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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."
“And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.” 1 Samuel 8:18
As we suggested on another thread we believe the One should appoint David Copperfield as head of the FCC with a mandate to keep the mass delusion going. And we need to assure that all get free schooling no matter how worthless it is because they’ll need to learn how to run an economy in which everyone depends upon government largesse and there is no productive work in the private sector. To learn how to do that will be real “change.”
12/21/12 not 12/23/12 You will be here alone if it happens on your date LOL
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Yes, sadly, it is a recurring adjustment, brought about, IMO, by a well-fed generation with comfortable lives.
This is exactly right:
“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. “
Deja Vu We Can Believe In!!!
Hegel wept.
The Saudis? They aren’t a factor. Think China, India, the EU and Dubai.
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2008 |
The real end plays out like this:
On April 19, 2010 Skynet goes on line.
On April 21, 2010 Skynet becomes self aware.
April 21, 2010 is Judgment Day.
No man shall now the time.
Yeats wept.
A second Civil War?
I am tending to believe this more and more. I am sick of liberals and the media to a point that borders on hatred.
I am tired of liberals stealing elections all over the country. I am sick of homo’s running around in the streets stopping traffic when voters give them the finger. I’m tired of some asshat telling me it’s my patriotic duty to pay higher taxes. I am especially offended when someone tells me he’s going to spread the wealth around. I’m not happy at all when someone tells me he’s going to give my tax money to people who don’t pay taxes. This is not my country and this socialist is not my president!.....
I would *happily* give up my right to vote if it meant that all the simple-minded lib-women would lose theirs as well.
Hey, once you think the unthinkable. Once you think that things that just couldn’t happen here, can happen here it’s actually calming.
Who's their Daddy? Obama, The Messiah, to heal our collective souls...
Yes, let's keep turning our precious children, especially our precious little girls, over to the NEA, and to higher education, under the tutelege of Ayers and Dorn.... Let 'em have a few abortions to break their hearts, or harden their consciences. A whole crop of useful idiots. And I mean this with no malice - what grief and emptiness.
The mysogynist is the one who thinks leaving a female (or male, for that matter) baby in a closet to die is acceptable in a civilized society... any takers on that one?
The difference between then and now is that we know what happened with Hitler so we can resist it, and another difference is that Hitler actually was somewhat competent as a leader.
Do recall the FT saying that he got 63% of the 18 to 29 YO vote ---Which had NOT graduated HS however.....
Just so you know, I’ve had the same roll of aluminum foil for about eight years, so you know that I haven’t been making hats out of it. All the same, I have to agree, something doesn’t pass the smell test.
I am loathe to say the word conspiracy, but I feel an unseen hand manipulating things behind the scene. My brother (who might wear tinfoil hats) says it’s the Rothchilds, but I find it easier to believe Soros has his hand in there.
I have to admit, for the first time in my life I am unsure of freedom’s future. I’ve heard people say that Oboma is going to be our President and we all must get behind him, but an oath I took years ago still rattles around in my brain each time he comes to mind-—
“...I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;”.
It also states that I will support the president, but some of his comments and actions indicate some one who is not in favor of the Constitution, so until I see an indication otherwise, he cannot be my President.
I am uneasy and instead of a big screen TV, I’m buying a shotgun. (it’s not really paranoia if some one is out to get you)
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/11/something-of-hi.html
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