From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,soc.culture.china
Subject: Genocidal Roots Of Bush's New World Order Part 3
Date: 5 May 91 11:43:30 GMT
Organization: Covici Computer Systems

Bush backed Nazi `race scientists'
by Kathleen Klenetsky

On Aug. 5, 1969, George Bush, then a Republican
congressman from Texas, invited William Shockley and
Arthur Jensen to testify in front of the Republican Task
Force on Earth Resources and Population.
   The two men had triggered an international furor by
insisting that blacks are inferior to whites in the domain
of intelligence. Despite the blatant fraudulence of their
claims, Bush did not utter a peep of criticism; instead, a
month later, he presented a summary of their testimony to
his colleagues, ``so that all Members of the House can
share the information we heard.'' 
   Explaining that his hearings had centered on three
subjects, including ``the hereditary aspects of human
quality'' and ``the environmental problems created by our
rapid rate of population growth,'' Bush described
Shockley's comments in the following words:
   ``Dr. Shockley stated that he feels the National
Academy of Sciences has an intellectual obligation to make
a clear and relevant presentation of the facts about 
hereditary aspects of human quality. Furthermore, he
claimed our well-intentioned social welfare programs may
be unwittingly producing a down-breeding of the quality of
the U.S. population.'' 
   Shockley and Jensen offered specific proposals to
deal with the ``down breeding'' caused by blacks' alleged
inferiority. Shockley campaigned for a Sterilizations
Bonus Plan, under which those with low IQs, drug addicts,
and those with diabetes, epilepsy, and similar diseases
would be paid for submitting to sterilization. 
   Shockley was especially concerned about the black
reproduction rate. ``If those blacks with the least amount
of Caucasian genes are in fact the most prolific and also
the least intelligent,'' he claimed, ``then genetic
enslavement will be the destiny of their next generation.'' 
   Shockley and Jensen were both highly critical of U.S.
social programs, especially welfare, claiming that they
``may be encouraging dysgenics--retrogressive evolution
through disproportionate reproduction of the genetically
disadvantaged,'' as Shockley wrote in 1979.
    
               - Bush: an enemy of life -
   Bush's promotion of Shockley and Jensen's
Nazi-style crackpot genetic theories was no aberration.
It was part and parcel of his devotion to the
cause of neo-malthusianism, which, by definition, is a
eugenics program directed at wiping out the ``unfit,'' the
``racially inferior,'' and the ``useless eaters.''
   Despite his convenient conversion to a ``pro-life''
position during his 1980 presidential campaign, Bush's
record reads like the implementation of Hitler's {Mein
Kampf.} Over the course of his political career, Bush has
played a critical role in the war on human life which the
establishment, through the Club of Rome and other
neo-malthusian outfits, has been waging for the past three
decades. 
   Jessica Mathews, vice president of a key zero-growth
think tank, the World Resources Institute, attested to
Bush's yeoman's work on behalf of the neo-malthusian agenda
in a {Washington Post} commentary published last year.
``In the 1960s and '70s,'' she wrote, ``Bush had not only
embraced the cause of domestic and international family
planning, he had aggressively sought to be its champion.''
He ``shepherded the first major breakthrough in domestic
family planning legislation in 1967'' and ``later
co-authored the legislation commonly known as Title X,
which created the first federal family planning
program.'' 
   ``On the international front,'' she continued, Bush
``recommended that the U.S. support the United Nations
population fund.... In his defining maiden speech as U.S.
representative to the U.N.,'' he ``named population and
environment as top priorities.'' 

