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>> SAMUEL FRANCIS
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>> Corporate giants now enforce thought control
>>
>> September 22, 2000
>>
>> One of the distinguishing characteristics of a totalitarian system is
>> that not only does the state impose an official ideology throughout
>society
>> but so do other institutions as well. The "totality" at which the regime
>> aims means that every sector of the society -- the economy and social and
>> cultural institutions as well as government -- tries to make certain that
>no
>> one and no thing deviates from the pattern of thought and behavior being
>> imposed.
>>
>> In the New Order now being constructed in this country and most of
the
>> world, Thought Control is enforced not just by the state ("hate crime"
>laws,
>> public education and selective condemnation of dissident ideas) but also
>by
>> the mammoth corporations of the "global economy." Here are several
>examples
>> of how it's being done.
>>
>> When the Supreme Court ruled recently that the Boy Scouts of America
>are
>> not required to admit homosexuals as members or hire homosexual
>> scoutmasters, both local governments and "private" corporations
>immediately
>> started retaliating by cutting off grants and access to important
>> facilities. Several cities denied the Scouts use of parks and other
>public
>> services, while Chase Manhattan Bank and Textron Corporation "have
>withdrawn
>> hundreds of thousands of dollars in support to local and national
scouting
>> groups nationwide," as the New York Times reported last month.
>>
>> The rationale for this kind of ideological disciplining is, of
course,
>> "diversity," in the Orwellian language of Thought Control. "Their [the
>> Scouts'] position," a Chase spokesman says, "is, on the face of it, in
>> conflict with our commitment and our values on diversity." Chase's
>> commitment to diversity apparently does not extend to respecting the
>Scouts'
>> different views of homosexuality. That's why it's Orwellian.
>>
>> Go into a Barnes and Noble book store these days and you'll discover
>> even more diversity. The giant book chain, which contributes to
diversity
>> by driving out of business smaller book stores across the country, now
>> greets customers with a display entitled "Close the Book on Hate."
>>
>> The display is part of a joint project of Barnes and Noble and the
>> Anti-Defamation League, which "have come together to help children better
>> understand the richness and beauty of our multicultural society." That's
>> sweet -- except that the project assumes that anyone who disagrees with
>> multiculturalism and its agenda of subverting distinctively Western
values
>> and institutions is imbued with "hate" and "intolerance."
>>
>> "Intolerance," the display piously instructs us, "isn't something
>> children are born with. It's learned. Therefore, it can be unlearned."
>> The way to "unlearn" it, of course, is to buy the books on the display
>> table, which would just happen to be profitable for Barnes and Noble.
>Most
>> of the books seem innocuous enough, mainly a lot of drippy moralism about
>> the "Holocaust" and several kiddies' books containing cute little lessons
>in
>> cartoon versions of multiculturalism.
>>
>> Nevertheless, the purpose is clear -- to popularize the idea that
>> insistence on maintaining the cultural integrity of American society is
>> "hate" and "intolerance" and that those who still believe in such
>integrity
>> have something wrong with them that can and should be "unlearned."
>>
>> Yet another lesson in how "tolerant" the corporate giants really are
>> comes from the behemoth Wal-Mart. Recently in South Carolina a gentleman
>> named Maurice Bessinger, who owns a small barbecue restaurant chain and
>> makes his own barbecue sauce, raised a South Carolina state flag outside
>one
>> of his restaurants, along with the Confederate flag.
>>
>> It's not the government Mr. Bessinger needs to worry about but
>Wal-Mart,
>> which used to carry Mr. Bessinger's barbecue sauce nationwide. Wal-Mart
>has
>> suddenly dropped the sauce from its shelves. When I called the customer
>> complaint number to ask why, I was told that Mr. Bessinger "was involved
>in
>> activities with which Wal-Mart did not wish to be associated."
>>
>> The munchkin with whom I spoke refused to say what those "activities"
>> were, why they were objectionable or whether the chain also scrutinized
>the
>> activities of other suppliers to evaluate their "activities" as well. He
>> claimed the Confederate flag had nothing to do with it. My own bet is
>that
>> you can find plenty of products at Wal-Mart made by slave labor, but
>slavery
>> -- at least the kind that really exists today as opposed to the kind that
>> has been extinct in this country for more than a century -- apparently is
>> not "an activity with which Wal-Mart does not wish to be associated."
>>
>> Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-tung could have learned something from
these
>> corporate leviathans. The tyranny over the mind their governments
imposed
>> required secret police, death camps, genocide and state terror for
>> generations, and still it failed. The Thought Control these titans of
>> international capitalism are constructing is being imposed without firing
>a
>> shot -- and it may endure far longer than its communist cousins ever did.
>>
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