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AGAINST RACIAL INTEGRATION - GEORGE C.
WALLACE 1964
The Civil Rights Act: A Hoax
It follows the full text transcript of
Governor George C. Wallace's The Civil Rights
Act: A Hoax speech, delivered at
Atlanta, Georgia - July 4, 1964.
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We come here today |
in deference to
the memory of those stalwart patriots who on
July 4, 1776, pledged their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish
and defend the proposition that governments are
created by the people, empowered by the people,
derive their just powers from the consent of the
people, and must forever remain subservient to
the will of the people.
Today, 188 years later, we celebrate that
occasion and find inspiration and determination
and courage to preserve and protect the great
principles of freedom enunciated in the
Declaration of Independence.
It is therefore a cruel irony that the President
of the United States has only yesterday signed
into law the most monstrous piece of legislation
ever enacted by the United States Congress.
It is a fraud, a sham, and a hoax.
This bill will live in infamy. To sign it into
law at any time is tragic. To do so upon the eve
of the celebration of our independence insults
the intelligence of the American people. It
dishonors the memory of countless thousands of
our dead who offered up their very lives in
defense of principles which this bill destroys.
Never before in the history of this nation have
so many human and property rights been destroyed
by a single enactment of the Congress. It is an
act of tyranny. It is the assassin's knife stuck
in the back of liberty.
With this assassin's knife and a blackjack in
the hand of the Federal force-cult, the
left-wing liberals will try to force us back
into bondage. Bondage to a tyranny more brutal
than that imposed by the British monarchy which
claimed power to rule over the lives of our
forefathers under sanction of the Divine Right
of kings. Today, this tyranny is imposed by the
central government which claims the right to
rule over our lives under sanction of the
omnipotent black-robed despots who sit on the
bench of the United States Supreme Court.
This bill is fraudulent in intent, in design,
and in execution. It is misnamed. Each and every
provision is mistitled. It was rammed through
the congress on the wave of ballyhoo,
promotions, and publicity stunts reminiscent of
P. T. Barnum. It was enacted in an atmosphere of
pressure, intimidation, and even cowardice, as
demonstrated by the refusal of the United States
Senate to adopt an amendment to submit the bill
to a vote of the people.
To illustrate the fraud--it is not a Civil
Rights Bill. It is a Federal Penal Code. It
creates Federal crimes which would take volumes
to list and years to tabulate because it affects
the lives of 192 million American citizens.
Every person in every walk and station of life
and every aspect of our daily lives becomes
subject to the criminal provisions of this bill.
It threatens our freedom of speech, of assembly,
or association, and makes the exercise of these
Freedoms a federal crime under certain
conditions. It affects our political rights, our
right to trial by jury, our right to the full
use and enjoyment of our private property, the
freedom from search and seizure of our private
property and possessions, the freedom from
harassment by Federal police and, in short, all
the rights of individuals inherent in a society
of free men.
Ministers, lawyers, teachers, newspapers, and
every private citizen must guard his speech and
watch his actions to avoid the deliberately
imposed booby traps put into this bill. It is
designed to make Federal crimes of our customs,
beliefs, and traditions. Therefore, under the
fantastic powers of the Federal judiciary to
punish for contempt of court and under their
fantastic powers to regulate our most intimate
aspects of our lives by injunction, every
American citizen is in jeopardy and must stand
guard against these despots.
Yet there are those who call this a good bill.
It is people like Senator Hubert Humphrey and
other members of Americans for Democratic
Action. It is people like Ralph McGill and other
left-wing radical apologists. They called it a
good bill before it was amended to restore the
right to trial by jury in certain cases.
Yet a Federal judge may still try one without a
jury under the provisions of this bill. It was
the same persons who said it was a good bill
before the amendment pretending to forbid busing
of pupils from neighborhood schools. Yet a
Federal judge may still order busing from one
neighborhood school to another. They have done
it, they will continue to do it. As a matter of
fact, it is but another evidence of the
deceitful intent of the sponsors of this bill
for them to claim that it accomplished any such
thing.
It was left-wing radicals who led the fight in
the Senate for the so-called civil rights bill
now about to enslave our nation. We find Senator
Hubert Humphrey telling the people of the United
States that "non-violent" demonstrations would
continue to serve a good purpose through a
"long, busy and constructive summer." Yet this
same Senator told the people of this country
that passage of this monstrous bill would ease
tensions and stop demonstrations. This is the
same Senator who has suggested, now that the
Civil Rights Bill is passed, that the President
call the fifty state Governors together to work
out ways and means to enforce this rotten
measure. There is no need for him to call on me.
