© 2016 Michael Swickard, Ph.D. “…society
has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind. It is really
extraordinary that our people refuse to apply to human beings such elementary
knowledge as every successful farmer is obliged to apply to his own stock
breeding.” Former President Theodore Roosevelt, 1913.
Note: America should take Theodore
Roosevelt off Mount Rushmore and replace him with the Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr., or movie star and WWII B-24 pilot Jimmy Stewart. I respect
Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln but despise Progressive Era eugenicist Theodore
Roosevelt.
In the late 19th and early 20th
century the Progressive Era Movement embraced the philosophy of eugenics as a
method of improving the dominant population by weeding out what elites
considered undesirables. The German Nazi Party took eugenics to an extreme by killing
millions of people.
Fast forward to elites in today’s
society advocating eugenics without the name. Example: people are saying the
government must stop crime before it happens by identifying those undesirables who
are going to murder, rape and rob in the future.
They say an all-powerful government
is needed to insure our safety. Already the elitist government can take
property from citizens who are neither charged nor convicted of a crime. It is
called, Civil Forfeiture, which the elites in government love for the power and
money it brings. That leads to something even worse.
In the website American Intelligence Report, Kristan Harris reports: (Chicago)
Police are arresting people for crimes they’ve not committed yet using a new
computer algorithm software that identifies criminal behavior and predicts
future crime. Suspects were arrested this year as a result of being put on a
predictive policing Strategic Subject List and Chicago Special Order S10-06
which equips law-enforcement with the ability to arrest citizens before they
commit a crime.
My concern is that the government
will extend this to other classes of citizens. With the bitter fight for gun
control in our nation perhaps the government will start with gun owners. They are
already tagging members of the military and former members as potentially
dangerous.
But it isn’t just now that this is
mainstream. Bill Mauldin in his 1947 book, Back
Home, wrote: During a period when veterans were big news, every time an
ex-soldier got himself in a jam the fact that he was a vet was pointed out in
the headline… But the sad fact was that such headlines gave added impetus to
the rumor that always appears in every country after a war that the returning
soldiers are trained in killing and assaults and are potential menaces to
society.”
There isn’t more of a betrayal than
to send citizens into battle and then view them as a class of killers who are
dangerous to the society because of what they learned and did to protect our
freedom. Today the leaders of our country, in general, didn’t serve in the
military nor do their children serve.
Returning veterans are not treated
well for their sacrifices and as Bill Mauldin pointed out it goes back into
World War Two and beyond. Journalist Tom Brokaw in his book, The Greatest Generation, praises the
soldiers of World War Two fifty years after they served.
But we have the 1947 words of Bill
Mauldin to remind us that WWII soldiers faced an ungrateful society when they
came home. As did the Korean and Vietnam soldiers.
The politicians who see our former
military members as dangerous and take action before these men and women do
something are as bad as all of the eugenic progressives combined. We are
already betraying our former soldiers by having a Veterans Administration that
is shameful in provided care.
Who knows what will come of the
Chicago “arrest them before they commit a crime” but I sense that former military
and gun owners are in the cross-hairs of this all-powerful government. Their
eugenic moves must be stopped. And we should honor our military and former
military members. Without them America would not be a free nation.
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