Example

Post 108
[reformatted 3/4/14]

Did you actually read the quote at the bottom of my last Post? Here it is again because it is a greatly significant key to understanding our current events:

“But of all the views of this law none is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people the safe, as they are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty. For this purpose the reading in the first stage, where they will receive their whole education, is proposed, as has been said, to be chiefly historical. History by apprising them of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.” - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781

Interpretation into common English:
Regarding the intent of all the laws, there are none more important or usefully necessary than those which make it possible for the people to guard their own freedom. It is for this reason among all other instructions in reading, that History should be chief among the earliest years of education. Scrutinizing the examples of history will equip them to rightly evaluate the actions and intentions of men in the present. It will enable them to see clearly the intentions behind every deception that can arise. And by recognizing that deception they can defeat it’s very concept.

Thomas Jefferson has enlightened us to the extreme importance of observing the events of history to analyze HOW and WHY things happen.
Once we see the entire event of history after it is complete, we can examine each step from A to Z and see clearly the hidden motives, the deceptions, the misdirection, the tiny steps, and the actual goal, which eventually arrives at the end result.
After having seen and understood all this through historical examples, we can easily pre-identify the end result of the same steps as they happen to us, therefore allowing us to react differently “this time around”.
In such light I offer this narrative of one who experienced first hand those steps of history:
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Truly America 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 be allowed to read in history books.
I am an eyewitness to history. By the grace of God, I am still alive to warn you and tell you that the National Socialist Party and Adolf Hitler did not take Austria by tanks and guns! That is a progressive's distortion of history. We in Austria willingly and gleefully elected Hitler as our saviour by a landslide with 98% of the vote. I've never read that in any American publication. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. Not true.

In 1938, Austria was in a deep economic downturn. We had very high unemployment, huge debts, our currency had been de-valued and as a result we had 25% inflation and bank loans were nearly impossible to get. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily and many were losing their businesses and homes. Young and old people alike 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 religious woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day she cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - nearly 30 a day.
At the time, the Communist Party and the National Socialist Party (Nazi's) were fighting each other for influence and control. Eventually violence erupted and blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna, Linz, and Graz were destroyed. The people became more and more desperate.

We looked to our neighbor to the north, Germany. Where a gifted and charismatic speaker named Adolf Hitler had been elected to power in 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and that the Germans had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group - Jewish or otherwise. We wanted that same way of life in Austria. We were led to believe that everyone was happy and that Hitler would bring change. We were promised everything and that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and hope for all of the people. Hitler also said that businesses and the cities would be helped by the government, and that rural farmers would get assistance from the Nazi's.

Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany, ending our long history as an independent nation and elected Adolf Hitler as our supreme ruler!

At first, we were overjoyed. For three days we celebrated in the streets and had candlelight parades. Almost overnight, German government officials were appointed and like a miracle, they quickly implemented very strict new laws and discipline bringing law and order to the streets. The new government then opened up big field kitchens, taking food from anyone who had it, and the starving began to be fed by the Nazi's.

Three or four weeks later, Hitler's central government made sure work was created through the People's Social Work Service. In a few months, hundreds of thousands were now dependent on the Nazi's for their food and their jobs. Hitler then decided that women should work as well. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. At first many thought this was good and supported these so-called "Women's Rights". Little did we know what was to come of all these changes.

Hitler Targets Education - Outlaws Religion:
Then, our excellent education system was taken over by the central government and nationalized. Prior to that, I attended a very good public school where religious instruction and prayer was part of our education. However, the day after the schools were nationalized, I walked into my schoolroom the next morning to find the crucifix on the wall missing. It had been replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi swastika and flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up with a tear in her eye and told the class we couldn't pray and that practice of religion had been outlawed. Instead, we were taught to sing "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," the Nazi anthem and were required to take physical education.

Sunday's were no longer for religious services or church, but became National Youth Day - with compulsory attendance. Many parents were not pleased about this sudden "change." however, they were told that if they did not send us they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined, and the third time they would go to prison. At school the first two hours consisted of political indoctrination and propaganda where we were taught to love National Socialism and despise our parents if they objected. Even encouraging us as children to turn violators in as traitors to the police. And many enthusiastic children did this to their very own parents! Little time was spent teaching us traditional subjects. What time we did spend on math, etc., was then followed for the rest of the day with sports.

Fortunately for me, my mother was strong in her beliefs and very traditional. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and enrolled me in a convent school. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday, I would be grateful. At the convent, there was a very good traditional curriculum, but hardly any fun. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. I was shocked by their new loyalties and lifestyle. They had very quickly begun to live without religion or morals and worshipped Adolf Hitler instead. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified by the State for having a baby for Hitler and his Socialist views. It seemed so incredibly strange to me that hundreds of years of culture and our society could be changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did by s ending me away, so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of radical humanistic philosophy.

Women's Right to Work Hits Home:
In 1939, the war started and a government food bank was firmly established. All food and agriculture was confiscated and rationed. The central government issued food stamps and you had to use them to eat. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed by the Nazi's which meant that if you didn't work, you didn't get food stamps. And if you didn't have stamps, you starved to death. Women who wanted to stay home to raise their families were forced to work.

