Is Hollywierd Starting to Get It?

I took my oldest daughter and wife to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Friday. It was a great family movie, if your kids are not under about 7-8 years old. So at one point, the Decepticons make their presence known to the world, and demand that Sam Witwicky, a college age kid, be turned over to them, because or something he knows that the bad guys want. Around this time, The Chosen One gets a mention, there is a film clip on an on screen television of Air Force One, and the commentator says that, "President Obama has been moved to a secret bunker." In a later scene, The Chosen One's National Security Advisor is talking with a multi-national task force that hunts down the Decepticons. He tells the team to stand down and the team asks him what is going on. The NSA says that diplomatic channels are being opened. The soldier accuses the NSA, and by extension, the administration, of selling out a boy to save their skins. The NSA says that, "all options are "on the table." The government then proceeds to hunt down this boy with the obvious intent of selling him out. Now does anyone else see what I saw in this little bit of film. Someone from Hollywierd took a swipe at The Chosen One. I was surprised and delighted. This whole interplay made the administration look very cowardly and self serving. I congratulate Michael Bay for his personal courage to break the lockstep that Hollywierd presents, and actually portraying The Chosen One, and his lackeys, in not only a negative light, but also, I believe, an accurate one. Once again bravo Michael Bay.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

ABC Sells Out

ABC has at last given up every claim to journalistic integrity and objectivity. Today ABC will be "The Platform" for The Chosen One's attempt to to put socialized health care over on the American People. To find out why socialized medicine is such a boondoggle, see this previous post. This will be a day long infomercial for our beloved Party Chairman and his scheme to control Americans in yet another way. ABC will not allow dissenting opinions today. So you might ask what ABC is selling out for? Unprecedented exclusive access to information about The Chosen One's health care plan, the chance to lick Fearless Leader's boots, and the chance to broadcast all the day's news from the White House. This is quite a coup for the ABC news staff, but tosses aside the last shreds of objectivity. Personally I would want a butt-load (that's a technical term) of money to sell my soul, on top of all the other stuff the "Party" is ponying up.
So why is the Kenyan-in-Chief being so secretive and squashing all dissent? Where is that transparency we were promised? The Chosen One wants to steal your choice in health care. Sure they say it for "our own good," but when has anything Comrade Obama done been good for us? He will start out allowing us a choice, maybe. but then businesses and individuals will lose their tax exemption. Businesses will no longer be able to afford to offer insurance to their employees, and the employees, of the few that can, won't be able to afford it either. So at this point what will be the options available? None other than CommieCare. Now even those who choose to stand proud and free, beholden to no man will be put on the dole. But what will come next will be even worse.
CommieCare will likely start out funded and with few demands on the health care system. But as surely as night follows day, the government will start making demands saying, "We pay the bill, you must do as we say." That is how government works. Don't believe, look what is going on here in Oregon. (about half-way down the page) Soon after we will see the start of rationed care. One of my favorite writers, Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of Alzheimer's. What did the UK health plan do for him? Because of budget cutting rationing of care, they told him he was to young to receive treatment for that ailment. Fortunately for him he is wealthy and can buy his treatment. But what about you citizen? Are you rich? I'm sure as hell not. At that point we are well and truly screwed brothers and sisters. But wait there's more. Soon the doctors will leave the profession. Why would they bother if there is no money in it for them? All that will be left are the dregs who have to do something for a living. At that point our system will be no better than Cuba's . Now if you are a neo-lib you probably believe Michael Moore's claims and think that would be just peachy, but I don't, even their dictator called out for service.
Why is it that everywhere there is "universal health care" there are long lines, poor service and people of means coming here for treatment? If America has such poor service, as the Party Chairman claims, then how come when Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi needed a pacemaker he came here? Doesn't Italy have universal and health care and claim to provide better service? Why I do believe they do. If it it so good, how come Ciampi waited a month just so his procedure could be performed away from home by "inferior" doctors? Makes you think huh?
I urge every reader to boycott ABC today. Stand up for the freedom of information and speech. But don't stop there. Contact your Congressmen and Senators. Flood their e-mails, lock up their phone systems. Tell them we want to choose how we receive health care, not have it foisted upon us.

Another Cool Gun Story

Yet another reason to keep a gun in the house....

One month ago, in the notoriously dangerous neighborhood of College Park in Atlanta, Georgia, two armed criminals broke into a house party and after confiscating the group's valuables, split the men and women up into different rooms.

Witnesses say the perpetrators counted their rounds and discussed if they had "enough" ammunition.

