David Cameron's spending cuts and the racist "Bell Curve"
Roddy Newman | 26.06.2012 12:12 | Anti-racism | Public sector cuts
This article is about David Cameron's cuts, and their link to his racist, and in the case of the Pioneer Fund, and also his key adviser, Phillip Blond, fascist connections. Cameron claims to be a "liberal Conservative", but before the Tories lost the 2005 election, which was of course their third defeat in a row, Cameron was publicly far more right wing. So his liberal claim is a lie to win votes.
David Cameron tells us that he is a "liberal Conservative", but as I will show in this article, his spending cuts attack on the welfare state, which disproportionately affects racial minorities and women, was inspired by the far right racist and sexist American writer Charles Murray, who wrote the 1994 book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" (Simon and Schuster, New York), which used racist pseudoscience "research" funded by the fascist Pioneer Fund, who had links to the Third Reich, to imply that black and Hispanic people are poorer than white people because they are genetically less intelligent than them, and that black and Hispanic immigration, and relatively high black and Hispanic birth rates, are lowering the intelligence level of the American public.
That is why Daniel Finkelstein, who is one of George Osborne's "closest confidants" according to the May 12, 2005 "Evening Standard" article "The irresistible rise of Boy George", and who was the Director of the Conservative Research Department from 1995 to 1997, an adviser to William Hague from 1997 to 2001, and then a secretary to the Conservative shadow cabinet, wrote in this "Times" article that, "Mr Cameron's rather too sweeping attacks on big government have their roots in the neoconservative critique of welfare policy by American writers such as Charles Murray and Gertrude Himmelfarb. They argued that the perverse incentives of the welfare state undermined responsibility (another favourite Cameron word). And these ideas were in currency during the Major Government. As was the emphasis on marriage [which is why Murray allegedly inspired John Major's Back to Basics campaign against single mothers, whose benefit payments were cut after they had been demonised]":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article6873422.ece Instead of using government money to stimulate the economy by creating jobs, which this incompetent, job cutting Conservative led government is failing to do, it is distracting people's attention from its incompetence by demonising the unemployed, who are far more numerous than job vacancies, via its friends in the right wing press.
There is certainly plenty of money available to create such jobs, as even without, for example, introducing a land tax on large landowners, or imposing extra tax on unpopular privatised utilities, a Robin Hood tax on unpopular bankers and speculators could raise huge amounts of money.
Just recently, to cite “The Guardian” article “MEPs vote for Robin Hood tax as banks face stress tests”, “…European lawmakers voted yesterday for a 200 bn euro (£172 bn) a year financial transactions tax to be slapped on the [banking] sector…The parliament backed a tax that would be levied at 0.05% on financial transactions, which would raise up to 200 bn euros.”
But as long ago as 2007, when there was money to create jobs than there is now, this "Spectator" article showed that David Cameron was going to start American style welfare state spending cuts ("Bring 'the Wisconsin welfare revolution' to Britain"), which of course proves that Cameron is lying about his cuts being a response to the budget deficits which the recession, rising unemployment, and low, or non-existent taxes on big business and wealthy people have created:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/313841/cameron-means-business-on-welfare-the-tories-are-the-radicals-again.thtml As this "New Statesman" article, "Thumbs up for the bright, white folks" reveals, Charles Murray was a consultant to Wisconsin's "W-2" welfare cuts, which David Cameron was already intending to bring to Britain in 2007:
http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019 That article also reveals the predictable results of Wisconsin's cuts, including cuts in benefits paid to single parents and their children: in the first year, there was a 17.6% rise in child mortality in Milwaukee, the biggest city in Wisconsin, and a 37% rise in black child mortality.
Another article about W-2, "Why It Failed", which was published in the "Milwaukee Magazine", explains that it has led to increased homelessness, to larger numbers of people turning to "food pantries" to feed themselves, and to more people not being given access to healthcare.
That article, which you can read here, also shows where David Cameron borrowed his "broken Britain" term from:
http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/endgame/default.asp?NewMessageID=18578 This "Guardian" article about David Cameron aping American politicians, has a link to another "Guardian" article about how even Barack Obama's healthcare reforms will not provide all Americans with proper healthcare, and if Obama had not been elected, the American healthcare situation would of course have been far worse:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/07/david-cameron-political-speeches The fact that David Cameron believes in the Republican W-2 welfare state model, should be understood by anyone who is concerned about what Conservative privatisation will do to the NHS. While it is true that Margaret Thatcher halving the amount of cleaning in now not properly cleaned, and sometimes filthy NHS hospitals, led to the UK having such a bad MRSA infection rate, that Swedish hospitals have special isolation rooms to treat people who they find out have been treated in British NHS hospitals, the NHS is still far better than Barack Obama's healthcare system, and far, far better than Republican healthcare.
Michael Moore's "Sicko" film portrayed the NHS as wonderful, which compared to the American healthcare system it is, but in Sweden, it is viewed very differently.
This webpage shows how much lower the drug resistant MRSA infection rate is in Swedish hospitals compared to NHS ones:
http://www.privatehealth.co.uk/hospitaltreatment/treatment-abroad/mrsa-europe/ There is of course nothing unusual about David Cameron aping American politicians, as Conservative politicians usually look to the Republicans for their latest very shallow ideas, despite the fact that hunger and homelessness continue to rise in that weak welfare state country. This 2011 press release by the Mayors of American cities discussed the continuing rise in hunger and homelessness in the US:
http://www.citymayors.com/features/uscity_poverty.html There is nothing new about that trend. Even this 2004 article on the website of the USA's far right, free market fundamentalist Heritage Foundation think tank admits that hunger and homelessness have gone up every year since the Mayors of American cities began issuing an annual press release on that subject in 1986, though Heritage predictably claim that the increases have been exaggerated:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/12/mayors-claims-of-growing-hunger-are-once-again-exaggerated I said "predictably", as later on in this article, I will discuss Heritage's employment of the Pioneer Fund financed Roger Pearson, who set up the fascist Northern League (which is not to be confused with a far right Italian political party that is part of Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government) with, amongst other people, 2001 UKIP candidate for Parliament Alistair Harper.
On page 14, this article by then Labour MEP Richard Corbett mentions Harper co-founding the Northern League (and discusses the many other UKIP connections to fascist organisations and Holocaust denial, and their predictable, Charles Murray type attitude to the welfare state):
http://www.richardcorbett.org.uk/theres-something-about-ukip.pdf At least when the Labour Party's main foreign role model was Sweden, there was a good chance that the damage which Conservative governments do to the welfare state could be repaired, but once the Labour Party was taken over by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who both look to the US for their ideas, a Conservative government created problem like unhygienic NHS hospitals was ever likely not to be put right.
Sweden is not the best foreign role model in the world, because Denmark tends to win world's happiest country polls, as ""The Times" Guide to the Peoples of Europe" book pointed out, because Holland beat Denmark in a happiest country in the EU survey, and because Dutch schoolchildren beat Danish schoolchildren in the 19 European nations and the US and Canada 2007 UNICEF child happiness survey (British schoolchildren came bottom, behind even 20th placed American schoolchildren), but any properly informed politician should be aware that Sweden and the other East Scandinavian countries, which, with Holland, were rated by the Thatcherite magazine "The Economist" as the world's 5 most financially egalitarian nations, are better foreign role models than the US.
As you would expect, the East Scandinavian countries were clustered together under Holland in the child happiness survey (Sweden in 2nd place, Denmark in 3rd, Finland in 4th, and Norway in 7th, under Spain and Switzerland).
This BBC News story analyses the survey :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6360517.stm This second analysis of the survey, in "The Guardian", found that British schoolchildren were less likely than schoolchildren in other countries to say that their peers were "kind and helpful", as you would expect, because unhappy children are unkind and unhelpful, which is why bullying and name calling are notoriously rampant in British schools, why those unhappy bullies and name callers go on to behave in the same way in their workplaces, in the street, etc., and why they then mistreat their children and make them unhappy bullies and name callers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/feb/14/childrensservices.politics Helen Mirren complained in a French interview about the nastiness of the British on the Internet, but the rich world's unhappiest country is ever likely to be full of unhappy people who feel like posting nasty comments, blog posts, etc. online.
Like the bullying and name calling in British schools, workplaces, etc., that problem will only get worse while British politics is dominated by people who believe that the extremely dysfunctional American society, with its notoriously high levels of serial killing, violent crime in general, hard drug abuse, homelessness, hunger, etc. has any useful right wing political ideas which should be copied on this side of the Atlantic.
This "Observer" article about one British politician who is dumb enough to think that the US has any useful right wing political ideas which should be copied in Britain, David Cameron, "How Britain's new welfare state was born in the USA", discusses the fact that American politicians' cuts to that country's very weak welfare state, were backed by Charles Murray, and I will show in a forthcoming article, "George W. Bush's spending cuts and the racist "Bell Curve"", that Murray's based on fascist "research" "Bell Curve" directly inspired those politicians to undertake those cuts, which then inspired David Cameron to make the same cuts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/07/britain-welfare-state-born-usa David Miliband was thus right to say in this speech, which you can read on his website: "But the Tories’ problem is that their instinct is the oldest deception in politics: that government just hurts the little guy. In essence it is an extension of Charles Murray’s dependency culture thesis about the welfare state from the 1980s, and applying to all functions of government not just welfare.":
http://www.davidmiliband.info/speeches/speeches_010_02.htma As I will show in this article, Charles Murray has worked for big business funded think tanks, so as he who pays the piper calls the tune, it is hardly surprising that, like a grovelling minion at the court of a Mediaeval royal family, Murray (a) praises (in "the Bell Curve") the intelligence of the big business CEO's who fund his large annual American Enterprise Institute salary, and (b) wants to stop government help to "the little guy", as stopping that help will let big business pay even less tax than it does already, because of tax havens, and a global tax system which is increasingly making "the little guy" pay a bigger proportion of the tax bill so big business can pay less corporation tax, and so its wealthy owners can pay even less tax than they also do already, because of tax havens (most of which are British colonies, like the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, British Crown Dependencies, like the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, or British Commonwealth countries, like the Bahamas and Grenada), and because of arrangements like Britain's notorious "non-dom" tax loophole for the super rich.
Daniel Finkelstein's article proves that Charles Murray's racist and sexist anti-welfare state ideas have been "in currency" since John Major's time, so it is no surprise that Major's Minister for Social Security, Peter Lilley, who reduced payments to single mothers after they had been demonised, expresses his admiration for Charles Murray, and criticises a cornerstone of the welfare state (the NHS) in this review of British Conservative journalist James Bartholomew's pro-scrapping the welfare state book, "The Welfare State We're In" (Politico's Publishing, London, 2004), which cites a Charles Murray book in its small "Select bibliography", and which describes Murray as "a first class brain":
http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/03/review_by_peter.php So, in this March 11, 1995 "Racial scapegoats" letter to "The Independent", which attacked Charles Murray's racist statements about lower black IQ levels in his "How I would tackle the new rabble" interview with that newspaper, the late black Labour MP Bernie Grant, and Linda Bellos of the Africa Reparations Movement, were thus also right to warn that Murray's hostility towards single parents would influence Peter Lilley:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letter-racial-scapegoats-1610931.html Bernie Grant and Linda Bellos also correctly pointed out their letter, that Charles Murray's racist ideas were, "an old neo-Malthusian and eugenicist argument that is as problematic now as it ever was."
The fact that Charles Murray's ideas, which have led to a sharp increase in child mortality in Wisconsin, are part of the wipe out certain types of people eugenics tradition, which was discredited by the Third Reich's enthusiasm for eugenics, is not hard to prove, because the fascist Pioneer Fund has been involved in the American eugenics movement since the Fund was founded in 1937 by eugenicists like Harry Laughlin and Frederick Osborn.
Moreover, as this Institute for the Study of Academic Racism webpage points out, the Fund gave a grant to Michael Levin, a New York professor who had Charles Murray type views, as he, "argued that black population growth must be slowed by ending public assistance [social security].":
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/forbes.htm I will say a lot more about the fascist eugenicist ideas of the Pioneer Fund which inspired Charles Murray's "Bell Curve" book in this article.
The fact that Murray (and Gertrude Himmelfarb) are neo-Malthusians is also easy to prove.
In his 1798 "An Essay on the Principle of Population" (Oxford World Classics, Oxford, 2008), Thomas Malthus argued for scrapping the rudimentary social security of his time, the Poor Laws. (pp.39-45)
Malthus also shared another of Charles Murray's opinions: contempt for poorer people, who Murray calls "the new rabble". Hence the title of this "Independent" interview which Bernie Grant's letter was a reply to, "How I would tackle the new rabble":
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html Thomas Malthus obviously felt contempt for poorer people, as he believed that it was wrong to help them, and that they should be forced to live at a subsistence level, as this "Victorian Web" academic article about Malthus' "Essay on Population" explains:
http://www.victorianweb.org/economics/essay.html Getrude Himmelfarb's neo-Malthusian views are revealed by this webpage, which lists some of the books that she has edited, including a 1960 edition of Thomas Malthus' "Essays on Population":
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/himmelfarb-gertrude Bernie Grant and Linda Bellos were also of course right to say in their "Racial scapegoats" letter, that, "Murray is merely a new voice of the hard right who wish to scapegoat Africans both in Africa and the "Diaspora". This may, they think, divert attention and unrest among white working class people if black people can be seen to be the problem."