I am not about to be a party to anything having
to do with the law that is going to destroy
individual freedom and liberty in this country.
I am having nothing to do with enforcing a law
that will destroy our free enterprise system. I
am having nothing to do with enforcing a law
that will destroy neighborhood schools. I am
having nothing to do with enforcing a law that
will destroy the rights of private property. I
am having nothing to do with enforcing a law
that destroys your right and my right to choose
my neighbors or to sell my house to whomever I
choose. I am having nothing to do with enforcing
a law that destroys the labor seniority system.
I am having nothing to do with this so-called
civil rights bill.
The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let
them employ some pinknik social engineers in
Washington, D.C., to figure out what to do with
it.
The situation reminds me of the little boy
looking at the blacksmith as he hammered a
red-hot horseshoe into the proper shape. After
minutes of hammering, the blacksmith took the
horseshoe, splashed it into a tub of water and
threw it steaming onto a sawdust pile. The
little fellow picked up the horseshoe, dropped
it quickly.
"What's the matter, son," the blacksmith said,
"is that shoe too hot to handle?"
"No sir," the little boy said, "it just don't
take me long to look at a horseshoe."
It's not going to take the people of this
country long to look at the Civil Rights Bill,
either. And they are going to discard it just as
quickly as the little boy tossed away the still
hot horseshoe.
But I am not here to talk about the separate
provisions of the Federal Penal Code. I am here
to talk about principles which have been
overthrown by the enactment of this bill. The
principles that you and I hold dear. The
principles for which our forefathers fought and
died to establish and to defend. The principles
for which we came here to rededicate ourselves.
But before I get into that, let me point out one
important fact. It would have been impossible
for the American people to have been deceived by
the sponsors of this bill had there been a
responsible American press to tell the people
exactly what the bill contained. If they had had
the integrity and the guts to tell the truth,
this bill would never have been enacted.
Whoever heard of truth put to the worst in free
and open encounter? We couldn't get the truth to
the American people. You and I know that that's
extremely difficult to do where our newspapers
are owned by out-of-state interests. Newspapers
which are run and operated by left-wing
liberals, Communist sympathizers, and members of
the Americans for Democratic Action and other
Communist front organizations with high sounding
names.
However, we will not be intimidated by the
vultures of the liberal left-wing press. We will
not be deceived by their lies and distortions of
truth. We will not be swayed by their brutal
attacks upon the character and reputation of any
honest citizen who dares stand up and fight for
liberty.
And, we are not going to be influenced by
intellectually bankrupt editors of the Atlanta
Journal and Constitution, one of whom has
presided over the dissolution of the once great
Atlanta Constitution.
We can understand his bitterness in his bleak
failure, but we need not tolerate his
vituperative and venomous attacks upon the
integrity and character of our people. These
editors, like many other left-wingers in the
liberal press, are not influenced by tradition.
Theirs is a tradition of scalawags. Their
mealy-mouthed platitudes disgrace the honored
memory of their predecessors--such men of
character as Henry Grady, Joel Chandler Harris,
and Clarke Howell, men who made the name of the
Atlanta Constitution familiar in every household
throughout the South. They are not worthy to
shine the shoes of those great men.
In this connection I want to pay my highest
respects and compliments to the dedicated men of
Atlanta and of Georgia who gave to the people of
their state what is destined to become the true
voice of the south. I have reference to the
great newspaper the Atlanta Times. It is a sad
commentary on the period in which we live that
it is necessary for the people of a great city
to start their own newspaper in order to get the
truth. I hope you have some success in this
venture and I assure you that there will be many
subscribers in the State of Alabama including
myself.
As I have said before, that Federal Penal Code
could never have been enacted into law if we had
had a responsible press who was willing to tell
the American people the truth about what it
actually provides. Nor would we have had a bill
had it not been for the United States Supreme
Court.
Now on the subject of the court let me make it
clear that I am not attacking any member of the
United States Supreme Court as an individual.
However, I do attack their decisions, I question
their intelligence, their common sense and their
judgment, I consider the Federal Judiciary
system to be the greatest single threat to
individual freedom and liberty in the United
States today, and I'm going to take off the
gloves in talking about these people.
