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The Anti-Communitarian League: Grassroots Research & Analysis of the Ultimate Third Way

Big Mother's Community

by Niki Raapana, revised 6/01/04, first copyright February 2002


Chapter Two
Where Does Big Mother Come From?

"A government on the principles on which constitutional governments, arising out of society,
are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary."
Thomas Paine "The Rights of Man" 1791


Big Mother did not arise out of American society. She was imported. She is arbitrary.

The United States of America was founded on state constitutions that protected the individual liberty of all state citizens. We were a constitutional government that arose from a free society. Today we are a communitarian nation. The U.S. government arbitrarily altered itself into a communitarian branch of world government in 1993. Just because nobody told you, that doesn't mean it didn't happen. Not only did it really happen, the communitarians used our hard-earned American wages to finance their global takeover.

The president and founder of the Communitarian Network and Council is Professor Amitai Etzioni. The Network has its headquarters at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington D.C. Amitai Etzioni is the Director of the Department of Policy Research at GWU, and author of numerous communitarian books, including The Spirit of Community, The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society, and The Limits of Privacy.(4)

The Communitarian Network (1) is a world-wide socio-political organization endorsed by academics, environmentalists, feminists, social scientists, the United Nations, communist China, Russians, Israelis, and the U.S. and British governments. This advisory group studies ways to eliminate the U.S. Bill of Rights. Their stated goal is to create a more civil society based on their theory of retraining people to create more responsive communities. A Responsive Community is one whose "moral standards reflect the basic human needs of all its members." Civil Society is a old freemason term that veiled their secret fraternal values; today it is used to cloak communist programs.

Americans are learning how to be better people. We are being taught how to become responsible citizens in a more civil society. Never mind that we are already the most generous and giving nation in the history of the modern world. It's not enough that we supported communist regimes and saved their people from starvation with our hard work and taxes. Now we must become good little communists ourselves.

The Responsive Communitarians are here to "shore up" our moral and political environment. Their Platform gives us a detailed description of the necessary changes to American culture. These changes will foster a more responsive community. New communitarian laws are necessary to rebuild America's moral foundations.(2)

Included in their platform are things like: changing the divorce laws to make divorce more difficult, communitarian values curriculums to replace academic instruction in our schools, mandatory requirements for all Americans to "volunteer" for new civic duties, elimination of crime, and making our cities safer via total domestic disarmament. They claim the 2nd Amendement was written with a "communitarian clause."

Communitarians are very interested in regulating what Americans can and cannot do inside their own homes. The “privacy debate” is at the heart of their movement. Our 4th Amendment's “barriers” to warrantless searches have been discussed at many of their meetings. They insist that in a good society there is limited privacy. Only bad people (or people with something to hide) choose to remain anonymous. Since 9-11, the Communitarian Network has been actively working for ways to implement the national ID database. In March 2003 Etzioni organized a Congressional briefing on how to improve identification while enhancing security and guarding privacy. In May 2004, their national “study” of state driver's license laws was used to prompt Alaska DMV to implement new digital facial recognition technology.

In 1995, while Etzioni was president of the American Sociological Association (ASA),(5) reputable ASA members challenged Etzioni on what they called his "fascist" ideals, and several signed a statement of opposition against him. Etzioni refused to respond to their specific critisizms. He replied that he had been interred in a Nazi death camp during WWII so his "experience" proves he is not a fascist. But he never responded to any of their exact objections to his "new" program for an American collectivist country.(6) Etzioni also refuses to answer his 2nd Amendment critics from the American "right" who cite U.S. gun laws. Not only did he ignore my puny challenges to "debate" my privacy, he ignores everyone who tries to debate his platform, even his academic peers.