As Daniel Finkelstein's article proves, Charles Murray's racist and sexist influence on the Conservative Party did not stop after Peter Lilley lost his job, which is why a Conservative think tank which David Cameron and his Work and Pensions Secretary, Chris Grayling, are associated with, the Centre for Policy Studies, invited the co-author of "The Bell Curve", the late Richard Herrnstein, to give a speech to them, as this "Independent" article reveals:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/britain-on-the-couch-breaking-out-of-the-mould-1153487.html This article from the anti-fascist magazine "Searchlight", which the late famous Nazi war criminal hunter Simon Wiesenthal praised, and which all 3 of the major parties have asked for advice on how to defeat the BNP in elections, reveals that the late Alfred Sherman, a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher who was the co-founder of the Centre for Policy Studies, wrote a 2001 article for a now defunct fascist magazine called "Right Now!", which was edited by Derek Turner, who had been the leader of an Irish fascist group, the Social Action Initiative, and also reveals that Sherman gave an interview to "Right Now!" in 1997 in which he said that, "they [the Conservatives] have betrayed the nation, by allowing mass immigration of totally alien Third World peoples...":
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=110 This Institute for the Study of Academic Racism webpage reveals that Simon Wiesenthal thought "Searchlight" was the best English language magazine of its kind on the planet:
http://www.ferris.edu/isar/related-sites.htm "Right Now!" editor Derek Turner has described himself as a "neighbourhood Nazi", as this "Independent" article about the magazine reveals, and its 50th issue featured an interview with Nick Griffin, so given those facts, and Turner's Social Action Initiative past, it is not unfair to describe "Right Now!" as "fascist", despite the fact that, as this "Independent" article shows, a Conservative MP was a patron of the magazine:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-magazine-run-by-a-neighbourhood-nazi-605796.html That article also mentions "Right Now!"'s support for eugenics, which it discussed in an article titled "The Conservative Case for a New Eugenics". According to "The Independent", "The piece argued that "the Right should endorse measures to improve human traits through genetic selection". It suggested that welfare recipients should be put on the Pill and repeat offenders should "forfeit reproductive rights"".
Alfred Sherman was a supporter of Slobodan Milosevic's genocidal war in Bosnia, as "Guardian" journalist Francis Wheen explained in this article:
"During the Bosnian war Sir Alfred served as a consultant to Karadzic and the murderous Ratko Mladic. 'I was advising them but they wouldn't take my advice,' he told me sadly in 1996. 'I wanted them to go on the offensive.' This was also the reason for his falling-out with Thatcher, whom he came to regard as a wishy-washy liberal. Still, it seems that Sherman has at last found a dictator stern enough to win his respect: he flew into Belgrade yesterday to express his 'solidarity' with Slobodan Milosevic.":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/apr/28/features11.g2 As this Centre for Policy Studies webpage reveals, David Cameron gave a speech to honour the CPS, 35 years after it was founded by the pro-"Right Now!", pro-Milosevic's genocidal war Alfred Sherman:
http://www.cps.org.uk/cps_catalog/David_Cameron_s_Speech_at_the_Centre_for_Policy_Studies_35th_Anniversary_Party_.html Another CPS webpage reveals that Chris Grayling has given a speech to that organisation:
http://www.cps.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=cpsarticle&id=208&Itemid=17 So not surprisingly, David Cameron allegedly secretly plans to scrap all social security benefits, according to Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader in the House of Lords, as a "Daily Telegraph" article, "Tory peer's wife tells wife: I'm sorry" (February 7, 2011, p.10), which is not online explains:
"...Miss Cunningham, 48, claimed that [her lover] Lord Strathclyde told her the Government was planning to get rid of "the whole lot" of benefits..."
If David Cameron is secretly planning to scrap all social security benefits as part of his W-2 style attack on the poor, and particularly on the black and Asian poor, who are much more likely to be unemployed than white Britons, because most employers are Conservatives, or UKIP or BNP supporters, and thus often racist, we could do with a modern successor to Jonathon Swift, the 17th to 18th Centuries Irish satirist and cleric, who is most famous for writing "Gulliver's Travels", but who also wrote a famous 1729 satire of the cruelty of the British elite, "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public", in which he suggested that the Irish poor should sell their children to the rich so they could be eaten.
Swift was, incidentally, not trying to trivialise the suffering of the Irish poor by writing a satire rather than a serious book about their treatment by the British elite, as someone once described "A Modest Proposal" to me as the angriest book he had ever read.
The British elite were later to distinguish themselves by making a modest contribution to killing off Irish children during the Irish potato famine of 1845 to 1852, when they exported crops from Ireland under armed guard so they could fetch a better price abroad, while starving Irish families dug their own graves and prepared to die, as they did in huge numbers (the famine possibly killed over a million of Ireland's just over 8 million people).
As this historical website points out, even the Royal Navy was drafted in to guard boats laden with oats and grain from starving Irish peasants:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm As I will prove again and again in this article, cold hearted and mean minded attitudes to poor people, for example opposition to welfare states, which need to be improved, not weakened or scrapped, as there are, for example, huge numbers of homeless people in Britain, and large numbers of roofless people, go hand in hand with cold hearted and mean minded racist attitudes to racial minorities ("The Bell Curve" is a perfect example of that fact), so it is not surprising that some of the most anti-racist British and American people of the Irish potato famine era, the Quakers, who, for 2 centuries were the biggest group in the white movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire and the US, raised a lot of money to feed victims of the Irish famine (£200,000, which is about £30 million in today's money), and set up soup kitchens around Ireland.
Britain's homeless and roofless people are partly the result of not enough free detox and counselling help being given to alcoholics and hard drug addicts, who can end up spending their housing benefit on their addictions and getting evicted, and partly the result of the kind of policies that Charles Murray advocates: 32 years of social security cuts (for example, Dutch homelessness rocketed from roughly 10,000 people to roughly 80,000 people after Jan Peter Balkenende's coalition copied Margaret Thatcher's first social security cut, which stopped people being given benefit equal to most of their salary for the first 6 months of unemployment); 32 years of the social security system being made more and more authoritarian, which has led to more and more people having their benefits stopped; and Margaret Thatcher making housing benefit harder to get by making it a local council rather than DSS responsibility, which led to claims taking far longer to process, as local councils have to wait sometimes months for the DSS to confirm that a person is receiving a benefit, if that person does not get a letter from the DSS to take to their council which says that they are. That problem alone caused a huge rise in homelessness, as landlords became unwilling to wait months for their money, and either evicted people, or started putting "No DSS" on their adverts, to stop the unemployed renting their homes in the first place.
As this University College Cork historical webpage points out, Lord Trevelyan, the 1840-1859 Assistant Secretary in the British Treasury Office who was in charge of dealing with the famine, thought very differently to the Quakers, as he believed that "The Great Hunger", as the famine is sometimes known in Ireland, was "a mechanism for reducing surplus population":
http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Charles_Edward_Trevelyan As that webpage also points out, Lord Trevelyan blamed the character of Ireland's famine stricken people, the "green wogs" of the Northern Irish band Stiff Little Fingers' "White Noise" song about British racism, for their predicament, which makes him sound like Charles Murray, the big business spokesman who talks like a "Wall Street Journal" editorial, as he blames the poor ("the new rabble") for their predicament, not the people who are really to blame for the predicament of the poor: governments who are too incompetent to understand that as no economic system can guarantee jobs to everyone who needs them, it is an essential function of government to permanently guarantee people state funded living wage jobs, which ensures that people can lead dignified lives, and prevents recessions by ensuring that people always have money to spend (Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, who came 3rd behind George W. Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 US election, argued for guaranteeing people living wage jobs doing community work, so there is nothing new about my suggestion); employers who pay low wages, which ensures that relatively low amounts of money circulate in working class areas, which, as a result, have fewer job opportunities, and who move jobs to the cheapest labour country they can find, which can devastate towns based around one corporation, as Michael Moore's film "Roger and Me", which is about what happened to Flint, Michigan when General Motors moved jobs abroad showed; tax evasion by corporations and wealthy people; and the brutalising intergenerational cultural effects of slavery, hunger, poverty, poor housing, ugly urban environments, racism, pleasure denied lives, etc..
As you would expect, "The Wall Street Journal" responded to the criticism of big business spokesman Charles Murray's "The Bell Curve", by printing a full page statement in support of the kind of ideas it expressed which was signed by various professors.
You can read the statement here:
http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1994WSJmainstream.pdf Various sources link professors who signed the statement to the fascist Pioneer Fund.
This Pioneer Fund webpage admits that the Fund gave grants to Hans Eysenck, Arthur Jensen, J. Philippe Rushton, and Thomas Bouchard:
http://www.pioneerfund.org/ This article from the "Academic Questions" journal, reveals that Bouchard, Jensen, Linda Gottfredson, Robert Gordon, Garrett Hardin, Seymour Itzkoff, and Richard Lynn have all been given Pioneer Fund grants:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/53t368213r4168mh/ This reprint of a Canadian newspaper article on the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism website, states that Jensen, Lynn, Eysenck, and Rushton have been given Pioneer grants, and that Rushton's "research" is cited on fascist websites:
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/othersrv/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/rushton.htm This article on the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an American civil rights law firm who monitor hate groups like the Pioneer Fund, reveals that Eysenck, Gordon, Gottfredson, Itzkoff, Jensen, Lynn, Rushton, and R. Travis Osborne have been given Pioneer money:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund Finally, this second Southern Poverty Law Center article reveals that another professor who signed the "Wall Street Journal" statement, the late Raymond Cattell, believed in the "phasing out" of what he saw as inferior cultures:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,0 Charles Murray is the origin of the "dependency culture" phrase which anti-welfare state right wing politicians use, so it is no surprise that Lord Trevelyan opposed efforts to feed the starving Irish on the grounds that they would become "habitually dependent" on the British Government, as this historical website points out:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/hunger.htm Not surprisingly, like many British politicians of the 19th Century, Trevelyan was a free market fundamentalist supporter of Thomas Malthus, whose ideas are one of the key sources of the "scientific" racism tradition that the also pro-free market fundamentalist ideology Charles Murray is the most prominent modern exponent of, which is why Allan Chase wrote a book called "The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism" (Knopf, New York, 1977).
Also not surprisingly, the original draft of the bible of free market fundamentalist thought, "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith, argued that the free market regulates itself by the poor starving to death, as they did in Ireland, when the free market meant that the rich were free to export food they could get a better price for abroad, and the Irish poor were free to die, so, as you would expect, the free market fundamentalist Adam Smith Institute echoed Charles Murray and Lord Trevelyan by praising David Cameron's attack on the welfare state for "reducing people's dependency on benefits", and also argue for scrapping the minimum wage, as this BBC News story reveals:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12486158 So does the Adam Smith Institute pleasing David Cameron, whose anti-welfare state ideas derive from the neo-Malthusian writers Charles Murray and Gertrude Himmelfarb, who, in Murray's case, bases his ideas partly on "research" funded by the fascist Pioneer Fund, really want to copy Murray's scrap all social security benefits idea?
As I have said, I will prove again and again in this article that cold hearted and mean minded racism, and the cold hearted and mean minded attitudes to poor people of, for example, welfare state opponents, are 2 sides of the same coin, and fascism is the ideology which is most notorious for perpetuating cold hearted and mean minded attitudes, so does David Cameron have little known fascist connections?
We have already seen that Charles Murray is one source of David Cameron's thinking, and the Pioneer Fund, whose fascist views will be discussed shortly, is a source of Murray's ideas.
David Cameron's big idea is "the Big Society", which basically means the cloud cuckoo land, and extremely dishonest notion that charities can replace a wrecked welfare state, and as I will now show, that distinctly Charles Murray sounding idea has fascist origins.
According to this "Guardian" article which was reposted on the website of the think tank ResPublica, Phillip Blond, the founder of ResPublica, is a "huge influence" on the Big Society idea:
http://www.respublica.org.uk/media/phillip-blond-discusses-big-society-approach-guardian So who is Phillip Blond?
