by Bertram Lavine and Grande Lum
_America's Peacemakers_ serves as a revelatory account, a smoking gun that proves the top-down nature of American culture and the execution of plans by an organised minority, a secret government department, known as the [[Community Relations Service]] (CRS).
This was established under Title X of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While the Act was signed by Lyndon B Johnson, the plans to create the CRS predated the Act itself, with Johnson being instrumental in its inception during his time as a senator in the 1950s.
Key figures involved in bringing about the CRS included, Lyndon B. Johnson, Benjamin V. Cohen, renowned as the architect of the New Deal and a significant Zionist figure, Arthur Goldberg, who served on the U.S. Supreme Court, Arnold Aronson and Joseph Roar, who worked with the NAACP.
These individuals constituted the organised minority responsible for orchestrating the Civil Rights Act, working alongside figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.
Nature and Scope of the CRS
The CRS operates in a non-law enforcement capacity, specifically tasked with keeping the peace through mediation and conciliation in matters related to racial relations in America.
It possesses no authority to investigate, assign fault, or press charges, leaving these responsibilities to law enforcement agencies. Despite this, the organisation wields a far-reaching influence.
Crucially, the CRS functions with a confidentiality claim on par with the FBI. This is why it can be described as a secret agency. Virtually none of its agents' (called conciliators) actions are public record; Freedom of Information requests only yield basic details like travel receipts.
All official records are maintained for the Department of Justice and its internal reporting, but notes made by conciliators are systematically destroyed, and conciliators can, and have frequently, invoked their confidentiality privilege before Congress and the courts, meaning they are not obliged to disclose their activities.
This represents a significant lack of transparency. The CRS acts as a nudge unit or disaster response unit, intervening when civil rights issues - originally race, but now encompassing gender, sexuality, and other identity-related matters arise.
The CRS is self-consciously a pro-civil rights organisation, making no pretence of impartiality. It is explicitly established to enforce civil rights morality and exclusively acts in the interests of advancing the civil rights movement.
This includes promoting black representation, transgender youth visibility, and even assisting in the construction of mosques in Christian towns.
While initially a strictly racial organisation, its remit expanded significantly in 2009 with President Obama's Anti-Hate Crime Bill, which broadened the scope of civil rights into new areas, akin to the UK's Equality Act 2010. Notably, this bill was not blocked by Mitch McConnell and other political figures, unlike much of Obama's other legislative efforts.
Although its scope theoretically covers religion, in practice, the CRS primarily intervenes on behalf of religious groups with a visible racial minority, such as the Arab-American community, assisting with visibility and mosque construction.
The Playbook of the CRS: Controlling Narrative and Events
The fundamental purpose of the CRS, as admitted by author Bertram Lavine, was to prevent White backlash to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Immediately following its creation, the CRS began collaborating with groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to harass so-called lily-White towns.
This involved organising and executing large-scale demonstrations through coordination with local law enforcement, often bussing in protesters to "racist towns".
This aggressive project of forced integration, implemented in both the South and the North, would have been impossible without the CRS. For instance, CRS agents were directly involved in the Forced Integration of Catholic communities in Boston in the 1970s. In instances where White students were violently assaulted, CRS agents would immediately appear on the scene, not to offer physical aid, but to prevent White students from retaliating.
The early work of the CRS also encompassed extensive public relations and media campaigns. This included managing pivotal events such as the Selma protest led by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor People's Campaign.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the CRS developed its modern playbook for managing minority political causes in service of the prevailing regime, particularly in advertising, media, and news. This playbook involves strategies reminiscent of Edward Bernays' work, but executed by the federal government itself.
A key tactic of the CRS was to threaten local news stations with the revocation of their FCC licenses if they failed to comply with demands, such as immediately hiring black news anchors.
This was part of their initiative to "drive Jim Crow out of journalism". Additionally, they produced propaganda films featuring prominent figures like Bill Cosby, designed to facilitate the smooth integration of black individuals into previously White-only spaces.
Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of the CRS's mission from its very beginning has been coralling and controlling black protests and riots. For example, in 1965, they worked with militant black leaders like Reverend Franklin Florence, a student of Saul Alinsky, as part of a summer project.
The CRS's objective during this project was twofold:
- To prevent black riots from excessively enraging the White urban population.
- To hinder the nascent black separatist movement from gaining control of black opinion in America.
The CRS actively ensures that public figures like Martin Luther King Jr. are promoted, while movements like Malcolm X's, which advocated for black separatism, are suppressed.
Through a combination of propaganda, political manoeuvring, and cooperation with law enforcement, the CRS prevented White America from becoming enraged even when black rioters caused significant damage in cities during the summers of 1967 and 1972.
A critical tool in their arsenal is rumour control an information warfare operation that continues to be used today. This method involves capturing and debunking claims deemed "harmful to the regime".
In this context, rumour control was employed to manipulate local news media, downplaying the damage of riots and amplifying excuses from civil rights leaders who framed the destruction as mere violent outbursts resulting from black oppression.
This exact playbook was evident during Black Lives Matter protests, where the unrest was often characterised as mainly peaceful protests despite widespread chaos.
The CRS also used similar tactics to discredit radical Black separatists who sought to establish a separate Black nation, preventing Blacks from becoming either too violent (which would provoke White anger) or disinterested in racial integration.
The experiences gleaned from managing riots in the late 1960s and 1970s allowed the CRS to develop a fundamental playbook, refined through trial and error, which has been subsequently used for the astroturfing of Black Lives Matter and numerous other civil rights movements.
The CRS prefers to funnel black riots into "optically palatable movements" that are acceptable to both media and the public. For instance, they were responsible for stage-managing the entire Trayvon Martin affair, including parading the Martin family before Congress, carefully managing protests in Sanford, Florida, and training activists to create a perfect media spectacle.
It is undeniable that neither the civil rights movement nor Black Lives Matter would have achieved any significant influence without the CRS meticulously handling every aspect of logistics and public relations.
The CRS trains left-wing activists through a programme called "Marshall training," procures and coordinates supplies such as water and Jumbotrons, collaborates with local law enforcement, establishes protest march routes, and ensures media coverage aligns with desired optics.
This playbook has been deployed across America to manage and astroturf "spontaneous protests" supporting a wide range of Leftist political causes, including:
- Black Lives Matter (BLM).
- Pride events in small conservative towns
- Protests against Columbus Day
- Counter-demonstrations against the KKK
Beyond orchestrating protests, the CRS also works to downplay and cover up violent acts, and even murders. A prominent example is the brutal murder of Donald Gillasti in Lewiston, Maine.
The CRS activated to downplay any racial elements of the crime, ensuring local news reported it in a neutral manner to prevent public outrage or backlash, and crucially, to prevent public clamour against the mass importation of Somalis into the area. This demonstrates how racially motivated murders have been downplayed by the CRS for their political objectives.
The existence of the CRS, with its comprehensive playbook, reveals a deep-seated lack of genuine spontaneity in numerous American cultural and political movements. The contemporary woke culture is directly downstream of the Civil Rights Act and the subsequent expansion of its scope through legislation like the 2009 Anti-Hate Crime Bill.
The information now publicly available in _America's Peacemakers_ provides incontrovertible receipts demonstrating that much of what appears organic has, in fact, been meticulously planned and executed by this federal agency.
This challenges the perception of spontaneous social change and highlights the extent to which the civil rights regime has fundamentally reshaped American society.