The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy (23 page)

As the field of psychiatry grew, so did its definitions, often to the point of absurdity. In 1871, a paper was published entitled “Psychical Degeneration of the French People,” which purported that simply being French constituted a mental illness. “One of psychiatry’s leading figures, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, added to his list of varieties of mental disorders ‘political and reformatory insanity’—meaning any inclination to form a different opinion from that of the masses,” stated Röder, Kubillus, and Burwell.

At the time of World War I, the attempt to bring respectability to the emerging psychiatric profession resulted in a certain bond that had been created between psychiatry and the aristocratic German government. The German military was particularly impressed with the “treatment” of Fritz Kaufmann’s electroshock “therapy” because it helped minimize war neurosis or shell shock and quickly returned disturbed soldiers to the front. It was more of a disciplinary measure than true medical therapy. After being electrically shocked, most soldiers quickly agreed to return to service.

Psychiatry continued to grow in power even as its agenda continued to widen. Psychiatrist P. J. Möbius, who had lectured on the “psychological feeble-mindedness of the woman,” pronounced, “The psychiatrist should be the judge about mental health, because only he knows what ill means.”

The rush to isolate and “cure” mental defectives in Nazi Germany quickly was interpreted to include malcontents and dissidents opposed to Hitler’s regime. This concept resulted in the Nazi Sterilization Act, which went into effect in July 1933, just six months after Hitler’s ascension to power. This law provided for the compulsory sterilization of anyone deemed defective, deficient, or undesirable by the State. One of the leading and articulate authorities behind this act was Dr. Ernst Rüdin, a psychiatrist who in 1930 had traveled to Washington, D.C., to present a paper on “The Importance of Eugenics and Genetics in Mental Hygiene.” It was well received by many Americans, especially among the globalists, who had come to embrace the racist and elitist views of the German philosophers, such as Georg Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Rudolf Steiner. Just after Hitler took office in 1933, Rüdin, by then director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, supported the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Children, the initial step toward the sterilization of those deemed “unworthy of life.” Rüdin continued to be acknowledged as a leader in psychiatry. In 1992, the prestigious Max Planck Institute praised Rüdin for “following his own convictions in ‘racial hygiene’ measures, cooperating with the Nazis as a psychiatrist and helping them legitimize their aims through pertinent legislation.”

Prescott Bush, the father and grandfather of two U.S. presidents, along with being a member of the secretive Skull and Bones fraternity, was among those Yale activists promoting the Mental Hygiene Society. This organization evolved into the World Federation of Mental Health, which included the prominent Montagu Norman, a former partner of Brown Brothers, governor of the Bank of England (1920–1944), and godfather to Nazi banker Hjalmar Schacht’s grandson. Norman, himself a mental patient, appointed Brigadier General John Rawlings Rees, the former chief psychiatrist and psychological warfare expert for British Intelligence, as the director of the Tavistock Psychiatric Clinic.

Dr. John Rawlings Rees, as a cofounder of the World Federation for Mental Health, spelled out the federation’s agenda before the annual general meeting of the National Council for Mental Hygiene on June 18, 1940: “We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life…. We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine.

“Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence…. If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity…. Let us all, therefore, very secretly be ‘fifth columnists.’”

Beverly K. Eakman, an author and a commissioner for the Citizens Commission on Rights, wrote, “Colleagues [of Rees] such as Canadian Drs. Brock Chisholm and Ewen Cameron, ‘progressive’ U.S. educators like Edward Thorndike, James Earl Russell, John Dewey and Benjamin Bloom, and [a] bevy of foundations, associations and tax-supported ‘research centers’ became Rees’ enablers. This cadre of like-minded and self-styled ‘experts’ first seized upon Russian Ivan Pavlov’s ‘classic conditioning’ followed that up with German psychologist Kurt Lewin’s ‘group dynamics,’ Russian neuropsychologist Alexander Luria’s ‘disorganization of behavior,’ and the U.S. psychologist B. F. Skinner’s deprivation-based ‘operant conditioning’ coupled with U.S. social psychologist Elliot Aronson’s ‘cognitive dissonance.’ Together, they created Rees’ dream: ‘a controlled psychological environment.’ Today, the Department of Defense (DOD) has a new name for it: ‘perception management’ (PM), and the psychopharmaceutical industry has hit the jackpot.”

Perception management to the Department of Defense simply means getting the public to respond as DOD officials wish without their realizing it, knee-jerk reactions, leaving reason behind much like subliminal advertising. An early yet clear use of this technique was the name change in 1947 from the “War Department” to the “Defense Department.” “In so doing, the subject [of perception management] is thrust unawares into a twisted view of reality. In today’s politically correct environment, this unorthodox technique is sold as intellectual and academic freedom,” explained Beverly Eakman. “Similarly, encounter sessions (or ‘therapy groups’) are predicated on fostering emotional toughness. Facilitators lead participants to accept ideas and deportment they normally would not tolerate. What they actually get is ‘re-education,’ Soviet-style. Schools of behavioral science, such as Esalen Institute and the Western Training Laboratory for Group Development, allude to consensus—group thinking—as being the objective. Encounter groups deliberately heighten peer pressure—isolating holdouts of a viewpoint and intimidating weaker individuals by ridiculing them, cursing at them, yelling at them, and ostracizing them until they ‘cave.’ Some even commit suicide.

“That’s why NTL [the National Training Laboratories Institute], for example, carries a disclaimer which the applicant must sign prior to admission [stating] ‘No person concerned about entering a stress situation should participate in NTL programs…. A small percentage of participants have experienced stress reactions in varying degrees. There is no means of predicting such reactions or screening out or otherwise identifying those predisposed to such reactions.’

