One of our favorite American patriots and founding fathers was an anti-Federalist orator named Patrick Henry. On March 23, 1775, in the House of Burgesses, at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, Mr. Henry delivered his most famous fiery presentation, a speech which is known as his “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death” speech. According to historian and biographer William Wirt, Henry closed his speech thusly:
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me Liberty or give me Death!”
In 1788 he delivered another speech which, though it should be, is not nearly so well-known. An example of his adamant insistence on including a “Bill of Rights” (the first ten Amendments), this lesser-known speech is titled: Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought?
In preparation for looking at BenghaziGate and related concepts, let us reflect upon a couple of lines from this speech in which Patrick Henry questioned the body of the Constitution as it stood without the Bill of Rights, which he helped the Convention to finally add –
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; liberty, sir, was then the primary object… We drew the spirit of liberty from our British ancestors; by that spirit we have triumphed over every difficulty. But now, sir, the American spirit, assisted by the ropes and chains of consolidation, is about to convert this country into a powerful and mighty empire. If you make the citizens of this country agree to become the subjects of one great consolidated empire of America, your government will not have sufficient energy to keep them together. Such a government is incompatible with the genius of republicanism. …
-end excerpts; read entire speech here: http://www.bartleby.com/268/8/14.html
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So Patrick Henry was for keeping power and authority distributed in the several States, was against concentrating power in the new General government, and fought against an overly-empowered Federal government – but he was over-ridden and for more than twenty decades since we have moved toward ever-more centralization of power and authority in the Federal government.
Along the way, we’ve begun to worship the office of President unduly as we’ve watched the Executive usurp Congressional and Judicial powers to the point that, by 1947, President Truman consented to and signed into law the National Security Act of 1947 which created the CIA. Six short years later our CIA took down the duly elected democratic government of Iran and CIA has lingered long in the middle east ever since, doing what CIA does best — keeping deep dark ugly secrets from the American people while rampaging amok in the name of American and multi-national corporate ‘interests’ at the expense of stability in oil-producing nations.
We see that eventually that omniscient centralized government Patrick Henry dreaded was allowed to develop. For over five decades it has wreaked havoc around the world. Since 1947 it has honed a domestic policy which has intimidated any dissent and has used the strong arm of the government to chill the speech of Americans who do not agree with such mischief. It has burgeoned into an oligarchic, fascistic, iron-fisted super-surveillance military-police state mechanism called the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
And now? Well, now the chickens are coming home to roost. The unholy serpent shall devour its tail while deep dark secrets are transmuted in the sordid bowels of deception and we are found wanting for asking if our dearly beloved Commander in Chief, President Obama, has lied through his teeth regarding the Federal government’s smuggling of armaments to al Qaeda in Libya and Syria.
The question may have standing.
It appears that our ambassador to Libya was working with the CIA. It appears that the CIA was providing arms to al Qaeda and other Islamic Jihadist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood for the purpose of taking down governments in the middle-east – with the President’s knowledge.
If this proves to be true, this thing is positively huge. Can it conceivably cost a sitting President his office? Can it throw the 2012 Presidential election? Can it awaken the cheer-leading sports-addicted and creature-comfort-crazed American public? Dare the media toss it out onto the table?
We are confronted by a bitter question. Watch the following brief videos and judge for yourself whether the U.S. government, all bright and shiny in its choreography and colluded chorus, dressed in its cloak of lies which have been fabricated through six decades of ‘national security secrecy’, has joined al Qaeda or not. Questions are coming “fast and furious”, this time on a truly global and totally world-shattering scale.
BENGHAZI—WAS THIS A UNITED STATES GUNRUNNING OPERATION TO AL QAIDA JIHADIS?
http://counterjihadreport.com/2012/10/24/benghazi-was-this-a-united-states-gunrunning-operation-to-al-qaida-jihadis/
Former 20 year CIA veteran, Clare Lopez: “Jordan is targeted! Saudi Arabia is targeted!”
(excerpt from above link — read whole article at link)
Questions:
Could the Obama Administration’s Fast and Furious gunrunning operation to the Mexican drug cartels be simply a dress rehearsal for a much larger gunrunning operation to al Qaida-linked and other Jihadist groups in Libya and, more ominously, Syria?
Is the Obama Administration running guns into other Jihadist hot spots?
Does the United States of America have troops in Jordan?
Was Ambassador Stevens our operational officer in a gunrunning operation to al Qaida linked groups that had “gone wrong?”
Did the Obama Administration set Stevens up and leave him (with former Navy Seals, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods and computer expert, Sean Smith) to die?
Did President, Secretary Clinton, General Petraeus and others have fore-knowledge?
Others?
Who else knows now?
Does Governor Romney know now?
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