Let me throw this into the mix.
I received this in an email today. I have been preaching this almost exact thing for a couple of years now.


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: WashingtonD.C. , Albany , New

York , and Dakar , Senegal . He attended Harvard

University, graduating 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.

He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy

Department of the United States Naval War College .

He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College andHarvard 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 inCalifornia 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