       - The genocide lobby's man in Washington -
   Bush deserved every word of Mathews's accolade.
During his two terms on Capitol Hill (1966-70), he
belonged to a small group of congressmen who successfully
conspired to force a profound shift in the official U.S.
attitude and policy toward population expansion. Embracing
the ``limits to growth'' ideology, Bush and his coterie
labored to enact legislation which put population control
at the center of U.S. domestic and foreign policy. 
   Bush arrived in Congress just as the neo-malthusians
were girding themselves for the final assault against the
Judeo-Christian concept that every person possesses a
divine spark through which he is capable of making a
unique contribution to the welfare of humanity. In
contrast, the zero-growthers claimed that man is a
``cancer'' who is uncontrollably devouring the world's fixed
resources, and who must be stopped at any cost. 
   The battle was fully joined in 1968, when Pope Paul
VI issued his enyclical {Humanae vitae}, which excoriated
the neo-malthusian mentality and its goals:
``Let it be considered also that a dangerous weapon
would be placed in the hands of those public authorities
who take no heed of moral exigencies.... Who will stop
rulers from favoring, from even imposing upon their
people, the method of contraception which they judged to
be most efficacious?'' As for poor countries with a high
population rate, the encyclical said: ``No solution to
these difficulties is acceptable which does violence to
man's essential dignity.... The only possible solution is
one which envisages the social and economic progress both
of individuals and of the whole of human society....'' 
   Bush was squarely on the other side. Just days after
{Humanae vitae} was issued, he announced, ``I have decided
to give my vigorous support for population control in both
the United States and the world,'' adding: ``For those of
us who feel so strongly on this issue, the recent
enyclical was most discouraging.'' 
   Bush pushed, prodded, and cajoled his fellow
congressmen into enacting legislation that contributed to
bringing about the kinds of ``1984'' horrors of which Paul
VI warned. ``He was really out front on the population
issue,'' a zero-growth activist recently said. ``He was
saying things that even we were reluctant to talk about
publicly.'' 
   Prior to the mid-1960s, the U.S. government had
refused to become involved in population control. As late
as December 1959, political opposition to population
control was so strong that President Eisenhower said,
``Birth control is not our business. I cannot imagine
anything more emphatically a subject that is not a proper
political or governmental activity ... or responsibility.'' 
   But within a few short years, U.S. policy had
undergone a 180-degree turn. No longer was it taboo to push
population control; it was taboo to oppose it! 
   Bush played a pivotal role in this shift. Shortly
after arriving in Washington, he teamed up with fellow
Republican Herman Schneebeli to offer amendments to the
Social Security Act which placed priority emphasis on what
was euphemistically called ``family planning services.''
Their avowed goal was to reduce the number of children
born to women on welfare. 
   The Bush-Schneebeli amendments were largely prompted
by Dr. Alan Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood,
and a prote@aage@aa of its founder, Margaret Sanger. Years
before Hitler's rise to power, Sanger was leading the
charge for wholesale sterilization of ``unfit'' and
``inferior races'' in the name of ``race betterment.'' 
   Although Planned Parenthood eventually toned down the
racist rhetoric, claiming instead that ``family planning''
was a boon to the poor, its basic goal of curbing
procreation among ``undesirables'' never changed.
   Bush was a big fan of Planned Parenthood. Like his
father, Prescott, whose affiliation with the group cost
him the Senate race in 1950, Bush championed Planned
Parenthood at every opportunity. In 1967, he urged
``government agencies [to] work even more closely with ...
Planned Parenthood.'' A year later, he called on those
interested in ``advancing the cause of family planning'' to
``call your local Planned Parenthood'' to offer your ``help
and support.'' 

