Sever their roots

 

In 1953, B. Carroll Reece, Congressman from Eastern Tennessee, chaired a five-member committee who began 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.

Democrat committee member, Representative Wayne Hays (Ohio), whose career would end in a sexual scandal in 1976, was able to persuade members of The Reece Committee to pull the plug on the investigation. The committee’s Director of Research and Chief Investigator, Norman Dodd, however, went public with his findings almost immediately after the committee shut down its hearings.

Dodd’s report began with a definition of “subversive,” saying that the term referred to “Any action having as its purpose the alteration of either the principle or the form of the United States Government by other than constitutional means.”

Wrote Dodd, “It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution.”

The committee’s counsel, Rene Wormser, summarized the Committee’s findings. His book, Foundations (1958), has become a vital document in understanding the leftward drift of America’s elite. Wormser wrote, “The growing radicalism which was beginning rapidly to permeate academic circles was no grass-roots movement. Mr. [Aaron] Sargent [In 1878, Sargent historically introduced what would later become the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote] cited a statement by [Austrian] Professor Ludwig Von Mises that socialism does not spring from the masses but is instigated by intellectuals that form themselves into a clique and bore from within and operate that way. It is not a people’s movement at all. It is a capitalization on the people’s emotions and sympathies toward a point these people wish to reach.”

Among the most notable findings of the Reece Committee:

From “1933–1936, a change took place which was so drastic as to constitute a ‘revolution.’ This ‘revolution’ had occurred without violence and with the full consent of an overwhelming majority of the electorate. In seeking to explain this unprecedented phenomenon, subsequent studies pursued by the staff clearly showed it could not have occurred peacefully, or with the consent of the majority, unless education in the United States had been prepared in advance to endorse it” (Dodd, 6).”

The committee’s investigation further divulged that Tax-Exempt Foundations even went to the extent of “financing experiments designed to determine the most effective means by which education could be pressed into service of a political nature.”

I’d say the “jury’s in” and such foundations have been more than successful in advancing their revolutionary policies.

In 1965, The Department of Health, Education and Welfare commissioned Michigan State University to draft a report, “Behavioral Science Teacher Education Program” (BSTEP). The report outlined how to change our children’s values, attitudes and beliefs.

Page 255 of BSTEP’s Overview reads:

“The Protestant Ethic will atrophy [waste away] as more and more enjoy varied leisure and guaranteed sustenance. No major source of a sense of worth and dignity will replace the Protestant Ethic. Most people will tend to be hedonistic [engaged in the pursuit of pleasure; sensually self-indulgent], and a dominant elite will provide ‘bread and circuses’ to keep social dissension and disruption at a minimum.”

Before the outbreak of WW I (July 28, 1914 – Nov 11, 1918), Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller Junior, who served as the first president of the Rockefeller Foundation, came to an understanding: the key to conditioning the American people required a drastic rewriting of American history. University professors and high school teachers who objected to these changes were fired or cowed into silence.

As we have witnessed both in our local school and in schools and universities around the globe, expressing opinions that are at variance with those “officially” sanctioned, will not be tolerated (by the self-labeled “tolerant”). Those individuals who do not fit the mold will be emotionally badgered and intimidated until coerced into strict compliance …or that individual will suffer the consequences for resisting the “molding,” i.e., “social engineering.”

We would do well to heed English Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1844) strong words of caution, “The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”

A significant factor in the severing of our roots is the sad fact that contemporary Americans remain virtually oblivious of our history. This certainly can be attributed to our failing, politically engineered, educational system.

American educator, philosopher, and diplomat Nicholas Murray Butler, who served as president of Columbia University from 1901 to 1945, in a speech delivered October 23, 1919, implored: “The question to be settled by the people this year is whether the American nation shall remain upon its foundations of ordered liberty and free opportunity, or whether there will arise in its stead a social democracy– autocracy’s best friend–to take over the management of each individual’s life and business, to order his coming and his goings, to limit his occupations and his savings, and to say that the great experiment of Washington and Hamilton, of Jefferson and Edison, of Marshall and Webster, of Adams and Clay, of Lincoln and Roosevelt, has come to an end, and gone to join the list of failures in free government, with the ancient republics…”

“There are elements in our population which teach doctrines that sound strange to the American ear. The present crisis is brought about by those who have lost faith in America … who no longer believe in, or who do not understand the principles of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution of the United States …who would turn their backs upon a republican form of government, in order to set up in its place a system of control by a privileged class. Such men frankly proclaim their preference for the political philosophy of Lenin and Trotsky to that of Washington, Hamilton, Webster, and Lincoln. Once let the American people understand the issue, and they will rise in their might to overwhelm the enemies of America. The issue is a preservation of the American form of government, with its incomparable blessing of liberty under the law.”

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921, forewarned, “Some of the biggest men in the United States in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so persuasive, that they had better not speak above their breaths when they speak in condemnation of it.”

Wilson’s counterpart in the Presidential campaign of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, who had left the Presidency in 1909 and decided to jump back in, claimed during his presidential campaign, “Behind the visible government there is an invisible government upon the throne that owes the people no loyalty and recognizes no responsibility. To destroy this invisible government, to undo the ungodly union between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the task of a statesman.”

“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family tradition, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” Dr. George Brock Chisholm, first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1948 to 1953.