Ty Bollinger: We conclude with this telling 71:39 quote from Bobby Kennedy which he made during his acceptance speech when we gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award in December 2019 here in Nashville.
Bobby Kennedy: People 71:50 talk about big government and how it's a threat to democracy and it is, it's a bet(?) on.
Government can spy on you, as our government is 71:59 doing to us today. That when it can torture people which is something America never allowed, when they can read our mail, and store our emails, and do all this stuff. When you know, everybody knows, it is a danger, and the biggest danger from the beginning of our country's history; the perception under our most visionary beloved political leaders was, that the bigger threat to American democracy was 72:28 outsized corporate power.
Thomas Jefferson thought like how to make sure 72:33 corporations could not get charters, because he said, they are eternal, they have no soul, and they will grow, and they will overwhelm democracy. And if you let them form with ease, you know our - it's limited liability charters, we will regret it and our democracy will not survive.
Andrew Jackson said the same thing based on fighting the banks to try to make sure that the banks could not get their charters.
Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, said that American democracy would never be destroyed by a foreign power, (? because) we're too big and we're too powerful, but he said, it would be subverted by malefactors of great wealth who would undermine it from within.
Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, his most 73:23 important and famous speech ever on my birthday in 1960, as he was leaving office and my uncle was coming in, he gave a speech in which he warned America against a domination by a military corporate industrial complex a unity of corporate and government power.
Abraham Lincoln, founder of the Republican Party and the greatest president probably in our history, at the height of the Civil War said: "I have the South in front of me and I have the corporation's behind me and for my nation I fear the corporations more. And
Franklin Roosevelt said during World War Two that the domination of government by corporate power is quote "the essence of a fascism". And
Benito Mussolini and insiders with that process said 74:14 essentially the same thing, he complained that fascism should not be called fascism, it should be called corporatism, because it was the merger of state and corporate power.
And today you know, we, we are in, we are living at what they warned us about there's a just a, there is a seamless unity between CDC EPA HHS or FDA
HHS the regulatory agency and the vaccine companies. And they have turned Americans into commodities. And we have to understand it as a nation and that domination of business by government is called communism, domination of government by business is called fascism. And our job is to walk that narrow channel in between and keep big government at bay with our left, with our right hand, keep big business at bay with our left and walk down that road of free-market capitalism and democracy and in order to do that we need to,
we need a public as educated, understands the science, that understands all and appreciates all the milestones of tyranny, and that is willing and ready to stand up and defend the values of our country and our culture and our children's health at what the individual cost to ourselves. And I know everybody in this room is already in that category. Our challenge now is to go out and find all the other people. People, men and women of goodwill in this country who if they understood what we know would be with us a 100 percent and we need to take back our country our children's health and our democracy. So thank you very much.