“Now any thoughtful person, upon reading this, would realize that the very concept of psychological screening must be a sham. If psychologists are unable to predict or screen out individuals predisposed to become upset by NTL’s daunting program, then how do they expect to ‘screen’ the entire population for mental illness? Yet just such an initiative was funded by Congress in 2002, with copycat bills set for launch in several states. Could our nation’s leaders be looking to avert political dissent under the pretext of preventing emotional ‘diseases’? Wouldn’t be the first time….”

EUGENICS

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HE PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES
of twisting semantics and promoting groupthink were psychological methods employed by the German Nazis that resulted in the deaths of millions of innocents as a matter of State policy, a holocaust in anyone’s book. Although most Americans are aware of the horrors inflicted by Hitler’s Nazis on Europe’s citizens in pursuit of their creating a “master race,” and many see eugenics as a racist pseudoscience seeking to eliminate anyone whom a self-proclaimed elite views as undesirable, few realize that the theological and scientific basis for the Nazis’ beliefs originated in the United States, particularly in California, long before the Nazis came to power in Germany.

In the late nineteenth century, the United States had joined fourteen other nations in passing various types of eugenics legislation. Thirty states had laws providing for the sterilization of mental patients and imbeciles. At least sixty thousand such “defectives” were legally sterilized.

In 1925, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the majority in a Supreme Court case, stated, “It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”

Sir Francis Galton, English psychologist and father of the eugenics movement, defined eugenics as “the science of improving the stock [to] give more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable….” In order to determine who was dirtying the gene pool requires extensive comprehensive statistics on the population. So in 1910, the Eugenics Records Office was established as a branch of the Galton National Laboratory in London, endowed by Mrs. E. H. Harriman, wife of U.S. railroad magnate Edward Harriman and mother of diplomat and early-day globalist Averell Harriman.

After 1900, the Harrimans, the family that gave Prescott Bush’s family their start, along with the Rockefellers provided more than $11 million to create the privately owned Eugenics Records Office of Charles B. Davenport at Cold Springs Harbor, New York, as well as eugenics studies at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell. The first International Congress of Eugenics was convened in London in 1912, with Winston Churchill as a director. Clearly, the concept of “bloodlines” was as significant to the British and American elite as it was to Hitler and the Nazis.

In 1932, when the Congress met in New York, it was the Hamburg America Shipping Line, controlled by Harriman associates George Walker and Prescott Bush, that brought prominent Germans to the meeting. In attendance was Dr. Ernst Rüdin, aforementioned authority behind the Nazi Sterilization Act and member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy and Demography in Berlin. Rüdin was unanimously elected president of the International Federation of Eugenics Societies for his work in founding the Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Rassenhygiene, or the German Society for Racial Hygiene, a forerunner of Hitler’s racial institutes. But, as stated previously, the groundwork for eugenics was laid in the United States.

California was considered the epicenter of the American eugenics movement, according to Edwin Black, author of
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race.
“During the Twentieth Century’s first decades, California’s eugenicists included potent but little known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate and Polytechnic benefactor Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, as well as members of the California State Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents,” wrote Black.

Black said that within the first twenty-five years of eugenics legislation, California sterilized 9,782 individuals, mostly women, many of whom were classified as “bad girls,” or diagnosed as “passionate,” “oversexed,” or “sexually wayward.” Some women were sterilized because of what was deemed an abnormally large clitoris or labia. In 1933 alone, Black found at least 1,278 compulsory sterilizations were performed, 700 of which were on women. He said California’s two leading “sterilization mills” in 1933 were Sonoma State Home with 388 operations and Patton State Hospital with 363 operations. Other sterilizations were also performed in centers at Agnews, Mendocino, Napa, Norwalk, Stockton, and Pacific Colony.

Black noted, “Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America’s most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics’ racist aims.”

He described how the Rockefeller Foundation helped create the German eugenics movement and even funded the program that the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele worked in before he became the “Angel of Death” at Auschwitz.

“The grand plan was to literally wipe away the reproductive capability of those deemed weak and inferior—the so-called ‘unfit,’” said Black.

“The eugenicists hoped to neutralize the viability of 10 percent of the population at a sweep, until none were left except themselves. One solution offered was simply execution or euthanasia, as listed in a 1911 study funded by the Carnegies entitled ‘Preliminary Report of the Committee of the Eugenic Section of the American Breeder’s Association to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means for Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the Human Population.’” Interestingly enough, the most popular idea for euthanasia in the United States at that time was the employment of gas chambers.

Black concluded, “Hitler studied American eugenics laws. He tried to legitimize his anti-Semitism by medicalizing it, and wrapping it in the more palatable pseudoscientific facade of eugenics. Hitler was able to recruit more followers among reasonable Germans by claiming that science was on his side. While Hitler’s race hatred sprung from his own mind, the intellectual outlines of the eugenics Hitler adopted in 1924 were made in America.”

Despite much public renunciation of eugenics following the revelations of the Nazi racial extermination programs at the Nuremburg trials, work on population control continues right up to today under more politically correct names. Some conspiracy-oriented researchers see the fingerprints of eugenics theology in today’s efforts to reduce the human population as previously discussed. Many of the same families and foundations that support birth-control organizations today were connected to the eugenics movement of the past. According to its Summary of Financial Activities ending in June 2008, Planned Parenthood ended the year with $966.7 million in revenues. Of this amount, $349.6 million came from unspecified government grants and contracts compared to $374.7 million from its health-care centers and $186 million in private contributions and bequests.