Allen West at Freedom Defense Initiative – A Must-See

by Baron Bodissey

LTC (ret.) Allen West gave one of the speeches at last Friday’s Freedom Defense Initiative event, and it was a real rouser. This was the first time I have ever heard a candidate for national office say such things — exactly the same things I would have said if I had been on the podium. He uttered the forbidden words: “We are against something that is a totalitarian theocratic political ideology, and it is called ‘Islam’.”

Voters of the 22nd District in Florida: elect this man to Congress!

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling, and to Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer for hosting Col. West at their excellent event:

00:00.02		Thank you.
00:04.07		Thank you very much…
00:08.11		and Pamela thank you for that introduction and Robert, it’s great to…
00:12.12		be here with you all today, and I just want to tell you all one thing: if…
00:16.17		the truth has just become hate speech, well, you might as well lock me up,
00:20.20		‘cause I’m not shutting up.
00:28.32		One of the key conservative principles is national security.
00:32.34		And the fact that we are here, and we are now talking about this issue, this is…
00:36.38		one of the things the American people look to conservative principled….
00:40.41		leadership to do, which is to protect them. And if we do not stand up…
00:44.46		in this great convention that we’re having here right now, and profess who we are,
00:48.49		and that we understand this situation, this issue, the American people will turn away…
00:52.51		from us. You have to hold the conservative leaders that you see here…
00:56.57		this weekend accountable, to do the things to protect you.
01:00.59		Now, let me explain some things. ‘Cause I been sitting back here listening.
01:04.60		I’m sick and tired of people saying “war on terror”. There is no such thing as war…
01:08.64		on terror. In World War Two, how smart would it have been,
01:12.67		if the United States of America said they were at war with the Blitzkrieg.
01:16.69		Or if they were at war with the Kamikaze. A nation does not go…
01:20.72		to war against a tactic. Just the same way,
01:24.74		when you sit around and you see our strategic-level leaders here…
01:28.79		in Washington D.C. go on all these Sunday pundit shows and they talk about…
01:32.84		how great it is that we are directing ‘drone attacks’,
01:36.85		you think back to what happened in Vietnam,
01:40.89		when LBJ was doing bombing approval right here out of the…
01:44.92		White House, that’s not what the strategic level thinker…
01:48.93		is supposed to be doing. That’s not strategic perspective.
01:52.97		A nation goes to war against an ideology,
01:56.98		and that’s what we’ve been talking about here today.
02:01.02		We’ve been talking about the fact that we are against something that is a totalitarian…
02:05.05		theocratic political ideology and it…
02:09.06		is called ‘Islam’.
02:21.16		This is not about Muslims.
02:25.18		It is just the same as in Nazi Germany: not every…
02:29.20		German was a Nazi. Just the same as when I was in…
02:33.24		Iraq in 2003, not every Iraqi was a member of the…
02:37.26		Baath party. What I am talking about here
02:41.30		is an ideology that has existed since 622 AD,
02:45.33		since the 7th century, it got started with a thing called the ‘
02:49.34		Naklah Raid, which was after Mohammed made his Hijra leaving Mecca going out to…
02:53.38		Medina. It has been violent ever since. It has confronted Western Civilization,
02:57.41		and this is just another chapter in the long book…
03:01.42		that they are writing to conquer each and every one of us.
03:05.46		And now is our time, just as our forefathers had to stand, and turn these enemies back,
03:09.47		we must now stand and turn these enemies back, and today.
03:21.56		You have heard [retired military intelligence officer] Stephen [Coughlin] talk about ‘abrogation’. You need to understand things such…
03:25.66		as the treaty of Hudaibiyah, where they will sit and they will deceive you…
03:29.68		by holding off so that they can become strong, which is how back in about 627,
03:33.72		628, that is how Mohammed was able to then go in,
03:37.75		and overtake Mecca. The exact same thing that is happening right now.
03:41.75		You need to understand the traditions of Mohammed. When he wrote letters…
03:45.80		to Chosroes, the Persian emperor, when he wrote letters to Heraclius, the…
03:49.82		Byzantine emperor, that said, “You have three choices. You convert,
03:53.88		you subjugate, or we’re coming to get you. Well guess what?
03:57.92		Back in about 1992, Osama Bin Laden did the exact same thing.
04:01.94		He sent a letter to the United States of America. Later on in about…
04:05.98		2005 or 2006, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did the exact same thing.
04:10.01		He sent a letter to the American people and to President Bush. We are already…
04:14.02		in a declared war, and if we do not have the type of leadership that can understand that,
04:18.05		that can study this enemy, this adversary,
04:22.07		we are on the road to perdition right now in this great country.
04:26.12		We need to understand this. Everyone here has stood and told you…
04:30.14		sharia law is incompatible with who we are
04:34.16		in Western Civilization, and definitely who we are and stand for…
04:38.19		in the United States of America. It is not about freedom. It is not…
04:42.21		about liberty. It is not about protecting human rights or women’s rights….
04:46.26		It is about what Islam says: the word means ‘submission’.
