Posted on 11/14/2008 6:32:48 AM PST by freedom9
"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."
No, as I understand old/new testament prophecy, the anti christ might/must be Jewish. If the nation of Israel is to accept him as the promised messiah he must be a Jew. The false prophet, AntiC’s chief aide, as you call him, is a religious leader but prophecy doesn't make it clear which religion. So say it's the Roman Pope.
If you'll allow me, here's the scenario I see happening very soon, some is scripture but some is my own guesstimation:
1) Israel will have to destroy the Iranian nuclear works, soon.
2)Iran/Arabs will be humiliated.
3)Iran will provoke Syria to do something to retaliate (take a look at Syria's Asad, he's a clueless doofuss)and Syria will take the bait. I believe Israel will be hit hard and maybe thousands die.
4)Israel will not allow thousands of their citizens to die without retaliation and will nuke Damascus. See Isaiah 17:1 — The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap
Damascus is famous for being the world's oldest city. Therefore, it is obvious we have an unfulfilled prophecy here. Another thing is immediately obvious as well: this prophecy is telling us that Damascus will be nuked, as nukes are the only way in modern times that a city would become a ruinous heap and cease from being a city
5)The world will be in shock and there will be a cry for peace, at any price.
6)A man comes on the scene who puts together a peace plan, seemingly a brilliant plan. This is the beginning of the seven year tribulation.
6)Israel must disarm and most likely the Muslims also agree to disarm but they won't. Unfortunately Israel, stinging from worldwide condemnation, will seek peace at any price.
7)This seemingly brilliant man who makes old enemies agree to peace, guarantees Israel's safety in the seven year peace plan. Possibly a side agreement is, to allow Israel to rebuild their temple and resume temple worship.
8)Within a short time (months)Israel is attacked. see Ezekiel, Chapter 38. The war of gog/magog, where some of the enemies of Israel are listed (Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them. Who is Persia? Today it's called Iran....wow!
8)Israel sees a massive force of muzlims, maybe lead by Russia, advancing on them. Israel knows it's about to be destroyed because the world does nothing to help. However, GOD has brought Israel back from the graveyard of nations and will never allow Israel to be destroyed. These attacking armies are supernaturally destroyed as Israel turns to the GOD of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for their salvation from this huge force.
Seeing some of the players on the world stage right now, I think 1-4 will happen soon. The rest is just a guess but I'm no prophet.
Good article, but two glaring errors.
1. Hitler was not a German, he was an outsider from Austria.
2. Churchill was seated in the House of Commons, not Lords. He was not a Peer at that time.
I also found a primer from the historical, and on-going, communist infiltration of our society; “The Soviet Art of Brainwashing” by Kenneth Goff. http://tinyurl.com/65stxw
A chillingly prescient quote from the Forward written by Beria is:
“Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil.”
I doubt anyone will disagree that all four of those aims are now in full bloom.
God help us all.
VERY delusional! Virtually half the country suffers from a PROFOUND mental health crisis!
If you watch one episode of Jay Leno’s jaywalkers you can tell we’re on the fast track to the end times!
One of the best posts I’ve read in months, bar none!
Christians need to start with the lexicon. We’re being PULVERIZED here!
Start with correcting anyone and everyone with
LIBERATION of Iraq!
Not war
not occupation
not invasion.
We’re not nazi Germany no matter how many times Ayers and zero say it!
And also:
Embracing Jesus is NOT a hate crime!
I think we should begin saying this everytime the homosexuals asseert such a thing, and then some!
We are living in an upside down world; and apparently it is unnoticed by and large.
HATE CRIMES... the ones calling it hate crimes are the haters; but is it disregarded as the nonsense it is?
PROFILING ... it does not matter the crime ... the call is made that it is unfair ...LE profiling to arrest speeders... IE... why is it that only speeders are ticketed? Because they were the ones speeding. Our common sense has been over ridden by convoluted thinking. It was the manner in which we brought change about ... letting the tyranny of the minority rule .
This has resulted in insanity (my opinion.) The scary truth is that it is self perpetuating. Name any area
Crime, Law, Government, Politics, Education, Schools,Property Rights, Voting,Army ... for example ... lawyers make decisions about whether or not to bomb targets.
(God help us, please, we are in peril. Let not the evil of this time overpower and enslave Your people. Forgive us our sins, and have mercy on America. Thank You for Your Word ... the Truth and the Light. You are Holy, Holy, Holy. In Jesus name I pray. Amen
This security force would not be subject to the Posse Comitatus Act. So who is this force to be used against? You don't even have to guess.
The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement.
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) in the former Confederate states.The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement.
“I don’t see that many paralells with Post WWI Germany. The analogy just doesn’t hang together.”
History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.
HUGE political rallies with the messiah stepping forth to save us, anyone? HUGE financial crisis?
A democracy in its death throes?
Germany’s financial crisis was much larger than our current problems. It resembled modern Zimbabwe, in my opinion. A wheelbarrow full of deutschmarks to buy a loaf of bread, that kind of crisis.
BTTT
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