The students believe the gunmen were going to rape and murder the entire group of students, who were celebrating a birthday at the end of the semester. However, one male student, whose identity is being protected by police and local media, retrieved a handgun from a backpack and fired at the thug who was detaining the men. (That is: One smart student had prepared for a night in College Park, Atlanta.) The criminal fled the apartment under the threat of injury and never returned. The student continued into the girls' room, where the other thug, 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, was preparing to rape his first victim.

The unnamed student exchanged gunfire with Lavant, lethally wounding him in the process. Lavant fled out of a window and died in front of his apartment, which was just one building away.

One of the female students was injured during the exchange, but doctors expect a full and complete recovery.

So what is the point?

A student saved the girls from rape, and saved the whole group of 10 people (including himself) from murder ... and he did it with a handgun. This is a perfect example of how ludicrous "big city gun laws" are. What if this had happened in New York, Chicago, or any of the other big cities that ban their citizens from carrying handguns?

Yes, we would be reading a different story -- one so horrendous that we would shudder at the very words. Either this whole group of friends would have been raped and murdered by these two hoodlums ... or the hero of this story would be facing prison time for firearm possession and murder. Thankfully, however, Atlanta has not outlawed self-defense yet, and since someone had a gun and was willing to use it, innocent life was preserved. Congratulations to the unnamed hero of this story. You saved your friends' lives.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

Liberal Mindset

So this was posted in the comments section of my blog when I posted a countdown to The Chosen One's leaving widget.

Anonymous said... You ungrateful racist hillbilly. Obama is doing a lot of good for this country. He is the one pulling us out of this depression and it is foot dragging assholes like you that are making it harder for him to do his job. He loves this country and it is a pity he can't throw you out of it. I am tired of you wannabe KKK members trying to drag him down all of the time. I hope the FBI sees that every[ ]time you talk about Obama you wish him death with your "Death to her enemies" hate mongering. When they come for you and execute you for treason I am gonna laugh on you[r] grave.

P.S. Why don't you just go to Iraq or Afghanistan and step on a land mine with all of the other sub humans that America has rightly shipped over there in Bush's illegal war.

Instead of getting angry and hunting Anon down, I am going to make an attempt to practice this "measured response" thingy my bosses keep telling me I should use. I am going to address Anon's concerns one issue at a time.

You ungrateful racist hillbilly.:
I am not ungrateful. I love America more than life itself and have put my own precious self between her and wars desolation. Have you? Racist, I think not. I am willing to put my multi-cultural credential up against just about any one's any day of the week. My oldest sister married two different black guys and has two mulatto sons. My middle sister married and honest-to-god hillbilly coal miner's son from Buckhannon, West Virginia. The youngest sister married an Arab Muslim from the Kingdom of Morocco. They also have two kids who are awesome. My brother married an Okkie and has two beautiful daughters (but not as cute as mine j/k). I married a damned yippie from the great Northwest who is slowly being deprogrammed from the brain-washing she received at WWU in Bellingham, WA (a sanctuary city for both illegal aliens and AWOL soldiers). I am Scots/Irish, English with a little German and Cherokee and (unfortunately) maybe some French (damn surrender monkeys). I was raised Catholic but have Mormon family on my mom's side. I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, can speak Spanish and some French and Japanese. I can also curse a bit in German (a great language to swear in). The only problems I have with any of them is the damn Okkie (just kidding Chris). What are your credentials ass hat? By they way, since I am gonna bring them up, love to the family back in Texas.

Obama is doing a lot of good for this country.:
Name one thing, please.?

He is the one pulling us out of this depression and it is foot dragging assholes like you that are making it harder for him to do his job.:
I paid just shy of $3 a gallon for gas soooooo on the economy saving thing....not so much. Foot dragging? I am sure that The Chosen One quivers in fear from my opinions. I am equally sure that an IT worker in the middle of nowhere, Oregon makes a huge impact on the government's policies.

He loves this country and it is a pity he can't throw you out of it.:
I find it difficult to believe he cares for anything about this country except for what it can do for him. At least judging from his "Bash America World Tour," his shame of and refusal to wear American flag, and Michelle's embarrassment of her country. I mean she wasn't proud to be American until it was politically expedient? As for throwing me out, for starters...Bring It! Having said that, this is a nation of laws with a constitution that, despite the Chosen One's disregard for it, says you can't.

I am tired of you wannabe KKK members trying to drag him down all of the time.:
I feel I have covered that.

I hope the FBI sees that every[ ]time you talk about Obama you wish him death with your "Death to her enemies" hate mongering.:
If I was saying I wanted the Chosen One killed it would be the United States Secret Service not the FBI that would come for me. Try to learn something between drinks of Kool-Aid. Now I do consider The Chosen One an enemy of the state, but feel that his murder at the hands of psycho assholes would be a sad day, after all, despite how much I do not like it, and I don't, he IS The President. I also think it much more likely for an uneducated close minded little prick such as yourself to assassinate someone they don't like rather than myself. I just want him out of office legally, big difference. As for "GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!," well I sign all of my posts with that. Any implied threat to the President is your own wishful thinking.

