Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Mon, 15 Jan 2001 Think Tank Frankensteins: GW Bush's Rainbow Cabinet by Robert Lederman Frankenstein: (noun) A monster created from incongruous parts. The media keeps telling us that GW Bush's racially, ethnically and gender diverse cabinet proves he is not a bigot. Nothing could be further from the truth. The conservative foundations behind GW's appointees - the Heritage Foundation, The Federalist Society, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Manhattan Institute and the Bradley Foundation - have created these think tank Frankensteins for a sinister purpose. African Americans who quote Charles Murray - a eugenicist who believes Blacks are genetically inferior; Latinos who oppose the minimum wage and believe Spanish should not be spoken in America; a Jewish press secretary for a President whose family bankrolled Hitler - it is damage control not diversity that accounts for these men and women rising to prominence. The corporate foundations that sponsored these appointees and in many cases created their reputations are believers in white supremacy and eugenics. Their long range plans for America's people of color and for the populations of Third World nations could more appropriately be titled "The Final Solution" than "Compassionate Conservatism". These same foundations have insidiously penetrated every aspect of American political life. Under the guise of philanthropy they now financially sponsor virtually all the television shows on PBS dealing with political, religious or educational issues, dominate talk radio and supply the vast majority of the "experts" on network news programs or quoted in mainstream newspapers. Scientific Racism An ideological blitzkrieg is being waged with social scientists bankrolled by corporations with a eugenics viewpoint as front-line troops. Unlike the KKK or other openly racist groups, the organizations backing Bush and his appointees are made up of educated people who sponsor seminars and publish scholarly books rather than burning crosses. That's why eugenics is called, scientific racism. Behind the foundations that financed the research and the widespread - often free - distribution of these social scientists' books you will find white supremacists, defense contractors, pharmaceutical companies with ties to IG Farben, former Nazis and advocates for depopulating much of the world. Their obsession with birthrates and IQ scores among people of color is tied to ideas about national security and so-called anti-communism. For three generations the Bush family has been centrally involved in these efforts. [See Bush, Abortion and Racial Eugenics http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/ ] Many of these think tanks and foundations have close ties to the CIA and defense contractors. That the extreme right in America claims to be based on the teachings of Jesus and the Bible is nothing new; the 19th century defenders of slavery made the exact same claims. To understand the Bush administration it is the Bell Curve, not the Bible, that you need to look at. The Bell Curve and GW Bush The works of Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve and Losing Ground, are held up by many of Bush's staff and advisors as key texts justifying their agenda of privatizing schools, eliminating welfare and turning social programs over to faith-based charities. From Murray we can trace a common theme running throughout the entire GW Bush administration. Being in favor of school vouchers and eliminating welfare or being against affirmative action does not in itself make somebody a racist - but if someone is sponsored by racists, associates with racists and writes approvingly of racists then one's advocacy on these issues should be interpreted in that light. Here is what Scientific American had to say about Murray's The Bell Curve: http://www.kwaku.org/rm/sciam2.htm SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN January 1995 Volume 272 Number 1 Page 14 For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls: A tendentious tome abuses science to promote far-right policies- "The arguments stem from the same tradition of biological determinism that led, not so long ago, to compulsory sterilizations in the U.S. and genocide elsewhere. The notion is that individuals' characteristics are both essentially fixed by inheritance and immune to alteration by the environment. Efforts to help those who are unfortunate by reason of their genes are unlikely to be rewarded. Solutions, therefore, should include those Murray has long advocated: abolish welfare, reduce affirmative action and simplify criminal law." Among the many Bush cabinet appointees and advisors associated with Murray's ideas are Stephen Goldsmith, Tommy Thompson, Elaine Chou, Myron Magnet, Marvin Olasky, Linda Chavez, Karl Rove, Floyd Flake, Spencer Abraham and various members of the Bush family - including former President Bush. The CIA Connection to Scientific Racism Charles Murray wrote The Bell Curve during eight years as a research fellow at The Manhattan Institute, a think tank founded by Reagan's CIA director William Casey. After WWII Casey and other US officials who had business ties