According to this BBC News story, he is "David Cameron's favourite thinker.":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8381422.stm According to this article in "Standpoint", a right wing magazine which was set up by David Cameron's Minister for Education, Michael Gove, Phillip Blond is a welfare state opponent who "is said to have the ear of senior Tories, including David Cameron and George Osborne.":
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/overrated-october-09-phillip-blond-jamie-whyte Incidentally, as this list of "Standpoint"'s writers shows, Charles Murray and George Osborne have both written for the magazine:
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/writers Also incidentally, despite the fact that Charles Murray's IQ ideas were inspired by fascist pseudoscience, "Standpoint" allowed Murray to write this article about education, which does not reflect well on Minister for Education Michael Gove, who is on "Standpoint"'s advisory board:
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/510/full Michael Gove is part of David Cameron's "inner circle, the so-called Notting Hill Set", according to this "New Statesman" article, so the "Standpoint" claim that not just David Cameron, but also other senior Conservatives, including George Osborne listen to Phillip Blond, may well be correct:
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2011/02/education-secretary-gove Conservative spin would have us believe that Phillip Blond is a progressive thinker, but like Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi, who had sympathy for the poor, as soon as she came to power, and began the usual Conservative Robin Hood in reverse redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich, that spin is a deception.
This article on the website of the Chesterton Society, who are fans of the writer G. K. Chesterton, reveals that Phillip Blond admires Chesterton, and 2 other writers, Hilaire Belloc and Thomas Carlyle:
http://www.gkchesterton.org.uk/blog/?p=28 What did those 3 writers believe in?
In this book, G. K. Chesterton expressed his admiration for Mussolini:
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-G-K-Chesterton-Resurrection/dp/0898702720 In this book, Hilaire Belloc also expressed his admiration for Mussolini:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cruise-Nona-Hilaire-Belloc/dp/B0000CK4YV On this website of the Conservative Democratic Alliance, which is a far right Conservative Party group, Stuart Millson, who as I will show in a moment, left the Conservatives and joined the BNP, praises G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc:
http://conservativedemocraticalliance.blogspot.com/2008/06/too-english-to-be-true-stuart-millson.html This "Searchlight" article mentions Millson leaving the Conservative Party for the BNP:
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=80 In June 1945, "The Journal of Modern History" published an article entitled "Thomas Carlyle, prophet of fascism", which you can read here:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1871955 So all of the 3 writers who the Chesterton Society article said Phillip Blond admires, were either admirers of a fascist dictator, or a "prophet of fascism" (Carlyle died in 1881, so he died 41 years before Mussolini became the first fascist dictator, but the just cited article, which was written at a time when people were more aware of the evils of fascism than they are today, says that, "His views on social and political problems, divested of their moral appeal by the march of time, are revealed to be those of a fascist in their essential implications.")
Phillip Blond also openly admitted in this "Guardian" article, that he is "a fan" of the Middle Ages, which was a pre-democratic, and hardly "progressive" era:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/30/toryconference.conservatives Free market fundamentalist James Bartholomew's already mentioned, pro-Charles Murray, pro-scrapping the welfare state book, "The Welfare State We're In", criticises the first King of England, Wales, and Ireland who came to power after the Middle Ages, Henry VIII (he reigned from 1509 to 1547, and the Middle Ages are regarded as having ended in 1500), for setting up a very rudimentary Poor Laws social security system, so does David Cameron think, like James Bartholomew, that Henry VIII, who executed many people who annoyed him, including of course his second and fifth wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, was too humane? How inhumane do you have to be to effectively think that a man like Henry VIII was too humane?
Inhumane enough to support the ideas of the fascist magazine "Right Now!"?
After all, on the website which James Bartholomew set up to promote his pro-destroying the welfare state book, he republished "Right Now!"'s glowing review of it, which you can read here:
http://www.thewelfarestatewerein.com/archives/2005/05/right_now_magaz.php The review mentions the fact that James Bartholomew's idol is Margaret Thatcher, which, given his far right free market fundamentalist views, is hardly surprising.
Margaret Thatcher and her ministers admired the 19th Century, and promoted "Victorian values", ignoring the slums, mass homelessness, mass poverty, poverty related mass adult and child prostitution, mass opium and alcohol addiction, infectious disease epidemics, and other evils of that also pre-democratic era, and Phillip Blond ignores roughly the same kind of problems during the Middle Ages (I say roughly, because, for example, the British East India Company, which, in its day, was the world's biggest corporation, had not yet come into existence, and had thus not yet paved the way for the modern heroin trade which is devastating British working class communities, by selling opium it had grown in India to the British public).
Incidentally, Thomas Malthus worked for the opium trafficking BEIC, as this BBC historical webpage reveals, so it is no wonder that he spouted Charles Murray type big business propaganda:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/malthus_thomas.shtml Also incidentally, another free market fundamentalist guru, the late Milton Friedman, whose "monetarist", slash public spending ideas not surprisingly led to poverty and unemployment in Britain and the US when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to power and implemented them, openly said in an interview which you can watch on the second DVD which came with the Canadian anti-big business documentary "The Corporation", that he backed the legalisation of the hard drug trade, for free market reasons.
Charles Murray describes Milton Friedman as a "giant" in this article, which is strange, as Murray claims to have the scrap the welfare state answer to the problems of working class communities, despite the fact that they have been devastated by the violence, burglaries, and other thefts by dealers and addicts which are the result of the heroin, cocaine, crack, amphetamine, and methamphetamine trade that Friedman expressed his support for in "The Corporation" DVD interview:
http://blog.american.com/?p=5432 I said "not surprisingly" in the paragraph before last, because, when Milton Friedman visited the first country to implement monetarism, fascist dictator General Pinochet's Chile, he declared that the economy was a success, despite the fact that children had started fainting in school from hunger, because Pinochet had scrapped the minimum wage, and savaged the welfare state (his attack on trades union rights did not help either).
Another free market fundamentalist guru who inspired Margaret Thatcher, Friedrich von Hayek, also supported General Pinochet's fascist regime:
"Personally I prefer a liberal [in the sense of the term "neo-liberal"] dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism."
That Friedrich von Hayek statement was cited on this webpage of France's Institut Hayek, which features an English translation of an interview which the Chilean newspaper "El Mercurio" did with him on April 12, 1981:
http://www.fahayek.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=121 David Cameron has of course embarked on monetarist style spending cuts, which not only Milton Friedman, but also Friedrich von Hayek advocated, and, moreover, he has also taken the Conservatives out of the conservative group in the European Parliament, and into a far right group who, as this "Stop 'respectable fascism' now" "Guardian" article by Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott points out, put up a candidate for vice president of the European Parliament, Michael Kaminski, who had been a member of a Polish fascist group, and who opposed the President of Poland's national apology for an SS backed World War 2 Polish massacre of Polish Jews:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/31/conservative-fascism-kaminski-europe Furthermore, as this "Daily Mirror" story reveals, David Cameron responded to Edward McMillan-Scott's attempts to stop Michael Kaminski becoming leader of the Conservatives' new "respectable fascism" far right group by expelling him from the Party:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/08/01/cameron-in-fascism-rap-115875-21563039/ David Cameron's new far right European Parliament group also includes admirers of less "respectable" fascists, the Waffen SS, as this "Daily Mail" article points out:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1194874/Camerons-new-EU-allies-support-Hitlers-Waffen-SS-Obamas-election-end-civilisation.html If David Cameron does want to scrap all social security benefits, that would of course turn Britain into countries like Brazil and Jamaica, where extreme poverty has long led to rage generated high murder and other violent crime rates, and to high property crime rates. The police in both countries have been criticised by Amnesty International for responding to those high violent crime and property crime rates by forming death squads which execute criminals and suspected criminals, which, in the case of Brazil, often means its army of street children, who some businessmen pay the police death squads to shoot.
As poverty and race are closely linked in Brazil, those children are primarily black.
Armies of street children are of course an inevitable result of 19th Century "Victorian values", which is why the Sioux chief Sitting Bull was horrified to find when he toured the US in 1885 with the Wild West Show, that Americans allowed children to sleep on the streets, which is why he gave much of the money he earned from the Show to street children, and to adult beggars, who are of course another inevitable result of 19th Century Victorian values.
This "Independent" article discusses homeless 19th Century London children who had to beg for food and prostitute themselves because of Victorian values:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/a-century-apart-children-face-poverty-trap-as-deep-as-ever-486301.html Barack Obama famously described David Cameron as "a lightweight", so it is of course no surprise that he should take an interest in Charles Murray's stupid ideas, which are part of a racist pseudoscience tradition that is trying to make racism respectable by giving it a "scientific" basis, which will stop anti-racists refuting its ideas, so I will refute "The Bell Curve"'s IQ claims, which is not difficult, as they are inspired by such shallow thinking.
Even if you accept that IQ test is the only measure of intelligence, which it isn't, as it only measures speed of thought, and not depth of thought, emotional intelligence, intuition, or the practical intelligence of someone who can fix a car that an academic would have no idea how to fix, and even if you accept Charles Murray's narrow minded, elitist view that high IQ people should be a separate caste above the rest of society, which ignores the vast range of human abilities like love, sex drive, kindness, compassion, and athleticism, Murray's and Richard Herrnstein's book is simply wrong.
These 2 paragraphs from a "New York Times" article alone demolishes "The Bell Curve"'s racist pseudoscientific notion that black Americans, who tend to be much poorer than white Americans, have an average IQ which, the book implies, is 15 points lower than white Americans' average IQ for genetic reasons:
"What happens in these rare instances of riches-to-rags adoption? To answer that question, two psychologists, Christiane Capron and Michel Duyme, combed through thousands of records from French public and private adoption agencies. “It was slow, dusty work,” Duyme recalls. Their natural experiment mimics animal studies in which, for instance, a newborn rhesus monkey is taken from its nurturing biological mother and handed over to an uncaring foster mother. The findings are also consistent: how genes are expressed depends on the social context.
"Regardless of whether the adopting families were rich or poor, Capron and Duyme learned, children whose biological parents were well-off had I.Q. scores averaging 16 points higher than those from working-class parents. Yet what is really remarkable is how big a difference the adopting families’ backgrounds made all the same. The average I.Q. of children from well-to-do parents who were placed with families from the same social stratum was 119.6. But when such infants were adopted by poor families, their average I.Q. was 107.5 — 12 points lower. The same holds true for children born into impoverished families: youngsters adopted by parents of similarly modest means had average I.Q.’s of 92.4, while the I.Q.’s of those placed with well-off parents averaged 103.6. These studies confirm that environment matters — the only, and crucial, difference between these children is the lives they have led."
You can read that "New York Times" article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print Why should better off parents' children have much higher IQ scores? Because their parents are able to afford more nutritious food is one obvious answer.
This "Biotech Week" article, "Malnutrition in early years leads to low IQ and later antisocial behavior", reveals the hardly surprising link between IQ and diet:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-125724772.html Nutrition is the same reason that the world's richest nations dominate the top of world's tallest countries table.
As this "Metro" news story reveals, the world's tallest people are the Dutch, followed by the Norwegians, while Americans, who were once the world's tallest people, are now significantly shorter than most Northern and Western European peoples, who like Americans, live in affluent nations, but unlike Americans, live in countries that are more financially egalitarian than the US, which means that a greater percentage of their parents can feed their children adequately:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/35629-dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-its-official The scientists who did the study which "Metro" cited, argued that diet, and Europe's better welfare states were the reason that Americans are now shorter than people in some European countries.
This "Scientific American" article, which, unlike "The Bell Curve", is based on science rather than pseudoscience, points out that partly because they spend far more government money on research and development (and partly, in my opinion, because their generous welfare payments encourage people to continue spending, rather than saving money when recessions happen), Scandinavian countries with high tax rates and high welfare spending have bigger budget surpluses, relative to GDP, and have less poverty, than the low tax, low welfare spending Anglo-Saxon countries and Ireland, which are more culturally influenced by American right wing economic ideas, for historical and language reasons, than Scandinavian countries, so it is bizarre that politicians should continue to be interested in any way in height stunting, IQ lowering American right wing economic ideas:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-social-welfare-state "The Bell Curve" also fails to mention the fact that as this "USA Today" article, "Lead poisoning: the plague of America's inner cities", shows, American black children, who are more likely than their white counterparts to live in inner cities, are more exposed to IQ reducing lead pollution for various reasons, which is why, as the article points out, 90% of black inner city children aged 3 to 5 "have elevated blood-lead levels":
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_n2602_v124/ai_17321004/ Unfortunately for racist far right writers like Charles Murray, unlike race, politics has a lot to do with IQ levels, which is why an Edinburgh University study which was cited at the end of this article in "The Scotsman", found that racist far right BNP voters have lower IQ levels than big 3 party, Green, SNP, and Plaid Cymru voters:
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Glenrothes-byelection-Activists-flood-in.4652904.jp Moreover, a 2011 "Searchlight" report which was discussed in this "Guardian" article, found that the most pro-multiculturalism people in the UK, tend to be graduates, and that the most anti-multiculturalism people tend not to be graduates, as the unskilled tend to be the most anti-multiculturalism, which is further evidence that, as you would expect, lower IQ people are the more likely to be racist than higher IQ people:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/28/david-miliband-attacks-david-cameron So do those 2 studies prove that Charles Murray was a dunce for writing his racist book "The Bell Curve"?