There is only one word to describe the Federal
judiciary today. That word is "lousy."
They assert more
power than claimed by King George III, more
power than Hitler, Mussolini, or Khrushchev ever
had. They assert the power to declare
unconstitutional our very thoughts. To create
for us a system of moral and ethical values. To
outlaw and declare unconstitutional, illegal,
and immoral the customs, traditions, and beliefs
of the people, and furthermore they assert the
authority to enforce their decrees in all these
subjects upon the American people without their
consent.
This is a matter that has been of great concern
to many legal authorities. The Council of State
Governments composed of representatives of the
fifty States sponsored the proposal just last
year seeking to curb the powers of this body of
judicial tyrants. The Conference of Chief
Justices of all of the state Supreme Courts of
this nation has also issued an historic
statement urging judicial restraint upon the
Court. This latter group said, "the value of a
firm statement by us lies in the fact that we
speak as members of all the state appellate
courts with a background of many years
experience in the determination of thousands of
cases of all kinds. Surely there are those who
will respect the declaration of what we
believe."
"It has long been an American boast that we have
a government of laws and not of men. We believe
that any study of recent decisions of the
supreme court will raise at least considerable
doubt as to the validity of that boast."
In addition, the
state legislatures have for years flooded the
Congress with resolutions condemning usurpations
of power by the Federal judiciary.
The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the
voices of the people and their repeated
entreaties: they have become arrogant,
contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.
It has been said that power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts absolutely. There was
never greater evidence as to the proof of this
statement than in the example of the present
Federal Judiciary.
I want to touch upon just a few of the acts of
tyranny which have been sanctioned by the United
States Supreme Court and compare these acts with
the acts of tyranny enumerated in the
Declaration of Independence. The colonists
objected most strenuously to the imposition of
taxes upon the people without their consent.
Today, the Federal judiciary asserts the same
tyrannical power to levy taxes in Prince Edward
County, Virginia, and without the consent of the
people. Not only that, but they insist upon the
power to tell the people for what purposes their
money must be spent.
The colonists stated, "he has refused to pass
other laws for the accommodation of large
districts of people, unless those people would
relinquish the right of representation in the
legislature, a right inestimable to them and
formidable to tyrants only." Today, the Federal
judiciary, in one of its most recent decisions,
has deprived the American people of the right to
use the unit system of representation in their
own state governments for the accommodation of
large districts of people, and has itself
prescribed the manner in which the people shall
structure the legislative branch of their own
government, and have prescribed how the people
shall allocate the legislative powers of state
government.
More than that they have even told the American
people that we may not, with a majority of the
people voting for the measure, or with
two-thirds of those voting, or even if by
unanimous consent, adopt a provision in our
state constitutions to allocate the legislative
power of state government in any manner other
than as prescribed by the court.
One justice of the United States Supreme Court
said in this connection, and I quote, "to put
the matter plainly, there is nothing in all the
history of this Court's decisions which supports
this Constitutional rule. The Court's draconian
pronouncement which makes unconstitutional the
legislatures of most of the fifty states finds
no support in the words of the constitution in
any prior decision of this court or in the
175-year political history of our Federal union
. . . These decisions mark a long step backward
into the unhappy era where a majority of the
members of this court were thought by many to
have convinced themselves and each other that
the demands of the constitution were to be
measured not by what it says buy by their own
notions of wise political theory."
Two other Justices of the Court said, "such a
massive repudiation of the experience of our
whole past in asserting destructively novel
Judicial power demands analysis of the role of
this Court and our Constitutional scheme. It may
well impair the Court's position as the ultimate
organ of the Supreme Law of the Land."
The only reason it is the Supreme Law of the
Land today is because we have a President who
cares so little for freedom that he would send
the armed forces into the states to enforce the
dictatorial decree. Our colonist forefather had
something to say about that too. The Declaration
of Independence cited as an act of tyranny the
fact that, "kept among us in times of peace
standing armies without the consent of the
legislature."
Today, 188 years later, we have actually
witnessed the invasion of the State of Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Alabama by the armed forces of
the United States and maintained in the state
against the will of the people and without
consent of state legislatures. It is a form of
tyranny worse than that of King George III who
had sent mercenaries against the colonies
because today the Federal Judicial tyrants have
sanctioned the use of brother against brother
and father against son by federalizing the
National Guard.
