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May 25, 1995 - Bill Cooper
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They Risked Everything
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Light hour of the hour, the easiest hour of the time.
I understand the whole thing.
I can't bear to see you.
I understand the whole thing.
I'm William Cooper.
And I'm Pooh.
for for you're listening to the hour of the time I'm William Cooper would you start a soft please yes
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you very much.
Honey?
Yes?
I would like to say it again.
You want to say it again?
Yes.
Well, go ahead.
I pledge allegiance to the flag Well, thank you.
States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Well, thank you.
We got a double whammy tonight.
Oh, God bless America. - Land that I love, stand beside her.
And guide her through the night with the light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies, to the open White reform.
God bless America.
My home sweet home.
God bless America.
God bless America.
God bless the men.
My Holy Ghost God bless America My Holy Ghost
The story of the Declaration of Independence, ladies and gentlemen, is something that is not taught anymore.
And I hope your children are sitting in your living room listening to this broadcast, because tonight you're going to hear a little about it.
You're going to hear about the enduring truth of its philosophy of freedom, the underlying courage and sacrifice required of its signers.
John Adams said in 1781, and I quote, This Immortal Declaration of the Fourth of July, 1776, was not the effect of any sudden passion or enthusiasm, but a measure which had been long in deliberation among the people, maturely discussed in some hundreds of popular assemblies and by public writings in all the states.
It was a measure which Congress, the Continental Congress, did not adopt until they had received the positive instructions of their constituents in all the states.
It was then unanimously adopted by Congress, subscribed by all its members, transmitted to the assemblies of the several states, and by them, respectively, accepted, ratified, and recorded among their archives, so that no decree, edict, statute, placard, or fundamental law of any nation
was ever made with more solemnity or with more unanimity or cordiality adopted as the act and consent of the whole people than this.
And it has been held sacred to this day by every state with such unshaken firmness that not even the smallest has ever been induced to depart from it, although the English have wasted many millions and vast fleets and armies in the vain attempt to invalidate it."
The Pennsylvania State House, ladies and gentlemen, was hot, it was humid, and it was charged with a motion as representatives from the thirteen colonies came together in June and July of 1776
To consider severing their allegiance to an oppressive government, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitled them.
Every single man felt the enormous significance of the moment.
In a June 9, 1776 letter, John Adams confided, and I quote, "...objects of the most stupendous magnitude and measures in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested are now before us.
When these things are once completed, I shall think that I have answered the end of my creation." quote And each man knew the dangers he faced.
Already two revolutionary leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams faced the scaffold if caught by the British, for to England these men were traitors.
All knew that if their mission failed, they too would be hanged for treason.
And as John Adams noted in a letter to Abigail, the Declaration was, in fact, an act of treason.
And if it were not made good, those who had signed it stood a good chance to incur the penalty meted out to traitors.
But the signers of the Declaration of Independence were not, ladies and gentlemen, rabble-rousers.
They were, as patriots are today, responsible leaders, and these men We're from the Thirteen Colonies, men of vision, men of high standing in their communities.
Twenty-five were lawyers or jurists.
Eleven were merchants.
Nine were farmers or large plantation owners, and there were also doctors and educators.
You see, a war was already in progress as they gathered in the Pennsylvania State House in a sweltering, hot, humid room, with doors and windows tightly shut and pledged Their lives, their fortunes, and risked conviction for treason in order to gain liberty for themselves and you, their posterity.
They formed a committee on June 11th to draw up a declaration.
The members of this committee were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
whose writing skills were acknowledged by the other committee members, was chosen to draft the Declaration.
Looking back on the events in 1825, Jefferson recalled that their purpose had been to provide an appeal to the tribunal of the world.
This, he said, was the object of the Declaration of Independence, not to find out new principles are new arguments, not merely to say things which had never been said before, but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.
In other words, he explained, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind.
All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, and in the books of public right, such as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, et al.
And now, on July 3rd, the Declaration was almost ready.
Jefferson, you see, had completed a second draft and only a few minor alterations were needed.
Decisions on the final wording was near.
One delegate, only one, Caesar Rodney, who had gone back to Delaware on an important errand, was summoned for the vote.
