The Peace Guy posted this on his blog. I am posting it here because I think we really have something terrible going on here in America.
But, don't live in fear; we absolutely can stop them. They share greed and feed on fear, but they can't have us for LUNCH!
By the way, she forgot Franco in Spain.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Naomi Wolf Celebrated Author of
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Honest to God, one more piece that I will have to watch in pieces. This is like the book American Theocracy...I read about a third of it, and had to put it down. Now the dh is reading it..in pieces. I will continue to watch, but in pieces.
ReplyDeleteMy very conservative and elderly neighbor asked me very quietly "who re you voting for? Obama?" And I said "Absolutely" When she asked why, I told her that the last 8 years has angered me, and now I am scared, really scared. The thought of McCain/Palin continuing the work of taking personal interpretation of the Constitution, denying us privacy and free speach, and controlling us as they have started...while supporting big business, scares me more than anything I have seen or experienced in my life.
I really think she heard me, and I think she knew what I was talking about. She remembers Hitler very well.
Meribeth
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ReplyDeleteMeribeth, I have to read things in small pieces too, and get up and walk away a lot.
ReplyDeleteI know without a doubt this situation cannot be ignored because if it is, we'll have another military state, just as it's happened in the past, many times over. I know many feel that, "It can't happen here". But, they are just not looking at what happened in Europe before the Nazis slowly and systematically took over Italy and Germany.
I intend to watch intently.
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This is difficult. Naomi Wolf is not a very credible writer. Some of her ideas are sound, but she does not back them up with sound research. She is more of a sensationalist.
ReplyDeleteNo question that some of the activities of the current administration cross the line, and must be reined in, hopefully by the new occupant of the office. The Constitution has not been suspended, we have no "president for life" nor are we in any danger of getting that.
Just read or listen to Ms. Wolf with a healthy dose of skepticism and check her facts and figures. Remember that she is selling books. ;-)
I thank you for the warning, Pogonip, and please know that I respect your opinions very much. Ms. Wolf may be sensationalizing, certainly the issue is sensational enough.
ReplyDeleteThe difficulty is in the subject itself. This is not an easy subject, either to quantify or to "fact find" in, since it is extremely contemporary and in flux even today. We are looking at a historical model, and trying to gain insights into what is happening and even to extrapolate the future moves that will be made against our Democracy and Economy.
What we have going can turn on a dime, this democracy is considerably weakened, and we have to at least be aware that a collapse of societies has been done in this same systematic way before. Therefore, in view of what I've seen myself as empirical evidence to form a theory such as this, I'm not willing to bet that this "system" is not operating now in our country.
I do believe her 10 points are easier to follow in a historical background, and I have decided that she has made good evidence for them, but will check her facts.
I don't know how I found your blog, but here I am.
ReplyDeleteI have just been listening to Naomi's interview and even though these are things I observe on a daily basis worldwide, it is still frightening hearing it in this context.
For those who doubt Ms. Wolf's theory be they truths or half-truths and say she is sensationalizing, I am here to tell you to wake up. She is absolutely correct, even though I am sure she probably has no idea as to the extent of this global nazi*fi*cation which is happening right now as I write.
Germany is not only an historical landmark where this is concerned, it is also present and happening AGAIN as I write. Thirty, forty, fifty years ago the new German constitution was untouchable. It was written in stone and could not be changed. This great thing called Democracy as taught to the Germans by the Americans after the war was honed and polished and perfected in Germany until up to about 10years ago.
History is repeating itself once again and there is no America to turn to for help because this time, it seems, America is the country leading the way into this disaster. The rights of German citizens are slowly being eroded and 'capped'. Rumours are heard in the media and overnight, those rumours are laws. There are new laws now where the German version of the C#I#A# is allowed to tap into your telephone connection including your internet, without you knowing. There is an ultra right-winged politician who is wheel chair bound, who seems 'hell-bend' on taking this country(Germany) back into the dark ages. If you read the history about the political climate in Germany back in the 60s and 70s, you will see that the left-wing activists were not content to sit on their behinds and wait, a lot of German high-ranking businessmen and politicians were obducted and killed or shot in cold blood....yes, those were the days when Nazi dissidents and ultra-rights were scared out of their wits and they have not forgiven the left-wingers for those atrocities. The wheelchair bound was one of them who was paralysed from some of those bullets.
I am going to purchase Naomi's books in order see how far-reaching this 'erosion' of human rights has become. Who knows, I might be interrogated on my next visit to the airport.
Sorry, but I am signing 'Anon' for the time being. I still have young adult children to protect.
Just posted under 'Anon' but I think I could use the name 'Pinky'. Yes, I did the test and I am Pinky...lol.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Pinky, for your comments. You took the "What Color Are You" test? lol Pinky is good.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend with whom we chat in a game we played together with friends, and he is from Germany. He was saying some of the same things that you are, that there as been an erosion of rights there. He was pretty specific about the creeping changes and the acceleration of same.
In the county I live in, we had a problem with what are called "skin heads" and the so called Aryan Nation, hoodlums who attacked whomever they disliked, and they even killed one person.
I suspect that a lot of them have found their way North or into the military, possibly, because I don't hear much about them in our county anymore. They are Neo-Nazis, in truth. I worry about them being so quiet, wherever they are. As you say, this is a big worldwide movement. I'm really sure they are somewhere getting indoctrination or training. *shudders*