Born in Bonn, Germany in 1929, Etzioni's father was a German Jew and a Zionist who immigrated to Israel as the British were being deinvited. Etzioni was raised in the new village of Kfar Schmartahu, some twenty miles north of Tel Aviv. In 1946 he dropped out of high school and joined the underground Palmach. He fought as a terrorist (6a) Zionist revolutionary soldier against the British for Israeli national liberation. He was an Israeli soldier again against the seven Arab states in 1947. Israel was recognized as a nation-state in 1948. It's not clear when he left his military career behind him.(7)

In 1954 Etzioni received his B.A. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and he got his M.A. there in 1956. He emigrated to the United States and got his Ph.D. in Sociology from Berkley in 1958. Upon graduation he was hired as an instructor at Columbia University in New York City. Within ten years, Etzioni was a full Professor at Columbia and Chairman of the Department of Sociology.(8)

In 1963 he became a member of the Committee on International Order, and the next year he became the Chairman of the Committee on International Order. In 1969 he was a founding member of the Research Advisory Group of the World Order Models Project at Yale (World Law Fund). By 1976 Etzioni was a member of the elite Council on Foreign Relations, and by 1979 he was a Senior Adviser to Richard Harden, Special Assistant to the President; he was inside The White House. He's never been far away since.

Etzioni's political party in Israel was the Labor Party, the Mapai, and in 1978 he wrote, "Years of service in the Palmach deepend my Fabian conviction that the use of violence should be reserved for self-defense."(9)

He has Fabian convictions? The Fabian Society to which Etzioni refers is an elite group of Marxists whose organizing principle is the need to spread socialist propaganda. The Fabians were created to tell lies and to quietly infiltrate free national governments. (9a)

The only thing "years of service" in an underground terrorist organization deepend is Etzioni's Fabian socialist convictions. His use of Fabian propaganda makes him an expert in deceit.(9a) His upbringing was in Zionist communist kibuttzes. He was not raised as a free and independent American. I don't think he knows anything about us. Etzioni does not value anything traditionally American, he focuses on what he sees as our "moral decline." Etzioni is a liberal internationalist.

His 30 page resume makes me think of the term “overkill.” He's very heavily insulated by proof that he's a “somebody.” Who would dare to challenge him? Maybe it's just me. But I was led directly to him from the privacy invasions in my city. I can't help but think the only thing deepened by years of service in an underground terrorist organization was his dedication to militant Zionism, not disarmament. His moral and motherly chastising of us barely hides his socialist-communist-fascist propaganda.

He doesn't just publish for Americans, and Etzioni's international perspectives are quite a bit different from what he writes for us. But who knows what he really writes. His office assistant admitted online in July 2003 that Etzioni writes very little of what he publishes as his own work. She later detracted her statement in an email to me, and now says Etzioni's writing is only very heavily edited for mainstream audiences by very talented assistants in his office. Erin Riska assured me the concepts and ideas are all his own, it's just that his English is not up to par with his ideas.

Which still means there's more to Etzioni than meets the eye. I'd like to ask him about his dual loyalty to the country he helped create through terrorist acts, and his oath to defend the principles that are the foundation for the United States. Was Etzioni ever required to swear to protect and defend the US Constitution? Are advisers to U.S. Presidents sworn to honor and abide by the rules that govern the presidency? Is finding ways to balance our law even legal? Is it a coincidence that an international court is also the yearned for goal of the Jewish and Christian Zionists?

Fabian Socialists are "transformational Marxists," a group who follow communist advice to just do a "slow march through the institutions" in order to sneak in a new socialist-communist government upon a unsuspecting people.(10) He didn't lead the way, but Etzioni marched through our institutions, often creating a new institution if there wasn't one already established that fit his growing Fabian agenda. His website (11) lists 53 affiliations, 37 editorial positions, 51 international honors, and his 14 consultant positions for the U.S. and Canadian governments. His 30 page resume makes me think of the term “overkill.” He's very heavily insulated by proof that he's a “somebody.” Who would dare to challenge him?