Suffering from an advanced case of facial cancer, he nevertheless rode horseback all night long in the rain arriving late in the morning for this crucial decision which no one would vote upon in his absence.
There was much heated debate, because not everyone was convinced that the time had come for a formal severance of all ties with the mother country.
John Dickinson spoke eloquently and persuasively of the need for restraint, warning of the calamities that might The delegates, or at least some of them, were wavering when Edward Rutledge prevailed upon John Adams to speak out in support of independence.
This was a crucial moment.
Adams rose to the occasion.
He made an impassioned appeal to reason that restored the resolve of the representatives To risk everything, all that they possessed in support of independence.
Making no false claims, Adams spoke with Candor and told the member, If you imagine that I expect that this declaration will ward off calamities, you, sirs, are mistaken.
The bloody conflict we are destined to endure.
The mission, dear listeners, was accomplished.
And what was to become the greatest nation in the history of the world came into being.
I agree.
The spirit of liberty which had taken root on American soil more than 150 years earlier and had flourished in the American mind had now expressed itself to the entire world.
Adopted on July 4th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence became the fundamental statement of the basic principles and timeless truths upon which the nation was to be established and was, in fact, the first document in law.
Eleven years later, the framers of the Constitution of the United States of America would, by that document, establish a new government upon the principles set forth in the Declaration.
By so doing, they would translate the philosophy of the Declaration into a constitutional structuring of a government of limited powers based upon the consent of the governed, designed to secure the individual's creator-endowed rights of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness.
When the Declaration was signed, William Ellery of Rhode Island stood where he could watch each man affix his signature.
I was determined, he wrote, to see how they all looked as they signed what might be their death warrant.
I eyed each closely.
Undaunted resolution was displayed upon every countenance.
Such, ladies and gentlemen, was the strength and courage of our Founding Fathers.
No one today remembers all of that.
It's not taught anymore.
Very few understand or realize the hardships that the men who signed that document faced and indeed underwent after the act itself was performed.
These were indeed brave men who were loyal to principles and ideals and accomplished what no humanity had ever accomplished before in the history of this earth.
For the first time, each and every man stood as a sovereign king in his own right, with the government as his chattel servant.
Each and every person, it was recognized or endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable, natural, irrevocable rights, protected by the first document in law, the Declaration of Independence, and then later the Articles of Confederation, and finally the ultimate
of their genius, the Constitution for the United States of America, and the first ten amendments which we know today, for those of us who know it, the Bill of Rights.
And the price that they paid, these men who gave us all that we have or ever will have or have ever known, was staggering.
Posterity You will never know how much it costs the present generation to preserve your freedom.
I hope you will make good use of it," said John Quincy Adams.
Posterity, ladies and gentlemen, is you.
You are their posterity.
John Quincy Adams, the son of a revolutionary leader, knew firsthand about the hardships of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Future generations have also come, those of us who have studied it to appreciate the great personal sacrifices they made to win freedom for themselves, their families, their countrymen, and you, their posterity.
You, the sheeple, who are in the process of giving it away.
It is little wonder, therefore, that Americans have traditionally revered the extraordinary men who gave us not only independence, but also the greatest system of government ever known to man.
Ever.
To the American people, at least until the present day, they were known affectionately as the Founding Fathers.
Today they would be called right-wing religious fundamentalists, militia member terrorists, by those who enjoy the freedom, the fruits, the benefits, the results of all that they suffered.
And I'm going to tell you now the accounts of their suffering, each of them.
Listen carefully, for they gave up all, everything, so that you can whine and complain and stick out your hand like little children to the government to protect you while you scream about patriots and militiamen who are out to get you.
whose only interest is in the preservation of what our founding fathers created and gave to us.
For these men and women of the modern day, who follow in the footsteps of those who created this great nation, understand that to give it up is to give up the ultimate achievement of all humankind and revert back to the position understand that to give it up is to give up the ultimate
In early September in 1776, the British burned the home of Francis Lewis, and they seized his wife.
Amen.
Held in a prison with no bed and no change of clothes, she was finally released after two years of suffering.
Her health was gone, and she died soon after her release.
Lewis, though heartbroken, continued to serve in the Continental Congress until 1779.
1779 he died in 1802 at the age of He gave everything for you, and you never heard of him until tonight.
