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Portland Observer
Thursday. January 8, 1878
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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
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and put into motion the ideas and
preaching of the “average” Black preach
er. (Reverend W ebster Turner)
Preparation For N o n -V M en t Actions:
This session will include some demon
strations of methods used to condition
protesters to accept the physical and
psychological abuse and at the same time
protect their vital organs. The group will
be led in a series of protest songs.
(Faculty and student participation)
W here DM It AU Load?: This final
session w ill include a panel discussion on
the implications of the South Christian
leadership Conference and a wrap-up
summary.
A panel consisting of M r. Maceo Pettis,
Director of the M artin Luther King, Jr.
Scholarship Fund; Ms. Sandy Yuvienco,
Director of the Independent Learning
Center; M r. W arren Fluker, Coordinator,
Youth Environm ent Project; and Black
Student representatives from Concordi"
M r. 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.
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Union.
The Senate of the U.S. cannot be too
strongly commended for its strong vote
OB December 19th to bar funds in th«
Defense Appropriations Bill for use in the
Angolan civil war.
The House of
Representatives will consider the same
m atter when it reconvenes next session.
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.
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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.”
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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.
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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
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