"It is fitting and proper that we devote one day each year to paying
> special tribute to those whose constancy and courage constitute one
> of the bulwarks guarding the freedom of this nation and the peace of
> the free world." President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
>
Just in case shes right.
>
>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 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 10 - 15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past
> two.
>
> We demanded and then codified into law the requirement that our banks
> make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back? Why?
> We learned recently 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 10. 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 important.)
>
> Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word:
> Change...radical 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.
>
> 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, 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, 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, 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
> Brandeis School.
>
> After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her
> consciousness and immersed herself in the education and understanding
> of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats
> the mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss.
>
>
> 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 a senior 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 senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill,
> former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle, was credited today 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 and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first
> dollar or very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of
> their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
>
> Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk
> it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one
> year and nine months. We have the ability to address and reverse the
> dangerous direction the Obama administration and its allies have
> begun and in the interim, we can make our voices heard! Let's do it!
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