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>Subject: FW: Change As Promised
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>--- On Mon, 3/29/10, Tammi Peters <
tpeters@fayettevillechristian.com> wrote:
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>From: Tammi Peters <
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>Subject: FW: Change As Promised
>To:
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>Date: Monday, March 29, 2010, 3:56 AM
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>Thought provoking read!
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>Folks,
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>Some folks want to put their heads in the sand and hope what is >going on in our Country is not really happeining. Please read the attached
>
>from David Kaiser. I wish it were not true but I think he is >right on target. We have a lot of work to do between now and the >November elections.
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> Subject: Change As Promised
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>Take the three minutes to read this. Maybe he is wrong - but...
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>What if he's right?
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>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 >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.
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>He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the >United States Naval War College. He 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.
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>cid:6D05A5AD57CB4AADAEE93A1E535ECA43@JANET
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>Dr. David Kaiser
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>History Unfolding
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>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.
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>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.
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>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?
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>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.
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>We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing >our economy. Why?
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>We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, >and no longer teach our founding documents. Why are we exceptional >and why are we 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?
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>We have now established the precedent of protesting every close >election. (sometimes violently) 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?
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>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.
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>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 not. 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.)
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>Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?
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>I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
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>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.
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>And that is only the beginning.
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>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.
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>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,
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>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.
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>If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the >history books.
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>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.
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>Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured >country 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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
>
>Pass this along. Perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of >America as to where we are headed...
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>Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
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>Otto von Bismarck
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