The Noble Lie

As I was going over that “left gatekeepers” picture, I realized there were some titles I hadn’t heard of. Maybe I should have heard of this one, but I had never heard of the Manhattan Institute before. Pretty pleasant bunch of guys. If I remember correctly, Mike Ruppert covers founder William Casey in The Truth and Lies of 9/11. He was the Director of Central Intelligence who ran the Iran/Contra operation. I don’t use the word “affair” to describe these atrocities of history, unless of course talking about Bill Clinton and his intern, because it is a deliberate soft word, to psychologically pre-soften the blow of the scandal. It was a black operation, black budget, black magic military operation, not an affair, and certainly not an “incident.”

Their “about” site opens up with the following warm, fuzzy endorsement from Rudy Guiliani.

“For twenty-five years, the Manhattan Institute has confronted old problems with fresh thinking. Many of the Institute’s emblematic ideas—from the notion that low taxes encourage businesses to the concept that police should be treated with respect—were originally greeted with skepticism but have since been embraced by well-run cities everywhere. Congratulations on a quarter century of making a difference.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself, except for the congratulations part.

• About Manhattan Institute [their website]
• Giuliani, the Manhattan Institute, and Eugenics
• Manhattan Institute [Wikipedia]
• Think Tank Watch: Manhattan Institute
• William J. Casey [Wikipedia]

Hitler’s brutal attempt to exterminate the Jewish race was not as successful as Europe’s attempt to wipe the “Red savage” off the face of the Americas. It is estimated that over 50 million Native Americans were slaughtered using massacres, conflict, biowarfare, and the near-extinction of the Plains Buffalo (attack on food supply). It is silly to speculate if some of the widespread contamination and disease-causing was intentional or not; the countries of Europe had been using that dirty trick on each other for centuries, and was fair game for warfare and genocide.

Those that survived were herded like cattle and put on death marches to forts and reservations with the worst conditions, the worst land, in disease-prone areas, where they died and mourned, and tried to hold on. Their languages were forbidden. Their spirituality was forbidden and Christianity was shoved down their throats. They were not the first nor the last culture to suffer this horrible fate.

Even during the eugenics movements of the early 20th century, this depopulation program against American natives continued, being particularly targeted for sterilization on the grounds of physical and/or mental incompetence.

• Population history of American indigenous peoples [Wikipedia]
  
• Trail of Tears
  

“Diane was right. The world is changing. Music is changing. Drugs are changing. Even men and women are changing. One thousand years from now, there’ll be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me.”
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting

Men on a slippery slide in future hermaphrodite world, according to Melbourne “bio-ethicist.” Remember that bio-ethicist is the new name for eugenicist.

Personally, I think it’s women who should be worried, though I’m sure statements like this will get some feminists on board. The boys clubs that rule the world and fund all this research aren’t too terribly fond of Eve/Pandora. If you haven’t noticed, they aren’t too fond of strong emotions or emotional outbursts either.

Eugenics was very popular in the United States, even after Hitler made it a dirty word. Many states had adopted eugenics programs, forcing sterilization on “undesirables” on the idea that the last thing the world needed was more [Indians|Blacks|Mexicans|retarded|poor] people.

Eugenics is still practiced, but through less overt means (ie, they use social/economic pressure rather than force). Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood fame was a supporter of eugenics, and as Michael Parenti points out in one of his talks, abortion was always acceptable in right wing circles because it meant less minority children (poor people have more abortions than rich people) until it was recognized that it was an issue that could be used to bring in Catholic Democrats (formerly a strong backing — think Kennedy).

North Carolina and California were the two biggest offenders in state-sponsored sterilization in the United States. The following is a brave feature by the Winston-Salem Journal, a North Carolina paper, on their state’s eugenics program. This was the feature that got me interested in this topic to begin with. I’ve yet to see a publication in open-minded, freedom-loving California which has spoken as candidly about our state’s scientific oppression.

• Against Their Will by the Winston-Salem Journal