Aug 16, 2020 | Enlightened Influences, Video
If Republicans were like Ronald Reagan,
and Democrats were like John F. Kennedy,
this country would be going places.
Televised Campaign Address for Goldwater Presidential Campaign – 10/27/64. Watch a special “Remembering A Time For Choosing” video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulQ7k… For more information on the ongoing works of President Reagan’s Foundation, visit us at http://www.reaganfoundation.org
" A TIME FOR CHOOSING "
“… its a long climb from the swamp to the stars
and it’s been said if we lose that war
and in so doing lose this way of freedom
of ours
history will record with the greatest
astonishment that those who had the most
to lose
did the least to prevent its happening
well i think it’s time we ask ourselves
if we still know the freedoms that were
intended for us by the founding fathers
not too long ago two friends of mine
were talking to a cuban refugee
a businessman who would escape from
castro and in the midst of his story one
of my friends turned to the other and
said we don’t know how lucky we
are and the cuban stopped and said how
lucky you
are i had some place to escape to
and in that sentence he told us the
entire story if we lose freedom here
there’s no place to escape to this is
the last stand on earth
and this idea that government is
beholden to the people that it has no
other source of power except the
sovereign people
is still the newest and the most unique
idea in all the long history of man’s
relation to man
this is the issue of this election
whether we believe in our capacity for
self-government or whether we abandon
the american revolution and confess that
a little intellectual elite
in a far distant capital can plan our
lives for us better than we can plan
them ourselves
you and i are told increasingly we have
to choose between a left or right
well i’d like to suggest there is no
such thing as a left or right
there’s only an up or down
man’s own old age dream
the ultimate in individual freedom
consistent with law and order
or down to the ant heap of
totalitarianism
and regardless of their sincerity their
humanitarian motives
those who would trade our freedom for
security have embarked on this downward
course .. “
[FULL TRANSCRIPT]
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the following pre-recorded political
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program is sponsored by tv for goldwater
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miller on behalf of barry goldwater
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republican candidate for president of
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ladies and gentlemen we take pride in
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presenting a thoughtful address
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by ronald reagan mr reagan
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thank you thank you very much
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thank you and good evening the sponsor
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but unlike most television programs the
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performer hasn’t been provided with a
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as a matter of fact i have been
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permitted to choose my own words
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and discuss my own ideas regarding the
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choice that we face in the next few
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i have spent most of my life as a
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democrat i recently have seen fit to
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i believe that the issues confronting us
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now one side in this campaign has been
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telling us that the issues of this
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are the maintenance of peace and
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prosperity the line has been used we’ve
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but i have an uncomfortable feeling that
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this prosperity isn’t something on which
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we can base our hopes for the future
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no nation in history has ever survived a
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tax burden that reached a third of its
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national income today 37 cents out of
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every dollar earned in this country is
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the tax collector’s share
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and yet our government continues to
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spend 17 million dollars a day
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more than the government takes in we
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haven’t balanced our budget twenty eight
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out of the last thirty four years
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we’ve raised our debt limit three times
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in the last twelve months
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and now our national debt is one and a
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half times bigger than all
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the combined deaths of all the nations
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we have fifteen billion dollars in gold
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we don’t own an ounce foreign dollar
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claims are twenty seven point three
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and we’ve just had announced that the
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dollar of 1939 will now purchase
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45 cents in its total value
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as for the peace that we would preserve
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i wonder who among us would like to
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approach the wife or mother
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whose husband or son has died in south
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vietnam and asked them if they think
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that should be maintained indefinitely
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or do they mean we just want to be left
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in peace there can be no real peace
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while one american is dying someplace in
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the world for the rest of us
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we’re at war with the most dangerous
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enemy that has ever faced mankind in his
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long climb from the swamp to the stars
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and it’s been said if we lose that war
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and in so doing lose this way of freedom
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history will record with the greatest
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astonishment that those who had the most
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did the least to prevent its happening
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well i think it’s time we ask ourselves
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if we still know the freedoms that were
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intended for us by the founding fathers
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not too long ago two friends of mine
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were talking to a cuban refugee
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a businessman who would escape from
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castro and in the midst of his story one
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of my friends turned to the other and
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said we don’t know how lucky we
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are and the cuban stopped and said how
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are i had some place to escape to
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and in that sentence he told us the
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entire story if we lose freedom here
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there’s no place to escape to this is
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and this idea that government is
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beholden to the people that it has no
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other source of power except the
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is still the newest and the most unique
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idea in all the long history of man’s
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this is the issue of this election
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whether we believe in our capacity for
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self-government or whether we abandon
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the american revolution and confess that
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a little intellectual elite
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in a far distant capital can plan our
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lives for us better than we can plan
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you and i are told increasingly we have
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to choose between a left or right
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well i’d like to suggest there is no
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such thing as a left or right
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there’s only an up or down
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the ultimate in individual freedom
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consistent with law and order
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or down to the ant heap of
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and regardless of their sincerity their
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those who would trade our freedom for
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security have embarked on this downward
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in this boat harvesting time they use
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terms like the great society
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or as we were told a few days ago by the
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president we must accept a greater
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in the affairs of the people but they’ve
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been a little more explicit in the past
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and among themselves and all of the
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things i now will quote have appeared in
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these are not republican accusations for
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example they have voices that say
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the cold war will end through our
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acceptance of a not undemocratic
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another voice says the profit motive has
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become outmoded it must be replaced by
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the incentives of the welfare state
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or our traditional system of individual
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freedom is incapable of solving the
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complex problems of the 20th century
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senator fulbright has said at stanford
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university that the constitution is
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he referred to the president as our
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moral teacher and our leader
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and he says he is hobbled in his task by
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the restrictions of power imposed on him
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by this antiquated document he must be
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so that he can do for us what he knows
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and senator clark of pennsylvania
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another articulate spokesman defines
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as meeting the material needs of the
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masses through the full power of
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well i for one resent it when a
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representative of the people refers to
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you and me the free men and women of
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as the masses this is a term we haven’t
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applied to ourselves in america
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but beyond that the full power of
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this was the very thing the founding
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fathers sought to minimize
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they knew that governments don’t control
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things a government can’t control the
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economy without controlling people
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and they know when a government sets out
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force and coercion to achieve its
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purpose they also knew those founding
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outside of its legitimate functions
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as well or as economically as the
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private sector of the economy
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now we have no better example of this
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than government’s involvement in the
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farm economy over the last thirty years
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since nineteen fifty five the cost of
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this program has nearly doubled
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one-fourth of farming in america is
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responsible for 85 percent of the farm
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three-fourths of farming is out on the
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and has known a 21 percent increase in
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the per capita consumption of all its
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you see that one-fourth of farming
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that’s regulated and controlled by the
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in the last three years we’ve spent 43
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dollars in the feed grain program for
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every dollar bushel of corn we don’t
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senator humphrey last week charged that
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barry goldwater as president would seek
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he should do his homework a little
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better because he’ll find out that we’ve
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had a decline of five million in the
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under these government programs he’ll
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also find that the democratic
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administration has sought to get from
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extension of the farm program to include
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that three-fourths that is now free
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he’ll find that they’ve also asked for
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the right to imprison farmers who
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wouldn’t keep books as prescribed by the
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the secretary of agriculture asked for
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to seize farms through condemnation and
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resell them to other individuals
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and contained in that same program was a
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provision that would have allowed the
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to remove two million farmers from the
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at the same time there’s been an
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increase in the department of
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agriculture employees there’s now one
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for every 30 farms in the united states
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and still they can’t tell us how 66
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shiploads of grain headed for austria
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disappeared without a trace and billy
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solist has never left shore
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every responsible farmer and farm
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organization has repeatedly asked the
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government to free the farm economy
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but how who are farmers to know what’s
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the wheat farmers voted against a wheat
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program the government passed it anyway
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now the price of bread goes up the price
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of wheat to the farmer goes down
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meanwhile back in the city under urban
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renewal the assault on freedom carries
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private property rights so diluted that
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public interest is almost anything a few
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government planners decide it should be
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in a program that takes from the needy
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we see such spectacles as in cleveland