One example of Murray's stupidity which requires no comment, was revealed by a "Time" magazine article, "For Whom the Bell Curves":
"...stranger still is his premise that the early '60s were a time when race was unimportant to the people who controlled [racially segregated American] schools and jobs, to say nothing of lunch counters."
You can read that quotation here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981658-3,00.html American supporters of the "research" which "The Bell Curve" bases its racism on, argue that the book proves it is pointless to use affirmative action to get black and Hispanic people into better paid jobs, as they are stupid, pointless to spend money on educating them, as they are stupid, and pointless to give them social security payments, as that is subsidising the breeding of stupid people.
For example, this "New York Times" article mentions the fact that "The Bell Curve" is used to justify not spending money on educating black people, and to justify not doing anything about black white income disparity, which affirmative action deals with:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23wwln_idealab.html?pagewanted=print Moreover, this "Economist" article points out that:
"The new hereditarians [supporters of the IQ is primarily genetics related, not nutrition, lead poisoning, etc. related theory] were assailed, in print and in person; but they were not squashed. Their research won support from, and gave support to, conservative politicians keen to roll back the costly welfare policies of the post-1945 years. “The Bell Curve”, by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, published in 1994, is a powerful expression of this alliance. It argues that, since IQ is largely inherited, and people marry people like themselves, the difference between the intelligence of races and classes is liable to grow steadily wider.":
http://www.economist.com/node/109401 As I have said, Murray himself has long advocated scrapping the welfare state, as "Scientific American" magazine pointed out in their very scathing January 1995 review of his pseudoscientific book, "For Whom the Bell Curve Really Tolls: A tendentious tome abuses science to promote far-right policies":
"The arguments stem from the same tradition of biological determinism that led, not so long ago, to compulsory sterilizations in the U.S. and genocide elsewhere. The notion is that individuals' characteristics are both essentially fixed by inheritance and immune to alteration by the environment. Efforts to help those who are unfortunate by reason of their genes are unlikely to be rewarded. Solutions, therefore, should include those Murray has long advocated: abolish welfare, reduce affirmative action and simplify criminal law." (p.14)
You can read the review here:
http://www.mdcbowen.org/p2/rm/sciam2.htm Incidentally, "Scientific American" also pointed out in this abstract to the same review, that, "Charles Murray's and Richard Herrnstein's 'The Bell Curve' is riddled with errors in statistical methods and data interpretation":
http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Science-and-technology/For-whom-the-bell-curve-really-tolls-a-tendentious-tome-abuses-science-to-promote-far-right-policies.html In this already mentioned "Independent" interview with Charles Murray, "How I would tackle the new rabble", he thus not surprisingly reveals his anti-welfare state views, as he says that all social security payments to single parents should be scrapped:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/how-i-would-tackle-the-new-rabble-1610464.html The Pioneer Fund, which financed the "research" that "The Bell Curve"'s racist pseudoscientific conclusions were based on, was described in the "Sunday Telegraph" of March 12, 1989, as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics", and its first president, Harry Laughlin, who was one of the founders of the American Eugenics Society, which was set up in 1922, inspired the Nazis' eugenicist 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, which led to the forcible sterilisation of about 350,000 Germans, as this "New Statesman" article points out, so it is hardly surprising that the far right supporters of the "research" which the Pioneer Fund financed should have decided that "The Bell Curve" justified their decision to "roll back the costly welfare policies of the post-1945 years":
http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019 Among the people who the Nazis forcibly sterilised, for racist reasons, were the mixed race children of white German mothers and African troops who were part of the French garrison which occupied the Rhineland area of Germany after World War One.
Here is the transcript of an ABC Television "World News Tonight" report on the Pioneer Fund's links to the "research" which was cited in "The Bell Curve":
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/049.html The former President of the Pioneer Fund, Harry Weyher, has this to say about the report:
"On 22 November 1994 ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings was replete with somber voices speaking of a small penis being a "sign of superior intelligence", "eradicating inferior people", arresting blacks solely because of skin color, race superiority, and mentally ill Jews. This voice-over was spiced with references to Hitler and scenes of emaciated victims in Nazi death camps.":
http://www.pioneerfund.org/Weyher_pdf.pdf The Southern Poverty Law Center have this to say about the Pioneer Fund's fascist views, and its funding of racist pseudoscientists:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund Another SPLC article, by Professor Barry Mehler, who runs the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism, reveals that the late American fascist party (National Alliance) leader William Pierce, who openly advocated killing all of the world's billions of non-white and Jewish people, as I explained in a 2009 Operation Black Vote article, agreed with Murray's pseudoscience opinion that black people are genetically less intelligent than white people, which illustrates how dangerous "scientific" racism can be:
You can read my OBV article here:
http://operationblackvote.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/questiontime-for-bnps-fascist-links/ In his SPLC article, Professor Mehler wrote:
"National Vanguard, the publication of former physics professor William Pierce...and his neo-Nazi National Alliance, runs a similar piece that concludes that "it is the Negro's deficiency...which kept him in a state of savagery in his African environment and is now undermining the civilization of a racially mixed America."
"Ed Fields, a longtime, virulent racist, uses a review of Charles Murray's highly controversial book on IQ, The Bell Curve, to conclude that "over 50% of all Blacks test in the dull to retarded range.""
You can read Professor Mehler's article here:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,2 The next paragraph of Mehler's article shows why the Pioneer Fund use "academic" pseudoscience to try to make racism respectable:
"But it may be David Duke [a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who was also a Republican Party politician in the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1990 and 1992] who sums it up best. "No subject is more controversial than the nature versus nurture debate, and no subject has more direct consequences on society," he writes. "If heredity is shown to [be] the primary influence on intelligence rather than environment, then racial equality will crumble as a viable concept....""
If academics like Charles Murray can make people believe that black and Hispanic people are genetically less intelligent than white people, racism can become a respectable viewpoint, which will also make the fascist ideas of people like the Ku Klux Klan, the Pioneer Fund, and William Pierce more respectable.
This strategy has had some success. After all, Murray's book was issued by a major American publisher (who would doubtless not have issued a book which implied that white people are genetically less intelligent than black and Hispanic people), and Murray, who was not very well known before he wrote that book, has been allowed to write articles for 3 major American newspapers, "The New York Times", which is the most influential newspaper in the US, "USA Today", and "The Washington Post" (who would also doubtless not have allowed someone who implied that white people are genetically less intelligent than black and Hispanic people to write for them).
This Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting article, "Racism Resurgent", is a detailed discussion of the interest which the mainstream American media took in "The Bell Curve" when it came out, and of the Pioneer Fund's fascist views, and support for the Third Reich, and the partly Third Reich inspired South African apartheid regime:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1271 Charles Murray claims that the Pioneer Fund is not the same organisation as it was in the past, when it was linked to the Third Reich, but that is purely and simply a lie, as the Fund gave money to the late "Mankind Quarterly" contributor Glayde Whitney, who, 4 years after "the Bell Curve" was published, wrote the foreword to the racist and sexist 1998 autobiography of the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, who presented a paper at the Iranian Islamist tyranny's 2006 Holocaust denial conference.
Moreover, Whitney was associated with the Holocaust denying Institute for Historical Review, who published this obituary of him:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n1p13_whitney.html This BBC News story mentions David Duke presenting a paper at the Iranian conference:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6167695.stm Walter Kistler, who has been the main donor to the Pioneer Fund in recent years, set up the Foundation for the Future, a science organisation whose events have attracted David Duke, according to this SPLC article:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/summer/of-race-and-rockets Moreover, as this long "Albany Law Review" article about the Pioneer Fund and its Third Reich links points out, one year before "The Bell Curve" came out, the Pioneer funded Foundation for Human Understanding in Athens, Georgia issued an extremely racist book by Stanley Burnham whose ideas were very similar to "The Bell Curve":
http://www.albanylawreview.org/archives/65/3/TheAmericanBreed-NaziEugenicsandtheOriginsofthePioneerFund.pdf Burnham's "America's Bimodal Crisis: Black Intelligence in White Society", by Stanley Burnham, argues that "America's racial crisis is intractable and cannot be 'solved'" because it is caused by "genetic, not environmental" factors which cannot be solved by government spending. Burnham argues that black people have smaller brains than Europeans, which is why he argues that Africa's problems are the result of the "ignorance and irresponsibility of the African mind", and that black people's problems in other parts of the world are the result of "genetic deficiencies that they cannot remedy."
As a result, he applauds colonial rule over Africa, and criticises decolonisation.
The same "Albany Law Review" article cites Charles Murray's opinion that the Pioneer Fund gives money to "the most important scholars of intelligence", which is as inaccurate a statement as another Murray claim which is also cited in that article. Murray complains that Pioneer's critics attack the Fund for what it was involved in "50 and 60 years ago", when it was "allegedly associated with people of racist views". There is no "allegedly" about its Third Reich era association with "people of racist views", and it still is a fascist organisation, as its funding of the late Glayde Whitney proves.
As "Racism Resurgent" explains, one of the Pioneer funded researchers who "The Bell Curve" cites, Professor Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, who is clearly one of Charles Murray's "most important scholars of intelligence", like the other Pioneer funded "researchers" he cites, who I will discuss shortly, has similar views to the late, already mentioned, pro-killing billions of non-white and Jewish people fascist party leader William Pierce:
"Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as "a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences." Here's a sample of Lynn's thinking on such differences: "What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the 'phasing out' of such peoples... Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. To think otherwise is mere sentimentality." (cited in [the Long Island, New York daily newspaper] Newsday, 11/9/94)
"Elsewhere Lynn makes clear which "incompetent cultures" need "phasing out": "Who can doubt that the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contributions to civilization?" (cited in [The] New Republic [magazine], 10/31/94)"
A second, February 1995, also very scathing "Scientific American" review of "The Bell Curve", "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics" also points out that:
"Herrnstein and Murray rely heavily upon the work of Richard Lynn...from whose advice they have "benefited especially".
"I will not mince words. Lynn's distortions and misrepresentations of the data constitute a truly venomous racism, combined with scandalous disregard for scientific objectivity. But to anybody familiar with Lynn's work and background, this comes as no surprise. Lynn is widely known to be an associate editor of the vulgarly racist journal Mankind Quarterly; his 1991 paper comparing the intelligence of "Negroids" and "Negroid-Caucasoid hybrids" appeared in its pages."
Richard Lynn's own writings prove that he has a "scandalous disregard for scientific objectivity". In an article for the journal "Intelligence", he discussed his study of IQ levels in Italy, which stated that IQ levels were lower in the South, possibly partly, in his racist opinion, because Southern Italians have North African and Near Eastern ancestry. However, his article also pointed out that there were correlations in Italy between IQ and 3 wealth related factors which disprove the idea that any race is genetically less intelligent than any other, but which do prove that IQ depends on a person's wealth, and thus on the nutritional quality of the food that they consume: income, "stature" (or height in other words), and child mortality (which is much higher in poorer countries like Afghanistan and Saharan and Subsaharan nations than in richer countries).
You can read Richard Lynn's article here:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W4M-4X1R2WS-2&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1660461476&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=3acc2e1ca3ab292ea4e56c4a105ba87c&searchtype=a Richard Lynn's article annoyed Italian newspapers, one of which argued that it would not be out of place in a racist pamphlet. Moreover, this "Intelligence" journal article by Italian researchers, which was a response to Lynn's article, dismissed the idea that Southern Italians were genetically less intelligent than Northern Italians:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W4M-51D5RMG-1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1660459353&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1cded49ba20556d8afed32434d0b9105&searchtype=a Richard Lynn has also argued that Southern Europeans have smaller brains than Northern Europeans (for obvious racist reasons), as this "Times" article reveals:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article697134.ece Moreover, Lynn has also been interviewed by the fascist, anti-Semitic American magazine "The Occidental Quarterly", as this SPLC profile of the magazine reveals:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/occidental-quarterly As that article points out, the magazine is published by the Occidental Press, which is run by Holocaust denier, and former Ku Klux Klan lawyer Sam Dickson.
If you look up "The Occidental Quarterly"'s back issues online, you will find, for example, that it also published: a book review in its Winter 2002-2003 issue which said nice things about a biography of the late, pro-killing all of the world's billions of non-white and Jewish people American fascist party leader William Pierce; an obituary which said nice things about the Pioneer Fund president Harry Weyher in its Spring 2002 issue; reviews of books by the fascist Holocaust denier Harold Covington in the Spring 2009 issue; articles by the Pioneer Fund financed Daniel Vining; articles by Richard Lynn; and a positive review of Lynn's book "The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide" in its Fall 2008 issue. That review was by Donald Templer, who was currently "researching" "skin color as an index of intelligence".