               - War on the poor, blacks -
   The Bush-Schneebeli amendments were aimed at reducing
the number of children born to blacks and poor whites.
They required all welfare recipients, including mothers of
young children, to seek work, and they barred increases in
federal aid to states where the proportion of dependent
children on welfare increased. 
   Reducing the national welfare bill was a prime Bush
concern. Talking about rising welfare rolls, Bush lamented
in July 1968 that ``our national welfare costs are rising
phenomenally.'' Worse, ``The fastest-growing part of the
relief rolls is aid for dependent children (AFDC).'' 
   He frequently motivated his population control
crusade with thinly veiled appeals to racism. Like
Shockley, Bush worried publicly that blacks had more
children than whites. Blacks must recognize, he said,
``that they cannot hope to acquire a larger share of
American prosperity without cutting down on births.'' 
   In 1970, Bush spearheaded the fight for President
Richard Nixon's Family Assistance Program (FAP). Falsely
billed as a help to the poor because of its income-floor
provision, the measure mandated every able-bodied welfare
recipient, except mothers with children under six, to take
a job. Bush liked FAP since it would force the lazy to
work: Whereas ``the present welfare system encourages
idleness by making it more profitable to be on welfare
than to work, and provides no method by which the state
may limit the number of individuals added to the rolls,''
under FAP, ``if an individual does not work, he will not
receive funds.'' 
   This was just the beginning of Bush's efforts to
eliminate the world's ``useless eaters.'' Over the next few
years, the zero-growth gang jacked up its crusade for
radical population control, and Bush goose-stepped right
along. In rapid succession, he proposed bills to create a
National Center for Population and Family Planning and
Welfare, and to rename the Interior Department the
Department of Resources, Environment, and Population. 
   In the foreign policy arena, he helped shift U.S.
foreign assistance away from funding development projects,
to underwriting population control. ``I propose that we
totally revamp our foreign aid program to give primary
emphasis to population control,'' he stated in the summer
of 1968. ``In my opinion, we have made a mistake in
our foreign aid by concentrating on building huge steel
mills and concrete plans in underdeveloped nations.'' 
   On the domestic side, one of his more important
initiatives was his sponsorhip of the Family Planning
Services and Population Research Act of 1970, brainchild
of Sen. Joseph Tydings, a key zero-growther. 
   Signed into law by President Nixon on Dec. 24, 1970,
the Tydings-Bush bill drastically increased the federal
financial commitment to population control, authorizing an
initial $382 million for family planning sevices,
population research, population education and information.
Much of this money was funneled through private
institutions, particularly local clinics run by Planned
Parenthood. The Tydings-Bush measure mandated the
notorious Title X, which explicitly targeted ``family
planning'' assistance to the poor. 
   Bush and his fellow neo-malthusians talked constantly
about the importance of disseminating birth control to the
poor. They claimed there were 5 million poor women who
wanted to limit their families, but could not afford birth
control. In introducing the House version of the Tydings
bill, Bush ally Rep. James Scheuer (D-N.Y.) ranted that
while middle-class women ``have been limiting the number of
offspring for years, women of low-income families'' were
not. ``If poverty and family size are so closely related we
ask, `Why don't poor women stop having babies?'|'' 
   The Bush-Tydings measure took a giant step toward
getting them to do so. An analysis by the Alan Guttmacher
Institute found that since Title X went into effect, ``2.3
million unintended births were averted and that each
dollar invested in family planning by government yields a
savings of $2.00 in health and welfare costs alone.''
Others put the ``cost-benefit'' ratio much higher. A 1975
study estimated that every dollar invested in ``family
planning'' saved $25-70 in welfare and other costs. 
     
             - Bush's task force from Hell -
   One of the main outlets Bush used for his zero-growth
agenda was the Republican Task Force on Earth Resources
and Population, which he founded and chaired. This is the
panel to which he invited Jensen and Shockley. Comprised
of over 20 congressmen, the group functioned as a bloc to
promote the zero-growth cause; its hearings provided a
public forum to nearly every neo-malthusian around. 
   For example, on July 24, 1969, it heard from Gen.
William Draper, then national chairman of the Population
Crisis Committee, and a close friend of Bush's father,
Prescott. According to Bush, Draper warned that the
population explosion was like a ``rising tide,'' and called
for using ``our God-given brain power to bring back a
balance between the birth rate and the death rate.'' Draper
also lashed out at the Catholic Church for frustrating
population control efforts in Ibero-America. 
   A week later, Oscar Harkavy, chief of the Ford
Foundation's population program, testified. Bush
summarized his remarks thus: ``The population explosion is
commonly recognized as one of the most serious problems
now facing the nation and the world. Mr. Harkavy suggested
. that we more adequately fund population research. {It
seems inconsistent that cancer research funds total
$250-275 million annually, more than eight times the
amount spent on reproductive biology research}'' (emphasis
added). 
   At the same hearings where Shockley and Jensen
testified, Bush also heard from Paul Ehrlich. Founder of
Zero Population Growth and author of the 1968 bestseller
{The Population Bomb,} Ehrlich urged the government to
institute ``drastic policies'' to ``establish a reasonable
population size,'' such as ``the addition of ... mass
sterilization'' agents to U.S. food and water supplies. 
   In February 1969, Bush and the task force proposed a
Joint Committee on Population and Family Planning, to
``focus national attention on the domestic and foreign need
for family planning.'' ``We need to make population and
family planning household words,'' Bush told the House. ``We
need to take the sensationalism out of this topic so that
it can no longer be used by militants who have no real
knowledge of the voluntary nature of the program but,
rather, are using it as a political steppingstone.
   ``A thorough investigation into birth control and a
collection of data which would give the Congress the
criteria to determine the effectiveness of its programs
must come swiftly to stave off the number of future mouths
which will feed on an ever-decreasing proportion of food,''
he added.   

