Hitler Was the Cause of, “Pants On the Ground, Pants On the Ground…”

“Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground… Hat turned sideways, gold in your mouth, Looking like a fool with your pants on the ground.”

When the singer sang that original diddy as a trial for the initial cut of last season’s American Idol, it became an immediate sensation.  Simon even said, “I have a feeling we have just witnessed a new hit…” 

Studying the song does not take a lot of deep thought.  The man, a black man, was singing about the trend of youth, in particular black, urban youth, to pull their pants down as to reveal most of their underwear. 

Some say this is a trend that started in prisons.  Possibly. 

However, if  you really study this social phenomenon, you will find that the root of youth walking around with their pants on the ground is the generational result of one Adolph Hitler. 

We’ll get to Hitler but first let’s jump to 1961.  Outgoing president Dwight Eisenhower warned in his farewell address in 1961 that our military industrial complex is "sold out" to corporate greed... as are our leaders.   Everyone was giddy drunk on the new Camelot and the young President JFK and his wife Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.  No one listened to Ike.  No one accept Kennedy, that is. 

Is it true?  Is our country today controlled by a military industrial complex which uses whatever excuse necessary to turn the profitable wheels of war in whatever direction they choose? 

We spoke to a leader in Afghanistan recently who said, "We could win anything we need to win in Afghanistan in 3 days. The problem is that they've got 10 year agreements being signed with corporations for roads and buildings... So we're there from now on..."  

Obviously, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  There are now more than 2 million dead Iraqis and no American is heard crying for them. 

How did we come to this?  How is this military industrial complex related to Hitler and pants on the ground? 

Watch, The Wire, an HBO 5 season series on DVD that shows clearly and realistically the ghettos of Baltimore intertwined with the drug culture, unions, prisons, politicians, businesses, police, FBI, teachers, administrators, schools, families, and more.  You see reflected in this amazing drama the American society of today.  Every system is broken.  Sure, there is corruption.  But the problem is this: every system is completely broken.  It works in that people go through it and money flows through it.  But it’s broken.  Justice, truth and the American way no longer exist.  Baltimore, as you quickly notice, could be Shreveport, Louisiana or Boise, Idaho.  They’re all the same.  Why?  Because all the systems are the same.  They’re all broken. 

There's a new movie coming out on Pat Tillman, the soldier killed in Afghanistan, who gave up his all pro football career.  He was about to get out of the army and was threatening to reveal many other things that were going on in Afghanistan.  In the movie, his mother and friends, claim he was killed by the USA to keep him quiet. Look at Karl Rove attacking vehemently the nomination of Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, a conservative, Christian female.  The left, the right, both have agendas that are not in step with God.  And God says, "What are you going to do about it...???"    And yes... He's saying to wake up!!! 

Most of us think all this is untenable.  But, as usual, we have met the enemy and it is us.  But, we are the solution as well!!!   The key lays in the deep and moving song, “Pants on the ground.” 

Seriously. 

The battle for American culture control is a battle worth fighting.  But how did we get here? 

To me, it's a very simple analysis to make.  If you identify the root, you can at least no where to pull it up in order to kill it off once and for all. 

Germany’s Adolph Hitler went on a rampage.  We had to stop him.  He was taking over countries like T. Boone Pickens used to take over unwilling and unwitting corporations.  As an adjunct to his storm trooping reign of terror, he decided to exterminate 6 million Jews as well.   

This sent men like my father-in-law, who landed at Normandy, into battle to fight one of history’s great evils – Nazism.  It drafted, among others, black Americans to the front lines so that once WW2 was over, it no longer made sense for blacks to be sent to the back of a bus when they had just spilt the same color blood at the front of the war.   

It sent women to work, which made them want more for themselves than just the shadow of a husband.   

It killed many fathers that left America with a group of fatherless boys who became beatniks then hippies.  Without fathers, they were left rudderless, so they sought out a new dimension of self-fulfillment.  All of which led to the institution of a Civil Rights movement led by a man who knew he would be killed in order to advance the cause of equality, and he was.  

It created a military industrial complex required to win the war that could not be dismantled for fear of another depression, not to mention the loss of power or the elimination of the potential for great wealth.  It created a massive spy complex that was required to keep up with the evil that was Hitler, who was such a pure conduit for evil, he inspired the murder of 6 million Jews - God's chosen people.   

And now that same spy complex, thanks to 9-11 is turned on many Americans, should they ask the right questions of the wrong people.   

After Kennedy was shot from three different directions, and the orders he signed to eliminate the CIA were reversed by incoming President Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJ turned the nation’s attention to civil rights finally awakening the many to the fact that slavery rebranded is nothing more than racism.  The Civil Rights movement  rightfully saw the largest problem as the illegitimate rate in black families in 1964, which was an unbearable 12% compared to 4% in white families.   

