- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing
our economy. Why?
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- 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?
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.)
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- Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one
word: change.
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- Why?
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- I have never been so afraid for my country and for my
children as I am now.
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- 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.
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- And that is only the beginning.
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- 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.
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- He did it with a compliant mediadid you know that?
And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change. And the people
surely got what they voted for.
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- (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)
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- 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.
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- 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 yearsa shorter time span than
just two terms of the U. S. presidencyit 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.
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- 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.
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- 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 believeand why
I believe it.
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- I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.
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