of your own. We will ensure that OUR celebrations and festivities and holidays are observed, while YOURS are erased from the pages of history.
We will drain the public coffers of welfare, food stamps, and all forms of social aid available. We will swamp your children's schools, change the language in which lessons are taught, form street gangs to terrorize and torment your family, steal, vandalize, harass, threaten, and cajole you until we get what WE want.
That it will be entirely at your expense is irrelevant to us.
We will beat and murder your sons; we will rape your wives and daughters.
We kill twelve Americans every day; your government could care less.
We have shut down hospitals with our teeming numbers. We have flooded the streets, demanding "special rights" for those millions of us that are here illegally.
We nearly had your major politicians ready to grant all of us an "amnesty" in the name of "diversity" and "equal rights". We are filling up the ranks for unskilled labor. We are raping pre-teens. We are doing the jobs Americans won't do.
As your global economy crumbles, and it gets harder and harder to feed your families, as your birthrate plummets and you face the eventual dispossession of the country your forefathers founded for YOU and YOUR posterity, just remember: there is nothing you can do to stop us. The Out Group has made sure that the law is on OUR side, not yours. No matter how piffling your criticism of us is, the Out Group will use their media to label you with shocking epithets and broad smears: racist, hater, bigot, neo-Nazi, nativist, White supremacist, domestic terrorist, etc.
If we want to, we can assault and kill you with near impunity. The media will not report it, and if they do, they will place the blame for the assault squarely on YOUR shoulders, not ours. In Jena, Louisiana, a White boy was beaten mercilessly by six black criminals. The media made the criminals into the victims.
We watch these developments carefully, and we like what we see. Soon, you will be a minority even in your own homelands (you are already a minority worldwide), and we will continue to squeeze and squeeze until there is nothing left of you. We will crush your countries, your cultures, and eventually, we will snuffle out your lives.
Beethoven, Mozart, Shakespeare, and all other bourgeois manifestations of your high culture will be vanquished forever. All of your legends and heroes will be spat upon, purged, and finally forgotten. Your cultural folkways will be transgressions; your identity will become a crime.
We come for your JOBS, your MONEY, your WOMEN, and eventually your LIVES. It will not be much longer now.
In closing, We, the huddled masses of the Third World yearning to "breathe free", would like to thank the Out Group, the media monopolists and political plunderers who made all of this possible. We wish them well, and we know they wish us well, just as long as we don't trespass upon their own homeland, which they stole fair and square several decades ago.
Adios, White man! You had a good, long run, but your day is over, and ours is just beginning. Your empire is at an end, and your race is no longer wanted here. We'll have our fun with you while you still hang on by a thread, but soon, the thread will be cut, and the abyss yawns beneath you and the civilization your kind spawned.
Besides, many of you are even anticipating this with something akin to sick glee. After all, that's how the TV set told them to feel. The brainwashing is almost complete, and the sheep are in line to shear.
Final Entry - This blog is closed
Category: Blogging
After months of MySpace censoring my blog, I have decided not to publish any further entries.
Please refer to my other online blogs notated under "Interests" on my profile page for alternative news and my personal perceptions on the events happening in America and around the world.
A big thank you to all my readers for staying with me through my trials and tribulations here. You are most appreciated.
When you are there, standing before an actual judge, real courtroom drama feels much less exciting than what you see on TV. There is no swelling music soundtrack, no scripted performances, and no overblown oratory.
Recently, I participated in a typically dull hearing that likely ruined a life — the life of a little six-year-old mildly autistic boy. The banality of the process was in contrast with the seriousness of the outcome.
Twelve adults gathered in a small, closed courtroom to decide how many powerful, anti-psychotic drugs that the child, who is currently in the custody of the state, would be required to take. The patient did not have a voice, since he was not there. No doctor was present, but plenty of lawyers were. The little boy's lawyer saw nothing wrong with drugging him into a stupor. As the attorney for the heartbroken mother, I spoke against the whole idea; I suggested to the court that other factors may be causing the child's problems, and that the compulsory administration of drugs by the state was simply an excuse to avoid addressing those issues.
The verdict: the little guy would be forced to take anti-psychotic drugs Risperdal, Concerta, and Seroquel, plus the stimulant Clonidine and the anti-anxiety drug Klonopin.
This outcome begs the question of whether a six-year-old child, let alone children as young as three, can be diagnosed as psychotic. And, whether children should be drugged by potions so powerful that most of them are not approved by the FDA for use in children.
