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Show western A CONSERVATIVE SPEAKS OUT PAGE 8 AAArAA:ArAAArAA:ArArArA"AAArA-AA:AAAArArAArAArAArA"AAArAArAA'A"A'- A The A A AAnr LnJ At maicm Dedicated-T- Independent The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth ArAArA'AA'A'A'AArAA'A'ArAA'A'ArAA'A'ArAAArA'A'A'ArAArA'ArAAArArAA-A'ArA'A'A'AVol. 8, No. 32 - c 25C Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 August 88 1.1, 19 3 $ w Z JUNIOR PARTNERS Part 5 The two major New York financial institutions not clearly in either the Morgan or Rockefeller camps are the Prudential Insurance Company, with assets of n, over the largest insurance company; and the Manufacturer's Hanover Trust, the third biggest New York wholesale bank. These two giants each have a group of corporations they control. Prudential Insurance controls, among others, the two major New Jersey banks. Public Service Gas and Electric, the New and Jersey utility monopoly conEnglehardt Industries, which trols much of the lucrative mining industry in South Africa, Zambia, Congo and other countries. $26-billio- Manufacturer's Hanover Trust controls Union Carbide, the WHO biggest chemical corporation, Chrysler Corporation and the Continental Insurance Companies. Radio Corporation of America, the biggest electronics monopoly and owner of NBC, had a director from both Prudential Insurance and Manufacturer's Hanover Trust. Prudential and Manufacturers Hanover Trust do not have any directors in common, but the New Jersey banks under Prudentials controlare tightly interlocked with Continental Insurance, which is under the control of Manufacturers Hanover Trust. This, their joint control of RCA, plus other REALLY RULES lil mon with the Morgan group. In a number of key corporations this group shares control with the Rockefeller group in a situation. These with jointly held corporations include interlocking unity-strugg- le Metropolitan Life, and its Con- Bethlehem Steel, the number two tinental Insurance interlocks with steel company; and the Electric Bond and Share, an important Chase Manhattan. Prudential Insurance is closer to the Morgan imperialist utility holding circle; it has a director in common corporation. The group operates with Morgan Guaranty Trust, jointly with the Morgan and Bankers Trust, Brown Brothers, Rockefeller groups in the imAmerican Harriman and the Lehman portant imperialist Corporation. But Prudential also Express Company. The roots of the Boston group links with First National City Bank in the Rockefeller camp, while go back to mercantile capitalism Manufacturers Hanover Trust and the slave trade, where some of interlock and joint ventures, seems interlocks with Morgans Atlantic the families got their start. From to indicate at least an alliance, if Mutual. Altogether the group has slavery to mercantile capitalism to to not a group headed by these two. three director's in common with the manufacturing monopoly This group is very closely Rockefeller group and five in com capitalism and modern imperialism, some of the same Bos- -. ton families travelled the road together; each generation varied, the form of piracy. To protect themselves from rapacious newcomers like Rockefeller or J. P. Morgan, a group of Boston families, headed by the Cabots, banded together around the key Boston banks. They built a powerful financial empire that drew from a big reservoir of financial capital and gained control of a large nubmer of corporations all over the country and even such big as the concerns imperialist notorious United Fruit Co. The core of this group are four big Boston banks and four big insurance comMassachusetts panies. The major bank is the First National Bank of Boston with Continued on page 6 Reprinted with permission from A Parents Case Against Porn Supplement to the Catholic League Newsletter. July, 1977 by William A. Stanmeyer UTAH INDEPENDENT 57 Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Second Claes Postags Pdd at Halt - t 4 Lcfca City, Utah Pornography degrades social values and exploits the individual. Pornography exploits. Pornography is exploitation. Pornography teaches exploitation. Yet we have otherwise serious lawyers and writers urging that society have no laws to protect its citizens from the harm that a vast majority of citizens correctly perceive will flow from the pornographic flood. Presumably this defense of moral pollution stems from misunderstanding what pornography is, or blindness to the harm it does, or mistake as to the impact control will have on freedom of speech, or confusion as to laws legitimate role in protecting public morality. The public wants the law to restrain pornography. Most intellectuals do not. The purpose of this article is to remind the intellectuals why the public is right. In a Feb. 26th article about children in pornographic films, The. National Observer quoted a description of such a movie: The film shows the First Com, munion of five girls. A motorcycle gang comes in and crucifies the priest in a very bloody way, (and then) they rape the five girls. This summary scarcely captures the films savagery or suggests its emotive impact. It does not give the blood and gore up close. It omits the fright and shame of the children, the leer of the attackers, the details of violence against a tortured man and defiled little girls. Indeed, a detailed account of the film would doubtless be obscene; readers would be outraged, saying, He didnt have to say all that to make his point. Exactly. Neither did the film producer. In defining obscenity, the Supreme ... Court has said that the basic guidelines are (a) whether the average person applying contemporary community standards, 'would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prprient interest; (b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and (c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. This is a definition, a workable one, as precise as such phrases as due process, the public interest, or reasonable man standards the law uses daily. Some writers insist such a definition will bring repression of Shakespeare or the Bible. This view suggests there is no difference between art and trash and it says a good deal about their critical faculties and disdain for the publics common sense, not to mention their unfamiliarity with Shakespeare and the Bible. A Degrading Picture Pornography debases sex. It reduces the protagonist to a chemical urge and his foil to a function or an organ. She becomes a chattel, a robot, a toy for a moments fun. As I). H. Lawrence wrote in Sex, Lilcr-atur- e Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. . . . The insult to the human body, the insult to a vital human relationship! Ugly and cheap they make the human nudity, ugly and degraded they make the sexual act, trivia and cheap and nasty. Contrary to what its purveyors say, telling the truth pornography is not , 3 a: AMERICA? related to both the Morgan and Rockefeller camps, and is kind of a junior partner to both groups. Manufacturer's Hanover Trust is related more to the Rockefeller circle, nI THE EAST 48 and Censorship: about sex. Just the opposite. It says: About sex there is nothing private, noble, or personal. It robs man of his dignity. Its message is: Man is garbage. Obscenity presents a graphic, degrading picture of human life and invites the viewer to wallow in it. It plunges him into imaginative preoccupation with autoerotic fantasies wherein he entertains himself by violently and-o- r sexually feeding, vicariously, on the helplessness or willing vulnerability of a animal. would have us believe the only real harm the law can guard against is direct, immediate, and physical. This unconscious positivism blinds them to other real harms psythat canchological, altitudinal, moral not be calibrated but do deeply affect individual lives and, collectively, can debase the citizenrys spiritual environment. To say that a book, magazine, or play never corrupted anyone is to say that reading or watching a play never improved anyone. Irving Kristol has pointed out what a curious position this is for college professors: Denying that education can improve anyone, they deny the reason for their own professional lives. Pornography educates. It teaches: Human beings are mere animals the highest value is immediate pleasure . . . other people may be used and then discarded. Civil libertarians ... When mingled with violence, pornography depicts the protagonist harming for the sake of harming . . . and enjoying it. Why would anyone want to watch a violent sacrilege such as the crucifixion of a Continued on page 7 .. |