From Freedom to Servitude – Part 2: “Service Learning” through Soviet Brainwashing

“Lenin outlined a program for an active
participation by both children and adolescents in the building
of socialism…. Socially useful work should serve as a
school of collectivism.”

[1] 
Nadezhda Krupskaya,

Lenin’s widow and fellow-revolutionary

“…expand and strengthen service-learning programs through year-round
opportunities … in order to renew the ethic of civic responsibility
and the spirit of community for children and youth throughout
the United States.”

[2]

Serve
America Act
(GIVE, H.R.1388), signed into law
on April 21.

“Brainwashing is a system of befogging the brain so
a person can be seduced into acceptance of what otherwise would be abhorrent
to him. … Facts and fancy whirl round and change places.”

[3]
Edward Hunter, Brainwashing

“O our God… we have no power against this great
multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but
our eyes are upon You.”

2 Chronicles 20:12

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A few years ago, North Dakota gave us a heart-warming demonstration
of traditional voluntary service — in minus 20 degree weather. As the rising
Red River threatened to flood Fargo, willing volunteers gathered by the thousands. Before long, they had filled
and stacked over 2 million sandbags to barricade the city against the
raging waters. Christians prayed for victory over the
forces of nature, and by God’s
grace, the make-shift dikes held.

About 6,000 volunteers of all ages had simply followed
their conscience, worked together and met the need. Unlike President Obama’s plan for government-directed
“service,” neither prayer nor God’s comforting Truths were banned.
Volunteers weren’t hindered by trained facilitators and unconscionable boundaries.
As the flood subsided, they were free to thank God together for the amazing
victory.   

Traditional American volunteerism and self-giving service has served
people around the world. But it may soon be replaced with a government system
of mandatory service and
re-education for all ages. Obama’s signature on
H.R. 1388 “Serve America Act,”
[See 2] will usher in a new era.
While people of
all ages will be recruited, the main focus will be on the youth. Words
such as “uniforms,” “youth corps,” campuses” and “boarding” [i.e. “grouped together
as appropriate in campuses for operational, support, and boarding purposes”

SEC. 1516]
bring memories of totalitarian government-controlled youth service.

[4]

“Service learning” — the heart of this evolving
program — is grounded in Soviet ideology. Banning Biblical sharing, it
reflects Communism’s “dialectical
materialism” and notorious “re-education” camps. Its basic formula is simple:

1. Immersion into a group [collective] environment
with diverse beliefs and values. For decades, our government has been
guiding migration and assessing cities on their success in building “unity
in diversity,” i.e. social
capital.”[5]  
Such facilitated oneness may sound benign, but the
manipulative
methods used to build socialist values undermine both personal freedom
and family-taught convictions.

2. Dialogue led by facilitators trained to manipulate
the diverse groups of servers (with their assortment of values) toward a new consensus. Edward Hunter’s 1956 book, Brainwashing,
gives us this glimpse of Communist mind control,

“They went about this in the ‘democratic
discussion’ manner; this was the new principle of unanimity
[i.e. consensus] ….  What was truth anyway? Nobody knew.
What was false? … Everyone couldn’t be wrong. Could they? Weren’t they
all one team? A collectivity?”[6]

3. Practice (practical experience) that seals the
dialectical group teaching in the minds of idealistic servers. Lenin understood
this formula well. He said,

“…the young people shall engage in
the practical solution of some problem of labour in common.‘”[1]

The Soviet History of Service Learning

Today the seeds of Soviet ideology are sprouting across America. Truth,
facts, logic and discernment fade — drowned by a flood of mind-dulling,
time-stealing trivia and distraction and choked by the tempting tentacles
of dialectical compromise.

Lenin’s Soviet education system was largely organized
by Nadezhda Krupskaya, his personal companion, “co-worker,” biographer,
and “the founder of Soviet pedagogics.” In her book, On Labor Oriented
Education and Instruction, Krupskaya describes the roots of Soviet mind
control:

“Lenin… said that the young generation should evolve
a new, communist morality that would subordinate personal interests
to general ones… that the younger generation should know how to achieve
solidarity in their struggle….
Being a member of the Youth League means devoting one’s labor and effort
to the common cause….”