When they come for you and execute you for treason I am gonna laugh on you[r] grave.:
The Chosen One doesn't have the stomach to execute anyone except unborn children, but on the off chance Michelle lets him have his balls back, I am ready to die for my country and beliefs, are you? Also I couldn't help correcting the spelling error here. What can I say, did they not teach you English at that liberal education camp cum university? Now, if you choose to laugh on my grave, well I hope that my loved ones are more joyous for my leaving this veil of tears and the richness of the memories we made together rather than sadness at my passing, so your laughs will probably go unnoticed. I do warn you however, that I have some large friends with poor senses of humor, who if you did laugh because I was dead, would probably do rather unpleasant things to your person. No one like to see a grieving family antagonized.

P.S. Why don't you just go to Iraq or Afghanistan and step on a land mine with all of the other sub[-]humans that America has rightly shipped over there in Bush's illegal war.:
I would be proud to serve with the soldiers in Iraq or in "the Stan." I served before and I am ready, if called upon, to serve again. I am to broken from past deeds to serve on the front lines, but would be proud to be a REMF (usually not something to be proud of) if it would free up an able bodied man to serve with his brothers and sisters on the front lines. I would even serve at the front if they would take me, but I think we would be in deep trouble indeed if they needed bodies so bad as to fill front line ranks with someone as broken as I. As for sub-humans, please say that to a soldiers face, I dare you. Hopefully you will be able to walk again someday. As for illegal war, well it isn't illegal if congress voted on it, which they did, and how come I don't hear you protesting the Chosen One's illegal actions, of which there are many.

All and all, I appreciate your at least reading my modest posts but ask that you tone it up a bit. Pretend to have a little class Anon. But after taking that high-minded stance let me translate this into language you will understand. (WARNING The following may contain content that some readers might find objectionable and may NOT be suitable for children.) Pound sand you ass sucking shit licker! (I guess measured response time is over.) If you had a brain in your head you would think for yourself and come to your own conclusion rather than drinking the Kool-Aid without a second thought. I couldn't care less about your opinions, and if you agree with me, but for the love of god THINK man. It is blind devotion to what the government, any government, spoon feeds you that is the most pressing problem in this country and this world. The only reason I am even taking the time to respond to your brain dead comments is in the vain hope that you might, just might, learn to think for yourself and possibly remove your head from your tight, sorry intolerant ass long enough to cogitate an original thought. I would hope that even someone as brain-washed as yourself could possibly use their head for something other than a rectal plug, but I highly doubt it. I will pray for you anyways though.

See brothers and sisters, that is what the country is coming to. It is nice to find that your assessment of the opposition is justified in fact rather than the crazy maudlin ramblings from some dark paranoid corner of your own brain. Calling the young men and women that serve in our military forces, who give more in 1 second of there service to this country than this dill weed asshat Anon will likely give in his entire life, sub-humans is asinine. They risk all so that people like Anon can have a glimmer of freedom. I just hope their sacrifices are not made in vain, but I doubt people such as Anon can lift their head out of the pink fog that is their own self-centered, small minded little world long enough to think of anyone besides themselves, but again I doubt it.

A special thanks to the G-Man for standing up for me. You are a real American sir!

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

"Gone" Barack Obama

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Granny For President!!!

Someone e-mailed this to me. I wonder if we can throw the bum out and just this once (twice?) allow a foreigner to be our President.

The Rambo Granny of Melbourne , Australia

Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down - and shot off their testicles.

The old lady spent a week hunting those men down -and, when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way,?said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp.

Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station,?laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be: 'Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.'

Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles?when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cell mate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up..

The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom come,?but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said.?'The one guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, 'but the doctor I talked to said he won't be using it the way he used to,'?Detective Delp told reporters. 'Both men are still in pretty bad shape, 'but I think they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through.'

The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row... 'When I saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital,?'I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself?''cause I figured the Law would go easy on them,' recalled the retired library worker..?'And I wasn't scared of them, either - because I've got me a gun and I've been shootin' all my life.?'And I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one.'

So, using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighborhood where the crime took place?till she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel..?'I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway' and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them,' the oldster recalled.

'So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door,?'and the minute the big one opened the door, I shot 'em right square between the legs,'right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know.?'Then I went in and shot the other one 'as he backed up pleading to me to spare him.'Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in...'

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny.?'What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison,' Det. Delp said, 'especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor.'

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

Michael Savage Silenced?