"The Occidental Quarterly" also published a review of a Charles Murray book in its Winter 2004-2005 issue, and a pro-"The Bell Curve" article in its Fall 2004 issue.
Another Pioneer Fund financed racist (and sexist) pseudoscience academic who has written for "The Occidental Quarterly", and who is cited in "The Bell Curve", Canada's Professor J. Philippe Rushton, who argues that black people are genetically less intelligent than white people, was, because he is an academic "expert", allowed on to CNN and the USA's National Public Radio to discuss his "research" finding that women are on average less intelligent than men, as this SPLC article explains:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/pioneer-fund As the just cited SPLC article also explains, J. Philippe Rushton has been given more than $1 million of Pioneer Fund money to do such "research", and as "Racism Resurgent" revealed that Rushton is also an admirer of the very sexist Third Reich, that may mean that he shares either William Pierce's kill billions of people ideas, or Richard Lynn's phase out inferior races ideas:
"A 1986 article by Rushton suggested that the Nazi war machine owed its prowess to racial purity."
Furthermore, J. Philippe Rushton is an admirer of Richard Lynn, which is why he wrote this positive review of Lynn's pseudoscience book "The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ and Inequality Worldwide", which of course assumes that racism, rather than nutrition, wealth disparity, etc. can explain the different average IQ levels around the world:
http://www.wspublishers.com/review2.php Like J. Philippe Rushton, Charles Murray has been criticised on sexist pseudoscience grounds, as he admits in an article he wrote:
http://www.bible-researcher.com/murray1.html This "Independent" article, "Why is this crackpot pseudo-science so popular?", discusses the sexist (and racist) ideology behind "The Bell Curve":
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/why-is-this-crackpot-pseudoscience-so-popular-717728.html As you would expect, Charles Murray is an anti-feminist who argues that because women no longer rely on men to support them, and can claim single parent social security, the result is a family breakdown and an underclass of primarily women and their children.
His opposition to working women puts him in the company of some of the most right wing people on the planet: Adolf Hitler; Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is a Hitler regime apologist; "The Daily Mail", who backed Hitler in the 1930's; until recently the Saudi royal family, who backed Hitler in World War 2; and the Taliban, whose ideology is a very fundamentalist version of Saudi Wahhabist Islam.
Moreover, as this "New Statesman" article points out, "[in "The Bell Curve"] Murray repeatedly quoted sources such as J Philippe Rushton, an academic from Ontario who has received more than $700,000 from the Pioneer Fund, and who has argued that eugenics could stave off the threat that black fertility poses to "north European" civilisation.":
http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019 Furthermore, as this "Intellectual brownshirts - Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of 'The Bell Curve'" column in the American magazine "The Progressive" points out, in "The Bell Curve", the Third Reich admirer J. Philippe Rushton is described in the following utterly bizarre way:
"Rushton's work is not that of a crackpot or a bigot, as many of his critics are given to charging."
Is Charles Murray, and was Richard Herrnstein an apologist for Rushton's pro-Third Reich views because they are / were themselves "intellectual brownshirts"?
Or because they are / were crackpots? After all, "Racism Resurgent" has this to say about J. Philippe Rushton's "research":
"Rushton (who's gotten more than $770,000 from Pioneer) has transformed the Victorian science of cranial measurement into a sexual fetish--measuring not only head and brain size, but also the size of breasts, buttocks and genitals. "It's a trade-off: More brain or more penis. You can't have everything," he told Rolling Stone's Adam Miller (10/20/94), explaining his philosophy of evolution.
"Rushton was reprimanded by his school, the University of Western Ontario, for accosting people in a local shopping mall and asking them how big their penises were and how far they could ejaculate. "A zoologist doesn't need permission to study squirrels in his backyard," he groused (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94)."
A third Pioneer Fund financed racist pseudoscientist who is cited in "The Bell Curve", the late Arthur Jensen, who, as this Institute for the Study of Academic Racism article points out, "claimed the problem with black children was that they had an average IQ of only 85 and that no amount of social engineering would improve their performance. Jensen urged "eugenic foresight" as the only solution.":
http://www.ferris.edu/ISAR/Institut/pioneer/search.htm Jensen's pro-eugenics views were hardly surprising, as he was praised in an article about him in "The Occidental Quarterly", and as this Institute for the Study of Academic Racism webpage points out that he gave an interview in 1975 to the German fascist magazine "Nation Europa", which was founded after World War 2 by former Waffen SS officer Arthur Ehrhard, and which favourably reviewed the Holocaust denying pamphlet "Did Six Million Really Die?":
http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/billig/chapter6.htm That webpage also points out that another Pioneer Fund financed "Bell Curve" source, the late Hans Eysenck, gave an interview in 1977 to the British fascist magazine "Beacon", which was published by a National Front splinter group, the National Party.
As this article in the British medical journal "The Lancet" reveals, Eysenck's racist views made him a hero to British fascists:
"In 1970, the Cambridge group from the British Society for Social Responsibility organised a public debate with Jensen, challenging his claim that black people were genetically inferior to white people in IQ...Eysenck, unsurprisingly, supported Jensen and rushed out a provocative short book Race, Intelligence and Education. Penguin, Eysenck's normal publisher, wouldn't touch it, and even at the publisher he finally found, Temple Smith, the staff publicly dissociated themselves from it. Nonetheless, he was quickly hailed as a hero and “new Galileo” by the right and above all by neo-Nazi groups such as the National Front, to whose magazines he gave interviews.":
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)61207-X/fulltext Arthur Jensen also became a hero to fascists, as another ISAR webpage reveals:
"However, the effect of Jensen's work on fascist groups throughout the world was immediate and electric. The fine details of the various arguments were irrelevant to their purposes: what mattered was the chance to make race-science respectable once again. According to Martin Webster, the National Activities Organiser of the National Front: "The most important factor in the build-up of self-confidence amongst 'racists', and the collapse of morale among multi-racialists was the publication in 1969 by Professor Arthur Jensen in the Harvard Educational Review" (Spearhead, April 1973)."
That paragraph proves of course that "The Bell Curve" is an extremely dangerous book whose stupid ideas have to be demolished, not turned into policy by David "lightweight" Cameron and the equally lightweight George Osborne, who is obviously totally unqualified to run Britain's finances, as he reportedly only learned in 2011 that the price of oil seriously affects the British economy, despite the fact that 1973, 1979, and 1990 spikes in oil prices caused recessions, and despite the fact that another oil price spike played a role in the origin of world's current economic problems, as high petrol prices were part of the reason that large numbers of people were no longer able to pay their mortgages in the US.
The ISAR webpage continues:
"Fascists saw Jensen and Eysenck as vindicating their basic racist assumptions. For instance, the National Party, a break-away group from the National Front, demonstrated the over-riding importance of race-science in its ideology and interpretation of politics:
"Nationalists believe that intelligence is mainly genetically determined, and so the differences in intelligence and other mental abilities between the races are inborn and hereditary. Therefore we believe that the World intellectual leadership shown by the White Race is due to our unique genetic heritage, whose dilution by mixing with alien stock would be an irreversible catastrophe for all mankind . . . If it can be proved that intelligence (and other aspects of human nature) is inherited, then Marxism loses its whole reason for existing while the ideology of Racial Nationalism receives firm scientific support" (Britain First, January 1977).
"It is no wonder, then, that Eysenck's popular books, like Race, Intelligence and Education and The Inequality of Man, are on the booklists of fascist groups like the National Front. Nor is it any surprise that their propaganda makes constant reference to Jensen and Eysenck's work."
You can read that ISAR webpage here:
http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/billig/chapter2.htm Another Pioneer Fund grant recipient who is a "Bell Curve" source, the late William Shockley, "deemed blacks genetically inferior to whites and unable to achieve their intellectual level", to cite this "New York Times" Shockley obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0213.html The BNP are clearly supporters of not only J. Philippe Rushton, but also of another Pioneer Fund financed "researcher" who is cited in "The Bell Curve", Roger Pearson, as this webpage about the BNP, which was posted by "Searchlight" magazine's HOPE not hate campaigning group states:
"The BNP's booklist reveal its true politics. It includes titles from the racial eugenicists Roger Pearson (pictured), Henry Garrett, J Philippe Rushton and Jared Taylor, whose books claim that members of the "white race" have a higher IQ than other people. Roger Pearson now runs the Pioneer Fund, which supported eugenics and Nazism in the 1930s, and in the 1960s and 1970s combated integration and civil rights and supported apartheid. BNP publications regularly carry articles promoting racial eugenics.":
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/the-real-bnp/the-politics-of-the-BNP.php This ISAR article about Roger Pearson's fascist politics, explains that he set up the fascist Northern League (which, as I have said, is not to be confused with an Italian far right party which is part of Silvio Berlusconi's current coalition), whose members included the Third Reich race "scientist" Hans Guenther, and whose goals included leading Northern European people in Europe and the Americas in the "fight against forces which would mongrelize our race and civilization.":
http://www.ferris.edu/isar/bios/cattell/HPPB/visions.htm The just cited article also mentions the fact that in the 1960's, Pearson worked closely with Willis Carto, who was the biggest seller of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic literature in the US, including the infamous Russian Tsarist secret police forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", which Hitler used to justify the Holocaust (hence the title of the late Professor Norman Cohn's book about the Protocols: "Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion", Serif Publishing, London, 1996)
This ISAR webpage says of the Northern League:
"These [Northern League] meetings are normally only open to members and specially selected guests. Those present included a motley collection of open Nazis, like Colin Jordan, members of the clandestine Nazi paramilitary organisation Column 88, ex-SS men, and Martin Webster of the National Front.":
http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/billig/chapter3.htm As this "Times" obituary of Colin Jordan explains, Jordan modelled himself on the pre-World War 2 British fascist leader Arnold Leese, whose Imperial Fascist League had advocated gassing Jews:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6100386.ece Moreover, this MI5 historical webpage says of Leese:
"He was extreme even by fascist standards, denouncing Mosley for supposedly being under Jewish control and calling for the extermination of Jews, long before Hitler adopted a similar policy.":
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/fascism-and-nazism.html Another Pioneer Fund grant recipient who is cited in "The Bell Curve", R. Travis Osborne, was described in the following way by the "Racism Resurgent" article: "Osborne, who has received almost $400,000 from Pioneer, used his "research" into black genetic inferiority to argue for the restoration of school segregation (*Newsday*, 11/9/94)."
This SPLC article reveals that another "Bell Curve" source, the late very Malthusian Raymond Cattell, said in a 1972 book, that when poor countries face famine, genocide, or natural disasters, they should be allowed to "go to the wall":
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,0 Given Raymond Cattell's views, it is hardly surprising that, as this ISAR article explains, he "openly supported fascism in the 1930s", and believed that the "vast majority of humans on the planet are 'obsolete'", and should be phased out through eugenics:
http://www.ferris.edu/isar/bios/cattell/genetica.htm So, as you would expect, the same article reveals that Cattell supported the Nazis' eugenic sterilisation of 3.5 million people.
Charles Murray has not yet been given a Pioneer Fund grant, but as the late President of the Fund, Harry Weyher, revealed in the November 1994 issue of the men's magazine "GQ", "We'd have funded him [Richard Herrnstein] at the drop of a hat, but he never asked".
This Pioneer Fund webpage points out that although the Fund have not funded Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, those 2 writers have been funded by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, whose racism will be discussed in a moment:
http://www.pioneerfund.org/Controversies.html So, as this "New York Times" article points out that as a young man, Charles Murray copied the Ku Klux Klan by burning a cross, perhaps Murray ought to ask the Pioneer Fund to finance whatever his next racist book is:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/26/opinion/in-america-throwing-a-curve.html After all, although Charles Murray tries to downplay the race theme of "The Bell Curve", the "Racism Resurgent" article states: "Take the infamous Chapter 13, which Murray has often claimed is the only chapter that deals with race (far from it--there are at least four chapters focused entirely on race, and the whole book is organized around the concept)."
So he fits right into Pioneer's race "science" pigeon hole, which explains Charles Murray's grants from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, whose financing of Murray is confirmed by this "Milwaukee Magazine" article, which points out that the late president of the Bradley Foundation, Michael Joyce, described Murray as "one of the foremost social thinkers in the country", and gave him more than $1 million of funding:
http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/murphyslaw/default.asp?NewMessageID=11196 This article in the "Black Commentator" magazine discusses the Bradley Foundation's funding of 3 anti-civil rights groups with Orwellian double talk names: the Center for Individual Rights, the American Civil Rights Institute, and the American Civil Rights Coalition:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/31/18476057.php The 2009 Bradley Foundation Annual Report, which you can read online, admits that it funds 2 of these groups, the CIR, and the ACRI, whose subsidiary lobbying arm is the ACRC.