The communitarians openly say their ultimate goal is to create "a global community that rises inexorably to the long imagined community of humankind." The "long imagined community of humankind" is also the goal laid out in the Communist Manifesto.(3) The communitarians are basically communists with a "softer face." The communist goal is to abolish American private property and all nations, especially the U.S.

Etzioni says,

"Nationalism must be ended. It is a creed that has come to burden the expansion of globalism." He explains the communitarian approach as one that, "..favors shifting much of the defining involvements of citizens in those countries afflicted with nationalism from the nation-state to the body society, specifically to communities (not to be confused with local governments)."(12)
Etzioni explains how Big Mother absorbs other programs with,

"Numerous policies to strengthen communities that advanced for other reasons can also help build up non-nationalistic involvements. In the U.S. they include community policing, crime watch, mutual saving societies, self-help groups, block parties, safer public spaces, and much more."(13)
Etzioni is very specific about the goal,(14) explaining how,

"Self-determination movements, a major historical force for more than 200 years, have largely exhausted their legitimacy as a means to create more strongly democratic states. While they long served to destroy empires and force governments to be more responsive to the governed, with rare exceptions self-determination movements now undermine the potential for democratic development in non democratic countries and threaten the foundations of democracy even in the democratic ones. It is time to withdraw moral approval from most of the movements and see them for what they are--destructive."

He insists that,

"Even the romantics of self-determination will have to pause before the prospect of a United Nations with thousands of members."(15)
Throughout the 70's, 80's, and 90's Etzioni traveled the U.S. lecturing on his brand of communitarianism, civil society, and the Ultimate Third Way, becoming a White House adviser to presidents Reagan, and Clinton, and now Bush Jr.

On May 20, 1995, President Bill Clinton praised Etzioni's works during Remarks at the White House Conference of Character Building for a Civil and Democratic Society:

"Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Dr. Etzioni. Thank you for that introduction and for the inspiration that your work has given to me and so many others, for your wonderful book, "The Spirit of Community," and for working on this as hard as you have. I'd like to say a special word of thanks to one of the cofounders of this network-- he's been a member of the White House staff since I became president-- Bill Galston, for his constant inspiration and prodding me. I'd like to thank the Secretary of Education and Tom Payzant, the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, for what they have done to try to promote character education as a part of the larger strategy toward a new communitarian vision for our country." (16)
On February 01, 2001, Washington Post Staff Writer Dana Milbank published "Needed: Catchword for Bush Ideology, 'Communitarianism' Finds Favor:(17)

"The problem some Bush advisers and friends say, is that conventional political definitions do not adequately explain what the president is trying to do. His actions have less to do with the left vs. right, they say, than with his embrace of many of the ideas contained in the movement known as 'communitarianism,' which places the importance of society ahead of the unfettered rights of the individual.

"This is the ultimate Third Way," says Don Eberly, an advisor in the Bush White House, using a favorite phrase of President Bill Clinton, who also sought, largely unsuccessfully, to redefine the debate with an alternative to the liberal-conservative conflict."
Then Ms. Milbank gives us Robert Putnam's "definition" of what communitarianism is:

"Communitarianism," or "civil society" thinking (the two have similar meanings) has many interpretations, but at it's center is a notion that years of celebrating individual freedom have weakened the bonds of community and that the rights of the individual must be balanced against the interests of society as a whole. Inherent in the philosophy is a return to values and morality, which, the school of thought believes, can best be fostered by community organizations. "We need to connect with one another. We've got to move a little more in the direction of community in the balance between community and the individual," said Robert D. Putnam of Harvard University, a leading communitarian thinker.(18)
Milbank lists twelve communitarian "thinkers" who advise George Bush Jr.,(19):

"Bush's inaugural address," said George Washington University professor Amitai Etzioni, a communitarian thinker, "was a communitarian text, full of words like 'civility,' 'responsibility' and 'community.' That's no accident. Bush's advisers consulted on the speech with Putnam."
Milbank describes examples of Bush's communitarian-based programs, including Americorps, and again quotes Eberly:

