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From: Robert Lederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A respondent to my articles recently wrote back after reading "Giuliani Invokes Hitler/Rockefeller/Bush Conspiracy to Explain 9/11" at http://baltech.org/lederman/ stating that it wasn't true that the U.S. ever had a eugenics policy (it still does today) or that Bush, Rockefeller and Harriman were behind it etc. Here's a brief recent article from the ABC.com website titled: "U.S. Eugenics Like Nazi Policy" It's a history few living Americans know anything about. Ask your grandparents if they're still around and you'll be surprised at what you hear. If you are skeptical about there being a mainstream Nazi influence in the U.S. see this site, "The Nazi Hydra in America" http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/noon.html FROM: ABCnews.com http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/eugenics_000214.html U.S. Eugenics Like Nazi Policy Study: Forced Sterilizations Carried Out Longer Than Thought Reuters By David Morgan P H I L A D E L P H I A, Feb. 14 - U.S. doctors who once believed that sterilization could help rid society of mental illness and crime launched a 20th-century eugenics movement that in some ways paralleled the policies of Nazi Germany, researchers said today. A Yale study tracing a once-popular scientific movement aimed at improving society through selective breeding indicates that state-authorized sterilizations were carried out longer and on a larger scale in the United States than previously believed, beginning with the first state eugenics law in Indiana in 1907. Despite modern assumptions that American interest in eugenics waned during the 1920s, researchers said sterilization laws had authorized the neutering of more than 40,000 people classed as insane or "feebleminded" in 30 states by 1944. Another 22,000 underwent sterilization between the mid-1940s and 1963, despite weakening public support and revelations of Nazi atrocities, according to the study, funded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Merck Co. Foundation. Forced sterilization was once legal in 18 U.S. states, and most states with eugenics laws allowed people to be sterilized without their consent by leaving the decision to a third party. "The comparative histories of the eugenical sterilization campaigns in the United States and Nazi Germany reveal important similarities of motivation, intent and strategy," the study's authors wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a journal published by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. Taking Social Darwinism Another Step Eugenics sprang from the philosophy known as social Darwinism, which envisioned human society in terms of natural selection and suggested that science could engineer progress by attacking supposedly hereditary problems including moral decadence, crime, venereal disease, tuberculosis and alcoholism. German and American eugenics advocates both believed science could solve social problems, tended to measure the worth of the individual in economic terms and felt mental illness a threat to society grave enough to warrant compulsive sterilization. And while Nazi Germany's claims of Aryan superiority are well known, researchers said U.S. advocates of sterilization worried that the survival of old-stock America was being threatened by the influx of "lower races" from southern and eastern Europe. There was also mutual admiration, with early U.S. policies drawing glowing reviews from authorities in pre-Nazi Germany. "Germany is perhaps the most progressive nation in restricting fecundity among the unfit," editors of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote in 1934, a year after Hitler became chancellor. 'Better for All the World .' But the study, based partly on old editorials from the New England Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association, also demonstrated how the U.S. eugenics movement gradually waned while its Nazi counterpart carried out 360,000 to 375,000 sterilizations during the 1930s and grew to encompass so-called mercy killings. "In the United States, a combination of public unease, Roman Catholic opposition, federal democracy, judicial review and critical scrutiny by the medical profession reversed the momentum," the article said. The U.S. practice of neutering "mentally defective" individuals was backed by most leading geneticists and often justified on grounds that it would relieve the public of the cost of caring for future generations of the mentally ill. Sterilizations also took place mainly in public mental institutions, where the poor and ethnic or racial minorities were housed in disproportionately high numbers. "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind," Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in the majority opinion of a landmark eugenics case in 1926. =-------------------- Here's a GOOGLE search result on Rockefeller AND eugenics AND "united States" http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Rockefeller+AND+eugenics+AND+%22u nited+ states%22&btnG=Google+Search There are entire websites about just Rockefeller and eugenics. You can find many links to such info on my website http://baltech.org/lederman/ You can do similar searchs on Bush and eugenics etc. This is the key to understanding all the policies of Bush, Giuliani etc. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Members of the left, along with the far larger number of squishy "progressives," have grossly failed to live up to their responsibility to think; rather, they are merely reacting, substituting tired slogans for thought." ----- Christopher Hitchens ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||| | PNEWS-L - LISTSERV(tm) is a NEWSLETTER with 23 SYMPOSIUM TOPICS | | TURN OFF topics you do not want - SUBMIT ESSAYS - CRITIQUE ARTICLES | | Highest level of *NET SECURITY* ~ Indexing-Digest-Search-Interface | | Topics= ALERTS,HEALTH,INTERNET,ETHICS,REFUGEES,REVIEWS | | HUMANITY,ANTI-SEMITISM,MISC,TERRORISM,LIBERTIES | | ZIONISM,HOLOCAUST,EMPIRE,NEWS,CONFLICT,CAPITALISM | | OPED,RHETORIC,POINTER,LETTERS,SOCIALISM,LAW | | -*FREE NEWSLETTER*- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | As of January 26th - 3,427 subscribers - On the Internet since 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||| ___ / o o \ ===OO=====OO========================================================== ===== "The Truth may not always win, but it is always right." 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