"I was shocked," wrote one of our visitors, "when
I read your article on Obama's service programs.
"Why is this getting a free ride in the press?"
The simple answer is that Obama's values match
those of the
mainstream media and the
power brokers behind it.[3]
Contrary voices are ignored or ridiculed. Perceptions are swayed by suggestions
and exciting images, while facts become increasingly irrelevant. And as discernment
drowns in this postmodern muddle, illusion reigns -- and few even care!
Without facts we'll lose our freedom! A sobering
1970 prediction by Professor Raymond
Houghton, a spokesman for "progressive education," may soon be reality:
"...absolute behavior control is imminent....
The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind
without his self-conscious realization that a crisis is at hand. Man will...
never self-consciously know that it has happened."[4]
STEPPING STONES TO RADICAL CHANGE
At the dawn of
Stalin's deadly reign in the
1930s -- when Communist
leader Antonio Gramsci was writing his cunning formula for transforming
the West[5]
-- numerous European Marxist were searching for effective strategies for mass
control. As Hitler rose to power, some fled to America where they fine-tuned
their tactics at "progressive" institutions like Columbia University. Welcomed
by liberal educators, they
found plenty of opportunity to test and teach their theories. Others merely
exported their research to fellow revolutionaries in America. Their names
--
Adorno,
Marcuse,
Lukács and
Lewin
-- don't ring many bells today,
but no one can escape their impact on our nation.[6]
Their radical schemes fit right into the
dialectic process.
Like Saul Alinsky, their followers
would "unfreeze"
minds from uncompromising Truth, fill them with a passion for collectivism,
"refreeze" them with the new ideology, and establish socialism in America.
Before long, the mind-changing process that transformed
the Soviet masses became the centerpiece of "service
learning" in schools and communities. Students everywhere would be immersed
in practical collectivism -- what the Soviets called
Praxis.
Remember, the primary goal behind such group
service is "service learning," NOT compassion for the poor. The latter
is mainly a feel-good incentive for group participation in a communal
purpose, vision, activity and transformation.
(See Purpose-driven groups)
This scheme matches the old
Nazi model.
Young Germans from age 10 to 19 had to serve in the Hitler Youth program. And,
as Hitler affirmed back in 1933, 'the whole of National Socialism [Nazism]
is based on Marxism."[7]
His brainwashed servants, who became anything but compassionate, just copied
the Communist strategies:
"The purpose of labor service was partly
practical -- to... provide a source of cheap labor -- but mainly
ideological. It was part of the cult of community current in
the youth movement now manipulated by the Nazis for their own end."[8]
But shouldn't we gladly and willingly serve the
needy and each other? Yes, of course! But not in ways that prompt us to twist,
compromise or hide His Word under the banner of unity or charity.
LOVING THEIR SERVITUDE
"Belongingness" is the "ultimate need
of the individual," wrote William Whyte, co-author of The Organization Man.
His benchmark book -- a bestseller back in the sixties -- describes group
thinkers who would gladly trade their home-taught convictions for the warm fuzzies
of "belongingess."
According to Whyte, "man exists as a unit of
society," and "only as he collaborates with others does he become worth while."[9]
That sad assumption provided a useful "crisis"
that spurred vast numbers of transformational "leadership
training" conferences everywhere. As Whyte said,
"What is needed is an administrative elite,
people trained to recognize that what man really wants most is group
solidarity even if he does not realize it himself. ... They won't push
him around; they won't even argue with him... They will adjust him.
Through the scientific application of human relations, these... technicians
will guide him into satisfying solidarity with the group so skillfully and
unobtrusively that he will scarcely realize how the benefaction has been
accomplished."[9]
Two decades earlier, Aldous Huxley had shared
his concern about such "belongingness." Knowing the manipulative tactics
behind collectivism, he wrote in Brave New World,
"The most important Manhattan Projects of
the future will be vast government-sponsored enquiries into what the politicians
and the participating scientists will call 'the problem of happiness'
— in other words, the problem of making people love their servitude....
"The love of servitude cannot be established
except as the result of a deep, personal revolution in human minds and bodies.
To bring about that revolution we require... First, a greatly improved technique
of suggestion.... Second, a fully developed
science of human differences....
(Round pegs in square holes
tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and to infect others
with their discontents.)"[10]
Today's leadership
training and continual assessments
help our managers assess and track "human resources" everywhere -- even in churches.