“There's a specific mission, but there's a broader effort of social-sector renewal writ large," Eberly said, "This is about the incubation of democratic values and habits.”
Big Mother has managed to use communitarianism to invade every aspect of American life. It is the theology, the ideology, the political philosophy, and, most importantly, the legal basis for the new one-world, global government. Communitarianism, as co-created by Etzioni, is Big Mother at her core. Etzioni is the father of modern communitarianism. Etzioni's fascist brand of communitarianism is why Big Mother:

1. calls our Bill of Rights the REASON for crime.(21)

2. says our Bill of Rights is the reason for the breakdown of the traditional patriarchal family system and traditional life-long marriages.(22)

3. says our Bill of Rights has weakened the bonds of the U.S. "community." (23)

4. calls our individual liberty, as defined by the Bill of Rights, selfish and isolationist.(24)

5. challenges our Property Rights and assumes control over all our private and public land.(25)

6. calls our Fourth Amendment right to require legal search warrants a "barrier" to overall community safety. (Big Mother designs the programs that gather, analyze, utilize, and share ALL our personal information.)(26)

7. challenges our right to privacy by assuming social control over our private lives, creating neighborhood spy networks called Neighborhood Watch to monitor and report our behavior to her community oriented policing services.(27)

8. eliminates self-determination by assuming the use of our personal data to rebuild our communities into collectives, determining for everyone how to utilize our life skills for the good of our new community collectives. (28)

9. challenges absolute truths, like "In God We Trust," by teaching a new version of education called character education, a new teaching method that eliminates history, reason, and logic from elementary and secondary schools, replacing the Three R's with sadistic programs exploiting legitimate angst over the future of the planet.(29)

Big Mother is very busy, and so are her spokespeople.

Amitai Etzioni lectures at law schools nationwide, teaching a new generation of lawyers about the new communitarian legal principles he explained in "The Limits of Privacy."

His lectures define "the tension between liberty and social order, the relationships between social norms and laws, the role of moral dialogue versus reasoned deliberations, and ways to exit out of cultural relativism."(30)

Etzioni's books are widely read and sit on many government and businessmen's desks.(31) He's also written and published hundreds of articles that explain how the communitarian agenda can and should be implemented across the world.

Etzioni's been writing papers about the need for a powerful global government since 1960.(32) Communitarian Studies programs are now on college campuses nationwide, as well as being taught via other departments like sociology, psychology, criminology, and law. Funds for innovative communitarian research appears to be unlimited.

Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon, in an interview with National Public Radio in the summer of 2001, discussed the role communitarian thinking played in helping draft the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, saying it, "kept the declaration from becoming either a highly collectivist or a highly individualistic document."(33)

As Dana Milbank thoroughly explained, there are twelve communitarian thinkers in the White House busy advising President George W. Bush. What kinds of advice can these twelve "thinkers" be giving our President?

Washington Post Staff Writer Mike Allen gave us an idea in his July 29, 2001 article, "Bush Plans Values-Based Initiative to Rev Up Agenda."

Allen explains the new role of Bush, as a "moral leader with a series of executive actions and legislative proposals designed to foster community spirit and family values." (34)

Discussing White House planning documents, Allen describes one plan as saying, "There is potential for Communities of Character to be a four-year project for the White House that helps define the presidency. There seems to be a consensus that a renewal of shared values in this country is needed."

Allen closes with a quote by Etzioni, first explaining, "The project is built on the communitarian philosophy..."

Notes

1. http://www.gwu/~ccps/council.html. For 25 pages of the Communitarian Bibliography go to http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/biblio.html. For the Ideas Behind the Movement and selected books off the Communitarian Bookshelf, go to http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/catel.html. To be listed on their elist, contact Jenifer Ambrosio at comnet@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu

2. http://www.communitariannetwork.org/platformtext.htm. "We are united, however, in our conviction that a communitarian perspective must be brought to bear on the great moral, legal and social issues of our time... Moral voices achieve their effect mainly through education and persuasion."

