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06-03-2009, 10:50 AM
I haven't been around much so if you guys have covered this I apologize. Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career atThe New York Daily
News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as
Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth
child but remained involved in various projects including American
Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President
Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at TheBrandeis School.
by Pam Geller
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six
languages, and have studied history 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 10 - 15 years. The
pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
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 a bout.) The list is
staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x
10. 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.)
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
reali gn 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.
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, with 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. T he road to Hell is paved with them.
************************************************** *************
Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not
too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this
information. Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least)
of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of
health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill,
former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited by Bloomberg with
the following statement.
Bloomberg: "Daschle says health-care reform "will not be pain free."
Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age
instead of treating them."
If th is does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators
and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or
very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives
and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the internet to get this message out. Talk it up
at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and
nine months. We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous
direction the Obama administration and it allies have begun and in the
interim, we can make our voices heard!
Lets do it!
News and subsequently took over operation of The New York Observer as
Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth
child but remained involved in various projects including American
Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President
Strategic Planning and Performance Evaluation at TheBrandeis School.
by Pam Geller
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six
languages, and have studied history 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 10 - 15 years. The
pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
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 a bout.) The list is
staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x
10. 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.)
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
reali gn 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.
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, with 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. T he road to Hell is paved with them.
************************************************** *************
Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not
too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this
information. Most of you know by now that the Senate version (at least)
of the "stimulus" bill includes provisions for extensive rationing of
health care for senior citizens. The author of this part of the bill,
former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited by Bloomberg with
the following statement.
Bloomberg: "Daschle says health-care reform "will not be pain free."
Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age
instead of treating them."
If th is does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators
and Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or
very low co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives
and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
Please use the power of the internet to get this message out. Talk it up
at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one year and
nine months. We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous
direction the Obama administration and it allies have begun and in the
interim, we can make our voices heard!
Lets do it!