Something is Happening of Historic Proportions

[Newman]

This post speaks what many have been feeling (despite others saying Hitler comments are out of line).

It is on many blogs. I brought it over here but don't know how to cut and paste the very long address where it originated. Simply googling the title shows the places it has been.

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Friends,

Will you please take the time to read this, and if you think it worthwhile, pass it along to your email list, and ask them to read it? Even if they voted, with all good intentions, for Mr. Obama?

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.

Best regards

tps

[Nahum]

Newman, this is exactly how I have felt for some time now.

Christians are the twenty-first century "Jews" in America. We are hated by the media, and by many of our elected leaders. We are called "radical." We are the butt of every major sitcom's jokes.

We cannot speak the name of our God at work, or in school, for fear of reprisal. But militant homosexuals can profane our churches without any repercusions.

These are dark, dark times.

I fear we are about to go over the cliff into complete anarchy.

God is our only hope.

[Sam]

scary

[Hoovie]

Newman, I am surprised you are so taken by this line of thinking.

I am not saying there aren't similarities.

Perhaps I am naive, or maybe it's defensive helplessness, but I have faith this is not the Third Reich, and believe we have a long ways to go till we catch up to the socialism of today's Europe - much less Hitlers Germany.

[MikeinAR]

Newman I don't mean this as an attack on you so please don't take it as such. But I'm up to my ears in all of this gloom and doom talk. The correlations between this country and Nazi Germany are illogical and silly. There is obviously a certain group of folks out there who are convinced this country isn't what I know that it is. This country has stood through worse times and much more "change" than what we're about to encounter, and we've stayed true to the Constitution and the Democracy we were founded on 232 years ago.

The inclination that somehow because the American people voted for a change of course due to the incompetenence of the last 8 years we have set ourselves on some terminal course is .

[MikeinAR]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Newman, I am surprised you are so taken by this line of thinking.

I am not saying there aren't similarities.

Perhaps I am naive, or maybe it's defensive helplessness, but I have faith this is not the Third Reich, and believe we have a long ways to go till we catch up to the socialism of today's Europe - much less Hitlers Germany.

This is turning into a form of hysteria which lacks any kind of logic whatsoever. A lot of this stems from all of the "Muslim" trash during the election. It's completely mystifying.

[Newman]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Newman, I am surprised you are so taken by this line of thinking.

I am not saying there aren't similarities.

Perhaps I am naive, or maybe it's defensive helplessness, but I have faith this is not the Third Reich, and believe we have a long ways to go till we catch up to the socialism of today's Europe - much less Hitlers Germany.

Well, I certainly can't wait to be wrong!

But did you catch that the Federal Reserve (this past year) loaned unknown entities 2 TRILLION dollars? That is roughly 3 times the amount of money we are wringing our hands over now. Bloomberg filed a lawsuit last week to find out what is going on after freedom of information requests were ignored.

I think we are in the middle of a perfect storm. Random events or carefully planned? Or divined by God? I don't know. But lots of coincidences and things falling into place.

[Nahum]

Mike, in my mind this has little to do with the election of Obama.

I do not believe the average American citizen understands the deep, deep peril this country is in economically.

The other night I was watching ABC Nightly News, and was stunned to hear the words "economic depression" used repeatedly. The financial experts they interviewed spoke of an economic depression far greater than that of the 1930's.

Look, this is not my spin. I do not want to be morose, and a doomsday guy. But reality is about to hit.

Mike, it sounds like you're a guy who wants to deny the obvious. Please understand that, with me, this is not about politics. It is about a devestating spiritual and economic reality that is upon us.

I wish I could communicate how I feel in a much clearer fashion, but words fail me.

[Falla39]

I had received this in an e-mail and posted it prior to the election:


http://apostolicfriendsforum.com/showthread.php?t=19891

Blessings,

Falla39

[Newman]

Originally Posted by MikeinAR

Newman I don't mean this as an attack on you so please don't take it as such. But I'm up to my ears in all of this gloom and doom talk. The correlations between this country and Nazi Germany are illogical and silly. There is obviously a certain group of folks out there who are convinced this country isn't what I know that it is. This country has stood through worse times and much more "change" than what we're about to encounter, and we've stayed true to the Constitution and the Democracy we were founded on 232 years ago.

The inclination that somehow because the American people voted for a change of course due to the incompetenence of the last 8 years we have set ourselves on some terminal course is .

We have withstood attacks from without; but have we ever been tested from within? And was there ever a time when our nation as a whole was less interested in what God had to say? Has America ever elected a leader before who was refered to as a Mesiah by some?