by  Pam Geller

 

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 10.    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. 
 
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!  

If  you disagree, don't do  anything