       - Opening the door to legalized abortion -
   On July 18, 1969, President Nixon, responding to the
urgings of Henry Kissinger and the Rockefeller family,
called for a blue-ribbon Commission on Population. Bush
was ecstatic. This was something he himself had proposed
numerous times; on July 21, he issued a statement to
``commend the President.'' ``We now know,'' he intoned, ``that
the fantastic rate of population growth we have witnessed
these past 20 years continues with no let-up in sight. If
this growth rate is not checked now we ... face a danger
that is as defenseless as nuclear war.'' Within weeks,
Bush's task force had introduced the requisite
legislation, and the Commission on Population Growth and
the American Future quickly got under way. 
   Headed by John D. Rockefeller III, the commission
represented a radical, government-sanctioned attack on
human life. Its final report, issued in 1972, asserted
that ``the time has come to challenge the tradition that
population growth is desirable: What was unintended may
turn out to be unwanted, in the society as in the family.'' 
   Not only did the commission demand an end to
population growth and economic progress; it also attacked
the foundation of Western civilization: man's reason.
``Mass urban industrialism is based on science and
technology, efficiency, acquisition, and domination
through rationality,'' it said. ``The exercise of these
same values now contain the potential for the destruction
of our humanity. Man is losing that balance with nature
which is an essential condition of human existence.''
   The commission made numerous recommendations to curb
both population expansion and economic growth, among them,
liberalizing laws restricting abortion and sterilization;
having the government fund abortions; and providing
birth control to teenagers. Its impact on American
attitudes on population growth and personal morality
cannot be underestimated; it certainly accelerated the
plunge into outright genocide. One of its immediate
effects was to break down the last barriers to legalized
abortion. Just one year after its final report, the
Supreme Court delivered its {Roe v. Wade} decision. 

               - Weeding out the `unfit' -
   The drive for population control which surfaced in
the 1960s amidst a stream of propaganda about the
``population bomb'' and the ``limits to growth,'' was merely a
retooling of the old eugenics movement, which had been
forced underground temporarily when the world recoiled in
horror at its logical culmination in the Nazi movement. 
   By the mid-1960s, the eugenicists had resurrected
themselves as the population-control/ecology movement.
Planned Parenthood was a perfect example of the
transformation. Rather than demand the sterilization of
the ``inferior'' races, the newly packaged eugenicists now
talked about giving the poor ``equal access'' to birth
contol, and ``saving the environment.'' ``Welfare recipients''
became the new codeword for the ``genetically unfit.''
   But nothing had truly changed--including the use of
coercion. While advocates of government ``family planning''
programs insisted that these were strictly voluntary, the
reality was far different. By the 1970s, the number of
involuntary sterilizations being carried out, by programs
which Bush helped set up, had skyrocketed, especially
among blacks and other minorities. 
   In a 1974 court ruling, U.S. Judge Gerhard Gesell
found, ``Over the last few years, an estimated 100,000 to
150,000 low-income persons have been sterilized annually
under federally funded programs. 
   ``Although Congress has been insistent that all family
planning programs function on a purely voluntary basis,''
he wrote, ``there is uncontroverted evidence ... that an
indefinite number of poor people have been improperly
coerced into accepting a sterilization operation under the
threat that various federally supported welfare benefits
would be withdrawn unless they submitted to irreversible
sterilization.'' He concluded that the ``dividing line
between family planning and eugenics is murky.'' 

