by Berit Kjos
"We believe that mental health is just as important as physical health
maybe even more so."
Donna Shalala, Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS)
"Mental health refers to how a person thinks, feels, and acts when
faced with life's situations."
National Mental Health Services
Knowledge Exchange Network
"The challenge to humanity is to adopt new ways of thinking, new ways
of acting, new ways of organizing itself in society in short, new ways of
living."
Our Creative Diversity, UNESCO
Don't be deceived by nice sounding labels such as Healthy Start, Healthy People, Healthy Families, Healthy Communities, and Healthy Cities. These and other "local" campaigns for public and mental health follow a global blueprint. They all fit into a worldwide system of health management and surveillance led by the World Health Organization, a UN special agency that equates faith with hate and truth with intolerance., 1 The goal is conditioning the masses to willingly conform to new "universal" values, environmental guidelines, and a global management system.
Dr. David Satcher, U.S. Surgeon-General and Assistant Secretary for Health,
gave a progress report at a National Healthy People Consortium in November 1998
"We have a clear blueprint in place," he announced. "Currently, 47
states are actively involved in Healthy People 2000 and 'Healthy City and
Healthy Community' initiatives are being pursued throughout the country.
Hundreds of national organizations have reviewed the Year 2000 objectives and
have adopted them as their own."
Dr. Satcher then drew the
connection between Healthy Start,2 Healthy
People, mental health and the World Health Organization:
"Every child
should be given the opportunity for a healthy start... No priority yet has
generated as much interest and enthusiasm as this one on mental health..."
"...our efforts will be focused on maintaining a system of global health
surveillance...
"Healthy People 2010 is the United States'
contribution to the World Health Organization's call to the nations of the world
to renew their commitment to health for all...."
3
A Colorado law gives us a glimpse of what we might expect once this system is fully in place. It suggests that Christian child-raising could be considered "emotional abuse ...or a substantial risk..." and gives the Social Services the authority to prosecute Christian parents for child abuse.4
To protect Christian families, conservatives pressed the legislature to add
an exemption to the proposed bill, it declared that:
"Emotional abuse
shall not be construed to include religious instruction."
But this
exemption was deleted before SB 97-218, titled "Children's Services", became
effective on July 1, 1997. Now, every Colorado family that trains its children
to follow God risks breaking the law and facing the fury of an anti-Christian
Child Protection Service.
How could this be happening in America?
In a 1996 speech at The National Children's Mental Health Initiative, Donna
Shalala, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),
said:
"From fully immunizing children by age two... to stopping domestic
violence, we're working to improve the lives of young people from the cradle to
young adulthood. And a strong part of our vision is the mental health of
children. We believe that mental health is just as important as physical health
...maybe even more so..." 5
As head of the DHHS, Shalala helped organize The National Mental Health
Services Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN). Ponder its definition for mental
health:
"Mental health refers to how a person thinks, feels, and acts when
faced with life's situations. It is how people look at themselves, their lives,
and the other people in their lives ...and explore choices." 6
Do you wonder what Dr. Shalala and her network of health planners would consider good thinking? Or bad thinking? This definition doesn't tell us. How do they want people "to look at themselves" or "explore choices"? The answer is clear when you study UNESCO's psycho-social strategies for conforming the minds of our children to its anti-Christian world view. But without background information, these ambiguous, open-ended phrases hide the true intentions.
However, Dr. Shalala and other self-proclaimed "change agents" do tell us
that the old ways "a person thinks, feels, and acts" must change. They don't fit
the new global ideology or the consensus process. According to Professor
Benjamin Bloom, called the Father of OBE, the new "purpose of
education and the schools is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of
students."7 So it's not surprising
that UNESCO's Commission on Culture and Development in its report, Our Creative
Diversity, wrote that -
"The challenge to humanity is to adopt new
ways of thinking, new ways of acting, new ways of organizing itself in society,
in short, new ways of living."
8
Referring to the management and monitoring of its education program, the
Kansas State Board of Education made a similar statement, "QPA [Quality
Performance Accreditation] is a process which demands new thinking, new
strategies, new behavior, and new beliefs."
