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I I Portland Observer Thursday. January 8, 1878 Page f Drugs in Portland F ourth in a continuing series by Roy Harvey tutions..." The M yth of the Hyperactive Child documents the case that a multi tude of 'illnesses' were invented ('new hyperkinesis', 'minimal brain dysfunc tion', ‘learning disabled* etc). While C IB A pharmaceutical company lists symptoms of ‘minimal brain disfunctior' (M BD ), physicians unallied to CIBA proved there was “simply no such thing as 'Minimal Brain Disfunction.' Subse quently the drug companies and govern m enu agencies conceded that M BD hadn't any medical foundation, and simply pushed their drugs as useful for social control. "The older (educational) system," Schrag and Divoky w rite, "however repressive it may have been, at least recognized the individual as a person with a free will who was responsible for his acU - whereas the new system 'defines failure and determines punish ment...it Ukes responsibility out of the hands of the child - or the parents - it regards the child as simply a collection of neurons, syndromes and dysfunctions...” The M yth of the Hyperactive Child... outlines a number of other social control mechanisms used against children: be havior modification, secret dossiers, notions of 'pre-delinquency' and ‘early intervention' - various ‘therapies' which are thinly disguised punishment or torture. The book's topic is deschooling and brainwashing, exposing the criminal role of the Iu w Enforcement AssisUnce Administration (L E A A ) and the N IM H in this process. In a society in collapse, education becomes unessential - while it is essential (for a time) to mainUin the illusion that society offers an education to iU youth. There ia, of course, nothing new in the notion of social control: such mechanisms course through the periods of decline throughout the 2000 years of Western history: which witch trials, demonology, phrenology, psychological tests, intelligence and criminal tendency tests, loyalty tests, etc. Intellectual revolutionary Giodano Bruno was burned at the stake by the Inquisition in 1800 for insisting that the universe was coherent, while the contemporary method of removing the troublesome is the use of A review of The M yth e l the Hyperactive Child and other mean* of child control, by Peter Nchrag and Diane Dlvohy IPaatheen Books, 1975| By the end of 1875 a full million children - ages tw oand a half to about aixteen years old - are taking pacho active drugs, according to authors Schrag and Divoky. The main pusher of these drugs (primarily ritalin) ia CIBA Com pany, which makes $30 million annually off ritalin. The overwhelming uae of these drugs, the authors argue, have nothing to do with illness but are used for controla: ‘Auschwitz in a pill.’ Actually the uae of drugs is only a small part of the authors' indictment of the individuals and government agencies responsible for brainwashing and menticide of youth. In the early 50s the school system 'discovered' Freud. Failure in the school could be regarded aa environmentally produced the consequence of this disccvery was that the orientation (at least in rhetoric) was to change the environment that interfered with the child’s development. (Actually there was no real cognition of Freudian psycho analysis, but rather a 'pragmatic* amal gamation of Freud to the behaviorism of John Watson (which Watson got going in 1813) and his rat skinner followers.) Simultaneous with the ongoing Ken nedy Johnson 'W ar on Poverty', the covert 'war on children' was being planned. In the late 50s a plethora of grants for the development of social control mechanisms were made, through the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations - and through the National Institute of M en u ! Health (N IM H ) etc. By 1989 the ‘war on poverty' was lost, and the AasisUnt Secretary of Education could announce “a mass program (can) begin immediately, without the need to wait for the slow agonizing process of improving living conditions and the elimination of hunger." As Schrag and Divoky w rite, "the overriding expecUtion (was) that social ills could (now) be eradicated by reforming individuals rather than insti behavior modification or drugs. Schrag and Divoky document the charlatanry involved in the development of the 'illnesses' and the crim inality of the ‘cure’ for example: “ritalin...has no positive effects on scholastic achievement of children diagnosed as hyperactive (but instead) produces far less responsive and enthusiastic children...far more apathe tic, humorless and zombie like.” This is not to say that such drugs do not tend to improve performance on repetitive, rou- tinized tasks - hence their use as 'slave labor'. M orality One of the most important aspects of the book is only touched on briefly: it is the destruction of the super ego of the child: “The child comes to believe not in the soundness of his own brain and body, not in his growing ability to learn and to control his behavior but in ‘my magic pills that make me into a good boy and make everybody like me.' " Likewise it is the parents -- especially the mothers - who turn their children into clinically paranoid 'successes’ who spend their lives looking for the appropriate authority to propi tiate: looking for the authority with the 'reward' so that everybody will like him other. Parents - again, especially the mothers, as the autnors document -- see in such notions as M B D a relief from the guilt that they have been inadequate mothers (e.g.: ‘my child is noisy/nasty/ nasty/odd/etc...because he/she has a 'chemical imbalance'). Of course this guilt is used by the agencies that bring the mothers into a coparticipation in the drugging and menticide of their own children. Contrary to the humanist (Spinozan) notion of morality “which seeks and accepts personal responsibility for the present and future well being of humanity," the institutions responsible for the social control