America: Imagine the World Without Her Page #9

They think they are our masters,

and they are mistaken.

I'm not interested in

scoring political points.

I want to protect and preserve

the America that I grew up in.

The America that people crossed oceans

and risked their lives to become a part of.

And I am terrified

it is slipping away.

Thank you.

Aaron Swartz was an

internet whiz kid.

At 14, he developed a new way to

publish information on the Web.

In his late teens, he cofounded a

company that merged with Reddit

to become one of the Web's most

frequently used social news sites.

He became a vocal critic of several of

the Obama Administration's policies.

The freedoms guaranteed

in our Constitution,

the freedoms our country had been

built on would be suddenly deleted.

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted

by the US Attorney's office

in Massachusetts for allegedly breaking

into the computer networks at MI and downloading without authorization

thousands of academic articles.

He was charged with crimes

that would have carried

a penalty of up to 35 years in

prison and $1 million fine.

The articles were funded

by taxpayer money

and Aaron thought they should

be available to the public.

The government argued they

were copyrighted material.

It strikes me as disproportionate,

being used inappropriately

to try to bully, uh,

someone into pleading guilty

to something that strikes

me as rather, uh, minor.

The company that owns

the copyrighted articles

asked federal prosecutors

to drop the charges.

But the prosecutor wanted

to send Aaron to prison.

On January 11, 2013,

Aaron Swartz took his own life.

He was 26 years old.

New accusations that the feds are

unfairly targeting conservatives

in an effort to silence

those who do not agree

with the Obama Administration

during a crucial election year.

Conservative filmmaker and

author Dinesh D'Souza

is the latest victim to be targeted

by the Obama White House.

And he's also the man behind

the anti-Obama documentary

2016, Obama's America.

Dinesh D'Souza was indicted

on federal charges of violating

campaign finance laws.

But do you believe this is

because of the film that you did

leading up to last year's election?

I made a mistake and I'm not

above the law. No one is.

But we don't want

to live in a society

where Lady Justice has one eye

open and winks at her friends

and casts an evil eye

at her adversaries.

Where will they stop?

At the point where we stop them.

We won't let them shame us.

We won't let them intimidate us.

We're going to start telling

the true story of America.

In stone, our leaders

appear only as legends.

No faults, no fears, no self-doubts.

But also no laughter.

No hope. No love.

And yet our human experience tells us

they had all of these in

the troubles they faced.

They're ready for you, Mr. President.

Ready, Mother?

My friends, no one who

is not in my situation

can appreciate the feelings of

sadness I have at this parting.

To this place and to the kindness

of these people, I owe everything.

Here I have lived for a

quarter of a century.

To you, dear friends, I owe

all that I have, all that I am.

I leave now, not knowing when

or whether ever I may return,

with a task before me that is greater

than that which rested upon Washington.

Fire!

Without the assistance of the Almighty

who attended him, I cannot succeed.

With that assistance, I cannot fail.

Fire it in, boys!

Trusting in him who can go

with me and remain with you

and be everywhere for good,

let us confidently hope

that all will yet be well.

Through his care commending you,

as I hope that in your

prayers you will commend me.

I bid you an affectionate farewell.

And how badly we need right now

a Washington, a Lincoln, a Reagan.

Well, we don't have them.

But we do have us.

The Revolution was a struggle

for the creation of America.

The Civil War was a struggle for

the preservation of America.

World War ll was a struggle

for the protection of America.

Our struggle is for the

restoration of America.

President Reagan once said,

"Ours is the only national anthem

that ends with a question.

"Every generation must

answer that question."

Let us resolve to fight for America

as if the outcome of the

struggle depended on us alone.

We cannot do anything less.

This is our home.

A lost sailor.

- He was looking for my country, not yours.

- Yes.

- Yeah, but you wish he didn't come.

- I wish he didn't come.

I spoke with Charmaine White

Face, a Native American activist

and member of the Great Sioux Nation

whose ancestral land, the Black Hills,

includes Mount Rushmore.

Having Mount Rushmore here is horrible.

It's a symbol of oppression.

It's a symbol of

genocide for our people.

The charge of genocide

begins with Columbus enslaving

1,500 Arawak Indians

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