This series is, believe it or not, winding down. In part 8, I highlighted how some of the population control proposals of the 60s and 70s- as illustrated in the Jaffe memo- have been put forward, almost word for word, in our modern times, especially visible in the area of ‘climate change.’  Actually, these proposals go back into the 1800s, past Darwin, and come to rest more or less, as far as modern ‘population control’ thinking goes, on Thomas Malthus.   The proposals and the thinking has remained the same, only the pretext, justifications, and rationales have changed. Under Malthus, it was a concern about poverty and warfare and the clash for ‘finite resources.’  Darwinism led many people to view the world in genetic terms, and the notion of ‘population control’ was given its scientific guise, known ultimately as ‘eugenics.’  The end of the Civil War, and the huge influx of freed slaves released into larger society, led the eugenicists to view their population control programs in racial terms.  It was a simple exercise of logic to recognize that if everything reduces to evolutionary principles, it is in humanity’s interest to weed out the ‘dysgenic,’ and who better to know what are good and bad genes than scientists?  The freed slaves, kept deliberately illiterate and with no skill set beyond picking cotton, had all of the marks of the ‘dysgenic,’ but in the eugenicists’ defense, any unskilled illiterate qualified;  the black people were just easier to spot. The scientific program to… read on

This is part 8 of a series reacting to the contents of the Jaffe memo.  Readers who have been following along may want to refresh their memory and obviously new readers should read what has come before or, barring that, at the minimum find the Jaffe memo linked in part one and read it. I want to begin this section quoting from a truly ghastly article by a columnist from Canada named Diane Francis, who advocated for a globally enforced one child policy: A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days. Ouch.  At least she doesn’t beat around the bush! She continues: For those who balk at the notion that governments should control family sizes, just wait until the growing human population turns twice as much pastureland into desert as is now the case, or when the Amazon is gone, the elephants disappear for good and wars erupt over water, scarce resources and spatial needs. The point is that Copenhagen’s talking points are beside the point. The only fix is if all countries drastically reduce their populations, clean up their messes and impose mandatory conservation measures. She is writing in reaction to the UN conference on climate change being held at the time in Copenhagen.  She wasn’t the only columnist to link the environment to population control.  Lisa Manterfield in this masterpiece of liberal logic looks to the amount of diapers… read on

This series began as a reflection of the contents of the Jaffe Memo, a Planned Parenthood document from 1969 that discussed ideas for handling the ‘population’ crisis.  This memo succinctly lays bear an agenda that has been in play since before the Civil War, and as I have demonstrated in previous parts of this series (and elsewhere), is still very much with us today.  The problem, as I have argued, is that many issues that are in front of us today for consideration were actually put forward by the liberal progressives at the turn of the century, who hoped at the time that measures such as a minimum wage, compulsory sterlization, etc, could reduce the number of ‘undesirables’ in society.  They usually meant:  black people. It has been the point of this series to argue that ‘religion’ and ‘politics’ must mix.  That is, our values must inform our politics.   This would go without saying- after all, if our values aren’t informing our politics, what is informing our politics?  However, there is a prevailing notion that religious people are not allowed to have their values inform their politics, because that would be ‘forcing your religious views’ on another.  Christians themselves have accepted this premise.   The point of this series has been to show that this is an extremely dangerous premise to accept, as the Jaffe memo illustrates;  if those measures were to be enacted, America would be under a tyranny that goes beyond the horrors of the Nazis and beyond the… read on

This morning, a person with the email address [ doctorkc@ukmall.net ] signed up for my newsletter. My newsletter form then sends the submitter to the correct link for entering one’s email in the actual newsletter email list, which then generates an email requesting activation and verification. This is essentially a ‘triple opt-in’ procedure that goes beyond the industry ‘best practice’ ‘double opt-in’ method for managing newsletters. You can imagine my surprise, then, when I received two emails from my registrar indicating someone had accused me of spamming. As evidence, they forwarded the activation emails.

I was a little torqued, as you might imagine, because I had really done all I could to prevent exactly that sort of accusation. read on

In Part 5, I concluded that something very significant has happened over the last three decades: ‘politics’ has become all-encompassing. In short: everything has become political. And if everything has become political, and Christians are supposed to butt out, that means that the Christian is being asked (or told) that he can have absolutely no opinion at all about anything that happens in society that they are permitted to all. I’m not talking about abortion, or gay marriage. I’m talking about everything. For example, let’s say we were talking about the minimum wage. At first blush, if ever there were a topic where good men could have different points of views and still be good men, it would be this topic… until, perhaps, you discover it was (and still is?!?!) a tool for targeting poor black people for elimination from society.***  Now, we are told that we are not allowed to bring to bear ‘religious’ or ‘moral’ arguments on public policy. I happen to think it is immoral beyond words to try to make it so that poor black people starve to death, and frankly this will over ride any other consideration I might have. I’m not going to sit around crafting a ‘secular’ version of my abhorrence to this public policy so that the atheists will allow me a hearing. You don’t deliberately try to starve people to death via government policies, period. It’s wrong and immoral, end of story. But remember, I’m not allowed to let my religious… read on

In my first post, I showed how the beliefs of the Nazis and the eugenicists are disturbingly similar to viewpoints of some modern liberals.  I gave three examples;  I could have given three hundred.  The Jaffe Memo shows that ‘population control’ is central to the the progressive outlook on the world.  It is an aspect of their ‘religion.’  As progressives have flooded into the government over the last sixty years, the moral (!) righteousness of population control has become institutionalized. I illustrated this fact by showing how several issues typically promoted as planks of the Democrat platform on the basis of ‘equality’ are revealed by sources such as the Jaffe Memo to be disingenuously put forward.   The plotting liberals said they wanted ‘women’s liberation’ but in fact they wanted to ‘encourage women to work’ because then they couldn’t have large families.  They say they are for gay rights, but this isn’t because of a particular fondness for gays, but for the obvious biological fact that gays will procreate with *ahem* difficulty.  They say they are for a ‘fair wage,’ but things like the minimum wage were originally enacted in an attempt to starve poor black people to death, since the work they were qualified to do was so low that no employer could bring himself to pay that kind of wage in order to have it done. I say ‘plotting liberals’ to make clear again that most liberal secular humanistic atheistic progressives that you find on the street don’t imagine… read on