In case you have been living under a rock the last month, Michael Savage, a conservative talk show host based in modern day Sodom, (San Francisco) was banned in May from entering The People's Republic of Britain. Why was this man banned from entering a country he has no plans on entering? Is it because of his many tirades inciting violence against homosexuals. Perhaps it is because Michael Savage told every American that we should re-institute the crusades and kill Arabs? Maybe because he offered a bounty on abortion doctors?

The truth brothers and sisters, is that Michael Savage has not, and has never, done any of these things. Michael Savage was banned because he has spoken out against the Socialist Mafia. Michael Savage has spoken what he believes to be the truth against the left and for that he has been named a pariah in the UK by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. This sow of a Stalinist has placed this great champion of Free Speech on a list alongside Hamas murderers who clubbed a baby's head in with a rifle butt and Russian skinheads who killed, by their own admission 20 people.

Comrade Smith states that Michael Savage engaged in "unacceptable behavior" that could "lead to inter-community violence." As a long time listener to Dr. Savage, I can say at no time during my listenership has he proposed or incited violence against anyone. Dr. Savage does say that liberalism is a mental disorder, that gays are immoral and other potentially incendiary topics, but never violence.

So what about Kin Jong Il or Hugo Chavez? How about the Chosen One's preacher Reverend Wright? You can't tell me he doesn't foment, "inter-community violence." but say you don't like the Chosen One, or that homosexuality is immoral and you are classed mith murderers and hate mongers.

But you say to me that there is no presumtion of free speech in England, true on the face of it, but what about Article 19, section 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which both the U.S. and U.K. have signed: "Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print." Pretty strong legal basis to me.

What I want to know is where is the outrage? Where is the ACLU that "bastion" of free speech? The left should be all over this, but because they want Savage silenced they say nothing.

In the face of all her other scandles, and due to the embarassment that Savage's exclusion has caused, Comrade Smith has been fired, but the fight goes on. Michael Savage needs our help. I am cash strapped so putting this out there is my way of helping Dr. Savage. Please follow the link bellow and donate what you can.

http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=6096

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

The Death of Freedom

Lately there has been a sound on the wind, just below the level of hearing. Like someone whispering, just far enough away that the words can not be clearly made out. It is Lady Liberty in her death throes, slowly being strangled by the Nanny State. As each of our personal liberties goes down it is a nail in her coffin.

Our founding fathers set forth our rights in that most noble prose that makes up the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. Obama and other similarly minded thugs strip us of our rights. Rights that the government is sworn to uphold. Do they make attacks boldly and in the open? NO! No brothers and sisters we see or rights taken from us in small bits. Each assault takes from us that which is most precious.

So who are the enemies of freedom? The liberal/progressive left and all others who abhor freedom and hate America. Those who work everyday to steal the gift of freedom right from the hands of the people. I name them guilty of treason against the Constitution, and against the Republic. I call upon the various organs of law enforcement to round up these scoundrels and drag them before a court of law.

Unfortunately I must also blame the conservative right. Brothers and sisters we stand quietly by and do nothing while these haters of liberty strip it from us until all that remains are sad tatters of once great ideals.

So on that note I declare the revolution. A revolution not of violence or of blood, but a revolution of ideas and of votes. Let us remove the cancer that infests our state houses and governors' mansions. Let us tear out the blight in Washington, root and branch. Let us toss out those who fail to represent the people, but serve only their own self-interest. We must replace them with thoughtful, freedom loving men and women. I pledge my life, my fortune and my sacred honor to taking back my country. I will struggle everyday toward that end. I will NOT stand idly by. I will NOT be silenced by the p.c. mafia thugs. I call upon all of you, right and left, who see the road we are careening down, and are willing to stand up and say, NO MORE! Join me brothers and sisters.

Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. - Boondock Saints

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

Chosen One Changes Mind on Abortion?

The chosen one now is calling for debate on abortion. Is this not the man who wanted to kill babies that survived abortions? Not only did he vote against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act three times, this person defended it. Watch this video, and if you are not as appalled as I was/am, then I say to you that I am sickened to belong to the same species as you. He justified his vote with paltry word games and cheap lawyer tricks. How dare you sir! How dare you? Now, when public opinion is starting to shift toward a more pro-life position, he calls for debate. Again I ask, how dare you. I do not always agree with the president, generally I consider myself a member of the "loyal opposition," but this person wants us to believe he thinks it is time for honest debate? This is outrageous catering to the whims of polls. I have nothing more to say except that I am disappointed in our putative leader.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

Liberals Don't Read History. They Don't Think It's Relevant.

This is long, but enlightening. Lest you think it was written by some right-wing kook, 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 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.

He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College and 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.

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

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!

The Political Compass

Click here to take the test and get your own results. Here are mine:

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Obama's Vision for America

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it."
- Barack Obama

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND DEATH TO HER ENEMIES!