Another "Black Commentator" article mentions the fact that the Bradley Foundation funded the Hoover Institution, which employed the late free market fundamentalist supporter of General Pinochet's fascist dictatorship Milton Friedman, and the fact that Friedman worked with the Bradley Foundation to privatise American education by promoting a state funded vouchers for private schools group:
http://www.blackcommentator.com/7_voucher_tricksters.html This long article by the prominent American liberal campaigning group People for the American Way, discusses Bradley Foundation funding of anti-affirmative action groups (p.15), and Charles Murray (pp.27-28):
https://www.pfaw.org/sites/default/files/buyingamovement.pdf This article on the website of the "Media Transparency" group, who monitor the grants which American right wing foundations give, mentions Bradley's funding of the same groups, and of racist writers, including Charles Murray and President Reagan's Secretary of Education William Bennett:
http://old.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=1 William Bennett has said that aborting all black babies would reduce the American crime rate, as this "New York Times" article points out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30bennett.html The same Media Transparency article mentions Bradley's funding of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, whose staff member, William Lind, wishes that the pro-slavery US South had won the American Civil War, as an SPLC article about the FCREF, who are also known as the Free Congress Foundation, and similar right wing groups explained:
"Race surfaced in 1999, when Lind wrote that, "The real damage to race relations in the South came not from slavery, but from Reconstruction, which would not have occurred if the South had won." Had that happened, Lind added, "at least part of North America would still stand for Western culture, Christianity and an appreciation of the differences between ladies and gentlemen." Instead, when the South lost, the "official American state ideology" became the federally imposed "cultural Marxism of Political Correctness." In a speech to a Holocaust denial outfit last year, Lind blamed "cultural Marxism" on a tiny group of German Jews."
You can read the SPLC article here:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/summer/into-the-mainstream?page=0,1 This article in the American magazine "The Nation", discusses Bradley's funding of racist, anti-affirmative action, and anti-welfare states writers, including Charles Murray and the pro-scrapping welfare states Marvin Olasky:
http://www.thenation.com/article/right-books-and-big-ideas This obituary of former Bradley Foundation chairman Michael Joyce, which is on the website of the American magazine "National Review", discusses Joyce's involvement in W-2, which was "inspired by the work of Murray and others", and which David Cameron says is his role model for his spending cuts, and also discusses the fact that when Joyce worked for another right wing group, the Olin Foundation, he ensured that Charles Murray was given a grant which helped to make his "Losing Ground", pro-scrapping welfare states book a success:
http://old.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200602270759.asp This "New Statesman" article, which I mentioned earlier, confirms what "National Review" said about W-2 being inspired by Charles Murray, as it points out that George W. Bush's Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, who, as Wisconsin's Governor, was responsible for W-2, is a supporter of Charles Murray's ideas, and hired Murray as a W-2 consultant:
http://www.newstatesman.com/200204150019 The same article reveals that, as I pointed out earlier, the result of W-2 cutting the number of people in the state receiving social security payments by 92%, was a predictable 37% increase, in just the first year, in African American infant mortality in the state's largest city, Milwaukee.
So David Cameron's beloved W-2 has made a modest contribution to phasing out African Americans.
This obituary of Michael Joyce on the website of "Philanthropy" magazine, mentions the fact that Joyce secured Olin Foundation funding for Charles Murray's "Losing Ground", and the fact that Joyce was also an adviser to W-2:
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/article.asp?article=836&paper=1&cat=139 These 2 articles from the website of Milwaukee's A Job is a Right Campaign, discuss the Bradley Foundation's racism, funding of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein, and involvement in designing the W-2 destruction of Wisconsin's welfare state:
http://my.execpc.com/~ajrc/ftintro.html http://my.execpc.com/~ajrc/ftsum.html If you are interested in what David Cameron wants to do to Britain's welfare state, Milwaukee's A Job is a Right Campaign also sell a 140 page report, "The Feeding Trough: The Bradley Foundation, 'The Bell Curve' and the Real Story Behind W-2, Wisconsin's National Model for Welfare Reform", which you can buy through their website:
http://my.execpc.com/~ajrc/ft.html If you are interested in W-2, you also need to know more about Lawrence Mead, the Republican welfare "expert" who, according to this "Observer" article, flew to Britain in June 2010 to talk to David Cameron about W-2 (which Mead has written a book about):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/24/no-country-for-poor-people As this "Daily Telegraph" article reveals, Lawrence Mead favours leaving people without an income by throwing them off social security:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/maryriddell/100044458/budget-2010-how-much-human-pain-will-britain-tolerate-in-the-name-of-prudence/# So as you would expect, Mead is a friend of Charles Murray, as this "Nation's Business" article reveals:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1154/is_n8_v82/ai_15637924/ In this transcript of a speech, Mead cites Richard Herrnstein approvingly, on page 19, reference 45, and Charles Murray approvingly, on page 2, reference 79. He also talks approvingly about Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith on page 29, reference 81, which cites a book by Gertrude Himmelfarb, as if those 5 dystopians had / have anything useful to teach the world:
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/mead/Research/Pov_and_Pol_Theory.pdf Moreover, Charles Murray and Lawrence Read are both research scholars for an Australian right wing think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies:
http://www.cis.org.au/research-scholars/contributors As Charles Murray is a snob whose "The Bell Curve" talks about a "cognitive elite", it is not surprising that his CIS research paper is called "In praise of elitism".
Lawrence Read and Charles Murray also both work for the racist American Enterprise Institute. Mead is a Visiting Scholar, and Murray is the W. H. Brady Scholar in Culture.
Despite his openly extremely racist views, AEI were also happy in the past to employ the Indian born Dinesh D'Souza, whose very well publicised opinions have not made Lawrence Mead (or Charles Murray) want to resign from the AEI, unlike 2 black AEI employees, who "disaffiliated" from the AEI because of D'Souza's views.
To quote from a "Time" magazine article, "THE BIGOT'S HANDBOOK":
"D'Souza also argues that because racism had its origins among intellectually gifted Europeans during the Enlightenment, it can't be all bad; that American slavery was not a racist institution; and that segregation was merely a well-meaning attempt by paternalistic whites to help blacks "perform to the capacity of their arrested development." He urges the repeal of every major civil rights law in the land, including those that allow blacks to sit at lunch counters and use the same water fountains as everyone else. Thenceforward the government would be required to function in a race-blind manner, but private citizens and institutions, from taxicab companies to huge corporations, would be free to discriminate."
You can read that article, which, on its first page, mentions the 2 black AEI employees, Robert Woodson and Glenn Loury, who "disaffiliated" from the AEI over D'Souza's views here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983506-2,00.html This "Washington Post" webpage, is chapter one of Dinesh D'Souza's racist book "The End of Racism", in which he makes the following staggeringly dishonest claims:
"Specifically, I question and reject the following widely shared premises that shape the conventional wisdom about racism, as well as America's civil rights laws.
* Racism is simply an irrational prejudice, a product of ignorance and fear.
* Slavery was a racist institution, and the Constitution's compromise with slavery discredits the American founding as racist and morally corrupt.
* Segregation was a system established by white racists for the purpose of oppressing blacks.
...* The civil rights movement represented a triumph of justice and enlightenment over the forces of Southern racism and hate.":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/endofrac.htm Furthermore, this article in "The Nation" revealed that:
"The AEI had already invested in respectable racism when it funded D'Souza during the writing of his apologia, The End of Racism, in which the author attributed racism, which he believed was vestigial, to a "civilization gap" between blacks and whites rather than to the fact that many powerful and influential white people think black people are inferior.":
http://www.thenation.com/article/right-books-and-big-ideas?page=0,1 Moreover, in this online CV, Mead admits, on page 9, to receiving grants from the racist, anti-civil rights, anti-affirmative action Bradley Foundation:
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/mead/mead_vitae.pdf. As you would also expect, Mead's opinions sound like Phillip Blond's pro-Middle Ages views, and like the old colonialist "white man's burden" racist argument for colonialism, as he argued in this lecture that, "Whether the United States should lead the world is much debated, but American primacy in some form is unavoidable. It has roots deep in history, as did the British primacy that preceded it. All the Anglo nations became rich and powerful because of qualities that Britain developed deep in the Middle Ages: good government, a market economy, and an individualist society. They accept a responsibility for the world order that other rich nations avoid. Non-Western countries show nothing like the same development.
"At the end of history, liberal democracy has prevailed, and deeper historical differences dominate world affairs. Sunny visions of globalisation cannot obscure them. Only the Anglo nations possess all the economic, military, and moral ingredients of power. They are fated to lead the world—and to bear heavy burdens for the less fortunate."
You can read that section of Mead's lecture here:
http://www.cis.org.au/publications/occasional-papers/article/1416-anglo-primacy-and-the-end-of-history-the-deep-roots-of-power It is not clear why Mead believes that Mediaeval England, which was run by a royalist dictatorship, had "good government", though of course that royalist dictatorship did have a lot in common with Mead's pro-a low minimum wage Republican Party, as it legislated to ensure that the rich could pay low wages to the poor (which is why, for example, after the 14th Century "Black Death" plague epidemic had killed a third of the population, which made labour more scarce, and which thus drove up the wages of the poor, it passed a law to help the rich, who were furious about having to pay higher wages, by pegging pay at pre-Black Death levels).
Milwaukee's A Job is a Right Campaign argue that W-2, which Mead thinks was a great idea, is partly a cheap labour scheme. To cite their website again: "W-2 is essentially a program designed to create a large pool of super-low-wage workers to serve the needs of businesses unwilling to pay a living wage.":
http://my.execpc.com/~ajrc/ftintro.html Or, in other words, like England's 14th Century "good government", the Republican Party wanted to drive down the wages of the poor, which, like blaming the unemployed for politicians' incompetent inability to provide at least living wage jobs for everyone who needs them, is of course standard practice for modern right wing governments.
Mediaeval England's "good government" also required animals which had caused the death of a human to appear in court to be sentenced, so perhaps Mead ought to suggest to the Republican National Committee that they should make that practice a Republican policy proposal.
Historically, Milwaukee was the most socialist city in the US, which is why it had 3 Socialist Party Mayors, so the Republican Party may be using Milwaukee as a "if it can work there, it can work anywhere" laboratory for controversial far right ideas which can then be put into practice nationally, because, as this Wisconsin newspaper article shows, Milwaukee is currently the site of a major battle between, on one side, trades unions and the Democratic Party, and, on the other side, the new Republican Governor of Wisconsin, who is trying to wreck the collective bargaining rights of his state's public employees (Republicans in other states want to do the same thing, but are presumably waiting to see what happens in Wisconsin):
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_21da7e42-3883-11e0-acaa-001cc4c002e0.html It is incidentally not unfair to describe W-2 as "far right", because Jason Turner, who Thompson put in charge of dismantling Wisconsin's social security system, was later hired by New York's Republican Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, to do the same thing in New York. Turner then caused outrage among some of New York's large Jewish community, by using the old Nazi slogan, "Work makes you free" ("Arbeit macht frei", which was the inscription above the gates of concentration camps like Dachau, where the "workshy" were one of the groups who the Nazis punished by working them to death), as this "New York Times" article explains:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/27/nyregion/city-official-is-sorry-for-remark-some-thought-was-anti-semitic.html?ref=jasonaturner Iain Duncan-Smith, the former Conservative leader who is in charge of David Cameron's W-2 inspired, and thus fascist "research" inspired social security cuts, has, also used the "Work makes you free" slogan (while being interviewed by Sian Williams on BBC breakfast TV), which he knows the origin of, as he mentions "Arbeit macht frei" in this Conservative Party blog article about his trip to Auschwitz:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/iain_duncan_smith/ See this Labour Party blog article for discussion of Iain Duncan-Smith's use of the old Nazi slogan:
http://bertfinch.labourhome.org/2010/05/27/work-makes-you-free-says-iain-duncan-smith-does-he-also-think-that-the-coalition-will-last-for-1000-years/ Not surprisingly, the father of BNP leader Nick Griffin, Edgar Griffin, was part of Iain Duncan-Smith's campaign for the Conservative leadership, because he then had joint BNP and Conservative membership, and said that the Conservatives were more right wing than the BNP on certain issues, as he explained in this BBC News article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2218998.stm As my earlier cited OBV article pointed out, the late BNP founder John Tyndall described the pro-killing all of the world's billions of non-white and Jewish people William Pierce as a "Great Man" in an obituary, and Nick Griffin was allegedly a "close ally" of Pierce.
The reason why the US media was so interested in "The Bell Curve", is no doubt because it (a) did not have time to check out the footnotes of "The Bell Curve", and did not thus realise that they included fascist sources, and (b) is used to citing "scientists" and "experts", which means that although it would never praise a racist thug who made mindless statements, it was fooled by the length of Murray's book, and the amount of "research" (it has a large bibliography, and a lot of footnotes) which he did to write it.
