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  • Deuce Coupe

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    Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them!

    Worth the read.

    Take the three minutes to read this.
    Maybe he is wrong.
    What if he is 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 attendedHarvard 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 Reservefrom 1970 to 1976.

    He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the
    United States Naval War College. He has previously taught atCarnegie 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
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    SiscoKid

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    But, but, but .... Obamma can't be Hitler. For the last eight years the liberal media all told us that Bush was Hitler.
     

    cuate

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    Ears ?

    OH MY GOD!
    YOU ARE RIGHT!
    look at the ears!!!

    What's ears got to do with it ? So the obominizer has ears that make him look like a Volkswagon with both doors open ? It is the lack of experience in even operating a 7-11, kid's Little League team, or a fireworks stand.

    And the lack of Military experience of a two bit politician from Chicago who likely never experienced the Cub Scouts, not to mention the Boy Scouts and never served one minute in the United States Military but who handles the same like puppets on a string ! Woe is me (us) !!!
     

    sjones

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    David,I believe you are right and I sincerely think obama is an evil man.I don't care what the media or his friends call me.I have a gut feeling that he will ruin our country if he keeps on,howver I will continue to pray for the office of the president and our leaders and hope he can be overturned in 2010 and 2012.
     

    Deuce Coupe

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    I really do not care who wrote this, it is a good analysis as to what is going on at this time. I am really afraid of Obama's handlers and what he will do to our children, grandchildren and our country. I believe that his handlers are trying to break us financially, physiologically and in ever way possible to get control and power. I know it is not Obama, he is just not smart enough but how about George Soros?

    This group wants our money, our property, our guns, and anything else we have worked for over these many years. I am just sick of it and really do not care how they are eliminated, revolt, civil war, vote or whatever.

    Not only am I scared but damn mad at these idiots. They have cost most of us older folks at least 25% or more of our 401s that we worked a long time for, some of us, our jobs by the poor way they have run the economy, some of us our sons by the way they have run the war in Afghanistan and most of us, our dignity by the way they have kissed the butt of every commie dictator in the world.

    They will send us all to the poor house with their tax & spend policies, kill us with their medical scams or again get us killed by there foreign policies with the likes of Iran.

    Meanwhile, this nation is in crisis and Obama is taking his wife on a shopping trip so he can get the Olympics for Chicago. If this happens, Obama & his goons will make Al Capone look like a Boy Scout.
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    SiscoKid

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    I just about agree with Duce Coupe completely. How many time have we heard "well, it could be worse"? Well, it could get worse. The power hungry dictators can smell blood, our blood.

    Not sure how to take Obamma. When folks say that he is trying to do this and that, I say that he is but a pawn, that Holder and Axelrod are actually calling the shots. Peelosi and Reid know that they are free to rape the country with their liberal agenda and no one will stop them. I feel that Joe Biden was picked because he is a boffoon, no one takes him serious.

    Who had the most EXECUTIVE experience in the 08 election? It wasn't RINO McCain, it wasn't Hairplug Joe, it sure wasn't Obammy. It was Sarah Palin, the most verbally trashed person of the four.

    So there is a reason the country is circling the drain. The most INexperienced person was elected to lead. He is in so far above his head.....
     
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