Chapter 13
One of the most terrifying features of totalitarian society is the control and brainwashing of children and youth by the Omnipotent State.
The 20th
century's experiments with such "education" must never be forgotten, for
they produced monstrosities of unimaginable evil: the Hitler Youth; Mao's
Red Guard; the Young Pioneers of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Fidel
Castro; and the cold-blooded murderous youth of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge.
Here is part of Stalin's speech:
As Cvetic pointed out,
This youth apparatus has gone
through various structural and name changes over the years, but its purpose
has remained unchanged. In 1983, it was reorganized and renamed the Young
Communist League (YCL), the name under which it still operates.
Thanks to generous funding from the Carnegie Endowment, the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, and the other Insider foundations, subversive textbooks and curriculum materials were flooding our schools. Thousands of teachers were being programmed at college to serve as "change agents."
Change agents like Lydia Shchevchenko.
In his memoirs, former Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev told of the lasting influence of this childhood teacher on his life:
Where did that path lead?
Nikita Khrushchev's subsequent career was detailed in a seven-part study, The Crimes of Khrushchev, published by a congressional committee in 1959.9
During Stalin's bloody purges, the report notes, Khrushchev,
When Stalin was ready to launch his planned genocide of the people of the Ukraine, Khrushchev,
Later,
he added to his infamy, gaining the title of "the Butcher of Budapest" for
his ruthless subjugation of Hungary.12
Khrushchev was born in 1894 and the time period of his
revolutionary formation referred to above was probably around 1900-1910,
before the Czar was overthrown and Lenin came to power. Khrushchev did not
say whether Lydia was actually a member of one of the Communist
organizations in Czarist Russia.
As Lenin said,
Lydia Shchevchenko was, at the very least, a "state-of-mind Marxist."
She had consciously rejected God and country, embraced the "revolutionary faith," and dedicated herself to its propagation. Like Lydia, there are many thousands of American educators who have imbibed of the "revolutionary faith," and, to varying degrees, have adopted and propagated its tenets.
Many are "state-of-mind Marxists" without even knowing it.
Some of these
consider themselves Democrats, Republicans, liberals, or even conservatives
and libertarians, but they are transmitting the Marxist contagion
nonetheless. They are greatly assisted in this subversion, as we shall see,
by the major teachers unions, the CFR-dominated tax exempt foundations, and
the various agencies of the United Nations.
Over the past two generations, we have seen these educational and cultural elements carrying forward a massive, coordinated program of conquest through "a slow reshaping of consciousness," as prescribed by Italian Communist theorist Antonio Gramsci.14
* For the most complete exposition of the Gramsci strategy for "the seizure of cultural power" in America, see the special "Gramsci issue" of The New American, "Prisoners of the Total State," July 5, 1999.
For their
New World Order to triumph
they must have obedient, subservient masses - an unthinking, goose-stepping lumpen proletariat. In order to achieve this goal they know they must
destroy, or "Reconstruct," what they refer to as "mass thought patterns" and
"consciousness" - most especially in children and youth - so they can
"reconstruct" and "reshape" the thought patterns and consciousness according
to their own designs.
That report and dozens of others before and since have cataloged
the grim results of this dumbing-down process: widespread illiteracy, high
student dropout rates, continuous decline in scores in all areas of academic
achievement, the plummeting of the U.S. to last or near-last place on test
scores, etc.
* For one of the most informative exposes of this scheme to intellectually cripple and subvert American children and youth, see: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserbyt (Ravenna, Ohio: Conscience Press, 1999). This 750-page, telephone book-size opus is a masterpiece of research and educational detective work by one of America's top education experts. Other important works along these lines are Educating for the New World Order by Beverly K. Eakman (Portland, Ore.: Halcyon House, 1991) and America 2000 / Goals 2000 - Moving the Nation Educationally to a "New World Order," compiled and edited by James R. Patrick (Moline, 111.: Citizens for Academic Excellence, 1994). Deliberate Dumbing Down is available from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912.
The public (i.e., government) schools have trained several generations of children to look to Big Brother in Washington for the "solution" to every problem, whether real or contrived. Responsibility, initiative, pride of workmanship, self-sufficiency, and independence are being replaced by the irresponsibility, sloth, slovenliness, and dependence of the welfare state.
The government schools are being transformed into
socialist cradle-to-grave, womb-to-tomb "community centers" that also serve
as daycare centers, medical clinics, senior citizen centers, and providers
of "lifelong learning" for adult education.
