Transcript for political speech

This is my idea for what to say in the speech I'll (hopefully) be giving next week:

I am just a man, ruled by tyrant-kings who’ve taken everything. Money is taken from my paycheck to fund the corrupt and incompetent government in Washington, D.C. I pay for their waste and greed, their corporate hand-outs, and their wars. I pay for the bombs and bullets that take the lives of men, women, and children in distant lands. I pay for that corrupt government to imprison its own citizens for choosing how to live their own lives, for exercising their sacred right to liberty. I pay for all of this, and so do you. No more, I tell you.

I could not believe the form of tyranny, what it could take from me. I live in fear. I fear that I will not be able to afford to sustain myself. My standard of living has declined dramatically and continues to do so. I fear that I will be forced into government service, whether that be a draft or “community service” slavery. I fear the spies, the agents provocateurs, and the machines. I fear the police state that even now tightens its grip around a once free people. I fear that “change” will blind the people to their chains and allow the government to strip them of their last remaining rights. I fear the economic collapse¬¬--that it will create political instability on a scale never seen in this country. I fear that lives will be lost as the empire comes home. I fear this, and so do you. No more, I tell you.

I dream of falling lights and burning books. I dream of fighting wars with myself and with you and with all of us. I dream of slaving slaves and dying in chains. They want our souls. There is hope. There is life beyond this. You must find it. I must find it. I let myself forget what it means to be an American. So did you. No more, I tell you.

I spit in the face of tyranny. What can it take from me? For I believe in liberty; let freedom ring. Even if the bell must toll for me, let it be. I am free. While I live I will always be free. I stand here today, an activist, an insurgent, a revolutionary patriot. I am American not because I was born in America. I am American because I claim the blessings of liberty and the rule of law. It is time for all of us to resist the government in Washington. It is time for us to tell them that they have overstepped their bounds. It is time for us to defend the Constitution from the vultures that pick away at it. It is time for us to tell them: no more wars of aggression, no more corporate bailouts at the people’s expense, no more executive orders, no more lies, no more meddling in the affairs of the world, no more worthless paper money, no more spending without restraint, no more debt for us and our children, no more market manipulations, no more of this, no more I tell you.

It is time for us to tell the government that any law that is repugnant to the Constitution is null and void. It is time to remind them that “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.” It is time to let the government know that we retain our right to alter or abolish this government for the people and by the people.

“This is a continuation of a revolution. It is a peaceful revolution. It’s up to you to spread this message around this country. This is an American cause. It’s the cause of freedom. There’s something going on in this country, and it’s big. Spread the message. Thank You.”