I received this via e-mail today, and thought I'd share it. I haven't researched the validity of the source yet (haven't had time), but the article is a good read anyway.
Wake up America!
READ THIS CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history 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 10 - 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demanded and then codified into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back? Why? We learned recently 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 10. 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 we know nothing 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 important.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word:Change...radical 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.
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, with 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, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore 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. But, I do not think I am.
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About the author via Google...
Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child, but remained involved in various projects including American Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School.
After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her consciousness and immersed herself in the education and understanding of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats the mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Who Will Stand With Me?
I originally set out to write an opinion on our so-called health insurance reform bill, but I got sidetracked. I took a crazy turn into “conspiracy theory land”, and scared the bejeezus out of myself.
Here’s the problem – I believe parts of my conspiracy theory. But I need to give you a little background before I plunge headfirst into the theory.
After reading the bill entitled “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”, hereinafter referred to by me as the health care bill, I realized that the only part of the title that contains any truth is that it is being drafted in 2009. It doesn’t encompass everyone in America, it isn’t affordable, there are no choices, and it doesn’t really deal with health at all. In short, it’s the biggest money-grab our nation has seen since the passing of the 16th Amendment.
That’s right – I said it. It isn’t about health care – it’s about money, power, and control. (Those of you who are so inclined are welcome to report me to the snitch brigade at the White House – flag@whitehouse.gov.)
Okay – my theory. I think that certain parties have undertaken an all-out assault on our country in order to further concentrate all of our money and power into the hands of a select few. I don’t know who they are – I can’t (or won’t) name names. But I want you to take a look at events that have transpired over the last year or so, keeping in mind one simple rule.
The ultimate responsibility of a nation’s government is to protect the value or strength of that nation’s currency. Everything else that’s done is secondary, or fulfills a supporting role in the first directive – protect the strength of the nation’s currency.
Without a strong economy, a nation has no way to do those things necessary to the ethical stewardship of a nation. Things like “…form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” become impossible without a strong economy. Once the incentive for success provided by the opportunity to make a profit is removed, the economy ceases to exist.
What you have left is a tattered wraith of what once was, aping the behavior of it’s predecessors and spreading misery wherever it roams. That spectre of greatness engenders bitterness in the citizenry of a once great nation, causes famine, disease, struggle, and untimely death. It is the ruin of civilization.
This is our future. And we, with our inattention and apathy, have allowed that future to rear its ugly head.
This path that we’re on began a long time ago, and the first effective volley was fired at our system of education. The seeds of destruction were planted there when we slowly erased critical thinking and logic from the education of our youth. Instead, we overwhelmed them with facts and figures, and taught them that fact regurgitation is likenable to intelligence. Unable to think for themselves, we then sent them to college, where their heads were filled with ideas and philosophies that are counter to our culture, morals, and beliefs. We slowly corrupted them with abstractions, and gave them very little in the way of actual education. We gave them re-education, and we paid for their corruption with the products of our labor.
They then ventured out into the world – into journalism, politics, law, economics, medicine, science, engineering, seminary – name any profession and they took up the mantle. Their education taught them that greed was the same thing as success, and that words like honor, integrity, loyalty and sacrifice were anachronisms – no longer applicable to the world in which they lived.
They then ascended to positions in banking institutions, law firms, politics, journalism, science, medicine, and education. The malleable clay that they once were had hardened, so that they were inflexible. When pressures became too great, they were destroyed, and they destroyed the things and the people with whom they were closely acquainted.
The seeds of our children’s education reaped scandal in banking, commerce, politics, education, law, seminary – everywhere you looked. The very fabric of our nation was torn apart because the foundation that our children built their hopes and dreams upon was made of sand – unable to withstand the storm of hard times and bad decisions.
We wound up with the mortgage debacle (Fannie and Freddie), the collapse of our financial institutions, the unendurable demands of labor unions upon manufacturing (the auto industry), the predatory practices of trial lawyers (health care and political correctness), and finally ended up with the usurpation of our rights, liberties, and fortunes by an overzealous government. Our government has become a bloated, monstrous parasite whose appetite has no end, and whose demise will only come with the utter obliteration of its host – the people of the United States.
