A lot of people have acted like they felt people were over-reacting to the recent Obama speech to school children across the nation. What’s the big deal? Other presidents have done it. So what? What harm can it do?
Well, there are a couple of problems with it. One is that people don’t trust Obama and what he may say. Another is that people are concerned that his avid followers in the school system will use the speech as a spring board for further indoctrination of our country’s children.
Still another problem is that there has been a pattern of indoctrination-type situations with school children that is eerily reminiscent of 1930’s Germany.
Just in case you aren’t familiar with history and historical events, let me give you a down and dirty quick rundown of how Hitler took power in Germany in the 1930s. He didn’t just walk up to the government buildings, take over and immediately start mass murdering any and all he didn’t like or who disagreed with him. He started with a local ‘grass roots’ type campaign. Him and a few of his closest sociopathic friends (and a few idealists who thought they’d found a new messiah), started speaking in the beer halls around Munich. They gradually gained a following and ever so gradually started bullying, strong arming and silencing people who didn’t agree with them. They did this till people stopped confronting them and just quietly grumbled, many hoping he’d just go away. The average person certainly would have never thought what happened would happen.
He gradually built up his following and making his enemies disappear - or intimidating them into silence. Sound familiar? Things went along and most people just kept going about their daily lives, not paying much attention to politics and the loud-mouthed Austrian with a chip on his shoulder. But Hitler was eloquent in his speeches. He spoke often and loudly. He didn’t tell people what his intentions were. He told them he was going to return Germany to it’s former glory. He was going to take all their troubles and wipe them away. People got really excited about that. They wanted hope and they wanted change. Things hadn’t been good for them since they lost World War I and they needed something to hold onto. Hitler offered them hope and change.
All of this didn’t happen over night. It happened over time. Slowly and insidiously the changes crept into the lives of the German people. The German people aren’t innately bad people, but they wanted to pull out of the economic disaster they were left with following World War I and they closed their eyes and ears to the realities that started unfolding before them. It was so insidious that the realities were inescapable before they realized what was happening.
One of the things that Hitler did was have people start swearing allegiance to him rather than to the country. The entire nation began to revolve around on man - Hitler. One of his methods was indoctrination of the youth. It started in schools. It looked innocent enough on the surface, but it had a very dark agenda. School children were taught songs praising Hitler and eventually required to participate in his youth corp. Sound familiar? Back then they called them ‘Hitler Youth’. Now Obama is saying he plans to require all the youth of the country to serve him. Remember, Michelle Obama said that Obama won’t LET you not do community service.
And so, when those of us who study history see videos like the one below, it chills us to the bone. It is decidedly reminiscent of the indoctrination techniques that took place in 1930s Germany.
Oh, and another thing. Does it bother anyone else that they use part of the childrens’ Christian song Jesus Loves the Little Children as part of their rap in praise to Obama. They just replace ‘Jesus’ with ‘Obama’. That’s really over the top. Don’t you think?
Here’s the video. What do you think?
Obama Youth Indoctrination Video









September 24th, 2009 at 8:51 am
[...] Obama Youth Indoctrination Video Reminiscent of 1930’s Germany [...]
September 24th, 2009 at 10:43 am
So we’re not even waiting to get into the comments or even the post body for reductio ad Hitlerum now, huh? Just putting it right there in the title.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Blah, moderation fu**ing suc*s bal*s. One more try.
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So we’re not waiting to get into the comments or even the post body for reductio ad Hitl*rum now, huh? Just putting it right there in the title.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Watch the way you use those asterisks buddy!!!
Personally Rhayader, I found it more than a little unsettling that school children were singing hymns in favor of Obama before the election. I doubt the diddies were created by the children themselves.
Here in Missouri, in a suburb of Kansas City, an all black drill team, dressed in fatigues, did a similar, but scarier, production on school time and on school property. The video was on YouTube.
This is unprecedented in American history, and like the story says, most people just kept quiet hoping it would go away.
I saw that a conservative black man got his a$$ whooped by SIEU thugs in St. Louis, another elderly man got his finger bit off by an ACORN member in California, and just yesterday an insurance company was threatened with an investigation for telling their elderly customers that National Health Care would hurt them.
I see many parallels between what’s going on now and what is described in the story above. So why shouldn’t the title of the story fit the story itself.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Meh, being concerned about it is one thing. Comparing it to the Na*is is hyperbolic and counterproductive.
Also, I’m not exactly sure how unprecedented this is. I remember being taught unquestioning admiration of the president — not to mention politically controversial historical figures — throughout elementary school and into middle school. How exactly is this so different from, say, Nancy Reagan leading a “Just Say No!” chant with a bunch of little impressionable minds? Or GHWB’s October ‘91 speech that had almost the exact same “school is good” message as Obama’s speech?
I’m not really defending Obama here, just making a couple points. This is not the Na*i party, and also isn’t particularly unique in the American political arena.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
So Obama is the reincarnation of Hitler, and we’re living in 1930s Germany, because some little kids somewhere sang a song about him.
You know, Beth, it really pleases me to see this sort of stuff. You keep it up, OK? Because the average person—you know, the person who steps into a voting booth—is going to think that you and all the others who parrot this nonsense are nuts.
And you are nuts.
Nuts.
But even though you cannot argue with the drunk or with the crazy, I will give it a try:
If the little kids sang something negative about Obama, you wouldn’t care.