A Disabling Science
"The mechanisms through which most psychotropic drugs produce their therapeutic effects remain poorly understood," according to Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, a respected source in the field of psychiatry. When it comes to drugging children, the operation of these substances is even less understood, and the side effects are often far more profound and long-lived. Incredibly, most psychotropic drugs (i.e., chemicals that alter nervous-system and brain function) are not tested or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in children.
All psychiatric treatments exert their primary or intended effect by disabling brain functions, says Peter Breggin, M.D., author of Toxic Psychiatry and other books critical of the use of psychiatric drugs. Dr. Breggin maintains that no existing psychiatric treatment corrects or improves existing brain dysfunction, such as a biochemical imbalance, which he argues is the major misunderstanding about psychiatry that the profession prefers to hide, and which places it outside the realm of proper treatment for disorders.
Yet courts, state child protective services agencies, and schools are now working in tandem, backed by the power of the law, to mandate that children as young as three years old take multiple psychotropic drugs despite the lack of a provable scientific basis for such treatments.
Psychiatry was born out of the eugenics movement of the late 19th century, and was used by totalitarians like Bismarck, Stalin, Hitler, and many more as a tool for social control, explains Kevin Hall, the New England director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an organization opposing psychiatry as it's now practiced. Hall, who has intensely studied the history and development of the profession, provides a terrifying summary of how psychiatry has been misused from the beginning, particularly as a tool of state compulsion.
"Prussian dictator Otto von Bismarck," explained Hall, "used the work of German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt to attempt to create a war machine based upon nationalism, as Napoleon had done. Wundt changed psychology, defined as study of the soul or mind, to the current belief that man is a stimulus-response animal without a soul or free will."
Ivan Pavlov (of "salivating dog" fame), a student of Wundt, created a system of what Hall called Russian psycho-politics for use by dictator Josef Stalin. Millions of citizens were sent to gulags because of their opposition to the state, many of whom were given drugs or other treatments to cure them of their politically defined mental problems.
German psychiatrist Ernst Rudin founded psychiatric genetics, the belief that mental health characteristics are passed down genetically, and the German Society for Racial Hygiene, which used psychiatric genetics in Hitler's service to establish that different races are genetically inferior or superior to others. Rudin's theories provided justification for the campaign against Jews, in which he was integrally involved.
Starting in the mid 1930s, psychiatrists started on a spree of 50,000 lobotomies, which largely ended in the 1950s once psychotropic drugs became widely available to control persons acting in anti-social ways. The first widely used such drug was Thorazine, released in 1954. This was a major tranquilizer, now called an "anti-psychotic." But at the time it was enthusiastically marketed to the public as "a chemical lobotomy," as it would put a person in a drooling stupor similar to a lobotomy. Within months, millions of persons began to use it. A staggering array of highly addictive psychiatric drugs followed. And though lobotomies would now be considered an extreme treatment, the same does not apply to their chemical substitutes.
The drug pushers (legal ones, that is) began to target children shortly thereafter, according to Hall. He points to the year 1963 as critical in the expansion of psychiatry to children. That was the year when psychiatry coined the term "learning disorder," which was followed by federal legislation, the Primary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, to provide money for disabled children in schools. Soon, "mental illness" was added to the list of qualified disabilities under that law, and that is now the largest category of disability for which funds are available.
Hall claims that various maladies began to be literally invented, in order to have a diagnosis or category within which to fit what would otherwise be fairly innocuous behavior. All mental health diagnoses are codified in a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), published by the American Psychiatric Association. When it started in 1952, it had 112 entries. Over the years, the APA has added hundreds more, based on the current whims of the profession and what malady may be politically or socially in vogue.
The real purpose of these categories is to provide a basis for insurance reimbursement. The DSM, in its fourth iteration as DSM-IV, and the soon to be released DSM-V, contains such gems as Mathematics Disorder, Caffeine Disorder, Disorder of Written Expression, Telephone Scatalogia, and Malingering. Thus, virtually any visit to a mental health professional can result in a diagnosis which qualifies for payment by health insurance agencies.
School as a Referral Service
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was created by a vote at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in 1987. Prior to this, hyperactivity was called Minimum Brain Dysfunction. Some of the many symptoms of this "disorder," listed in the DSM-IV are:
"(1)(a) Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work or other activities";
"(1)(c) Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly";
"(1)(i) Is often forgetful in daily activities";
"(2)(a) Often fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat";
"(2)(c) Often runs about, climbs, or talks excessively."