Our government has declared war upon us – the People – and most of us have no idea how to fight.
So what do we do? Live a half-life on our knees, supplicants to a master who has no concept of justice, fairness, equality, or mercy? Or stand an our feet, willing to die so that others might live free?
I know what I do – I stand.
I study my opponent, I learn from his actions, I anticipate his intentions, and I learn to fight him. Many of the items in his arsenal are at this point unfamiliar to me – things like words, laws, regulations, bills, taxes, court decisions, media manipulation, labor unions, and community activists. I don’t know how to fight these things, but I will.
I did learn a few things from a lifetime in the military and from combat service. It doesn’t matter who your opponent is, if you maintain unrelenting pressure on one focal point for long enough, he will move to another objective. That’s a very short term goal, but can be incredibly effective.
For now, I focus all of my attention on this one objective – defeat of the health care bill. I surround myself with likeminded people, and we take the fight to our opponent with overwhelming force of numbers. We force him to move on to a new objective. We leave a contingent behind to secure the ground we’ve won, and we confront him in the same manner on his next objective. In this way, we eventually back him into a corner (very dangerous), or we send him running out into the open. In either scenario, we have the opportunity to capture him and neutralize him. He is no longer a threat.
This is very much a small-unit level mindset. I’m not a great long-term strategist. I’m a fighter, not a planner. Like most fighters, I still believe in words like honor, duty, sacrifice, loyalty, fidelity, and responsibility.
We have a duty and a responsibility to protect our country. We will have to use honor, integrity, and loyalty. We must be willing to sacrifice, for our opponent will attempt to impugn our honor, compromise our integrity, and divide our loyalty. He will scoff at our notion of duty, and claim that we have no right to the responsibility that we claim. But it must be done. Soon.
This war has been a quiet war. It has been waged against us without our knowledge for a very long time. But we have finally realized that something revolutionary is happening – and we want no part of it.
The coming months and years will define us as a nation. This is a war that will be fought by multiple generations at the same time. It’s a war of words. It’s a war of intent. If we hope to win, it will take a concerted effort involving the old and the young, the healthy and the infirm, the fighters and the planners. It will require people who see what is happening here and now, and people who can anticipate events one hundred years from now.
I said I will stand, and I will. Who will stand with me?
Here’s the problem – I believe parts of my conspiracy theory. But I need to give you a little background before I plunge headfirst into the theory.
After reading the bill entitled “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009”, hereinafter referred to by me as the health care bill, I realized that the only part of the title that contains any truth is that it is being drafted in 2009. It doesn’t encompass everyone in America, it isn’t affordable, there are no choices, and it doesn’t really deal with health at all. In short, it’s the biggest money-grab our nation has seen since the passing of the 16th Amendment.
That’s right – I said it. It isn’t about health care – it’s about money, power, and control. (Those of you who are so inclined are welcome to report me to the snitch brigade at the White House – flag@whitehouse.gov.)
Okay – my theory. I think that certain parties have undertaken an all-out assault on our country in order to further concentrate all of our money and power into the hands of a select few. I don’t know who they are – I can’t (or won’t) name names. But I want you to take a look at events that have transpired over the last year or so, keeping in mind one simple rule.
The ultimate responsibility of a nation’s government is to protect the value or strength of that nation’s currency. Everything else that’s done is secondary, or fulfills a supporting role in the first directive – protect the strength of the nation’s currency.
Without a strong economy, a nation has no way to do those things necessary to the ethical stewardship of a nation. Things like “…form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” become impossible without a strong economy. Once the incentive for success provided by the opportunity to make a profit is removed, the economy ceases to exist.
What you have left is a tattered wraith of what once was, aping the behavior of it’s predecessors and spreading misery wherever it roams. That spectre of greatness engenders bitterness in the citizenry of a once great nation, causes famine, disease, struggle, and untimely death. It is the ruin of civilization.
This is our future. And we, with our inattention and apathy, have allowed that future to rear its ugly head.