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ohio a million and a half dollar
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building completed only three years ago
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to make way for what government
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officials call a more compatible use of
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the president tells us he’s now going to
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start building public housing units in
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the thousands we’re here before we’ve
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only built them in the hundreds
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but fha and the veterans administration
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they have a hundred and twenty thousand
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housing units they’ve taken back through
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for three decades we’ve sought to solve
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the problems of unemployment
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through government planning and the more
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the plans fail the more the planners
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the latest is the area redevelopment
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agency they’ve just declared rice county
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rice county kansas has 200 oil wells and
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the 14 000 people there have over 30
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million dollars on deposit in personal
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when the government tells you you’re
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depressed lie down and be depressed
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we have so many people who can’t see a
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fat man standing beside a thin one
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without coming to the conclusion the fat
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man got that way by taking advantage of
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so they’re going to solve all the
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problems of human misery through
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government and government planning
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well now if government planning and
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welfare had the answer and they’ve had
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almost 30 years of it shouldn’t we
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expect government to read the score to
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shouldn’t they be telling us about the
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decline each year in the number of
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needing help the reduction in the need
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but the reverse is true each year the
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need grows greater the program grows
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we were told four years ago that 17
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million people went to bed hungry each
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well that was probably true they were
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but now we’re told that 9.3 million
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families in this country are poverty
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stricken on the basis of earning less
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than three thousand dollars a year
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welfare spending ten times greater than
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it was in the dark depths of the
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we’re spending 45 billion dollars on
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now do a little arithmetic and you’ll
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find that if we divided the 45 billion
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dollars up equally among those 9 million
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we’d be able to give each family 4 600 a
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and this added to their present income
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direct aid to the poor however is only
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per family it would seem that someplace
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there must be some overhead
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so now we declare war on poverty or you
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now do they honestly expect us to
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believe that if we add 1 billion dollars
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to the 45 billion we’re spending
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one more program to the 30 odd we have
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and remember this new program
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doesn’t replace any it just duplicates
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do they believe that poverty is suddenly
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going to disappear by magic
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well in all fairness i should explain
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there is one part of the new program
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that isn’t duplicated this is the youth
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we’re now going to solve the dropout
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problem juvenile delinquency
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by reinstituting something like the old
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and we’re going to put our young people
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in these camps but again we do some
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arithmetic and we find that we’re going
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just on room and board for each young
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forty seven hundred dollars a year
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we can send them to harvard for twenty
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of course don’t get me wrong i’m not
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suggesting harvard is the answer to
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but seriously what are we doing to those
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not too long ago a judge called me here
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he told me that a young woman who’d come
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she had six children was pregnant with
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her seventh under his questioning she
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revealed her husband was a laborer
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earning 250 dollars a month
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she wanted the divorce to get an eighty
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dollar raise she’s eligible for three
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hundred and thirty dollars a month in
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the aid the dependent children program
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she got the idea from two women in her
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neighborhood who’d already done that
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yet anytime you and i question the
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schemes of the do-gooders were denounced
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their humanitarian goals they say we’re
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always against things we’re never for
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well the trouble with our liberal
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friends is not that they’re ignorant
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it’s just that they know so much that
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we’re for a provision the destitution
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should not follow unemployment by reason
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and to that end we’ve accepted social
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security as a step toward meeting the
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but we’re against those entrusted with
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when they practice deception regarding
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when they charge that any criticism of
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the program means that we want to end
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payments to those people who depend on
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they’ve called it insurance to us in a
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hundred million pieces of literature
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but then they appeared before the
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supreme court and they testified it was
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they only used the term insurance to
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and they said social security dues are
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attacks for the general use of the
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and the government has used that tax
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because robert byers the actuarial head
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appeared before a congressional
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that social security as of this moment
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is 298 billion dollars in the whole
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but he said there should be no cause for
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worry because as long as they had the
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they could always take away from the
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people whatever they needed to bail them
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and they’re doing just that a young man
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21 years of age working at an average
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his social security contribution would
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in the open market buy him an insurance
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policy that would guarantee two hundred
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and twenty dollars a month
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at age sixty five the government
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promises a hundred and twenty seven
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he could live it up until he’s 31 and
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then take out a policy that would pay
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more than social security
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now are we so lacking in business sense
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that we can’t put this program on a
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so that people who do require those
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can get them when they’re due that the
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barry goldwater thinks we can at the
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can’t we introduce voluntary features
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that would permit a citizen who can do
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to be excused upon presentation of
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evidence that he had made provision for
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should we not allow a widow with
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children to work and not lose the
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benefits supposedly paid for by her
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shouldn’t you and i be allowed to
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declare who our beneficiaries will be
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under this program which we cannot do
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i think we’re foretelling our senior
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that no one in this country should be
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denied medical care because of a lack of
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but i think we’re against forcing all
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citizens regardless of need into a
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compulsory government program
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especially when we have such examples as
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was announced last week when france
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admitted that their medicare program
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is now bankrupt they’ve come to the end
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was barry goldwater so irresponsible
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when he suggested that our government
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its program of deliberate planned
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so that when you do get your social
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a dollar will buy a dollar’s worth and
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i think we’re for an international
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organization where the nations of the
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but i think we’re against subordinating
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american interest to an organization
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that has become so structurally unsound
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that today you can muster a two-thirds
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on the floor of the general assembly
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among nations that represent
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less than 10 percent of the world’s
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population i think we’re against the
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hypocrisy of assailing our allies
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because here and there they cling to a
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colony while we engage in a conspiracy
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of silence and never open our mouths
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about the millions of people enslaved in
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i think we’re for aiding our allies by
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sharing of our material blessings with
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those nations which share in our
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but we’re against doling out money
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government to government creating
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if not socialism all over the world we
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set out to help 19 countries we’re
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we’ve spent 146 billion dollars
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with that money we bought a two million
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dollar yacht for haile selassie
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we bought dress suits for greek
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undertakers extra wives for kenya
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we bought a thousand tv sets for a place
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where they have no electricity
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in the last six years 52 nations have
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billion dollars worth of our gold and
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all fifty two are receiving foreign aid
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no government ever voluntarily reduces
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so government programs once launched
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actually a government bureau is the
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nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever
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federal employees federal employees
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number two and a half million
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and federal state and local one out of
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six of the nation’s workforce
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employed by government these
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proliferating bureaus with their
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thousands of regulations have cost us
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many of our constitutional safeguards
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how many of us realize that today
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federal agents can invade
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a man’s property without a warrant they
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can impose a fine without a formal
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hearing let alone a trial by jury
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and they can seize and sell his property
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at auction to enforce the payment of
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in chico county arkansas james weir over
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planted his rice allotment the
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government obtained a seventeen thousand
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and a u s marshal sold his 960 acre farm
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the government said it was necessary as
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last february 19th at the university of
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minnesota norman thomas six
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times candidate for president on the
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socialist party ticket said
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if barry goldwater became president he
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would stop the advance of socialism in
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the united states i think that’s exactly
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but as a former democrat i can tell you
