SOMETHING OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS IS
HAPPENING
By Tim Wood
I am a student of history.
Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have
studied it 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
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 - 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 learn 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 we no longer teach our
founding documents, showing 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,
and 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 allow 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 entiregovernment, and 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 ten. And we are at
war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the
same religion, an enemy who cannot wait to slit the throats of your
children if they have the opportunity to do so.
Now we have elected President 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 explain it.
Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important
to the media.
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.
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 as
full-throttled economic crisis was 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 their
country, across Europe, and around 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 by closing my eyes,
having another latte, and ignoring 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. I do not think I am