“The joint work of children should be particularly
valued because it is the embryo of collective labor. … If we attribute
an educational role to socially useful work, then all children must
be involved in it.”

“…voluntary labour, irrespective of quotas, is labor performed
without expectation of reward…. performed because it has become a
habit to work for the common good.”[1]

Remember, all Communist/Socialist labor was government
controlled. Private enterprise and personal initiative were quenched, and
all were forced to submit to the government-defined “common good.” Within
decades, Biblical morality had been replaced by sexual license and moral
depravity, and personal despair.

After the second World War, young John Noble was trapped
in the Soviet gulag system. Though an innocent American citizen, he was
sentenced to hard labor in an
arctic slave camp. Miraculously freed after a decade, he
wrote the book,


I Found God in Soviet Russia,
which showed the sad reality behind socialist idealism:

“The young man and his wife
were both fanatical Communists, graduates of the Communist Youth
Movement where he had been a leader. They had both gone to youth
camps from the age of fourteen. These Soviet youth camps are
not conducted for recreation but involve hard work by
young ‘volunteers’….

“There is marked relaxation
of sexual restraints in this atmosphere and many illegitimate children
are born from the casual couplings of such summer youth camp excursions….
[These] children are raised to be zealous, dedicated Communists….They
have no ties but their loyalty to the State, no allegiance to God or
family, no principles to stand in the way of their performing any assignment
given them.

“…children are also taught in school that they must constantly
be on the lookout for ‘reactionaries‘ [like America’s
‘right-wing
extremists’?] and, further, must report any neighbor who talks against
Communism or acts suspiciously, even if this may come to involve their
own parents.”

[7]

Service Learning in America

The American version of
service-learning was planned by socialist educator
John Dewey almost a
century ago. His formula, like Lenin’s, is simple: affective learning
(based on feelings rather than
facts), followed by dialogue and group experience that helped seal
the information in young minds.
[See
Chronology of the NEA]

Back in 1958, concerned congressmen invited
Edward Hunter,
an American expert on Communist brainwashing, to testify before the Committee
on Un-American Activities in the House of Representatives. The Congressional
transcript includes this testimony:

“I spent 30 years, a little bit more perhaps, in countries
under various forms of Communist pressure and attack.  What I am
witnessing in America is no different from what I saw in those other
countries. …

“I see, primarily, as part of this softening up
process in America, the liquidation of our attitudes on what we used
to recognize as right and wrong, what we used to accept as absolute
moral standards.  We now confuse moral standards with the sophistication
of
dialectical materialism,
with a Communist… theology which teaches that everything changes,
and that what is right or wrong, good or bad, changes as well. … There
is no such thing as truth or a lie….

“The objective of Communist warfare is to capture
intact the minds of the people and their possessions, so they can
be put to use. This is the modern conception of slavery.”

[8]

Hunter’s book,
Brainwashing,
reflects his interviews with victims of the
Chinese “education reform.” These survivors were trained through cruel
but sophisticated “brainwashing” tactics to betray their nation, embrace
socialism, “confess” lies, and serve the Communist propaganda machine.

Hunter described how each new “consensus” destroyed
the victim’s factual basis for resistance. And as minds were purged
of Biblical hope and traditional values, unquestioning compliance became
the norm:

“The long-range objective of brainwashing
is to win converts who can be depended on to react as desired at any
time anywhere. This is the inside-out meaning they give the word
voluntary…. Even when he stands by himself, the truly indoctrinated
communist must be part of the collective. He must be incapable of
hearing opposing ideas and facts, no matter how convincing or how
forcibly they bombard his senses. A trustworthy communist must react
in an automatic manner without any force being applied. Only then
is he the ‘new Soviet man’…”

“Brainwashing is a system of befogging the brain so a person
can be seduced into acceptance of what otherwise would be abhorrent
to him. He loses touch with reality. Facts and fancy whirl
around and change places…. To prevent people from recognizing the
inherent evils in brainwashing, the Reds pretend that it is only
another name for something already very familiar and of unquestioned
respect, such as education or reform.”

