lucius
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By all means no, but if you do not believe that policy agenda will be encouraging sex with children, you have not been looking hard enough at the vanguard in the European Union. Plus there is already some sordid history with the APA, from 'How America Went Gay' by Charles W. Socarides, M.D.:
"...targeted the members of a worldly priesthood, the psychiatric community, and neutralized them with a radical redefinition of homosexuality itself. In 1972 and 1973 they co-opted the leadership of the American Psychiatric Association and, through a series of political maneuvers, lies and outright flim-flams, they "cured" homosexuality overnight-by fiat. They got the A.P.A. to say that same-sex sex was "not a disorder." It was merely "a condition"-as neutral as lefthandedness.
This amounted to a full approval of homosexuality. Those of us who did not go along with the political redefinition were soon silenced at our own professional meetings. Our lectures were canceled inside academe and our research papers turned down in the learned journals. Worse things followed in the culture at large. Television and movie producers began to do stories promoting homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle. A gay review board told Hollywood how it should deal or not deal with homosexuality. Mainstream publishers turned down books that objected to the gay revolution. Gays and lesbians influenced sex education in our nation's schools, and gay and lesbian libbers seized wide control of faculty committees in our nations' colleges. State legislatures nullified laws against sodomy.
If the print media paid any attention at all, they tended to hail the gay revolution, possibly because many of the reporters on gay issues were themselves gay and open advocates for the movement. And those reporters who were not gay seemed too intimidated by groupthink to expose what was going on in their own newsrooms.
And now, what happens to those of us who stand up and object?"
Charles W. Socarides, M.D., is clinical professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Then this little telling-gem:
Tavistock Institute for Medical Psychology
In Mental Health, vol. 1, no. 4, October 1940, one finds a speech by John Rawlings Rees
(deputy director of the Tavistock Institute for Medical Psychology, begun in
1920) on June 18, 1940, in which he reveals:
"We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard
to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge
be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational
activity in our national life. . . . Public life, politics, and industry should
all of them be within our sphere of influence. . . . Especially since the last
world war we have done much to infiltrate the various social organizations
throughout the country.... Similarly we have made a useful attack upon a
number of professions.
The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the
church: the two most difficult are law and medicine.... If we are to infiltrate
the professional and social activities of other people, I think we must
imitate the Totalitarian and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If
better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen,
must lose our identity. . . . Let us all, therefore, very secretly be "fifth
columnists." . . . We have often been too spasmodic in our work and I feel
we need a long-term plan of propaganda. . . . I doubt the wisdom of a direct
attack upon the existing state of affairs; even though there is a war on,
that would still raise opposition, whereas the more insidious approach of
suggesting that something better is needed—"why shouldn't we try so and
so"—is more likely to succeed. . . . Many people don't like to be "saved,"
"changed" or made healthy. I have a feeling, however, that "efficiency and
economy" would make rather a good appeal because there are very few people
who would not welcome these two suggestions."
The APA has been infiltrated; not unlike how psychiatry was utilized in the Soviet Union: Bertrand Russell called it using "injunctions".
Not to say that you are part of this.
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