Assoluta Tranquillita: Little Drops Into the Pool of Life

Food for thought from my friend over at Little Drops .....Into the Pool of Life:

Monday, March 22, 2010
Read And Weep...
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
~~~~~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996

Slowly but surely our freedoms are being stripped from the very fabric that makes America such a great Nation. Yet, we stand unheard and ignored as our leaders continue onward to the path of a type of government never before seen. Not even the type of government of British rule way back when. Don't believe me? Read this letter that was written by a former Austrian who lived through the very same slow erosion of freedoms by the Nazis; Kitty Werthmann.

This Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away
By: Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote.. I’ve never read that in any American publications.

Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.
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.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group — Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler....

There is much more here. Little Drop... finishes by saying:

All those things she lived through, do they resemble anything we're seeing right now in America? If that doesn't scare the stuffin' out of you, I don't know what will.
Yes, there are those who say "It can't happen in America." or even those who say "Let's wait and see, I think we'll be alright." Well... here's another quote for them; ...

Go, now, and read it all! HERE!

MORE food for thought from Little Drops.....Into the Pool of Life:

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Missing The Mark OR Wake UP Call...
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~~~~~Woodrow Wilson

There's a man who pens a blog that I respect and admire. Robert A. Hall is a man who served our Nation not only as a Marine but also in the Massachusetts Senate for 5 terms. That's answering the call of service that few in political office can say they've done. I've linked and copied many times the words that he's written (do a blog search for those posts). Today, he has a post that literally makes me scared for this country of ours. Once again, I'm going to copy and paste so that y'all can read and ponder on his words. Perhaps his words will inspire everyone to take some type of action to insure that his prediction as he foresees it will not become truth. If nothing else, I hope you will say a prayer for our Nation, for we need the power of the prayer warriors now more than ever.

From The Old Jarhead himself...

It was a great country while it lasted. Nothing tangible lasts forever, not stars, or planets, or people or flowers or birds. Certainly not political systems. We can be certain that the American Republic will have an ending as surely as it had a beginning. But when?

Predicting the future is fraught with risk. In the hundreds of opinion pieces I’ve published over the years, I’ve had some notable success doing so. In 1998, three years before 9/11, I published a column headed, “America’s War on Terror will be long, slow and cruel.” In that column I wrote that terrorists now had the power to destroy large buildings. Pretty prescient, yes, but I’ve made my share of predictions that were completely off the mark.

Emerging trends or sudden events can completely alter what looked to be inevitable. The death of a key leader, a new technology, a natural disaster striking your country—or your opponent’s—all can alter the seemingly-inevitable future.

Certainly the American Republic has been both resilient and flexible since its improbable emergence from the fire of revolution. It survived a terrible civil war, an outcome that seemed highly unlikely at the time. It survived the Great Depression. It led and won the fight against global tyranny in WWII, a victory that may appear inevitable now, but was a damn near run thing at the time. And it faced down the monster of soulless Communism, despite the infatuation of large numbers of our vapid intellectual class with the joys of collectivism, as seen from afar.

And yet, despite this history of resilience and triumph, I think that there is about an 80% certainty that the American Republic will collapse within the next twenty years, and be replaced with something else—perhaps several entities. They will not be models of classical liberal democracy. That this will be accompanied by economic privation, great violence and mass suffering I consider inevitable. That the surviving citizens of the new entity or entities will enjoy anything close to our freedom or standard of living I believe highly unlikely. The Jamestown rule—no work, no eat—will be rigidly enforced.