They are pressing on to destroy the residual Christian culture of America and the values system it upholds in order to clear the way for their planned "reshaping" process.**
** Some of the most important works exposing this war on America's moral foundations are: Judith A. Reisman, Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences (Arlington, Va.: Institute for Media Education, 1998); Samuel Blumenfeld, Is Public Education Necessary? (Boise, Idaho: The Paradigm Co., 1991); Balint Vazsonyi, America's Thirty Years War (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1998); Berit Kjos, Brave New Schools (Eugene, Ore.: Harvest House Publishers, 1995); Barbara Morris, The Great American Con Game (Escondido, CaL: Image FX, 1997); Paul C. Vitz, Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism (Dallas, Texas: Spence Publishing Company, 1999); Brenda Scott, Children No More (Lafayette, La.: Huntington House Publishers, 1995); and Claire Chambers, The SIECUS Circle: A Humanist Revolution (Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands, 1977).
The aforementioned study A Nation At Risk ominously noted:
The statement is both true and false at the same time. While it is true that no foreign nation has "imposed" (in the military sense, that is) our educational disaster upon us, it is not altogether true that we have "done this to ourselves."
A close examination of the
subversive educational "reforms" of decades past that produced
our present catastrophe shows that the individuals and
organizations most responsible do indeed constitute a power
"foreign" to - and militantly hostile to - our constitutional and
spiritual heritage. And they have indeed been carrying out
unrelenting, total warfare against American society.
Thus the traditional family is viewed by these aspiring global overlords not just as a competitor, but as a mortal enemy. Philosophers as varied as Aristotle, Cicero, John Locke, and G.K. Chesterton have noted that the family is ordained by God and Nature to raise and educate children.
That truth is
plainly obvious. But the one-worlders will have none of that. The parents
and the family must be supplanted by agents of the global state: the school
and other social agencies.
The Hitlerian UNESCO screed quoted at the head of this chapter, charging the family with "infecting" the child with bad attitudes, is taken from a UNESCO program for teachers, published in 1949 under the heading Towards World Understanding.
In this 10-part series, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) complained that "before the child enters school his mind has already been profoundly marked, and often injuriously, by early influences" - most particularly by parents, of course, who are deemed hopelessly ignorant and insufficiently "world-minded." 18
Parents are seen
by UNESCO as retrograde influences who tend to teach their children love for
God and country, which UNESCO condemned as "infecting" the minds of children
with "nationalism," "chauvinism," and "sclerosis of the mind."19
The NEA's ardor for the UN and a global school board has intensified over the years. In 1993, the militant teachers union took a major step in its push for one-worldism by launching Education International (EI), a worldwide federation of teachers unions.22
Mary Hatwood Futrell, the NEA's radical-left former president, moved to Brussels, Belgium (headquarters for the European Union) to head EI's new global union operation.23
Futrell, ever the darling of the
CFR coterie, had proven her one-world bona fides by serving on many Carnegie
panels and commissions and reliably promoting the big government, globalist
line. The Insiders knew she could be entrusted with the task of spearheading
this new global initiative.
With Futrell holding the reins at
EI, it is not surprising that the union behemoth follows the NEA lead,
supporting every move to empower the UN, particularly in the area of
education.
The NEA and EI support increased funding for the UN, increased authority for the World Court, creation of the International Criminal Court, ratification of most UN treaties, and expansion of UN power in virtually all areas.26
The
NEA-EI education mafia is tailor-made for the Insiders' one-world purposes.
With tens of millions of dollars in dues forcibly taken from members'
paychecks, the union is a cash cow for revolution. With tens of millions of
teachers worldwide as members, it can exert enormous influence in
classrooms, as well as local, state and
national elections.27
NTL says it works,
An NTL teachers manual says of children:
Another NEA-created and -supported think tank is the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), one of the leading educational purveyors of "global think." At a 1985 international-curriculum symposium in Enschede, Netherlands, ASCD officials told participants of the need for a "world core curriculum" to meet the needs of our "increasingly global interdependency."30
ASCD executive director Gordon Cawelti told
symposium participants that the proposed world core curriculum would be
based on UN guru Robert Muller's book New Genesis: Shaping a Global
Spirituality.31
This is quite an admission considering that Mrs. Bailey's exalted position in the occult theosophical firmament is second only to that of Theosophy founder and high priestess Madame Blavatsky.
