What's all around us that are obviously happening are mind-bogling.
Please take heed what every leaders in the world are doing, where they're going, what
they're up to and what they're saying in the public.
"by its fruit reveals a tree..."
Below is an email I received that I can't ignore after my slumber.
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This is enlightening. Lest you think it was written by some right-wing kook, David
Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of
topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a
diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C. , Albany ,
New York , and Dakar , Senegal . He attended Harvard University , graduating there in
1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD
in history, which he obtained in 1976. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976.
He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War
College and has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard
University . Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination,
was just published by Harvard University Press.
Dr. David Kaiser
"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll
join with me as we try to change it."
- Barack Obama
History Unfolding
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have
been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to
think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply 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 to 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?
(JCS: Re above and below, I say in order to severely wound our country and our economy,
and reduce our will to resist.)
We learned 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 $700 billion 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 (violently in
California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to
remain defined as 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 I 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 even name for fear of offending people of the
same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they
have the opportunity to do so.
And finally, we have elected a man that no one really 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 are more important.)
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..
As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the
ordinary, moral German must have 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 should have known 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. Conservative "losers" read it right
now.
And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he
was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even
newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and
beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to
office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression.
Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person,
department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens
were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught
exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,
How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to
the money-less, and rewards 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.
If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.
So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted
down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. 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. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.
Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most culturedcountry in Europe .
It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet,
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..
I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh,
or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, 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. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next
elections.
David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States
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I put this in survival forum thinking we all need to save our freedom, democracy and
constitution.