White Rose places
Take a hard look at the two photos below, only thirty-two years apart. Before and after Hitler. This is the end result of tyranny.
I have never shared a post from Now More than Ever (my political Substack) to here, until now. Doing so because I want to make my White Rose readers aware of the Travel section on Now.
In that Section, I cover travel in the USA, especially Pennsylvania, the mid-Atlantic, Utah, southern California, and southern Nevada, as well as Canada, Europe, and Israel.
Travel posts for the US and Canada will be free to all. Travel posts re Europe and Israel are for paid subscribers of Now More than Ever only.
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Without further ado, here is the post from Now, entitled Staying close to home.
Excerpt:
The second [reason] has far more meaning to me. I want to remind myself, remind you, what we are losing if we do not fight back, if we don’t preserve the “more perfect union” begun in July 1776, with Constitution penned in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in effect since 1789. If we do not protect our civil rights, our constitutional rights, our human rights, this unrivaled beauty will become a memory.
I want to walk you down paths familiar to me, paths I cherish, hoping that as you accompany me on these roads less taken, your eyes will see your own familiar places anew, refreshed, and you’ll fight to keep them.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
If you don’t believe me, take another look at the two photos at the top of this post, only thirty-two years apart. Before and after Hitler.
Keeping the German travelogue, as well as footnotes and references, behind a paywall is sadly necessary. Over the past twenty-five years, the plagiarism of my work has been unbelievable. Including a woman who purchased my White Rose histories and travel guide. And then wrote a book about traveling to White Rose places, and advertised guided tours of those places. Without attribution.
I don’t get it.
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