IN THE TIMES OF OUR FOREFATHERS, FREEDOM WAS A VERY RADICAL IDEA. CERTAINLY, MAN COULD NEVER BE TRUSTED TO GOVERN HIMSELF. MOST CERTAINLY MEN WOULD REQUIRE A RESTRAINING FORCE OR ANARCHY WOULD ENSUE. THEY DID NOT FORESEE THAT BY GIVING US A GOVERNENT OF LIBERTY, THIS GREAT REPUBLIC, THAT INSTEAD OF BUILDING UPON THIS FOUNDATION OF FREEDOM, WE WOULD ALLOW IT TO BE UNDERMINED BY THE GREEDY, THE CORRUPT AND THE EVIL. OUR FOREFATHERS INTENDED, SO BRAVELY AND HONORABLY, TO GIVE US A FRAME-WORK, A BEGINNING OF A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, THAT WOULD ENSURE THAT IT WAS THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD HOLD POWER AND NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS OR CORPORATIONS OR THE MILITARY. WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BUILD UPON THIS FRAME-WORK GOING FORWARD, TO STRENGTHEN IT AND DEFEND IT FROM THOSE WHO WOULD NEVER UNDERSTAND OR APPRECIATE IT. OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT WAS TO BE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT-FORWARD. IT WAS THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD HAVE RIGHTS AND AWARD NEW RIGHTS TO THEMSELVES AS THEY SAW FIT. IT WAS THE PEOPLE WHO WERE TO DECIDE WHAT POWERS TO GIVE GOVERNMENT AND WHAT POWERS TO RESERVE. IN SHORT, IT WAS TO BE A KIND OF BENEFICIAL AND BENIGN ANARCHY. A COUNTRY WHERE FREEDOM WAS SO DEAR AND FUNDAMENTAL AS TO BE LEFT PERPETUALLY HALF FORMED AND CONCEIVED, ALWAYS CHANGING WITH THE TIMES TO PROTECT AND RE-IMAGINE THE BOUNDARIES AND TERRITORIES OF LIBERTY.

WE HAVE SO FAILED OURSELVES, MY BROTHERS. WE HAVE SO FAILED THESE GREAT MEN WHO LOVED US ENOUGH TO SET US FREE. GOD-DAMN THESE GREEDY AND STUPID TYRANTS WHO HAVE SLOWLY RIPPED AWAY OUR TRADITIONS AND ERODED OUR HARD-FOUGHT FOR FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES. IT WAS SO EASY FOR THEM TO SLOWLY ENSLAVE OUR NATION. TO CONVINCE US BIT BY BIT TO LET DOWN OUR GUARD AND LET GOVERNMENT GROW AND STRENGTHEN INTO THIS LEVIATHAN OF TORMENT, WHOSE SHADOW HANGS OVER US ALL. GOD-DAMN THESE CORPORATE RAIDERS WHO RAPE EVERY ELEMENT, EVERY RESOURCE, EVERY GOOD THING, EVERY NATURAL AND WONDERFUL THING FROM OUR NOBLE MOTHER EARTH, TO CORPORATIZE AND MAKE FOR PROFIT LIFE ITSELF, UNTIL ONLY THIS WASTELAND OF STEEL AND DUST REMAINS. GOD-DAMN THESE WORMS OF GOVERNMENT WHO SELL US OUT AT EVERY TURN, TO ENRICH THEMSELVES AND FURTHER THEIR BASE AMBITIONS. THESE ARE NOT MEN! THESE VILE CREATURES ARE THE ENEMIES OF MAN.

EVEN NOW, THEY TELL US WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO CRITICIZE THEM. EVEN NOW, AS THE OCEANS DIE AND THE DESERTS EXPAND AND THE AIR GROWS POISONOUS AND STALE. WE HAVE NO RIGHT! THEY LABEL US “DANGEROUS”, THEY LABEL US “TERRORISTS”. THEY ARE THE TERRORISTS! MUCH WORSE THAN SIMPLE TERRORISTS, THEY ARE EVIL AND POWERFUL TYRANTS, WITH NO RESPECT FOR HUMANKIND OR NATURE OR FAIRNESS OR LIBERTY, THEY WORSHIP MAMMON. EVEN NOW, HAVING SEEN FOR SO LONG THEIR DESTRUCTIVE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST US, THEY TELL US WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO DEPOSE THEM AND RETAKE OUR GOVERNMENT FROM THEM. ALWAYS HAS LIFE BEEN THUS. ALL LIFE IS STRUGGLE. IT WAS NO DIFFERENT FOR OUR FOREFATHERS. THE BRITISH MONARCHY TOLD THE COLONISTS THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO REBEL. THEY IMPRISONED ITS’ LEADERS AND KILLED ITS’ DEFENDERS. THIS DID NOT DETER OUR GREAT MEN THEN AND IT SHOULD NOT DETER OUR GREAT MEN NOW.

I SEE A WORLD, MY DEAR FRIENDS, IN THE NOT SO- DISTANT FUTURE: A WORLD WHERE MEN ARE MORE FREE THAN THEY COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED. THE WORLD WE SHOULD HAVE, ALL THIS TIME, BEEN CREATING. A WORLD WHERE A MAN IS TRUSTED TO MAKE HIS OWN WAY, TO DECIDE FOR HIMSELF AND A WORLD WHERE NO OTHER MAN CAN INTERVENE OR ASSAIL THIS LIBERTY. A WORLD WHERE MANS’ MAGNANIMITY IS SO COLLOSAL, THAT HE FINDS A WAY TO DEFEND ALL LIVING THINGS. THE LAND, THE WATER, THE AIR, THE BEAST. A WORLD WHERE TYRANNY MEETS ONLY WITH THE SWIFTEST OF SWORDS AND THE PRISON AND THE TRUNCHEON ARE REPLACED WITH INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND A DEEPLY FELT AND HONORED RESPECT FOR ALL MANKIND. A WORLD OF HEALING AND FELLOWSHIP AND RIGHT-ACTION, IN ALL THINGS, NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT THIS TASK. I SEE A WORLD. OH MY BROTHERS AND IT IS AS REAL AS ANY OTHER IF WE SO UNDERTAKE AND ENDEAVOR. IT IS THIS WORLD AND NOT THE ONE WE KNOW AND CURRENTLY INHABIT, THAT WAS THE NOBLEST INTENTION OF OUR REVOLUTIONS GREAT MEN. IF THE POWERS THAT BE WOULD THWART US IN THIS TASK, I SAY., IT IS PROOF MOST EVIDENT OF THEIR INABILITY TO LEAD US AND OF THEIR DIS-HONOR OF OUR REVOLUTIONS LEGACY.

MY BROTHERS, WE NEED NO REVOLUTION, FOR IT WAS ALREADY FOUGHT. WE ARE THE BENEFICIARIES OF IT’S DUES, PAID IN RIGHTEOUS BLOOD. THE INTER-LOPERS WE NOW FACE MUST SIMPLY BE MADE TO LEAVE THE FIELD IN ABJECT DISGRACE! WHAT DO WE FEAR? EVEN THEY KNOW THEY ARE WRONG! EVEN THEY KNOW WE ARE THE POWER! THOSE WHO WILL NOT SIMPLY STAND AND HOLD THEIR GROUND AGAINST THE TYRANTS WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE BLESSINGS AND THE EMPOWERMENTS OF LIBERTY AND THEY NEVER HAVE! THEY WOULD TELL YOU THAT THE WORLD IS THEIRS TO BUILD, BUT BROTHERS, IT IS NOT. IT IS OURS, IF WE WILL FIND THE COURAGE TO SECURE IT.