Devvy Kidd
Speech to the Free Enterprise
Society -
(Condensed for publication)
Ladies and
gentlemen. These are indeed dangerous and serious times in which we
live and
not just from mad-dog terrorists from third world countries who hate
US.
We find ourselves in the same
position
as those who tried to save the
Published in 1959, this book
spent 60
weeks on the NY Times bestseller list with more than 1,000,000 copies
in print
at the time.
This is the character
Diodorus speaking:
"In this very Senate, not
many
years ago, a senator was done to death because he spoke the truth. Not
by knife
or sword or spear was he murdered, and not by honest stones. No
honorable hand
struck him down, for there was no honorable hand here. He spoke of
"The senator stood on this
very
podium and he wept for the Republic. He wept that emperors were not
elected by
the people, but by infamous legions and the idle and ravenous mobs who
wished
only to devour the fruits of the granaries and the treasures, and to be
amused
by charlatans and mountebanks and actors and singers and gladiators and
pugilists -- at public expense."....
"For greed, that young
senator
cried to you, the mobs in this city supported evil Caesars, who lusted
only for
power, because those Caesars promised them loot from the public
treasuries.
Venal senators supported those Caesars, for profit and power.
"The lying Caesars spoke to
the
mobs and told them that our country could not defend itself against
barbarians
without allies, who must endlessly be bought and cajoled and flattered.
And the
traitorous Caesars plotted against their nation, mad with the lust to
be gilded
like gods by the whole world, and to be acclaimed by millions of
thieves and
beggars and wrestlers and freedmen and the cowardly, who never felt a
pulse of
patriotism in their vultures hearts!"......
"Let me move your hearts!" he
cried. "It is not yet too late!
"The course of empire leads
only to
death. Senators, look at me! Listen with your hearts, and not with your
evil
minds. Turn back to liberty, to frugality, to morality to peace, to
"
"Restore the treasuries.
Withdraw
our legions from foreign lands which hate us, and will destroy us at a
moment's
notice when it serves their interests. Repeal the taxes which crush
those who
work hard and industriously.
"Tell your multitudes that
they
must work or they shall starve. Drive from the
"Romans! In the name of God,
in the
name of Cincinnatus, the Father of this Country, in the name of heroism
and
peace and manliness and freedom and justice, I beg of you to restore
yourselves
as the guardians of Rome, to cast out the usurper of the powers which
rightfully belong to you, to impeach and to punish those who seized
those
powers in order to pervert the laws of our fathers! Let your Roman
hearts speak
and your Roman spirits cry out against the expedient and the corrupt,
against
the vainglorious and the traitors, against Caesars who anoint
themselves as gods
and hold court for the depraved and the ambitious and those who would
dissipate
the strength of our people, our Constitution, and our traditions! If
you turn
from your country, then she will die, and a thousand thousand legions
shall not
save her and a thousand bloody Caesars will vainly blow to the winds."
Tiberius, the Caesar of the
time,
responded to this attack:
"I am a soldier. I am
surrounded by
sycophants and liars, and in that Diodorus speaks truth. What is lavish
and
uncomprehending praise given out of self-seeking and fear?
"What is flattery if lips
that
speak it only fawn, and in that fawning profit? The dull ear is servant
to a
duller tongue. As a I solider I prefer men of simple truth and without
complexities who speak in honor and of patriotism. But where are men
today in
"Let me tell you this," said
Tiberius, quietly. "Venal Caesars, power-mad Caesars, never seize
power,
never destroy law and their country. Their power is forced on them by
an evil
and despicable people, a selfish and cowardly people. Where are the
guardians
of the people's liberty then? You are silent, you are slaves in spirit,
you are
thieves and cowards. But a people deserve their lawmakers."......
"
"I am here only to do the
filthy
will of a nation obstinately determined to commit suicide. If I break
the law
and the Constitution in their greedy behalf, they applaud me. If I have
given
up my hope of restoring the Treasury, they praise me for having their
welfare
at heart. Their welfare! Dogs and jackals!" End of quote.
The rabble, the mob of
"democracy" exist only to suck off the productive. These may sound
like harsh words, but only a willfully blind person can't see the hand
writing
on the wall.
History does repeat itself.
Those who
ignore it are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, you and I are
watching
history right now. We are watching
Dresden Jameson said:
"The ideal tyranny is that
which is
ignorantly self administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves
are, therefore,
those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
The majority of America's
population
have been seduced into a welfare mentality that has reduced so many
into
pathetic, weak, self-centered, self-absorbed, lazy, dumbed down adults
who behave
like children depending upon Mother Government for all their needs.
Too many coming from third
world or
communist/fascist countries care nothing for assimilating into the
western
culture. They are here to leech off the productive.
However, every person sitting
in this
room and watching this video, has the opportunity to make and shape
history by
committing ourselves 100% to the challenges which face every freedom
loving
American.
While most of the
self-ordained slaves
in this country will willfully continue to believe lies from the
politicians
who unlawfully rob the public treasury to support the rabble of the
mob, there
are millions of real Americans who are becoming informed and determined
to stop
the destruction of this Republic.
Those of us who are committed
to this
cause should not worry ourselves overmuch about the sheep out in
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"But this present window of
opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world
order might
be built, will not be open for long. Already there are powerful forces
at work
that threaten to destroy all of our hopes and efforts to erect an
enduring
structure of global interdependence."
We the people who cherish
freedom are
closing that so-called window of opportunity and we intend to ratchet
up the
game in the immediate future.
For many years I have said
that most
people don't become activists until they become victims. As more and
more of
these draconian junk laws passed by Congress and the 50 state
legislatures
affect more of the general population, we are beginning to see the
sleeping
tiger awaken.