Philip Livingston's 150,000 acre estate was seized by the British, but he continued to contribute his dwindling fortune to Congress for the war effort.
He financed the beginning of this nation.
The strain of the Revolutionary struggle also depleted his health, and he died less than two years after he signed the Declaration of Independence.
How many of you ever heard of Philip Livingston?
Or Lewis Morris, whose Westchester estate was ransacked by the British, and nearly 1,000 acres were burned.
His home was destroyed, his cattle butchered, and his family driven from home.
Morris also served in the New York Senate and died in 1798 at the age of 71.
John Hart's New Jersey home was looted and burned, his grist mills destroyed, while he eluded capture by sleeping in caves and forests.
His ailing wife died and his thirteen children were scattered.
His failing health forced him to leave the New Jersey legislature in 1779, and he died less than three years after the Declaration was signed.
Joseph Hughes of North Carolina, though at first reluctant to favor independence, gave tirelessly of himself to create a navy and help General Washington He worked long hours without adequate food.
He lost his health and died in 1779 at the age of 49.
Richard Stockton rushed home to Princeton, New Jersey in 1776 to rescue his family from approaching British troops.
He was captured and thrown into prison, where he was repeatedly beaten and kept near starvation.
The British also destroyed his home and burned his papers.
And as a result of his mistreatment, he became an invalid and died in 1781.
William Floyd's estate in New York was overrun and ruined by the British.
Amen.
Although he could not return to his home during the seven years of the war, he gallantly served his country in the New York Senate and as a representative from New York in the first Congress.
And then he died in 1821.
Francis Hopkinson's home was twice ransacked.
God bless you.
But his enthusiasm for the war effort never wavered, and he remained in Congress throughout the Revolution.
His artistic sketch of the Stars and Stripes led to our official United States flag.
But the years, ladies and gentlemen, had taken their toll, and he died suddenly in 1791 at the age of 53.
Abraham Clark also served in Congress throughout the war.
He had two sons in the Continental Army.
That's a fancy name for a militia, both of whom received harsh treatment from the British after they were captured.
Clark continued to serve his country in many ways, and he was elected a delegate to the Federal Convention of 1787 that produced our Constitution.
He died at 68.
Caesar Rodney, the one upon whom they waited while he rode through the night, became a major general in the Delaware militia.
Militia, militia, militia, militia.
And if you're a puke-faced, communist, liberal, thug, Marxist scumbag, I hope that word makes you sick.
Militia, militia, militia, militia, militia, militia.
He became a major general in the Delaware Militia, and despite his advancing facial skin cancer, fought beside his men in the bitter winter of 1776 and 1777.
He also served in the Delaware Legislature and was appointed to the Congress in 1782.
Declining help him from serving, however, and he died in 1784 at the young age of 55.
Thomas McKeon recalled to John Adams that he was hunted like a fox during the revolution and at one time was compelled to move his family five times in just a few months.
He served faithfully, however, signing the Articles of Confederation, serving as President of Congress, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and finally as Governor of Pennsylvania.
George Clymer's home in Chester was taken over by the British.
Although he lost more than 100 of his ships during the Revolution, he dedicated himself to raising money for the war effort, working closely with his friend, Robert Morris.
In 1791, Robert Morris issued over a million dollars of personal credit to finance the war effort and raised $200,000 from friends to defeat the British at Yorktown.
In 1798, his personal finance collapsed, never reimbursed by his country.
He spent three years in a debtor's prison, discouraged, and in poor health.
He died in 1806.
in 1806.
How many of you have even given $5 or $20 or $100 to help us save what these men gave their all to give to us?
John Morton was criticized bitterly by many of his Pennsylvania neighbors for breaking the tie vote of the Pennsylvania delegation in favor of independence Amen.
The criticism depressed him deeply.
Early in 1777, he became ill and died.
Among his last words were these, and I quote, Tell them that they shall acknowledge it to have been the most glorious service that I have ever rendered to my country.
William Paca of Maryland poured thousands of dollars of his own personal fortune into clothing the American soldiers.
He worked to establish Maryland's government and served as governor from 1782 to 1785.
William Ellery's Newport home was burned during the invasion of Rhode Island.
He nevertheless continued to serve his country.
Williams sacrificed his fortune for the cause, financing a number of enterprises, including the Ticonderoga offensive.