"New beliefs" and "new
thinking" are key to the global management system. Adults as well as children
must trade truth, facts, and logical thinking for myths, UN values, and the
consensus process. The masses must learn to see themselves, not as individuals,
but as part of a greater whole: a group, a community, the planet. Finally, the
United Nations is nearing its goal: to create a unified, socialist world made up
of compliant world citizens ready to adapt to what Al Gore called "a wrenching
transformation of society."9
(WHO). In 1946, the first head of WHO laid the foundation for today's mental
health program. Having implied that Christian parents indoctrinated "their
defenseless children" with "poisonous certainties" that cause war and
conflict. Canadian psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, added, "The problem is no
longer the germ of diphtheria, but rather the attitudes of parents who are
incapable of accepting and using proven knowledge...
"Surely the
training of children in home and schools should be of at least as great public
concern as their vaccination.... Individuals who have emotional disabilities of
their own--guilts, fears, inferiorities--are certain to project their hates on
to others... [S]uch reaction now becomes a dangerous threat to the whole
world....
"We must be prepared to sacrifice much.... If it cannot be done
gently, it may have to be done roughly or even violently..."
Half a century has passed since Dr. Chisholm called for UN controls that
would abolish divisive Christian "certainties". Today, WHO commands an
international networking agency that helps nations around the world change and
monitor the ways their people think, choose, and act. Called Nations for Mental
Health, it links each member state to the UN agenda and promises to steer each
nation toward the UN goal:
"Governments will be assisted to formulate,
implement, monitor and evaluate mental health policies.
"Mental health
policies should enable all individuals whose mental health is disturbed or whose
psychological balance may be compromised to obtain services adapted to their
needs, and to promote the optimal development of the mental health of the
population."10
To develop "the mental health of the population" and to prevent dissent and conflict from blocking progress, everyone must participate in the consensus process. Assessments for all young and old -- will show who might be "at risk" of not meeting the new mental standards for healthy communities.
For a glimpse at the vast network already in place, look at some of the
mental health partners in the WHO agenda:
World Health Organization
(WHO)
Nations for Mental Health
Dept. of Health and Human Services
National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN)
Healthy
Cities
Healthy Communities
Healthy Families
Healthy People
Healthy Start
Children, in private as well as government schools,
practice compliance by signing the Healthy Practices Pledge. It sounds innocuous
at first just promise to "brush with a fluoride toothpaste," choose
"snacks such as fruits and vegetables," and "make our home a smoke-free zone,"
then sign the pledge. But the contract is open-ended. It suggests that other
"healthy" behaviors will be added later.
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What if the next contract adds "cooperation with" and "tolerance for" something that conflicts with a child's faith? What if a refusal to sign the contract brings ridicule and persecution? Is your child ready to follow God, even when pressured to conform?
The Healthy Cities project was launched by WHO in the early eighties. Its web site explains its purpose: "The Healthy Cities Project helps change the ways in which individuals, communities, private and voluntary organizations and local governments think about, understand and make decisions about health."12
Today, its guidelines are followed by leaders across America whether
they use the label "Healthy City" or not. Remember Dr. Satcher's report at the
1998 Healthy People Consortium:
"'Healthy City and Healthy Community'
initiatives are being pursued throughout the country. Hundreds of national
organizations... have [adopted] the Year 2000 objectives... Healthy People 2010
is the United States' contribution to the World Health Organization's call to
the nations of the world to renew their commitment to health for
all.13
It's no accident that the last three words, "health for all," sound like UNESCO's 1990 World Conference on Education for All (EFA). The latter introduced the same six education goals President Bush announced in 1991. EFA's counterpart in the health arena is WHO's Health for All (HFA). And, like Goals 2000, the US branch of UNESCO's outcome-based education system, "a Healthy City is defined in terms of process and outcome."
WHO's Healthy Cities program works with America's Coalition for Healthier
Cities and Communities, whose members may or may not use the WHO labels. But
they must all follow the Total Quality Management process which calls for
continual monitoring of change and progress. They must also agree
to:
"measure our progress. "
"address the root causes of
problems."
"promote a broader definition of health that includes physical,
mental, social, and spiritual dimensions."