In 1776 the colonists also complained that the
monarch "has incited domestic insurrections
among us." Today, we have absolute proof that
the Federal Department of Justice has planned,
supervised, financed and protected acts of
insurrection in the southern states, resulting
in vandalism, property damage, personal injury,
and staggering expense to the states.
In 1776 it was charged that the monarchy had
asserted power to "dissolve representative
houses and to punish, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions of the rights of the
people." Today, the Federal judiciary asserts
the power not only to dissolve state
legislatures but to create them and to dissolve
all state laws and state judicial decrees, and
to punish a state governor by trial without jury
"for opposing with manly firmness his invasions
of the rights of the people."
The colonists also listed as acts of tyranny
"the erection of a multitude of new offices and
sent hither swarms of officers to harass our
people and to eat out their substance;"
"Suspending our own legislatures and declaring
themselves invested with the power to legislate
for us in all cases whatsoever;" "Abolishing the
free system of the English laws;" it had
"abdicated government here;" refusing to assent
to the laws enacted by the people, " laws
considered most wholesome and necessary for the
public good;" and "for depriving us in many
cases, of the benefits of trial by jury;" "for
taking away our charters, abolishing our most
valuable laws, and altering fundamentally form
of our government;" "for suspending our own
legislatures and declaring themselves invested
with power to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever."
The United States Supreme Court is guilty of
each and every one of these acts of tyranny.
Therefore, I echo the sentiments of our
forefathers who declared: "a prince, whose
character is thus marked by every act which may
define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a
free people."
Ladies and gentlemen, I have listed only a few
of the many acts of tyranny which have been
committed or specifically sanctioned by the
United States Supreme Court. I feel it important
that you should know and understand what it is
that these people are trying to do. The written
opinions of the court are filled with double
talk, semantics, jargon, and meaningless
phrases. The words they use are not important.
The ideas that they represent are the things
which count.
It is perfectly obvious from the left-wing
liberal press and from the left-wing law
journals that what the court is saying behind
all the jargon is that they don't like our form
of government. They think they can establish a
better one. In order to do so it is necessary
that they overthrow our existing form, destroy
the democratic institutions created by the
people, change the outlook, religion, and
philosophy, and bring the whole area of human
thought, aspiration, action and organization,
under the absolute control of the court. Their
decisions reveal this to be the goal of the
liberal element on the court which is in a
majority at present.
It has reached the point where one may no longer
look to judicial decisions to determine what the
court may do. However, it is possible to predict
with accuracy the nature of the opinions to be
rendered. One may find the answer in the
Communist Manifesto. The Communists are
dedicated to the overthrow of our form of
government. They are dedicated to the
destruction of the concept of private property.
They are dedicated to the object of destroying
religion as the basis of moral and ethical
values.
The Communists are determined that all natural
resources shall be controlled by the central
government, that all productive capacity of the
nation shall be under the control of the central
government, that the political sovereignty of
the people shall be destroyed as an incident to
control of local schools. It is their objective
to capture the minds of our youth in order to
indoctrinate them in what to think and not how
to think.
I do not call the members of the United States
Supreme Court Communists. But I do say, and I
submit for your judgment the fact that every
single decision of the court in the past ten
years which related in any way to each of these
objectives has been decided against freedom and
in favor of tyranny. A politician must stand on
his record. Let the Court stand on its record.
The record reveals, for the past number of
years, that the chief, if not the only
beneficiaries of the present Court's rulings,
have been duly and lawfully convicted criminals,
Communists, atheists, and clients of vociferous
left-wing minority groups.
You can't convict a Communist in our Federal
court system. Neither can you convict one of
being a Communist in Russia, China, or Cuba. The
point is that the United States Supreme Court
refuses to recognize the Communist conspiracy
and their intent to "bury us."
Let us look at the record further with respect
to the court's contribution to the destruction
of the concept of God and the abolition of
religion. The Federal court rules that your
children shall not be permitted to read the
bible in our public school systems. Let me tell
you this, though. We still read the bible in
Alabama schools and as long as I am governor we
will continue to read the bible no matter what
the Supreme Court says. Federal courts will not
convict a "demonstrator" invading and destroying
private property. But the Federal courts rule
you cannot say a simple "God is great, God is
good, we thank Thee for our food," in
kindergartens supported by public funds.
