The Compost Files: History Repeats Itself

Quote of the Day:
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
~ George Bernard Shaw ~

There is a saying "We learn from our mistakes." Whoever penned this one was not an observer of objective reality. If a person takes a long, hard and honest look at the past and present history of this world they will view a wide path of carnage. The victorious write history and history glorifies war. This is not to say that there are not a few bright spots here and there. Dwelling on goodness and light will, however, not negate the Truth and make the Boogie Man go away.

Personal experience with this type of thinking comes as second nature to most people, including myself. We have been programmed and trained to see only the best and disregard the Truth of a situation. For two and one half years I have lived in a place which threw the Truth of the Big Dog in my face everyday and I refused to see it. My blindness was actually intentional and self serving in that I did not want to pay the exorbitant rents found in this part of the US. It took a radical shift in thinking, provided by a mirror given to me by friends, for me to begin to understand the lies.

Actually, if I had observed the behavior of and listened to my little dog, I would have seen the Truth a lot sooner. He knew, within one month of living here, what the situation was and began to hide behind the sofa.

We leave this place in the morning.

An article published on what has become my favorite sight for news and views highlights how some can see the descent into Fascism better than others due to their previous experience with the Beast.

Holocaust Survivor Says He's Leaving The US

One of our neighbors is moving. I've been in this neighborhood for about six years now, but didn't really know them very well at all - just waves and nods, mostly.

So I heard the moving van pull up this morning. When I got home this evening I happened to spy my neighbor (he's like 85 years old - I don't know exactly, but he's old, talks and moves very slowly) standing on the sidewalk next to the van. I walked over and shook his hand, and we started talking. I asked him where he was moving, and he said, "Back to Germany."

I had been stationed in Germany for two years while in the military, so I lit up, and commented about how beautiful the country was, and inquired if he was going back because he missed it.

"No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before." He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with his family in fear as Hitler's government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones who did were not in the newspaper business much longer. He said good neighbors, people he had known all his life, turned against his family and other Jews, grabbing on to the hate and superiority "as if they were starved for it" (his words).

He said he was too old to see it happen right in front of his eyes again, and too old to do anything about it, so he was taking his family back to Europe on Thursday where they would be safe from George W. Bush and his neocons. He seemed resolute, but troubled, nonetheless, as if being too young on one end and too old on the other to fight what he saw happening was wearing on him.

I gotta tell you - it was chilling. I let him talk, and the whole time, my gut was churning, like I had mutated butterflies in my stomach. When he was finished, he shook my hand, gripping it really hard, until his knuckles turned white and he was shaking. He looked me in the eyes, hard, and said, "I will pray for your family and your country." He let go of my hand and hobbled away.

I have related this event to you in the hopes it will serve as a cautionary anecdote about the state of our Union, and to illustrate the path we Americans are being led down by a group of fanatics bent on global economic and military dominion. When a man who survived the fruits of fascism decides its time to leave THIS country because he's seeing the same patterns that led to the Holocaust and other Nazi horrors beginning to form here, it is time for us to recognize the underlying evil inherent in the actions of those who claim they work for all Americans, and for all mankind. And it is incumbent upon all Americans, Red and Blue, Republican and Democrat, to stop them.