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other prisons in the federal system and begin introducing modification will backfire against the behavior modifier.
other prisoners and prison staff members to the basics of Man's suppressed humanity will creep through. On
establishing such a program in their facility. He is told
that his release will be pushed for and some help given November 30, 1969, the Asklepieion program at Marion
him in finding a position in society doing these familiar was temporarily terminated. Why? One of the parthings
to others of the social order's disadvantaged ticipants, a homosexual, "worked himself up into a
people and the Group's founder and supporters in murderous rage which culminated in the fatal stabbing
government. He now gets to indoctrinate and subject
newcomers into the Mysteries of the Group and is held of a program member in the dining room."[56] It is up to
up as a Model Image to them; and like a good attack-dog the socialist movement to direct this "rage" which is
he is graded and evaluated on his demonstrated capacity no more than human consciousness crying to be released
and willingness to go for the vulnerable points of any from its tormenting hell -- against the real villains, the
victim placed before him .... (54) Rockefellers, Mellons and their CIA employees who
This is not the product of paranoid prisoners with an attempted to destroy him. In this way the walls of selfax
to grind. This entire process is spelled out, only in imprisonment will be broken down; the neurotic egojargon
terms, in a paper written by Dr. Groder, the state upon which behavior modification/brainwashingis
program's director, entitled "Asklepieion -- An Ef- based will be superseded by the socialist identity of selffective
Treatment Method for Incarcerated Character consciousness.
Disorders." There Groder demonstrates his basic grasp
of the principles of psychological warfare which he II. PSYCHOLOGY: THE COUNTERINSURGENT
unleashes upon the Marion prisoners. He writes: WEAPON
"...carefid watch must be made of not too repetitiously
using the same set of methods, as there is an inherent Psychological warfare techniques aimed at non-ruling
tendencyjbr any method to be subverted as soon as it is class layers of the population are about as old as
clear how it works." (emphasis added)J55] With this humanity itself. Punishment and torture, today called
insight in mind, Groder has developed a mix of aversion therapy, have been used as behavioral
chemotherapy, attack therapy, transactional analysis, deterrents or shapers by barbarian chieftans and feudal
Primal Therapy and any other approach which might lords alike to preserve and consolidate their power.
pragmatically work. Even thousands of years ago, it was not the techniques
Like any "successful" program, Asklepieion will soon per se, but their conscious application as divide-andmove
out of its pilot project stage. Scheduled to open conquer tools which aided the ruling classes. No matter
shortly near Butner, North Carolina, is a new federal how anti-human a particular technique or "therapeutic"
institution, the Federal Center for Correction Research, approach may be -- even psychosurgery or ECT -- it is
built at a cost of $13.5 million. A handout from the not in itself counterinsurgency. Counterinsurgency
Bureau of Prisons says it will be a "unique facility in the cannot proceed merely on horrors; it requires conscious
federal correctional system." Its director is Dr. Martin and systematic application by the ruling class, or its
Groder. dupes. Exactly this was accomplished by the conversion
The Butner program is divided into two component of psychology and psychiatry in the 1930's. Mechanistic
parts: a "therapeutic" program and a "research" psychology--human consciousness relegated to
program. Transactional analysis and attack-group elementary"particles" or "existences" -- when elevated
therapy methods will be central to the program. Groder to a replicable system was finally fit to serve as a key part
has publicly stated that aversion therapy will be used (he of a counterinsurgency apparatus.
qualifies it by claiming that only "minor things with This first massive application of psychology as a
aversive conditioning" will be attempted). He does not conscious weapon took place, not surprisingly, in Nazi
deny the use of electroshock. He has also stated that Germany.* In particular, recall the theory of eugenics --
"vocational" training, based on the military model, will which played upon the most backward "Aryan"
be central to the treatment and will "complement the
group therapy." Program participants will be selected * psychological The depression techniques. era gave Almost birth toall thethese vast techniques bulk of coercive were.
via computer printout, developed or refined in overtly fascist or near-fascist countries.
For example, psychosurgery was picked up and begun to be
• * * applied massively by a butcher names Egas Moniz in Portugal in
2936. ECJ- was refined for general application by Ugo Carletti in
1938 in Rome; Croup Dynamics, particularly in the form of the
But there are a few hitches to Rockefeller's 1984 plans. "leaderless group," was employed by the Nazis to select the
In the end, the psychotic rage induced by behavior most able slave laborers.