3. "Communism, From Marx's MANIFESTO to 20th Century Reality," by James D. Forman, 1972 Dell Publishing Co. N.Y.(this is one of my daughter's high school texts), page 11.

4. Etzioni's books are widely available and can be ordered through the Network.

5. http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/psn/communitarianism/0061.html. These threads are fascinating and enlightening, I sure hope Colorado.edu keeps them on line.

6. Some of the accusations include: "Communitarianism champions more effective subordination of the working class to the capitalist class, Communitarianism is extremely racist and ethnocentric, Communitarianism, notwithstanding disclaimers, is extremely sexist, Communitarianism significantly contributes to the growth of fascism in the U.S."

7. Etzioni's published papers #131. "From Zion to Disapora," Society (Transaction:Social Science and Modern Society) Vol.15, No,4 (May-June 1978), pp.92-101.

8. http://128.164.127.251/~ccps/etzioni/general2.html. Etzioni's Vita-General.

9. "From Zion to Disapora," by Amitai Etzioni, page 4, 3rd para.

10. "The Third Way: summary of the NEXUS on-line discussion," includes contributions by Michael Jacobs, General Secretary, The Fabian Society, who is quoted as saying, "the Third Way is part of an effort 'to find a new interpretation of social democracy relevant to today's society.'" http://www.netnexus.org/library/papers/3way.html

11. http://128.164.127.251/~ccps/etzioni/general2.html

12. "Politik und Gessellschaft Online, International Politics and Society 2/2001. http://orae.tes.de:8081/tes/docs/IPG2_2001/ARTETZIONI.HTM.

13. International Politics and Society, "On Ending Nationalism," by Amitai Etzioni, page

10, para 1. (For website see previous page)

14. Etzioni published papers, #227, "The Evils of Self-Determination," Foreign Policy, No.89, (Winter 1992-93),pp.21-35,Reprinted in: Moresh No.2,Vol 2, (Oct 1993), The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology, Vol.IV, (1994),pp.163-176.

15. http:www.gwu.edu/~ccps/etzioni/A227.html, page 5, 3rd para.

16. Volume 31--Number 21, Pages 867 - 914, Federal Register of Presidential Documents. See also, "Clinton and the Promise of Communitarianism," by William A. Galston, in The Chronicles of Higher Education. 2. December 1991, A52. Bill Galston helped create the new communitarian theory, he is one of the original "thinkers," and he plays an important role in our new government. He publishes a lot of his "ideas," and he teaches at Harvard law.

17. The Washington Post, February 01,2001, Thursday Final Edition, Section: A, pg A01.

18. Robert Putnam's claim to communitarian fame is being the author of "Bowling Alone."

19 The communitarians employed by Bush are, according to Milbank: Marvin Olasky, Karl Rowe, Don Eberly, Robert Putnam, Amitai Etzioni, Steven Goldsmith, John Diluio, Michael Gerson, Paul Wehner, Laurence Lindsy, William Galston, and Reverand K. Caldwell.

20. Prime Minister Tony Blair's Fabian Socialists is a recognized political party.

21. The idea being that freedom from government interference and warrant less searches oftentimes clashes with the new government's need to enter private homes and gather the necessary information for performing interventions and monitoring behaviors. Their "thinkers" have written about this issue extensively, it has prevailed in all police departments nationwide, and it is the primary justification for all new police actions. Preventing crime is also recently used in conjunction with preventing terrorism. For examples see the booklists in the Crime Mapping Research Center's 1998 Annual Report.

