DONT RE-ELECT ANY POLITICIAN

> >>> Mr. Wood has articulated exactly what a great many people have felt all
> >>> along. Unfortunately, "a great many" was not enough at election time. As
> >>> the next couple of years go by, many of those who voted for Obama may
> >>> come
> >>> to see things differently.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *Chilling*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *SOMETHING OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS IS HAPPENING*....By Tim Wood
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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, and 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 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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.
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