Bailey, who alleged that Khul and Morya
communicated with her telepathically, was a rabid Luciferian and founded the
Lucifer Publishing Company and the theosophical journal Lucifer.33
The totalitarian threat to the family posed by UNESCO, NEA, EI, NTL, ASCD, Carnegie, et al., is real and is thoroughly evil. The threat presents itself in three significant ways:
They prevailed upon elected officials, who began to challenge and
condemn the UN's perfidious insinuation of collectivist propaganda into the
schools.
Some of the one-worlders were audacious and zealous enough candidly to admit the subversive agenda of UNESCO, though they praised it as a necessary and righteous subversion.
Such, for instance, was the case at the Saturday Review, which, in 1952, published a wildly pro-UNESCO editorial which declared:
More astute Insiders realized, however, that the time was not yet ripe for
open confrontation on such fundamental and emotionally charged issues. The
wiser course was to ease up and drop back for awhile, and cloak their true
aims in more noble-sounding and less threatening verbiage about "world
peace," "collective security," "ending world hunger," etc. Which is what
they did.
In 1947, Huxley announced that UNESCO would be exploring,
The use of such techniques to cultivate a sense of world citizenship, said Huxley,
This Huxleyite conception of lifelong, womb-to-tomb, UN-driven indoctrination (and re-indoctrination, repeated as often as the UN mandarins deem necessary) has been integral to the UNESCO drive over the decades.
It has come frighteningly close to fruition in many current UN programs, declarations and proposals, such as the UN's Millennium Forum Declaration of May 2000, which states that,
"The Rights of the Child" In 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CROC), which, shorn of its pretended concerns for the welfare of children, is a blatant statist attack on the family and parental authority and responsibility.
It proposes a massive intrusion of government into family matters. Implementation of the CROC would radically alter the parent-child relationship, interjecting government-appointed "child advocates" between parents and children.
Ultimately, it aims at stripping parents of their
traditionally recognized rights to control the upbringing and education of
their children and to pass on to their children their religious values and
beliefs. If the people of the United States allow the conspirators in our
government to subject us to the supposed authority of the CROC, we will soon
see UN-approved government child "experts" assuming complete control over
our children and parental rights completely destroyed.*
* For a more detailed analysis of the dangers posed to families, parents, and children by the CROC and other related UN schemes, see: this author's book, Global Tyranny, Chapter 8; William Norman Grigg, Freedom on the Altar: The UN's Crusade Against God and Family; and the following articles posted on our Internet website: "Your Child, the Global Citizen," July 21, 1997; "A Higher Warfare," April 17, 1995; and "UN Takeover of the Child," August 8, 1994. For a complete text of the UNCROC, see www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm.
Out of this major agenda-setting palaver came two documents:
The Framework set forth six education goals,
which just happened to be virtually identical to the controversial Outcome-Based Education (OBE) program set out by then-President
George Bush
(CFR) in his "America 2000" education plan.41
Gathering under the banner of "Learning for All: Bridging Domestic and International Education" were movers and shakers from the government and private sector. Conference cosponsors included Apple Computer, IBM, the National School Board Association the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the U.S. Department of Education, the College Board, USAID - and the usual tax-exempt foundations.43
Heading up
the USCEFA as president was Janet Whitla, director of the Education
Development Center, Inc., infamous for its pro-homosexual, pornographic,
promiscuity-promoting sex education programs and globalist curricula.44 The
Coalition is pushing to make UNESCO the global school board which will
dictate educational policy for the world.
Among those promoting dangerous new state authority, we point to Professor Jack C. Westman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Professor David Lykken of the University of Minnesota, and Connecticut Superior Court Judge Charles D. Gill, a co-founder of the National Task Force for Children's Constitutional Rights (NTFCCR).
Dr. Westman, Dr. Lykken, and Judge Gill are leaders in the despotic drive to mandate government licensing of all parents.
In a 1991 law journal article, Judge Gill wrote:
Westman, Lykken, Gill, et al., view the family
and parents with outright hostility, while idolizing the state and its supposed capacity to raise better children.
If they are not aggressively exposed and opposed by a
significant, growing, and increasingly determined constituency of parents,
grandparents, and concerned citizens, an American version of the Hitler
Youth or Red Guard - under the rubric of national service, of course - will
not be long in coming.
Space permitting, we would detail the UN programs for global:
The piecemeal Marxist abolition of the family is a fact, and the UN is the
instrument through which the one-world Insiders intend to carry out their
abolition program worldwide.
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