Let me provide you with just
a few
examples:
The people of the great State of
South Texas
- For the
past ten years, the Mexican government has been deliberately and
willfully
violating a 1944 water treaty, literally destroying farmers in that
region.
The farmers got out in numbers with their
tractors and
threatened to block international bridges.
An agreement was reached on June 29th regarding
this
problem but no date has been set for getting the water flowing. We'll
see how
good the Mexican government is about keeping their word.
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Bravehart Poster - Direct attention
What kind of man would defy a King?
What kind of American will defy tyranny?
I say the same caliber as
those who
fought and gave us our freedom back in 1776. In the movie Braveheart,
Robert
the Bruce visits his father and says, "Father, the rebellion has
begun."
Here in
Absolutely. We are not
children
rebelling against our nation of laws, but rather we are The People
engaged in a
revolution to stop the destruction of our constitutional Republic. As
Steve
Farrell, a noted writer with newsmax.com, so eloquently stated in a
recent
commentary:
"The War for Independence was
a
just war, fought on the American side by those who upheld and defended
established law, eternal principles and inalienable rights, as no men
in the
world's history before them had.
"And so, let this then be
said and
remembered forever: These, our Founders, were not rebels, but
principled
patriots and prophets who bravely battled for
How many in the audience are
familiar
with what happened in
This incident had to do with
the feds
and a road in
Earlier this year I spoke
with Grant
while I was up in
The criminally deranged in
the greenie
movement get out there and make a lot of noise. The gas bags in
Congress and
the 50 state legislatures tremble.
The morally depraved in the
homosexual
movement get out there and make a lot of noise. The immoral cowards in
Congress
and the 50 state legislatures get down on their knees and worship their
perversions.
The courageous and brave
Americans in
the civil rights movement stood their ground for what they believed in
and
Americans by the millions responded to their voice for equal protection
under
the law.
The conservatives in this
country go to
the polls and try to vote in conservative Republicans who immediately
betray
the desperate who "elected" them.
When it comes to the
Constitution vs
jobs, the constitution will lose every time. It used to be different.
It's a
sad and sorry state of affairs, but the situation has been deliberately
fostered through destructive mechanisms like NAFTA, GATT and other
factors
destroying America's primary job bases: agriculture, industrial and
manufacturing.
Either the people are going
to walk
their talk or our children and grand children will also be robbed of
their
right to pursue life, liberty and happiness by standing here doing what
I'm
doing today.
It truly is now because the
more we
push, the harder the world order architects will push back. We either
go for
the jugular or we go down. I am not asking anyone to break any laws.
Quite the
contrary. If the powers that be wish to consider the action of the
people to
whom this country, this government belongs as civil disobedience, fine
with me.
And finally, I would like to
bring up
the subject of fear.
Do you think that the men who
stood
their ground at
Do you think my husband and
the 558,000+
men who served in
But, they didn't let their
fear rule
them and yes, hundreds of thousands have died on the battlefields
around this
globe - to keep
Do you think that Patrick
Henry wasn't
afraid deep down inside the pit of his gut when he gave his "Give Me
Liberty or Give Me Death" speech on
Do you think that firemen and
policemen
don't feel that clawing, terrible, tangible fear moving up their belly
when
they are called upon to fight a fire or stop criminals or rescue
someone? What
would happen if they allowed that fear to turn to cowardice and simply
walked
away?
What if everyone who ever
felt fear,
simply took the easy way out? What if everyone who ever felt fear, just
gave up
and said, "I can live on my knees. At least I will be alive and
comfortable."
That reminds me of the movie,
The
Magnificent Seven. After Eli Wallach, the bad bandito, comes in and
shoots up
the village and kills one of the peons, the village men stand around
looking at
each other. One man sheepishly and in a cowardly fashion says, "It's
not
so bad. They do leave us a little to eat."
John Adams had something to
say about
such submission:
"If ye love wealth better
than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest
of
freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
Crouch
down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly
upon you,
and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
In the movie, Braveheart,
which is
obviously my favorite, William Wallace bursts into a tap room full of
nobles
and says:
"My army has marched for more
days
than I can remember and we still have preparations to make so I'll make
this
plain: We require every soldier you can summon. Your personal escorts,
even
yourselves and we need them now."
A noble replies: "With such a
force
arrayed against us, it's time to discuss other options."
To which Wallace replies:
"Other
options? Do you wish at least to lead your men onto the field and
barter a
better deal with Longshanks before you tuck tail and run?"
A noble replies: "We cannot
defeat
this army."
Wallace replies: "We can. And
we
will. We won at
It's okay to be afraid, but
it's not
okay to do nothing about it. I would call your attention to the
Declaration of
Independence, specifically the last sentence:
"And for the support of this
Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine
The Founding Fathers believed
so
strongly in those words, they were willing to die for them. They were
willing
to walk out their front doors and never look back, which I will do in a
heartbeat if it becomes necessary. Freedom is more important than a few
walls
that can be rebuilt.
In the weeks and months
ahead, I would
ask you to think about individuals like William Wallace, Patrick Henry,
Cmdr.
Sam Donaldson and so many others. They were the "warrior class" I
spoke of earlier. Duty, honor, country. They lived those words.
If every life is a biography, what will
yours reflect?
If we don't run these lawbreakers to
ground now, what generation will do it? Take a look out there in
Freedom
cannot be attained and retained by observers.
Freedom
gained and kept can only be achieved with a warrior class who will
stand firm
and live the words they speak.
Will you be part of the warrior class?
Thank you.