The Death of Free Speech and Individualism
In the New World Order of America
by Edgar Steele
[Speech to Council of Conservative Citizens in Atlanta on June 22, 2002.]
July 30, 2002
Thank you -- it is an honor to be invited to speak to you.
I would like to talk about a few cases I have handled for politically
incorrect clients, then show how they fit together and really are simply
symptoms of something far more sinister -- something that will profoundly
affect every single person in this room; indeed, throughout America
today.
First, Say the N-word, go to jail...
Lonny Rae's wife, Kimberly, was assigned by the local paper of a small
Idaho town to cover a local high school football game in Nov. 2000. The
officiating was terrible, causing the home team to lose, some said.
Kimberly wanted pictures of the referees to go with her story. After the
game, Lonny went to their car and Kimberly waited outside the field
house for the refs. As they came out, she snapped a single picture. The
ref in the lead said "no." She shrugged, turned and started to leave.
Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind by that referee, a huge black man.
Kimberly called to Lonny, who ran up. The ref let go and went back into
the building. Lonny saw the welt forming on Kimberly's neck from the
camera strap, which was all that prevented the referee from getting her
camera and went ballistic. He walked up to the still-open door and
shouted down the empty hallway, "Tell that N***** to get out here, cause
I'm a gonna kick his butt." There was no response.
Lonny and Kimberly called the police and demanded that the ref be
prosecuted, but he never was. Lonny was, however, for a felony hate
crime, for which Lonny faced 5 years in prison.
At trial this past December, the judge threw in assault at the last
minute, after the close of evidence and over my objection that it was
not a lesser-included offense. The jury found Lonny innocent of the hate
crime, but convicted him of assault. The judge's sentence: 1 week in
jail.
On appeal, we are challenging the hate crime statute, as well as the
addition of the assault charge at the last minute (and beyond the
applicable statute of limitations).
The jury convicted because Lonny Rae was politically incorrect: poor,
white and on the wrong side of a racial insult.
Another case I tried just last month involved a young man and his wife,
whose children were taken from them by Oregon's Child Protective
Services while the family was visiting Grant's Pass. Allegedly due to
criminal mistreatment -- they were skinny and one girl had a small cut on
her forehead -- on an anonymous tip. Brian and Ruth Christine are the
young parents.
They refused to cooperate for several months, because they felt they had
done nothing wrong, so CPS said it would adopt them out.
The Christines were home-schooling Christians. At trial, the state made
a big point of there having been a copy of the Declaration of
Independence taped to the inside wall of the converted bus that served
as the family's home.
The Christines took their children back at gunpoint and fled the state.
They were tried for kidnapping, robbery and other, lesser, charges. The
wife received 7 1/2 years and the husband 12 1/2 years, primarily because of
a conviction on the robbery charge (not guilty on all kidnapping
charges).
We are appealing the main charge now -- robbery -- which shouldn't stand
up in the face of Oregon case law which says one cannot be convicted of
robbery merely for taking something which is used in the execution of
another crime. You see, Brian took the state car the kids were in at the
time and drove it 2.1 miles, where he left it unharmed, keys in the
ignition.
Again, these folks were politically incorrect: poor, white, vegetarian,
home-schooling Christians.
A similar case I was briefly involved with last year involved a widow
jailed for allegedly mistreating her kids. They were in a highly
publicized one-week standoff with sheriff's deputies in the county where
I live in Idaho.
JoAnn McGuckin lost her kids and her home. She was "anti-government,"
yet they scared her into dropping me just as I was hot on the trail of
the property sale (a parcel worth upwards of $500,000, which sold for
about $50,000 to the East-Coast sister of a local developer, all because
of just $8,000 in back taxes).
She was politically incorrect, of course: poor, white, vegetarian, home
schooling and distrustful of government.
The last case I want to add to this discussion is one I tried two years
ago for Richard Butler, founder and head of the Aryan Nations in Hayden, Idaho.
Late one night, three "guards," really borderline derelicts that Butler
allowed to stay on his property in exchange for yard work, off duty and
drinking, went off Butler's property against his direct orders, after
two people they believed had just taken a shot at the buildings in the
dark, shooting out the tire of their car and running them into a ditch.
Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center came to town for what
the judge insisted was "just another personal injury case." Right! This
was a free speech case -- they were out to silence Butler, pure and
simple.
You simply don't get more politically incorrect than Butler, of course.
Because of that, though plaintiffs had no medical bills and no claimed
property damage, the jury awarded $6.5 million against Butler.
I had never lost a case at trial until I got involved with these
politically-incorrect cases -- they all opened my eyes to the prejudice
of judges and juries. The politically incorrect quite simply can't get
justice in America today.
The Aryan Nations case, especially, marked me. So much so that every one
of the other clients thought twice about having me, though I was working
pro bono on every case. JoAnn McGuckin, of course, decided not to, yet
lost everything anyway.
These cases are why I have become known as the Attorney for the Damned.
The Aryan Nations case was my real albatross. I have been professionally
executed because of it. Every time I go to court now, I am
disadvantaged.
The "Ghosts of Mississippi" was a film about the shooting of black civil
rights activist Medgar Evers and the ensuing prosecution and
conviction in 1994 of Byron De La Beckwith. De La Beckwith had been
tried twice in the '60s -- both hung juries. It took a change in the
times to convict him. A change in political correctness.
This Rob Reiner film depicted the heroic prosecutor, Bobby DeLaughters,
in the person of ultra-liberal actor, Alec Baldwin. In the time leading
up to the trial, the prosecutor's family members were threatened by
white supremacists, so he sent them away. That never happened. It was
particularly ironic to me because it did happen to me in the Butler
case, however.
My little children received death threats from a woman with a decidedly
Jewish accent. I received many death threats, among them one from Mark
Wiles, lead henchman for Irv Rubin's Jewish Defense League. You can go
to my web site and hear them for yourself, because many were left on our
answering machine. I sent my family away for several weeks prior to that
trial and slept with a .45 automatic, which I carry with me to this day.
All these cases that I have mentioned have in common politically
incorrect defendants, usually poor, always white, usually out of the
mainstream in one way or another.
Any time we go to court with one of these cases, the deck is stacked and
the State is dealing from the bottom. Not that it needs to, what with
all the aces it has shoved up its sleeve.
The defendants are always losers going in, due to media vilification and
judicial bias. Note that they all involve political conservatives,
usually Christians, often home schoolers, always white.
Freedom of speech and religion are both on their way out, along with
individualism.
The Kennedy Federal Hate Crime bill, killed in the Senate last week,
will be back.
Bush and Ashcroft have declared their critics to be traitors and warn
the rest of us to watch what we say.
The media is totally under the control of the politically correct today
- the "inner party," if you will.
Orwell's fantasy has become the media's reality, as whites are depicted
as stupid and racist, while blacks are both noble and witty.
Homosexuality is a desirable lifestyle, Christians are narrow-minded
bigots and Patriots are traitors.
The war to preserve our freedom requires, first, the canceling of our
liberties, as Bush and Ashcroft are doing.
The term "media" used to mean an honest newspaper, serials on the radio
(remember Boston Blackie on Tuesday/Friday nights and Big John and Little
Sparky on Sat mornings?) and, especially, books! Everyone read them.
Today, reading is reserved for tabloid newspapers, People magazine,
romance novels and the TV Guide.
Used to be, Dad worked and mom was home with 2.7 kids. Today, they both
work, are usually divorced anyway, and their one child sits home alone,
watching TV for hours on end every day.
Used to be, everyone read and wrote well. Now, even teachers can't
spell.
Today, it's the entitlement mentality of socialism, with the centralized
control of everything and everybody.
Today, it's the overriding control-freak outlook of fascism.
Used to be, we had rights.
Today, we possess only privileges, dispensed at the pleasure of our
federal government.
A coup is taking place -- and right under our noses.
The Patriot Bill was passed by Congress without even being read by any
legislator.
In just the last couple of weeks, the Supreme Court has extended rulings
that erode due process beyond even the woefully-named Patriot Act.
Recent FOIA changes implemented by Bush have put most public documents
out of reach.
Very recent executive orders put still more public data out of reach,
marked as "sensitive, but unclassified."
The Feds are pushing the States to adopt the "Model State Emergency
Health Powers Act," which will 1) give government unprecedented data
collection on citizens (even by wartime standards), 2) allow the control
of any and all private property, 3) ban firearms altogether and 4)
quarantine cities. All that government has to do is declare the mere
existence of a bioterrorism threat.
