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My friend, tristinmorgan posted a rather frightening letter she received on her blog.
You can see it behind the cut.
Subject: HYMN TO HITLER IMPORTANT READING HYMN TO HITLER
Posted by: Lori Kalner on Wednesday, October 01, 2008
In Germany, when Hitler came to power, it was a time of terrible financial depression. Money was worth nothing. In Germany people lost homes and jobs, just like in the American Depression in the 1930s, which we have read about in Thoene's Shiloh books. In those days, in my homeland, Adolph Hitler was elected to power by promising 'Change.' He blamed the 'Zionists' around the world for all our problems. He told everyone it was greedy Zionist Bankers who had caused every problem we had. He promised when he was leader, the greedy Zionist bankers would be punished. The Zionists, he promised, would be wiped off the face of the earth. So Hitler was elected to power by only 1/3 the popular vote. A coalition of other political parties in parliament made him supreme leader. Then, when he was leader, he disgraced and expelled everyone in parliament who did not go along with him. Yes. Change came to my homeland as the new leader promised it would. The teachers in German schools began to teach the children to sing songs in praise of Hitler. This was the beginning of the Hitler Youth movement. It began with praise of the Fuhrer's programs on the lips of innocent children. Hymns in praise of Hitler and his programs were being sung in the schoolrooms and in the play yard. Little girls and boys joined hands and sang these songs as they walked home from school. My brother came home and told Papa what was happening at school. The political hymns of children proclaimed Change was coming to our homeland and the Fuhrer was a leader we could trust. I will never forget my father's face. Grief and fear. He knew that the best propaganda of the Nazis was song on the lips of little children. That evening before he said grace at the dinner table, he placed his hands upon the heads of my brothers and me and prayed the Living Word upon us from Jeremiah 1:4-5. 'Now the Word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to The nations.' Soon the children's songs praising the Fuhrer were heard everywhere on the streets and over the radio. 'With our Fuhrer to lead us, we can do it! We can change the world!' Soon after that Papa, a pastor, was turned away from visiting elderly parishioners in hospitals. The people he had come to bring comfort of God's Word, were 'no longer there.' Where had they vanished to while under nationalized health care? It became an open secret. The elderly and sick began to disappear from hospitals feet first as 'mercy killing' became the policy. Children with disabilities and those who had Down syndrome were euthanized. People whispered, 'Maybe it is better for them now. Put them out of misery. They are no longer suffering. And, of course, their death is better for the treasury of our nation. Our taxes no longer must be spent to care for such a burden.' And so murder was called mercy. The government took over private business. Industry and health care were 'nationalized.' (NA-ZI means National Socialist Party) The businesses of all Jews were seized. (Perhaps you remember our story in Berlin on Krystalnacht in the book Munich Signature) The world and God's word were turned upside down. Hitler promised the people economic Change? Not change. It was, rather, Lucifer's very ancient Delusion leading to Destruction. What began with the propaganda of children singing a catchy tune ended in the deaths of millions of children. The reality of what came upon us is so horrible that you in this present generation cannot imagine it. Our suffering is too great to ever tell in a book or show in a black and white newsreel. When I spoke to Bodie about some of these things, she wept and said she could not bear to write them. Perhaps one day she will, but I asked her, 'who could bear to read our suffering?' Yet with my last breaths I warn every Christian and Jew now in the name of the Lord, Unless your course of the church in America is spiritually changed now, returning to the Lord, there are new horrors yet to come. I trembled last night when I heard the voices of American children raised in song, praising the name of Obama, the charismatic fellow who claims he is the American Messiah. Yet I have heard what this man Obama says about abortion and the 'mercy killing' of tiny babies who are not wanted. There are so few of us left to warn you. I have heard that there are 69 million Catholics in America and 70 million Evangelical Christians. Where are your voices? Where is your outrage? Where is passion and your vote? Do you vote based on an abortionist's empty promises and economics? Or do you vote according to the Bible? Thus says the Lord about every living child still in the womb. 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.' I have experienced the signs of the politics of Death in my youth. I see them again now. Christians! Unless you stand up now, you will lose your freedom of religion. In America priests and preachers have already lost their freedom to speak openly from their pulpits of moral danger in political candidates. They cannot legally instruct you of which candidate holds fast to the precepts of scripture! American law forbids this freedom of speech to conservative pastors or they will lose their 'tax exempt' status. And yet I have heard the words of Obama's pastor Damning America! I have heard the words of Obama damning and mocking all of you in small towns because you 'Cling to your religion.' But I am a woman whose name is unknown. My life is recorded as a work of fiction. I have no fear of reprisal when I speak truth to you from the pages of a book. (Though the Zion Covenant books are mocked and condemned by the Left in America.) I am an old woman and will soon go to be with my Lord. I have no fear for myself, but for all of you and for your children, I tremble. I tremble at the hymns to a political leaders which your children will sing at school. (Though even now a hymn or a prayer to God and our Lord Jesus is against the law in public school!) Your vote must put a stop to what will come upon America if Barrack Obama is elected. I pray you will personally heed this warning for the sake of your children and your grandchildren. Do not be deceived. The Lord in Jeremiah 1:7-8 commands every believer to speak up! 'Do not say, 'I am only a youth,' for to all whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them for I am with you, declares the Lord!' I am in Prayer for you, and for the Church! Spoken to you in the authority of Jesus the Christ, the Name Above All Names. Lori Kalner
These propagandist internet letters bother me on so many levels, not the least of which is how they weave enough truth into it to make the fiction seem real. They engage in the Wizard's First Rule: "People are stupid, and will believe a lie, because they fear it may be true".