Obama is President of the United States. He has attained power. All this shadowy, 1930s Germany stuff would have to be in the past for him. He is where Hitler was when he took power, and became Chancellor of Germany, if you are making comparisons. Yet, I don’t see everyone’s guns being confiscated. I got guns myself. Obama has said he is against gun control. And I don’t see the media being taken over by fascists. Indeed, just about the biggest news media around is rabidly anti-Obama. And on and on. So your arguments do not wash. You got some little kids or maybe their teachers who find Obama an inspiring figure and want to sing a song about him, totally independent of Obama or his Administration, and all of a sudden, he’s Hitler.
Well, like I said, Beth, you keep it up. At least it is fun to have a good laugh every once in a while.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Klo I basically agree with what you’re saying here, but I still don’t know why you insist on being personally insulting all the time. Relax a little bit and focus on the issues instead of the people with whom you’re conversing, and the discussion will be much more informative.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Klo..I would be just as upset if children sand anti obama songs. You have missed Beth’s point…and this EXACTLY like 1930’s Germany…do your homework.
Personally.I believe with all my heart the man is the anti-Christ.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
That would be sang..not sand :-p
September 24th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
To all of you, KLO,Rhayader…
Obama has come closer to having our government resemble that of WW2 N*zis than any other president…period
September 24th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Amen, Mickey, AMEN !
September 24th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Hey Mick, long time.
But let’s chill out a little bit. Sometimes I think you guys have a bit of a complex with this stuff. Yeah I agree it’s cause for concern and criticism.
But this isn’t racial purification and massive genocide. So just try to keep a sense of perspective.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
YET…Rhayader, YET ! At the rate this “worship the One” syndrome is going, it won’t be long if it isn’t stopped.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Hey Rhayader! You can be hilarious (sometimes ;0) - point well taken regarding moderation. There are reasons for that, that are way too uninteresting to try explain here in the comments.
Your comments get through for the most part don’t they?
September 24th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
While Obama is not directly resposible for the kids doing this what we have is a following that thinks it okay to instill their personal political beliefs directly into our unwitting, unknowing, blank slates, kids.
THAT !!!
Is the epitome of indoctrination.
That following are all supporters of systems, institutions, and policies all brought about in the last six months that resemble and support the idealism of the collectivist communal ature we saw in recruitments of everday citizens in the 1930s Germany.
It was incumbent upon followers to perform these activities regardless of whether or not these orders came from directly from the top. Volunteerism was an unspoken mandate
September 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Klo - you need to knock that chip off your shoulder. It has to be painful to have called Bush ‘bushitler’ for 8 years and everybody laughed at you. But, when there are serious concerns about the welfare of our country, we hope that would be taken into consideration before trying to get back at people you perceived as scoffing at your ridiculous associations.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Just to clarify - for those who think this is about ‘pay back’ for calling Bush names for his entire presidency - it’s not. Bush could take it. He wasn’t a wuss and could handle whatever you threw at him. He doesn’t need me to run to his defense.
To clarify - I never said the situations were EXACTLY the same. There are different factors in play.
As Klo rightfully points out, Obama has yet to be successful in shutting down opposition media - although, he has certainly tried and is continuing to try.
He has yet to confiscate guns. That would be very difficult to do in this country (who would take the job of going house to house to get them?). What he’s doing instead is raising taxes on ammunition by 500% to make it financially impossible for people to buy.
It’s the incremental way with which he is attempting to take more power and control. He even is trying to affect the outcome of the governors race in New York and the Senate seat in Massachusetts.
The indoctrination of school children is right out of the National Socialist handbook. That party was the ‘National Socialist’ party - think about it. Stalin and H*tler were not that different.
Obama may not have the successes that other socialists/communists have had. The times are different, the US is a very different type of country populated by a very different type of people and he does and will have much more difficulty controlling the media.
That doesn’t mean he and his handlers aren’t trying.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
@Beth: Oh yeah it’s fine, I was just giving you guys a hard time. My girlfriend would sympathize with you.
@JoAnne: Tell me, do you honestly think “racial purification and massive genocide” is in America’s near future? I don’t think you do.
@Micky: Sure, indoctrination and propaganda were part of the Na*i regime, and I won’t deny that we’ve seen a dramatic increase in that sort of stuff. So there are common threads. That doesn’t make the US Democratic Party in 2009 akin to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1939. We’re dealing with typical political ego, malice, and stupidity here, not super-villainy.
Also, the teachers in this video creep me out a lot more than any politician.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Rhayader: I really believe he is the anti-Christ and capable of anything. When you look at all he has done to our country and how he is handing it over to the terrorists, I don’t put anything past him. I just don’t know how he can be stopped.
I’m not being paranoid either…just looking at the facts.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Rhayader: I also agree with your statement about the teachers …good grief…what were thinking !!!
September 24th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
what were THEY thinking, even. Darn…can’t get a whole sentence out….
September 24th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Yeah I guess it’s tough for me to buy into the idea of an anti-Christ, or any other figure having anything to do with personified religion. So whatever, to each his or her own there.
This guy is a lot of things, most importantly a bad president. He isn’t H*tler.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Well - the woman in the video, teaching the song, is Charisse Carney-Nunes. She’s a law school chum of Obama’s and wrote a childrens book ‘I Am Barack Obama?’.
She goes around the country to schools to teach little children about the wonderment that IS Barack Obama.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
‘Obama loves the little children … red and yellow, black and white, they are the same in his sight … ‘
September 24th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I hope you are right Rhayader. I hope Klo is right (cringe). I hope I’m dead wrong. He’s not ‘Hitler’ per se, but he’s borrowed heavily from his playbook.
If I’m wrong - we’ll just go back to business as usual when he’s removed from office. If I’m right, we’ll all know it soon enough. Too soon.