Soon after this, a mandatory military draft was implemented. In addition, the Labor Corp was established and it was compulsory for all young people, male and female, to spend one year in the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. As the war drug on, after the labor corps, many women were not discharged but were used as fodder in combat on the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women who survived are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. As for myself, three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service. Twice God had spared me.

Hitler Dismantles the Family:
Taking advantage of the situation, when mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child day care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, under the total care of the Socialist government. In this way, the state raised a whole generation of Nazi indoctrinated children. There were no mothers to take care of the children, just specialists highly trained in child psychology and Nazi politics. By this time, no one talked about equal rights for women. We knew we had been lied to.

Before Hitler, Austria had some of the best heath care in the world.
Many American doctors even trained at the University of Vienna. After Hitler, health care was socialized, and made free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and at the same time there was no room in the hospitals as they were over-flowing. If you needed surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. Many people (especially the elderly) suffered and were left to die as a result. There was no money for research as it was poured into paying for the people's socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, and the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

To support healthcare and the many Socialist programs, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income and still the nation was in massive debt.
Under National Socialism, there were hundreds of new big government agencies and programs always designed to help us. For example, we had many big programs for babies and families. As an example, all newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household and have children. Little did we know they were intended to be used as on Hitler's battlefields. All day care and Nazi re-education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was required to take mandatory handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing. It became impossible to live without total dependence on the central state welfare system.

We even had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law's family owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners and need medical care (at government expense). Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities, etc. And it was just a small restaurant with no complaints. Ultimately, he could no longer afford to meet all the regulations and demands. Soon, he went out of business. Like many others, his family run small business was taken over by a larger government controlled conglomerate. If the government owned the large businesses and small business were no longer feasible economically, the Nazi's could be in total control of the economy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished.
We also had very aggressive "consumer protection" department. We were told where to shop, what to buy, and how to eat. We even had a special planning agency specially designed for farmers. Government agents who knew nothing about farming as they were political appointees, would go to the farms and tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it. Production dropped to half the output prior. And what was left, was only to be confiscated for re-distribution and the greater good.

"Mercy" Killing Defined:
In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which in the winter were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people often intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, there were roughly 15 mentally retarded adults. But they were all welcome in the community and managed some form of useful work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor at the local school. One day, some men arrived and I saw Vincent and others being put into a van. I asked my superior where they were going? She said not to ask as it was too dangerous. By then that's the way it was for most everything. People were like sheep. However, eventually she said that they were being sent to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, official letters started to dribble back saying these people had all died a very co-incidental natural death. The villagers were not fooled. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We later heard this kind of thing was happening all over and not just to the handicapped. We began to call this euthanasia. We knew what was happening, but nobody did anything about it.

The Final Step - Gun Laws:
Next came gun registration. According to the National Socialists and their so-called expert studies, people were getting injured because of guns and they were harmful to our health. Besides, Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few left) was by matching serial numbers on guns, so they must be registered. Most citizens dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police then said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns and "we the people" were effectively disarmed! The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply. Those that did were never seen again.
With our ability of self defense stripped away, there was also no more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the central government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also Christian priests, ministers, and educators who courageously spoke up.

Gradual Take-Over
The frightening thing about my story is that totalitarianism didn't come by force. Instead we had creeping gradualism. And the loss of our freedoms was always in partnership with a loyal media and propaganda machine, who constantly told us that these big government programs were best for us. Even with these gradual changes, it only took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in now socialist Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, now our only weapons were broom handles and pitch forks. Hardly any match for the Nazi's. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable today. That the state, and a duly elected government, little by little, completely destroyed our freedoms while most sat and watched.

And the suffering, it didn't stop with the Nazi's. When World War II ended, communist Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped indiscriminately, from pre-teen to the elderly. And mine is an eye-witness account. Like with the Nazi's the compliant press never wrote about this either. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna still today, dedicated to those women who were raped or massacred by the Russians. When the Soviets finally left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down entire orchards, sacked churches, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned.

Fortunately, God smiled upon me again when I was able to legally emigrate to America in 1957! For those of us who have seen the evils of National Socialism and Godless communism first hand, it makes no sense why our government is now looking towards European socialism as the solution to this administration's hope and change. I've seen that kind of change! And NEVER AGAIN!

When I sailed past the Statue of Liberty and came to this great country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity, I could never have imagined that what happened in my native Austria could ever happen here. However, I'm now an elderly woman and what is happening here seems remarkably similar to what happened then. I had to speak out...

They say that if you're not careful, history will repeat itself! So I beseech you, please remember that America truly is the Greatest Country in the World! We are not to blame for the world's problems. America has been the solution and we should never apologize to anyone! Don't sit and watch this time in history as our Freedom Gradually Slips Away!If America falters, where shall freedom loving people go?
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Wonder about Kitty Worthmann?
Here is a transcript of her appearance on Glenn Beck
(http://www.livedash.com/transcript/glenn_beck/51/FNC/Friday_September_24_2010/306678/). *