Those assessments of "human differences" help facilitators create the conflicts
and stir tension needed for change. As Saul Alinsky wrote,
"...the organizer is constantly creating
new out of the old. He knows that all new ideas arise from conflict
[tension]; that every time man has had a new idea it has been a challenge
to the sacred ideas of the past and the present and inevitably a conflict
has raged."[11]
Alinsky taught his "organizers" (or facilitators) to lead "with a free and
open mind void of certainty,
hating dogma."[11]
Do those
words sound familiar? They would if you've read our excerpts from
UNESCO: Its purpose and Its
Philosophy by Julian Huxley (Aldous'
brother).
As head of this powerful UN agency, he wrote,
"The task before UNESCO... is to help the
emergence of a single world culture.... [At] the moment, two opposing
philosophies of life confront each other.... individualism versus collectivism...
capitalism versus communism... Christianity versus Marxism. Can these
opposites be reconciled, this antithesis be resolved in a higher synthesis?
... If we are to achieve progress, we must learn to uncrystallize our
dogmas."[12]
That's the aim of the dialectic process:
to "uncrystalize our dogmas." Its success is evident in today's
post-modern generation that rejects
the very notion of truth and certainty.
Though he claims to be Christian, Obama fits
this picture. During a 2004 interview with Chicago Sun-Times religion
editor Cathleen Falsani for her book, The God Factor, Obama said,
"I’m rooted in the Christian tradition.
I believe there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief
that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.'"
[13]
This is the new pluralism! Obama has chosen unity
over Truth. Any path is okay -- unless it clashes with the
ground rules for the dialectic process --
the foundation for Obama's expansive service plan. His website gives us a glimpse
of that plan:
-
Obama will expand AmeriCorps from 75,000
slots today to 250,000.... He will establish a Classroom Corps to
help teachers and students.... and a Homeland Security Corps to help
communities plan, prepare for and respond to emergencies. ...
-
Obama will double the Peace Corps to
16,000 by 2011. He will work with the leaders of other countries to build
an international network of overseas volunteers so that Americans work
side-by-side with volunteers from other countries. ...
-
Obama will set a goal that all middle and
high school students do 50 hours of community service a year. He will
develop national guidelines for service- learning and will give schools
better tools both to develop programs and to document student experience."
[14]
THE GLOBAL NETWORK
Donald J. Eberly is the president of
The International Associations
of National Youth Service -- an
umbrella
group that includes the Peace Corps,
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse,
National Service Learning
Partnership, and others.
At the 1998 "Fourth
Global Conferences on National Youth Service," he traced the history of
this global project. Ponder this progression:
"...the roots of NYS as a global idea go
back... to 1912, when Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy of Germany called for a Planetary
Service.... They go back to about 1919,
when Pierre Ceresole of Switzerland created Service Civil International.
They go back to 1933, when President Roosevelt of the United States established
the Civilian Conservation Corps.
"They go back to 1949 when Mao Zedong of
China issued his twin mottoes of "serve the people" and "learn through practice"
[praxis].
These mottoes have formed the basis for huge amounts of youth service in
the decades since 1949...."[15]
UNESCO
was a major participant in that Youth Service conference, which worked with
over "140 member organizations."[16]
The United States was represented by key leaders in social and corporate development
-- including the Rite of Passage Project and the Ford Foundation which
has been funding "progressive" world programs for decades.[17]
Few have been more zealous for interfaith education and global service
than former UN Under-Secretary Robert Muller. In
1989 UNESCO honored him with its Peace Education Prize, and his acceptance speech
touted cosmic world education. That's not surprising, since his beliefs are
largely based on books penned by Theosophist
Alice Bailey, who received them from her "spirit guide."
Her message is now everywhere -- not because people read her books, but because
her occult cosmology is promoted by Oprah Winfrey and communicated through a
variety of popular New Age and "New Spirituality"
books. They include A New
Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The Secret
by Rhonda Byrne and A Course in Miracles received
from a "spirit guide" called "Jesus."[18]
In Education for a New Age, Bailey's spirit guide summarized the basic
principle behind "service learning:"
"...self-consciousness must be unfolded until man recognizes that his
consciousness is a corporate
part of a greater whole....
Love of self (self-consciousness), love of those around us (group consciousness),
become eventually love to the whole (God consciousness)."[19]
The notion that "self-love" leads to a universal "God consciousness" is a
demonic lie! So it's not surprising that Alice Bailey's books were
published by Lucis [initially Lucifer] Publishing Company.
