From: pz_prophezine@yahoogroups.com [mailto:pz_prophezine@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of bert winters
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:19 PM
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:19 PM
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"No one seemed to notice the
widening gap between the government and the people"
What happened here was the gradual habituation of
the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving
decisions deliberated in secret; to
believing that the situation was socomplicated that
the government had to act on information which the people could not
understand,or so dangerous that,
even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of
national security.
They kept us so busy with change and
crisis.....
This separation of government from people, this
widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance
or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms so
occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion
underneath.
?One had no time to think. There was so much going
on.?"
''Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so
well explained or, on occasion, ?regretted,? that, unless one were detached from
the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing
was in principle, what all these ?little measures?were, one no more saw it
developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. In
between comes all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each
of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next.
"Uncertainty is a very important
factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows''. You live in a system which rules without
responsibility to G-D.
Are
you an alarmist? You are saying that t his must lead to this, and you can?t
prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you
don?t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the
end?"
An excerpt fromThey Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45by ~ Milton Mayer
"For
when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction
comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And
they shall not escape.But you, brethren, are not
in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a
thief.
You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are
not of the night nor of darkness." l Thessalonians
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