Dear Friend, This is the first e-newsletter in a series that will cover things that are distracting America from returning to her Judeo-Christian foundations. #1 - PORN & POLITICAL CORRECTNESS CONTENTS: (1) Porn Precedes Political Dictatorships?! (2) Will My Letter Be Censored? (by political correctness) (3) Column from Hans Zeiger National spokesman for the Scout Honor Coalition ==================== ==================== (1) Porn Precedes Political Dictatorships?! The Porn Revolution America's thriving pornography industry uses the marketplace to advance an agenda of subversion and social control. By William Norman Grigg The New American - June 2, 2003 http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2003/06-02-2003/index.htm "[T]he foremost of the laws Nature decrees to me is to enjoy myself, no matter at whose expense." - The Marquis de Sade from his political novel, "Juliette." "For more than five centuries," writes "Atlantic Monthly" investigative reporter Eric Schlosser in his new book "Reefer Madness," "radical social movements [have] embraced pornography." From Renaissance-era humanists, to the leaders of the 18th-century "Enlightenment" (including the notorious Marquis de Sade), to the exponents of the San Francisco-based 1960s counterculture, pornography has been used to bring about "a profound shift in public attitudes toward sex, as religious influences gave way to secular ones." That shift has been accomplished with astonishing speed. "Sexually explicit material has become so commonplace that one can easily forget how strictly it was prohibited not long ago," comments Schlosser. According to sociologist Charles Winic, the sexual content of American culture has changed more over the past two decades than it had during the previous two centuries. Receipts from pornographic video rentals offer one useful - and sobering - illustration of this social revolution. In 1985, rental of "hardcore" smut videos generated an estimated $79 million; by 2001, that figure had increased nearly tenfold, to $759 million. "Many mom-and-pop video stores now derive a third of their income from porn," reports Schlosser. "According to one industry expert, approximately 25,000 video stores in the United States now rent and sell hardcore films." Porn retailed via videocassettes and DVDs represents but a small fraction of the market. The entire smut trade - mail-order sales of porn and related products, live sex shows, pay-per-view cable television, and paid-subscription Internet sites - generates an estimated annual income of $10 billion, and amount roughly equivalent to Hollywood's annual profits from mainstream films. Of course, mainstream films are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from their overtly obscene counterparts - produced, quite literally, right next door. "In the San Fernando Valley of Southern California," continues Schlosser, "right beside the Hollywood movie industry, a thriving X-rated movie industry has emerged, with its own studios, talent agencies, and stars, its own fan clubs and film critics. America's porn has become on more of its cultural exports, dominating overseas markets.... [T]he United States is now by far the world's leading producer of porn, churning out hardcore videos at the astonishing rate of about two hundred and eleven new titles every week." The cultural undertow left in the porn market's wake has predictably pulled down standards for the entire entertainment industry. Spokesmen for the skin trade, and more than a few cultural observers (Schlosser among them), insist that the porn industry's radical expansion is simply the market at work. But in a significant sense, the ever-increasing demand for porn reflects an organized, deliberate effort to re-engineer our cultural mores in a fashion compatible with political collectivism. While many might consider it implausible to couple sexual emancipation with political regimentation, this approach was used quite successfully by the architects of Sweden's all-encompassing socialist welfare state. "'Freedom' in Swedish is a word that appears to be taboo," observed British journalist Roland Huntford in his 1971 book "The New Totalitarians," a critical study of Sweden's version of cradle-to-grave collectivism. "There is one exception, however, and that is in sexual matters. In the same way that 'security' is the creed of [Swedish socialist] politics, so is 'liberty' that of sex." In his preface to the 1948 edition of his masterpiece "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley also took note of that relationship: "As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, the movies and the radio, [sexual emancipation] will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate." The emergence of a huge and ever-expanding American porn industry potently illustrates that America is following the course outlined by Huxley and pioneered by Sweden. The reigning "godfather" of America's porn industry is a figure who bridges the worlds of hard-core smut and collectivist social engineering. Two Sides of the Same Coin That godfather is Philip Harvey, a Harvard-educated resident of Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he operates PHE, Inc. - the nation's largest distributor of hard-core porn videos and other sex-related products. "The leading producers of hardcore films trek regularly to North Carolina, to visit Harvey and his staff, promote their latest releases, and seek financing for new productions," reports Schlosser. Harvey himself regularly treks to Washington, D.C., to supervise Population Services International, a nonprofit corporation that works closely with the federal government and international organizations to promote population control overseas. To Harvey, peddling porn and promoting an anti-natal agenda are part of the same mission, which he describes as "social marketing" - applying "the power and creativity of the private sector to family planning." In 1969, as a graduate student at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Harvey received a grant from the Ford Foundation (a major underwriter of cultural subversion) to do graduate work on "family planning." His graduate thesis was a proposal for mail-order marketing of condoms - a revolutionary idea that essentially served as a business proposal for PHE, Inc. For its first few years, Harvey's mail-order