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Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
Nelson Hultbergnelshultberg@aol.com Jun 23, 2003More and more Americans today are coming to understand the terrible truthabout our Federal Government -- that it seeks to dominate us as citizens, tomold us into a society of dutiful Stepford Wives totally beholden to thewishes of elite politicians, bureaucrats and bankers. Those who study history,independent of the public school system, understand that this stateaggrandizement process has been under way for the past 100 years inAmerica in one form or another. And that it is taking place because too manyof our citizens sanction such dictatorial usurpation and actually workdiligently for its implementation. This process has resulted in the lion's share of our earnings being annuallyconfiscated by these governmental elites and then redistributed todespicable projects of waste and war to further their dream of worldcollectivism. It has led to the shocking debasement of our currency and anendless escalation in the cost of staying alive. It has brought about thedegeneration of our economy from a robust engine of industry and personalself-reliance to an effete conglomeration of bloated consumers subsisting onfinancial gimickery and debt addiction. As a result, America, once a proudland of muscular factories and productive people, has become a stuporoussociety of shopping malls and welfare crybabies. Once scintillating lives of freedom are now humdrum tenures of conformity to the insufferable NannyState.Why this process is taking place is one of the most disheartening questionsof our time. What follows is an an attempt to show why and how it isunfolding. There are other reasons as to "why and how" than the one givenhere, for no country's evolution into despotism is due to a singular, clear cutcause. Tyranny's evolution is always a highly complex process with manyconvoluted and puzzling forces all coalescing to bring about freedom'sdemise. This essay, however, is a look into one of the most important of those forces.A very popular and frightening science-fiction movie in 1956, called
Invasionof the Body Snatchers,
is an apt metaphor for what is taking place in ourcountry. In the movie starring Dana Wynter and Kevin McCarthy, a network of aliens are slowly and secretly taking over the bodies of the citizens of a smalltown by use of mysterious cadaver-like "pods" that are left in their backyardsand basements. Once transformed into an alien, each citizen then tries torecruit the rest of his family and friends. It's absolutely chilling in its impact --one of the great science-fiction movies ever. Today's collectivists, working so assiduously to transform America, are likethe aliens in that movie. They permeate our entire society and are after notour bodies, but the enslavement of our minds and souls. Ideological fallacies
 
and moral inversions are the mysterious pods that these aliens leave in thecerebral backyards of our lives. They are aliens because they wish to destroyour system of natural liberty and limited government. And even though mostof them believe what they are doing is right, they are far from innocent, forthey have
chosen to blank out 
on the horrendous ramifications of what theyare doing.
Teaching a False Ideal
It begins in the school system. All modern authoritarian political movementsof history require recruitment of an intellectual vanguard to proselytize themasses into accepting the authoritarian rule. This vanguard is recruited fromthe "ablest and brightest" of the nation involved. History shows how leadingintellects of Europe used this strategy starting in the 1880's and 1890's tomove Germany, Russia, and Italy into authoritarian political systems by the1917-1930 period. What history also shows (if one wants to view itobjectively) is that the same thing has been going on in America for manydecades, only on a much more subtle level. The problem is that our mediaand our scholars quickly lose their objectivity when analyzing their ownpolitical system and the propagandistic methods used to promote it. Thus,history's lesson is ignored for modern day consumption in order to furtherthe recruitment of the American intelligentsia into promotion of the ideologyof collectivism.Instead of being forums for the transmission of the values of civilization tothe young, our colleges and universities have now become the breedingground for this statist recruitment process, in which the better students getswept up in the "false ideal" of collectivism. These better students thenproceed out into the world to positions of intellectual, political and economicleadership, to proselytize the masses into this alleged ideal just as churchmissionaries used to go out into the world to spread the gospel. Thedifference being that the missionaries were spreading good, while today'scollectivists are pushing fallacies.Such a vision very subtly conveys the notion that mankind is capable of achieving an egalitarian world where there will be no poverty, no disparity of wealth, no prejudice, no ignorance, no wars -- in short a heaven on earth. The requisites for bringing about such a world are to erradicate the"nefarious workings" of the free-market through centralization of governmentpower in Washington, and then eventually move to some form of worldgoverning body. This is necessary because it is allegedly capitalism andman's drive for profits which are responsible for the strife, wars and povertyfrom which the world suffers. Western civilization, having been built uponcapitalism and profit, must be razed and replaced with a new civilization thatwill usher in this heaven on earth.It is a powerful futuristic vision that is insidiously instilled into callow mindswho lack the necessary sophistication to resist. Being young and prone toidealism, they perceive "political centralization and a one-world government"to be an ideal just as the students in Marx's day mistook his "dictatorship of the proletariat" as some sort of ideal. Thousands of highly intelligent
 
students spring forth from this brainwash every year to enter the world andspread their newly learned convictions that capitalism and Westerncivilization are the "roots of all evil." These "ablest and brightest" of our youth advance over the years intoprominent careers as teachers, journalists, publishers, movie directors,ministers, politicians, bankers, and businessmen -- all the time working forand promoting collectivism. Yet they don't see themselves as working foranything dictatorial. They think the political centralization and Keynesianismtaught to them by their mentors will heal the strife in the world, cure thepoverty of the ghettos, smooth out the prejudices between races, etc. Theythink gold money is primitive and inflation progressive. When they push formore and more centralized government, more and more taxes, more andmore regulations, more and more "liquidity" from the Federal Reserve, theyare working for what they think will be a more benign civilization. They thinkthey are working for an "ideal."As the great philosophers tell us, it is ideals that are the primary movers of men throughout history. Our tragedy is that we are educating one generationafter another with "false ideals," and the evidence that would expose thefalsity of those ideals is not allowed a respectable place in our public schoolsdue to those schools' control by government bureaucracies and the statistviewpoint.
The New World Order
One of the most influential institutions resulting from this indoctrinationprocess is what is called the Trilateral Commission. This is an internationalgroup of about 300 elite intellectuals, statesmen, bankers, and businessmenfounded in 1973 by billionaire banker David Rockefeller as a spin off from theolder Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The Council on Foreign Relations is like the Trilateral Commission, only muchlarger; it is composed of approximately 4,000 prominent leaders in business,government, and education, etc. It was formed in the 1920's by a group of progressive intellectuals of Woodrow Wilson's era led by the openlyacknowledged Marxian socialist Edward Mandell House who was Wilson'schief advisor. Its officially stated purpose was to coordinate America's foreignpolicy with other nations to create a more peaceful and orderly world. But inactuality, its originators designed the organization to lead America into worldcollectivism. The group today claims vague educational goals as its purpose, butnumerous public statements from its leaders indicate that its policies areclearly directed toward transforming U.S. sovereignty and nationalindependence into some form of all-powerful world government. It has, sincethe days of its inception, been patiently working for this goal, and its spin-off group, the Trilateral Commission, is doing likewise.In his book,
With No Apologies,
the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater tells usthat while David Rockefeller publicly launched the Trilateral Commission, the
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