mechanisms (N IM H , L E A A , H E W , the drug companies, etc.) are actually destroying the individual psychological foundations for morality. Why has it happened? How will it stop? The social control mechanisms Divoky and Schrag outline won't go away by themselves. The billions of dollars of Supervision Program loses funding PM SCs Close Supervision Program will be terminated effective January 29th, according to Pat Sweeney. Close Supervisor Coordinator. Portland Me tropolilan Steering Committee received notification from Don Clark. Chairman of tRe lto a r< fo ftta n ty Commissioners. tha*t the program would be terminated because of the current county budget crisis. The program, which provides daily supervision for juveniles referred by the Juvenile Court, was contracted to PMSC in August of 1974. The philosophy of the Program is that many of the juveniles who come in contact with the Court do not require the secure custody of the Juvenile Detention Home while awaiting Court services; but that they do require close supervision while in the community. The PMSC Close Supervision Program, as it is called, maintains a staff of Community Youth Workers who maintain daily contact with each juvenile's assigned, and a Program Coordinator who oversees i.ie program operation and screens each juvenile accepted on the program. Once a juvenile is admitted to the 1st, 1974, the monthly caseload of program, he is assigned to a Community services has grown from tw enty cases to Youth W orker who residès in the same a present average of sixty cases. During general geographic area as the juvenile. the eighteen months of operation, a tqtal While in the Program, the juvenile's of 450 juveniles who might have behavior is monitored by the CYW otherwise been held in Detention have ‘ 'Mlrough dally WJ8UAs' with the juvertlle, received PM SC Close Supervision Ser- his parents or legal custodians, school vices. Of that 450, only eight percent officials, employers, and other interested have committed new law violations while parties. O ther services the Community on the Close Supervision Program. Youth W orkers can provide are employ The PMSC Close Supervision Program ment for the juvenile, readmittance to has been commended by the Juvenile school, referral to other agencies for Court Counselors. Judges, the School supportive services, and to provide an Districts within the County, the juve introduce a variety of healthy activities nile’s parents, and in many cases, even the child may pursue after he is no longer the referred juvenile for the services in the Program. provided, Sweeney stated. A juvenile receives Close Supervision “The PMSC Close Supervision Pro Services until he attends his Court gram is not and was not intended to be Hearing, at which time the Community the sole solution for the juvenile crime Youth W orker provides the Court with a problem in Multnomah County, but it did report concerning the juvenile's behavior have a marked impact on juvenile crime’s while he was on tne program. I f a recividism." Sweeney said. “W ith the juvenile fails to follow the conditions of Program gone, it is difficult to project he the Close Supervision Program, he is effect in the future. However, it is for returned to the Juvenile Detention Home certain that if the county continues to to aw ait his Court Hearing. term inate juvenile services program, the Since the PM SC Close Supervision juvenile crime rate has only one thing to Program went into operation on August do - grow!", Sweeney stated. Concordia College honors King’s birthdate To celebrate D r. M artin Luther King's birthday, a series of five lectures dealing with his life and works will be held in the M ary Neil Lounge at Concordia College, 2811 N .E . Holman Street, on January 16th. The following topics w ill be addressed; The South, Black/w hite - USA: An examination of the general conditions of the South and events which precipitated the struggle for Civil Rights. (Rozell Gilmore, le c tu re r) Rozell Gilmore, Director of M inority Affairs and coordinator of the event, stated that the public is invited to attend the sessions which will begin at 9:20 a.m. and close at 3:15 p.m. "The series will attem pt to deal objectively with the contributions Dr. King made, not only to the Black people of the U.S., but to this nation and to the world.” Gilmore stated. Klug, A Man Of Destiny: An attempt will be made to identify the major events that propelled the struggle for Civil, Human and Equal Right and Dr. King. (D r. W illiam Harris, Director of Black Studies. PSU.) M artin l.utber King, A Symbol Of The Black Preacher: An attem pt will be made to point out how King was able to embody What Weight Watchers* members sre saying about the new Personel Action P la n " modules 44 WEIGHT WATCHERS IS RIGHT ON »» TARGET AGAIN Gloria Satoski Medical Assistant LOST 29 pounds Join Any Class Any Tints! Claaaes at Emanuel Hospital, Carpenters Hall and Maranath? 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Paul Anderson w ill be the wrap up and summary Lectural. funds oriented toward the destruction of thought have theii predecessor in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Germany which in the early ‘20s prepared the way for Nazi 'science' - for example in the reknown German psychiatrist Alfred Hoche’s book The Destruction of U fe Devoid of V a lu e - or in the social control work of the London based Tavistock Institute (both of these institutions were funded heavily by the Rockefeller family - and for a reason). Prim itive accumulation (cheap raw materials and labor - less euphemisti cally, slave labor) of the underdeveloped (Third W orld) sector have characterized capitalist economic growth from our origins, but especially from the early 1900s. The process of prim itive accumu lation of the Third W orld has been exhausted, while the holders of the international debt - prim arily the New York banks under the hegemony of the Rockefeller family - intend