"focus on prevention, wellness and
change incentives."
The key to prevention is continual and controlled training, monitoring, and
remediation.> 14> As Clinton
suggested at the 1997 White House Conference on Hate Crimes,
"There would
almost have to be some sort of club or organization at the school, because if
you think about it, your parents are still pretty well separated ... We have to
find a disciplined, organized way out of this so that we reach every child in an
affirmative way before something bad happens...
In the UN plan for Healthy Cities, prevention becomes a personal duty. Since
the group counts more than the person, friends and neighbors would be asked to
report on one another just as in Nazi Germany.
"I challenge our
young people to realize their important role in this seamless system," said
Donna Shalala. "Many times, you as friends are the strongest link in the
chain of contact. You know best when your brother, your sister or your friend is
facing problems..."
President Clinton suggested the same tactic during the above hate-crimes conference: "The Justice Department will make its own hate crimes training curriculum available. A lot of hate crimes still go unreported... If a crime is unreported, that gives people an excuse to ignore it." Then he announced a Justice Department website which invites children to tell "trusted adults" about "hateful" or exclusive attitudes they see in their relatives at home or in friends in school.
Hard to believe? It all makes sense when you consider the United Nations'
hostility toward traditional values. Ponder the words of Federico Mayor,
Director-General of UNESCO:
"The mission of UNESCO... is that of
advancing... international peace and the common welfare... We have witnessed...
the resurgence of NATIONALISM, the growth of FUNDAMENTALISM and of RELIGIOUS and
ethnic INTOLERANCE. THE ROOTS OF EXCLUSIONAND HATRED have shown themselves even
deeper and more tenacious than we had feared... Peace... requires, in the words
of the Constitution, 'the intellectual and moral SOLIDARITY of
mankind'."15>
Children who refuse to conform may be considered handicapped. According to a
Teacher Training Manual from the National Training Institute for Applied
Behavioral Science,
"Although they appear to behave appropriately and seem
normal by most cultural standards, they may actually be in need of mental health
care in order to help them change, adapt, and conform to the planned society in
which there will be no conflict of attitudes or beliefs.">16>
Conflict must be replaced with solidarity, and as in the USSR
everyone must be monitored for compliance with the new global beliefs and
values. Such a surveillance system is at the heart of President Clinton's
Executive Order 13107 (See "The implementation of Human Rights Treaties" at our
website: http://www.crossroad.to. It
establishes "an Interagency Working Group on Human Rights Treaties", and its
functions include
the monitoring of the actions by the various
States for their conformity with relevant treaties,
the provision of
relevant information for reports and other monitoring purposes, and
the
promotion of effective remedial mechanisms;" 17
Monitoring the progress of mental Health for All (HFA) is essential to the
process of managed change. Non-compliance or dissent must be spotted, reported,
and corrected before it spreads. As you saw in the Colorado law, even "a
substantial risk" of failure to conform could bring preventative correction.
Remediation, conflict resolution, and other mind changing strategies include
these steps:
challenge traditional values
evoke strong feelings
produce cognitive dissonance, a form of mental and moral confusion
dialogue to consensus
elicit a response that:
1. demonstrates a
change in attitude
2. can be measured
3. becomes part of a child's
individual electronic data file
The goal of brainwashing in the Soviet
Union was to create the new "Soviet Man." 18
The UN goal is to mold global citizens so
committed to the new ideology that they cannot be turned back even by the most
logical arguments. UNESCO's 1995 report, Our Creative Diversity, said it
well:
"Education must inform... but it must also form, it must provide
them with a sense of meaning to guide their actions...
"Education should
promote 'rational understanding of conflict, tensions, and the processes
involved, provoke a critical awareness... and provide a basis for the analysis
of concepts that will prevent ...chauvinist and irrational explanations from
being accepted.'...
"Its primary task is to provide information, explain
and analyze problems and subject them to criticism... "It should cover adults as
well. The principle of lifelong education should be the aim of all
societies." 19
Edward Hunter wrote the book Brainwashing, an insightful report on the
experience of prisoners who survived Soviet brainwashing strategies in Communist
Countries during the fifties. His warnings should shine a red light into our
foolish presumptions that this process couldn't be used in our nation.