22. Combining forces with the family-values endorsed by the Far Right, the communitarian solution is called the Faith-Based Initiative. Integrating government with the churches to achieve the desired new morality comes after long and extensive research by thousands of social scientists, including HUD, about the decline of the American family. Their solution is to make divorce allowable only after attending appropriated government counseling, much as drunk drivers and domestic violence offenders are required to submit to now.

23. This is a favorite topic of Etzioni's and was the topic of Putnam's book on how Americans have shifted from the bowling leagues prevalent during the 50's and 60's, to the modern isolationist culture that doesn't join outdated civic organizations. They propose we use our government to recreate those "community" bonds by requiring us to participate in local charity works, which is also the basis for the new Freedom USA Corps.

24. This was the basis for the so-called "privacy debate" Etzioni insists we already had (and lost) in this country. See his book, "The Limits of Privacy." He is a great muddler of the issue, as when Etzioni told the Pennsylvania Current in 1999, "It really comes down to who you fear most. If you fear most the FBI, you talk about rights; if you fear most the Mafia, you talk about public good and public safety. I think we should be concerned about both." http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/1999/040199/Etzioni.html.

25. Rebuilding our country following Smart Growth mandates has been ongoing for over a decade. There are many different terms in use for government taking control over all private and "public property," but the new Land Use is all based on rebuilding our country into livable and sustainable habitats, based on the greatest common good for all. Every country in the world, and every state in our country has a "Plan," and there are new "Regional Plans" too like the PPP which covers Mexico and Central and South America.

26 Minnesota Public Radio had a webcast with Etzioni on November 19, 1999. Their ad said: "Privacy isn't all it's made out to be, says Amitai Etzioni. Without privacy, no society can remain free, but communities have legitimate needs that sometimes override privacy rights." http://news.mpr.org/features/199911/15 newsroom privacy/etzioni.html. Privacy rights are a huge concern for Etzioni, who is being interviewed all over the country about "limiting" privacy rights since September 11. His original idea was to "balance" individual rights, now he's discussing the possible "need" for full and total suspension of the Bill of Rights, in order to protect good Americans from terrorism.

27. Etzioni's "Community and Morality in a Democratic Society" laid the foundations for the idea of community policing as part of a communitarian civil society. In "The Limits of Privacy," Etzioni explains: "What is required is a fundamental change in civic culture, policy making, and legal doctrines. We need a paradigm that treats privacy as an individual right that must be balanced with concerns for the common good (or as one good among others), without a priori privileging any of them." www.gwu.edu/~ccps/lop.html

28. Asset Based Community Development, (ABCD) interviews are a sample of the kinds of information the communitarians need in the U.S. before they can finish rebuilding our communities. Similar programs for assessing community "capacity" are found in all organizations world-wide that are interested in promoting sustainable development. They actually believe they're going to get to go door to door with their community cops asking people 11 pages of questions about their skill levels for household chores, in order to help us see how we can best assist them. http://www.northwestern.edu/IPR/abcd.html.

29 Character Education is part of the Communitarian Platform and is one of the reasons the home-school movement became so powerful in the U.S. This is how Big Mother is brainwashing our kids. For expanded opposition viewpoint: http://www.icehouse.net/Imstuter/stw005.htm

30. Communitarian Update, Number 37, July 10, 2001.

31. Etzioni's influence even extends to Bill Gates, who I used to hope was still an American at heart. All the players know Etzioni, all the rest of us don't.

32. For instance, Etzioni wrote a very scholarly paper called "The Dialectics of Supranational Unification," published in The American Political Science Review, Volume 56,Issue 4(Dec.,1962),927-935, written while he was a Research Associate at the Institute for War and Peace Studies, published at Columbia U.. Compare this with his later writings.

33. Communitarian Update, Number 37, July 10, 2001.

34. Bush established, by Executive Orders, The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives on July 29,2001 and also directed five cabinet members to establish Centers for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. This is Bush's "blueprint" for his "Armies of Compassion." The link to the new army is via HUD: http://www.hud.gov/cdc.cfm.


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