One Day....Atlas Shrugged

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.

By Pam Geller: 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 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.)

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.

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 Pr ime 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.

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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

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 it allies have

begun and in the interim, we can make our voices heard! Lets do it!

If you disagree, don't do anything.