The term “eugenics” was first
used in 1883 by Francis Galton, Darwin’s half cousin. In 1871, Darwin
authored the racist book The Descent of man and Selection in Relation
to Sex saying that “the civilized races of man will almost certainly
exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.” This
followed the principle of “survival of the fittest” coined by Herbert
Spencer in 1864 after reading Darwin’s 1859 book, The Origin of the
Species by Means of Natural Selection for the Preservation of Favored
Races in the Struggle for Life (four years after Arthur Gobineau’s An
Essay on the Inequality of the Races). For humans, this principle
expressed itself in
Social Darwinism.
Thus, during the 1870s, Oxford
lecturer
John Ruskin would instill in his students, like
Cecil Rhodes, the concept that they were “the best northern blood” and
should rule the world. Rhodes scholarships were not only given to students
from America and Commonwealth nations, but also to those from Germany
beginning in the very early 1900s. Germans at this time were also being
conditioned to see historical progression in terms of “blood and land,” a
sort of Teutonic knighthood descended from the Aryans. In 1914,
Madame Blavatsky’s Aryan
doctrine had spread through Germany and Austria, and it was from her
writings that a young Adolph Hitler learned the meaning of the
Aryan
swastika.
By this time, eugenics was a
growing international movement with the first International Congress of
Eugenics held in 1912 with Vice-Presidents Winston Churchill, Alexander
Graham Bell, Skull & Bones
member Gifford Pinchot, and former Harvard University president Charles
Eliot.
In this same year, eugenics
proponent Woodrow Wilson signed into law a brutal sterilization act, and the
next year eugenics adherent Theodore Roosevelt wrote of the need to improve
“racial qualities.” Calvin Coolidge wrote similarly in “Whose County Is
This?” (Good Housekeeping, February 1921), after Arthur Calhoun in
Volume 3 of his widely used textbook A Social History of the American
Family (1919) explained that “in the new social order, extreme emphasis
is sure to be placed upon eugenic procreation.”
Men of wealth like
Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefellers
played an important part in funding the eugenics movement. In 1904, the
Carnegie Institution, with Skull & Bones member Daniel Coit Gilman as
president, financed the establishment of a biological experiment station
related to eugenics at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. In 1910, the Eugenics
Record Office was begun there and later received funding from the
Rockefeller Foundation after John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. formed the Bureau of Social Hygiene.
It was during this time of the
early 20th Century that Rockefeller introduced Margaret Sanger to the monied
elite who would help her form the Birth Control League which would later
become Planned Parenthood. The November 1921 issue of Sanger’s
Birth Control Review carried the heading “Birth Control: To Create A
Race of Thoroughbreds,” and Sanger would later advocate eugenically limiting
“dysgenic stocks” such as blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and Catholics,
as well as “slum dwellers” such as Jewish immigrants.
In 1926, Rockefeller money
funded the founding of the American Eugenics Society, and the next
year on May 2, 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court by an 8 to 1 majority ruled in
Buck v. Bell that certain “unfit” people could be forcibly
sterilized. Regarding this ruling, British [Fabian Socialist] Professor Harold Laski wrote his
friend Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: “Sterilize all
the unfit, among whom I include all fundamentalists.”
Across the nation during the
1930s, state legislatures (eventually 38) enacted sterilization laws
regarding the “feeble-minded.” Also during this time, Franklin Roosevelt
became president, and in Christopher Thorne’s Allies of a Kind (1978)
one finds:
“Subjects to do with breeding and race seem, indeed, to have held
a certain fascination for the president…. Roosevelt felt it in order to
talk, jokingly, of dealing with Puerto Rico’s excessive birth rate by
employing, in his own words, ‘the methods which Hitler used effectively’ [to
make them] sterile.”
In the April 1933 edition of
Margaret Sanger’s Birth
Control Review, Dr.
Ernst Rudin of Hitler’s Nazi Third Reich wrote “Eugenic Sterilization:
An Urgent Need.”
During the late 1930s, the
German General Staff also developed a plan that would come to fruition in
two generations (the 1990s). They would send their agents through one
country and on to a second country of destination wherein they would “appear
as men of large commercial or financial interests, gaining a controlling
influence in labor unions, in the banking world, in Chambers of Commerce,”
according to American official Sumner Welles in The Time for Decision
(1944). As an example of the Nazi’s success in strategic placement of their
operatives long after WWII, Nazi Paul Dickopf became president of Interpol
from 1968 to 1972.
