WND's Joseph Farah calls for taking back America from Washington DC's ruling 'princes'
RenewAmerica staff
On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah told a rally of tea party activists last month across from the White House that unless Americans "awaken from their slumber...and reject the path of tyranny" decreed by the "princes in this town," "I'm not sure how many more days we have left of the American dream."
Framing his remarks with Lincoln's historic words, he said, "We've lost our vision, folks" – of a "country under the rule of law, the will of the people, [and] a great Constitution. America has forgotten, indeed, not just the words uttered by Lincoln, but that America was indeed founded as one nation under God, committed to a new birth of liberty, guided by a government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
He asked, "Will we allow that vision, that dream, that goal to perish? Will this be the generation of Americans to throw away the very concept of self-government under the rule law?"
Noting that he was speaking with a sense of urgency after a recent visit to Israel, Farah said,
"I see America squandering what may well be its last chance to hold on to the dream of its founders, who sought to do something unique in world history: to remove the shackles from the people and place them on the central government in the form of a Constitution that clearly guaranteed the rights of the people, limited powers of Washington, and reserved the powers not clearly enumerated to the federal government to the several states. That's what it's all about, and we are so far removed today from that precept, to preserve that dream it's no longer enough to restrain further abuses – we've got to reverse them."
"We've got to recapture the vision of our founding fathers, the spirit of the founders, and make ourselves spiritually, morally, and intellectually worthy of self-government once again."
Farah then asked, "What does self-government require?" He answered, "The founders knew it required a moral people – people who knew the difference between right and wrong.... Self-government is when we govern ourselves, without the help of police forces and coercion by government. It also requires an informed people. The founders understood this."
"Unfortunately," he added, "I think some of the princes in this town understand it as well, and I think that's one of the reasons we're obliterating the distinctions between right and wrong in this country; it's one of the reasons [we] no longer have a free press in this country...."
He wondered rhetorically, "Are we content to see America squandering its last chance to hold on to all that made the country great, prosperous, and blessed by God?", and said –
"...I'm thinking about what's becoming of our country, the corruption at the moral core of this country.... I've been praying for Americans to rise up, to get out into the streets, and to start protesting like we did in 2010. Where is the tea party today? We've got to get mobilized again. And so let's pray that this [rally] is the beginning."
December 15, 2013
On the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah told a rally of tea party activists last month across from the White House that unless Americans "awaken from their slumber...and reject the path of tyranny" decreed by the "princes in this town," "I'm not sure how many more days we have left of the American dream."
Framing his remarks with Lincoln's historic words, he said, "We've lost our vision, folks" – of a "country under the rule of law, the will of the people, [and] a great Constitution. America has forgotten, indeed, not just the words uttered by Lincoln, but that America was indeed founded as one nation under God, committed to a new birth of liberty, guided by a government of the people, by the people, and for the people."
He asked, "Will we allow that vision, that dream, that goal to perish? Will this be the generation of Americans to throw away the very concept of self-government under the rule law?"
Noting that he was speaking with a sense of urgency after a recent visit to Israel, Farah said,
"I see America squandering what may well be its last chance to hold on to the dream of its founders, who sought to do something unique in world history: to remove the shackles from the people and place them on the central government in the form of a Constitution that clearly guaranteed the rights of the people, limited powers of Washington, and reserved the powers not clearly enumerated to the federal government to the several states. That's what it's all about, and we are so far removed today from that precept, to preserve that dream it's no longer enough to restrain further abuses – we've got to reverse them."
"We've got to recapture the vision of our founding fathers, the spirit of the founders, and make ourselves spiritually, morally, and intellectually worthy of self-government once again."
Farah then asked, "What does self-government require?" He answered, "The founders knew it required a moral people – people who knew the difference between right and wrong.... Self-government is when we govern ourselves, without the help of police forces and coercion by government. It also requires an informed people. The founders understood this."
"Unfortunately," he added, "I think some of the princes in this town understand it as well, and I think that's one of the reasons we're obliterating the distinctions between right and wrong in this country; it's one of the reasons [we] no longer have a free press in this country...."
He wondered rhetorically, "Are we content to see America squandering its last chance to hold on to all that made the country great, prosperous, and blessed by God?", and said –
"...I'm thinking about what's becoming of our country, the corruption at the moral core of this country.... I've been praying for Americans to rise up, to get out into the streets, and to start protesting like we did in 2010. Where is the tea party today? We've got to get mobilized again. And so let's pray that this [rally] is the beginning."