Now, let us examine the manner in which the
Court has continuously chipped away at the
concept of private property. It is contended by
the left-wing liberals that private property is
merely a legal fiction. That one has no inherent
right to own and possess property. The courts
have restricted and limited the right of
acquisition of property in life and have decreed
its disposition in death and have ruthlessly set
aside the wills of the dead in order to attain
social ends decreed by the court. The court has
substituted its judgment for that of the
testator based on social theory.
The courts assert authority even in decree the
use of private cemeteries. They assert the right
to convert a private place of business into a
public place of business without the consent of
the owner and without compensation to him. One
justice asserts that the mere licensing of a
business by the state is sufficient to convert
it into control by the Federal judiciary as to
its use and disposition. Another asserts that
the guarantees of equal protection and due
process of law cannot be extended to a
corporation. In one instance, following the
edicts of the United States Supreme Court, a
state Supreme Court has ordered and directed a
private citizen to sell his home to an
individual contrary to the wishes of the owner.
In California we witnessed a state Supreme Court
taking under advisement the question as to
whether or not it will compel a bank to make a
load to an applicant on the basis of his race.
We have witnessed the sanction by the courts of
confiscatory taxation.
Let us take a look at the attitude of the court
with respect to the control of the private
resources of the nation and the allocation of
the productive capacity of the nation. The
Supreme Court decisions have sanctioned
enactment of the civil rights bill. What this
bill actually does is to empower the United
States government to reallocate the entire
productive capacity of the agricultural economy
covered by quotas and acreage allotments of
various types on the basis of race, creed, color
and national origin. It, in effect, places in
the hands of the Federal government the right of
a farmer to earn a living, making that right
dependent upon the consent of the Federal
government precisely as is the case in Russia.
The power is there. I am not in the least
impressed by the protestations that the
government will use this power with benevolent
discretion. We know that this bill authorizes
the President of the united states to allocate
all defense productive capacity of this country
on the basis of race, creed, or color. It does
not matter in the least that he will make such
allocations with restraint. The face is that it
is possible with a politically dominated agency
to punish and to bankrupt and destroy any
business that deals with the Federal government
if it does not bow to the wishes and demands of
the president of the United States.
All of us know what the court has done to
capture the minds of our children. The Federal
judiciary has asserted the authority to
prescribe regulations with respect to the
management, operation, and control of our local
schools. The second brown decision in the
infamous school segregation case authorized
Federal district courts to supervise such
matters as teacher hiring, firing, promotion,
the expenditure of local funds, both
administratively and for capital improvements,
additions, and renovations, the location of new
schools, the drawing of school boundaries,
busing and transportation of school children,
and, believe it or not, it has asserted the
right in the Federal judiciary to pass judgment
upon the curricula adopted in local public
schools.
A comparatively recent Federal court decision in
a Florida case actually entered an order
embracing each and every one of these assertions
of Federal supervision. In ruling after ruling,
the Supreme Court has overstepped its
constitutional authority. While appearing to
protect the people's interest, it has in reality
become a judicial tyrant. It's the old pattern.
The people always have some champion whom they
set over them and nurse into greatness. This,
and no other, is the foot from which a tyrant
springs, after first appearing as a protector.
This is another way of saying that the people
never give up their liberties and their freedom,
but under some delusion.
But yet there is hope. There is yet a spirit of
resistance in this country which will not be
oppressed. And it is awakening. And I am sure
there is an abundance of good sense in this
country which cannot be deceived. I have
personal knowledge of this. Thirty-four percent
of the Wisconsin Democrats supported the beliefs
you and I uphold and expound. Thirty percent of
the Democrats in Indiana join us in fighting
this grab for executive power by those now in
control in Washington. And, listen to this,
forty-three percent of the Democrats in
Maryland, practically in view of the nation's
capital, believe as you and I believe.
So, let me say to you today. Take heart.
Millions of Americans believe just as we in this
great region of the United States believe. I
shall never forget last spring as I stood in the
midst of a great throng of South Milwaukee
supporters at one of the greatest political
rallies I have ever witnessed. A fine-looking
man grabbed my hand and said:
"Governor, I've never been south of South
Milwaukee, but I am a Southerner!"
Of course, he was saying he believed in the
principles and philosophy of the southern
people, of you here today and the people of my
state of Alabama. He was right. Being a
southerner is no longer geographic. It's a
philosophy and an attitude. One destined to be a
national philosophy, embraced by millions of
Americans, which shall assume the mantle of
leadership and steady a governmental structure
in these days of crises.