Carter Braxton saw virtually every merchant ship he owned sunk or captured by the British, and although he lost his wealth and was forced to sell his land, he continued to serve in the Virginia legislature.
Lyman Hall's rice plantation was destroyed by the British, but his family escaped to the north.
George Walton was wounded and captured.
After release, he served as Governor and Chief Justice of Georgia and as a United States Senator.
Thomas Hayward, Jr.
served in the Army and was taken prisoner.
The British raided his plantation while he was in prison and burned his buildings His wife became ill and died before he was released.
Arthur Middleton was captured and imprisoned after the British ravaged his plantation.
Later he served in the Congress, and in 1788 he contracted a fever and died at the age of 44.
William Hooper of North Carolina was hunted by the British.
And they burned his home and lands.
Cooper served in the North Carolina legislature.
And in 1770, he died at the age of 48.
That should be 1790.
The numbers are reversed here.
48.
That should be 1790.
The numbers are reversed here in 1790.
He died at the age of 48.
Thomas Nelson Jr.
served as Governor of Virginia and distributed large sums of his money to the families of his soldiers.
At the Battle of Yorktown, he led 3,000 Virginia Militia against the British.
At the Battle of Yorktown, he led 3,000 Virginia Militia, Militia, Militia against the British.
Although the British took refuge in homes belonging to Virginians, Nelson's troops shelled them anyway.
During the engagement, Nelson turned one cannon on his own home and lit the fuse, killing the two British officers inside.
After the Revolution, his health declined and he died in 1789.
How many of you would do the same?
At the time of the signing, John Hancock, one of the wealthiest men in the Thirteen Colonies, was one of two colonial leaders up to that time who were wanted for hanging.
He, too, pledged all that he had for independence and signed his name so boldly that even today a signature is referred to as a John Hancock.
He did it as a flaunt to the king, for the king had sentenced him to death upon capture.
The other leader on the British wanted list was courageous Samuel Adams, one of the few representatives of truly modest means.
He proudly affixed his name and, risking all, gave his entire life in service.
The sacrifices and services of these men and their families are typical, ladies and gentlemen, of the price which an entire generation of brave Americans were willing to pay for freedom.
Payne, Thornton, Whipple, Bartlett gave their lives for this nation.
and They all risked their lives and forches by signing the document which would become the philosophical fountain.
Airways of grace or purple mountain majesties of my love-proofed day.
Amen.
O America!
America!
God shed His grace, On these golden crowns I do wish brotherhood from me to shining sea.
Walkin' on the moon and stars, Whatever's true is reverberating in tribes who more than sell their country home.
Can there be more than might be?
And I hear you.
Oh, yeah, God, America, thank God, my holy bride.
You won't be your death and everything is alive.
Oh, yeah, God, for all the sacred dreams that see beyond the end. for all the sacred dreams that see beyond the end.
Oh, yeah.
Everything.
I'm in my human ear.
I'm in America.
God can't escape from me.
How I could return from me to my sea.
I'm in my human ear.
I'm in my human ear. .
Thank you.
The inspired document, ladies and gentlemen, had come from the pen of Thomas Jefferson.
Other members of the committee had played a part in the final wording, but according to Richard Stockton, it was John Adams.
To whom the country is most indebted for the great measure of independency.
For it was Adams, he noted, who sustained the debate, and by force of his reasoning alone demonstrated not only the justice, but the expediency of the measure.
When the spirits of some might have wavered, Adams' impassioned appeal had given them an extra measure of courage for the vote to adopt the Declaration of Independence.
But the story does not end here.
Both Jefferson, the author of the Declaration, and Adams, its leading advocate, were unable to attend the 1787 Constitutional Convention because they were representing America abroad.
Both, however, served as President of the United States.
Both headed up the first political parties in the New Republic.
Jefferson becoming the leader of the Republicans.
Did you hear that?
Jefferson becoming the leader of the Republicans.
The Republicans.
The Republicans.
And Adams assuming command of the Federalists.
All this Clintonista rhetoric about Jeffersonian Democrats is absolute 100% total bullshit.
And that's the label on the can that you should put it in.
The Democratic parroting of the word Jeffersonian Democrat or the Jeffersonian Democratic Party is a lie, like almost everything else that they parrot, for they are chronic liars.
