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.
“I think he would sell his family to the devil so he can play god.”
Doesn’t he have a funeral to go to?
B.L.O.A.T.= Buy lots of ammo today.
Economic depression possible, says George Soros
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,27753,24650136-14334,00.html
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THAT’S HIS FONDEST WISH AND PURSUIT!
I’ve thought the same thing since all of this began to take shape. I shudder to think what could happen.
The first step to removing guns is registration.
Obama is about to receive the address of all legal gun owners.
Hope you inherited some.
The poster nails the great unease brewing in this country right now. I am praying for that birth certificate stuff to be true and to come out before Jan.20, 2009. It is the only hope this country has to avoid ruin by this meglomaniac and his socialist democrat minions in Congress.
I don’t know about you guys, but lately while out and about, I find myself wondering about total strangers. Like....’wonder if that is one of the fools that voted for our country’s ruin’, etc. Everyday, we hear more news that should tell anyone with brains that the man is truly dangerous to this country because his ideals border on pure communism.
Many well respected economists and Wall Street writers are encouraging Obama to come out and declare he will not raise taxes until this ‘crisis’ is over in order to settle the markets and allow liquidity to flow......YET HE REFUSES!! Why?
I have been ill since the election. Just that strange feeling in your gut. Uncertainty, pessimism, fear.
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Same here. I’m really scared.
Sorry to burst your bubble . Germany, indeed, distict of all the late comer nation states of Europe was The Nation of God. The HOLY Roman Empire. Words meant things back then. Germanys retardation as a “Nation State” was predicated upon the faith, or, if you prefer, the foolish notion of a single Christian State. That was Germanys “Constitution”. That America is different and that it can’t happen here is a false security.
A quote from my #24.
It was the mid-to-late 1980's that it was becoming apparent what was happening to the industrial base, not the 70's.
Yes, we have a constitution. But to what end? Have you read what is happening over at the Supreme Court with the Clerk and his shenanigans?
http://www.blogtext.org/naturalborncitizen/
We, the people, can’t seem to find out if our newly elected President is even eligible to be President.
There is now questions about his Selective Service registration.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131604/posts?q=1&;page=1
Apparently, there is an issue that seems to indicate it was filled out on a form that was not in existence.
Maybe this is like the falsified birth certificate issue.
And I saw today that when he was in Pakistan, he stayed with the person who is now President at the request of someone who know lives in South America who has remained nameless.
Think that has anything to do with the hubbub over Columbia that is taking place?
I guess we should be studying Soros and what his goal is.
“The frightening thing is that everything he says is true”
except the ‘goodies for the military industrial complex’. From what I can tell from Obama’s ‘platform’, he is planning on destroying our ‘military industrial complex’.
Ping!!!
This represents one educated opinion. Let’s hope and pray that the United States will somehow survive the coming of this potential disaster.
So what do we do? Several here have said to get prepared- stock up, move to the country, buy ammo, etc. The only other thing I can thing of at this point is to keep shining the light on the darkness. Spread this around. I just sent it to Drudge. Send it to anyone you trust on your email list. Keep harping on this subject on Free Republic and other internet sites while we still can.
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>I’ve seen this acronym several times lately but can’t figure it out. What exactly does BLOAT stand for? (I’m sure it’s perfectly obvious.)
BLOAT means (Buy Lots Of Ammo Today).
You’re welcome. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOX28GR9nbY
This is the song that was going through my head. Just replace the swastika with that Obama O sign with the sun coming over the horizon, and thats a group of Obama voters to a T.
I have been ill since the election.
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As have I ... just sick, at 6’s and
7’s .... fidgety ... praying... BUMP!
gun and ammo sales are up over 10%. Free America is arming itsself against the socialists. They should beware but the rats are so confident they are going to walk over us. Let them think it will be a cake walk. I envision shooting ducks at the carnival.
I understand how you feel on this, but know after 8 days of "what went wrong," I'm done Monday-morning-quarterbacking this and prepared to prepare.
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