[9]

It’s happening today! Most American youth
have abandoned the factual discernment that characterized America
in the past. In many families, this change has already accomplished a socialist
goal: to separate children from the traditional values of their parents
or grandparents.

In 1971, fifteen years after Hunter wrote Brainwashing,
Saul Alinsky’s revolutionary manual,
Rules for Radicals,
was published. Alinsky, whose socialist disciples mentored Barack Obama,
prepared the blueprint for the radical “community organizers” of the last
three decades. He knew that “common involvements, “facilitated
by “community organizers” such as Obama, would build the needed
relationships:

“One of the factors that changes what you
can and can’t communicate is relationships. There are sensitive
areas that one does not touch until there is a strong personal relationship
based on common involvements.
Otherwise the other party turns off and literally does not hear….”[10]

By 1992, American leaders were set to implement this system
as part of mandatory education. In a
letter to Hillary Clinton,
America’s First Lady,  Marc Tucker, President of the National Center
on Education and the Economy (NCEE) wrote:

“We think the great opportunity you have is to
remold the entire American system for human resources development…. 
What is essential is that we create a seamless web of opportunities,
to develop one’s skills that literally extends from cradle to grave
and is the same system for everyone…
regulated on the basis of
outcomes that providers produce for their clients, not inputs into
the system.”

[12]

The word “outcome” reflects a planned result that’s
essential to social transformation. Continual assessments help
refine the process. [See

Reinventing the World]

Mandatory or Voluntary?

The original version of H.R. 1388 included a statement
about developing “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service
requirement for all able young people.” It was deleted. Perhaps
the word “mandatory” stirred up too much criticism. In any
case, those exact words had simply been moved to
H.R. 1444, a less conspicuous bill.
It states,

SEC. 4. DUTIES 
(b) …In carrying out its general purpose under subsection
(a), the Commission shall address and analyze the following specific
topics:

(6) Whether
a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service
requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a
requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen
the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges
by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic,
and educational backgrounds.”[13]

In any case, service
learning will be mandatory for schools and institutions that receive
government funding. The financial strings attached to this program will
guarantee nation-wide participation from the start. 

Many have wondered
if H.R.1388 would include the
Civilian Security Force
that Barack Obama mentioned
in a campaign speech in Colorado Springs.
“We
cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national
security objectives that we’ve set,” he said
on July 2, 2008.
“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s
just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”[14]

Who would
be the targets of such a civilian militia? What kind of domestic
violence does he expect?

The
Department of Homeland Security
may have answered that question. On April 7, Secretary Janet Napolitano released a report titled “Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” Suggesting that violence could erupt
from “right-wing,” anti-abortion, and “lone wolf extremists” as well as
veterans, and others who are unhappy with today’s government, it raised
questions about the potential use of a civilian militia to silence
concerned “resisters”
across America.

Such intentional vilification of ordinary Americans reminds
me of Hitler’s shrewd strategy:

“The art of truly great popular leaders in all ages has consisted chiefly
in… concentrating always on a single adversary…. It is part of a
great leader’s genius to make even widely separated adversaries appear as if
they belonged to one category…”[15]

No “free speech” for “voluntary”
servers?

Like Obama’s
Faith-Based
Partnerships, this
Serve America
Act includes prohibitions that limit both speech and expressions of faith.
Notice how God’s timeless call to be a witness of His love is now summarized
in negative words often used to
vilify Christianity around the world:

“Prohibited Activities – An approved national
service position under this subtitle may not be used for the following activities:
    “Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed
to influence the outcome of an election…. [that
only seems to apply to those who might criticize the administration]”

   
“Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services… constructing
or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship…. or engaging
in any form of proselytization….”[2]

Through the ages, Christians have been faced with a common choice: Follow
the crowd and culture — or take a stand on your convictions. What will you choose?

“…as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:15

“Be
strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the
Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9