20 Compare his words with the above UNESCO
report written over four decades later:
"Even when he stands by himself,
the truly indoctrinated communist must be part of the collective. He must be
incapable of hearing opposing ideas and facts, no matter how convincing or how
forcibly they bombard his senses. A trustworthy communist must reach in an
automatic manner without any force being applied."21
Having learned to process away facts and fear truth, these conditioned masses
would resist logic and hate God's Word. It's natural. After all, "the whole
world is under the control of the evil one." (1 John 5:19) Therefore, Jesus
warned His disciples long ago, "If they persecute me, they will persecute
you. for they do not know the One who sent me." Are you and your children
ready to face hostility and rejection for your faith? If so, you will delight in
this promise:
"Blessed are you when men hate you exclude you, and revile
you, and cast out your name as evil for the Son of Man's sake. Rejoice in that
day and leap for joy, for great is your reward in heaven." Luke 6:22-23
For practical information about the consensus process and other psycho-social strategies, read chapter 3 in Brave New Schools. To understand the worldwide feminist movement's goals and influence on mental health regulations, read chapter 9 of A Twist of Faith. Available through Christian bookstores, Amazon.com, and our website, and by calling 800-829-5646.
Endnotes:
1. See "Clinton's War on Hate Bans Christian Values" at: http://www.crossroad.to
2. Healthy Start was summarized by Robert Holland in his article, "Statists Seek to Monitor All Newborns and Train Their Parents", Richmond Times Dispatch (February, 1999): "Armed with backing from private foundations and the federal government, advocates of Hillary Clinton's It-Takes-a-Village ideology are beginning to implement a plan for cradle-to-grave tracking of the newborns of first-time parents. Part of the scheme entails sending agents into private homes to "train" parents for up to 50 visits annually per family. Expectant parents are enlisted by being asked to sign permission forms at the hospital, where amid all the excitement of a first birth they may not be aware of the implications for their privacy and parental rights. Information that the agents collect from families will be put in a nationwide computerized system called the Program Information Management System (PIMS), which will contain medical and psychological entries and observations on family relationships. PIMS' tracking of newborn's development could easily be linked with other preschool and public-school databanks currently being expanded. Eventually the information in a comprehensive, permanent record could be shared with employers when an individual applies for a job."
3. David Satcher,National Healthy People Consortium Meeting, http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/HP2000/satchconsor.htm
4. See http://www.state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/olls/sl1997/sl.254.htm 5. Donna Shalala: http://www.mentalhealth.org/child/SHALALA.HTM 6. The National Mental HealthServices Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) at7. Benjamin Bloom, All Our Children Learning (New York: McCraw Hill, 1981); 180.
8. Our Creative Diversity, UNESCO, 1995, p.11.
9. Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992), 274.
10. Nations for Mental Health: http://www.who.int/msa/nam/nam6.htm
11.Weekly Reader, American Health Foundation, Fall 1998.
12. Healthy Cities Project:http://www.rulimburg.nl/~who-city/hcp-info.htm
13. David Satcher,National Healthy People Consortium Meeting, 11-12-98 http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/pubs/HP2000/satchconsor.htm
14. See "Trading U.S. Rights for UN Rules" at http://www.crossroad.to
15. UNESCO's Education and Human Development website: http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/brochure/002.html
16.B-Step, Teacher Training Manual, National Training Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, 1240 North Pitt, Suite 100, Alexandria, VA 22314 (800-777-5227). (Was in Bethel, ME) Cited by Cherrilyn Gulbrandson, 183.
17. Executive Order 13107, Section 4 (v).
18. See quotes and exerpts from Edward Hunter's book Brainwashing at http://www.crossroad.to
19.Our Creative Diversity, UNESCO, p.169, 171.
20. See a comparison between Communist brainwashing strategies and tactics used to change values in U.S. classrooms at http://www.crossroad.to
21. Edward Hunter, Brainwashing: The story of the men who defied it (Pyramid
Books, 1956), 201.
Dave Hartley
http://www.Asheville-Computer.com
http://www.ioa.com/~davehart
