Posted by
Corthell on Monday, October 19, 2009 4:14:33 PM
''We have seen these things because of the tireless efforts of private citizens, not because of either political party. Because of Hannah and James, because of Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart, Michelle Malkin and an army of common citizens, Obama's rise is less steep. Our fall is perhaps not quite so inevitable.''
On Feb. 18, 1943, 21-year-old Sophie
Scholl placed a stack of anti-Hitler leaflets on a banister overlooking the main hall in the University
of Munich. Deciding, in a split-second, to ensure that the papers would be picked up by all the students when they emerged from their classrooms, Sophie pushed the papers off the banister, and signed her death warrant.
Within moments, having been caught by a miserable janitor looking for his moment of glory, Sophie and her brother Hans Scholl, were in a Gestapo car, speeding to the interrogations and trial that would deliver them to the guillotine four days later.
Sophie and Hans are the "patron saints" of the independent media, models and inspirations of every citizen-journalist and blogger who publishes the truth. While Hitler wielded complete control of information within the Reich, thanks to a state-run media that crafted and managed every news story seen by the country, the White Rose, a group of young patriots, decided that they owed it to their country to print the truth.
The White Rose letters were simple, but scathing indictments of the Nazi anti-Semitic genocide, and the loss of German life in the war. But most eloquently, the White Rose demanded that, for their own honor's sake, Germans, themselves, repudiate their support of Hitler so they would not carry the eternal shame as a nation of having marched for Hitler until the allies defeated the Reich utterly.
We do not yet pay a high price for speaking out against the communist takeover of our country by the revolutionary Obama administration, under the glazed gaze of a nearly corrupt Congress. The effort it takes to strike a keyboard is all we expend. The letters of the White Rose were written, printed and mailed by ordinary citizens who knew that, at each step, they were risking torture and execution if they were caught.
History looks at the rise and fall of the Third Reich and wonders how oceans of rational human beings could participate in such an obvious regime of atrocity. Will history judge us the same way? Will future post-mortem scholars perform the autopsy on America and wonder how and why we accepted to be shackled by the very chains many of us had seen, in our lifetimes, cast off, with the help of a President Reagan whom we knew!
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