Watching History Unfold: The Berlin Wall, 9/11 and a Fraudulent Joe Biden Victory

Flopping Aces ^ | 12-11-20 | Vince

[Starman417]

History is usually written long after historical events played themselves out in real life. It’s rare, but not uncommon, to understand the gravity of historical events as they are actually happening.

For example, I was in the Army and stationed in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down in November of 1989. It was of course news where we were, but I don’t think many of us in Rheinberg really understood that the epochal event of our generation was playing itself out only a few hundred miles away. We look back at it today as the touchstone that it is… the beginning of the death knell and collapse of the Soviet Union. But at the time most of us didn’t recognize it as such.

That’s likely because for all of my life, and most of my parents’ lives the Soviet Union was the grand villain, the ubiquitous enemy, a fount of evil that simply was. It was the perpetual enemy to be feared above all else and it was the reason I and hundreds of thousands of others spent weeks, months or years training to counter-attacks coming from Poland or East Germany or the Soviet Union itself.

In an environment where the Soviets being enemies was as natural as gravity, it was hard to see the fall of the Wall changing the world. But it did. September 11 was something different altogether. Most of the country was going about its normal business that morning, another mundane Tuesday that didn’t look to be particularly different from any other… Then the first plane hit. It was a stunning event, but for a moment we thought that it was a tragedy of an accident. The kind of bad thing that sometimes happens. The moment the second plane hit everyone in America knew something was going on, we were being attacked and that in one form or another, we were at war with someone.

In short order Americans found out that this was a new, non-traditional enemy that would use brutal tactics to achieve its goal of our destruction. When those two buildings, those two signs of American strength and prosperity came down, we knew the world had changed.

And now we sit here two decades later, and we are at a point in history no less important than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the attack on the Twin Towers. When the Soviets or the Islamic terrorists were the enemy we understood exactly what was at stake: our nation and our culture. Today, both of those things are in peril, but in a far more pernicious way.

The danger today strikes at the very foundation of our Republic, and indeed the Republic itself.

Most Americans don’t quite recognize that the exercise of the various God given rights we enjoy is not protected by the 231-year-old document displayed in the National Archives, but rather by the fact that most Americans choose to respect the government and institutions that have been built on that document’s words. While the police and other government officials play a role in dealing with outliers, for the most part Americans pay their taxes, obey the law and avoid confrontations with their neighbors voluntarily. They understand they are part of neighborhoods, communities and a country based on laws that find their foundation (mostly) in the Constitution and values that find their inspiration in the Declaration of Independence.

Americans follow the rules not because of stormtroopers stationed on every corner enforcing diktats from above, but because the Constitution gives them a say in their government and their leaders. As such, even though Americans generally have a negative perception of Congress (18% approval rating) they remain engaged because every two years they have an opportunity to “throw the bums out!” And while they almost never actually do that, Americans feel like they have a say.

But what happens when citizens feel like their right to have a say is gone? What happens when citizens who already have a dim view of government in general have to sit by helplessly as they watch widespread fraud steal that right to say out from under them? What happens when citizens go to bed with one candidate comfortably ahead only to discover in the morning that in a nation with over 3,000 counties the mysterious midnight machinations of a dozen counties flip the election to the other guy? Particularly when data suggests that such an outcome is less likely than finding life on Mars.

When citizens no longer feel like they have a say in their government, when they feel like their government has been stolen right out from in front of them, they no longer feel an obligation to live their lives by the framework laid out in the Constitution.

[rktman]

Speaking of the Berlin wall, I just replied to libertylover with this from my past since I mentioned having gone into East Berlin:

My dad was career Navy and stationed in London ‘61-’63. During the Thanksgiving break(’62) my mom and I took a tour of Germany and visited several cities. One was Berlin which we took a train to. On one of the days we took a bus tour that included a trip into East Berlin through Check Point Charlie. We were stopped on the east side and boarded by the east German guards checking papers. Being a young blonde kid they beelined to me to see my papers. My mom was sitting near the front of the bus and was a little freaked out. LOL! Still yuge mounds of debris from WW II everywhere in ‘62. I have a picture someplace of a nazi eagle laying near a pile of debris. The sort you see in the movies on the peak of a building. Also a packet of “souvenir pictures” of various scenes around the division of the city. Very few vehicles on the street. Very few folks out and about. Dark and dismal from what I remember. The whole thing was surreal to what I had known until that point. Back on the West side, things were booming. We drove along portions of the wall and buildings that became part of the wall with all windows facing the West bricked up on every floor. Never thought at the time we would be looking at the fidiots here thinking they want govt control of EVERYTHING. Sad dang situation. I recommend against it.

[Liz]

Americans follow the rules not because of stormtroopers enforcing diktats from tin pot dictators,
but because the US Constitution gives them a say in their government and their leaders.

America happened b/c its founders had lived under a hateful monarchy which ruled by "divine right."

Out of that came "govt by consent of the governed."

It now seems we are relegated to being a Third World banana republic forced into servitude by self-serving politicians (who head Crime Families all lined up to slobber at the pubic trough, all bent on getting rich quick).

What's next? A military junta marching in our streets ready to attack should we “dare to get out of line?”? 12/11

[alternatives?]

Thanks for posting your story. When the wall came down, there were East Germans who crossed into the west for the first time and started crying when they went into a grocery store and saw the racks were filled. They knew they had been lied to for years.

[rktman]

Well if you listen to certain segments that have been making threatening comments lately................ Feel bad for the grands and great grands.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

The middle class in this country is like the wildebeest. We just exist for the preditors or elites to feed off of.

[Bratch]

Wait until our “duly elected representatives” vote to confiscate all 401K’s and pension plans.

And they will.

[Vaduz]

But what happens when citizens feel like their right to have a say is gone?

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[Fester Chugabrew]

The fraudulent Joe Biden Victory is not a thing yet. Still unfolding. Without question, however, it is a marked point in general. For a more wholesome perspective, consider Who holds all of history through the ages as if it were but a small blip.

[Big Red Badger]

He’s got the
Whole World
In His Hands,,,

[Bonemaker]

Check out the trailer for the movie "Funeral in Berlin" with Michael Caine, 1966. It gives a good sense of the atmosphere at the time. I was stationed in West Berlin from '66 to '69 and experienced the whole thing first hand. Never forget it.

[rktman]

Yup. Went to Hamburg in early ‘68 when we ported there on our Med North Atlantic deployment. We took a side trip to the fence. Still commie s**t hole on the other side of the wire. Guard towers etc. Was the Rizi bar still in operation in Berlin then? I think that was the name of the place with table to table phones. I used to have a chart of the tables at one time as a souvenir. I still have a map of Berlin from back then depicting the wall. I had it laminated since it had started to fall apart.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I’m sure we could point to other historic events in this manner as well. At the time it happened, in 1955, nobody would have predicted that Rosa Parks being arrested on a bus,would lead to the rise of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

The traitorous Democratic Party needs to be shut down. Maybe the Republican Party too.

[Bonemaker]

Oh yeah...remember it well! The Resi Bar was kind of the hook up place to end all hook up places in the 60’s! German women drop dead gorgeous and knew how to dress. Table to table phones and I think pneumatic tubes for notes. Very retro to the 30’s when Berlin was a rather...shall we say.. debauched city (It was in the 60’s and probably still is today!)😎

[rktman]

Thanks. I was pretty sure . As I was on the youngish side and my mom was with me we just had something to eat and drink. IIRC. Crazy stuff. Glad I lived it.