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norman thomas isn’t the only man
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who has drawn this parallel to socialism
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with the present administration
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because back in 1936 mr democrat himself
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al smith the great american came before
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and charged that the leadership of his
19:47
party was taking the party of jefferson
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jackson and cleveland down the road
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under the banners of marx lenin and
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stalin and he walked away from his party
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and he never returned till the day he
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because to this day the leadership of
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that party has been taking that party
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that honorable party down the road
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in the image of the labor socialist
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now it doesn’t require expropriation or
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confiscation of private property or
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to impose socialism on a people what
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does it mean whether you hold the deed
20:17
to the or the title to your business or
20:19
property if the government holds the
20:22
over that business or property and such
20:26
the government can find some charge to
20:27
bring against any concern it chooses to
20:30
every businessman has his own tale of
20:34
somewhere a perversion has taken place
20:37
natural unalienable rights are now
20:39
considered to be a dispensation of
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and freedom has never been so fragile so
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close to slipping from our grasp as it
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our democratic opponents seem unwilling
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they want to make you and i believe that
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this is a contest between two men
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that were to choose just between two
20:58
personalities well what of this man that
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in destroying they would destroy that
21:04
which he represents the ideas that you
21:07
is he the brash and shallow and trigger
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well i’ve been privileged to know him
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when i knew him long before he ever
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dreamed of trying for high office
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and i can tell you personally i’ve never
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known a man in my life i believed so
21:22
incapable of doing a dishonest or
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this is a man who in his own business
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before he entered politics instituted a
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profit-sharing plan before unions had
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he put in health and medical insurance
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he took fifty percent of the profits
21:49
before taxes and set up a retirement
21:51
program a pension plan for all his
21:54
he sent monthly checks for life to an
21:56
employee who was ill and couldn’t work
21:58
he provides nursing care for the
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children of mothers who work in the
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when mexico was ravaged by the floods in
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the rio grande he climbed in his
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airplane and flew mexico medicine and
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an ex-gi told me how he met him it was
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the week before christmas during the
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and he was at the los angeles airport
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trying to get a ride home to arizona for
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and he said that a lot of servicemen
22:23
there and no seats available on the
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and then a voice came over the
22:27
loudspeaker and said any men in uniform
22:30
wanting a ride to arizona go to runway
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and they went down there there was a
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fella named barry goldwater sitting in
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every day in those weeks before
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christmas all day long he’d load up the
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plane fly it to arizona fly them to
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their homes fly back over to get another
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during the hectic split-second timing of
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a campaign this is a man who took time
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out to sit beside an old friend who was
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his campaign managers were
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but he said there aren’t many left to
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i’d like her to know i care this is a
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man who said to his nineteen-year-old
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there is no foundation like the rock of
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and when you begin to build your life on
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that rock with the cement of the faith
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then you have a real start
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this is not a man who could carelessly
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send other people’s sons to war
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and that is the issue of this campaign
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that makes all the other problems i’ve
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academic unless we realize we’re in a
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those who would trade our freedom for
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the soup kitchen of the welfare state
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have told us they have a utopian
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solution of peace without victory they
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call their policy accommodation
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and they say if we’ll only avoid any
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direct confrontation with the enemy
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forget his evil ways and learn to love
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are indicted as war mongers they say we
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offer simple answers to complex problems
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but perhaps there is a simple answer not
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but simple if you and i have the courage
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to tell our elected officials
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that we want our national policy based
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on what we know in our hearts is morally
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we cannot buy our security our freedom
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from the threat of the bomb
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by committing an immorality so great
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as saying to a billion human beings now
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enslaved behind the iron curtain give up
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because to save our own skins we’re
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willing to make a deal with your slave
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alexander hamilton said a nation which
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can prefer disgrace to danger
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is prepared for a master and deserves
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now let’s set the record straight
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there’s no argument over the choice
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but there’s only one guaranteed way you
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can have peace and you can have it in
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surrender admittedly there’s a risk in
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any course we follow other than this but
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every lesson of history tells us
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that the greater risk lies in
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appeasement and this is the specter our
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well-meaning liberal friends refuse to
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that their policy of accommodation is
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and it gives no choice between peace and
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war only between fight or surrender
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if we continue to accommodate continue
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eventually we have to face the final
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and what then when nikita khrushchev has
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told his people he knows what our answer
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he has told them that we’re retreating
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under the pressure of the cold war and
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when the time comes to deliver the final
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ultimate of our surrender will be
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voluntary because by that time
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we will have been weakened from within
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spiritually morally and economically
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he believes this because from our side
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he’s heard voices pleading for peace at
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or better read than dead or as one
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commentator put it he’d rather live on
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his knees than die in his feet
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and therein lies the road to war because
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those voices don’t speak for the rest of
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you and i know and do not believe that
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life is so dear and peace so sweet has
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to be purchased at the price of chains
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if nothing in life is worth dying for
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just in the face of this enemy or should
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moses have told the children of israel
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to live in slavery under the pharaohs
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should christ have refused the cross
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should the patriots at concord bridge
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have thrown down their guns and refused
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to fire the shot heard round the world
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the martyrs of history were not fools
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who gave their lives to stop the advance
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of the nazis didn’t die in vain
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where then is the road to peace well
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it’s a simple answer after all
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you and i have the courage to say to our
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enemies there is a price we will not pay
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there is a point beyond which they must
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and this this is the meaning
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in the phrase of barry goldwater peace
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winston churchill said the destiny of
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man is not measured by material
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computations when great forces around
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the move in the world we learn we’re
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and he said there’s something going on
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in time and space and beyond time and
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which whether we like it or not spells
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you and i have a rendezvous with destiny
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for our children this the last best hope
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or we’ll sentence them to take the last
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step into a thousand years of darkness
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we will keep in mind and remember that
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faith in us he has faith that you and i
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and the dignity and the right to make
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and determine our own destiny thank you
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thank you ronnie for this very stirring
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i am john kilroy national chairman tv
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miller i want to ask each of you
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i want to ask each of you to take part
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The Reagan Assassination Attempt was a HIT, not Hinckley! George Bush ordered the hit on Reagan, and it was carried out with professional precision. It just didn’t WORK! Reagan was supposed to DIE that day, but didn’t.
Reagan Assassination Attempt Footage
Jul 30, 2020 | Activism, Enlightened Influences
Jul 29, 2020 | Activism, Enlightened Influences
There has always been a conscious effort to destroy any upliftment of the black race, whether that be physically, mentally, psychologically, morally, culturally, or economically.
Rapper, Music
Conscious Rap Defined
Conscious rap is a subgenre of hip-hop that focuses on creating awareness and imparting knowledge. Conscious rappers traditionally have decried violence, discrimination, and other ailments of society. Conscious rap is propelled by the conviction that radical social change comes through knowledge of self and personal discovery.
Most conscious rap songs contain positive, uplifting messages, often delivered over smooth, ear-grabbing beats. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5’s “The Message” and Slick Rick’s “Hey Young World” are grand examples of early conscious hip-hop tracks.
Conscious Rap vs. Political Hip-Hop
Conscious hip-hop is often confused with its musical cousin, political hip-hop, possibly because they both speak to social turmoil. A disdain for commercialism is another common thread that weaves the two styles together. Politically charged songs by rappers such as Dead Prez and Public Enemy are usually delivered in a militant fashion. The conscious message, on the other hand, empowers by uplifting the listener. Close your eyes and pick any album from The Coup’s catalog and you will have walked in on a crash course on political hip-hop.
The Gift and Curse of Conscious Rap
Socially aware hip-hoppers often dissect the attitude and ideals propagated in mainstream culture, but the approach is not without its limitations. Since they often create music for headphones, and not necessarily for mass radio, conscious rappers are generally less accomplished than their mainstream counterparts. With the exception of a few emcees (Nas and Kendrick Lamar come to mind), conscious artists typically lose the chart race to their more popular mainstream peers.
Despite the prestige attached to being the Voice of the People, many rappers detest bearing the “conscious rap” label because of its limiting virtue. The music also is harder to find because some of the independent labels that once cranked out what’s been called rap’s “righteous underground,” such as Rawkus and Def Jux, are no longer in the business, which has made seeking out conscious rap more akin to a scavenger hunt.
The conscious movement bears some resemblance to—and has some overhang with—rap’s straightedge community, a moniker for hip-hop’s drug- and alcohol-free emcees. It’s a larger group than you might expect, even if some are recent converts.
Notable Conscious Hip-Hop Acts
Here are some artists that have worn, or now represent (Kanye) the mantle of Conscious Rap:
- Lowkey
- Beast 1333
- MC Yogi
- Gang Starr
- Immortal Technique
- Killer Mike
- Dead Prez
- Tupac Shakur
- K-RINO
- Vinnie Paz
- Jedi Mind Tricks
Essential Conscious Rap Albums
- “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back,” Public Enemy
- “Resurrection,” Common
- “Quality,” Talib Kweli
- “Black on Both Sides,” Mos Def
- “Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star,” Black Star
- “2PAC” Changes – Unknown Album
- “Lowkey” Soundtrack to the Struggle
The Glory That is Conscious Rap
One shining example is “Glory,” performed and written by Common and John Legend. It was the theme song from the 2014 film “Selma,” which recalls the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. It says, in part:
“resistance is us
That’s why Rosa sat on the bus
That’s why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up
When it go down we woman and man up
They say, ‘Stay down’ and we stand up”
Inside the Complicated History of Anti-Cop Anthem ‘Sound of Da Police’
The 1993 song reinvigorated KRS-One’s career
and against all odds became a Hollywood (and police) favorite
1992, KRS-One was at a crossroads. After a string of three gold records, his group, Boogie Down Productions, had only sold 250,000 copies of its most recent album, Sex and Violence. He was under industry fire for throwing PM Dawn rapper Prince Be off the stage during a notorious show at New York City’s Sound Factory. Some listeners complained that his music had become too preachy; others questioned his decision to drop a song like “13 and Good.” Meanwhile, BDP itself was coming apart. Other members had sued him for half the ownership of the group, and he’d recently split with his wife, Ms. Melodie, who was also a part of the crew.
