On the roots of the population control movement

*Update: I've bumped this to include a link to this follow-up-post by RS McCain (wish I had time to comment but I'm busy all day today), and to give more of you a chance to see the must-see photo below which illustrates a favorite literary quote: "Babys is great stuff Al."*

7/17/09
RS McCain has written a must-read on the origins of John Holdren's anti-people philosophy. Though Obama's science czar wrote Ecoscience in 1977, and though his proposals to spike the water supply with sterilizing drugs and force abortions on the 'unfit' strike us as outlandish, his ideas are strictly relevant to the culture of death we live in today and to the threatened government takeover of our health care.

Tragically for humanity, population control advocates such as Holdren have been hugely successful. Evidence of that success can be found in the millions of legal abortions since Roe v Wade, in the 90% abortion rate of Down syndrome babies, in the growth of the assisted suicide movement, and so on.

McCain points out the veritable brainwashing two generations have undergone since the 1960's on the issue of "overpopulation." Read the whole thing.

Excerpts:

The population control movement, which generated the anti-baby hysteria that Ehrlich and Holdren promoted in their books, was largely the brainchild of John D. Rockefeller III. Rockefeller funded much of the movement himself and through a number of family trusts and foundations, and he encouraged other foundations (Ford, Scaife, Carnegie) to do the same.

Rockefeller promoted the population control movement through many means, but just to give you an example, between 1959 and 1964 one organization alone, the Population Council, got more than $5 million from the Rockefellers, $8.4 million from the Ford Foundation and $2.1 million from Scaife. So that’s $15 million in five years, back when a million dollars was a lot of money.

Mr. McCain quotes the vile Ted Turner at length, and explains:

People like Turner think they're "the smart ones," and love to recite environmental nonsense, global warming idiocies and pro-choice talking points as if these were indisputable facts. The neo-Malthusian agenda (which I discussed in "Forbidding To Marry" in April) is advanced by people who don't even realize they're advancing an agenda at all.

"It's science!" these people declare, dismissing skeptics as "ignorant," when in fact the real ignorance is on their part -- environmentalists and pro-choicers often don't know the real history of their own movement.

The mention of Ted Turner is enough to ruin one's breakfast. Time for a palate-cleanser:


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