This sure sounds like most boys in their growing years. In fact, three out of four youths diagnosed with ADHD are boys. Just about any child at any time could be diagnosed with such a disorder. There is no biological test for ADHD; the diagnosis is based only on observation of behavioral symptoms. Put simply, if a doctor examined a child diagnosed with ADHD, he would not be able to identify a physical or medical condition, in the brain or elsewhere, showing the presence of ADHD. A conference held by the National Institutes of Health in 1998, to investigate the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, concluded that "there is no independent, valid test for ADHD; further research is necessary to firmly establish ADHD as a brain disorder.... Our knowledge about the cause or causes of ADHD remains speculative." Thus, a diagnosis is entirely discretionary.
Despite this official and professional equivocation, a 900-percent increase in the number of hyperactive children since the official ADHD naming ceremony in 1987 has been reported. Rather than help a child to learn to control his or her behavior, schools, state child protective services, and psychiatry work together in a coercive alliance to addict millions of children to amphetamines in order to "treat" these normal childhood behaviors.
The underlying theme in this epidemic of hyperactivity is state compulsion. When a school spots a child exhibiting these symptoms, the school uses on-staff psychologists, or demands that the parents have the child evaluated for ADHD. If the parents refuse, the school will often arrange for the state child protective services to demand that the child be evaluated. If the parents still refuse, the school could expel the child and the state agency could intervene in the family on the basis that the parents are neglecting the child. In many cases, the agency will bring a case to court to force the family to obtain "services," which almost always include drugs. In my experience defending families faced with such a demand to medicate a child against the parents' will, the parents will often "voluntarily" agree to have their children medicated to head off problems with child protective services.
That cure is far worse than the disease, in most cases. The first and most widely known drug to treat ADHD is Ritalin, which has been joined by many others in recent years. Since 1987, when ADHD was included in the DSM, there has been a 665 percent increase in the production of drugs to deal with it. Eight million school children, or one in nine, are now on medication, half of which are ADHD drugs, according to CCHR's Kevin Hall.
The drugs used to treat ADHD are called psycho-stimulants, more popularly known as amphetamines, or "uppers" in street language. Ironically, since these are stimulants, which could be expected to produce a euphoric high, the dosage has to be extremely large in order to produce a flat response. According to Hall, the initial "street dose" of Ritalin, sold illegally on the corner to produce a high, would be about 5-10 mg for an adult. Children, weighing much less than an adult, and thus affected proportionally more, are routinely given a dose of 20 mg, meaning that the drug is prescribed in high dosages in order to overwhelm the child into a tranquilized effect.
Dr. Fred Baughman, Jr., a pediatric neurologist and author of The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes Patients of NormalChildren, and an outspoken foe of the use of these drugs, has stated, "The 'medication' typically prescribed for ADHD and 'learning disorders' is a hazardous and addictive amphetamine-like drug." Its side effects are intense and often permanent: stunted growth, depression, tics, rashes, spasms, psychosis, and ironically, "attentional disturbances" and hyperactivity when the drug is taken for a long period.
Giving Children the Hard Stuff
The problem with Ritalin and other amphetamine-type drugs like Adderall and Dexedrine is pervasive enough, but psychiatrists have several more dangerous and powerful classes of drugs that they routinely prescribe to children, namely neuroleptics (also called anti-psychotics), anti-depressants, and mood stabilizers. Neuroleptics, which means "nerve-seizing," are the most frequently prescribed drugs in mental hospitals, and are widely used in prisons, nursing homes, and by state child protective services and juvenile courts. Most of the prescriptions used in those institutions are issued by state fiat.
Neuroleptic drugs go by trade names such as Thorazine, Haldol, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal, and many others. Greatly simplified, all neuroleptics work by blocking receptors in the dopamine pathways of the brain. This means that dopamine released in these pathways has less effect, the excess of which has been linked to psychotic experiences. These drugs are major tranquilizers that mask symptoms, causing a deadening of the personality and brain function, but which cure nothing. Studies funded by the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Mental Health have shown that people labeled schizophrenic actually have much higher rates of recovery when they don't take these drugs.
These drugs also have the potential to cause permanent neurological disorders in a large percentage of patients, such as constant motion, Parkinson-like symptoms, psychosis, dementia, shuffling gait, extreme writhing, and other problems. Half or more of long-term patients develop a devilish syndrome called tardive dyskinesia, which is an uncontrollable twitching and writhing of the body. It can include grimacing, tongue protrusion, lip smacking, puckering and pursing of the lips, and rapid eye blinking. The term "tardive" means that the affliction continues even after the drugs are no longer being taken. A variation of this syndrome, called tardive akathisia, manifests as anxiety along with an uncontrollable urge to move the body.
Depending on the study and population, these maladies strike between 10 percent and 50 percent of long-term users of neuroleptics. These deadly substances are also a major reason why the average life span of a mentally ill person is only 51 years according to a USA Today article entitled "Mentally Ill Die 25 Years Earlier."
The problem in children is even more tragic. Long-term use afflicts a large percentage of the children who take these drugs with devastating side effects, and these children tend to suffer particularly incapacitating cases of these tardive reactions.
The nation's state child protective services agencies have over 500,000 children in their custody at any one time. These children are often force-fed drugs, and can do little to resist them. A large percentage of those children are subjects of compulsory psychotropic drug use. The motives for doing so range from the need to control the behavior of children who are distraught from being seized from their parents, to the large federal reimbursements available to the state for drugging children.
A 2006 study by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services documented the scope of drugging of children in the custody of that particular state. Despite the statistics being artificially rigged downward by not including all drugged children in the figures, and by only including those who had been on drugs for a certain period of time, the results are still chilling.
Over one-third of the children in custody, with an average age of 10.4, are on psychotropic drugs, with almost all of them on multiple varieties. Even more surprising were the statistics for the control or comparison group for the study, which consisted of children not in custody, but on welfare of some sort. In that group, 38.3 percent of the children were taking drugs. If all drugged children in state custody were included in the figures, the percentages would likely be even higher.
A newer trend is to use many of these drugs simultaneously on the same child, euphemistically called "polypharmacy." This tendency to prescribe many drugs for children necessitates experimentation until they "get it right." Many drugs produce side effects which often must be dampened by the use of even more drugs. In the aforementioned study in Massachusetts, nine out of 10 children on compulsory state-prescribed drugs took more than one of them. Of those polypharmacy victims, 60 percent took three drugs, 30 percent took four, and the rest took more, up to seven drugs each.
What Can Be Done?
Children in America are confronted with a hostile and threatening world, which presents new mental, emotional, and societal challenges that their parents have not faced. And the challenges often seem counterintuitive. On the one hand, children have never been more hyper-connected to each other or their parents by way of electronic devices; on the other, they've never been more alienated from personal familial affection and guidance. When a child has difficulty navigating this greatly dehumanized, governmentalized world, the reflexive answer is to give the child a drug, in lieu of guidance or truth. They become fodder for an unscrupulous mental-health profession, which makes billions of dollars convincing parents to give chemicals to their maladjusted children, rather than helping them to regain balanced, emotionally fulfilling lives. Or worse, the professionals use the power of the state to force drugs on the children.
Psychiatry has a reflexive impulse to treat life's vicissitudes with drugs, rather than help patients to deal with root causes. It has been linked since its inception with government compulsion, usually for a nefarious purpose.
Given the climate of treating any discontent with drugs, who can blame children for absorbing that message, when it has been relentlessly promoted to them? Don't confront your problems — medicate them. Is it any wonder that many children grow up choosing to skip the doctor — the middleman — and just "self-medicate," using illegal drugs instead?
Psychiatrists seem to start and end their treatment with a pill. However, unlike medical conditions that are scientifically verified with x-rays, blood, urine, and other lab tests, psychiatric disorders are merely subjective behavioral symptoms. If the first resort is to drugs, the doctor could readily miss, and fail to treat, the actual root cause of the problem.
On the other hand, addressing the root cause can solve the behavioral symptoms without resorting to drugs. For instance, in children, inability to read can manifest itself as ADHD, owing to an inability by the child to understand what is happening in the classroom. The use of "see-say" reading methods in government schools, rather than teaching phonics, has ensured the reading failure of millions of children, many of whom are falsely assumed to have ADHD. The solution to this problem in most cases is very simple: teach phonics!
Poor nutrition can also provoke a child to act out, and to be mistakenly diagnosed with ADHD. The solution: good nutrition.
Reaction to family problems can also be mistaken for mental illness. This is particularly true when a child is forcibly taken from parents by a state child protection agency. In such a case, the child is going to be traumatized and emotional. The solution: remove the trauma by providing as stable a family life as possible.
