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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 07:19 PM
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Letter to 'Republican' family;
This is IMPORTANT!! You MUST listen to me!!!

A little over a year ago I sent you something that I put out over ‘the internets’.
( http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1431747 )
I sent you an explanation of why it was we had to invade Iraq, why the administration had to manufacture ‘evidence’ to market the initiative, and what would probably happen next. I think I might have also mentioned just how incompetent the administration did not realize it really was.
I told you about ‘reserve currency’ and how oil has always been traded in US dollars. I explained that we invaded Iraq for, among other reasons, Saddam’s intention to sell oil for Euros at the lifting of sanctions. I explained what could happen to our economy if that had happened.
And I definitely said it was OUR FAULT because of the complacency of Americans and their unwillingness to make sacrifices in our devotion to ‘entitlement’.

Well, we’re about to reap the poison fruits of our decadence.

I told you, in that message, that we would have to invade Iran next to prevent them from doing what Iraq would have had we not invaded.
-That was before the rhetoric began to build.
-That was before we started making overtures beyond the casual mention of Iran as a “terrorist state”
-That was before Iran ever announced the advent of an ‘Oil Bourse’ WITH THE INTENTION OF TRADING OIL IN EUROS.

And now it’s happening.
It’s all downhill from here.
And yes, I have personal solutions for us which I will describe later.

Wearing the Republican mantle, a gang of unaccountable despots has usurped control of America’s vast military and economic resources by garnering the support of people who have placed their faith in that very mantle despite the wearer.

First, here’s what’s going to happen;

The dollar, already having begun its inexorable decline, is about to have the bottom fall out.
I have had conversations with Warren Buffet himself, as well as past policy-makers and current political scientists who engage people in online conversation… and he, among others, have confirmed my projections.
The failure of the dollar will see energy prices soar beyond where they are. This will cripple American manufacturing (already in dire straights) for a period of time before the weak dollar could possibly help re-balance the trade deficit.
Even that re-balancing may not come to pass as the economies of the world suffer the loss of American consumerism.

Because of this projection, it is likely that the Administration, already in ‘pre-invasion’ mode, might try to implicate Iran in a ‘terrorist plot’ in order to justify an invasion. Think that’s crazy? These are DESPERATE TIMES and I have GREAT reason to fear that there might even be a ‘staged attack’, or ‘false flag operation’ on American soil to garner all the national support necessary to invade.

Yes, you once told me that “Most conspiracy theories have been proven wrong”, but I’ve done my research… everywhere… and found that to be patently untrue. The evidence that would ‘prove them wrong’ is in absence quite deliberately. It ain’t there. But that is not important right now. What is important is to understand the stakes involved and then consider the resources that the major players have at their disposal to effect their will. That way there will be no surprises as we see what unfolds.

So we will, for whatever reason, invade Iran- this time without nearly as much ‘justification’ as we fabricated for Iraq. And this time there will likely be nukes… and an international community, buttressed by Russia, China, and the whole of the European Union (not to mention others) aligned AGAINST US.

The main reason I’m writing to you now is simply to say that the dollar is about to fail. China will NOT continue to support our deficits if we let this failed administration try to follow through on an already doomed agenda.

I am currently doing whatever I can to place what little resources we have into the few things that will hold steady through this decline.
I could go into excruciating details, but I’ll just state that those are, for the foreseeable future;

-Gold
-Oil
-Euros

See that you have holdings in these, for most other things will be swept away in the coming shitstorm.

I know that father has very little faith in me as he so routinely and unwittingly demonstrates. If you feel that you must bring this to his attention, then so be it. But I know the difference between rational and reflexive skepticism… I deal with it daily on the ‘net. I expect his to be more the latter.

This is not intended to cause a panic. It is merely to give pause for a broader re-assessment of our circumstances in the face of what may very well be the greatest crisis since the Great Depression. Perhaps even that was a picnic compared to what we face now.
By all means I hope that I am crazy. I pray daily that I am wrong. But I have spent countless hours and sleepless nights studying all perspectives regarding this issue… and the outlook is grim.
It is in the hope that I may have missed something that I am sending this, in context, to a few of our close relatives. And failing my hopes; that they may all see fit to investigate this situation and devise contingencies of their own.