After WWII and the Nazis’
“supposed” defeat, you would think the world would find the Nazi philosophy
abhorrent. However, when Fabian Socialist Sir
Julian Huxley
became the first Director-General of UNESCO, he authored
UNESCO: ITS PURPOSE
AND ITS PHILOSOPHY (1948) in which he revealed that
“even though it
is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years
politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO
to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that
the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that is now
unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”
This was three years after the
founding of the Human Betterment League in 1945 in North Carolina, one of
the leading states in forced sterilization (in the late 1970s, Dr. Harmon
Smith of Duke University said North Carolina had one of the most thorough
involuntary sterilization programs in the U.S.). The League’s director was
Alice Shelton Gray who worked with Margaret Sanger. Gray was succeeded as
League director by C. Nash Herndon (Carnegie Fellow 1940-41), who became
president of the American Eugenics Society from 1952 to 1955.
According to Report from
Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace, in
August 1963 a Special Study Group was appointed by high ranking government
officials to study how to deal with future problems. Among the
considerations proposed by the group as a substitute for the “war system”
was “a comprehensive program of applied eugenics.” Not long after this, in
the late 1960s and early 1970s according to author Randy Engel (Human Life
International’s 10th World Conference, April 5, 1991), the March of Dimes
began to fund eugenic fetal experimentation.
Then in 1974, the National
Security Council under Henry Kissinger on December 10 issued NSSM 200 titled
“Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and
Overseas Interests” related to population growth in Third World countries.
The document declared: “It is urgent that measures to reduce fertility be
started and made effective in the 1970s and 1980s…. Food and agricultural
assistance is vital for any population sensitive development strategy.”
NSSM 200 also referred to the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which included the Office
of Population headed by Reimert Ravenholt from 1965 to 1979. According to
Paul Wagman’s “To Sterilize Millions” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April
22, 1977), Ravenholt said that “as many as 100 million women around the
world might be sterilized if U.S. goals are met.”
In the 1980s, New Ager and Task
Force Delta psychologist
Barbara Marx Hubbard
(nominated for Vice-President at the 1984 Democrat National Convention)
authored a 3-part book titled The Book of Co-Creation, in
which she revealed:
“Out of the full spectrum of
human personality, one-fourth is electing to transcend…. One-fourth
is destructive [and] they are defective seeds… [who] must be
eliminated from the social body…. Fortunately, you are not
responsible for this act. We are. We are in charge of God’s selection
process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the
riders of the pale horse, Death.”
Thus, the plan seems to be
eugenically to destroy those “defective seeds” who are not part of
Hubbard’s New Age agenda for the future.
In the 1990s, Dr. James D.
Watson became president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory mentioned earlier,
and he worked on the Human Genome Project completed just a few years ago. In
case you don’t know one purpose for which this project mapping all human
genes can be used, read the chilling eugenic philosophy of Dr. Watson as
recorded in the May 1973 edition of PRISM (published by the American Medical
Association). In an article titled “Children From the Laboratory,” Watson is
quoted as stating:
“I think we must re-evaluate
our basic assumptions about the meaning of life. Perhaps… no one should
be thought of as alive until about three days after birth, then… the
doctor would allow the child to die if the parents so chose.”
Thus, it may be that the Human
Genome Project will facilitate an ominous future in which only the
eugenically “fit” will be allowed to live.
You can see how the eugenic
philosophy has already taken hold in Roe v. Wade with its companion
Doe v. Bolton. During the current presidential campaign, Sen.
McCain could have pointed out to Sen. Obama that those Supreme Court rulings
said Constitutional personhood is not conferred until birth. McCain could
then have asked if they were in a hospital delivery room and a baby born
prematurely at 6 months after conception were being attacked, would Obama
try to stop the attack? After Obama said he would, then McCain could have
asked Obama why he eugenically could support a violent attack (abortion)
on the same baby one, two or three months later if the baby were not
yet born.
© 2008 Dennis Cuddy - All Rights Reserved
First published by
NewsWithViews.com, November 3, 2008
Posted here with permission