Jefferson was the leader of the Republican Party.
Adams was the leader of the Federalists.
In retirement Although these two men had not shared the same beliefs on some issues, they maintained a deep and abiding friendship through voluminous correspondence, which you should all obtain and read if you care one iota about your future.
On the 50th anniversary of American independence, July 4th, 1826, John Adams died.
His final words were, and I quote, Thomas Jefferson remains, end quote. - Yes.
You see, he was not aware that before noon, on that very same day, Thomas Jefferson, too, had passed away.
Exactly fifty years after that glorious day, when by their very courageous actions, the that we know as America had begun.
Many, many things has happened between then and now.
Thank you.
But one of the greatest things that has happened is that the American people have forgotten the men who brought this country into being.
The ideals upon which they based, the great gifts that they handed down to you, their posterity, and the principles to which they held true, to which they were willing to give everything that they owned and held dear to bring into
How is it that we are so eager to give these things away?
You see, it takes an enlightened, committed people who understand the principles of our Constitution to maintain the status of liberty and freedom.
And mark my words, all of you listening around the world, if America falls, so go you.
The most effective means of preserving liberty is to understand it.
you You see, although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race.
Ignorant, they have been cheated.
Asleep, they have been surprised.
Divided, the yoke has been forced upon them.
But what is the lesson?
The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government, they should watch over it.
It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.
James Madison said that.
And he didn't know anything about today, but he understood very well human nature.
Thomas Jefferson said, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
we must make our election between economy and liberty our profusion and servitude.
Sir William Blackstone said, Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator.
This will of his Maker is called the law of nature.
This law of nature is, of course, superior to any other.
No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid derive all their force from this original.
America's Constitution is the means by which knowledgeable And free people, capable of self-government, if they are, can bind and control their elected representatives in government.
In order to remain free, the founders said, the people themselves must clearly understand the ideas and principles upon which their constitutional government is based.
Through such understanding, they will be able to prevent those in power from eroding their constitutional protections.
See, our Founders established schools and seminaries for the distinct purpose of instilling in youth the lessons of history and the ideas of liberty.
And in their day, they were successful.
Every citizen is taught the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its constitution.
It is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things And a person wholly ignorant of them is a sort of phenomenon.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, a person who understands and knows these things is the rarity.
While he was on the frontier, he noted that no sort of comparison can be drawn between the pioneer and the dwelling that shelters him.
He wears the dress and speaks the language of the cities.
He is acquainted with the past, curious about the future, and ready for argument about the present.
I do not think that so much intellectual activity exists in the most enlightened and populous districts of France." And he continued, he said,
It cannot be doubted that in the United States the instruction of the people powerfully contributes to the support of the Democratic Republic, and such must always be the case, where the instruction which enlightens the understanding is not separated from the moral education.
We cannot say that today.
Possessing a clear understanding of the failure of previous civilizations to achieve and sustain freedom for individuals, our forefathers discovered some timeless truths about human nature, and that was their forte.
They knew and understood human nature probably better than anyone who's ever lived.
the struggle for individual liberty, the human tendency toward abuse of power, and the means for curbing that tendency through constitutional self-government.
Jefferson's bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge for Virginia declared, and I quote, Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government Those entrusted with power have in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
And it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be to illuminate the minds of the people, to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibited.
History, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.
It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men.
It will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume, and knowing it to defeat its views." See, education was not perceived by the Founders to be a mere process for teaching basic skills.
It was much, much more.
Education included the very process by which the people of America would understand and be able to preserve their liberty and secure their Creator-endowed rights, and this is not taught anymore.
That is why the state has seized control of the school, so that it will not, cannot be taught.
And any teacher who begins to teach these things will not long be a teacher today.
Understanding the nature and origin of their rights and the means of preserving them, the people would be capable of self-government, for they would recognize any threats to liberty and nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, said John Adams.
Yes.
Little did he know the apathy, ignorance and, yes, stupidity of the modern American.
If he did, he may not have risked everything.
The basic idea of America's Constitution was a small federal government, strong local and state governments, and a well-armed people to make sure that it stayed that way.
