Worthy repeat, Ramey!

I don't enjoy the repeated reading because this rings so true for America, Sonny!
Wake up, America!

Sam



This is truly worth reading...and thinking about. Please read it

with an open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or

right; look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong. Take the

three minutes to read this (took slightly longer for yours truly). Maybe he

is wrong, but what if he’s right?







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 there 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.



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.



Dr. David Kaiser



History Unfolding



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..



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.



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 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.



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 (violently in California over a proposition that is so

controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as 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 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.



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. 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.)



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..



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.



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.



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.



If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the

history books.



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.



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.



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..



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.



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



By passing this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening

of America as to where we are headed.