A PERFECT STORM IS BREWING

[JJ]

http://www.mitchell-langbert.blogspot.com/
The following was passed to me by a friend. Sam Doughty, wh o is a college professor, writes for a newspaper and among other things ... a deacon to a Priest. He never sends anything until he has it checked out. It is an interesting read, a bit long but worth the time. He did not write it. The author appeared on Pat Dollard's radio show. I must say that I am in complete agreement. Dumpy

I Am A Student Of History" -

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 leader s. 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 offendin g 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 $15 0,000 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.

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.

[JJ]

Joyce, I read not long ago--and this keeps me pumped--a nation with only 1% of its population fought and won over dictatorship and I know we will have to make a choice soon--read Dr.Edwin Vieira--four degrees from Harvard----any of his last few articles--just GOOGLE him.

He is readying us for the inevitable without saying what he must--it's suggestive as so many articles I read are.
Some on a website were afraid of having their emails printed for fear Obama's team would come for them--I told them just to cower in some corner and die--I will not live like that.

The only way I will leave this earth on my knees is praying to God--I will leave on my feet and not empty-handed if you know what I mean--we are in real trouble in this country--this may be our call from God.

I pray the stories I hear about the perceptiveness of the Reserves and military are true--for Rambo needs to know while he is on the east coast arresting my husband and me, the same Rambos that trained with him are on the west coast arresting his family!!!

[joyce]

JJ you are echoing my very thoughts. A personal experience I see right now in regards to education is my son's high school. He attends a public school, that is paid with public funds and also grants from the United Nations. It is called the Internatinal Acadmey and it is for the "smarter kids". My son is now a softmore, 10th grade. They do not teach American History, and they encourage students to take Civics, or American Government, during the summer on line just so they can statisfy state standards. What they do teach is frightening........they teach cultural sensitivity, especially to Islam (nevermind the blacks anymore) sensitivity to homosexuals, one teacher even hangs proudly the Gay Flag, no kidding! They have a mock United Nations as a requred class even. I'm not making this stuff up folks! This pictular education is so that they can get what is called an IB (International Baccalorate) deploma. Look up IB on the internet, you wont belive it, and yet there is a fury of school districts that are setting up these "International" schools because of the money they get from United Nations. It's TRUE FOLKS! During this past election year my husband and I have taught our son so much our own country and our Consitutition and about the Federal Reserve and all the history surrounding it.......yet when he brings this information into class they look at him as crazy. He brings in a copy of the Consititution on "natural born" and he is laughed at. They all think the Federal Reserve is part of the Federal Government and won't even look at the very fact that it is only congress that is given the power to coin money that is written right in our consititution.
You are so right JJ.......what we are experiencing now has been in the works for years. The education side of it is only one facet of a huge stone. I'm not a conspiracy type person in the least, I deal with reality and I have been feeling so overwhelmed with all that is going on.
Us people here, here on this board, have got to do something other than just post our thoughts. If all it took in 1776 was two delagets from each state to oppose Great Britan we certainly have that. History shows that less than 30% of the American population in 1776 was for independence, the rest were either loyalists or fence sitters and yet those 26 men we able to lead a country.
All of us here have got to start thinking of meeting together. There many great minds here who are not afraid to take a stand. I'm not. We all know we are either heading down the path to something similar to Hitlerism.........are we just going to talk about it until it is too late?????
Joyce

[usfrog]

I also agree. Is it a coincidence that Berlin was the stage of two very similar events ?
Several years ago a historian friend and I were discussing current events. He said that he thought that the current "jihad" was a repeat of the Crusades with a 600-year delay. Except that today, the warfare is different, it is fought not only on the ground (terrorism) but economically and politically as well. I agree. I think that the above article and the current "jihad" are somehow connected.

[JJ]

What frightens me even more is the acceptance that this is the time--now we will set things straight and make right our country again. It isn't bravado--I read every day of those preparing.
On one site, the comments were actually discussing the Bible and scripture of the difference in killing and murder with the 'thou shalt not kill' commandment.
I pray for the police officers, for have they not thought this through, while they are on one side of town arresting some dissenters that don't want to give up their guns, who's arresting their brothers and fathers that don't want to give up their guns either??
Obama won't pass a law restricting gun sales---he will make the taxes so high we can't afford the ammo, and the paperwork so cumbersome, the dealers can't deal with it--therefore, I volunteer my time for that paperwork.

[truthisgold]

My thoughts exactly. Never have I been more frightened. 911 seems tame compared to what is currently transpiring.

[s.]

"I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now."
"I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am."
Wow, as if it was written for me. Ignorance is bliss, but I choose being informed and it scares the hell out of me!!!!