         - Bush and genocide: a family affair -
    If you believe--as Bush does--in the pseudo-scientific
genetic theories promoted by Shockley and Jensen (not to
mention Hitler), you might argue that Bush is genetically
predisposed to genocide. After all, he does seem to have
inherited his obsession with population control and racial
``down-breeding'' from his father, Prescott. 
   A staunch supporter of Planned Parenthood, Prescott
Bush was a top partner in the Brown Brothers, Harriman,
investment bank. The Harriman family (including Averell,
the late Democratic Party elder statesmen), along with
other leading establishment families, created the eugenics
movement in the United States, which instituted the mass
sterilization of the ``feeble-minded'' and ``racially
inferior'' in the 1920s--practices the Nazis later copied. 
   The Harrimans helped organize a series of
international conferences which brought together all the
leading lights in the eugenics movement. At the Third
International Eugenics Conference in 1932, the guest
of honor was none other than Dr. Ernst Rudin, head of the
German Society for Racial Hygiene, who a few years later
drafted the Nazi miscegenation laws against the Jews. 
   One of the U.S. eugenicists who rubbed shoulders with
Rudin at the conference was Gen. William Draper, a New
York banker and close friend of Prescott Bush, who later
became a top population control crusader, and helped
organize the Population Crisis Committee/Draper Fund. 
   Draper summed up his attitude toward the human race
in a 1971 article, in which he compared the developing
nations to an ``animal reserve,'' where, when the animals
become too numerous, the park rangers ``arbitrarily reduce
one or another species as necessary to preserve the
balanced environment for all other animals. 
   ``But who will be the {park ranger for the human
race?}'' he asked. ``Who will cull out the surplus in this
country or that country when the pressure of too many
people and too few resources increases beyond endurance?
Will the death-dealing Horsemen of the Apocalypse--war in
its modern nuclear dress, hunger haunting half the human
race, and disease--will the gaunt and forbidding Horsemen
become Park Ranger for the two-legged animal called man?'' 
   Draper and Bush collaborated closely during the
latter's congressional career. Bush invited him to testify
to his Task Force on Earth Resources and Population;
Draper helped draft the Bush-Tydings bill. In September
1969, Bush gave a public tribute to Draper for his
relentless pursuit of zero-growth (see {Documentation}). 
   Draper's son William III has enthusiastically
carried out his father's genocidal legacy--frequently with
Bush's assistance. In 1980, he served as national chairman
of the Bush presidential campaign's finance committee.
During the Reagan-Bush administration, Bush had his friend
appointed to key government positions, including
Export-Import Bank head, and administrator of the United
Nations Development Program, which post he still holds. 
   This past January, Draper gave a speech to a
conference in Washington, stating that population
reduction is the core of Bush's ``new world order.'' 

     - From population control to depopulation war -
   In 1970, Bush lost his race for the U.S. Senate. But
that did not deter him from carrying on his campaign
against the human race. Appointed by President Nixon as
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Bush used that post
to promote zero growth on a global basis. In 1973, he
became U.S. emissary to communist China, where he gave
100% support to China's savage population control program,
which includes sterilization and abortion, as well as
infanticide. 
   Now, as President, Bush has taken his zero-growth
insanity to its ultimate conclusion, using the instruments
of modern warfare to kill countless numbers of people in
the Third World, while simultaneously sabotaging domestic
programs on which the lives of millions depend. If Bush is
allowed to continue his policies unfettered, there won't
simply be zero growth; there will be zero people. 

>From EIR V18, #17.


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Thanks.

         John Covici

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