For example, "Racism Resurgent" pointed out that Ted Koppel, who was then the anchor for ABC's late night news programme "Nightline, said to Murray in its October 21, 1994 broadcast: "You've written a long book. I assume a great deal of work and research went into it."
So I will discuss some of that "research".
On pages 775, 807, and 828, "The Bell Curve" cites 5 articles which were published in the financially supported by the Pioneer Fund fascist magazine "Mankind Quarterly", which has, as you can see if you look up its back issues on its website, published articles by Raymond Cattell, Hans Eysenck, who was a member of its Honorary Advisory Board, Seymour Itzkoff, R. Travis Osborne, Richard Lynn, who, like Roger Pearson, is one of its editors, and J. Philippe Rushton.
As this page on its website admits, its editorial board's "distinguished scholars" have included Raymond Cattell, and 3 other fascists who I will discuss in a moment: Auschwitz SS race "researcher" Professor Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, Corrado Gini, who was an adviser to Benito Mussolini, and South African geneticist Professor J.D.J. Hofmeyr:
http://www.mankindquarterly.org/about.html This ISAR webpage says of Robert Gayre, the original editor of "Mankind Quarterly":
"He is an enthusiastic supporter of apartheid and has paid regular visits to South Africa and Rhodesia. On several occasions he has attended the Congress of the South African Genetic Society. The President of the Society, Professor J.D.J. Hofmeyr, is also on the Honorary Advisory Board of The Mankind Quarterly.
"Gayre has also contributed to a South African journal which is written predominantly in Africaan [sic], although it does publish English contributions: Tydskrif vir Rasse-Aangeleenthede (Journal of Racial Affairs). This journal is published by the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs and consists entirely of pseudo-scientific propaganda supporting apartheid. Gayre's article in 1964 (Vol. 15, pages 141-154) is entitled 'The races and peoples of Southern Africa: Some notes on their ethnic movements and distributions';
"...Hofmeyr's political views are extreme even by South African standards. He has contributed to the extreme right-wing magazine South African Observer. For instance he wrote in praise of race prejudice in February 1962: "Race prejudice is just as fundamental to the perpetuation of a race as feeding, propagation and other phenomena."
"In common with many overtly fascist publications, South African Observer mixes its unabashed racism with anti-Semitic notions of a 'Jewish world conspiracy'. It is well to the right of the ruling Nationalist Party. Frequently it criticised former South African Prime Minister, John Vorster, for accepting "the Zionist-communist equality doctrine".":
http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/billig/chapter3.htm Another ISAR webpage reveals that Gayre testified in court that black people were "worthless":
http://www.ferris.edu/isar/bios/Porteus/stannard.htm In "The Tainted Sources of 'The Bell Curve', an article for "The New York Review of Books", Charles Lane revealed that:
"Mankind Quarterly was established during decolonization and the US civil rights movement. Defenders of the old order were eager to brush a patina of science on their efforts."
The magazine was thus evidently designed to restore white people to the master race status which they had enjoyed during the colonial era, before that status was challenged by the civil rights, anti-colonial, and anti-apartheid movements.
That master race status ensured that the Western academic world was much more right wing than it is today. As Christopher Knight and Alan Butler pointed out in their "Civilization One" book:
"During the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, there was an egocentric worldview in academia whereby white, Christian, male explorers would travel to see the 'inferior' races who did not live 'properly'".
Does Charles Murray hope to restore that era? If he does, he will face a lot of opposition, because there is no longer widespread support for the master race ideology, which is now only backed by a fringe of fascist parties and their supporters and sympathisers in conservative parties.
As this SPLC article about academic racism points out:
"After World War II and the experience of Nazi eugenics, ideological ascendancy passed to egalitarian thinkers. With the coming of the civil rights movement, from 1954 to 1968, America's second system of white supremacy collapsed — and with it, widespread support for the race scientists and eugenicists who had provided its ideological underpinning.
"But even during the height of the egalitarian period, a core group of academic racists continued to argue for the importance of race-based IQ differences and even eugenic solutions — and to train a new generation of race scientists to carry on the torch of scientific racialism."
You can read that SPLC article here:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/winter/race-and-reason?page=0,1 So "Mankind Quarterly"'s academic racism articles have titles like: Winter 2010's "Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century", "IQ and Skin Color: The Old World Reexamined and the New World" (Fall 2010), and "The Comparison of Mean IQ in Muslim and Non-Muslim Countries" (Spring 2010).
As one of the members of the Honorary Advisory Board of "Mankind Quarterly" was Professor Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, a Nazi war criminal Auschwitz geneticist whose assistants at that extermination camp included the most notorious Nazi war criminal of all, the sadistic SS human experimenter Dr. Josef Mengele, the US media's interest in "The Bell Curve" is utterly disgraceful.
You can learn more about Verschuer's "Mankind Quarterly" advisory role, and his pro-extermination of Jews and Gypsies views, in this "Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless" article (in the "Garrett, Segregation, and Mankind Quarterly" section):
http://www.psychology.uoguelph.ca/faculty/winston/papers/rushton.html "Eugenics and the Nazis - The California connection", a November 9, 2003 "San Francisco Chronicle" article by the already mentioned Edwin Black, whose parents were survivors of the Holocaust, revealed that Verschuer was perhaps the first Nazi to publicly support the idea of exterminating Jews, as before World War 2, he wrote:
"Verschuer wrote in Der Erbarzt, a eugenics doctor's journal he edited, that Germany's war would yield a "total solution to the Jewish problem."
"Verschuer had a longtime assistant. His name was Josef Mengele.
"On May 30, 1943, Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. Verschuer notified the German Research Society, "My assistant, Dr. Josef Mengele (M.D., Ph.D.) joined me in this branch of research. He is presently employed as Hauptsturmführer (captain) and camp physician in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Anthropological testing of the most diverse racial groups in this concentration camp is being carried out with permission of the SS Reichsführer (Himmler)."
You can read Edwin Black's article here:
http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-11-09/opinion/17517477_1_eugenics-ethnic-cleansing-master-race Josef Mengele is regarded as the very epitome of Nazi sadism, the racist pseudoscientist who performed grisly experiments on children, but he was merely an underling of the largely unknown to the public Professor Verschuer, who escaped prosecution for his crimes.
A BBC article, "Dr Josef Mengele - the Angel of Death" says of his "research", and his generally sadistic behaviour at Auschwitz:
"In the name of scientific endeavour, Mengele's experimental subjects included children as well as adult men and women; often, his subjects would suffer dissection without the use of anaesthetic or be administered high-voltage shocks in order to test their pain endurance;
"...When the crematoria of the camp malfunctioned, Mengele had trenches dug, filled with petrol and set alight. He then watched as the condemned Jews, living and dead, adult and child were hurled bodily into the fiery pits. Anyone managing to crawl from the pit was kicked back into the fire by the camp guards.
"...several twins had organs and limbs swapped and removed in macabre surgical procedures without anaesthetic to see how their bodies would react;"
The BBC article also reveals the racist pseudoscience motive for Mengele's "research":
"...It is clear to all that Mengele's experimentation had nothing to do with scientific research, and everything to do with the edict of Aryan supremacy."
You can read the BBC article here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2875368 It is well known that the Nazis wanted to exterminate tens of millions of Jews and Gypsies, but it is less well known that one of Verschuer's colleagues at Auschwitz, Carl Clauberg, did experiments which, "aimed at a quick method of the biological extermination of the Slavs", to cite page 17 of Kazimerz Smolen's book "From the History of KL - Auschwitz" , which was published in 1967 by the Panstowe Museum at the Auschwitz camp.
So one of Verschuer's colleagues was trying to find a way to exterminate hundreds of millions of Eastern Europeans, which explains why the Nazis shot so many Soviet prisoners of war, and allowed so many others to die of hunger and disease (of the 5,700,000 who were taken prisoner, only about a million survived), and which also explains why the Nazis killed so many non-Jewish Poles, as this Catholic website article, "The Gentile Holocaust: Remembering the Millions of Gentiles Murdered by the Nazis" explains:
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=472&CFID=71034520&CFTOKEN=44940198 That article quotes Hitler as having said: "All Poles will disappear from the world."
Carl Clauberg's sterilisation experiments, which are discussed on this "Jewish Virtual Library" historical webpage, were no doubt designed to find "a quick method of the biological extermination of the Slavs":
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/aumed.html This article, which was published by the Auschwitz camp museum, reveals that it was SS chief Heinrich Himmler who put Carl Clauberg in charge of finding a way to sterilise Slavs:
http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=39&Itemid=22 It is entirely appropriate that Verschuer should have been on the Honorary Advisory Board of "Mankind Quarterly", as it continued the racist investigations of the SS Ahnenerbe department, which sent people abroad to, for example, look for evidence that Nordic people had ruled the world at some time in the past, which is why "Mankind Quarterly" publishes articles about, for example, the ancestral origins of Finnish people, as part of its white master race historical research. There is nothing wrong with researching the historical origins of the Finns of course, but there is if that kind of research is designed to justify the idea of a Nordic master race.
It is also entirely appropriate that the American Enterprise Institute's Charles Murray should use Pioneer Fund financed research to write "The Bell Curve", because General Pinochet's dictatorship also mixed AEI style free market fundamentalism with fascism.
I said earlier that Pinochet's "economic ideology" was free market fundamentalism, but his dictatorship was of course also ideologically fascist, which is why, as American former World War 2 bomber pilot Glenn Infield points out in his book, "Secrets of the SS" (Military Heritage Press, New York, 1981), which was partly the result of 5 trips to Europe to interview ex-SS men:
"...the secret colony [Colonia Dignidad, or Noble Colony in English] is actually a Nazi stronghold that is protected by the Chilean government and which works very closely with the DINA [the original acronym of Pinochet's secret police]. Informed sources within the Chilean government state that one of the responsibilities of the ex-Gestapo and ex-SS officers at Colonia Dignidad is to demonstrate Nazi torture methods for the secret police and to instruct the DINA in such brutality.
"...Both the CIA and Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi-hunter, state they have evidence that such fugitives as Dr. Josef Mengele, the Third Reich's "Angel of Death", have spent time at Colonia Dignidad.
"...The charge by Simon Wiesenthal that Josef Mengele had spent time at Schaeffer's Colonia Dignidad in Chile in 1979 is another indication of the powerful protection afforded this Nazi enclave by the Chilean government.
"...Witnesses testified after the war that they saw him [Mengele] throw newborn Jewish infants into a fire, split the skull of teenagers with a cleaver, torture women through their genitals, inject blinding drugs into gypsies in an effort to change their dark eyes to blue, and use hunchbacks and midgets for brutal research." (pp.205-209)
Josef Mengele was the most infamous Nazi race "scientist", Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer was his boss, and Carl Clauberg could have ended up being even worse than his 2 colleagues if he had discovered a way to rapidly sterilise Eastern Europeans, but the top Nazi race "scientist" was Hans Guenther, whose 1922 book, "Racial Study of the German People", had made him popular, which is why, after the Nazi regional government of Thuringia forced the University of Jena to employ him, Hitler attended his first lecture.
As you would expect, Hans Guenther fretted about poorer people having more children than richer people, as you can see by reading this chapter of an English translation of one of his books:
http://www.white-history.com/earlson/hfk/reoehchap11.htm Because of his notoriety, Hans Guenther used the pseudonyms Ludwig Winter and Heinrich Ackermann after World War 2, and in one of his post war books, 1959's "Fading Talent in Europe" ("Begabungschwund in Europa"), which criticised "counter-selective forces" that he thought were dragging the white races down, including what he saw as unintelligent people having too many babies, he sounded like Charles Murray.
Predictably, the late John Tyndall's magazine, "Spearhead", which he used to promote the NF and then the BNP, sells a Hans Guenther book, as well as "The Bell Curve", and books or articles by or about William Pierce, Arnold Leese, R. Travis Osborne, David Duke, Leeds University lecturer Frank Ellis (a pro-"The Bell Curve" academic racist who I will discuss shortly), and David Cameron's favourite guru Phillip Blond's beloved Hilaire Belloc, who Tyndall seemed to be very keen on, because his book list sold several titles by him, as you can see here:
http://www.spearhead.com/books.html While Hans Guenther was the top American race "scientist", the top German eugenicist was Alfred Ploetz, who invented the "racial hygiene" term which inspired the Nazis to exterminate people who they regarded as contaminating the Aryan race. Like the anti-single mothers Charles Murray, Ploetz criticised giving social security to people of childbearing age, as page 18 of this issue of the "Greensboro Historical Review" shows:
http://likethehours.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/ghrvol1.pdf Despite the influence of Hans Guenther and Alfred Ploetz on Nazi thought, the race "science" book which Hitler said was his "bible", as this article shows, was by an American eugenicist, Madison Grant, who worked with Pioneer Fund founder Harry Laughlin to develop appropriate language for the Fund's incorporation documents:
http://www.upne.com/1-58465-715-4.html It was odd that Hitler regarded Madison Grant's "Passing of the Great Race" as his "bible", because Hitler had black hair, and Grant argued that blond haired, blue eyed people like, surprise surprise, himself, were the master race. Hitler did have blue eyes, but was still not a member of Grant's master race.
