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There are two fatal flaws that can become part of one’s psyche and culture: Ignorance and Apathy. It degenerates to – “I don’t know and I don’t care.” This is the beginning stage of being overwhelmed. The word means: “to surge over and submerge; engulf; to defeat completely and decisively; to affect deeply in mind or emotion; to present with an excessive amount – overwhelm.”
The HinzSight Report on June 14th, 2009 asks in a column: “Overwhelmed and Feeling Like Giving Up?” In that column, David Hinz writes: “TARP! Federal Government takeover of the banking industry! Cap-and-Trade! Stimulus Spending Bill! Automobile Company bailout and takeover by the federal government! Employee Free Choice Act! ACORN criminal activity! Fairness Doctrine! Omnibus Spending Bill! Universal Nationalized Health Care! Federal government regulation of the internet! Defense spending cuts! Worldwide apologize for America tour! Mainstream media adoration for President Obama! Dozens of Czars approved by the President! As your head reels from one federal government sucker punch to another, do you ever reach a point where you find yourself ready to give up? To just…let them do whatever they want, I am just too sick of hearing about it anymore to fight it?" This is maximum Overwhelmed Overload!
A major influence upon liberal thinkers and proponents of “change” was Saul Alinsky in his book (1971), RULES FOR RADICALS. Some of the 13 Rules are: 1. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. 2. Never go outside the expertise of your people…3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. 4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. 5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. 6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy. 8. Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose. 9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. 13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it…” Other comments include: “What we are finding today is every group finding itself eligible for government benefits -- rich, poor, weak and strong. All business is finding itself suddenly engulfed by government.” The American Thinker outlines how ACORN has been instrumental in bringing about the current crisis through its housing demands, and how President Obama was a part of that. “In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of ‘red-lining’-claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending. In 1989, sympathetic members of Congress got the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants; this allowed various studies to be ginned up that seemed to validate the original accusation…” Some conclusions reached by Hinz: “Having orchestrated the mortgage house-of-cards collapse that brought about the financial house-of-cards collapse, which caused the credit house-of-cards collapse, which lead to the automobile house-of-cards collapse, all of which has contributed to the staggering unemployment house-of-cards collapse -- President Obama has now rewarded ACORN with billions of dollars in new 'stimulus' money, with which to carry on its valuable work. And the public, bombarded on all sides with media calling for the very solutions that caused the crisis -- supporting the perpetrators who initiated the crisis -- throw up their hands in disgust and give up…” Some of it is similar to the techniques used by Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally to demoralize Allied Troops during World War II. This is a different kind of war – but – war nevertheless.
EZEKIEL 3:14-15 states: “The Spirit lifted me up and took me away…I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord upon me. I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days--overwhelmed.” Why was he overwhelmed? It was not just the Vision he saw but the Words that he heard. It was about how the people appeared to God: rebels, transgressors, impudent, stubborn, refusing to listen. It will result in their exile to Babylon… He could not persuade them otherwise and the reality that no one cared enough to repent and change their behavior caused him to be overwhelmed. Sound familiar? Consider these things with me!
There are two fatal flaws that can become part of one’s psyche and culture: Ignorance and Apathy. It degenerates to – “I don’t know and I don’t care.” This is the beginning stage of being overwhelmed. The word means: “to surge over and submerge; engulf; to defeat completely and decisively; to affect deeply in mind or emotion; to present with an excessive amount – overwhelm.”
The HinzSight Report on June 14th, 2009 asks in a column: “Overwhelmed and Feeling Like Giving Up?” In that column, David Hinz writes: “TARP! Federal Government takeover of the banking industry! Cap-and-Trade! Stimulus Spending Bill! Automobile Company bailout and takeover by the federal government! Employee Free Choice Act! ACORN criminal activity! Fairness Doctrine! Omnibus Spending Bill! Universal Nationalized Health Care! Federal government regulation of the internet! Defense spending cuts! Worldwide apologize for America tour! Mainstream media adoration for President Obama! Dozens of Czars approved by the President! As your head reels from one federal government sucker punch to another, do you ever reach a point where you find yourself ready to give up? To just…let them do whatever they want, I am just too sick of hearing about it anymore to fight it?" This is maximum Overwhelmed Overload!
A major influence upon liberal thinkers and proponents of “change” was Saul Alinsky in his book (1971), RULES FOR RADICALS. Some of the 13 Rules are: 1. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. 2. Never go outside the expertise of your people…3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy. Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. 4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. 5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. 6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy. 8. Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose. 9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. 13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it…” Other comments include: “What we are finding today is every group finding itself eligible for government benefits -- rich, poor, weak and strong. All business is finding itself suddenly engulfed by government.” The American Thinker outlines how ACORN has been instrumental in bringing about the current crisis through its housing demands, and how President Obama was a part of that. “In the 1980s, groups such as the activists at ACORN began pushing charges of ‘red-lining’-claims that banks discriminated against minorities in mortgage lending. In 1989, sympathetic members of Congress got the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act amended to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants; this allowed various studies to be ginned up that seemed to validate the original accusation…” Some conclusions reached by Hinz: “Having orchestrated the mortgage house-of-cards collapse that brought about the financial house-of-cards collapse, which caused the credit house-of-cards collapse, which lead to the automobile house-of-cards collapse, all of which has contributed to the staggering unemployment house-of-cards collapse -- President Obama has now rewarded ACORN with billions of dollars in new 'stimulus' money, with which to carry on its valuable work. And the public, bombarded on all sides with media calling for the very solutions that caused the crisis -- supporting the perpetrators who initiated the crisis -- throw up their hands in disgust and give up…” Some of it is similar to the techniques used by Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally to demoralize Allied Troops during World War II. This is a different kind of war – but – war nevertheless.
EZEKIEL 3:14-15 states: “The Spirit lifted me up and took me away…I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the Lord upon me. I came to the exiles who lived at Tel Abib near the Kebar River. And there, where they were living, I sat among them for seven days--overwhelmed.” Why was he overwhelmed? It was not just the Vision he saw but the Words that he heard. It was about how the people appeared to God: rebels, transgressors, impudent, stubborn, refusing to listen. It will result in their exile to Babylon… He could not persuade them otherwise and the reality that no one cared enough to repent and change their behavior caused him to be overwhelmed. Sound familiar? Consider these things with me!
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