Sever their roots

 

In some of the most powerful literature of the 20th century, celebrated Russian novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn exposed the heavy suffering under Soviet Communism. Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and often combative literary struggles gained the force of prophecy, maintained:

“To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.”

While an ordinary man was obliged “not to participate in lies,” Solzhenitsyn believed there were those who had greater responsibilities. “It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!”

In October 1994, Mr. Solzhenitsyn addressed Russia’s Parliament. His complaints and condemnations had not abated. “This is not a democracy, but an oligarchy,” he declared. “Rule by the few.”

While many Americans today are echoing Solzhenitsyn’s words, few may actually understand how we ever got to this point?

Believe me, it wasn’t happenstance, nor did it happen overnight.

Free peoples have always struggled to maintain their national sovereignty and God-given rights. In Thomas Jefferson’s January 6, 1816 letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, he wrote, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free …it expects what never was and never will be.”

The first attempt to dissolve national sovereignty and national law, under an institution with global jurisdiction, began with the construction of the Peace Palace in the Netherlands. When the building was completed in 1913, Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history– providing the funding for the Peace Palace’s construction–called it “the most holy building in the world.”

Carnegie realized the creation of such an organization would require control of America’s educational and political institutions–control that could only be achieved by the expenditure of vast sums of cash from charitable foundations. These institutions would in turn become reliant on these contributions for their continued existence, and the trustees of the foundation thereby would gain control over their operations; changing both school and college curricula to the point where they often denied the principles underlying the American way of life.

Eight years before the key to the Peace Palace was presented to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, two men: major oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller and Frederick Gates, Rockefeller’s principal business and philanthropic advisor, created the General Education Board (1905).

“In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands,” crowed Gates. “The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science.”

In other words, they intended to foster a society of “sheeple,” a people docile, foolish, and easily led.

Exactly what educational reformer John Dewey envisioned at the onset of the twentieth century. Writes John Taylor Gatto, an American author and former schoolteacher for nearly 30 years, “Our once highly individualized nation has evolved into a centrally managed village, an agora made up of huge special interests which regard individual voices as irrelevant. The masquerade is managed by having collective agencies speak through particular human beings. Dewey said this would mark a great advance in human affairs, but the net effect is to reduce men and women to the status of functions in whatever subsystem they are placed. Public opinion is turned on and off in laboratory fashion. All this in the name of social efficiency, one of the two main goals of forced schooling.”– The Underground History of American Education (2000)

“Knowing the rise of global government required social engineering,” authors Rodney Howard-Brown and Paul L. Williams make plain, “the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), which was established in 1905, gained control of America’s education system. The foundation provided general endowments to institutions that complied with its prescribed scholastic standards and entrance requirements. By 1909, the CFAT had become the national unofficial accrediting agency for colleges and universities. It possessed the power to create the curricula, to oversee the faculty, and to supervise the actions of the administration.

“Since Carnegie was an avowed socialist, an agnostic (a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God), a globalist, and an associate of the Rhodes Society (‘The Secret Society’), universities throughout America began to reflect his ideology and beliefs.”

In 1953, Carroll Reece, Congressman from Eastern Tennessee, had his committee begin an investigation into the American Establishment: the Tax-Exempt Foundations. The Reece Committee Hearings exposed America’s major tax-exempt foundations as moving toward a One-World State.

Part Two next week.