Posted on 11/13/2008 6:50:52 PM PST by STARWISE
A reader comment over at Dollard's place nails it.
(http://patdollard.com/)
Plain and simple .... and true. This is what I see. I wish I had written it. (hat tip mg)
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I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life.
I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.
Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms.
That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the 700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders.
Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving.
Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.
Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman.
Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?.
We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke
I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about)–the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.
It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska.
All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary
(Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more imporant.)
Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change.
Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life.
In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing.
What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises.
Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression].
Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think.
How did he get the people on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex.
He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media–did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for.
(Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)
Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of.
When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years–a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency–it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course.
The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.
Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe–and why I believe it.
I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.
The Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the OSI [Soros' Open Society Institute] on May 12 [2004] hosted Bernardine Dohrn [wife of Obama asociate Bill Ayers], another former member of the Weather Underground who once expressed solidarity with mass murderer Charles Manson, at a forum on criminal justice issues. Speaking to a Weather Underground "war council" in Michigan in 1969, Dohrn gave a three-fingered "fork salute" to Manson. As noted by Ami Naramor of The Claremont Institute, "Calling Manson's victims the 'Tate Eight,' Dohrn gloated over the fact that actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time, had been stabbed with a fork in her womb. 'Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild!'"
Dohrn, now an associate professor and director at Northwestern University's Children and Justice Center, was a member of the advisory committee of the "children's rights watch" project of Human Rights Watch, funded by Soros.
Not coincidentally, the drug culture has embraced the Weather Underground. High Times magazine has called David Gilbert, a Weather Underground member now in prison, an "anti-imperialist political prisoner" and has hailed his book, No Surrender. High Times says Gilbert works behind bars for "prisoners' rights" – a favorite cause of Soros. -------- "The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power ," By Cliff Kincaid . AIM, October 27, 2004
Good for you with your kids’ training.
Survival ..... #1 goal.
“I have been ill since the election.”
Me, too. Stopped tossing my cookies around noon on Wednesday. Since then, perpetual butterflies in my stomach. Just when I thought things were settling down, I listened to Mark Levin — I think it was yesterday — and was even more terrified than just after the election.
“God will bring us back from this,...”
Not necessarily. I pray you’re right, but God will take only so much before He’s had enough. America has turned its back on Him for so long now!
Cliff Kincaid is one of the few true investigative reporters left in this country! He has done some awesome work. Frontpage also has alot of info on Soros. Thanks for the snipet. I have a Soro’s file I started years ago that I will put this little ditty in.
Excuse me... isn’t there some sort of Colombian trade agreement that Obama has been opposing?
Can you tell me how this might ‘fits in’ to Soro’s plans — so to speak?
Any ideas?
Thanks.
STE=Q
Ayers and Dohrn are already feeling home free
enough to correct Snowbama’s “guy who lives
in neighborhood” comment and appear on ABC’s
Good Morning America tomorrow!
Can you fathom the chutzpah .. the inside
knowledge it must take for them to be
comfortably subversive ???
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Bill Ayers Comes Clean— Corrects Obama: “We Are Family Friends”
“This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood who’s a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from... The notion that somehow that by me knowing someone who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old somehow reflects on my values doesn’t make much sense, George.”
*snip*
But today Bill Ayers set set the record straight.
The Chicago Tribune reported:
In a new afterword to his memoir, 1960s radical William Ayers describes himself as a “family friend” of President-elect Barack Obama and writes that the campaign controversy over their relationship was an effort by Obama’s political enemies to “deepen a dishonest narrative” about the candidate.
Ayers describes phone threats and hate e-mail he received during the campaign, and he bemoans Obama’s guilt by association.
During the campaign, Ayers’ friendship with Obama was a favorite subject of conservative bloggers and talk show hosts who insisted the two were closer than the candidate was admitting. Ayers’ new description of the relationship seems to contradict Obama’s statements.
** Ayers also confessed that he was involved with Obama’s early political career.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
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William Ayers to talk to ABC News
ABC News said today it has landed William Ayers’ first TV interview since the former 1960s radical’s connections to President-elect Barack Obama became a campaign controversy.
Ayers is set to talk to ABC’s Chris Cuomo live on Friday’s “Good Morning America.”
The interview, tied to a re-issue of the University of Illinois at Chicago professor’s 2001 memoir, “Fugitive Days,” is currently scheduled for the show’s first half-hour from “GMA’s” studios in New York’s Times Square, a network spokeswoman said.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/11/william-ayers-t.html
Pray. Glenn Beck today spent a lot of time on preparation of the family. In terms of business, no orders. waiting to see O’s plan. We get orders from large companies.
"...that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."
Matthew 5:45
I don’t know what Ayers thinks the qualifier “family” adds to or modifies in “friends” — does he mean that his wife Bernadine Dohnr is closer to the Obamas than HE is??
Otherwise, what’s the point of adding “family” to “friends”..... he and Barack Obama are/were FRIENDS, period.
Therefore, the person who did most to further a “dishonest narrative” was Barack Obama, who lied and pretended that Ayers is “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood”....
Everyone has plenty of guys and gals who live in their neighborhood with whom they do not sit on multiple left-wing boards, doling out millions of dollars to left-wing causes..... squandering $100+ million on left-wing “education” projects when there are REAL massive problems in the Chicago school system which go unaddressed.
No, the liars who are furthering dishonest narratives are Barack Obama and his terrorist pals William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, plus all the Mediascum who have covered up for the Obamanation.
Thanks for the ping!
TO ALL: Started reading the book Atlas Shrugged, it is a chilling prophecy.
Also, Please watch this video at least once, preferably twice and save it. THE KGB AND BRAINWASHING OF THE WEST. http://www.fhu.com/kgb-brainwashing-video.html
The first of many Obama lies to be revealed in the coming days. This just goes to show you that the birth certificate stuff has merit. If I were Berg, I would use this revelation as evidence and standing that the man is a LIAR!!
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