A series of reports on the realities of foster care, family courts, and social service agencies ~ Part Two.
During the years 1933-1977 The North Carolina Eugenics Board gave it’s social workers unlimited power to have any person sterilized in Its Eugenics program. It’s estimated over 7,600 victims in North Carolina alone included rape victims, child abuse survivors, children who were caught masturbating or having pre-marital sex, children of mothers on welfare, a children in state boarding schools, institutions, or care.
This did not include California and Virginia, two of the thirty-one states that used Eugenics programs to control population. Each state sterilized more people than North Carolina but no program was more aggressive than North Carolina’s program.
Children or adults with a low IQ, mental disorder, or perceived mental issues were also subjected to sterilization. These people were also tortured with mental abuse terrors in mental hospitals with shock therapy, over medication, experimentation, and physical abuse.
Forced adoptions and child trafficking was the norm then, just as much as it is now. That much hasn’t changed and Child Protective agencies around the globe including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and much of the European nations, have adopted the same exact strategy to steal, kill, and destroy those they choose with their covert Eugenics programs aimed at making money and controlling the population through forced adoptions and abortions through Planned Parenthood Clinics who adamantly support the eugenics movement still in full swing.
“Wealthy businessmen, among them James Hanes, the hosiery magnate, and Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, drove the eugenics movement. They helped form the Human Betterment League of North Carolina in 1947, and found a sympathetic bureaucrat in Wallace Kuralt, the father of the television journalist Charles Kuralt.”
ReportedThe New York Times in the very emotional article, Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/us/redress-weighed-for-forced-sterilizations-in-north-carolina.html?pagewanted=all The paper further reported: “The board operated from 1933 to 1977 as an experiment in genetic engineering once considered a legitimate way to keep welfare rolls small, stop poverty and improve the gene pool.”
Although Eugenics isn’t a new concept, most people don’t want to realize it is still happening today and in full swing.Thousands of victims are made every single year through Child Protective Agencies in America alone. Family courts around the country give full consent to the issue by denying due process and giving full lateral control over to these criminals without care or cause for the family or children as was demonstrated in my first article: Child Welfare Agencies Nationwide Traffic ‘Adoptable’ Children Into Foster Care http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-san-jose/child-welfare-agencies-nationwide-traffic-adoptable-children-into-foster-care Psychotic killer Hitler took his cues from the California Eugenics program that lasted from 1909-1964 before he sterilized and murdered thousands upon thousands of Jews and anyone else he didn’t like. “Adolph Hitler was heavily influenced by California’s eugenics program, which set the foundation for what he termed racial hygiene, which led to the Holocaust. California was manipulating its own gene pool.” Reported CBS Sacramento in the very informative article: The Life Penalty: Sterilizing California http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/the-life-penalty-sterilizing-california/ The United States hasn’t changed much. Child Protective Services has an overreaching and uncontested grip on society that leaves anyone who enters its path adversely affected. Child Protective Services is feared but that reach is weakening with abolitionists fighting endlessly ‘for justice for all’, as the United States promises in its constitution and in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
Listen to what one Californian survivor, Kirsten Anderberg, said of California’s Child Protective Services wrote on the bottom of the above article. She wrote about two institutions in California that housed vulnerable children California is supposed to protect. I personally resided at both of these places as a foster child and can vouch for their criminality towards children. I was abused, tied down to a bed, and injected with Thorazine at Camarillo until I was finally shipped off to MacLaren Hall where I ran away from endless times.
This comment is especially hard for me to read as it brings back terrifying memories of my time spent there but validates my claims of abuse to all that will listen.
“I am very happy to see the first of 20,000 finally speak up on this issue. I was institutionalized in 1969 as an 8 yr old, in Los Angeles CA at McLaren Hall, a horrific institution packed with children mistreated by parents and the state. I have worked for decades now to try to get people to hear what we children experienced in Mac Hall to try to stop such maltreatment via the anonymous, never held accountable state of CA! I have talked to over 200 adults who were children in Mac Hall with HORRIFIC stories of abuse from the state. I, too, have asked the state for a personal and group apology for what they did to us in Mac Hall and received none.
The State of CA lifted the Statute of Limitations for the Catholic Priest scandal so those people could get reparations but getting the State of CA to lift the SOL’s on its OWN abuse to repay its OWN victims is a whole other ballgame. I wrote the first article, and then the first book ever written about MacLaren Hall (http://www.amazon.com/American-Protection-History-MacLaren-ebook/dp/B004JKMV0E) and the pictures on the cover and inside were found by me while earning my MA degree from CA State University.