with the Third Reich helped bring thousands of former Nazis to the U.S. - supposedly to fight communism but in reality to help firmly establish corporate fascism - which they have been very successful at. These were not just the atom bomb scientists most people are familiar with but specialists in eugenics, propaganda, using pharmaceuticals for social control and research on genetics - much of which was done in Nazi concentration camps. Many of these men also had extensive experience in rounding up Jews, Slavs and other ethnic minorities to be exterminated. These former Nazis became a core group within the newly-formed CIA and many of them later became key aides to the Republican Party and former President Bush [Philadelphia Inquirer 9/10/98 "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links," September 10, 1988; Washington Post Friday, September 16, 1988 ; Page A16 "Behind Scenes, Damage Control Has Become Vital Weapon for Bush"]. The CIA's first director, Allen Dulles, was legal counsel for Standard Oil/IG Farben and worked closely with Prescott Bush, Averil Harriman and Rockefeller in helping to finance the Third Reich. Many of the corporations that sided with Hitler during WWII are well-represented in GW Bush's administration today. Funding for Charles Murray at the MI (Manhattan Institute) came primarily from the Pioneer Fund - the nation's #1 eugenics think tank, which is associated with Nazi Germany and three generations of the Bush family. A number of GW's election lawyers are associated with the fund and most of the "scholarship" quoted in the Bell Curve was also funded by the Pioneer Fund. MI is financed by Wall Street investment bankers and oil and pharmaceutical companies, many of which - like the Rockefellers' Chase Manhattan Bank - have direct historical ties to Nazi Germany, eugenics and IG Farben - which was half owned by Rockefeller. While MI's focus on race is evident from a visit to their website an even larger part of their efforts are related to the issues of population control and national security. Many of GW Bush's advisors are research fellows, directors or regular guest speakers at The Manhattan Institute including Myron Magnet, Stephen Goldsmith, Floyd Flake, Linda Chavez and Tommy Thompson - and frequently appear alongside their colleague, Charles Murray, in seminars on eliminating welfare. Sharing a similar origin with Bush's cabinet appointees, GW's "compassionate conservatism" was created by the CIA/Manhattan Institute's Myron Magnet and Marvin Olasky. In the intro to Olasky's latest book GW Bush calls him, "compassionate conservatism's leading thinker." After successively abandoning Judaism, atheism, membership in the Communist Party and sixties-style idealism, Olasky became a fundamentalist Christian. Like many in Bush's circle, Olasky now believes poverty is caused by a lack of moral values among the poor rather than by a built-in system of social inequality. The Redeemer, a church he founded in Austin Texas, teaches that women have no place in leadership. His theories on the poor were central to Newt Gingrich's Contract With America [Dallas Morning News, NY Times, UK Guardian, AP]. On their website MI supports Jesse Helms, imprisoning low-level drug offenders, eliminating virtually all government regulations, censorship, opening wilderness areas to oil and gas drilling, turning over all social services to faith-based charities, privatizing prisons, hospitals, parks, streets and schools and school vouchers - in short the entire GW Bush political agenda. Americans who like the Victorian idea of charities rather than taxes providing a social safety net forget that before welfare, social security or Medicaid all social services in America were supplied by faith-based charities. While these groups did good work they were never up to the task of helping so many poor, disabled, sick and elderly people or millions of children who more often than not were left to fend for themselves or starve. Charles Murray was a consultant for Bush's Sec. of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, and is favorably quoted by Linda Chavez on her organizations' website - The Center for Equal Opportunity. Murray also sits on panel discussions about eliminating welfare with two African American conservatives almost picked for cabinet positions - Eloise Anderson and Floyd Flake. The websites of Anderson's organization, Claremont Institute, like that of Flake's Manhattan Institute, contain numerous laudatory quotes about Charles Murray. Linda Chavez was a research fellow at the CIA's Manhattan Institute during 1993 and 1994 receiving almost $200,000 in grants from the John M. Olin Foundation, a right-wing fund derived from a family business in munitions and chemicals with roots in white supremacy. If she hadn't been unceremoniously dumped by Bush her anti-union, anti-affirmative action, anti-Spanish language and anti-minimum wage ideas would have created plenty of controversy on their own. Elaine Chao, Bush's Asian-American replacement for Chavez, is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with direct connections to former Nazis and white supremacists. After doing a search on the Heritage foundation's website I found almost 100 references to Charles Murray - all of them positive. Chao is also allegedly linked to China's President Jiang Zemin via longstanding business and family ties [source: Voice of America; WorldNetDaily.com]. > Bush Picks Chao for Labor Post (AP) 1/12/2001 "Chao is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank."< Charles Murray is also a regular speaker for the Federalist Society - co-founded by Bush energy appointee Spencer Abraham - an ultraconservative legal advocacy group dedicated to eliminating affirmative action, welfare, bilingual education and the right to sue the government. Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Thomas (next to Colin Powell Thomas is America's highest ranking affirmative action recipient) are prominent members of the Federalist Society, which is funded by the John M. Olin Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Bradley Foundation - far right foundations linked to racism and eugenics. Stephen Goldsmith, a leading Manhattan Institute fellow, is GW Bush's top domestic policy advisor. Here's part of his introduction to a symposium on welfare at the Manhattan Institute in April 1999 featuring Charles Murray: > "Education and Welfare: Meeting the Challenge A Message from CCI Chairman, Mayor Stephen Goldsmith [CCI is a division of Manhattan Institute] America is in the midst of an urban renaissance...CCIs April conference Next Steps in Welfare Reform highlighted just how far weve come. The conference brought together public officials like Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson and scholars like Dr. Charles Murray to discuss how governments and private groups have reduced dependency and increased self-sufficiency...Fifteen years after the Manhattan Institute published Charles Murrays landmark study of American welfare policy, Losing Ground, the presentations showed that ideas once seen as radical now form the mainstream of the welfare debate." Among the panelists alongside Murray and Goldsmith was Jason Turner, former head of Wisconsin's welfare program. Turner later became infamous as head of NYC's abusive workfare system after quoting the motto over the gates of Auschwitz - "Arbeit Macht Frei - work shall make you free" [NY Times 6/27/98]. The Bush family represent three generations of eugenics aristocracy. Their extensive political dynasty continues a family tradition begun in the 1930's when Prescott Bush and his corporate friends financed the Third Reich. No concentration camps will be needed this time around. Thanks to modern science - much of which is derived from Nazi Germany - vaccines, pesticides, chemtrails, genetically-engineered foods, DNA technology and new chemical methods of sterilization and birth control are all that will be required to carry out the population control goals of eugenics. What's really inclusive about the GW Bush administration's agenda? This time around a lot more people will be included on the list for elimination - or as corporate America prefers to call it - downsizing. LINKS TO INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE: NY Times Monday, May 12, 1997 Manhattan Institute Has Nudged New York Rightward "...the institute was founded as a free-market education and research organization by William Casey, who then went off to head the Central Intelligence Agency in the Reagan Administration." NY Times June 12, 2000 Bush Culls Campaign Theme From Conservative Thinkers Gov. George W. Bush has said his political views have been shaped by the work of Myron Magnet of the Manhattan Institute. >From the MI website: Books That Influenced Gov. George W. Bush Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare: "Referring to this book, Gov. Bush has said, other than the Bible, that it was the most important book he had read..." The Bell Curve and the Pioneer Fund http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/049.html http://www.fair.org/extra/9501/bell.html http://www.marmoset.com/60minute/Webnav/eugen.html The Heritage Foundation http://www.corporations.org/coors/ http://alant.purespace.de/anti.html http://www.watch.pair.com/heritage.html Corporate America's Nazi connection http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special Reports/Binion122100/ binion122100.html http://www.capnasty.org/taf/issue7/elkhorn1.htm To access thousands of web sites with detailed information on the Bush/Nazi connection go to a good search engine such as> http://www.google.com/ and type in Bush AND Nazi. Bush financial misconduct http://www.motherjones.com/news wire/bushboys.html Who funded GW Bush? http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/Bush/bush17.html FAIR on John Ashcroft and race http://www.fair.org/press-releases/southern-partisan.html Robert Lederman, President of A.R.T.I.S.T. (Artists Response To Illegal State Tactics) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (718) 743-3722 Bush, Eugenics, Giuliani, Manhattan Institute info http://Baltech.org/lederman/spray/ Street artist info http://www.openair.org/alerts/artist/nyc.html FEEL FREE TO REPOST, PRINT OUT AND DISTRIBUTE WIDELY! If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit: http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist
