Post Tuesday March 2, 2010

Hey guys,
Your Tuesday post makes my post Dated
( link) 3/1/10 ABATE lies re Daytona BIke Week Freedom Rally March 3, 2010
Looks like it was put out by ABATE of Florida due to the title
Link
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
ABATE of Florida
ABATE of Florida
Please correct if possible as I have not been affiliated with ABATE of FLorida for a number of years now.
In fact I have been the target of many attacks by them as the post demonstrates (though not as it reads).
Also I can't remember who asked what the speech I gave at the Bike week freedom rally was about but it has since been posted on my site
and can be found at this link: Talk given at Daytona Bike Week Freedom Rally-I am just an American
http://www.bigbendbikersforfreedom.com/
Respectfully
rc



Talk given at Daytona Bike Week Freedom Rally-I am just an American



The following was first posted on this site in 2007. We resurrected and with very few changes it is what we gave at the Bike Week Freedom rally on both Saturday and Sunday. ABATE of Florida has issued a press Release demanding that we release all speeches, pictures, yada, yada, yada, given by either Biker Rogue or myself. Now to the best of my knowledge despite thinking that the state of Florida is their "Territory," they are not courts or judges and can not demand a damn thing.

We post it here now as some have requested we do so. But they requested nicely Doc!

I AM JUST AN AMERICAN

I am an “American”. My status as an American carries no prefix. Plain and simple, I'm an “American”.

It is only by virtue of chance, luck or any number of variables that I was conceived and born on the shores of the greatest nation on earth. I did not choose to be American. However, based on observation and education, had I been given that choice, that choice would be, to be an American.

As an American I have guaranteed to me certain rights. They are not “God” given rights. Were they “God” given rights, every human on earth would be afforded the same rights as we who are “Americans”. No, the rights I have today are “fought for” rights.

The rights that I have as an American are the end result of mans struggle throughout history to define just what are our rights. The rights that I or any other American has were bought and paid for by the wisdom, courage and blood of persons who were not Americans. By persons who through an intense desire for “freedom” and “liberty” made a decision to throw off the yoke of tyranny and declared themselves,“Americans”.

Persons who believed that “all men” had a “God given right” to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They believed this so intently as to risk all that they had.

Primarily “Christians”, they wisely separated religion and state. Fierce fighters, they wisely separated the military from political debate. Men with a common goal, they wisely encouraged dissent. In fact their belief in the “rights” of the individual were so strong they intentionally set up a government that could not be ruled by majority thought.

Primary to insuring these principles were the guarantees of and a free press that would insure thatfree thoughtwould not be suppressed.

There was no dictate handed down as to what could or could not be “spoken.” There was no dictate that speech would be regulated by it's political, religious or social appropriateness. There was no litmus test designed to measure an individuals “patriotism” or “Americanism” based on what party they belonged to, what God they chose to believe in, what they thought about, race, sexuality or any of the multiple social issues that today have somehow become politicized and a yardstick by which men judge each other.

In fact, they went to great pains to insure that men might discuss and debate all issues freely and openly so that all persons might rightfully argue for their freedom and their liberties.

These men were not burdened by concerns for the sensibilities of the weak minded who would bite their tongue for fear of incurring the retribution of kings, princes and Bullies. These were men who fed on the soles of their boots and tempered their will by walking barefoot in the snow and ice so that you and I might live in a land they could only dream of.

And because of their will, because of their determination they gave birth to a country so strong that it has been called on, more than once, to save the world. And save the world it has done. However it was not our government that saved the world. For our government must pay heed to the will of the governed. It was the collective effort of “individuals” who despite individual differences had a common bond. They were Americans. Part of a grand experiment that has made many mistakes and in doing so has shed blood and wears the scars of internal battles over issues such as discrimination, sexism, racism, religious differences and ill conceived wars. And as Americans they would fight to the death any encroachment upon their hard fought for liberties.

And that is where we stand today. Because today we face the greatest threat to our liberties we have ever faced. Today we face the greatest enemy we will ever face. Because today, that threat, that enemy, is us.

Today we would restrict the speech that we fear may violate the sensibilities of those who do not wish to hear the free speech of uncommon ideas. Today we would condemn those that do not believe in a “God” of “our” choosing. Today we divide ourselves not only by color, ethnicity, sex, economic status or religion. But we further divide ourselves by “left” and “right”. And today we are all to willing to elect representatives, not to uphold the ideals upon which this country was founded, but who would push for personal agendas, even at the cost of another mans freedom.

Today we have grown soft, and we look to the government as a dog to it's master to care for us. We have lost the taste for the boot leather of our forefathers and are to comfortable to temper our will barefoot in battlefields of snow and ice. We allow the media and the government to censure the atrocities of war so as not to be exposed to it's horrors and our responsibility to care for those we throw into the fray. As unlike World War II we do not yet have a casualty on every block to mourn and can still distance our selves from “our” responsibility. We turn our heads and pretend not to notice the street side casualties of a past war from whose wounds we still have not yet healed.

Today we have allowed our government to become very much like the government from which our forefathers broke ranks with. We have allowed our government to engage in the same totalitarian actions we condemned and went to war to save the rest of the world from.

Today we have become so focused on our differences that we have left our government free to further restrict our liberties as as a cover for it's incompetence in governing without draining the pockets of those who pay for it.. A government whose spinelessness in governing by virtue of the Constitution of the United States of America has instead resorted to a government of greedy Robber Barons who have lost touch with “We the People”. A government for sale to corporations who would pit the economically disadvantaged against each other lest they focus their attention on the real enemy. Those who divide us to keep us weak out of fear that united we may rise up and reclaim that which is rightfully ours, that which our forefathers fought to bequeath to us.

Today we have become so focused on differences we have forgotten our true strength. That we are all “Americans”. Or at one time we were. Because the Americans of our forefathers time would call us to task for allowing their vision to become so corrupted. Because it is we who have allowed it.

In every persons lifetime comes occasions by which we define ourselves. Not in the eyes of others. But through our own eyes. So yes, I am an American. And as an American I will no longer stand down, I will not compromise and I will not retreat until this country is returned to those who own it, “We the People”

RIDE HARD, RIDE FREE, and by God STAND FOR SOMETHING!!


Could anybody tell me why BATE of Florida might fear these words????