What I am talking about was not up front on this week's agenda, but it came up during the Citizen Communications at the June 18 meeting, (see link in sidebar).
I haven't got the emotional energy to footnote the following history all at once. I'll add links by & by. If you can't google up the proof of what I am about to tell you, please post your comments or questions and I'll reply with details. To really describe what is happening in Austin, it is necessary to tell you what happened with the same crew ten years ago in Massachusetts. When you read it you might not want to be identified as agreeing, particularly if you have a public job, and so I won't require log-in to post and I will delete only unnecessary obscenity.
Control, Not support, of the Arts
This incoming Culture Commission is not a "new" direction, although it may be new to Austin. It is as old as tyranny. The truth is never told about what the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) did in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, in the 1980's and 1990's, when it helped one of the first and most powerful culture commissions get set up: The Berkshire Artisans. It moved into a vibrant arts community and virtually destroyed it. It is hard to describe the setting of the Culture Commission's "death-art" project that had been set up in an abandoned department store in the center of that small city, and which the mayor finally bulldozed. The lies that covered this sequence of events are a testament to the incredible gullibility that cripples modern society.
That project was part of a massive activist effort that was responsible for a spike in teen suicides across the region, and it was also part of a genocidal hazardous waste spill, a deliberate dumping, that resulted in a 25% miscarriage (not abortion) rate because of PCB pollution of the soil and water-table all through the Housatonic valley. It was the GE Housatonic Superfund site.
It was unbeliveable. People like Steve Spielberg moved in to suck the blood from the corpse: he's just one big name among the imported Hollywood and New York artists who replaced the natural community that once thrived in those hills. (Governor Weld, by the way, had signed exactly the same agreement with the media gliterati on behalf of unaware Massachusetts that Governor Perry signed last year, on behalf of unaware Texas.)
Texans don't know the bloody history of the Culture Commission because it didn't happen down here, but now the "Artisan" project is down here, and it is about to bite Texas in its collective ass, which appears to be Austin.
Austin is to become America's Sarajevo, Texas's own death-ridden Pittsfield. I am not speaking figuratively. The same terrorists who referred to the genocide of the artists of Sarajevo as "Ethnic Cleansing" and who are moving into position around Austin have already shown up in City Hall, last month, whith their falsified "statistics" and their heavy-handed threats of dire consequences if the City Council does not hand them control of all the Arts funding in this city.
Brazen Abuse of Public Trust
Councilor Shade bragged during her campaign about her use of Americorps volunteers. She should be impeached for election funding fraud if indeed she did that, but that is a digression and, to me, not a battle worth fighting when the problem is so much bigger than that. Yet her willingness to brag so brazenly about her use of Americorps, and her part in setting it up in the first place, speaks volumes.
Americorps "volunteers" are an important part of the coming genocide that will involve the City Hall arts commission, because the first thing they are trained to do, is to lie. They are not "volunteers", they are students who are recruited to get college money for acting as temp labor in social service agencies all over the country. They are paid the same as any other unskilled laborers and they are taught not to respect either themselves or the working people in the communities they serve, because they are taught that a little money is not real money. So if their agencies steal a little, how is it different from what each and every Americorps volunteers does each time he or she uses that term? An honest person whose honesty has not been compromised has a much easier time resisting corruption than an honest person who has, through confusion and inexperience, been persuaded to lie.
The lies are an important part of Americorps training because nobody can lie to another human being without at least partially dehumanizing that other human being. It is basic training in corruption. It is also "stage one" genocidal training: dehumanizing the other people one serves. "Cleansing" the city of such people is stage two genocide. The churches are already leading the way in that regard, with their increasing efforts to build isolated "leper colonies" (to quote one protesting citizen who spoke at today's City Hall meeting) that will serve to involve the rest of the citizens in pogroms within another year or so. The pogroms may not be against Jews, and that only serves to underline a near-forgotten part of the history of modern genocide: The Jews were the last group to be systematically isolated and killed by Hitler's German followers. They began their genocide on the poor, the disabled, and the homeless, and as they ran out of victims, only then did they begin to openly home in on the middle-class Jews. The Jews were only 60% of the victims of that genocidal German nation. For some reason, the American nation does not want to remember that.
Randi Shade Exploits Homosexuals
Once the first part of that Americorps training has been accomplished, then it is easy for people like Councillor Shade to sic the hate-based gay-lesbian brigades on the rest of the community without facing much opposition. Just exactly like Nazi Germany did in their own famous exploitation and betrayal of the homosexual community in the 1930's. It is easy for Shade to pretend the lies she told about Jennifer Kim were not hate-based and racist because no one in her circle will resist or expose her. Liars are not famous for resisting other liars. The whole gay-lesbian poltical culture is a culture of lies. They have no redeeming qualities and the only redeeming quality of the Americorps volunteers is that their youth may empower at least some of them to outgrow the training and reclaim their integrity after their uncomfortable year of "service".
The Original Culture Commission: Lies, Greed, & Americorps/Vista
The original Culture Commission that is entangled with Mass MOCA ("Museum of Contemprary Art) in North Adams, Massachusetts was headed by a former Americorps/Vista volunteer Dan O'Connell. Dan O'Connell was the son of a former Pittsfield, Massachusetts mayor and also of a family that owned an oil heating company, O'Connell Oil. He took office as the Culture Commissar just as Jack Welch was pulling the plug on the GE workers. He managed all the money that was being sent to Pittsfield from Washington DC via the Kennedy conduit of the NEA money. Tiny Massachusetts, the size of a Texas county, took 20% of the national arts funding, and most of that did not stay in Boston but was shipped west to tiny Pittsfield and then given not to Massachusetts artists, but to New York artists who came in for the kill as soon as O'Connell sent word.