Oddly, my archiving professor in college is the granddaughter of Mac Hall’s Santa during the 60′s and she gave me the photos in the book, and they are the first ever published of the inside of Mac Hall with the kids which are not from a newspaper such as the LATImes archives.
I went to college to be able to better verbalize my strife over no one listening about Mac Hall, very similar to what Charles is experiencing, and got my MA degree in History and Archiving in Dec 2010 with a 3.86 GPA and my entire focus was on Institutional History of CA.
In my research, I found out Mac Hall was run not by dept of social services or CPS but rather by the Probation Dept, and hired jail guards to run it, which explained a lot. My research re Mac Hall, led me to Camarillo State Mental Hospital. Though I am still in shock from what I saw as an 8 yr old in Mac Hall, which was open from the 1940′s until May 2003 and had 4,000 children a year during the 60′s, I am in more alarm over what happened at Camarillo State, which held 7,000 patients at a time in the 50′s and 60′s. People would raid Mac Hall in the middle of the night for kids to take over to Camarillo State’s Children’s Unit, which was much worse than Mac Hall. There is a connection between all of these institutions and their past of severe human rights abuse.
When I heard Charles Follett say basically that his mother was committed to an institution for alcoholism by his father who was always fighting with her and he eventually became institutionalized due to basically being a living orphan, which is what I was/am, (parents not dead but not being parents – living orphans and most in child protection institutions/orphanages throughout history have had living parents, by the way) and then he said he believes he was sterilized as eugenics, which is something CA did…that all plays into the exact pattern I have seen regarding Camarillo State and women. I wrote a book about 23 women who were committed to Camarillo State and for what. It really was an eye-opener for me to learn how these women were committed, mostly by men, fathers, husbands, bosses…
So little is written about these things, I am glad Charles stood up and spoke out as I began speaking out about these institutions, CA’s past, human rights, and these institutions in my 30′s so I may live to at least see personal apologies but I am not holding my breath. I think at the very least the State of CA owes all of us who were institutionalized in its systems as minors a Carte Blanche re paid therapy for us to come to terms with what we saw and experienced.
By far the most traumatic thing I have ever witnessed or experienced was MacLaren Hall at age 8. I have still not come to terms with it at age 51. Children were sterilized in Mac Hall and Camarillo State too. For the same reasons, to stop a genetic line. Eugenics.
The mental experimentation that took place on minors and adults in Camarillo State Hospital which was open from the 1940′s until 1997, is akin to Nazi mental experimentation, there is no way to rebut that truth.
Lobotomies should never have occurred, and when the AMA saw what that lunatic was doing, some doctors fainted, and his license was immediately revoked, but not until something like 40,000 people had ice picks shoved up their eyelids into their cortex as experimentation by this nut. What happened in these institutions was most certainly EXPERIMENTATION ON HUMANS. In America, in CA, in my life time. And I hope before I die I see some sort of reparations set up for survivors of CA’s institutional past, not to mention some guarantee they are not still abusing people shut away in these places…
You can read more of my work on institutional history on my website at http://www.kirstenanderberg.com. I have devoted my life to trying to get people to hear what went on in CA’s institutions so that it will not continue to happen or happen again.
I am haunted by what I saw and feel I cannot die with that secret. It must be ousted and I applaud Charles courage in coming out with this horribly hard topic which has affected so many in CA’s history. So many of us still living with the wounds inflicted by the State of CA to date, and them, with all that past of human experimentation, genetic cleansing programs of eugenics, etc…they pretend it is just fine. It is not fine. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, actually, are walking around with damages directly caused by the State of CA and they are SILENT AS LAMBS on the topic. It is shameful and I will continue this fight to get light into this dark place my entire life.”
This very strong testimony by a very brave and strong survivor is not only chilling, it is terrifying. Child Protective Services is most certainly linked to Eugenics programs in the United States and is still going strong today.
We as a people must stand against this evil. We must move forward to a country that truly has, Justice for All! Not just for those criminals in Child Protective Services who pretend to protect children when in reality they are heartless criminals!
Family is the most important asset a child can have and child protective services and family courts are guilty of human rights abuse crimes against children and humanity! The proof is in the pudding and the pudding stinks!
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