Chapter 9, Part VI: Hug a Tree — Can a Kid (True Story)

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nce in awhile one comes across a situation that could be recommended for inclusion in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.

Such was the case on Sunday, March 6, 1994.? A seminar on population development was sponsored by the local chapter of the United Nations? Association, the World Bank, Planned Parenthood, The Community Foundation? and Washington University? on the university’s campus in St. Louis, Missouri.? International, high-powered speakers gave presenta­tions.? The seminar was funded by various population control? and environmental alarmist groups.? The objective of the conference was to prepare for the United Nations’ International Conference on Population and Development? to be held in Cairo, Egypt,? in September 1994.? Among the tables of free propagan­da promoting the false “crisis” of over-population? was an article titled “The Courage To Face A New Paradigm.”? The article stated:

“Anyone attending this conference knows that the earth is overcrowded.? People are crowding out other forms of life that have the same right to exist.”? It went on to give the following “proposals for population reduction:–homosexuality, cross-generational sex (child/adult,) drug trafficking–not only eliminates humans–but creates a health anxiety–which reduces (a) desire to generate posterity, adding birth control? chemicals to the drugs–and to the water supply or to commonly ingested foods such as beer, soda, or milk, reducing programs for the overaged and physically unfit.”

These suggestions are not new.? They have been suggested in other sources from population controllers such as Planned Parenthood.[1]? However, the rest of the article was more than one could take.? Judge for yourself:

“Our most acute concern is the Third World.? There the birth rate is still out of control despite the hygienic measures of food control, medicine restriction, and general economic contractions that have already been applied by the International Monetary Fund? (IMF) and World Bank, both UN? Agencies.

“…Our proposal would not only reduce the number of offspring (who might otherwise survive and procreate even more offspring,) but enhance the balance of payments of these nations, in line with IMF? conditionalities.

“The world shortage of high-protein meat could be solved by canning and exporting, under UN? Humanitarian auspices, the healthy children of these nations.? Strict controls would apply to make sure that starved and diseased meat does not enter the global? market [emphasis added].

“A flourishing export market from the (T)hird (W)orld would help these nations pay their international debts and add liquidity to the international banking system.

“–United Nations? spokesmen and environmental agencies could stress the low fat content of the meat–Countries that turn down this export program could be subject to a UN humanitarian blockade, as Iraq and Haiti are today.”? The paper was signed “The Cobden Club? 621-1188.”

The Cobden Club’s telephone number was found in the February 1995 publication of Southwestern Bell’s Greater St. Louis telephone book on page 297, listed as belonging to Planned Parenthood’s, Belleville, Illinois,? location!

Was the article created as a joke to make Planned Parenthood? look bad?? Was it a ploy by the population controllers to see who would respond to it?? Was the phone equipped with caller I.D. in order to identify those who responded to the article?? Who knows??

When the Cobden Club’s telephone number was dialed there was no answer or recorded message.? Subsequent calls to this same telephone number were answered by a Planned Parenthood? employee that indicated that the Cobden Club’s phone may have been forwarded to Planned Parenthood.

Continued follow up verified that The Cobden Club? phone number of 621-1188 was being billed to Planned Parenthood’s office on Manchester Road (in greater St. Louis).? A later phone call verified that billing records identified this phone number as belonging to the Cobden Club, but billed to Planned Parenthood’s main office on Manchester Road!

Who is the Cobden Club?? An article from the National Research Institute? states that the Cobden Club was named after Richard Cobden? (1804-1865,) a radical British merchant.? He had adamant views on race purification.? Margaret Sanger, the foundress of Planned Parenthood? was also an aggressive advocate of race purification.? In Sanger’s book titled The Pivot of Civilization, page 149 states, “The noblest and most difficult art of all is the raising of human thoroughbreds.”?

When one does not believe that humans are made in the image and likeness of God, it’s understandable that they would consider animals to be as valuable as humans. ? There are those who become vegetarians out of compassion for animals since they believe animal life to be worthy of the same value as human life.? The “flip side” of that same mentality is, “we eat beef don’t we?”? If “meat” is meat why not “can kids”–or anyone else for that matter?

As the Judeo-Christian ethic is abandoned in favor of humanistic paganism, western civilization is returning to cannibalism and human sacrifice.?

A Hong Kong newspaper article titled “Embryonic Food Of Life” contains a picture of a doctor holding a jar with a caption which states “Indifferent:? Zou Qin, a doctor at Luo Hu Clinic, who claims to have eaten more than 100 foetuses (sic) displays a sample.”? The article states:

“Last month, reporters from Eastweek - a sister publication of Eastern Express - went to Shenzhen to see if the rumors could be substantiated.? On March 7, a reporter entered the state-run Shenzhen Health Centre for Women and Children feigning illness and asked a female doctor for a foetus.? The doctor said the department was out of stock but to come again.

“The next day the reporter returned at lunch time.? The doctor eventually emerged from the operating theatre [sic] holding a fist-sized glass bottle stuffed with thumb-sized foetuses.

“She said: ‘there are 10 foetuses here, all aborted this morning.? You can take them.? We are a state hospital and don’t charge anything.

‘Normally, we doctors take them home to eat - all free.? Since you don’t look well, you can take them.’? ” ? [2]

From womb to tomb, human beings are unfortunately being referred to as nothing more than a resource, commodity, or contraceptive failure.? Those who believe in the Judeo-Christian ethic believe that human beings are special because God created them in His image and likeness with an immortal soul, free will and an intellect.? This is our constant and unconditional source of self-esteem, value and dignity.? May we pray and work to bring about a renewed appreciation of God’s greatest gifts — life, our fertility and children.


[1] “U.S. Population Growth and Family Planning: A Review of the Literature,” Memorandum to Bernard Bereleson, March 11, 1969, Family Planning Perspectives Special Supplement ? No. 1129, 10-70/30, 5.13, Planned Parenthood-World Population; 810 Seventh Avenue; New York, N.Y. 10019, p. xvi.

[2] “Embryonic Food Of Life” Eastern Express, Hong Kong, Apr. 12, 1995, p.17.