business floundered. His fortunes turned around, however, when he began to include erotic photographs in his catalog. In 1975, Harvey introduced the "Adam & Eve" catalog, which marketed sex aids and hardcore pornography along with "socially responsible" contraceptives. Most importantly, Harvey's mail-order business (which Supreme Court rulings made possible by overturning laws against interstate commerce in pornography) gave porn consumers anonymity and privacy. Then no longer had to skulk about in dingy neighborhoods, casting around furtive glances in fear of being recognized. Thirty million copies of the "Adam & Eve" catalog are distributed each year, attracting more than two million paying customers. All of PHE's products are vetted by a group of consultants from an august-sounding group called the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Harvey's fortune, built one "plain brown wrapper" at a time, put him in the interesting position of being simultaneously pursued and courted by the federal government. "During the late 1980s, while officials at the Justice Department were doing all they could to put Harvey in prison for obscenity violation, officials at the State Department's Agency for International Development were working closely with him to make contraceptives widely available in the Third World," observes Schlosser. The federal crackdown on the porn industry during the Reagan and Bush I administrations "wiped out many of [Harvey's] mail-order competitors and dissuaded others from entering the business" - thereby giving the Ford-funded Establishment pornographer what amounts to a federally protected concession. And while Harvey continues to rake in money from his mail-order skin trade, he "still travels regularly to developing nations to meet with the administrators of his family planning projects," notes Schlosser. Porn and the Total State Harvey's "social marketing" succeeds greatly in adapting the strategy outlined by cultural Marxist Antonio Gramsci, who emphasized that the Total State must be built by revolutionaries who seize control of a society's cultural institutions. The teachings and tactics devised by Viennese cultural Marxist Wilhelm Reich, a contemporary and comrade of Gramsci, provided the game plan for many of the academic subversives who brought about the countercultural revolution of the 1960s, one major legacy of which is our contemporary porn industry. Social historian E. Michael Jones points out that in Vienna, Reich and his subversive colleagues chiefly target the Catholic Church. "Reich noticed a simple fact," observes Jones. "If you changed the sexual behavior of idealistic young Catholics in the direction of social liberation... then the idea of God simply evaporated from their minds and they defected from the Catholic Church, and the way to successful revolution was clear." The same tactic was used to sunder the bonds of loyalty and shared principles between youth and their parents. In proselytizing on behalf of Marxist revolution, Reich explained: "We do not discuss the existence or nonexistence of God - we merely eliminate the sexual repressions and dissolve the infantile ties to the parents.... The inescapable conclusion of all this is that a clear sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life [that is, abandonment of biblical restraints on sexual self-indulgence] must foredoom every form of ...mystical religion." Of course, the revolutionary strategy prescribed by Reich merely reiterates that developed in the 1700s by the Marquis de Sade, whom historian Erik von Kuhneldt-Leddihn designates the "grandfather of modern democracy." "Modesty is an illusion," insisted Sade in his political manifesto "Juliette," "the result of nought but our cultural manners and our upbringing...." Conscience, according to Sade, is likewise nothing but a reflection of "Prejudices inculcated by training and upbringing.... Veritable wisdom consists not in repressing one's vices.... The true and approved way is to surrender oneself to them, to practice them to the utmost.... [I]t consists simply in reiterating the deeds that have made us remorseful, in repeating them so often that the habit either of committing these deeds or of getting away scot free with them completely undermines the possibility of feeling badly about them. This habit topples the prejudice, destroys it.... [T]his habit at length makes [the vice] wholly bearable and even delicious to the soul." The evil Marquis understood that people thus carefully tutored in the cultivation of the sexual libido will eventually remove all restraints on the "libido dominandi" - that is, the lust for power over others, the impulse described by the term "sadism." "Were I to discover that my only possibility of happiness lay in excessive perpetration of the most atrocious crimes, without a qualm I'd enact every last one of them this very instant, certain ... that the foremost of the laws Nature decrees to me is to enjoy myself, no matter at whose expense," he wrote. Contemporary America - awash in pornographic depictions of both illicit sex and sadistic violence - is perilously close to realizing Sade's vision of a society addicted to power and self-indulgence, rather than cherishing freedom and practicing necessary self-restraint. +++ IQ* Solutions: Pray, Visit these web pages, and Act. http://www.afa.net/glossy/ http://www.afa.net/lif http://www.estherministries.org/main.htm ==================== ==================== (2) Will My Letter Be Censored? Political Correctness Dear Friend, I sent the enclosed letter, below, to several secular newspapers and one Christian newspaper. So far, I've heard back from the Christian newspaper's editor. She said that she censor a sentence from my letter (the one that is a question). I wrote back saying that, if she did censor that sentence, it would negate the point of the entire letter. I'm praying that she keeps the sentence in the letter and that it is published. Are we so conditioned by TV and the media, that we don't print the truth about the homosexual lifestyle? My "question" sentence is written without slangs, using very polite words. Tell me, how else can it be described without losing all of its meaning? I believe that our candy-coated political correctness is the #1 reason why the USA is entering into a history repeat of Hell on Earth (history repeats