Posted on 09/21/2011 12:26:31 PM PDT by Jeanette Pryor
On February 18, 1943, 21 year-old Sophie Scholl placed a stack of anti-Hitler leaflets on a banister overlooking the main hall in the University of Munich. Ensuring in a split-second that that the papers would cascade over all the students as they emerged from their classrooms, Sophie pushed the papers into the air and signed her death warrant.
Within moments, having been caught by a miserable janitor looking for his moment of glory, Sophie and her brother Hans, were speeding in a Gestapo car to the interrogations and trial that would deliver them to the guillotine four days later.
Sophie and Hans are the “patron saints” of the independent media, the models and inspiration of every citizen-journalist and blogger who publishes the truth. While Hitler wielded complete control of information within the Reich, thanks to a state-run media that crafted and managed every news story, the White Rose, a group of young patriots, decided that they owed it to beloved country to write what was true.
The White Rose Letters were simple but scathing indictments of the Nazi Antisemitic genocide and the senseless loss of life resulting from Total War. Eloquently, the White Rose demanded that Germans repudiate Hitler so the nation would not carry the eternal shame of having marched for him until defeat left them no choice.
We do not (yet) pay a high price for speaking out against the Marxist seduction of America. The effort it takes to strike a keyboard is all we expend. The Letters of The White Rose were written, printed, and mailed by ordinary citizens who risked, at each step, torture and execution.
History looks at the rise and fall of the Third Reich and wonders how throngs of rational human beings complacently enabled a regime of atrocity. Will history judge us to be equally guilty? Will future post-mortem scholars performing the autopsy on America marvel that we reached for shackles many of us had seen, in our lifetimes, cast off with the help of a President Reagan whom we knew!
We all exclaim, “I would never have stood by and watched a dictator take over my country!” Those who lived through Hitler’s progressive apotheosis emphasize the incremental nature of their enslavement. Germans then, as we today, daily weighed the potential disruption of their lives against the price of resistance. It is so easy and so human to endure slow but sure diminution of one’s freedom, rather than sacrifice the illusion of normalcy that remains.
Not so Hans and Sophie Scholl. Not so today’s “citizen journalists” who have reported the corruption of A.C.O.R.N. Both groups accepted great personal sacrifice, both recognized the power of the independent press – investigative reporting conducted by ordinary people who realized that the “medias of propaganda,” had abandoned defense of truth and the rule of law. Though conservative bloggers and writers who exposed A.C.O.R.N, precursor to Marxist enabling agencies, do not face the danger of death, as did the White Rose freedom fighters, they certainly face the ridicule on the part of the new Goebbels Media!
Since the inauguration of the Golfing Marxist, we have seen the exposure and sanctioning of Van Jones, a self-declared Communist revolutionary; Yosi Sergant, the National Endowment for the Arts Director, caught allegedly using his position to promote the socialist agenda of President Obama in the arts; and, of course, Barack Obama’s A.C.O.R.N, Community Organizers who were caught on tape helping to establish brothels in which pre-teen girls from El Salvador would be trafficked in prostitution to help fund political campaigns.
We have seen these things because of the tireless efforts of private citizens. Because of Hannah and James, Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, Matthew Vadum, and a new “White Rose” of of conservative American bloggers, Obama’s rise was less steep, our fall is no longer inevitable.
American freedom and independence are poised, like Sophie’s stack of leaflets, on the banister of history. One small push and we may find ourselves free-falling to a place in which a simple key-stroke will cost us our lives. It is good to remember and embrace the legacy of those who died because they wrote the truth. Their example shows us that we do not need a political party or an organization to throw off the chains of tyranny. Two young Germans wrote with their blood, and their legacy lives on in all those who push back against slavery by the powerful. We must carry on in the spirit of Sophie, and not be afraid to speak this liberating truth, no matter what the cost.
These were Sophie’s last words:
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go. What does my death matter if, through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”
Thank you to all who, like this true Heroine, have given themselves up to a righteous cause!
Thank you.
Nice job JP
Our Senate had the chance to remove Bill Clinton; but he was a Democrat, and there’s a double standard between Democrats and Republicans.
Instead, the Senate allowed the House of Representatives to stick their necks out. In so doing, they set Clinton up as a “revered” elder statesman and sentenced us to years of a tiresome, outlandish “Clinton” dynasty. THAT is more humiliating than seeing Nixonian treatment of Bill Clinton would have been.
Now, the Congress has a chance to do the right thing where Obama is concerned. Believe me, I will not be one bit disturbed or “ashamed” to have a President rightfully impeached and removed. Now, the corruption has reached unbelievable proportions.
The government provided them jobs, college education, health care, and gloriously brought them a revival of national pride, a booming economy, and conquest. How dare they speak out against it?
bkmk
Wow, I’d never heard of this. Thank you.
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