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Margaret Thatcher had it right.
(1987)
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There is no society anymore.
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What there is...
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is a transnational security elite...
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that is busy carving up the world...
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using your tax money.
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We must guard against...
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the acquisition of unwarrented influence
by the military-industrial complex (MIC).
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The potential for the desastrous rise
of misplaced power exists.
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And will persist.
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We must never let the weight
of this combination endanger...
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our liberties or democratic processes.
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In democracies or...
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the pseudo-democracies
that we're evolving into...
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wars are a result of lies.
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The very word "secrecy" is repugnant
in a free and open society.
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We decided long ago...
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that the dangers of excessive
and unwarrented conceilment...
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of pertinent facts...
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far outweigh the dangers
which are cited to justify it.
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My uncle's commitment to peace...
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bore fruit in the limited test ban treaty
of august 1963.
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But his assassination that november
turned the nation down another path.
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His successors have launched
one war after another.
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I.e. the goal is to have an endless war,
not a succesful war.
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Waging endless wars abroad.
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Very soon, within the next few years
it will become...
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the "normal" for there to be
a constant war in the West.
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People will reach maturity and adulthood
under the understanding...
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that there is always a war.
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War will become the "new normal".
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For we are opposed around the world
by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy.
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To combat that elite...
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we must not petition...
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we must take it over.
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I'm speaking here today
to take a radically different path...
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a path towards peace.
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We have been immersed
in a foreign policy discourse...
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that is all about adversaries and threats
and allies and enemies and domination.
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We've become addicted to comic-book [Hollywood]
good versus evil narratives.
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Everything becomes a war.
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The war on drugs, the war on terror...
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war on cancer,
war on climate change.
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That is... war by media.
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This way of thinking predisposes us
to wage endless wars abroad.
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Wars and coups and bombs...
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and drones
and regime change operations.
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Who are the war criminals?
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It is not just leaders,
it is not just soldiers...
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It is journalists.
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Journalists are war criminals.
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We must ask ourselves
is this really who we are?
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Is this what we want to be?
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Because this forever war which
has so drained our nation's vitality...
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now threatens to plunge the world...
-
into the unspeakable horror
of nuclear Armageddon.
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If wars can be started by lies...
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peace can be started by truth.
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President Kennedy understood
that peace begins...
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with our basic attitudes and believes.
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He spoke of the futility...
-
of passively waiting for the other side
to become enlightened.
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We should, he said,
begin by looking inward.
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When we hold others in the belief
that they're implacable enemies...
-
they tend to mold themselves
accordingly to our view of them.
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It's a self-fulfilling prophecy
or prediction...
-
that launches all players into a cycle
of suspicion that my uncle warned against.
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Inhabiting the role of an enemy
we empower hardliners...
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in places
like Russia, China, Cuba and Iran.
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We invite them
into the drama of conflict...
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the drama
of provocation and counter-provocation,
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of weapon and counter-weapon.
-
We've then gone off on this path
of the military-industrial complex (MIC)...
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which president Eisenhower warned about
in the best speech that he ever gave...
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and one of the most important in history,
where he warned America:
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that if we did not take
great pains to avoid it...
-
the emerging military-industrial complex
would devour our democracy.
-
My uncle knew that.
-
He spent three years fighting against
the rise of the military-industrial complex.
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After his death, we went down that path
that Eisenhower predicted.
-
And that's where we are today
and it's time now to reverse that.
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It's time.
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And there is very grave danger...
-
that an announced need
for increased security...
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will be seized upon by those
anxious to expand its meaning...
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to the very limits of official
censorship and concealment.
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Wikileaks is a non-state
hostil intelligence service.
-
Julian Assange.
-
- a high-tech terrorist
- a traitor, a treasonist
-
He has to answer for what he has done.
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Assange face up to a 175 years
in prison...
-
for publishing classified documents
exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Journalists are war criminals.
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I am not asking your newspapers
to support an administration...
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but I am asking your help
in the tremendous task...
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of informing and alerting
the american people.
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For I have complete confidence...
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in the response and dedication
of our citizens...
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whenever they are fully informed.
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And that is why our press
was protected by the First Amendment,
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the only business in America
specifically protected by the Constitution.
-
He has been detained
since the 7th of December 2010...
-
in one form or another.
-
Julian Assange is a hero!
-
Wikileaks has performed
this extraordinairy public service.
-
This is an attempt
not to break him, but to kill him.
-
It's slow murder.
-
You al know that Julian Assange
is a heroic whistleblower.
-
He stood up for democracy.
-
He stood against he surveillance state.
-
He stood against government corruption.
-
He's battled for all of our freedoms.
-
And he made the tremendous sacrifice...
-
where he now is jailed
and faces life imprisonment...
-
and the extradition to the United States.
-
Julian Assange is dying...
-
for your right to know...
-
what your government is doing
on your behalf, behind your back.
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The urgency to pardon him cannot wait.
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It can't wait till I become president.
-
We need to get it done now.
Please sign the petition...
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urging president Biden
to immediately pardon Julian Assange.
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Thank you all very much.
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