to collect by primitively accumulating oft the working population in the industrial sector: lower wages, slash the standard of living, cut out social services, cut out education: austerity. Meanwhile the World Bank (et al) fosters the false notion that the Darwinian struggle for survival has simply spilled over into a contest between the industrial nations and the Third World. Rather than a suspension of debt and the creation of such programs as outlined in the Iuibor Party's Emergency Em ployment Act (E E A ), for full productive employment such mechanisms of social control are developed: the cannibalization of the social wealth of humanity: it feeds on its own youth, destroying its future skilled and scientific labor force, cutting back essential funds for the development of a healthy creative population. It deploys parents who will chemically 'lobotomise' their children, while deploy ing the children against the parents in hiring the youth (via federally subsidized programs) at minimum wages to scab on the adult population’s union scale wage. Such human recycling - with military production - is all there is to Nazi economics. MEANS GREATER SUCCESS FOR ALL BUSINESSES C.M.A. places special emphasis on helping minority owned businesses to turn greater profits become more successful. 288-8469 3 9 3 3 N.E. 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It is a priority concern that the American people convey their views on U.S. involvement in Angola to their Congress men before the new session begins on January 19th. It is also important that the Adm ini stration be made aware of the public’s concern with respect to U.S. Angola policy. Accordingly. I would like to reiterate some of the key suggestions made by the Congressional Black Caucus on this issue. These recommendations include the following actions by the U.S. Government: 1. Cease immediately all m ilitary-re lated assistance, direct or indirect, to any parties fighting in Angola, and withdraw its request for financing of additional m ilitary and related assistance; 2. Urge a ceasefire among all parties concerned; 3. Use its good offices to reach an agreement among all non-Angolan po wers involved, directly or indirectly, that they will end their intervention; 4. Urge the Angolan factions to find an immediate, political solution; 5. U rge all countries to aw ait the results of the forthcoming meetings of the O A U for further guidelines with respect to Angola; 8. Commit the U.S. to substantial economic and rehabilitation assistance to w hatever Angolan government is recog nized by the O AU; 7. M ake it clear to the South African Government, as we have to the Soviet Union, that its intervention is a threat to international peace; 8. Emphasize to the Soviet Union that American public reaction to its interven tion in Angola is bound to affect support for its future economic relations with the U.S.; and 9. Report to the Congress on the implication of these recommendations and keep all interested Members of Congress fully advised with respect to U.S. policy and involvement in Angola. Meeting disensses health bill All Northeast area residents and interested persons are urged to attend a meeting to discuss the Kennedy-Corman Act, which would establish a comprehen sive national health insurance plan, on January 12th at 7:00 p.m. M r. Al Green, Interim D ire c t,* of the Northeast Portland Health Security Act Coalition, has b«en encouraging residents to w rite their congressional representatives to support the Health Security Act, H R 21. M r. Green has organised the meeting on January 12th, to be held at Adama High School. 5700 N .E . 39th Avenue, at 7:00 p.m. CMA Ralph Groener. Oregon State Repre sentative, is the Director of the Oregon State National Health Coalition and will introduce thia important health act. Denny S^ott or Roy Ockert from the International Woodworkers Union will provide commentaries. Special guests will include Cleveland Gilcreaae. Execu live Director of the Portland Metropoli tan Steering Committee, and other local proponents. “The Kennedy Corman Bill covers everyone from birth to the grave," Green said. " It also has a ceiling on amounts which doctors and hospitals can charge.” Minor Repairs - No Charge Pick u-up A Delivery 282-8361 3 9 6 5 N. Williams Ave. "Your’ve Tried The Rest, Now T ry The Best” N. Alexander, Proprietor Citizen of the Week E D G A R M IT C H E L L Edgar Mitchell serves as Coordinator of Community Services for Multnomah County's Northeast Quadrant. Mitchell was born in W itchita. Kansas and raised in Illinois. He attended Wheaton College then, after graduating, served four years in the A ir Force. He met his wife, Geraldine Chesley. while stationed in Washington, D.C. A fte r leaving the A ir Force, Mitchell returned to I l ’inois and was employed by the Chicago Y M C A for ten years. In May of 1966, he came to Portland as director of the North Branch Y, where he remained for tw o years. He then was a Community Coordinator for the Model Cities program for a year. When Adams High School opened, he was assigned there as a curriculum associate, where he stayed for five years. , In August 1974, Mitchell was selected by a committee from the community, to be the first Quadrant director for the County. Mitchell's community activities have been many, including: two years as chairman and five years membership on the Albina Citizens’ W ar on Poverty Roard: AYO S board for five years including three years as chairman; chairman of Holy Redeemer Parents Association; W averly Children's Home Board; committee designing 4-C Latchkey program’s and many more. Mitchell earned his Masters in Secondary School Administration at Portland State U niversity, a certificate in Secondary School Administration in 1975, and is doing work on a Ph.D. in Public Adm inistration/Urban Studies. The Mitchells have five children, ranging in age from eight to twenty-one years. 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