Sitting at the Tokyo airport while on tour in support of Sex and Violence, that year, he wrote the lyrics for a new song. He called it “Sound of Da Police.” There wasn’t a particular incident that inspired it. Nothing had occurred between him and the authorities in Japan. The L.A. uprisings had happened earlier that year, but they weren’t consciously on his mind. The song’s inspiration was straightforward and ingrained: generation after generation after generation of Black people experiencing unfair treatment and violence at the hands of the cops. more on Medium.com
‘Soundtrack To The Struggle’
Official video for Lowkey
When you say the truth, they attack like a Sabre-tooth
Thinking clear they make you disappear like you hate the fruit
We don’t need more Boeings, we don’t need more Rebors, weed or Lyor Cohens
They tell us about terrorism and tell us about terrorists
Look up the definition and tell us what terror is
Aug 31, 2015 | 2020 Relevant, Enlightened Influences, Extra-Dimensional
She’s also one of the most popular. She claims to have interviewed hundreds of “above Top Secret” subjects; ex-military or government officials who are in the know about the way things really are. Kerry says that she’s seen or heard evidence of a veritable checklist of illuminati conspiracies: alien contact with the human race (including trade and commerce, some of which involves exchanging live humans for alien technology), interstellar war, human access to technologies 10,000 years beyond what’s been revealed to the average person… and genetically and biologically engineered supersoldiers. She was recently in Australia and we caught up with her to talk about all the things you’re (allegedly) not being told.
How have you found the response you’ve gotten to your ideas in Australia? I imagine there are some people who might label you a crackpot…
They don’t call me that to my face! So I don’t know!
So what do you mean by “above Top Secret” informants?
If you think of, say, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden as dealing with “Top Secret” information, I deal with information above that level.
What’s an example of that?
“Black Projects”, as we call them. Usually secret scientific projects that can be anything from genetic engineering to interstellar travel, building bases underground around the world, as well as building bases on other planets. Sending troops off the planet… any kind of project that the government doesn’t want the public to know about. And those things are vast. It could be something to do with a bio-weapon, it could be a plan to depopulate or take over a certain area. It could be regarding treaties with extra terrestrial races who’ve made contact with or have an interest in affairs on Earth. Whatever is entailed in running the world from behind the scenes.
Wow! So… one of your beliefs, and you claim to have proof of this, is that we’ve made contact with aliens. You’ve mentioned that United States President Dwight Eisenhower met with these extra terrestrials, and since then the human race been able to reverse engineer a number of alien technologies, even though the majority of us are being kept in the dark about it…
It’s not a belief. There is evidence. And it’s been happening since way before Eisenhower. Extra terrestrials have been interacting with humans for millennia. Other races, be they humanoid or not, have been involved with Earth, and some even consider Earth to be their home – they were here first. Eisenhower actually met with three races of aliens who were trying to make deals with the US Government.
Is it just the US Government they’d been dealing with?
They’d also been dealing with the Germans during World War Two, and they gave the Nazis technology. There’s also evidence that Tesla was assisted by ETs in his work.
OK. I see. So why do you think aliens have such an interest in Earth? What’s so good or special about us?
There are many things on Earth they find quite desirable, and I have a good number of whistleblowers who have given me information to that effect. My whistleblowers are predominantly ex-military, some of whom are still working for the Secret Government and who have spoken to me off the record. They [the aliens] are very interested in our gold, for example.
Our gold?
Yes. I’m told that gold on Earth is relatively easy to access when compared to getting it off an asteroid, which obviously would have issues when it comes to mining for gold.
You also mentioned aliens wanting to do business and form alliances with us…
Yes. Earth is also a very pleasurable place to do business. There’s also reason to use Earth as a jumping off point to explore the rest of the solar system and the galaxy. Also, apparently human females are considered to be extremely useful for breeding and genetic experimentation. [The extra terrestrials] also come here for food – certain reptilian races consider us as a food source. And then there are those that simply want to do commerce with us and utilise us as allies. We’re very good at building things and we’re also sending troops to conflicts around the universe.
Human soldiers are being sent to interstellar conflicts?
Soldiers who are alleged to be going to Iraq or Afghanistan are actually being sent off planet to places like Mars to fight battles alongside other alien races. Those men and women will have their minds wiped when they come back. This is why we’re having a lot of suicides with ex-soldiers. In some cases their minds have been wiped so many times they become unbalanced as a result. When they return, they don’t know where they’ve been. They think they’ve been to the Middle East, but they’ve actually been elsewhere.
Why do you think our governments and militaries are trying to keep this from us?
They make deals. A lot of the ET races we’re dealing with are extremely technologically advanced. They’re coming to Earth from far away places. They’re jumping through space – through portals – to get here, and they exchange technology for what they want on Earth.
You’ve mentioned that, on occasion, humans have been exchanged for alien technology.
Our governments exchanged humans. There are millions of children, and even adult humans, who have disappeared from the Earth. Humans have been exchanged for technology, and those humans have become slaves, or food sources… or used for breeding purposes. Some extra terrestrials are relatively friendly, others… not so much.
So I’m trying to get a grasp of your world view. Your hypothesis, which you’ve come to from interviewing people you believe to be “above Top Secret” informants, is that aliens exist. That they’ve been making contact with Earth for at least as long as humans have been around, and that there are “above Top Secret“ government and military programs through which we conduct commerce and, on occasion, form military alliances with said aliens. Some of that commerce involves exchanging humans for alien technology. Is that accurate?
Again, I don’t view it as a belief. It’s simply a reality. It doesn’t matter whether someone chooses to believe it or not. It’s like saying: “Does it rain?”. In my view, based on the eight-and-a-half years of investigations I’ve made and the huge amount of above Top Secret witnesses I’ve spoken to, I have to conclude that it’s not open to conjecture. Now, there are lot of people who would like to deny that reality, and there are governments that want to keep people in the dark. So my mission, if you will, is to wake people up to the reality of our interactions with alien races and also to the Secret Government that we know is in operation.
Are there aliens living among us?
We had a witness by the name of Tony Dodd, who was ex-military and very high up in the United Kingdom police. He contacted us behind the scenes. He came forward about some contacts he had within the British monarchy, government and military, and he revealed that they had teams of agents who would track down various aliens around the world. In some cases these teams were just keeping an eye on the aliens, in some cases they were tracking them and in some cases they were killing them. He told us we could be killed for using that information. But he was a very well respected individual in the police force in Britain.
If what you say is true – and whether or not anyone believes you’re a crazy person or whether you’re legitimate, I don’t doubt that you believe it’s true – then you must feel as though you’re in some kind of risk from the powers that be.
There have been people – a man named William Cooper is one, as is another man named Bill Schneider – who worked in above Top Secret for the military. They were killed for revealing information to the public. The bottom line is that yes, I’ve had my life threatened. I’ve had interference, because I have what you might call friends in high places: some extra terrestrials and some “white hats” – people high up in the government and the military who want disclosure. They’re fighting behind the scenes to leak information to the public. They use organisations like mine to help. So I’m being kept alive by a number of those individuals.
OK. So I was also interested in what you described as “supersoldiers”. You believe – or you’ve seen evidence to this effect – that there are humans who have been modified to become interstellar soldiers? How is this achieved? What are they used for?
There are a number of supersoldiers whom I’ve interviewed. They’re usually brought in from the military, but then they’ll have some of their powers enhanced – some by nanotechnology, some by genetic engineering. The ones who I’ve met have enhanced physical powers – they’re stronger, they’re faster, they have enhanced intelligence and psychic ability. They have superpowers. It’s almost like the X-Men films. In the case of a man named Dan Sherman, he was genetically altered. He’s written a book called Above Black. As a result of genetic enhancement and manipulation he has some special powers in terms of his ability to communicate with certain races of ETs in a telepathic capacity.