Saul Alinsky drew inspiration from the same occult source. Like
Alice Bailey,
he called for rebellion against the God we love:
“Lest we forget...
the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment
and did it so effectively that he at least won his
own kingdom — LUCIFER!
”
[2]
THE RAGING BATTLE
The actual answer to the initial question is
found in the Bible. It tells us that "the whole world is under the sway of the
evil one" (1 John 1:19), and he uses every possible agency to win his battle
against Truth. In fact, his servants
are driving the transformation in every arena.[20]
This is spiritual war! Unthinkable lies are now
accepted by blinded masses who have forgotten the foundations of our freedom!
Dialectic groups (led by trained facilitators) -- no matter how nice or "Christian"
they sound -- are nudging people to shift their trust
from God to the group. In that context, even the Bible is conformed
to the group's changing visions.
In contrast, our sovereign
God calls each of us to take a stand, resist compromise, and follow His unchanging
Truth.
Those who choose His way will walk together with Him. He will
strengthen us for the battle and enable us to stand firm on the solid rock of
His Word -- no matter how fierce the battle.
"Put on the whole armor of God, that you
may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness
in the heavenly places.... Stand therefore...praying always..." Ephesians
6:10-17
More information:
Obama's "Universal" Service Plan - Part 1: Training
an army of world servers
The Revolutionary Roots of the UN
| Chronology of the NEA
The emerging
New World Order
Endnotes:
1. Lee Cary, "Obama's Civilian
National Security Force," July 20, 2008.
Obama's Civilian National Security Force
2. Saul Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals (Vintage
Books, 1971), pp.10-11.
Note:
"Obama
spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year
stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called
the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing.
While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught
flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer." (By
Richard Poe, 11-27-07)
3. "The Rockefellers, Morgans,
and the Global Media Censors:
www.crossroad.to/Quotes/globalism/rockefeller.htm
and
www.crossroad.to/articles2/media.htm
and www.crossroad.to/articles2/006/conspiracy1.htm
4. Raymond Houghton, To Nurture Humaneness: Commitment
for the '70's (The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
of the NEA, 1970), pages 46-47.
5. "From Marx to Lenin, Gramsci, Alinsky & Obama,"
www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/marx-gramsci.htm
6.
www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/kurt-lewin-change.htm &
www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/adorno-lukaks-links.htm &
www.crossroad.to/Quotes/brainwashing/dialectical-imagination.htm
7. Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood (Touchstone,
1990), p. 239.
8. Nazism: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts,
1919--1945, edited by J. Noakes and G. Pridham in cooperation with the Department
of History and Archaeology at the University of Exeter, UK. (1983), pp.
420, 440--441. See
www.crossroad.to/text/articles/tnmfobe1196.html
9. The Organization Man, edited by William H. Whyte,
Joseph Nocera, Jenny Bell Whyte (Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1956); pp.36, 45.
10. Aldous Huxley,
Brave New
World (Harper-Collins, 1932), pp.xv--xvi.
11. Saul Alinsky,
Rules for Radicals (Vintage
Books, 1971), pp.79, 74.
12. Julian Huxley,
UNESCO: Its purpose and Its
Philosophy, p. 61.
13. Stated by Obama during a 2004 interview with Chicago
Sun-Times religion editor Cathleen Falsani for her book, The God Factor."
www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article
14.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/service
15. Donald J. Eberly, speaking at The
International Associations of National Youth Service (IANYS),
http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ianys/proceedings/1998/05.html#Heading12
16.
International Voluntary
Service (CCVIS) at
http://www.unesco.org/ccivs/ccivsvolunteers.htm
and Members and
http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/dynamic/infobase/pdf/2002/NYC020614_IYV_City_Report_engl_1.pdf
and
http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/initiatives/generations/youth/INT0700a.pdf
and http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/
17. Fourth Global Conference on National Youth Service - List
of participants:
http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/ianys/proceedings/1998/appendix2.html
18.
www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/tolle.htm
& www.crossroad.to/articles2/007/secret.htm
&
www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/shack.htm
19. Alice Bailey, Education in the New Age, (New York:
Lucis Publishing Company, 1954), 20.
20.
www.crossroad.to/charts/sin&satan.html and
www.crossroad.to/articles2/006/conspiracy1.htm
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