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Post by KNOWTHIS on May 23, 2006 12:45:00 GMT -5
Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the quiescence of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
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Post by Swamp Gas on May 23, 2006 13:10:14 GMT -5
In Hitler's own words:
“Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. And as a man I have the duty to see to it that human society does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago — a civilization which was driven to its ruin through this same Jewish people.
“For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: ‘Lord, make us free!’ is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: ‘Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!’”
“Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time. A fight for freedom had begun mightier than the earth had ever seen; for once Destiny had begun its course, the conviction dawned on even the broad masses that this time not the fate of Serbia or Austria was involved, but whether the German nation was to be or not to be.”
“Imbued with the desire to secure for the German people the great religious, moral, and cultural values rooted in the two Christian Confessions, we have abolished the political organizations but strengthened the religious institutions.”
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Post by chickenlittle on May 23, 2006 21:15:28 GMT -5
Hey Knowthis.......That is one of my favorite written works.That is what they should teach the kids in school and all else will take care of itself.It is the basics of life.We are not alone,and people should care and be aware.
chicky
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Post by KNOWTHIS on May 23, 2006 23:03:52 GMT -5
Check this.... My life has been bombarded by so many unexpected "coincidences" (I don't believe in them) and synchronicities lately. Just one day after posting this poem here it was referenced on the Keith Olbermann show tonight in context of the NSA spy program. I'll post the transcript when it's up if I remember. While I'm on the subject of tabloid news. On Scarborough tonight this asshole is doing a media blitz promoting his new book "110 People That Who Are Screwing Up America". He has Jeanine Garofalo on there, don't know which number and Howard Stern is 62. I E-mailed Stern about it and encouraged the show to contact him and rip him a new one or at least tear him apart on the show. I think he's against the Dixie Chicks too? Something really rubs me the wrong way about this guy. Same with David Whore-no-wits. |
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Post by chickenlittle on May 24, 2006 6:05:55 GMT -5
Oh yeah,yeah Olbermann I think is alright but yes this other guy Joe Scarborough(ass kisser) I think to the world orderers.
Speaking of coincidences I have had a lot of these especially with the number 11 (as usual) and old tunes pop in my head and I find myself humming them and then there they are,and not common tunes either.
I went to buy something the other day and it came to $11.01 and ten minutes later on my way home made a quick stop and it was $11.02 within ten minutes of each purchase.I was working in the yard of this old,old house of my father in laws digging in old flower beds that hadn't been turned for years and I dig up a dime .10cents and then a penny in the same bed,so there was another 11.The other night when I came to the site before I logged in it showed the time as 11:11 but of course my time was 8:11 ,usually when I see this number too much something is gonna give.
take care
chicky
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