Their sin? They took issue with the propoganda being published by the Nazi's regarding the war effort and began doing what research they could and publishing, via hand made flyers, the truth.

The result? The ring leader, a 16 year old boy, was beheaded by the SS while his friends were shipped off to concentration camps. The "ring leader" and his friends were taken to Berlin and tried at the highest levels. While the other boys cowered, this young man stood before a high official of the SS and when asked if he had published data which conflicted with the State's report, he asked the SS High Command, "Do you believe the State's report?". For these affronts, and this attitude, he was beheaded and his friends sent to the gulag. One survivied several years in German conentration camps, forced service in the German army and then several years after the war in Siberia. When ultimately returning to Germany, he wrote the book.

Today, though many do not want to believe it or comtemplate it, we live in a time, when the truth of our nation's heritage, the principles upon which its true liberty is based and the commitment required to maintain that liberty, are not only being denied and ignored, they are being villafied and set up to be viewed as "wrong thinking" and seditious. Ultimately, this thinking, particularly when it becomes the basis for the "politically correct" dogma and propoganda of this nation's major governmental, political and media institutions, will lead to conditions similar to those which existed in Nazi Germany and any other totalitarian state. We can see evidence of this around us, whether dealing with "gun nuts", "right wing extremists", "religious fanatics", "homophobes", etc. the terminology itself is engineered to degenerate and disenfranchise any who voice their views in favor of the fundamental moral and philosphical principles that underpin our liberties. These efforts to marginalize and ultimately criminalize the truth of our heritage, our way of life, many of our rights and the foundational moral values that lie at their core, are clear. Where they lead is also clear.

As in Nazi Germany, and other totalitarian states that are begotten through their efforts to propogandize the people and cull independent, liberty minded people from their midst, these trends will lead to the people themselves incrementally accepting evil and tyranny in the name of superfolous reasoning. Attitudes like:

• The trains are running on time.
• The stock market is growing and my IRA is great.
• Winning is more important than truth, we'll address the truth after we win.
• Give your all for the "Vaterland", don't worry about principle, "Der Fuerher" knows what's best.
• Give your all for the "Party", don't worry about principle, the party leaders have a plan.
• Voting your conscience is voting for the enemy.
• I don't have time to worry about my own self defense, child care, children's education, health care, job security, retirement, etc., etc. ... we'll let the government handle it.

How do you reverse these trends? The answer is clear. We do what the German boys did ... and we do it in numbers and, we do it sooner! The root of the problem is the isolation of the individual by the propoganda machine of those seeking absolute power. This occured in Germany, it occured in the Soviet Union, it is still in place in Red China and many other totalitarian states around the world ... and it is advancing rapidly in the United States. But here we still have the effectual powers to turn it around, backed by actual power in the 2nd amendment. Is there little wonder then why there is such a push to destroy that actual power by the enemies of liberty? ... or any wonder, given the trends and historical precedent, why so many allow it to incrementally occur? It is being programmed that way!

We must stand forthrightly and spread the word and let our brother and sister Americans who still recognize the foundational truths of our liberties know that they are not alone. There are more of them out there than we realize. We have been programmed by 30 second sound bites and the mass media, government indoctrination centers for our children and treasonous officials to believe that we are alone in this thinking. It is in their own interests to maintain this illusion. We must break out of it. We must encourage our compatriots, relatives, friends and neighbors to publically take the stand now, despite current risks. By so doing, we can empower them to stand and speak out and break out of the propoganda, marginalization and isolation traps set for them ... and avoid the much harsher risks that await us in the near future.

So, what happens ultimatley to a society where "Truth becomes Treason" and the people do not break out of the cycle before both actual and effectual power to do so is negated? ... ask our founders, or ask the European Jews of the early 1940's, or ask the folks in the "Soviet Empire" or dissidents in Red China under Mao ... or ask the youth of Tienamen Square. The result of the Truth becoming Treson is either bloody revolution or genocide. History is a harsh teacher. As Sophocles wrote well over 23 centuries ago :

Far-stretching, endless Time
Brings forth all hidden things,
And buries that which once did shine.
The firm resolve falters, the sacred oath is shattered;
And let none say, "It cannot happen here".