The growing cultural rot to which our kids are subjected — from the sexually suggestive shows they may see on TV to the music they may listen to — also greatly impacts their behavior. The solution: protect our children as much as possible from destructive outside cultural influences.
Bad behavior on the part of kids may also point to the lack of any kind of moral compass. The solution: provide that compass; instruct children about what's right and what's wrong — and teach them about God and His laws.
Religious faith has always served as a ground for inner peace and stability, but that is increasingly rejected as a method for coping with problems. David the Psalmist described a picture of perfect mental health when he said, "I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother; Like a weaned child is my soul within me." This is a description of a peace which comes from within, which cannot be disrupted by the jangling communication protocols of today, nor which can possibly be achieved by chemical means.
Faith in fact is the key to happiness. Corroboration for this assertion comes from an unlikely source: a survey by the AP and MTV, the often vulgar music network, recently published on MSNBC.com. The conclusion of the survey was that people aged 13 to 24 who describe themselves as religious or spiritual tend to be happier than those who don't.
If there is a comprehensive solution to the tragic trend toward drugging our children, it is to provide the moral compass including the belief in God that will lead to peace and happiness. Providing that upbringing is the awesome responsibility of the parents, who have been entrusted by God to raise the child. But too often the parental responsibility to raise the child is being impeded by a growing Nanny State that sees itself and not the parents as being responsible for the well-being of the child. Consequently, the solution must also entail the elimination of the Nanny State, including state-ordered and -pressured psychiatric drug use. Parents must be allowed to be parents. And in the case of boys who are now drugged for mildly hyperactive "symptoms" that would have been considered normal only a generation or two ago, boys must be allowed to be boys.
Gregory A. Hession practices constitutional and family law in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Another case where the establishment is prohibiting the release of vital informationthat could have a profound impact on every human life on the planet.
The Case for "Life After Death"
An interview with Michael Roll, director of the Campaign for Philosophical Freedom Directed by Sam Giles (1994)
Our survival instinct vs. Political Correctness
Category: News and Politics
Our survival instinct vs. Political Correctness
The other day I blogged about our group survival instinct, and whether we in fact lack such an instinct.
One of the most pernicious aspects of political correctness is that it turns us against each other, and makes snitches and collaborators of some of us. It is all reminiscent to me of what we as children heard about totalitarian regimes of the past: they encouraged people to turn on their own and to snitch on dissenters or transgressors against the orthodoxy. People seemed to be willing in many cases to turn in co-workers, 'friends', even close family members if it helped insulate or protect them from being similarly accused, or so they thought.
I've been thinking about this in light of things that have happened during the course of this present presidential campaign. I find it rather a startling spectacle to see black 'activists' turning against Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have been so openly on the side of minorities for the entire length of their long political careers. I have noticed, with some dismay, that among the FReepers and other such GOP commenters, there is considerable glee and schadenfreude about the Clintons being hauled up by the PC police and accused of being racist. As I've said, though, try as I might, I take no pleasure in seeing that happen.
Why? Because it's a warning to all of us; its a signal that not even whites who are solidly on the side of minorities are exempt from having to watch their p's and q's, and immune from having the race card played against them. This should give us considerable pause. It's a warning that the PC regime is about to tighten the screws.
One of the troubling things about Obama's candidacy is that it is having exactly the effect that I said it would have on our national discourse: it's heightening the already-too-keen awareness of racial issues. And seeing Obama seemingly going from strength to strength in this campaign, with yesterday's results from the caucuses, it is becoming more clear that this campaign will shine the spotlight on race more than ever. Far from being a uniter and a transcender of race, Obama will lead us into a new national round of guilt and contrition. It will be all about race, all the time, even without Obama himself harping on the subject. The media lackeys and the smarmy political hacks will do the harping for him.
A while back, some of us on the right had a little debate about whether Obama would be a more desirable candidate than Hillary Clinton, and given the right's obsessive hatred of Hillary, it was not surprising that some thought Obama a much more preferable Democratic opponent. I differed; I could see the writing on the wall.
Any criticism of Obama, no matter how objective and impersonal, would be tied to race and bigotry, and honest debate and healthy scrutiny of him as a candidate or as a President would be muted, if not stifled altogether. I stand by that view.
Our system depends on an informed citizenry being able and willing to scrutinize our elected officials, and to honestly criticize them and hold them accountable. Under an Obama presidency, would we be more or less likely or able to do that?