Seven state have now passed the Emergency Health Powers Act; only 3 have
rejected it. How long before that is made irrelevant by it being the law
by Federal edict?
Even before 911, last July, HR 2459 proposed the creation of a
cabinet-level "Secretary of Peace," and outlined the means whereby,
essentially, the collapse of America's constitutional government was
effected, to be replaced with a militarized socialist government. There
are those who say that has been accomplished today via the Department of
Homeland Security.
Tomorrow's legal system will be like today's child custody courts. While
we debate the merits of military tribunals, far worse takes place as
family after family is ripped apart by courts...sitting without
juries...closed to the public...with sealed records...no right to
cross-examine or, even, confront accusers...no right to present evidence
other than that offered by the State...where you are guilty until proven
innocent and there is no way to prove your innocence.
Tomorrow's thought control will look like today's hate crime laws.
Tomorrow's police state has already been established in our airports.
Tomorrow's property rights will go the way of today's rural cleansing --
especially with Federal zoning.
Tomorrow's Christians are already here, helping to ensure their own
destruction.
Religion must go; indeed, it is already subservient to the State.
Family must go, with government taking its place as parent to all
children.
The individual must go; with all aspects of life being government
dictated.
There will be no real art or literature, as a result of the dumbing down
of Americans.
No entrepreneurship; big business only.
No private wealth or, even, cash; just electronic credits and debits, so
it can be controlled at every turn.
We've always looked out for the UN and Russia and China and, now, the
Arabs as the boogeyman. While we were out making a sandwich during the
commercial break, however, a coup took place in America.
Today, we have a dictatorship with only the illusion of democracy; with
not even a pretense of Republic anymore. The judiciary makes law. The
executive rules absolutely. Legislators simply steal, from the top of
the heap for the new priesthood: money and lawyers. Lawyers are the
privileged class and are destroying America.
The New World Order is here and it's now -- it is America. The UN isn't
coming. "They" aren't taking us over...we are taking over the rest of the
world. America writ large, but no Bill of Rights.
Equality, diversity, welfare and tolerance don't work and are merely
tools to effect the coup now underway.
The system is broken -- irretrievably broken. It can't be fixed because
it won't be fixed. We can't work within the system any more to effect
meaningful change because the system won't allow it.
As a lawyer, I'm inside the system. Everyone says the system is broken.
You don't know how bad things really are.
I take these cases to make a statement. No way can I change things. What
I can do is use a politically-incorrect case to show how bad things have
become. Along the way, I get tarred and feathered along with my clients.
But, this I can do. Therefore, I must do it. And I will. Until the
system decides to dispense with me, as it does with every lawyer that
represents politically incorrect causes and clients.
I can only take on a tiny fraction of cases that come to me. So many
individuals whose only crimes are poverty -- or Christianity -- or
conservatism -- float by me all the time, doomed to be sucked under and
devoured. They are the flotsam and jetsam from the shipwreck that our
society has become.
Meanwhile, the great masses of our countrymen who have not yet become
tyrannized are living on borrowed time. They continue to rearrange the
deck chairs on a ship which hasn't yet fully sunk. They are the ones to
whom I am shouting.
Racial issues are a great overriding concern of our times -- a concern
that so many pretend don't exist and refuse to discuss.
It is not racism to oppose affirmative action.
It is not racism to challenge quotas.
It is not racism to want to live with one's own kind.
It is not racism to be concerned for the future of white children.
It is not racism to promote America's founders.
It is not racism to be a patriot.
It is not racism to be a Christian.
It is not racism to be a conservative.
We have suffered affirmative action due to a false sense of guilt about
the treatment of blacks we never knew by whites with whom we have
nothing in common except skin color.
We didn't realize we were merely trading places with those that had been
discriminated against in the past.
We have endured the spectacle of renaming schools, streets, buildings
and parks after blacks, replacing the memory of our founding fathers
with those whose primary contribution to America society is their skin
color.
Not one of the founding fathers has a holiday named solely for himself.
Martin Luther King, Jr. does, though. We know why.
