I really, really want everyone to read and comment on this disgusting bit of right wing hate that landed in my email this morning.
I am sitting here shaking..literally shaking with anger and disgust. An email arrived today. I am reproducing it here with my comments following. Please feel free to add yours.It would help me recover. This thing truly speaks for itself and for the kinds of people that circulate this crap..
Pamela "Atlas" Geller began her publishing career at The 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 The Brandeis School.
After 9/11, "Atlas" had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her
consciousness and immersed herself in the education and understanding of
geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats the
mainstream media and the government wouldn't cover or discuss. To wit:
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 demanded and then codified into law the requirement that our banks
make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back? Why? We
learned recently 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
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
(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
- 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.)
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word:
Change...radical 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.
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. 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, close my eyes, have another latte and
ignore 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. But, I do not think I am.
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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.
IN GOD WE TRUST
Everybody that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is
getting close, or knows somebody that is.
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 today 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 this 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 its allies have begun and in the
interim, we can make our voices heard! Let's do it!
MY REPLY
Yes we have a problems today..very serious, massive problems .. most of which were created or made far worse in the last eight years.. .. In the future things may get worse as you suggest and as Republicans hope so they can win back power.
As for the heart of what you say.....
To suggest, as the crackpot right has, that Obama is like Hitler, is just is testimony to how many stupid and uninformed and downright hateful people there are in this country. And it sets the stage for violence.
You want to talk about Hitler? Here an a real analogy.. times were tough in Germany and Hitler rose to power with lies about the Jews and by spreading hate and fear JUST LIKE WHAT YOU AND YOUR KIND ARE DOING. Now that is a real analogy!! One which I doubt you will ever comprehend nor do you really care to because it doesnt fit in to your hate filled life.
I could spend time and effort refuting this mixture of bullshit, garbage, lies, hate and misrepresentations all mixed with a dose of some truth to help the poison go down ...but people who spread this crap live in a fantasy world presented by Fox news and the likes of Glen Beck where facts don't matter..only hate and lies will do.. Believe me I have tried..
There is only one fact ignorant, hateful, liars, bigots and racists understand ITS 2009 AND A BLACK MAN IS PRESIDENT IN AN ELECTION THEY COULDN'T STEAL AND THEY CANT GET OVER IT.. So now these hateful nasty people are willing to spread any kind of lies and hate and fear, all while cloaking themselves in the mantle of traditional values and invoking God on their side, as usual.
If you trust God so much then stay home, keep your hate, lies and fear mongering to yourselves. Do nothing except trust in God as you say you do...We would all be better off if you did but we know that is not going to happen, now is it?