This path that we’re on began a long time ago, and the first effective volley was fired at our system of education. The seeds of destruction were planted there when we slowly erased critical thinking and logic from the education of our youth. Instead, we overwhelmed them with facts and figures, and taught them that fact regurgitation is likenable to intelligence. Unable to think for themselves, we then sent them to college, where their heads were filled with ideas and philosophies that are counter to our culture, morals, and beliefs. We slowly corrupted them with abstractions, and gave them very little in the way of actual education. We gave them re-education, and we paid for their corruption with the products of our labor.
They then ventured out into the world – into journalism, politics, law, economics, medicine, science, engineering, seminary – name any profession and they took up the mantle. Their education taught them that greed was the same thing as success, and that words like honor, integrity, loyalty and sacrifice were anachronisms – no longer applicable to the world in which they lived.
They then ascended to positions in banking institutions, law firms, politics, journalism, science, medicine, and education. The malleable clay that they once were had hardened, so that they were inflexible. When pressures became too great, they were destroyed, and they destroyed the things and the people with whom they were closely acquainted.
The seeds of our children’s education reaped scandal in banking, commerce, politics, education, law, seminary – everywhere you looked. The very fabric of our nation was torn apart because the foundation that our children built their hopes and dreams upon was made of sand – unable to withstand the storm of hard times and bad decisions.
We wound up with the mortgage debacle (Fannie and Freddie), the collapse of our financial institutions, the unendurable demands of labor unions upon manufacturing (the auto industry), the predatory practices of trial lawyers (health care and political correctness), and finally ended up with the usurpation of our rights, liberties, and fortunes by an overzealous government. Our government has become a bloated, monstrous parasite whose appetite has no end, and whose demise will only come with the utter obliteration of its host – the people of the United States.
Our government has declared war upon us – the People – and most of us have no idea how to fight.
So what do we do? Live a half-life on our knees, supplicants to a master who has no concept of justice, fairness, equality, or mercy? Or stand an our feet, willing to die so that others might live free?
I know what I do – I stand.
I study my opponent, I learn from his actions, I anticipate his intentions, and I learn to fight him. Many of the items in his arsenal are at this point unfamiliar to me – things like words, laws, regulations, bills, taxes, court decisions, media manipulation, labor unions, and community activists. I don’t know how to fight these things, but I will.
I did learn a few things from a lifetime in the military and from combat service. It doesn’t matter who your opponent is, if you maintain unrelenting pressure on one focal point for long enough, he will move to another objective. That’s a very short term goal, but can be incredibly effective.
For now, I focus all of my attention on this one objective – defeat of the health care bill. I surround myself with likeminded people, and we take the fight to our opponent with overwhelming force of numbers. We force him to move on to a new objective. We leave a contingent behind to secure the ground we’ve won, and we confront him in the same manner on his next objective. In this way, we eventually back him into a corner (very dangerous), or we send him running out into the open. In either scenario, we have the opportunity to capture him and neutralize him. He is no longer a threat.
This is very much a small-unit level mindset. I’m not a great long-term strategist. I’m a fighter, not a planner. Like most fighters, I still believe in words like honor, duty, sacrifice, loyalty, fidelity, and responsibility.
We have a duty and a responsibility to protect our country. We will have to use honor, integrity, and loyalty. We must be willing to sacrifice, for our opponent will attempt to impugn our honor, compromise our integrity, and divide our loyalty. He will scoff at our notion of duty, and claim that we have no right to the responsibility that we claim. But it must be done. Soon.
This war has been a quiet war. It has been waged against us without our knowledge for a very long time. But we have finally realized that something revolutionary is happening – and we want no part of it.
The coming months and years will define us as a nation. This is a war that will be fought by multiple generations at the same time. It’s a war of words. It’s a war of intent. If we hope to win, it will take a concerted effort involving the old and the young, the healthy and the infirm, the fighters and the planners. It will require people who see what is happening here and now, and people who can anticipate events one hundred years from now.
I said I will stand, and I will. Who will stand with me?
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