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."
I didn't write the article, just posted it as I felt it might interest the good folks at FR.
But if you can single out the enemies for us all . . .
I see many opportunities for dentists.
You are not the only one feeling apprehensive.
I have noticed a few news stories on the sudden rush to buy firearms. Apparently the gun shops are seeing record sales.
I suppose “fear of the unknown” is mostly the driving force but heck, what we do know doesn’t give me any warm-fuzzies either.
I have to admit, the hair is standing up on the back of my neck, too.
My guess is that all those things that the Dims have been raising Holy H@!! about; like domestic wiretaps, and secret military ops will be embraced by ZeroBama and used to wipe out his enemies.
As long as he doesn’t piss-off the MSM (I’m not holding my breath), we are in for a very un-civil, civil war.
Well, I must shuffle off to the gun store now. I just don’t know what else to do....pathetic, I know.
“I hope that’s ‘all’ there is to it...”
Blue, keep in mind also the re-institution of the “Fairness Doctrine” is coming: the suppression of the free speech of the loyal opposition.
Count me as concerned!
Economic blackmail by _______ (name country)?
Nope.
China.
That make sense. Also explains the hush.
I am not sure from where you think you can draw such a ‘simple’ conclusion but it ignores the law and the recent provisions of the FDIC.
The fact of the matter is there is no oversight set up to monitor the decisions regarding taxpayer’s money. Oversight, although written into law, is not yet assembled and therefore there is no accountability. The ‘emergency’ has blindsided the public and their elected officials. This is indeed unsettling as a minimum.
Unless you have some factual basis (you don’t) to back up your oversimplified post, I will add you to the pile of those that post ignorance and add to that problem.
Hitler? Or Stalin? Or worse?
Take the time to watch this video. We were warned about this.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov
We are not finished yet. We have four times more energy than the Saudis. We have 4x in the lower 48 in shale oil, coal diesel, and North Dakota oil. We also have in the Alaskan permafrost clean gas crystals (see Investors Business Daily editorial posted here yesterday). Frozen natural gas crystals of hydrate.
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=311472581618807
“Officials say the frozen gas accounts for 11.5% of the volume of known recoverable gas in the U.S. and could heat 100 million homes for a decade. The country currently uses 23 trillion cubic feet of gas a year for heating, agriculture and industrial uses, but will see demand rise 20% in the next decade, according to Energy Information Administration estimates.”
Thanks to Sarah pushing the pipeline, this fuel can be transported.
So we have the energy, the ability to grow more food than we can eat. This is all any country needs. Lower energy costs mean we can rebuild our manufacturing base. Dem policies have damaged this country. Look at O’s pals who are slumlord looting taxpayers and leaving AA people in misery.
We need to get criminal RATS voted out of office. Sadly we will have to wait until 2010.
If you have time, go to Leo’s web site and write a letter to SCOTUS - see samples under comments.
http://www.blogtext.org/naturalborncitizen/topic/8700.html
“”Call me a redneck, but I am proud to be one of those who cling to my gun and my religion. My prayers and my ability to shoot straight may be the only protection I’ll be able to offer my children in the coming dark days.””
Don’t be misled or baited by Hussein, he chose these words to berate his opposition very carefully. His idea is to undermine the opposition will by painting them as low-lifes. This is an age-old sneaking trick used since ancient times.
"You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste; it's an opportunity to do important things," -- Rahm Emmanuel
(Not criticizing you personally...)
This is a key part that concerns me. Way too many people on both sides are shouting "bring it on!!!", are looking for a fight, are looking for a "they started it!" reason. Too much like WWI sparked by Duke Ferdinand. Too much like WWII sparked by Reichstag and Krystallnacht. A lot of people, otherwise undirected, looking for a fight ... with a few very clever people in the right place at the right time ready to take world-conquering advantage of them. Some nut takes the first tiny step over the line, and all he11 breaks loose - because so many want it to.
There's a reason post-WWII USA was so uplifting and productive: people had just been reminded what a he11 war is. Unfortunately, seems it's time to repeat just to get it all thru peoples' heads again.
If you have a better idea, post it.
How much ignorance can a country stand? There have to be terrible consequences when it reaches a certain level. But what level? And with what consequences, exactly? The answers to these questions are unknowable. But can we doubt that if we persist on the path we are on that we shall, one day, perhaps not too far into the distant future, find out the answers?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.