I see many Republicans taking a very careful approach in discussing Obama; it appears to me that many are being excessively reticent to criticize him or examine his record or his words as they would brutally examine Hillary's -- or even John McCain's. Is this not bias? We are willing to be much harder on Hillary, or any one of our 'own', than on Obama. That, friends, is bias and prejudice.
Something we've allowed ourselves to forget over the last few decades is that 'prejudice' is not just a one-way street. It can go both ways, and even more forgotten is the fact that it is possible to be prejudiced in favor of something or someone, not just against. We are so used to hearing the word 'prejudice' as a synonym for 'racism', specifically white-against-black animus. But there is such a thing as prejudice in favor of someone, whether an individual or a group. If we continually give the benefit of the doubt, if we are hesitant to judge a person or a group by the same objective standards as everyone else, if we whitewash the flaws of a group, if we turn a blind eye, if we make excuses for and rationalize any negative facts about that group, we are prejudiced. And I say that as a society, we are biased as regards minorities --- markedly in their favor.
We are in a sense overcompensating for what we perceive as our previously unfair treatment or judgment of them. But nonetheless, we are still biased, but simply in the opposite direction.
We've replaced one perceived injustice with another, and I would say a greater injustice. Why? Because in excusing and favoring wrongdoers because of their race or ethnicity (as with the Jena Six case) we do an injustice to the innocents. We aid and abet their wrongdoing. We slight the victims and make their rights and their lives, in some cases, as less important and less deserving of protection.
I know some will be skeptical, but think about the myriad ways in which our guilt-ridden society leans over backwards to be 'fair' and ends up being grossly unfair to the majority. Our worthless news media refuse in many instances to name the race of an at-large suspect in a crime -- because to name the suspect as black or Hispanic, for example, would be 'racial profiling.' So, absent a basic description of a criminal on the loose (except 'a male, wearing dark clothing") we allow said criminal to continue his spree of wrongdoing and to put law-abiding people in danger. Or think about how many criminals are exonerated by juries with PC sympathies. Or think about how some inconsequential bureaucrat let Mohammed Atta into our country because she was ashamed of suspecting him as a possible terrorist. Think about how many people died as a result of that. Think about how our useless immigration system allows people with deadly diseases to enter our country rather than putting the health and safety of citizens from those diseases.
This is wrong; it's unjust to the innocent and the law-abiding and the defenseless, and it's wrong because it puts the majority at risk in order to protect the 'feelings' of a relative few.
It's also wrong because it's cowardly, giving into the few for fear of negative consequences (such as being called 'racist' or possibly being sued) and it's wrong because in essence we are turning our backs on our own kin and favoring the stranger, who does not in any way reciprocate our consideration. So we are piling injustice upon injustice here.
Injustice will always exist in this imperfect world full of imperfect people, but we have multiplied injustices under our present PC regime.
So, back to the Clintons, and our willingness to throw them to the PC wolves because we despise their politics so much. And believe me, I do detest their politics; people like them are in large part responsible for where we are today, and for all that's so badly wrong in our world. Am I suggesting that we defend the Clintons? Not necessarily, although if we really possessed group cohesion, we would defend them just because they are our own, like it or not. Most of us will stick by our family members even if they have obnoxious political views like a few of my relatives. On the other hand, one of the virtues of whites is that we do tend to punish our wrongdoers; we do have a residual sense of justice, even if it's been badly corrupted by liberalism. But we need to remember, that although we may not like the Clintons, any attack on their free speech is an attack on our free speech as well. It's ridiculous that a term like 'fairytale' as used by Bill Clinton is being construed as 'racist.' If we let that go unchallenged, or sit and gloat at the discomfort of the Clintons, we are harming ourselves collectively.
We might learn something about group cohesion from minorities, who although they do carry it to extremes, tend to stick together much more successfully than we do. Our enemies in this world have all learned by observing us that we don't stick together too well, and that we will snitch on each other and turn on each other in a heartbeat in the name of political correctness. That fact has made us extremely vulnerable.
The presidential campaign, if Obama is nominated (and it looks increasingly as though he will be) will be fraught with booby-traps and pitfalls; the race card will be played at every opportunity. And maybe there are enough silly voters, eager to prove how very un-racist they are, to elect Obama by a landslide. That in itself says something about our lack of group cohesion.
