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Quote of the Day - December 13, 2011

by FSM: QUOTE OF THE DAY December 13, 2011
 
“We cannot live in a country where the government sits around and tries to engineer and design results and outcomes. Every time they try to do that: ‘Everyone has a right to own a home’ - how does that end up? ‘Everyone has a right to health care’ - how does that end up? The Constitution says ‘promote the general welfare’ not ‘provide welfare.’ It is about setting conditions for our success. 
 
Right now, if you’re not careful in the United States of America, we have a class warfare that’s going on. You’ve got a producing class and you’ve got an entitlement class.”
 
-  Lt. Col Allen West (b. 1961), at a speech made during the American Freedom Tour at the Revolution Nightclub in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Kansas City on October 21, 2009. The whole speech can be seen on YouTube here.
 
The Full Speech:

“I’ve got to tell you – when you listen to that fife and drum, it hearkens me back to exactly how this country got started .When you think how patriots got together in taverns, when patriots got together in houses, along rivers and creeks; when you think about how the United States Marine Corps got started in a place called Tun Tavern – this is where we are right now in our country. We need to meet in places and start talking about restoring our liberty and fighting our backs against a tyrannical government. It starts right here, it starts right now, with each one of you that’s gathered here today.
 
This is what America’s about. This is what America’s about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country. A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower middle class parents. but I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. That was done not because the government came down and tried to make the rules and change it for me. It was done because I realised I was an American, and I had the freedom and ability to do that.
 
We cannot live in a country where the government sits around and tries to engineer and design results and outcomes. Every time they try to do that: ‘Everyone has a right to own a home’ - how does that end up? ‘Everyone has a right to health care’ - how does that end up? The Constitution says ‘promote the general welfare’ not ‘provide welfare.’ It is about setting conditions for our success.  
 
Right now, if you’re not careful in the United States of America, we have a class warfare that’s going on. You’ve got a producing class and you’ve got an entitlement class. When that young lady stood up and said  ‘If I vote for him, I will not have to put gas in my car, I will not have to pay my mortgage, that was at the Bank Atlantic Center, right here, in Sunrise, Florida. These people are living amongst us, and if we are not willing to take a stand right now, and take this country back and put it back on the right track on the principles and values that it was established upon, you’re complicit. It’s your fault, it’s your fault, it’s your fault up there.It’s okay to come out here and cheerlead, but you’d better get your butts out there and understand there’s a fight and you’d better be willing to fight for this country.
 
The United States was founded by the original insurgents. A bunch of farmers, a bunch of people – men and women – dedicated, and said to the British: ‘We’re not living under your tyranny.’ Now we’ve got to come back and do it again.
 
We got tricked in 2008, but let me tell you something. We’re going to take Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules For Radicals’ and we’re going to turn it on him, and we’re going to drive it through him, and we’re going to take this country back.
 
How many people out there are former servicemen and servicewomen in the United States military? Let me tell you something – and God bless you all - we took an oath. And that oath said that we would support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and there is no Statute of Limitations on that oath, and tonight, every one of you needs to take that oath.
 
This 2010 election is a defining moment for the United States of America, for the future legacy from which we go on. If you’re not willing – as a great man** said in December 1776: “These are the times that try men’s souls. When the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from his duties” – if you’re here to shrink from the duties, there’s the door. Get out!
 
But if you’re here to stand up, to get your musket, to fix your bayonet, and to charge into the ranks, you are my brother and sister in this fight. You need to leave here, understanding one simple word. That word is – Bayonets!
 
And charge this enemy for your freedom, for your liberty, for the future legacy of that young lady right there, because I will not go down and tell my children that I didn’t have the courage, the conviction, the commitment, or the character to fight for this country.
 
Don’t go home and let your children down. You leave here today – Charge! Thank you so much.”
 
(Transcribed for you to share by) The Editor, FamilysecurityMatters.org
 
*Peggy Joseph, on 30, October, 2008, took her daughter out of school early to let her hear Obama’s speech and later said: “…I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage – you know, if I have him, he’s going to help me.”
 
**Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776.
 

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