04:50.29		And I don’t know about you all here. I’m not living…
04:54.30		as a dhimmi. I’m not living subject to any…
04:58.34		other type of ideology except for that which is written in…
05:02.35		the Constitution of these great United States of America.
05:18.54		Thank you.
05:22.57		We must understand…
05:26.58		that we have to regain the initiative in this fight.
05:30.63		Just the same as our young soldiers now are operating under these restrictive rules of…
05:34.66		engagement which prevent them from having the initiative against the enemy.
05:38.73		You just saw in Marjan in Helmand province, where the Taliban will come out and…
05:42.74		drop their weapons and walk out and taunt our soldiers and go away to fight again.
05:46.76		That would not happen under my command if I was commander and chief.
05:58.88		And just the same: we need to develop the right type of…
06:02.92		strategic level rules of engagement. Because our…
06:06.92		constitutional rights should not be afforded to illegal…
06:10.96		enemy combatants as stated in the Geneva convention.
06:19.00		We can no longer allow this enemy to…
06:23.05		come in and use this new tactic of ‘lawfare’ which most of the people…
06:27.07		standing here know, that is how they continue to try to get you…
06:31.12		to shut up. We should be going after them,…
06:35.14		not allowing them to use our legal system, and I’ll be damned,…
06:39.16		any lawyer that will stand up and prosecute a United States citizen to take…
06:43.17		away their freedom of speech, they are not my brother they are not my sister.
06:47.20		They need to pack up and leave this country.
06:59.33		If we continue on…
07:03.39		in this politically correct multiculturalism atmosphere…
07:07.43		that’s on steroids, we are…
07:11.44		paralyzing ourselves from taking the right and proper action.
07:15.47		We see what has happened in Sudan. We see what is happening in Austria.
07:19.53		We know about Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. We know what’s happening in Denmark.
07:23.57		Trend analysis is what we called it…
07:27.59		There’s nothing wrong with it. And for you all here…
07:31.61		in the media, stop calling it profiling. It’s about…
07:35.65		identifying the enemy, and what they are doing, and going after them.
07:39.67		When I was a commander in Iraq, I knew that young men on dirt bikes were coming out of the…
07:43.75		groves to lay out IEDs and attack us. I was not going to chase…
07:47.78		women in burkhas in the middle of the night, in their houses.
07:51.80		It’s trend analysis. Stop being politically correct, stop allowing them to come into our…
07:55.84		country.
07:59.86		If you do not understand…
08:03.94		that the reality of your enemy…
08:07.98		must become your own, we can continue in this state…
08:12.01		of denial. When I read the Fort Hood attack based upon what Major…
08:16.07		Hasan did, I was absolutely appalled. When I stood there and watched…
08:20.10		the Sunday show, when General Casey, Chief of Staff of the Army said,
08:24.11		he was more so concerned about diversity being a casualty than the loss…
08:28.16		of the thirteen soldiers at Fort Hood Texas, we have problems…
08:32.19		in the leadership of these United States of America.
08:40.28		We must accept their reality.
08:44.30		And the way ahead is so simple. You’ve got to…
08:48.36		get the right type of leadership in this country. Because that’s what it’s about.
08:52.38		We’ve got to get the right type of leadership across Europe
08:56.39		We’ve got to get the right type of leadership that will not be afraid.
09:00.46		Members of the media: stop attacking Jews and Christians.
09:04.46		Stop being afraid of this enemy. Show the same type of…
09:08.52		vehemence that you want against your fellow Americans…
09:12.55		against them. Because let me tell you something: thirty to forty years from now,
09:16.56		if they’re successful, and they have control of this country…
09:20.60		there will be no free media. There will be no free speech. There will be no freedom of…
09:24.63		expression. And guess what? You, will have been complicit in this,…
09:28.70		because you are too much of a coward to take a stand.
09:40.82		Now,
09:44.84		now is the time for principled leadership in the United States of America,
09:48.85		Because, as the quote that Elisabeth has taken…
09:52.88		from me: when tolerance becomes a one way street,
09:56.91		it leads to cultural suicide.
10:00.95		When I am able to fly to Saudi Arabia with my Bible…
10:04.97		in hand, with my cross around my neck, to go to Mecca,
10:08.98		and go to a church, then guess what? We’re good to go.
10:13.03		But until that point,
10:17.05		we have to understand,
10:21.11		the objectives and the goals that Islam has set…
10:25.14		forward. We have to be proud of who we are.
10:29.15		We cannot have leadership that will go stand before the Turkish
10:33.22		general assembly, and say that America is not a Judeo-Christian nation.
10:37.24		We cannot have a leadership, that goes and stands, in front of…
10:41.26		a university in Cairo, Egypt, and apologizes for the United States…
10:45.30		of America. That is not about what American pride is.
10:49.31		We cannot have leadership that is…
10:53.36		asked, ‘How do you define victory?’, and they cannot.
10:57.39		Well let me tell you: this is how I define victory,…
11:01.40		just the same as Ronald Reagan did when he was asked about communism,
11:05.44		“We win, they lose”. God bless you all…
11:09.47		thank you. http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/02/allen-west-we-are-already-in-declared.html#readfurther