A militia made up of the whole of the people, so that tyranny
could never take root in America, and that's why those who would have a socialist, one-world totalitarian government are so afraid of the militia, and that's why they must demonize these good, patriotic Americans who, like our Founding Fathers, are willing to risk all, including the ridicule of those who haven't the slightest idea of what it's all about.
You see, the basic idea was to get government as close to the people as possible.
The more remote it is from the people, the more dangerous it becomes.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson, ladies and gentlemen, the true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best.
When all government Shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power.
It will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as oppressive as the government from which we separated.
What has destroyed the liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun, the generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body.
The way To have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many.
For it is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the great national one down that all will be done for the best.
James Madison stressed the necessity to reserve all possible authority in the states and the people, saying, The powers delegated by the Constitution to the federal government are few and defined.
Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite, and the rest shall remain with the people.
Amendment 10.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.
What in the world has happened?
You see, the genius of America's Constitution was its separation of powers.
America's founders had declared themselves free of a tyrannical government.
They were determined that such tyranny would never be repeated in this land.
Their new charter of government, the Constitution, very carefully defined the powers delegated to government, outlined them clearly, and forbade any more.
Our Founders were determined to bind down the administrators of the federal government with constitutional chains so that abuse of power in any of its branches would be prevented.
You see, the revolutionary idea of separation of powers, although unpopular at became a means by which this was to be accomplished.
John Adams, in a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, stated, I called you to witness that I was the first member of Congress who ventured to come out in public, as I did in January 1776, in my thoughts on government, in favor of a government with three branches and an independent judiciary.
By the time the Constitution was adopted, the idea was supported by all of the members of the Convention.
James Madison, the father of the Constitution, devoted five Federalist Papers, numbers 47 through 51, to an explanation of how the executive, legislative and judicial branches were to be wholly independent of each other, yet bound together through an intricate system of checks and balances.
Madison believed that keeping the three branches separated was fundamental to the preservation of liberty, and he wrote, "...the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
George Washington, in his farewell address, reminded Americans of the need to preserve the Founders' system.
He spoke of the love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart, and warned of the necessity of reciprocal checks of political power by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the guardian against invasions by the others.
Of such checks and balances, through the separation of powers, be concluded, to preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them.
Through a system
of subversion of the Constitution for the United States of America, beginning as early as the Civil War, taking its main form in 1913 with what we call the Federal Reserve Act, and then the total subversion by granting the war powers to the President
On March 9, 1933, and then by the misinterpretation of Article VI of the Constitution for the United States of America.
And this misinterpretation states that by signing and ratifying a treaty, it supersedes the supreme law of the land, which is the Constitution.
Our forefathers made it clear that nothing could supersede the law of the land, the Constitution.
But that treaties must be in alignment with it.
But by all of this, the adoption of the United Nations Treaty, and the passage of the United Nations Participation Act, and many, many, many more, the balance of power has been rendered as under all
of the powers of the government are in one hand, and William Clinton, that is how dare I say that we live in tyranny in the freest country in the world.
For while the rest of the world is bound by three chains, it makes no difference whether we are bound by one or two.
We are still the freest country in the world, and we are still living under tyranny, and we are just a stone's throw from the third chain.
That is how dare I, and I will continue to dare.
And if need be, I will give my life for my country.
I understand the difference now.
I understand full well That I was a fool, thinking that I was serving my country when I was sent to Vietnam to further the interest of tyranny, and that now I am called a terrorist for standing up on the soil that my fathers and my forefathers and our founding fathers fought and died to protect.
As a patriot, your lives Bill Clinton won't Jeffersonian Democrats indeed.
It is amazing that Americans have lost the ability to use their brains.
Good night, and God bless each and every single one of you.
If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd work for all my life, and I had to start again, just my children and my wife.
Tomorrow all the things were gone, work for all my life.
And I had to start again, just my children and my wife.
I thank my lucky star to be living here today.
But the flags still stand for freedom, and they can't take that away.
And I'm proud to be an American, where is this land of my dream?
And I won't forget some men who died who gave that right to me.
And I'd rather end up next to you than be next first to the grave.
But there ain't no doubt I love this land.
I love U.S.A.
From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Kennesee, across the plains of Kentucky, the shining seas, From Detroit down to Houston and New York to L.A.
Spread a pride in every American heart And a tiny step and say
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