Certainly I am a candidate for President of the
United States. If the left-wingers do not think
I am serious, let them consider this. I am going
to take our fight to the people, the court of
public opinion, where truth and common sense
will eventually prevail. At this time, I have
definite, concrete plans to get presidential
electors pledged to me on the ballots in the
following states: Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, New York,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri,
Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and of course
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Other states
are under serious consideration.
A candidate for President must receive 270
electoral votes to win. The states I am
definitely going to enter represent 218
electoral votes. Conservatives of this nation
constitute the balance of power in presidential
elections. I am a conservative. I intend to give
the American people a clear choice. I welcome a
fight between our philosophy and the liberal
left-wing dogma which now threatens to engulf
every man, woman, and child in the United
States.
I am in this race because I believe the American
people have been pushed around long enough and
that they, like you and I, are fed up with the
continuing trend toward a socialist state which
now subjects the individual to the dictates of
an all-powerful central government. I am running
for President because I was born free. I want to
remain free. I want your children and mine and
our prosperity to be unencumbered by the
manipulations of a soulless state. I intend to
fight for a positive, affirmative program to
restore constitutional government and to stop
the senseless bloodletting now being performed
on the body of liberty by those who lead us
willingly and dangerously close to a
totalitarian central government.
In our nation, man has always been sovereign and
the state has been his servant. This philosophy
has made the United States the greatest free
nation in history. This freedom was not a gift.
It was won by work, by sweat, by tears, by war,
by whatever it took to be and to remain free.
Are we today less
resolute, less determined and courageous than
our fathers and our grandfathers? Are we to
abandon this priceless heritage that has carried
us to our present position of achievement and
leadership? I say if we are to abandon our
heritage, let it be done in the open and full
knowledge of what we do. We are not unmindful
and careless of our future. We will not stand
aside while our conscientious convictions tell
us that a dictatorial Supreme Court has taken
away our rights and our liberties. We will not
stand idly by while the Supreme Court continues
to invade the prerogatives left rightfully to
the states by the constitution. We must not be
misled by left-wing incompetent news media that
day after day feed us a diet of fantasy telling
us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers to
oppose the destruction of the constitution and
our nation.
A left-wing monster has risen up in this nation.
It has invaded the government. It has invaded
the news media. It has invaded the leadership of
many of our churches. It has invaded every phase
and aspect of the life of freedom-loving people.
It consists of many and various and powerful
interests, but it has combined into one massive
drive and is held together by the cohesive power
of the emotion, setting forth civil rights as
supreme to all. But, in reality, it is a drive
to destroy the rights of private property, to
destroy the freedom and liberty of you and me.
And, my friends, where there are no property
rights, there are no human rights. Red China and
Soviet Russia are prime examples. Politically
evil men have combined and arranged themselves
against us. The good people of this nation must
now associate themselves together, else we will
fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a
struggle which threatens to engulf the entire
nation. We can win. We can control the election
of the president in November.
Our object must be our country, our whole
country and nothing but our country. If we will
stand together, the people of this state, the
people of my state, the people throughout this
great region, yes, throughout the United States,
then we can be the balance of power. We can
determine who will be the next president.
Georgia is a great state. Atlanta is a great
city. I know you will demonstrate that greatness
in November by joining Alabama and other states
throughout the south in electing the next
president of the United States. We are not going
to change anything by sitting on our hands
hoping that things will change for the better.
Those who cherish individual freedom have a job
to do.
First, let this be known that we intend to take
the offensive and carry our fight for freedom
across this nation. We will wield the power that
is ours, the power of the people. Let it be
known that we will no longer tolerate the boot
of tyranny. We will no longer hide our heads in
the sand. We will re-school our thoughts in the
lessons our forefathers knew so well. We must
destroy the power to dictate, to forbid, to
require, to demand, to distribute, to edict, and
to judge what is best and enforce that will of
judgment upon free citizens. We must revitalize
a government founded in this nation on faith in
god.
I ask that you join with me and that together,
we give an active and courageous leadership to
the millions of people throughout this nation
who look with hope and faith to our fight to
preserve our constitutional system of government
with its guarantees of liberty and justice for
all within the framework of our priceless
freedoms.
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