In Germany, when Hitler came to power, it was a time of terrible financial depression.Not true. Hitler converted the German Worker’s Party into the Nazi Party on July 29 1921, a decade before the Great Depression. He was elected head of the party by a vote of 543 to 1.
Money was worth nothing. In Germany people lost homes and jobs, just like in the American Depression in the 1930s, which we have read about in Thoene's Shiloh books. In those days, in my homeland, Adolph Hitler was elected to power by promising 'Change.' He blamed the 'Zionists' around the world for all our problems. He told everyone it was greedy Zionist Bankers who had caused every problem we had. He promised when he was leader, the greedy Zionist bankers would be punished. The Zionists, he promised, would be wiped off the face of the earth.At the time, Germany was suffering the economic repercussions of losing World War I (the Treaty of Versailles), and the people needed to blame someone, the Jews were an easy scapegoat, due to their general financial well-being. Hitler was impressed by the German Worker’s Party founder, Anton Drexler, and his anti-semetic, nationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-Marxist ideas. 10 years later, after Hitler had written Mein Kamfp, had served 5 years in prison for high treason, Hitler worked to bring Nazi Party back to power. He further pushed against the Treaty of Versailles, the wounded national pride, and blamed the (arguably) harsh terms of the Treaty on “international Jewry”.
So Hitler was elected to power by only 1/3 the popular vote. A coalition of other political parties in parliament made him supreme leader. Then, when he was leader, he disgraced and expelled everyone in parliament who did not go along with him.
Not true either, Hitler was never elected, aside from the near-unanimous internal party vote in 1921. In 1930, when the Great Depression hit, Germany’s political and economic turmoil gave Hitler the chance to rebuild the Nazi party into the largest political party in Germany, meaning they had the most seats in Parliament. It just so happened to be a mere 1/3 of all the seats. The current Chancellor of Germany (Papen) was removed by an 84% vote of no confidence by the Parliament. The still seated President of Germany named Hitler as Chancellor. Some deft political maneuvering ensued, careful placement of high-ranking officials and then the burning of the Reichstag, and subsequent blaming it on Communists. Basic rights were removed, including habeas corpus, all the while the Nazi party campaigned for more seats in Parliament, using tactics including paramilitary violence, anti-communist hysteria, and government resources to publish propaganda. By 1932, Hitler’s Nazi Party had formed an alliance with the German National People’s Party, giving him a majority in Parliament and securing his grab for power, the elimination of more rights and his dictatorial, top-down leadership.
What began with the propaganda of children singing a catchy tune ended in the deaths of millions of children.Wrong. The Hitler Youth were actually teenagers recruited into the Nazi party, preparing them for the “Storm Regiment” an adult paramilitary wing of the Nazi party. After Hitler was brought to power did the Nazi party lower the recruitment age for Hitler Youth to 10 and make attendance mandatory.
Then there are the right wing fear mongering that’s going on, tying the Nazi Party to ANYONE in American politics is wrong.
EDUCATE YOURSELF:
Obama doesn’t want to abandon or kill people with disabilities
Obama doesn’t think one faith is better than another
Obama doesn’t promote hate and fear as a major party platform
Obama doesn’t want to kill unborn children or give government control over women’s bodies or how their morals guide them to live.
This idea that a politician should try to get your vote based on fear, on hate, on how different “they” are from “us”, attempting to breed mistrust, paranoia, and worse, is something we should all, as Americans, be able to rise above and look beyond. We’re better than this. We are one AMERICAN people, a people who need to regain our sense of national pride, to do it without the specter of fear or paranoia, the darkness of hate and mistrust. We need to become proud of our neighbors, of ourselves, to understand that fighting for the rights of our neighbors and friends is standing up and fighting for ourselves.
I guarantee you this: I will NEVER vote for someone who promotes hate and fear, someone who rattles their saber or the saber of the American military might for political gain. I will never vote for someone who advocates taking away another American’s rights, regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, who they gain comfort and love from, or any other factor that makes them different from me.
