Q. “From your letter to me, you feel some imperialist thing is going on against the third world. As for those starvation figures, well hell man, it seems to me they are living in a desert. And there’s been a drought. I don’t see how I can get serious about your veiled connections. Other explanations are too obvious.
“A further point of difficulty is that the numbers are so low as to be meaningless in terms of the larger picture. No negative growth has yet occured. The starvation deaths are much less than the natural increase (in the third world). You are obviously selective in your facts in order to service a pre-determined mindset.
“Huh? If there’s some secret group of white manipulators who are the real power behind things it would seem they would be first of all concerned about the third-world immigration.” –J.B., Edina, MN
Thank you for at least addressing the problem. That’s more cooperation than I get from my intelligence community contacts — who incessantly offer unsolicited personal advice about how I could get laid if I would only jump through a few hoops, when and where and whether or not I should masturbate, whether I should or should not conform to traditional mores, whether I am or am not or should or shouldn’t be expressing myself in conspiracy cant, etc., etc. — who in fact engage in a non-stop filibuster to evade dealing with the origins of the Vietnam war and the related presentday conspiracy behind the holocaust of starvation.
Allow me to take your last objection first. Third World immigration is a source of cheap labor and those who choose to come here are usually political rightists — many so authoritarian as to be useful henchmen in violently supressing leftwing dissent. Further, discussion of the labor question here may be found in Triple Your Intelligence — $5 from Fry’s Modern Humans, 22511 Markham, Ferris, CA 92370 — in the form of an introductory editorial. For $10 they will also furnish you with whole batches of data from all manner of sources describing in detail alternative energy formulas, plans and articles. Their politics appear so para-military right that I never recommend them without a disclaimer on that score, so they are hardly guilty of sharing my left anarchist bias.
As for no negative growth indicating that the problem is not serious, runaway population growth is a symptom of abject widespread poverty. A sociological rule of thumb is that the richer people are the fewer offsprin they produce. One out of every three people in the world goes to bed hungry every night according to the same sources that furnish the estimates that between 13 and 18 million starve fatally each year. Had I wanted to select my facts I could have, for example, instead quoted: “Twenty milllion Africans will die over the next weeks. One hundred million Africans will die in the intermediate range future of the next months.” If those are facts. “Like the New York Times… the Washington Post has not seen fit to inform its readership of the scale of the ongoing disaster. Television networks, apart from isolated stories, have provided no better information than the print media.
“As a result, the largest holocaust in recent human history is taking place without the accompaniment of protest and moral outrage that could normally be relied on to stop those like Katharine Graham, whose policies and commitments, as we shall show, are festering and expanding the largest genocide in recent human history.” This material is from Save Africa from Volcker’s Genocide, published by the Committee for a New Africa Policy (1980), an organization inspired by Lyndon LaRouche.
I instead cited Creative Loafing, a commercial apolitical Atlanta weekly, because I think it is more effective in the long run to err on the side of understatement — if err one must — than to exaggerate, only to be demolished later on. Moreover I find LaRouche’s pathological perchant for branding his enemies “pederasts” and “pot-smoking fops” so divisively Gouldist that I therefore distrust him on all other counts. Emotional Plague via psychological well poisoning and stirring up the most bigoted and violent superstitions of the ignorant isn’t a matter I take lightly.
Nevertheless, much of the pamphlet is impressive: “Most Africans suffer from chronic malnutrition, eating less than 2,000 calories per day, and most of that starch.” And: “In the broad extent of black Africa that is suffering from famine and drought, nearly every regional, religious, national, local and tribal division of the population is hit with war and insurgency. In all such cases, ‘outside’ influence, whether from the intelligence agencies of Western or East bloc powers, is provable.”
That these people are living in a desert is due in part to the very existence of governments, as their borders are protected by armed guards who make extensive migration impossible. I have said before: “All starving people are under the gun.” A Permanent Universal Tax Strike could simplify that problem greatly.
Moreover, I am personally convinced there is a weather control conspiracy. According to an article in a 1977 American Opinion it was created by a CIA-KGB clique. Due to the unusual nature of my involvement with the intelligence community, I was treated to a demonstration of its reality — although I am at a loss as to how I could convince others. If such a conspiracy did not cause the drought, it could certainly at least cure it, if it wanted.
Also, I personally have been beaten, robbed and subjected to the most humiliating invasions of my personal life and have been told in many such instances that I am being “made to pay” for supporting the Permanent Universal Rent Strike — the only peaceful measure that could abolish the feudal land tenure system that comprises the main cause of starvation and poverty. I have moreover been told that other supporters of the P.U.R.S. have been killed with sodium morphate heart attacks and that Sam Cummings of Interarm, the munitions cartel, has gotten the U.S. to classify the Permanent Universal Rent Strike as a dangerous “weapon,” so as to provide a legalistic cover for its fascist supression. Add to that my conversations about, and before, the JFK murder with a probable CIA agent who said it would be a shame to fight Caucasian Cuba instead of an Asian race — recalling that Charles Cabell, for whom this agent was probably working, sabotaged the air support for the Bay of Pigs — and you begin to get the picture. There is a genocidal conspiracy in control of the intelligence community — perhaps the Vril Society, explaining why no Caucasians and no Japanese and no Chinese are perishing of hunger en masse, why the one out of three who goes to bed hungry is virtually always “racially inferior” in Nazi terms.
As my rather frantic writings in DW, Factsheet Five and The Book of the SubGenius indicate, I don’t trust the Worldwide Church of God — publishers of The Plain Truth. Much about that organization convinces me it is probably principal facility of the clandestine propaganda network created here by Goebbels in the thirties. A Christian ministry at first glance, the lore of conspiracy politics presents it as actually some kind of anti-racist conspiracy. Under the late Herbert Armstrong its politics resembled those of the old Isolationist Right. I recall a rather pathetic article on world hunger a few years back, insisting that the way to lick it was simply for everyone to stop spending money on armaments. I’m elated to note there has at least been a change in the plain words of The Plain Truth, and a most perceptive one at that:
