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by Pam Geller
by Pam Geller
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 largegemstone 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 about10 - 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demanded and then codified into law the
requirementthat our banks make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back? Why? We learned recently thatthe Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversightby 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 intentionallyde-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
everyclose election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriageto 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 allowingunelected judges to write laws that radically change ourway of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups likeACORN and others to turn our voting system into a bananarepublic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing pricesare in free fall, major industries are failing, our bankingsystem is on the verge of collapse, Social Securityis 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 withan 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, letalone 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 welearn 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 wardrobeis more important.
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boileddown to one word: Change...radical change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my
country and formy 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 philosophicallines, 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
whatthe ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talkingrabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the averageGerman 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 agreat 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, wherethey 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 byindoctrinating the children, advocating gun control,health care for all, better wages, better jobs, andpromising 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 roundingup 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 ifthey make me cringe with disgust); I can believe whathistory is shouting to me from across the chasm ofseven 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.
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 BrandeisSchool.
After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violentlylifted from her consciousness and immersed
herself in the education and understanding of geopolitics,Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats themainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss.
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Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this information.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Everybody that is on this mailing list is either asenior citizen, is getting close, or knows somebody that is.
Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least) of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of health care for seniorcitizens. The author of this part of the bill, formersenator and tax evader, Tom Daschle, was creditedtoday by Bloomberg with the following statement.
Bloomberg: "Daschle says health-care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them."
If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just
remember that Senators andCongressmen have their own healthcare plan that is firstdollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed
the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this newlaw if it passes.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out.Talk it up at the grassroots level. We havean electioncoming up in one year and nine months. We have theability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administrationand its allies
have begun and in the interim, we can make ourvoices heard! Let's do it!
If you disagree, don't do anything
