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1. One of the prin­ci­pal issues in the 2000 cam­paign has been “edu­ca­tion.” In Cal­i­for­nia, a bal­lot ini­tia­tive was placed before vot­ers that offered to pay fam­i­lies to send chil­dren to pri­vate school. This voucher ini­tia­tive, “Propo­si­tion 38,” was the brain­child of Tim Draper, a Cal­i­for­nia Repub­li­can. (The San Jose Mer­cury News; 10/19/2000; p.1A.) Although Mr. Emory does not impugn Draper’s char­ac­ter, it is impor­tant to note that (appear­ances to the con­trary notwith­stand­ing) Draper is the heir to a legacy that is the oppo­site of the image pro­jected in the arti­cle about Propo­si­tion 38.

2. The arti­cle stresses Draper’s alleged enthu­si­asm for multi-culturalism, the fabled “melt­ing pot” and a “level play­ing field” for all. (Ibid.; p. 22A.)

3. Excerpt­ing FTR-102, the broad­cast points out that the Draper fam­ily has a deep his­tor­i­cal involve­ment with fas­cism and doc­tri­naire racism. Draper’s grand­fa­ther, William H. Draper Jr., was heav­ily involved with pro­mot­ing invest­ment in Ger­many between the World Wars. (The Splen­did Blonde Beast: Money, Law and Geno­cide in the 20th Cen­tury; Christo­pher Simp­son; soft­cover edi­tion Com­mon Courage Press; copy­right 1995.) (For more on Amer­i­can cap­i­tal­iza­tion of Nazi Ger­many and fas­cist Italy, see also: RFA #‘s 1, 2, 10, Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Shows M-11, M-42, as well as FTR #‘s 29, 36, 37, 38, 99, 102, 114, 121, 186, 248.)

4. W.H. Draper Jr.‘s work on behalf of Ger­many was done while work­ing for a sub­sidiary of the invest­ment firm of Dil­lon, Read & Com­pany. (Idem.)

5. After the war, Draper (as a brigadier gen­eral) was one of the prin­ci­pal fig­ures in charge of the eco­nomic recon­struc­tion of Ger­many. (Idem.)

6. In that capac­ity, he saw to it that the same indus­tri­al­ists and financiers who had backed Hitler were retained in posi­tions of eco­nomic respon­si­bil­ity in the “new” Ger­many. (Idem.)

7. Next, the pro­gram dis­cusses the Pio­neer Fund, a pro-eugenics orga­ni­za­tion that was a major influ­ence on the eugen­ics think­ing and leg­is­la­tion of that period. (The Nazi Con­nec­tion: Eugen­ics, Amer­i­can Racism and Ger­man National Social­ism; Ste­fan Kuhl; hard­cover copy­right 1994; Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press.)

8. Wyck­liffe Draper (the cousin of William H. Draper Jr.) was the prin­ci­pal finan­cial backer of the Pio­neer Fund. (Idem.) As noted in other pro­grams, Amer­i­can eugeni­cists wielded a pro­found influ­ence on their Ger­man col­leagues and, in turn, the devel­op­ment of the Third Reich’s racial leg­is­la­tion. (See also: Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Shows M-12, M-60, M-62, as well as FTR #‘s 32A, 32B, 117, 124 and 140, 141.)

9. The Pio­neer Fund was a major influ­ence on the racist best­seller The Bell Curve.
(“The Fund­ing of the Sci­ence,” by Barry Mehler; The Search­light; 7/1998.)

10. The broad­cast con­cludes with a look at the col­lab­o­ra­tion of William H. Draper Jr. and George H.W. Bush in for­mu­lat­ing a pol­icy of “pop­u­la­tion con­trol” in the Third World. (Emerg­ing Viruses–AIDS & Ebola: Nature, Acci­dent or Inten­tional?; Dr. Leonard Horowitz; hard­cover copy­right 1996; Tetra­he­dron.) Pre­vi­ous dis­cus­sions of this book have high­lighted infor­ma­tion sug­gest­ing that this pol­icy led directly to a pro­gram of immu­niza­tion in Third World coun­tries that, in turn, led to the (prob­a­ble) devel­op­ment of AIDS. (See also: RFA-16, as well as FTR #‘s 4, 16, 17, 24, 25, 35, 55, 56, 62, 63, 73, 76, 132, 140, 144, 259.)