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"Something of Historic Proportion is Happening" (history repeating ?)
Atlas Shrugs ^ | 11-13-08

Posted on 11/13/2008 6:50:52 PM PST by STARWISE

A reader comment over at Dollard's place nails it.

(http://patdollard.com/)

Plain and simple .... and true. This is what I see. I wish I had written it. (hat tip mg)

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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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bailout; change; financialcrisis; mandatoryservice; marxist; obama; obamatruthfile; radicals; socialist; thecomingdarkness
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The unease I already feel is now at defcon3, and it's not made any less anxious by Rahm Emanuel .. chief of staff to be, author of "The Plan," outlining mandatory civil service for 18-25 yr olds.

Here's his Cspan interview in 2006 about The Plan ... scroll up to 5:21

His master agrees

Obama outlines plan for national service

Keep praying, folks. Flood Heaven.

1 posted on 11/13/2008 6:50:52 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

ping


2 posted on 11/13/2008 6:52:22 PM PST by unkus
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To: STARWISE
Obama o-men
3 posted on 11/13/2008 6:52:24 PM PST by shezza (WWRD?)
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To: SE Mom; Bahbah; penelopesire; Miss Didi; rodguy911; Grampa Dave; gpapa; pissant; Velveeta; LUV W; ..

~~BUMP!


4 posted on 11/13/2008 6:52:58 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

America has gone insane.


5 posted on 11/13/2008 6:56:04 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: STARWISE

Bring it.


6 posted on 11/13/2008 6:56:43 PM PST by aWolverine
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To: shezza

LOL - Thanks for the laugh.


7 posted on 11/13/2008 6:57:24 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: advance_copy

I agree, however, it may be time to BLOAT.


8 posted on 11/13/2008 6:57:57 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: STARWISE

I truly believe and am afraid that we are seeing the rise of a black Hitler.


9 posted on 11/13/2008 6:58:33 PM PST by clamper1797 (BHO ... the 'H" stands for hubris)
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To: STARWISE
I used to teach history; I also grew up in Germany (postwar). The formula is certainly in place for the US to become a 1930’s Germany except for nationalism. Obama seems to have internationalist tendencies (which may be worse).
10 posted on 11/13/2008 6:59:05 PM PST by loreldan (Santorum, where are you?)
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To: STARWISE

There is one big difference....

Germany didn’t start out with a constitution and a nation which declared itself a nation of God.

God will bring us back from this, because our founding fathers had the foresight to forge this nation under His wing.

I do understand the feeling though... it is something in your gut that tells you something VERY big is about to happen that nobody anticipated.

Biden was right... Read Ezekiel chapter 38.


11 posted on 11/13/2008 6:59:15 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: STARWISE

The author is not wrong. It is EXACTLY like Germany.

What really, really boggles my mind are the elderly and Jewish people of all ages voting for 0. Not just elderly, but Christian elderly. What WERE they thinking? Many of them grew up during WWII, didn’t they hear their parents talking? Didn’t they pay attention? I can understand black people voting for him and wish I could be more happy for them, but they all chose a monster.

How could Obama’s presidency possibly help them?


12 posted on 11/13/2008 6:59:41 PM PST by madison10
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To: STARWISE

Leat them go ahead and do it.
Let them start to put it in place.
Be ready to monitor just what it is, and then analyze it.
Form a Committee that speaks out THEN and illuminates the
authoritarian thinking behind it. Point out how corrupt it has already become and how easily it can, could, or already has started morphing into a dangerously lawless thing with “no controlling legal authority” except to mete out punishment and intimidation on behalf of The One.
If you can do that, their days are numbered.
Even with Oprah.


13 posted on 11/13/2008 7:00:58 PM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: advance_copy

God gave America a CLEAR choice between good and evil, there is no excuse for the majority choosing evil. Ignorance is no excuse this time.


14 posted on 11/13/2008 7:00:58 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, and Thuggery)
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To: STARWISE

Shudder.


15 posted on 11/13/2008 7:01:10 PM PST by keats5 ("I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing."- Rudy)
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To: STARWISE

And the Obamination is burying anybody that can possibly get in his way or has the real facts on him.

I think he would sell his family to the devil so he can play god.


16 posted on 11/13/2008 7:01:40 PM PST by Eye of Unk (Aleutica, the new name of Free Alaska)
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To: STARWISE

It’s a compelling read.


17 posted on 11/13/2008 7:02:33 PM PST by Petronski (Things fall apart, it's scientific.)
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To: OneWingedShark

I’ve seen this acronym several times lately but can’t figure it out. What exactly does BLOAT stand for? (I’m sure it’s perfectly obvious.)


18 posted on 11/13/2008 7:02:50 PM PST by shezza (WWRD?)
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To: OneWingedShark

BLOAT?


19 posted on 11/13/2008 7:03:48 PM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: madison10
The author is not wrong. It is EXACTLY like Germany.

I would not say exactly. There are, however, stunning parallels.

20 posted on 11/13/2008 7:05:36 PM PST by Petronski (Things fall apart, it's scientific.)
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