Picture it: a city smaller than Austin, certainly less important, and most of the working class works at one plant, GE. Highly paid, secure. Around them the old small-town industries of the papermills were turning out the finest art paper and wallpaper, even the US treasury currency paper was made there, and all scattered among idyllic dairy farms, boarding schools, and millionaires' summer camps.
The Truth About Jack Welch
Jack Welch arrived there in the late 1970's. Just about that time the PCB disposal was becoming a problem. The local hippies were doing ok, but the political Left was looking for new blood, since the Vietnam War was over and the Persian Gulf had yet to heat up. There was a commmittee in Boston called the "GE Project" that had focussed on weapons made in Pittsfield during the Vietnam War. Those of us who participated in the anitwar effort were busy embarking on our individual lives while the bored Leftists played around with way-out-firnge feminism (not the equal-rights feminism for which many of us fought so hard, but the weird man-hating stuff that no one really took seriously.)
Christina Hoff Sommers, a Clark University professor, wrote about the awakening of that radical fringe group in her book, "Who Stole Feminism?" She describes a lot of what happened, but while wearing academic blinders. She was too polite to point out that what she identified as unscientific and politicized false data that was used by the fringe-feminists to steal millions of dollars of art money was fraud: it was organized crime. And it was done during the years the FBI office in Massachusetts was being run by a man who later became one of the FBI's 10 most wanted: Whitey Bulger. Yet she described the scheme accurately, including some of the violence against professors and students, and that, too, was right out of a Nazi scene from 1939. She described it all clearly enough for anyone to see. They used art, and psychological terror on school-children, not just physical assault, to attack all of the families and artists in Massachusetts.
"Needs Enhancement"
While Jack Welch was sowing his seeds of destruction all through the new nonprofit arts commission groups in Pittsfield, all of it was headed by the same Dan O'Connell who has his fingers in Austin's pie right now. The new group of artists who moved into Berkshire county and helped run the native artists out of town were setting up "death art" as part of the gay-lesbian "needs enhancement" campaign. That was the campaign to increase teen suicides by challenging high school students to identify themselves as "gay" so that the funding Sommers describes would be approved. It was openly discussed in activist circles in Boston, particularly among Unitarians, some of whom spearheaded direct assaults on teenagers at Pittsfield's Taconic High School in the 1990's. Strategically, the Unitarians played into the game because it was a rule in Massachusetts that any special school funding had to serve at least 10% of the population, but the actual, scientific incidence of gay identity among teens is far lower than 10%.
Pink Floyd & Whitey & The Irish
Bill Weld, aka "Pink Floyd", was governor. Whitey Bulger was not yet on the lamb. He's the notorious Irish mafia thug who got the Boston field officeof the FBI to participate in hits, even intermarry with the Southies. Whitey's brother, State Rep William Bulger, was head of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Some sons of a few Kennedy associates got involved in drowning two men by shoving their car into a lake just south of Pittsfield in 1981 and got away with it. They served 30 days, for fighting. They were let out for Christmas holidays and there were demonstrations in the town against it. One of the two victims was the son of one of the most influential union stewards GE faced: Barry Griffin, who'd gone down to the GE plant in Houston to a leader in the only unionized machine shop in all of Texas. Griffin knew about the PCB's and he knew who worked for Jack Welch. Whitey Bulger's brother William stood against the Griffin and Retzel families in the Massachusetts Supreme Court and helped set an important legal precedent against due process.
That is when O'Connell threw the Culture Commission into high gear. Soon after, William Bulger had moved from Boston to Western Massachusetts where he became president of the University of Massachusetts, keeping the money conduit flowing.
By the mid 1990's, the lesbian fringe-feminists had moved into military-style marches, complete with butch-like sergeants commanding the women, most of whom were clients of a rape-crisis center who were told to join the demonstrations in order to keep their shelter services and get their welfare checks. By then Jack Welch had closed GE down, having presided over the deliberate disposal of the PCB's into the Housatonic Valley, including distributing some of the contaminated soil to the ethnic & Black neighborhoods as "clean fill", which contributed to the 25% miscarriage rate.
On the Lamb In Texas
When Whitey Bulger went on the lamb, he came to Texas. For years he was able to "hide" all along the Route 10 corridor between New Orleans and east of Austin. He murdered at least nine people in Massachusetts. His cohorts around Dan O'Connell and the bizarre fringe cult inside the feminist movement murdered close to that many more, but only a few of their crimes got prosecuted, and those of course were supposedly "random".
We may be as doomed as those Jewish passangers of a cruise ship that nearly failed to make it out of Hitler's nightmare, but we must cling to some hope, just as they did. There is an important difference between Texas today and Massachusetts ten years ago. The Culture Commission up there was able to set itself up in an economically devastated death zone with very little opposition. The Catholic Church played a prominent role is silencing critics and whistleblowers, but that is important only in-so-far-as the Catholic Church as an organization is corrupt and its role in politics is largely unexamined. That role has nothing to do with theology, sex, & faith, and it not unique to the Catholic Church. Austin is still vibrant and alive. Texans have their own way of doing things, and the incoming carpetbaggers from New York, Boston and Seattle (there is a real history to Seattle being part of that, too, going back to 1972) are not going to find it as easy a kill as they found in Pittsfield.
