This article is long and some points are loose while others compare well. The point I make by sharing such an article is that all country's evolve. All politics and social norms cycle. History class was dismissed by many. I saw cycles in everything. Some cycles were seasonal or within a generation and others were over centuries. But so many cycles exist that I cannot help but look at powerful nations over time, analyze their life-cycle and compare that to our own 200 year old country. A powerful country. A young country. A seasoned country.
We are an old country when you think that none of us are alive that formed the nation. However, we are a very young country when you look at how little experience with avoiding self destruction we have as generations separated with time from the wisdom of our founding grandfathers.
Full title of the original article is, "11 Points Of Comparison Between Life In The United States And Life Under Hitler From A Woman Who Has Experienced Both". Long title.
Have you ever heard of Kitty Werthmann? She was a child when Adolf Hitler took control of her beloved country of Austria and stripped away their freedoms, and she is now speaking out about the chillingly similar loss of freedoms that we are currently experiencing in the United States. It is often said that "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it". So, perhaps we should listen very carefully to what Kitty Werthmann has to say. She has been there. She has lived through it. The truth is that when you do sit down and compare what happened under the Nazi regime and what is happening in the United States today, the parallels are absolutely shocking. The American Dream is not guaranteed for us or for our children. Freedom must be guarded. If not, it will be taken away. In fact, our freedoms are already being stripped away at blinding speed, and once they are gone they are incredibly difficult to get back.
The quotes from Kitty Werthmann that you will read below come from her excellent article entitled "After America, There is No Place to Go". We hope that you will take the time to read that entire article after you read this one. Sometimes it is really important to get some historical perspective in order to understand what is happening today. The following are 11 points of comparison between life in the United States and life under Hitler from a woman who has experienced both....
#1) Severe Economic Crisis
We all know about the severe economic downturn that the United States has just been through. Many economists are calling it the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Often, when economic times are really hard, it paves the way for massive "change" to be pushed on a society.
Kitty Werthmann describes the economic conditions just before Hitler took over this way....
In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.
Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people, about 30 daily.
An email from Rand Paul:
The Mother of All Bailouts Dear friend, There is a new bailout coming our way and we need to prepare ourselves to fight it. It has been called "The Mother of All Bailouts" by the former Chief Credit Officer of Fannie Mae. This bailout will be bigger than the AIG bailout, bigger than the Citibank bailout, and bigger than the auto bailouts. Perhaps the worst part of this bailout are the methods they are using to hide it from the American people. Don't be fooled. The purported good intentions of this bill (namely helping people with their mortgage payments) are only inadequate fig leaves on what will certainly be a gigantic fiscal disaster. This could easily be another TRILLION DOLLAR spending spree by our out of control federal government - once again, financed by our children and grandchildren. We’ve already seen how Washington has no idea how much its unconstitutional boondoggles will cost.
I just sent this message to our Missouri representation in D.C. via their web forms and thought I would share, to encourage you to do the same. Whether your message be similar or different entirely, if you don't voice your wishes, can you really complain about how they represent you on the hill?
[For context, see the Campaign for Liberty email below.]
Why does ANYONE on capital hill think it would be okay to remove our ability to freely access information and communicate with one another at any time. I can understand their thinking. They have to consider the what-if's and in this new age of cyber warfare between international governments and rogue groups those if's are abundant and dangerous. However, don't even attempt to put in the hand of a growing and powerful government wrought with corruption and self-interest the ability to remove the most empowering ability among citizens, the ability to communicate instantly and openly with correspondence and information. Big governments don't always protect their people. They often migrate to protecting their people from themselves. In fact, through their attempts to protect their people from themselves, big governments often begin to protect the governmental power itself. A government should be recycled regularly for the health of its balance of law, respect for its citizens and avoidance of corruptness. This cleansing should include re-evaluation of the laws and turnover of the personnel. Liberty and Freedom are the enemies of a big government that has detached, to identify itself as separate from its people. The friends of Liberty and Freedom are individuals in communities empowered by arms and communications, allowing resistance to oppression and the ability to organize. Our government shouldn't have the power to remove either of those. If we are worried about a scenario that would cause a threat to the private, government and military sectors of cyber networks, then we need to explore those and establish an ability to defend against it. Even if in a worst case scenario it created a need to shut down traffic this should be done at the request or call of the government but enacted by private, free thinking individuals. Even during this shut down scenario, private shorter range, or pocket network traffic would be enabled on emergency encrypted side channels, allowing citizens to communicate with one another as needed.In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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This is another merging stream of the binary me. It may at times collide or overlap with the real me.
About Me:
I love to travel, then return home. In projects, I dig the details, when they compliment the greater perspective. I adore good design and applaud inspired implementation. Simplicity is king; functionally and in form.
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