itself - we're in another down-slide). It's politically incorrect to share your faith with others, to discuss religion and politics at social functions, and to hold others accountable for their actions ("judging"). If we do not boldly speak the Truth, any hope of restoring Judeo-Christian values into our culture will be thoroughly destroyed. I've created a whole web page dedicated to the "thou shalt not judge" fallacy: http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest/judging.htm By learning the truth, we create the Solution. Here's the text of my latest letter: --- To the editor: I am a Silver Palm Eagle Scout of Troop 7, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, class of 1985. My troop was founded in 1910, and the original and founding traditions of scouting were taught to me. The Scout Oath and Law are burned into my heart and soul. The Scout Oath: "On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to obey the Scout Law, to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight." The Scout Law: "A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent." National BSA Spokesman Gregg Shields said, "We don't inquire into anyone's sexual orientation." Now, the Philadelphia Cradle of Liberty Council allows "open" homosexuals to be leaders, which goes against BSA National's shaky policy. Tell me, how can a man who willingly puts his body into another man's feces-coated cavity be a leader for "keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight" and "clean and reverent?" Please learn the truth about homosexuality and the BSA policy at the InfoQuest* for Truth website at http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest (Click "Homosexual"). http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/homosexuality/index.htm --- What are the Medical Consequences of Homosexual Behavior? http://users.netreach.net/InfoQuest/homosexual_myths.htm I was shocked. Shocked! If this Truth is made public, by you, we are not only saving the lives of homosexuals who may change their ways once learning of these facts, but we will be acting with the Holy Spirit, through Truth, to affect our world! Who can you share this information with right now (click Forward and Send)? +++ IQ* Solution: How Can Homosexuals Be Healed? http://www.sbministries.org/ +++ ==================== ==================== (3) Column from Hans Zeiger National spokesman for the Scout Honor Coalition PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Posted on Wed, Jun. 11, 2003 The REAL threat to the Philadelphia Boy Scouts By HANS ZEIGER LET ME begin with a prediction: Membership and funding in Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Boy Scout Council will decrease by half within the next year. Why? Because the council gave in to pressures from radical homosexual groups by amending its non-discrimination code to include "sexual orientation." I have yet to hear any sound reasoning from the Philadelphia council to justify its decision. No doubt it felt the pending weight of financial non-discrimination policies from the United Way. But a force more powerful than fat checks from the United Way are the decent families that support and lead individual Boy Scout troops and Cub Scout packs. Already, several local scouting families have e-mailed me that they plan to exit the organization. They share my view that the Cradle of Liberty Council is no longer a real part of the Boy Scouts of America. Now that the Philadelphia council has opened the door to admit homosexuals in membership and leadership, the Boy Scout Oath and Law have headed for the same door with the "Exit" sign hanging over it. The national BSA must do everything it can to separate itself from the Philadelphia council as a warning to other councils around the nation. The effects of the decision could prove to be a great tragedy for the 87,000 Philadelphia-area boys and young men whose recently promising Boy Scout experience has been compromised. By a unanimous vote, the council gave in to a false and misleading mindset that pins the tail of intolerance on the heart of the traditional Boy Scout trefoil instead of the hindquarters of the donkey. The real intolerance comes from pressure groups that don't have the good sense to begin their own organization dedicated to "open" scouting. Instead, groups like Scouting for All have announced all-out war on the private organization that was once held high on the pedestal of civic respectability. The Boy Scouts are not the intolerant, homophobic, bigoted group their detractors would label them as. The Boy Scouts have always taught tolerance, even when it has been unpopular. Since 1911, the BSA has reached out to the disabled, racial and ethnic minorities, American Indians and inner-city children. But diversity of culture and intellect is no cover for the integration of moral relativism into scouting. Homosexuality has always been understood by the Boy Scouts as an unhealthy and immoral lifestyle. Scouts are taught to respect all people, including homosexuals, but the lifestyle simply does not work when it comes to figuring out who's staying in whose tent on the next overnight campout. GIVEN THE moral and legal justifications for the Boy Scout policy, their opponents are actually opposed to the core mission of scouting. The idea that it is possible to support scouting while opposing its policy on gays is ridiculous. The Scout Oath rings with clarity: "morally straight." For 20 years, the left has exercised efforts to defund and destroy scouting through constant lawsuits and court action. They've persuaded companies and charities, churches and schools to end ties with the scouts. They've looked scouting in the eye and declared that a moral code built on truth doesn't work in our time. They've drawn the Boy Scouts into a vast political and cultural debate that the organization would rather not spend its time fighting. After all, the Scouts would rather spend time camping and hiking and teaching important life skills and doing the things that scouts do. But if the scouts abandon their moral foundation, the rest of society won't be far behind. ------------------------------------------------ Hans Zeiger, 18, is an Eagle Scout and national spokesman for the Scout Honor Coalition. He is a columnist and speaker who lives in Puyallup, Wash. He can be contacted at hanszeiger@yahoo.com.