So who do you think is really in charge of Earth?
Call it what you want, some might call it the illuminati. There are different levels of illuminati, actually. Some are dark magicians – they use black magic. They go by certain occult philosophies. And they’re also Nazis. These are individuals who have banded together to create a new world order. They’re infiltrating all our governments, and they have been for some time now. They’re very much active in Australia, The United States, Europe, Britain… they’re building to a new world order.
Heavy. So am I gonna end up on some kind of government watch list as a result of this interview?
Well, fear is something that everyone needs to get over. That is the reptilian state of mind. A lot of the DNA in our leaders is reptialian- based, and they like to keep people cowering and under control. So I encourage everyone to investigate what I have to say and to watch the over 300 interviews I’ve done with people on the subject. There’s a tremendous amount of information out there. It’s about having an open mind and wanting to investigate what’s real and what’s not.
Aug 15, 2015 | Enlightened Influences, Hollywood Programming
John Oliver is an English comedian who first attracted US attention through his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In April 2014, he began taping episodes of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a weekly half-hour program that satirizes news and current events. Even as a comedy program, it focuses heavily on topics like climate change and other contemporary concerns that lend themselves to critical, in-depth discussions. HBO has given Oliver has full creative freedom and can thus he can target whomever he likes, be they corporations, politicians, or anybody else who considers themselves beyond the reach of the average journalist or comedian.
From the start, Oliver stepped in to boldly expose issues most often misrepresented in mainstream news. In May 2014, he skewered the media’s laughable coverage of the climate change “debate.” Standard news coverage on a topic of any scientific nature generally has a talking head on each side, with Bill Nye the Science Guy (or another familiar face) speaking for the scientists and some nameless “skeptic” speaking for the powers-that-be currently benefiting from the bounty of fossil fuels. Oliver decided to hold his own “statistically accurate” version of one of these conversations, quickly re-confirming that all proof points to the reality of our rapidly warming world.
As Oliver pointed out, 97 percent of the peer-reviewed papers on climate change state that it is real and is caused by human activity. Oliver then showed the audience what a televised debate reflecting that reality would look like. After seating the two or three “skeptics” on one side of a table, Oliver invited the scientists to join them, which led to a horde of people in lab coats swarming in. The scene was hilarious and the video went viral on YouTube. According to energy experts at Dominion Gas, this tactic of marrying humor and education, when it comes to energy usage and climate change, is an easy way to get viewers to tune in and learn without even trying.
A month later, Oliver took on the net neutrality question – despite admitting that many people find the topic “even boring by C-Span standards.” Maintaining net neutrality, however, is vital, for it is the chief principal of the Internet. It holds that all data should be displayed equally and that everybody should be able to access it. That means that sites affiliated with large companies should not have any advantages over other sites. Amongst other things, net neutrality makes it easier for start-ups to compete with larger entities by keeping the playing field level for everybody.
At the time, the FCC was considering changing the rules to produce a two-tiered Internet with high speed service for the bigger sites and slower speeds for everybody else. That, of course, would have drastically changed the Internet – and not for the better. Oliver ended his dissertation with an impassioned and hilarious plea to all the Internet trolls to go forth and send their angry, ranting comments to the FCC opposing the new rules. 45,000 trolls did so – and crashed the FCC’s comment page. The FCC got the hint and scuttled the new rules, at least for the time being. The net neutrality video also went viral. Oliver’s segment on the exploitation of small poultry farmers by large corporations also ended with a call to action, this time directed at members of Congress.
Oliver will also invite guests on to his show who fit and can expand on a given theme. Most famously, he got Edward Snowden to talk about government surveillance. Similarly, he invited Pepe Julian Onziema, a Ugandan LGBT rights activist, to discuss that very topic.
Since his show is on HBO, John-Oliver does have a lot of creative freedom. He doesn’t have to worry about possibly offending any advertisers. If he’d been on network television, he would not have been allowed to skewer General Motors for its mishandling of the recall crisis, since the networks all need GM’s money. HBO is not in that position, so Oliver could lambaste GM. Similarly, his show has fewer commercial breaks than do network programs so he can do things like devote 13 minutes to net neutrality. Not only can he cover a topic in greater depth, he can also issue a call to action.
John-Oliver’s use of humor makes his show both popular and effective. As mentioned earlier, his segment on net neutrality proved to be very popular – despite the fact that most people find the topic not all that interesting. His use of humor helps him make his point. Having several dozen scientists swarm the stage during a “debate” on climate change showed people that the vast majority of scientists accept the reality of climate change. In that same episode, he pointed out the fallacy of taking opinion polls on known scientific facts, for such polls only demonstrate that an embarrassing percentage of Americans don’t understand science.
John-Oliver is also willing to tackle topics like the exploitation of small farmers by large corporations that network journalists cannot or will not touch. Revealing such information can hurt the corporations, for many of their customers would presumably take their business to competitors who treat farmers fairly. To keep that from happening, the corporations try to keep their misdeeds hidden. Since Oliver names names, his fans know which corporations are involved. By using humor to inform and rouse people, Oliver performs a public service.
via Brandon Engel
Jul 19, 2015 | Enlightened Influences, Hollywood Programming
Matt Damon – “Things Are All Upside Down” Speech
In this video actor Matt Damon speaks publicly on the New World Order and the Illuminati in a powerful speech.
He mentions the “topsy turvy world”we’re living in where the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail.
He also says that the wrong people are in power, whilst the wrong people are out of power. Matt Damon has been a voice in the public eye for many years. He speaks out for human rights and freedom of information. He is a proponent of helping people and a respected actor and director. His speech is great and I am sure you guys will enjoy your time listening to it.
https://youtu.be/Rh-HOyJpJsA
Feb 25, 2015 | Enlightened Influences
Author and lecturer Stuart Wilde is one of the real characters of the self-help, human potential movement. His style is humorous, controversial, poignant and transformational. He has written over a dozen books, including those that make up the very successful Taos Quintet, which are considered classics in their genre. They are: Affirmations, The Force, Miracles, The Quickening and The Trick to Money Is Having Some. Stuart’s books have been translated into 12 languages.
In Stuart’s Own Words – from “Affirmations”
“I was born when I was very young, in Farnham, England. Conditions at birth were very crowded. My twin sister appeared in the physical plane about twenty minutes ahead of me. I like to think that I allowed her pole position, being the proper little gent that I was, but if truth be known I was asleep in the wings and missed the curtain call.”
“My father was an officer in the British navy. At the time of my birth in 1946, he was seconded to the Foreign Office and served as a diplomat. My mother was Sicilian. They met during the Allied invasion of Sicily and were married in three weeks. She was very bright, a professor of languages and the only person that I have ever known who could speak Latin fluently.”
“At age ten, disaster struck. I was shipped from a carefree existence on the beaches of Africa to a British boarding school, a mausoleum of a place that was founded in the year dot. Its philosophies were archaic and bizarre to say the least. Much of it could be traced back to some obscure little man who sat on a sand dune in pre-history, developing ways to manipulate and harass people.”
“I remember my father standing on the tarmac of Accra airport prior to my departure for England, and ceremoniously presenting me with a five pound note ($7.50 at today’s exchange rate.) At the tender age of ten that seemed to me an untold fortune. However, once at school I discovered the sweet shop and through that, along with the ravages of inflation, I experienced my first cash flow crunch about a week-and-a-half into my scholastic career.”
“Cigarettes, it seemed, were a prized form of contraband. As ten-year-old boys were not allowed off the grounds, shortages existed. Demand having been established, I now set about the problem of supply. One morning the gods smiled on me and I met an older student whose function it was to go to the village on his bike each day to collect my master’s newspapers. I pinned him to the wall, and in my best Sicilian accent asked him if he would like to go into business. He said, ‘No.’ Whereupon I punched him in the nose and we became lifelong friends and partners.”
“I remember the tennis coach coming up to me on the last day at that school and asking me why I looked so miserable. From within my tears I mumbled, ‘the business, the business.’ Graduating from school was my first taste of unemployment.”