Another World War 2 fascist who was on the Honorary Advisory Board of "Mankind Quarterly", was Corrado Gini, an advisor to Benito Mussolini who wrote this March 1927 article, "The Scientific Basis of Fascism" for "Political Science Quarterly":
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2142862 Gini was of course hoping that if he could establish a "scientific" basis for fascism, anti-fascists would no longer be able to refute its stupid ideas.
You can read more about Gini's connection to "Mankind Quarterly" in this medical journal article about "scientific" racism:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19848223 Not surprisingly, "Mankind Quarterly" published an article by the racist far right Conservative politician Enoch Powell, as this ISAR webpage explains:
"Another contributor to The Mankind Quarterly is perhaps not so extreme in his politics, but is certainly more well-known for his views on race. The Mankind Quarterly in 1970 published a lengthy article by Enoch Powell entitled 'Population figures in the United Kingdom'.":
http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/billig/chapter3.htm "The Occidental Quarterly" has also published pro-Enoch Powell articles, and 2 of Enoch Powell's racist speeches.
So as you would expect, Enoch Powell wanted to weaken the welfare state. As the senior Conservative politician Norman Tebbit points out in his "Upwardly Mobile: An Autobiography" (George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1988):
"On the social security issue he [then Conservative Party Shadow Chancellor Iain Macleod] emphasised that his proposals for selective social services, not blanket coverage, had been pioneered by Enoch Powell and himself some years earlier when they had been regarded as heretical." (p. 75)
Also not surprisingly, Norman Tebbit, whose racist remarks led to his "Chingford skinhead" nickname (he was the MP for Chingford, though he now sits in the House of Lords), is a fan of "The Bell Curve", as he explained in this "Daily Telegraph" article:
"I am glad “ryek” [someone who posted a comment on the "Telegraph" website] mentioned The Bell Curve by Charles Murray. They tried to run him out of town for simply reporting the facts because they cut across the PC agenda.":
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100030762/the-trade-unions-may-have-won-this-election-for-the-tories/ #
Norman Tebbit was thus pleased to meet Charles Murray at the American Enterprise Institute (who helped Murray to publicise his book when it came out), as Tebbit reveals in a second "Telegraph" article:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100031110/the-budget-will-be-a-difficult-task-for-a-chancellor-whos-up-to-his-neck-in-debt/ #
Moreover, this "Independent" article reveals that Norman Tebbit gave an interview to the already mentioned fascist magazine "Right Now!":
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tebbit-condemned-for-attack-on-barbarians-born-into-islam-632009.html Furthermore, this "Contemporary Review" article explains that members of Belgium's far right Flemish Bloc, which is now known as the Flemish Appeal, were at a "Right Now!" party:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1698_292/ai_n56388378/ As this "Guardian" article explains, the Flemish Bloc's then vice president, Roeland Raes, questioned the size and scale of the Holocaust in a Dutch TV interview, and used to distribute a magazine which was edited by former Flemish SS members:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/mar/09/worlddispatch.thefarright The idea that someone on the right of the Conservative Party like Norman Tebbit should have been interviewed by the same fascist magazine which interviewed Nick Griffin is no surprise, because in this "Times" article by someone else on the right wing of the Conservative Party, Michael Portillo, he expresses his support for Charles Murray (and Lawrence Read):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6814986.ece Furthermore, this Liberal Conspiracy article, "Eugenics and the Tory Right", discusses a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party who talked like Hans Guenther in 2010, by saying that it would be a bad idea if poor people had more children than middle class people:
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/11/25/eugenics-and-the-tory-right/ The 19th Century racist British founder of eugenics, Francis Galton, was in fact hoping that his pseudoscience would reduce the birthrate of the poorest people in British society, and increase the birthrate of the richest, as, like Hans Guenther, he thought that the richer you were, the more social worth you had.
Moreover, this "Searchlight" magazine "Stop the BNP" article, discusses former BNP Group Development Officer Tony Lecomber's support for eugenics:
http://www.stopthebnp.org.uk/uncovered/pg04.htm Also, in this "Total Politics" magazine interview, BNP leader Nick Griffin reveals how a BNP government could implement a eugenics programme, as Griffin argues for scrapping income tax, which would make it very difficult for the welfare state to continue, and which would thus lead to a sharp increase in the child mortality, and other death rates of poorer and non-white people:
http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/22888/nick-griffin-interview-dominic-carman-ppc-responds.thtml In the same interview, Griffin talks about his belief that Afghan cities should be obliterated, and his belief that the war in Afghanistan could be won if nuclear weapons were used.
"Right Now!" was in fact an important, but almost unknown focus point for fascists and far right Conservative and UKIP people. In its "Right Here, Right Now!" article (December 2006 issue, pp.14-15), which is not online, but which is reproduced in part on this website, "Searchlight" revealed that "Right Now!" organised a conference for BNP, UKIP, and Conservative Party (far right Swinton Circle, far right Conservative Democratic Alliance, etc.) people which discussed Richard Lynn's race and IQ ideas, and J. Philippe Rushton's "biological basis of patriotism" ideas:
http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/some-more-notes-on-the-uk-libertarian-right-then-and-now/ This second article on the same website, has a bit more background on the "Right Now!" conference for BNP, UKIP, and Conservative people:
http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/swinton-circle-spat/ The fact that UKIP people should be meeting with BNP people is no surprise, as an already cited article by the former Labour MEP Richard Corbett discusses the many UKIP connections to Holocaust denial and fascism.
Conservatives meeting with BNP people is also no surprise, as Conservative supporters of "Right Now!" included nearly 20 MP's, according to another "Searchlight" article:
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/features/century/cbf.php?include=page9 Furthermore, the little known networking between the Conservatives and fascists goes back to well before the 1993 founding of "Right Now!"
The late Margaret Thatcher minister Alan Clark, who in a 1981 entry in his diary described himself as a "Nazi" who thought that Nazism was "the ideal system, and that it was a disaster for the Anglo-Saxon races and for the world that it was extinguished", as this "Daily Telegraph" article reveals, may well have been a secret 1980's link man between the Conservatives and the National Front, as I will explain in a moment:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100009920/alan-clark-was-a-nazi/ #
That article reveals that in Alan Clark's diaries, he also said that he had considered joining the National Front, and that he had said of 2 NF people who came to see him: "How good they were and how brave [those] who keep alive the tribal essence."
This "Searchlight" HOPE not hate article mentions the fact that Alan Clark had lunch with then NF leader John Tyndall, who, as I explained earlier, thought that the pro-killing all of the world's billions of non-white and Jewish people late American fascist party leader William Pierce was a "great man":
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/article/283/John-Hutchyns-Tyndall---A-text-book-study-in-personal-and-political-failure Neil Mackay of the Glasgow daily newspaper "The Herald", did an investigation into the secret links between the Conservatives and fascists which was published in its the paper's September 2, 2001 edition, under the headline: "Revealed: the dark seam of fascism that runs through the Conservatives - Investigation: The links between neo-Nazis and the Tory party are closer than anyone would have thought", but which is unfortunately not online.
In the article, Neil Mackay mentions: John Tyndall's opinion that: "In general I've a very low opinion of Tories now. They are gutless. Any Tory I've ever met held views far nearer to mine than they would ever let on in public"; Tyndall's statement that : "In private they [Conservatives] speak freely to you about their views on race or at meetings they whisper in your ear that they agree with X, Y and Z"; the fact that far right Conservative MP John Redwood was interviewed by "Right Now!"; the fact that another far right Conservative MP, Ann Widdecombe, spoke to a "Right Now!" public meeting in the House of Commons; the fact that "Right Now!"'s US distributor was Mark Cotterill, the founder of the BNP splinter group the England First Party, who, as I showed in my earlier mentioned OBV article, was also an admirer of the pro-killing all of the world's billions of non-white and Jewish people William Pierce; the fact that "Right Now!" was linked to the leadership campaign of former Conservative leader Iain Duncan-Smith, who replaced Norman Tebbit as MP for Chingford, and who, according to Tebbit, was even more right wing than him; and what Mackay learned about the Alan Clark-John Tyndall meeting and subsequent Conservative-fascist contacts: "'My [John Tyndall's] wife and I met him [Alan Clark] in a restaurant in London's west end. I recall him saying something like 'there are a lot of us in the Tory party who agree with you, but are too frightened to say so'. He also claimed there were a number of other prominent Tories who tacitly supported us [the National Front] in parliament.' [Note the word "prominent", which suggests that some of Margaret Thatcher's other ministers were secret supporters of the fascist National Front.] This [Alan Clark-John Tyndall meeting] wasn't some one-off aberration. Investigations by the Sunday Herald have uncovered a long history of covert discussions between the two parties, and other extremist groups, which stretch right up to today."
It would be a good idea for journalists to talk to Neil Mackay about the "long history of covert discussions" between Conservatives and fascists, and to see if they can find out more about that subject, because the public needs to be given a fuller picture of what the Conservative Party stands for, as it hides its longstanding secret links to fascists, partly so it can implement policies like its fascism inspired attack on the welfare state, without the public realising where such policies come from (the Pioneer Fund in that case).
As you would expect, the Pioneer Fund financed "Mankind Quarterly" is also pro-the forerunner of American big business spokesman Charles Murray, Thomas Malthus, which is why its Summer 1998 issue featured a book review which was entitled "A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay: Conservation, Population and the Indifference to Limits", and why its Fall 1992 issue featured an article which was entitled "Facing the Malthusian threat: Some implications of the world population explosion".
The magazine is of course also pro-Charles Murray, which is why its Summer 1998 issue featured an article by the Pioneer Fund financed Daniel Vining which was about the depiction of "The Bell Curve", and why "Mankind Quarterly is also listed in Censored, a far Right bibliography of publications which "are distasteful to the Left - Liberal - equalitarian - Welfare Statist establishment", to cite this ISAR webpage:
http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/billig/chapter3.htm Finally, "Mankind Quarterly" has a sister magazine which it advertises on its website, "The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies", which, as its back issues pages reveal, reviewed Richard Lynn's "The Global Bell Curve" in its Spring 2009 and Winter 2008 issues. It has also published articles by Lynn, and by Seymour Itzkoff, and a review of a book about Arthur Jensen.
"Right Now!" advertised for readers in "The Sunday Telegraph", the Sunday edition of the main source of news for Conservative MP's, so perhaps "Mankind Quarterly" and its sister magazine ought to do the same, because Norman Tebbit is not the only "Telegraph" journalist who is pro-Charles Murray. In this anti-welfare state article, the far right "Daily Telegraph" columnist Simon Heffer predictably attacks single parents, and endorses Charles Murray's ideas:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/3558834/The-welfare-state-is-behind-youth-crime.html #
I said "predictably", because inhumane opposition to the welfare state and single parents, and inhumane support for Charles Murray's ideas, suggest that the person with those views is likely to be a Powellite Conservative, and Simon Heffer is, surprise surprise, a supporter of Enoch Powell's views on immigration, as he reveals in this "Daily Telegraph" article, "When will Tories admit that Enoch was right?", which also reveals, predictably, that Enoch Powell was perhaps the first British Thatcherite, because Powell was pro-monetarism in 1958, when it was an idea that was only backed by fringe crackpots like Friedrich von Hayek...and Enoch Powell:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3643837/When-will-Tories-admit-that-Enoch-was-right.html Another man with similar opinions to Simon Heffer, is Leeds University lecturer Frank Ellis, who as this "Observer" article, "Campus storm over 'racist' don" shows, supports the ideas in "The Bell Curve", describes himself as an "unrepentant Powellite", and regards the BNP as too left wing ("a bit too socialist").
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/mar/05/highereducation.race Another reason why "Mankind Quarterly" ought to advertise in "The Sunday Telegraph", is that newspaper's sympathetic interview with Charles Murray, which you can read here :
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8916076.html "Mankind Quarterly" ought to advertise in "The Sunday Times" as well, because they also seem to like Charles Murray, as they paid for him to conduct a "pioneering investigation" into Britain's poor, as this article reveals:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5733876.ece Predictably, "Sunday Times" owner Rupert Murdoch secretly gave a lot of money ($300,000) to an anti-civil rights campaign in California, as this "Black Commentator" magazine article shows:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/01/31/18476057.php So, as Rupert Murdoch's News International pays little UK tax, because it is registered in the Cayman Islands tax haven, and as his newspapers are cheerleaders for David Cameron's Charles Murray inspired spending cuts, there ought to be anti-racist and anti-cuts protests against News International outside large newsagents, to try to reduce the sales of Murdoch newspapers, and to try to persuade people to cancel their subscriptions to his Sky TV.
Roddy Newman