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- From: "Rick Ehrmann" <tc440@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 22:41:30 -0400
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> */I hope you find the time to read this with an open
> mind./**/ /**/It's interesting. Please read it with the open
> mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or
> right, but rather look at it from the neutral viewpoint of
> right or wrong. It's like the line below says, "what if he
> is right?"/*
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> */_Take the three minutes to read this. Maybe he is wrong,
> but what if he’s right?_/* /*/_ Please,PLEASE
> READ....................AND SEND IT OUT TO EVERYBODY
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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 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.
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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 Mel lon, 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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> *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.
>
> 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 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.
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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.
> 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.
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> David Kaiser
> Jamestown , Rhode Island
> United States *
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> Pass this along. Perhaps it will help to begin the awakening
> of America as to where we are headed.
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