The Project for a New American Century has failed miserably at the hands of a few elite zealots who have never truly understood the consequences of their actions… for they, like many elite politicians, have never had to face such consequences.

May God bless us all.
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 07:29 PM
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1. Not Bad, But I'm Not Sure Of Your Intent.
Was it to educate them or to basically give them the finger? I'm only curious because the tone of it is very preachy so it doesn't seem like it would be effective for persuasion. But if your intent was along the lines of "F U family, I don't care if you want to keep ignoring reality, we're all screwed and it's your fault, kiss my ass", then I think it would be effective for that purpose. :thumbsup:

The only issue is whether they will read past the first paragraph prior to closing out the email and deleting it.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 07:49 PM
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2. Lol... no.
I only posted this to my journal thinking it would only reside there.

I'm not so savvy you know.

What you perceive as 'preachy' is citation. I said, "look what's coming" then, now I say "Look what's here". What sounds like "I told you so" is more for the purpose of reinforcing the current message than it is for 'gloating'. -But I won't deny that such factored into my disposition.

And my family will see it as such.

They are empiricists after all, not prone to emotional responses even when urgency is thrust upon them... with whatever character.

But yes, irksome rhetoric has some value to my family... it can get attention as something that 'needs to be dealt with'. And that is good.
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 08:05 PM
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3. I too feel that the economy is about to collapse
The Bush nut jobs have looted the treasury for several generations to come. Personally, I think this is deliberate. They and their ilk would like nothing better than a return to feudalism. All the money they have stolen has gone to their "base" and the rest of us can fight over their table scraps.

You simply cannot spend this much money (especially when you don't have it to begin with) and not expect it to come back to bite us in the form of a worldwide depression the likes of which very few who are currently alive have ever seen! I am scared to death and very uncertain about what to invest my meager savings in to remain solvent.

Gold, in any significant quantity, is not easily transportable. Diamonds, although easily transportable, only have value because De-Beers regulates the supply, Euros, in a worldwide financial collapse will suffer along with the dollar, and although oil is definitely a diminishing resource that will continue to get more expensive no matter what, I really have a struggle with the concept of investing in such an evil industry.

God help us all. We are about to reap what Bush has sown.

I think that firearms are a prudent investment given the food riots I foresee.

Bud
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 08:38 PM
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4. Hehehe....
I've been thinking of making a list of all those that are profiting off of the future demise of society so that we can all get it right when it comes time to 'reconcile' their wealth.

They somehow think that a world of suffering is ok so long as they're filthy rich...

Those poor, shortsighted, stupid bastards... they deserve everything they get.
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:14 PM
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5. Yeah, I'm wondering where Mdm DeFarge is
Now that we need her.
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:57 PM
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10. Wouldn't be the first time
we took the bastards out.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 10:59 PM
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7. gold
Gold is nice if you have money to buy it. I have a running joke with a friend: when he says buy gold, I say buy lead.

(Lead is cheaper, and have you ever tried to hunt a deer with a gold ingot or a bag of coins?):)

In all seriousness, I just have this nasty feeling we are standing on the edge of a crumbling cliff. Don't know when it will let go, but the fall will be long and the stop at the bottom will be ugly. As the witches said "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:55 PM
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9. I don't imagine that it matters much what you shoot the deer with
As long as your family gets fed. Gold as bullets does not seem very effective though. Seems like a lot more trouble to melt down your wedding ring than your fishing weights.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-05-06 12:20 AM
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11. save fishing weights
might need them here, next to very large lake...instead- melt down old wheel weights, the ones found on roadsides...building small greenhouse out of recycled materials to extend growing season...have planted fruit trees, also need to plant an olive tree or two- oil and olives!

My gold will be fresh peaches from the garden.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-03-06 09:59 PM
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6. Thanks for a very scary, yet plausible vision
I hope to hell that you're wrong.

But, ...
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-04-06 08:50 PM
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8. Jesus Christ, I hope I am wrong too
But I've seen this movie before and I didn't like it the first time. I just don't see how the government can borrow soooooo much money from China, to finance a war against an ideology rather than a nation state, while we could be spending that same money on oil independence, health care and education which would free us from the need to fight for oil and other increasingly scarce rescources.

I guess that actually trying to better ourselves collectivly would not transfer enough wealth to those who already have too much.

I thought Gulloteny was a sin!

Maybe Mdm DeFarge was right!
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