Please feel free to share this.
You can see it behind the cut.
Subject: HYMN TO HITLER IMPORTANT READING HYMN TO HITLER
Posted by: Lori Kalner on Wednesday, October 01, 2008
In Germany, when Hitler came to power, it was a time of terrible financial depression. Money was worth nothing. In Germany people lost homes and jobs, just like in the American Depression in the 1930s, which we have read about in Thoene's Shiloh books. In those days, in my homeland, Adolph Hitler was elected to power by promising 'Change.' He blamed the 'Zionists' around the world for all our problems. He told everyone it was greedy Zionist Bankers who had caused every problem we had. He promised when he was leader, the greedy Zionist bankers would be punished. The Zionists, he promised, would be wiped off the face of the earth. So Hitler was elected to power by only 1/3 the popular vote. A coalition of other political parties in parliament made him supreme leader. Then, when he was leader, he disgraced and expelled everyone in parliament who did not go along with him. Yes. Change came to my homeland as the new leader promised it would. The teachers in German schools began to teach the children to sing songs in praise of Hitler. This was the beginning of the Hitler Youth movement. It began with praise of the Fuhrer's programs on the lips of innocent children. Hymns in praise of Hitler and his programs were being sung in the schoolrooms and in the play yard. Little girls and boys joined hands and sang these songs as they walked home from school. My brother came home and told Papa what was happening at school. The political hymns of children proclaimed Change was coming to our homeland and the Fuhrer was a leader we could trust. I will never forget my father's face. Grief and fear. He knew that the best propaganda of the Nazis was song on the lips of little children. That evening before he said grace at the dinner table, he placed his hands upon the heads of my brothers and me and prayed the Living Word upon us from Jeremiah 1:4-5. 'Now the Word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to The nations.' Soon the children's songs praising the Fuhrer were heard everywhere on the streets and over the radio. 'With our Fuhrer to lead us, we can do it! We can change the world!' Soon after that Papa, a pastor, was turned away from visiting elderly parishioners in hospitals. The people he had come to bring comfort of God's Word, were 'no longer there.' Where had they vanished to while under nationalized health care? It became an open secret. The elderly and sick began to disappear from hospitals feet first as 'mercy killing' became the policy. Children with disabilities and those who had Down syndrome were euthanized. People whispered, 'Maybe it is better for them now. Put them out of misery. They are no longer suffering. And, of course, their death is better for the treasury of our nation. Our taxes no longer must be spent to care for such a burden.' And so murder was called mercy. The government took over private business. Industry and health care were 'nationalized.' (NA-ZI means National Socialist Party) The businesses of all Jews were seized. (Perhaps you remember our story in Berlin on Krystalnacht in the book Munich Signature) The world and God's word were turned upside down. Hitler promised the people economic Change? Not change. It was, rather, Lucifer's very ancient Delusion leading to Destruction. What began with the propaganda of children singing a catchy tune ended in the deaths of millions of children. The reality of what came upon us is so horrible that you in this present generation cannot imagine it. Our suffering is too great to ever tell in a book or show in a black and white newsreel. When I spoke to Bodie about some of these things, she wept and said she could not bear to write them. Perhaps one day she will, but I asked her, 'who could bear to read our suffering?' Yet with my last breaths I warn every Christian and Jew now in the name of the Lord, Unless your course of the church in America is spiritually changed now, returning to the Lord, there are new horrors yet to come. I trembled last night when I heard the voices of American children raised in song, praising the name of Obama, the charismatic fellow who claims he is the American Messiah. Yet I have heard what this man Obama says about abortion and the 'mercy killing' of tiny babies who are not wanted. There are so few of us left to warn you. I have heard that there are 69 million Catholics in America and 70 million Evangelical Christians. Where are your voices? Where is your outrage? Where is passion and your vote? Do you vote based on an abortionist's empty promises and economics? Or do you vote according to the Bible? Thus says the Lord about every living child still in the womb. 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.' I have experienced the signs of the politics of Death in my youth. I see them again now. Christians! Unless you stand up now, you will lose your freedom of religion. In America priests and preachers have already lost their freedom to speak openly from their pulpits of moral danger in political candidates. They cannot legally instruct you of which candidate holds fast to the precepts of scripture! American law forbids this freedom of speech to conservative pastors or they will lose their 'tax exempt' status. And yet I have heard the words of Obama's pastor Damning America! I have heard the words of Obama damning and mocking all of you in small towns because you 'Cling to your religion.' But I am a woman whose name is unknown. My life is recorded as a work of fiction. I have no fear of reprisal when I speak truth to you from the pages of a book. (Though the Zion Covenant books are mocked and condemned by the Left in America.) I am an old woman and will soon go to be with my Lord. I have no fear for myself, but for all of you and for your children, I tremble. I tremble at the hymns to a political leaders which your children will sing at school. (Though even now a hymn or a prayer to God and our Lord Jesus is against the law in public school!) Your vote must put a stop to what will come upon America if Barrack Obama is elected. I pray you will personally heed this warning for the sake of your children and your grandchildren. Do not be deceived. The Lord in Jeremiah 1:7-8 commands every believer to speak up! 'Do not say, 'I am only a youth,' for to all whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them for I am with you, declares the Lord!' I am in Prayer for you, and for the Church! Spoken to you in the authority of Jesus the Christ, the Name Above All Names. Lori Kalner
These propagandist internet letters bother me on so many levels, not the least of which is how they weave enough truth into it to make the fiction seem real. They engage in the Wizard's First Rule: "People are stupid, and will believe a lie, because they fear it may be true".