We have not transcended race; it is still very much a dividing factor, and no amount of PC platitudinizing will change that. We can only be more aware of it and more honest about the role it surely does play in our society -- and by so doing, stop letting ourselves be manipulated, stop trying to overcorrect.
They take away your overtime, your 40-hour week, your regulatory protection against corporate marauders, your right to courtroom justice, your protection against unfair trade, even the right to get your ballot counted. But there's always hope. Hope is the last thing to go. And your hope is your kids, that they'll have an opportunity you didn't have. On January 21, 2004, the President told you they'd have to take that away too. On that night, deep into his State of the Union sermon to Congress, when sensible adults had turned off the tube or kicked in the screen, our President opened a new front in the class war. And like the one in Iraq, it began with a lie. "By passing the No Child Left Behind Act," our President told us, "We are regularly testing every child…and making sure they have better options when schools are not performing."
"And at Daddy's Polo Club, the Waiter Is Called A…"
The core of No Child Left Behind is the early-age test. And here's what they're testing. The following is taken from the actual practice test given eight-year-olds in the State of New York in 2006. The test determined which children should advance, which should be left behind in the third grade.
Ready, class? The year 1999 was a big one for the Williams sisters. In February, Serena won her first pro singles championship. In March, the sisters met for the first time in a tournament final. Venus won. And at doubles tennis, the Williams girls could not seem to lose that year.
And here's one of the four questions:
The story says that in 1999, the sisters could not seem to lose at doubles tennis. This probably means when they played
A two matches in one day
B against each other
C with two balls at once
D as partners
OK, class, do you know the answer? (By the way, I didn't cheat: There's nothing else about "doubles" in the text.) For your information, I got this from a school in which more than half the students live below the poverty line. There is no tennis court. There is no tennis court in any of the poverty area schools of New York. But out in the Hamptons, every school has a tennis court. In Forest Hills and Westchester there are as many tennis courts as the schoolkids have live-in maids. Which kids are best prepared to answer the question about "doubles tennis"? The eight-year-olds in Brownsville who've never seen a tennis match or the kids whose mommies disappear for two hours every Wednesday with Enrique the tennis coach?
Is this test a measure of "reading comprehension" — or a measure of wealth accumulation? If you have any doubts about what the test is measuring, look at the next question, based on another part of the test, which reads (and I could not make this up):
Helpfully, for Puerto Rican kids, it explains that a "country club" is the "place where people meet."
Yes, but which people? Class war dismissed.
He said it. And then that little tongue came out; that weird way our President sticks his tongue out between his lips like a little kid who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. I saw that snaky tongue dart out and I thought, "He knows." And what he knows is this: There are no "better options" for failing children, but there are better uses for them.
The President ordered testing and more testing to hunt down, identify and target millions of children too expensive, too heavy a burden, to educate. Here's how No Child Left Behind works in the classrooms of Houston and Chicago and New York. Under the No Child Left law, millions of eight-year-olds are given lists of words and phrases. They try to read. Then they are graded like USDA beef: some prime, some OK, many (most in fact) failed. Once the eight-year-olds are stamped and sorted, the parents of children with the test mark of Cain await fulfillment of the President's tantalizing promise, to "make sure they have better options." But there are none. In the delicious doublespeak of class war, when the tests have winnowed out the chaff and kids stamped failed, No Child Left results in that child being left behind in the same grade to repeat the failure another year. And another year and another year. Hint: When decoding politicians' babble, to get to the real agenda, don't read their lips, read their budgets. And in his budget, our President couldn't spare one thin dime for education, not ten cents. Mr. Big Spender provided for a derisory 8.4 cents on the dollar of the cost of primary and secondary schools. Congress appropriated a halfpenny of the nation's income — just one-half of one percent of America's twelve-trillion-dollar GDP — for primary and secondary education. President Bush actually requested less. While Congress succeeded in prying out an itty-bitty increase in voted funding, that doesn't mean the cash is actually given to the schools. Fifteen states have sued the federal government on the grounds that the cost of new testing imposed on schools, $3.9 billion, eats up the entire new funding budgeted for No Child Left.
I can't say that Mr. Bush doesn't offer "better options" to the kids stamped "failed." Under No Child Left, if enough kids flunk the tests, their school is marked a failure and its students win the right, under the law, to transfer to any successful school in their district. You can't provide more opportunity than that. But Bush does not provide it, he promises it, without putting up a single penny to make it happen. In New York, in 2004, a third of a million s
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