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May 4, 2009

Changing Society Through the Minds of Our Next Generation

Filed under:Changing Society Through the Minds of Our Next Generation — tru @ 2:12 am

by Loretta Baughan

Brainwashing? Perhaps that isn’t a very PC term, but to those whose radical ideals would never be accepted by the mainstream, freedom-loving, Constitutional true believers, “give me liberty or give me death”, red-white-and-blue Americans… focusing their efforts on our youth and using brainwashing - or coercive persuasion, as some prefer - is an option.

Techniques commonly seen, especially when targeting youth, is to establish the organization as a type of father figure. Dissenting views are not allowed. Ridicule and peer pressure are often encouraged to help shape opinion to support the group’s agenda. Slang or buzz words are repetitively impressed upon the recruits through the groups dogma - soon becoming a part of the members’ own vocabulary. Meetings and rallies create a sense of belonging… a sense of purpose… a sense of who they are. The organization vilifies the opposition through misinformation, by focusing blame and playing on the sympathies and emotions of their members. A demand for purity and confession of past sins is often required of members. The group’s beliefs are reinforced through propaganda. Disturbing… isn’t it?

Changing society through the minds of our next generation is not a new idea. It’s a technique as old as the inquisition. Throughout history, regimes such as Hitler and pre World War II Japan, the Soviet Union, People’s Republic of China and North Korea have used brainwashing techniques to control their populations. Following the Korean War, it was revealed that the Chinese conducted mind control experiments on US prisoners of war - later depicted in the 1962 movie, The Manchurian Candidate. Likewise, various cults - Moonies, Jonestown, Skinheads, Symbionese Liberation Army, Manson Family - and more recently, proponents of the so-called global warming crisis, which is based entirely on junk science designed to create a false sense of impending doom, have also used brainwashing techniques in an effort to alter people’s attitudes and beliefs through manipulation and deceit.

“PETA has infiltrated our public schools, offering free lesson plans to teachers in every school, from coast to coast, under the guise of “humane education”. These lesson plans do not teach, but rather, they indoctrinate our children and condition them to become the next generation of AR fanatics.”

Add to that list animal extremist groups who follow the beliefs that humans should not own animals, breed animals or use them in any way. Generally speaking, they have not been particularly successful at convincing mainstream America to join their cult. So groups like PETA have their sights on our children. PETA has infiltrated our public schools, offering free lesson plans to teachers in every school, from coast to coast, under the guise of “humane education”. These lesson plans do not teach, but rather, they indoctrinate our children and condition them to become the next generation of AR fanatics.

One such “lesson plan” was created by a PETA group called Just Choices . The lesson, The Road to Social Justice, equates racism, sexism and speciesism. It serves to elevate the so-called “animal protection movement” with the environmental movement and the civil rights movement. The lessons attempt to create the image that Peter Singer is as noble as Rosa Parks or Ghandi.

Who is Peter Singer?

That’s an interesting question. He’s a professor of bioethics at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values. He’s also authored numerous books - including one titled Animal Liberation (1975), considered by some to be the bible of the AR movement, which is recommended reading on a Just Choices worksheet… alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.

Singer holds a highly controversial view that animals have the same moral standing as humans. He doesn’t believe that moral consideration should be based on the ability to reason or talk, but rather, if the being can suffer. According to his beliefs, unborn children and most impaired people are “non-persons” and rate a lower moral status than an ape. His radical dogma is disturbingly similar to the Nazi belief of “life unworthy of life”.

The Just Choices Changing Minds, Changing Times worksheets are splashed with famous quotations from Helen Keller, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln and other great Americans as a means of legitimizing the AR ideals of “buy cruelty-free products”, “buy animal-free clothing” and “eat vegetarian foods”. Students watch a “social justice” video depicting a kid who interns with an AR group then “educates” - read recruits - other kids to the cause. Another decides to give up meat and become a vegetarian. A worksheet encourages students to write their own “personal commitment statement” along with a plan to fulfill their pledge.