In Germany, when Hitler came to power, it was a time of terrible financial depression.Not true. Hitler converted the German Worker’s Party into the Nazi Party on July 29 1921, a decade before the Great Depression. He was elected head of the party by a vote of 543 to 1.
Money was worth nothing. In Germany people lost homes and jobs, just like in the American Depression in the 1930s, which we have read about in Thoene's Shiloh books. In those days, in my homeland, Adolph Hitler was elected to power by promising 'Change.' He blamed the 'Zionists' around the world for all our problems. He told everyone it was greedy Zionist Bankers who had caused every problem we had. He promised when he was leader, the greedy Zionist bankers would be punished. The Zionists, he promised, would be wiped off the face of the earth.At the time, Germany was suffering the economic repercussions of losing World War I (the Treaty of Versailles), and the people needed to blame someone, the Jews were an easy scapegoat, due to their general financial well-being. Hitler was impressed by the German Worker’s Party founder, Anton Drexler, and his anti-semetic, nationalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-Marxist ideas. 10 years later, after Hitler had written Mein Kamfp, had served 5 years in prison for high treason, Hitler worked to bring Nazi Party back to power. He further pushed against the Treaty of Versailles, the wounded national pride, and blamed the (arguably) harsh terms of the Treaty on “international Jewry”.
So Hitler was elected to power by only 1/3 the popular vote. A coalition of other political parties in parliament made him supreme leader. Then, when he was leader, he disgraced and expelled everyone in parliament who did not go along with him.
Not true either, Hitler was never elected, aside from the near-unanimous internal party vote in 1921. In 1930, when the Great Depression hit, Germany’s political and economic turmoil gave Hitler the chance to rebuild the Nazi party into the largest political party in Germany, meaning they had the most seats in Parliament. It just so happened to be a mere 1/3 of all the seats. The current Chancellor of Germany (Papen) was removed by an 84% vote of no confidence by the Parliament. The still seated President of Germany named Hitler as Chancellor. Some deft political maneuvering ensued, careful placement of high-ranking officials and then the burning of the Reichstag, and subsequent blaming it on Communists. Basic rights were removed, including habeas corpus, all the while the Nazi party campaigned for more seats in Parliament, using tactics including paramilitary violence, anti-communist hysteria, and government resources to publish propaganda. By 1932, Hitler’s Nazi Party had formed an alliance with the German National People’s Party, giving him a majority in Parliament and securing his grab for power, the elimination of more rights and his dictatorial, top-down leadership.
What began with the propaganda of children singing a catchy tune ended in the deaths of millions of children.Wrong. The Hitler Youth were actually teenagers recruited into the Nazi party, preparing them for the “Storm Regiment” an adult paramilitary wing of the Nazi party. After Hitler was brought to power did the Nazi party lower the recruitment age for Hitler Youth to 10 and make attendance mandatory.
Then there are the right wing fear mongering that’s going on, tying the Nazi Party to ANYONE in American politics is wrong.
EDUCATE YOURSELF:
Obama doesn’t want to abandon or kill people with disabilities
Obama doesn’t think one faith is better than another
Obama doesn’t promote hate and fear as a major party platform
Obama doesn’t want to kill unborn children or give government control over women’s bodies or how their morals guide them to live.
This idea that a politician should try to get your vote based on fear, on hate, on how different “they” are from “us”, attempting to breed mistrust, paranoia, and worse, is something we should all, as Americans, be able to rise above and look beyond. We’re better than this. We are one AMERICAN people, a people who need to regain our sense of national pride, to do it without the specter of fear or paranoia, the darkness of hate and mistrust. We need to become proud of our neighbors, of ourselves, to understand that fighting for the rights of our neighbors and friends is standing up and fighting for ourselves.
I guarantee you this: I will NEVER vote for someone who promotes hate and fear, someone who rattles their saber or the saber of the American military might for political gain. I will never vote for someone who advocates taking away another American’s rights, regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, who they gain comfort and love from, or any other factor that makes them different from me.
Please feel free to share this.