So the U.S. government paid black women who had no man in the house based on the number of children.  It was the humane thing to do.  We had to help this group that was doubly cursed as a result of the generational remnants of slavery.  They were women and couldn't get a job to support themselves.  They were black and opportunity was limited except for housework.   They had children that needed to be fed.  And they had no husband to help pay the bills.  

And now what?  The illegitimacy rate among blacks is 85% and headed towards 90%.  This means they have no fathers so, like the beatniks and hippies before them they seek to define themselves by means of alternative culture, pulling their pants down to show their butts in public.  The message they send?  "I am worthless so take that..."  But what they are really saying is, "I have no father..."   

Is it any wonder that LBJ's Great Society led to this.  The government paid black women to have babies at a rate that made it more profitable to give birth out of wedlock than most any black man could match with a job that was still very limited in the scope of opportunity in a racist 1960’s America. Yes, we gave blacks civil rights but the path of opportunity would take another 20 years to clear for black men in America.  In the meantime, their self-image was destroyed as their women and their own pride reduced them to sires that offered the opportunity for a bigger government check as long as their was no wedding certificate.  No wedding certificate meant no commitment.  That mattered none whatsoever.  The damage to the black male’s pride and ego was cemented. 

Sure, black men have the opportunities now that they should have always had.  But it's too late for the 80% plus of black children born out of wedlock each year in America.  They have no fathers. 

Psychologists tell us that over 80% of the self-image of the daughter and the son come from the father.  I believe in God and I believe in Satan.   

Satan saw Hitler and he saw the need to destroy America and he knew it must come from within, as Khrushchev had promised while beating his UN podium with his shoe, "We will destroy you without firing a shot..."  And once you have one segment of your population at 80% illegitimacy, you cannot disconnect that link from the others in the chain.  Americans in general and pastors in particular need to wake up.  Quit worrying about paying your bills and start worrying about giving all you have to the poor… the black children with no fathers who live all around your church.  There are so many rich suburban white churches in America – that do nothing to change lives.  They might do an outreach or take a Christmas meal, but is that truly being salt and light? 

The problems are getting worse while the churches are getting bigger. 

The children walk around with their pants on the ground and God in heaven asks the American clergy, “They have no father, what are you going to do about it?” 

When they asked Jesus, "What are the greatest commandments?"  He said, paraphrasing, "Simple...  

Love God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself."  In other words...  All of life is very simple.  Love God.  Love your neighbor.  Love yourself.   Satan saw that if he could take down one of those legs from the stool of support, he'd destroy the whole system and win.  He chose "love yourself" and took the father out of the home in order to accomplish it.  Without the father in the home, there is less chance at a positive self image... usually no chance.  Satan only needed one Hitler to bring us to this point. 

As a result, we have Godly women like Christine O’Donnell and Sarah Palin who are as much feared and denigrated on the left as they are on the right.  Why?  It's not because they are women.  It's not because they are conservative.  It's because they represent a pure hearted commitment to the Lord. In the Bible it says, "In the last days, men will exchange evil for good and good for evil..."  The only hope for the family is the revival that only comes from faith.  Not faith as in a belief...  But faith as in the faith defined by Paul in Hebrews 11:1...  "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen."  Paul was writing about the key to bridge the gap between what is seen and what is invisible.  He did so because God sits in the invisible world waiting on us to take all He's given us and connect back up to the power that Jesus died to bring us.   

Ironically, it was Christianity that posed the greatest threat to Communism and it's the greatest threat to the men who hold the power of the world in the palms of their hands.  If they can make people believe they came from monkeys and rocks, then why not make them believe the government is their source of sustenance.  Ultimately, as Jesus warned, it's about the love of money. 

The men who own the banks fund the wars and create the taxes.  The Federal Reserve, a private bank, has never been audited.  They are where our taxes are deposited, by the way, and yet they have resisted every attempt to be audited since their inception... less than 20 years before the world's Great Depression.  They were also the same bankers that funded Hitler's war machine.  This is an easy trace to make. 

And our Father in heaven sits wondering, "Who will show the love of the Father and reverse all these trends?"  Did you know you don't hear about the drug cartels in Columbia any more?  Why?  Because they're no longer there?  No.  They're there.  They've just lost most of their power because much of Columbia has been in Christian revival over the last 20 years.  Look up pastor Cesar Castallanos to learn more... Amazing story.  

In Africa, there is a huge revival happening.  At least two countries in Africa now have presidents who are requiring Christianity of their citizens.  While that strikes against the American freedom of choice nerve, it serves to show how far reaching the effects of a pure hearted revival led by men and women sold out to the power of following the Holy Spirit with the kind of faith that is active can be.  It's the kind of faith that pulls men with strokes on their death beds out of the hospital perfectly normal within weeks of being given the last rites… the story of a friend and mentor of mine, Coach Dale Brown. 

It’s time to awaken. 

The pants are on the ground.   Hitler’s real damage is in the war machine we were forced to create to beat him and now do whatever necessary to sustain it. 

The pants are on the ground.  They can’t go any lower.