LTC Allen West Photo: Ileana Johnson 2014 |
Allen West is a “Guardian
of the Republic,” an exceptional American and war hero. He gave a teleprompter-free, heart-felt and spellbinding
speech to the Republican Women of Clifton on September 28, 2014.
He recounted the famous story of Benjamin Franklin, who came
out of Independence Hall in Philadelphia where the deliberations of the
Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held, was met by a Mrs. Powel of
Philadelphia, who asked him the fundamental question of who we are as Americans.
“Well, Doctor, what have we got, a Republic or a Monarchy?” Franklin answered
immediately, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
The longest Constitutional Republic in the history of the
world is now in danger. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that come
from the Creator, are now under attack by the very government that the governed
have elected into office. The government has morphed into a Hydra that is
strangling the last freedoms we hold dear.
The concepts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
have produced four generations of Wests who have served our country with pride
and honor. Allen West’s parents challenged him to be the best American he can
be in service to this country as an officer and as a Congressman.
This is the challenge to every American, we must pass on to
the next generation a better America than our parents and grandparents have
built.
People cheered when they heard the words of the former Senator
from Illinois, “We are five days from fundamentally transforming America,” said
Allen West. They forgot the words of Benjamin Franklin or perhaps they’ve never
learned them in school.
If we forget that we must pursue life, liberty, and
happiness through hard work and self-determination, without the nanny
government that wants to keep us on the dole, controlling everything that we
do, then we have let Benjamin Franklin down, we have lost the Republic given to
us in 1787.
When Americans clap and cheer a President who says he has a
pen and a phone to act without Congressional input, they have forgotten about
the co-equal branches of government, about the system of checks and balances,
West reminded us.
Are we teaching students, the next generation about Civics,
about the Constitution, and where the rights of the individual come from? They
don’t come from the government! Pointing
to a local school board member, Allen West said that “The most important
position in elected office today is the school board.”
If we are not vigilant, the uninformed public is easily
deceived about the “war on women,” when the real war on women is waged on the
woman whose son is languishing in a Mexican jail. West was referring to Tahmooressi,
a U.S. Marine who got lost and accidentally crossed the border.
“Think about the mother who lost her son in Benghazi, think
about the widow who lost her husband, think about the woman who is trying to
make a living when the job opportunities are drying out; think about the women
who want to take their children on a nice summer vacation but cannot afford the
gas; because we are printing so much money, we are devaluing the dollar; think
about the women who are struggling to put food on the table; that’s the real
war on women. Think about the woman who
went to work in Moore, Oklahoma in a chicken plant and she was beheaded.” Yet they still say, “it’s work place violence.”
“Think about Miriam Abraham who did not renounce her Christian
faith” in the face of execution . “This
country did nothing to save her even though she was married to an American
citizen. God bless Italy for stepping in and saving this woman!”
Recounting the founding of the Republican Party in 1854 in
order to “break the shackles of physical bondage,” West reminded the audience
that it now must be the party of “economic empowerment” because the other side promotes
“economic enslavement.”
Despite the fact that patriotic Americans are being called
racists, they must stay strong and stop the blatant disregard of the law that
surrounds them.
Allen West reminded us that America became exceptional
through the power of the individual not through “subservience to the
collective.” The American Dream is still alive if you are willing to work hard
to achieve your level of success. “Our children and grandchildren have dreams,
not people who have come here illegally and dispersed in our great country.”
He questioned our immigration policy and open borders that have
allowed infected illegal alien children to introduce diseases into this country,
into our schools, diseases that never existed before or had been eradicated
long time ago.
It would be easy to test the genetic makeup of the “mysterious
virus” that has sent so many American children to the emergency room with
severe respiratory distress and “mysterious” paralysis and compare it to the non-polio
enterovirus D68 infection which is endemic to third world nations like
Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. A New
Jersey child who died tested positive for the enterovirus D68. http://7online.com/health/nj-child-who-died-tested-positive-for-enterovirus-d68/336408/
Allen West warned against the cancer of socialism being
allowed to metastasize in our country. “We cannot have another progressive
socialist in the White House,” he said.
In the absence of the Republic, our “ safety net” will be
replaced “by a hammock that dry-rots” and we will have Detroits, Philadelphias,
and Washingtons, all over the country. Densely populated and subservient areas
will continue to control and define the country in perpetuity.
Because we find ourselves on an ideological battlefield, he
urged the audience to stand against the progressive socialism, Islamo-fascism, secular
humanism, and against the savages who have beheaded two Americans already.
Shortly after his 1801 inauguration, Thomas Jefferson sent,
without the authorization of
Congress, a naval and military expedition (the leathernecks) to the Shores of Tripoli to take care of the Barbary States (Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli) pirates who were involved in slavery and piracy, the precursors to today’s jihadi terrorism. This incursion solved the problem.
Congress, a naval and military expedition (the leathernecks) to the Shores of Tripoli to take care of the Barbary States (Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli) pirates who were involved in slavery and piracy, the precursors to today’s jihadi terrorism. This incursion solved the problem.
He left the audience with the partying words of wisdom, “You
must understand that you have a Republic if you can keep it,” reminding us that
the American people are at the heart of Constitutional Conservatives and thus
must personalize Benjamin Franklin’s challenge.
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