Posted on 11/27/2008 7:16:07 PM PST by BCW
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.
He surely is legit and is actually being quite humble about his infinite riches. He owns 2 yachts, but what he hasn’t told you (yet) is he also has a bevy of Bentleys, several casinos in Las Vegas, has more chicks at his weekend house than Hugh Hefner, is trading in his ‘08 Lear jet for an ‘09 as we speak, bathes in Dom Perignon, has caviar massages...you know, just like most of us capitalist piggies here. He’s one of us, by golly!!!
My best friend in the whole world came over from Cuber with his family in 1961. His dad told stories of apathy and disillusionment which seem to be relevant in comfy societies around the globe, even to this day. It doesn't take much more than ignorance and inertia to give the bad guys enough time to permanently screw up a perfectly good country.
I smell smoke.
I agree, a future is being foretold.
Still, a major series of events must occur for BHO to be throned.
He does not have the support of his own military. No way, no how is our military young men and women ever going to turn against their own people under the tutelage of BHO.
So he must neuter the current military and subsequently build a seperate force with some degree of serious ammunition in order for any kind of real takeover. I know he has already vowed to do this.
So the real fight has not yet begun.
The real fight will ensue when he starts to build his ‘civilian security force’. It is at this point people, when we’ll have some choices to make. It is likely that the monetary system will have all but collapsed. There will be pressing arguments about removing funding from our military. The ‘fairness doctrine’ could be in full swing. There could be widespread civil unrest at which point the ‘necessity’ of a civilian security force will be built.
So that then is the turning point.
When the new force, with a new uniform, a new objective, and a chain of command, knocks at your door and ‘orders’ you to hand over your personal weapons.
THATs when its put up or shut up time.
Now, its possible that it doesnt get this far. Its possible that prior to this, China or another country will have done something globally chilling. The sovereignty of our country may thus become compromised prior to the almighty’s plan being carried out.
But short of that, the metal of you, me, and every other person who believes in personal liberty and the Constitution of the United States of America is unequivocally going to be challenged in the next 4-8 years.
I believe you can put this in ink in your history book’s preface. I hope I’m wrong. I dont believe I am.
The kitties just had some troll meat for Thanksgiving, LOL.
(Although I was late to the thread, at least I got to read all of the “goodies” first!)
N.B. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
This account has been banned or suspended.
buh bye
It looks like all your posts were removed as well. Ouch.
I believe the cartoon has been canceled.
That'd still make him a close relative of Chia-head.
Must've really torqued the kittens with some of those twisted views.
LOL, so true.
My personal fave was him saying that anyone who is struggling financially should be “imprisoned.” What a tool!
Sadly spot-on.
I'm thinking even Scrooge would've despised him. At least Scrooge would've waited until a fellow was destitute before committing him to debtors prison.
Are you the original author?
His posts reeked. Mebbe it was the ozone buildup, or a methane bubble or something...
lots of coffee?
Lots of coffee or some kind of time machine. I want one!
A good read. I think this has been brewing for a while. Obama isn’t the problem he was created by the problem. The War on Poverty started it, the Hippies and if it feels good do it movement, the lack of responsibility movement. These were the negative side of the Civil Rights movement and Fem Liberation.
We forgot who we were in all the confusion. Ross Perot was right about a lot of things. I see further decline before things go back the other way. American’s are not stupid and yes, they will wake up to the dangers. I only hope that when it does a lot of people don’t die. We are entering strange times. Soon we will have to face some hard choices—do what is right or what is easy.
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