We have witnessed the Confederate flag stricken from public venues. Now
we see the beginnings of the Stars and Stripes being labeled a mark of
oppression.
We saw a statue of modern American heroes, 3 firefighters forever
captured in a photograph, raising the American flag over the WTC ruins,
mongrelized in the name of diversity, whereby two of the 3 white men
were displaced by a black and a latino. We know the truth.
Schools teach to the bottom of the classes, then keep lowering the
standards so that students appear as smart as ever. We know why.
Nobody left behind means nobody out in front. We have sacrificed our
children to a false sense of guilt in pursuit of intellectual equality
that will never be achieved.
We suffer massive levels of crime that did not exist even 30 years ago,
overwhelmingly at the hands of "people of color." Though our media and
government do everything possible to skew the statistics, we know who is
to blame.
Blacks commit 7 times the violent crimes of Whites and are only 7% of
the total population. Do the math: Blacks are 50 times more likely to
commit violent crime than the average white.
In the last 30 years, 45,000 have been killed in interracial murders,
overwhelmingly black on white. Almost as many as the 58,000 Americans
lost in Vietnam and much more than the 34,000 killed in Korea . There is
a war raging in the streets of America as we speak here today.
School shootings. We know why.
Victim mentality. We are tired of the whining.
Massive immigration without assimilation. No longer the melting pot, now
the potluck free lunch.
Billions of dollars for welfare, food stamps, school and medical care
for illegals, paid for by us, though many of us can no longer afford to
feed our kids properly.
Some of us haven't seen a doctor in years because we haven't the money.
Some of us qualify for welfare, but we are too proud.
We can't afford to send our kids to college, the same college that
provides free tuition and living expenses to those whose sole
qualification is their skin color.
We spend trillions to hold countries that hate us in check, while many
of our own live in poverty.
We can't watch TV or read newspapers and magazines without having "hate
whitey" (aka diversity) thrown in our face at every turn. Of course,
fewer and fewer of us read as a result of the illiteracy engendered by
the failing social experiment that America has become.
We endure the dismantling of Christianity and its removal from every
public edifice.
We see our pastors stand idly by, often lending a hand to those who
would replace Christianity with other religions.
We prohibit the mention of Christ in our schools, yet our children are
instructed in Islam and homosexuality.
Movies and TV depict an America that doesn't exist...that never existed,
except in the wishful thinking of warped leftists, sexual deviates,
cultural communists, globalists and other assorted control freaks.
Terrorist attacks and more to come, yet we pretend not to know why.
Because we continue to be the world's bully. Because America does the
bidding of others.
We have betrayed our grandparents and theirs before them. We have
squandered our birthright and our heritage. We sacrifice our children
upon the altar of political correctness.
This is not the country we grew up in. Not the society that formed us.
Not the future we were promised.
We have become strangers. Strangers in our own land.
Every place must be the same today, as dictated by those who would be
our masters.
Life comes in one size now, dispensed largely through the TV set.
We deserve better.
We demand better.
We deserve to be left alone, to live without interference.
We deserve to be different from others.
We deserve to not be taxed to advance the agenda of others, which has
nothing to do with our best interests and actually seeks our
destruction.
It is time to stop being strangers in our own land -- an increasingly
strange land.
Hopeless? Not entirely.
I can't advocate a violent revolution or I would be disbarred. But,
that's exactly what Jefferson, Washington, Paine, Adams, Franklin and
Hamilton would do today if they were still among us.
There are far too many lemmings and too few real patriots for a
revolution, anyway.
What I advocate is being prepared and awakening others to what is
coming.
What is coming? Not worldwide empire, American style, despite the best
efforts of the inner party and international banking interests.
What's coming is America's comeuppance; in fact, that is likely planned
as part of the attempt at empire.
I think it likely that it will go badly for the NWO crowd and,
consequently, for America .
But that will create an opportunity we don't currently possess -- an
opportunity to start over.
America worked once as a constitutional republic. It can work again.
We are likely to lose territory as the US balkanizes along racial lines
-- SW to Mexico -- Deep South to Blacks, for example. It will be up to us
to pick up the pieces. For now, we must awaken the others.
New America -- an idea whose time has come. God help us all in the
troubled times that lie just ahead.
Thank you.
EDGAR STEELE
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