This article is by noted author and historian Pam Geller; it is EXACTLY what I was referring to in one of my earlier posts about change and human history.  Now, admitedly, Ms. Geller may have an agenda or axe to grind, I do not know, but suffice it to say that she touches on very key points about what is happening, and what one possible path might look like, should we continue walking it.

This is too important to me to just sit idly by, letting the absurdity of Barack Obama's clarion-call for 'change' drag the human race (starting in America) into its darkest chapter yet... a chapter from which the race's very extinction looms as a very real possibility... unless we each voice our opinion, cast our vote, make sure we are heard and understood.

Here is Ms. Geller's article:
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.&n  bsp;

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.) <  br>

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 onc e 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.

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About  the author (courtesy of Google):  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.

-Peter