...His book, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass (Encounter Books, 1999) argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought the underclass into being. Changes in beliefs and values at the top of American society produced catastrophic changes in behavior at the bottom. President-elect George W. Bush told the Wall Street Journal that it was the most important book he'd ever read after the Bible, and Bush strategist Karl Rove calls The Dream and the Nightmare a roadmap to the president-elects "compassionate conservatism." Hilton Kramer called the book "an indispensable guide to the outstanding question of the day," columnist Mona Charen deemed it "the book of the decade," and the Wall Street Journal remarked that "many writers have addressed this topic [of the underclass] but few have done so with more wisdom or more passion.
Poverty? Dubya Says Blame the Hippies!
Wed, 15 Oct 2003
"The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy]
can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!"
Benito Mussolini Address, from Palazzo Venezia balcony October 27, 1930
The Dream and the Nightmare: Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass
(William Morrow, 1993; Encounter Books, 2000) by Myron Magnet
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948
A locker-room mentality dominates the spirit of many contemporary discourses on poverty and welfare in America. Intellectual jocks bandy loose talk about women (and some men) as lesser beings, subject to odd sexual whims and antisocial behaviors and, more generally, as so many objects for experiment. Facts need not get in the way--they can be (and are) marshaled to suit the moment. Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare is no exception. In his chapter on "Victimizing the Poor," he cites twenty-six "real" men (and one fictional [man]) as evidentiary elements of his central argument that poor people have been victimized by being said to have been victimized. Not a single female is called upon to prove a point. Yet the chapter is largely about people on welfare--94 percent of whom are single mothers and their children.
Theresa Funiciello
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error;
it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442
The book that helped shape Bush’s message by Dave McNeely
Austin American-Statesman 1- 27-99
The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist
"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?
Richard Nixon missing tapes
On the right there is complete, indeed even gleeful, agreement of this dismal portrait, imagery of fast, losing ground, except that the road to racial hell has been paved by the very policies intended to help to solve the problem are painted by the dream and the nightmare of cultural changes in the 60s and overbreeding and educational integration of the inferior African - Americans and low class whites and genetically situated on the wrong tail of the IQ bell curve. [LAUGHTER]
Orlando Patterson
The godfathers of 'compassionate conservatism' ;
Authors' works have helped shape candidate Bush's core philosophy by Bill Minutaglio
The Dallas Morning Star 4-16-00
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1929
CIA Think Tank to Head Bush Religion Initiative
The NY Times article below describes the two men Bush is putting in charge of his religion plan, John J. DiIulio Jr. and Stephen Goldsmith. Both men are senior fellows of the CIA's Manhattan Institute and are colleagues of Charles Murray, author of the classic text of scientific racism, The Bell Curve.
Most of Bush's advisors are also associated with the Bell Curve. As just one of many examples, Murray was a consultant on Tommy Thompsons' Wisconsin Welfare Reform program, which Bush will make the national model. Following the Times article you will find quotes from the NY Times and the Manhattan Institute's own website to substantiate the CIA origin of the Manhattan Institute, its influence on GW Bush and its very close decade-long association with Charles Murray, who wrote The Bell Curve while a research fellow at The Manhattan Institute.
Whether you are a fundamentalist Christian, an Orthodox Jew, a devout Muslim or an atheist you might question what part the CIA rightfully has in a multi-billion dollar "religion initiative" or in any domestic US policy decisions. The best known modern example of government sponsored religion-based initiatives is Nazi Germany.
Robert Lederman
artistpres@aol.com
"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy - or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it. Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935
"Reefer Crazed Teens Cause Terror Alert"
Marijuana - Assassin of Youth JULY 1937 by H.J.Anslinger
How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries, and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can be only conjectured. The sweeping march of its addiction has been so insidious that, in numerous communities, it thrives almost unmolested, largely because of official ignorance of its effects. Anslinger
Bush's Cabinet: John J. DiIulio, Jr. and His Change of Heart
"PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8 - From his perch as the director of the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which he believes will help uplift many needy people but particularly the most troubled teenagers, John J. Dilulio Jr. conceded today that he wished he had never become the 1990's intellectual pillar for putting violent juveniles in prison and condemning them as 'superpredators.' That alarm was raised in "Body Count" (Simon & Schuster, 1996), written with William J. Bennett and John P. Walters, which advanced the theory, since disproved, that these superpredators would sharply increase the level of teenage violence by the turn of this century. His prediction wasn't just wrong, it was exactly the opposite,' said Franklin E. Zimring, professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and director of the university's Earl Warren Legal Institute.'His theories on superpredators were utter madness.'
America’s New Drug Pusher John P Walters
WoD Articles Liberty Removal
"[Marijuana is taken by] musicians.
And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type..."
Harry J. Anslinger Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1948
Snake-Oil Salesmen
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — whose anti-pot road show blew through Boston last week — wants you to believe that everything about marijuana is bad, bad, bad. That the plant’s promising medicinal benefits are simply a "Trojan-horse issue," perpetrated by drug-reform advocates who are taking advantage of sick and dying people to advance a decriminalization agenda. That legalizing medical marijuana would confuse the "just say no" message for adolescents and cause them to glamorize debilitating diseases like cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis.
