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GN: In other words, we want everyone to be in line so that whoever may be in control economically and politically—whatev- er they would suggest, whatever policies, programs, platforms or laws they would pass—there would be no opposition to it because the educational system would have kept people on ‘the right side’ of the issue, which is their side. BE: That's correct. And another thing that they want to do is to choose the ‘right people’ to be in positions of authority. You don't want these kids coming out of school and having the ‘wrong’ atti- tudes, but then, to make matters worse, going into the ‘wrong’ fields where they have a lot of influence. It's sort of like how we choose our potential Olympic champi- ons. We look for them among the young. And this is, more or less, what these people are doing too. They're scouting, in many ways, through these tests. And those are the ones who are going to get into the best colleges and universities. They do track this information on up to your college years and beyond. Now they can do it even beyond. They haven't, so far, but they can, as of the past couple of years. In fact, they want to wipe out religion, it seems, as much as pos- sible. They don't care what religion it is. All religion is fair game because that, apparently, does not go along with their agenda at all. But when you say ‘a political agenda’, we're really saying that a political weapon is being created. No one knows who is going to be sitting at the helm of world affairs in another twenty years. We can't look into the crystal ball and predict that with real accu- racy. And these people want to be sitting at the head of world affairs in the next twenty years. This is what they have in mind. They want to be controlling world affairs, even if they are not physically sitting in that seat. They want to be able to control that seat. ° (Source: People’s Pacifica Radio Network, Station WBAI-FM (99.5), 505 Eighth Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10018, USA; ph. (212) 279 0707) And finally, the last thing: the book alleges that a political weapon is being created, wittingly or unwittingly, as the result of computerisation, which allows personal information to be linked in such a way as to generate dossiers on individuals and families, demographic, religious and ethnic groups. The way I weave the story together is through a Pennsylvanian woman named Anita Hoge who basically uncovered it because of the complaint that she lodged back in 1986. And what we found is that the state bureaucracies, the state education agencies, the way they are configured today, are serving as the fall-guys. They are really taking the heat off the federal government by making it look like these are decentralised policies—that these are state initiatives when they're really not. These initiatives, for instance, to do testings and to set goals according to behavioural objectives—these are federal mandates, and you have to go very far into it to find that and really hold that over their heads. And then finally they will admit, yes these were federal mandates. Yes, we had to do this. GN: Alright. Let's look at this in a larger context. What you seem to be saying is that the federal government or certain agen- cies of the federal government have taken it upon themselves to have a special agenda in education—in effect, creating a curricu- lum that would allow a whole group of people to be educated based upon what they consider ‘right thinking’, ‘right philosophy’, ‘right attitudes’. Now, of course, those are going to be ‘right’, based upon the people wha created them. BE: Exactly. GN: And they are not taking into consideration individual, cul- tural and religious differences. They are simply saying: “We all should think the same way to serve a particular political agenda." In effect, we are creating a nation (in a lesser form) of a "Manchurian Candidate" attitude. BE: Yes, that's correct. That's a good way of putting it. ED UCATION AND linked with all of the other federal com- © if t k llecti dat BIG BROTHER— American citizens. Vice-President Al Gore has been in the forefront of the DATA COLLECTION FOR effort to create a ‘national superhighway THE NEW WORLD ORDER for computer information’, and, as Senator, he introduced the Supercomputer Network Study Act of ne of the more disturbing, if 1985 which Congress enacted into law. Sh oul d we I e t : not frightening, aspects of the That this data-collection program has : Outcome-Based Education rev- _ been in the works for some time is indi- the psycho- olution is its obsession with cated by the existence of a Handbook data collection. But it all makes sense if issued in 1974 by the National Center for you see it from the point of view of the Education Statistics on State Educational educa tors educational totalitarians whose aim it is Records and Reports. to use behavioural psychology for the According to the Student Data | oos e on our purpose of modifying and controlling Handbook for Elementary and Secondary Oo human behaviour. Thus, the National Education developed’ for the US ch I I d ren 2 Center for Education Statistics has been Department of Education by the Council designated by the psycho-educators to be of Chief State School Officers, the the recipient of computer dossiers on National Cooperative Education Statistics every school child and every teacher in System was established by the Hawkins- America. Stafford Education Improvement According to Beverly Eakman's book, Amendments of 1988 (PL 100-297) "to Educating for the New World Order, the __ involve state and federal governments in supercomputer system already exists. It a mutual effort to produce state-compara- is called the Elementary and Secondary __ ble and nationally-uniform data on public Integrated Data System and it will be and private school systems". 24 ¢ NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1994