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PLEASE READ AND SEND TO EVERYONE.  THIS IS REALLY SCARY
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> Please take three minutes to read  this.    Maybe he is wrong, but what if
> he is  right?
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> 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 DC. ,  Albany , New York, and Dakar , Senegal .
> He attended Harvard 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 Reserve from 1970 to 1976.
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> 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 and Harvard  University .  Kaiser's latest book, The Road to
> Dallas, about the Kennedy  assassination, was just published by Harvard
> University  Press.
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> Dr. David  Kaiser
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> History Unfolding
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> We have spent two or more decades  intentionally de-industrializing our
> economy.. Why?
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled  down to one word: CHANGE.  Why?
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> I have never been so afraid for my  country and for my children as I am now.
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> 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.
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> And that is only the  beginning..
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> 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.
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> 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,
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> 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, acrossEurope, 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.
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> If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all  there in the history
> books.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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..
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> 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.
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> I  pray I am wrong.  I do not think I am.  Perhaps the only hope is our
> vote in the next elections.
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> David Kaiser
> Jamestown  ,  Rhode  Island
> United  States
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> If you pass this along, perhaps it will  help to begin the awakening of
> America as to where we are  headed...
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