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Progressives, Eugenics, Holdren and LGF

by Phantom Ace ( 45 Comments › )
Filed under Healthcare, LGF, Liberal Fascism, Science at July 16th, 2009 - 5:45 pm

John Holdren who is now a Science Czar co wrote a book calling for Eugenics. The idea that the Earth’s population must be controlled through forced sterilization is an old one. It dates to the Late 19th Early 20th Century Progressive movement. The Progressive movement which today is back with full force, spawned the ideologies of Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism. In politics right now, the Progressives are the most powerful and best organized force.

As you will see below the Progressives have been the driving force behind Eugenics.

What is less well known is that eugenic thought deeply influenced the Progressive Era transformation of the state’s relationship to the American economy. Progressive Era economics, like the regulatory state it helped found, came of age at a time when biological approaches to social and economic reform were at their high-water mark. Reform-minded economists (and other social scientists) argued that the labor force should be rid of unfit workers–whom they labeled “unemployables,” “parasites,” and the “industrial residuum”–so as to uplift superior, deserving workers. Immigrants, blacks, and those deemed defective in character or intellect were regarded by leading labor legislation activists less as victims of industrial capitalism than as threats to the health and well-being of deserving workers and of society more generally. Mostly neglected by historians of American economics, these invidious distinctions crucially informed the labor and immigration reform that is the hallmark of the Progressive Era (Leonard 2003a). (2)

This crude, eugenically informed sorting of workers into deserving and undeserving classes was applied to women as well. Many reformers classified women among the “unemployable.” In the United States, where nearly all Progressive Era labor legislation applied to women exclusively, laws regulating women’s work were promoted for the benefits thought to obtain when women were removed from paid employment. Leading progressives, among them women at the forefront of labor reform, advocated excluding women from the labor force on the grounds that (1) work outside the home threatened women’s health and morals; (2) working women usurped jobs that rightly belonged to male heads of household entitled to a “family wage”; and (3) women in the labor force improperly abandoned their eugenic duties as “mothers of the race.” (3)

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Mothers of the Race where did we hear that term? Nazi Germany, that is where.

As you see Holdren’s views are part of the Progressive movement. Here is another comment from the above article.

By 1933, American demographer and eugenicist Paul Popenoe could boast that eugenic sterilization laws obtained in jurisdictions comprising 150 million people (Kevles 1995: 115). (9)

Could this be the reason that The Progressive Machine wants Health-care reform? With control of the Health-care system, medical care will be rationed by the government. This will allow the government to determine who gets care and who doesn’t. What will be the determination of who gets care? Could this be the means by which Progressives decide who lives and a dies? Who will be the undesirables?

Another overlooked aspect of Eugenics is the support it has among Darwinists. An example of this is Former Jazz Guitarist Charles “Icarus” Johnson owner of the Progressive blog LGF. Charles is a hardcore Darwinist and has banned anyone on his blog who questions this ideology. As the below Article shows, Darwinism influenced Eugenics thinking.

Galton introduced his own controversial idea—the theory of eugenics—in 1883.  At the time, Galton was probably thinking simply in terms of science, using his theory to describe selective breeding in humans as a means to improve the fitness of the human race.  However, when his theory was united with Spencer’s socially inclined concept of survival, the result was social Darwinism, a gripping theory about competition for survival among human races and social classes.

During Galton’s era—the Victorian Age in Britain—eugenics and social Darwinism seemed reasonable.  The notion that filth and disease were associated with immorality was widespread.  Furthermore, those who viewed themselves as superior, usually members of the upper classes of society, found that they could rely upon the theories put forth by Galton and Spencer to justify their discrimination against the lower classes.

Read the article.

This would explain Charles “Icarus” Johnson defending John Holdren’s Book on Sterilization on Scientific grounds.

As disturbing as the ideas in Ecoscience may seem, thinking through extreme situations and visualizing consequences and possible solutions is part of what science is about.

Interesting, Eugenics is OK since it is a radical Scientific solution to an extreme situation of over population. This analysis is disturbing and exposes Charles’s Darwinist ideology as Totalitarian and genocidal.

This puts Charles Johnson on the same side as Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Nice company you have, Icarus.


Sweden Rules ‘Gender-Based’ Abortion Legal

by WrathofG-d ( 101 Comments › )
Filed under Abortion, Science, World at May 12th, 2009 - 10:48 am

eu⋅gen⋅ics

[yoo-jen-iks] –noun (used with a singular verb)

“The study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, esp. by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics)”



http://collegeotr.s3.amazonaws.com/images/blogs/712da2c2918169e6e526a90dbf05205a.jpgSwedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television.

The Local reported in February that a woman from Eskilstuna in southern Sweden had twice had abortions after finding out the gender of the child.

The woman, who already had two daughters, requested an amniocentesis in order to allay concerns about possible chromosome abnormalities.  At the same time, she also asked to know the foetus’s gender.

Doctors at Mälaren Hospital expressed concern and asked Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) to draw up guidelines on how to handle requests in the future in which they “feel pressured to examine the foetus’s gender” without having a medically compelling reason to do so.

The board has now responded that such requests and thus abortions can not be refused and that it is not possible to deny a woman an abortion up to the 18th week of pregnancy, even if the foetus’s gender is the basis for the request.

{The Aticle}

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Sweden is one of the countries that the United States is presently looking at for guidance on “universal healthcare”, and an example of a mix of socialist and capitalist economies.  On more than one occasion, I have heard the radio hosts on “Air America” use Sweden as an model for where the U.S. should be heading.  I have found them to be a good gauge as to where the Democrat party is going.

It is not my intent to over state this issue, but with the obsessive protectionism, and reckless expansion of laws regarding abortion that continue to take place, I would not be surprised at all if we one day soon saw the ruling in Sweden coming to our shores.  As is typical, what is orignally accepted as a small personal choice and protection is thrown down a slippery slope and expanded to grant Rights not even originally contemplated.

How long is it really till the “Right to an abortion” is used to allow the woman the “choice” to abort the baby because she doesn’t like its future hair color, height, skin color, voice, arm length, etc?  (ie Eugenics)