“I mucked around for a few years and wound up as a stage hand with the prestigious English Stage Company at Sloan Square in London. I had the idea of going into theater management. My twin sister was by now forging ahead with a showbiz career and was appearing weekly on British TV. However, once I found out that the stage manager earned just forty pounds for a seventy hour work week, the roar of the grease paint and the smell of the crowd lost its allure.”
“The swinging sixties were hotting up and the British rock bands were all the rage. On one of my travels I discovered a textile mill in Lancashire that made a kind of a T-shirt vest that miners wore. To my amazement the first boutique I offered them to snapped them up. The problem was one of logistics. I could tye-dye hundreds of T-shirts each day, but drying them was a problem. Luckily, they were greatly in demand and in my customer’s search for sartorial splendor, they failed to notice that the T-shirt hung limply off the hangers still wet.”
“By the age of twenty, I was earning a little over the equivalent of $20,000 per week…. I then signed up for a seven year course at the University of Burn-out, cruising London with a group of exotic characters whose names seemed culled from the cockney hall of fame. My chauffeurs were called Billy the Kid and Slick Vic, and I employed a fellow named Richard the Minder to get me home at night.”
“At the ripe old age of twenty eight I was exhausted. There were hardly any human experiences left to me. Literally, I had been there, done that, and gotten the T-shirt.”
“One morning, nursing a terrible hangover, I decided to discover the meaning of life. I signed up to train as a spirit medium at the College of Psychic Studies. I seemed to have a fair talent for it and not long after I was regularly contacting the spirits of the departed in hopes that they might answer my questions as to life’s wondrous mysteries.”
“During those years of searching, I struggled both spiritually and in the worldly sense. If I had known then what I know now, I could have saved myself much pain and anguish…. I continued to travel and study endlessly… Bit my bit I was able to sift the chaff from the wheat as I worked on myself, my own perceptions began to open up. I developed the ability to enter into deep states of mind and not fall asleep. After five years of training I found that I could hold concentration at the theta brain level (which is 4 – 6 cycles of brain rhythm second) almost indefinitely.
That was the turning point in my quest.”
Stuart rarely appears in public anymore, choosing instead to teach advanced metaphysics to small groups via his Transcendental Tours ™. Stuart is often described as a mystical man with a mysterious, powerful persona. Those who train with Stuart however quickly realize that at heart, Stuart is an enormously loving, generous and caring teacher, whose primary mission is to help seekers recognize their own truth. With that in mind, Stuart is destined to leave a lasting legacy for all those commited to discovering their higher purpose.
The groundbreaking new book “The Sixth Sense” is an amazing inner discovery of your SIXTH SENSE which he defines as sacred energy that taps you into the state of all-knowing. The subtle body (the etheric), Stuart reveals, is a key component in understanding the sixth sense, and he helps you to unlock its mysteries here. Once you open to the power and omniscience of the sixth sense, you can perceive life in all its subtlety and vastness.
Feb 25, 2015 | 2020 Relevant, Activism, Enlightened Influences
When revolutionary rap duo Dead Prez released their classic 2000 opening salvo, Let’s Get Free, the outspoken hip-hop tandem of stic.man and M-1 were lauded and criticized for their two-fisted rebuke of systematic racism in all its forms. Nearly two decades later, Dead Prez is still fighting the good fight: stic is set to release the book The Art of War: Hip-Hop and Social Activism later this year, and M just dropped the track “Sacrifice” in celebration of the prison release of Black Liberation Army member Sekou Odinga. In the polarizing aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri, grand jury’s decision to not indict a police officer for killing unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, OZY reached out to the pair to hear their views on a community and city on fire.
“What I think is even more constructive … is an economic strike aimed at some of the pressure points of the system.”
— stic.man
We here at the decryptedmatrix love these guys and their candor and message. We can only hope for more artists of all kinds to embrace the chance to speak truth to those who will listen to them. Model artists like this are what we need more of to inspire the next generation and to create content that we all enjoy. Without more guys like Dead Prez we fear that music industry will continue to be corrupted by the same corporate influences that have so far shaped what is on the radio and the top of the billboard charts.
Feb 25, 2015 | Activism, Enlightened Influences, Hollywood Programming
Oliver Stone, byname of William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946, New York, New York, U.S.), American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for his ambitious and often controversial movies.
Stone, the son of a wealthy stockbroker, was raised in New York City. He briefly studied at Yale University before dropping out to teach English in South Vietnam. Upon his return, Stone lived in Mexico for a year and again attended Yale for a short period. In 1967, during the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He distinguished himself in combat, earning two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star. Stone then enrolled in film school at New York University (B.A., 1971), studying under director Martin Scorsese.
Stone was deeply affected by his war experiences, and his student films, such asLast Year in Viet Nam (1971), dealt directly with the consequences of the Vietnam conflict. After graduating, he directed the horror movies Seizure! (1974) and The Hand (1981), the latter of which starred Michael Caine. Stone also began experimenting with screenwriting, and he won an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), which was based on the true story of a man brutally abused while imprisoned for drug smuggling in Turkey.
Stone devoted much of the early 1980s to writing screenplays, including Conan the Barbarian (1982), Scarface (1983), which was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Al Pacino, and Year of the Dragon (1985). He returned to directing withSalvador (1986), which he also wrote. In the film, a journalist (played by James Woods) documents the atrocities committed during the El Salvador uprisings of 1980–81. Stone again drew on the trauma of the Vietnam War in Platoon (1986), for which he won another Academy Award, this time for directing. The film navigates the perils of war from the perspective of a new recruit who quickly realizes that the idealism that motivated his decision to enlist was misguided. Stone drew upon personal experience once more for Wall Street (1987), using memories of his father’s career as a stockbroker to conjure an indictment of the greed and deceit governing the financial world. In 1988 he adapted Eric Bogosian’s Off-Broadway play Talk Radio to film.
Stone emphasized the continuing ramifications of the Vietnam War with Born on the Fourth of July (1989). The film, based on the autobiography of Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, chronicles the evolution of a young man, played by Tom Cruise, from patriotic soldier to paraplegic antiwar activist. Stone won an Academy Award for directing that movie and received a fourth career nomination for his writing. The year 1991 saw the release of both JFK, a polarizing investigation of the circumstances surrounding the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy, and The Doors, a stylish account of the rise and fall of the titular American rock band. InHeaven and Earth (1993), Stone approached the Vietnam War and its aftermath from the perspective of a young Vietnamese woman.
Stone again courted controversy with Natural Born Killers (1994), a film, written byQuentin Tarantino, about the savagely violent exploits of a married couple, played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis. While Stone claimed that the film was meant to be critical of sensationalized violence, some critics found it guilty of exactly what it purported to condemn. Stone then cast Anthony Hopkins in the title role of Nixon (1995), a measured take on the life of the U.S. president. He also developed the screenplay for Evita (1996), an adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about Argentine politician Eva Perón (played by Madonna).
Stone revisited some of his favoured motifs, power and violence, in Any Given Sunday (1999), about professional football, and in Alexander (2004), a poorly received biography of Alexander the Great. World Trade Center (2006), a retelling of the events of September 11, 2001, from the viewpoint of two police officers, returned Stone to the centre of public debate. While the film was critically acclaimed, some questioned the propriety of making the film so soon after the tragedy. W. (2008), his biopic of Pres. George W. Bush, drew ire from both extremes of the political spectrum for its refusal to pass definitive judgment, positive or negative, on its subject. Stone later directed Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps(2010), a sequel to the 1987 film that was set amid the global financial crisis of 2008, and Savages (2012), an ensemble thriller about marijuana trafficking that, in its depiction of seedy mayhem, was reminiscent of his earlier U Turn (1997).
In addition to directing and writing, Stone produced many of his own movies. Besides narrative films, he made two documentaries about Latin American politics: Comandante (2003), about Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and South of the Border (2009), which focused on several other left-wing leaders, notably Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chávez. With Peter Kuznick, he also created Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States (2012), a 10-part television documentary (and accompanying book) that took an unorthodox look at the preceding century of American political history. In 1997 Stone published a semiautobiographical novel,A Child’s Night Dream.
Sean Stone, son of controversial filmmaker Oliver Stone has acted in his father’s films such as Wall Street, The Doors, JFK, Natural Born Killers and many more. He has starred and directed in his own feature film Greystone Park. Sean joined the team of investigators for the Tru TV hit Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. Sean currently hosts an alternative media show ‘Buzzsaw’ featuring interviews with whistleblowers, styling itself as the ‘real X files’ looking into the hidden agendas behind the news.
Dec 17, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Enlightened Influences, Whistleblowers & Dissidents
Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. Many well educated activists would argue this group was ultimately undermined by FBI tactics and COINTELPRO, to destroy their image decrease effectiveness within the community.
Newton earned a Ph.D. in history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1980. His doctoral dissertation was entitled War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America.
Later, Newton’s widow, Frederika Newton, would discuss her husband’s often-ignored academic leanings on C-SPAN‘s “American Perspectives” program on February 18, 2006.
On August 22, 1989, Newton was fatally shot on Center Street in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland by 24-year-old BGF member and drug dealer Tyrone Robinson, in what some say was a ‘setup’ involving the FBI.
Newton’s last words, as he stood facing his killer, were, “You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. Many well educated activists would argue this group was ultimately undermined by FBI tactics and COINTELPRO, to destroy their image decrease effectiveness within the community.
Newton earned a Ph.D. in history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1980. His doctoral dissertation was entitled War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America.
Later, Newton’s widow, Frederika Newton, would discuss her husband’s often-ignored academic leanings on C-SPAN‘s “American Perspectives” program on February 18, 2006.
On August 22, 1989, Newton was fatally shot on Center Street in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland by 24-year-old BGF member and drug dealer Tyrone Robinson, in what some say was a ‘setup’ involving the FBI.
Newton’s last words, as he stood facing his killer, were, “You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
Huey Percy Newton was an African-American political and urban activist who, along with Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. Many well educated activists would argue this group was ultimately undermined by FBI tactics and COINTELPRO, to destroy their image decrease effectiveness within the community.
Newton earned a Ph.D. in history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1980. His doctoral dissertation was entitled War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America.
Later, Newton’s widow, Frederika Newton, would discuss her husband’s often-ignored academic leanings on C-SPAN‘s “American Perspectives” program on February 18, 2006.
On August 22, 1989, Newton was fatally shot on Center Street in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland by 24-year-old BGF member and drug dealer Tyrone Robinson, in what some say was a ‘setup’ involving the FBI.
Newton’s last words, as he stood facing his killer, were, “You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!”
Dec 10, 2014 | Enlightened Influences, Events & Assassinations
Princess Diana Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II.
Widely unknown, is that Diana, a true humanitarian, was an outcast of the Royal Family. There are many indicators that she had extensive ‘dirt’ on the family and wasn’t shy about using her influence to eventually expose their true colors. Also, the family was not pleased with her joining bloodlines with Dodi Fayed, son of a wealthy Egyption billionaire.. Rumor is that she was with child at the time of her death, and this was handed down as her punishment. In her journal was found an entry that proves she already considered an attempt on her life:
“..i think they are planning some kind of accident with my vehicle…”
Many independent researchers and investigators have determined that she was killed in ‘ritual’ fashion, surrounded by deep, intentional, occult symbolism. The method & time of death, striking the 13th pillar in the tunnel, and the above-ground location all have connections to ancient Babylon, with what some even say includes a ‘fulfillment of divine purpose’.
Top experts in this complex assassination where the Family takes down one of its own using MK-Ultra connected driver Henry Paul are David Icke, Chris Everard, and Jordan Maxwell, among others.
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
John Cusack Activist, Entertainer, Comedian
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
John Cusack Activist, Entertainer, Comedian
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
Antiwar, 911 Truth, etc
John Cusack Most recently, Hollywood actor John Cusack is the latest supporter to visit WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his continued stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy.
The American star joined US activist Daniel Ellsberg and Indian-born author and activist Arundhati Roy for a meeting inside the embassy in London.
Dec 9, 2014 | Activism, Enlightened Influences
Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. He was a major advocate of freedom and his music is still relevant to this day.Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Dewar JR, better known by his stage name Capital Steez, was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.Capital Steez Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Courtney “Jamal” Everald Dewar JR, better known by his stage name was an American hip hop recording artist and anarchist from Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Rob Schneider Robert Michael Schneider
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Rob Schneider Robert Michael Schneider
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Rob Schneider Robert Michael Schneider
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Director, Activist
“I’m for parental rights, not for government coercion telling us what we can do and can’t do with our kids…It’s illegal…You can’t make people do procedures that they don’t want…The parents have to be the ones who make the decisions for what’s best for their kids…It can’t be the government saying that…It’s against the Nuremberg laws!”
Dec 9, 2014 | 2020 Relevant, Enlightened Influences
Mos Def Dante Terrell Smith
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I don’t believe it was bin Laden today. I don’t believe it was ever him…I’m sorry, I’m from the projects, I know danger. I don’t feel danger from that sh*t…Highly-educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory…I’m a New Yorker, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I don’t believe it was bin Laden today. I don’t believe it was ever him…I’m sorry, I’m from the projects, I know danger. I don’t feel danger from that sh*t…Highly-educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory…I’m a New Yorker, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I don’t believe it was bin Laden today. I don’t believe it was ever him…I’m sorry, I’m from the projects, I know danger. I don’t feel danger from that sh*t…Highly-educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory…I’m a New Yorker, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Mos Def Dante Terrell Smith
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I don’t believe it was bin Laden today. I don’t believe it was ever him…I’m sorry, I’m from the projects, I know danger. I don’t feel danger from that sh*t…Highly-educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory…I’m a New Yorker, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I don’t believe it was bin Laden today. I don’t believe it was ever him…I’m sorry, I’m from the projects, I know danger. I don’t feel danger from that sh*t…Highly-educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory…I’m a New Yorker, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I don’t believe it was bin Laden today. I don’t believe it was ever him…I’m sorry, I’m from the projects, I know danger. I don’t feel danger from that sh*t…Highly-educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 9/11 theory…I’m a New Yorker, and it just doesn’t feel right.”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Sharon Stone WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“
Sharon Stone WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“
Sharon Stone WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“WorldNetDaily 2/19/08 “I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media“
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Lupe Fiasco Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
Rapper, Producer, Entrepreneur, Activist
“In my fight against terrorism, to me,
the biggest terrorist is Obama, and
the United States of America
…I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because
it’s just some oil.””In my fight against terrorism, to me,
the biggest terrorist is Obama, and
the United States of America
…I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because
it’s just some oil.”
Lupe Fiasco Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
Rapper, Producer, Entrepreneur, Activist
“In my fight against terrorism, to me,
the biggest terrorist is Obama, and
the United States of America
…I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because
it’s just some oil.””In my fight against terrorism, to me,
the biggest terrorist is Obama, and
the United States of America
…I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because
it’s just some oil.”
Lupe Fiasco Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
Rapper, Producer, Entrepreneur, Activist
“In my fight against terrorism, to me,
the biggest terrorist is Obama, and
the United States of America
…I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because
it’s just some oil.””In my fight against terrorism, to me,
the biggest terrorist is Obama, and
the United States of America
…I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because
it’s just some oil.”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Willie Nelson Willie Hugh Nelson
Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Veteran, Activist, Actor, Author, Poet
PrisonPlanet.com 2/4/08 “I saw one fall and it was just so symmetrical. I said, wait a minute, I just saw that last week at the casino in Las Vegas…and you see these implosions all the time…and the next one [building on 9/11] fell and I said hell there’s another one…and they’re trying to tell me that an airplane did it…and I can’t go along with that.”
Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Veteran, Activist, Actor, Author, Poet
PrisonPlanet.com 2/4/08 “I saw one fall and it was just so symmetrical. I said, wait a minute, I just saw that last week at the casino in Las Vegas…and you see these implosions all the time…and the next one [building on 9/11] fell and I said hell there’s another one…and they’re trying to tell me that an airplane did it…and I can’t go along with that.”
Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Veteran, Activist, Actor, Author, Poet
PrisonPlanet.com 2/4/08 “I saw one fall and it was just so symmetrical. I said, wait a minute, I just saw that last week at the casino in Las Vegas…and you see these implosions all the time…and the next one [building on 9/11] fell and I said hell there’s another one…and they’re trying to tell me that an airplane did it…and I can’t go along with that.”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Robbie Williams Robert Peter Williams
Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Activist
“[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!”
Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Activist
“[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!””[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!””[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!”
Robbie Williams Robert Peter Williams
Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Activist
“[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!”
Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Activist
“[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!””[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!””[I’m] mainly interested in conspiracy theories, and the hidden hand that’s guiding everything! [I’m] fascinated by…all of this may be rubbish, or there may be something to it… I’m into the Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, 9/11 was an inside job…all of these things fascinate me!”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
NAS – Rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching””Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching””Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching”
NAS – Rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching””Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching””Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching”
NAS – Rapper Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching””Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching””Watch what you’re watching, FOX keeps feeding us toxins, stop sleeping, start thinking outside of the box, and unplug from the matrix doctrine, but watch what you say big brother is watching”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Charlie Sheen Carlos Irwin Estevez
Actor, Activist
“I am an American citizen that loves my country and as a citizen with my passion for this great country I demand that I be challenged on the [9/11 conspiracy] facts, not on immature behavior from twenty years ago…For anyone to have any kind of opinion on something that warrants an opinion I guess you have to be squeaky clean.”
“I am an American citizen that loves my country and as a citizen with my passion for this great country I demand that I be challenged on the [9/11 conspiracy] facts, not on immature behavior from twenty years ago…For anyone to have any kind of opinion on something that warrants an opinion I guess you have to be squeaky clean.”
“I am an American citizen that loves my country and as a citizen with my passion for this great country I demand that I be challenged on the [9/11 conspiracy] facts, not on immature behavior from twenty years ago…For anyone to have any kind of opinion on something that warrants an opinion I guess you have to be squeaky clean.”
Charlie Sheen Carlos Irwin Estevez
Actor, Activist
“I am an American citizen that loves my country and as a citizen with my passion for this great country I demand that I be challenged on the [9/11 conspiracy] facts, not on immature behavior from twenty years ago…For anyone to have any kind of opinion on something that warrants an opinion I guess you have to be squeaky clean.”
“I am an American citizen that loves my country and as a citizen with my passion for this great country I demand that I be challenged on the [9/11 conspiracy] facts, not on immature behavior from twenty years ago…For anyone to have any kind of opinion on something that warrants an opinion I guess you have to be squeaky clean.”
“I am an American citizen that loves my country and as a citizen with my passion for this great country I demand that I be challenged on the [9/11 conspiracy] facts, not on immature behavior from twenty years ago…For anyone to have any kind of opinion on something that warrants an opinion I guess you have to be squeaky clean.”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Dwight David Yoakam
Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Director, Activist
“Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.””Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.””Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.””Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.”
Dwight David Yoakam
Singer, Songwriter, Actor, Director, Activist
“Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.””Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.””Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.””Sandy Hook was an anomalous horror…[but] guns aren’t for hunting, they’re used to protect yourself against tyranny…I don’t trust the government…We’re worried about tyranny from within.”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Tracy Marrow
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”
Tracy Marrow
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”
Tracy Marrow
Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”Rapper, Actor, Activist
“I’ll give up my guns when everybody else does…The right to bare arms is because that’s the last form of defense against tyranny…not to hunt, it’s to protect yourself from the police.”
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Richard Belzer Richard Jay Belzer has played the wise-head Munch on almost a dozen TV shows, ranging from “SVU” to such huge successes as “The X-Files,” “30 Rock,” “The Wire,” “Arrested Development” and even “Sesame Street.” That’s a record for any single fictional television character, says an NBC spokeswoman.
Richard Belzer Belzer made his 1999 debut in the field, a book entitled UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Believe, was conspiracy lite — footnote-free and sprinkled generously with humorous asides. In contrast, the two new books are more serious in tone and larded with footnotes and descriptions of “secret government” cover-up plots. Both have made The New York Times Best-Seller List, though Belzer doesn’t take full credit for that; he attributes much of their success to his recent spate of appearances on Jones’ Austin, Texas-based radio show.
Richard Belzer Richard Jay Belzer has played the wise-head Munch on almost a dozen TV shows, ranging from “SVU” to such huge successes as “The X-Files,” “30 Rock,” “The Wire,” “Arrested Development” and even “Sesame Street.” That’s a record for any single fictional television character, says an NBC spokeswoman.
Richard Belzer Belzer made his 1999 debut in the field, a book entitled UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Believe, was conspiracy lite — footnote-free and sprinkled generously with humorous asides. In contrast, the two new books are more serious in tone and larded with footnotes and descriptions of “secret government” cover-up plots. Both have made The New York Times Best-Seller List, though Belzer doesn’t take full credit for that; he attributes much of their success to his recent spate of appearances on Jones’ Austin, Texas-based radio show.
Richard Belzer Richard Jay Belzer has played the wise-head Munch on almost a dozen TV shows, ranging from “SVU” to such huge successes as “The X-Files,” “30 Rock,” “The Wire,” “Arrested Development” and even “Sesame Street.” That’s a record for any single fictional television character, says an NBC spokeswoman.
Richard Belzer Belzer made his 1999 debut in the field, a book entitled UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Believe, was conspiracy lite — footnote-free and sprinkled generously with humorous asides. In contrast, the two new books are more serious in tone and larded with footnotes and descriptions of “secret government” cover-up plots. Both have made The New York Times Best-Seller List, though Belzer doesn’t take full credit for that; he attributes much of their success to his recent spate of appearances on Jones’ Austin, Texas-based radio show.
Richard Belzer Richard Jay Belzer has played the wise-head Munch on almost a dozen TV shows, ranging from “SVU” to such huge successes as “The X-Files,” “30 Rock,” “The Wire,” “Arrested Development” and even “Sesame Street.” That’s a record for any single fictional television character, says an NBC spokeswoman.
Richard Belzer Belzer made his 1999 debut in the field, a book entitled UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don’t Have to Be Crazy to Believe, was conspiracy lite — footnote-free and sprinkled generously with humorous asides. In contrast, the two new books are more serious in tone and larded with footnotes and descriptions of “secret government” cover-up plots. Both have made The New York Times Best-Seller List, though Belzer doesn’t take full credit for that; he attributes much of their success to his recent spate of appearances on Jones’ Austin, Texas-based radio show.
Dec 9, 2014 | Enlightened Influences
Janeane Garofalo Actress, Comedian, Author, Talk Show Host, Activist,
Janeane Garofalo WeAreChangeSeattle 9/15/2008 “The 9/11 Commission did a pitiful job! There’s no transparency, no accountability, and no responsibility! It’s probably going to be 20 or 30 years down the road when we truly find out who was behind it, through declassified documents, etc., because we can’t depend on the mainstream media to do anything about it!”WeAreChangeSeattle 9/15/2008 “The 9/11 Commission did a pitiful job! There’s no transparency, no accountability, and no responsibility! It’s probably going to be 20 or 30 years down the road when we truly find out who was behind it, through declassified documents, etc., because we can’t depend on the mainstream media to do anything about it!”WeAreChangeSeattle 9/15/2008 “The 9/11 Commission did a pitiful job! There’s no transparency, no accountability, and no responsibility! It’s probably going to be 20 or 30 years down the road when we truly find out who was behind it, through declassified documents, etc., because we can’t depend on the mainstream media to do anything about it!”
Janeane Garofalo Actress, Comedian, Author, Talk Show Host, Activist,
Janeane Garofalo WeAreChangeSeattle 9/15/2008 “The 9/11 Commission did a pitiful job! There’s no transparency, no accountability, and no responsibility! It’s probably going to be 20 or 30 years down the road when we truly find out who was behind it, through declassified documents, etc., because we can’t depend on the mainstream media to do anything about it!”WeAreChangeSeattle 9/15/2008 “The 9/11 Commission did a pitiful job! There’s no transparency, no accountability, and no responsibility! It’s probably going to be 20 or 30 years down the road when we truly find out who was behind it, through declassified documents, etc., because we can’t depend on the mainstream media to do anything about it!”WeAreChangeSeattle 9/15/2008 “The 9/11 Commission did a pitiful job! There’s no transparency, no accountability, and no responsibility! It’s probably going to be 20 or 30 years down the road when we truly find out who was behind it, through declassified documents, etc., because we can’t depend on the mainstream media to do anything about it!”
