January 5th, 1987
"It's real good to be with you today. Here, what should we talk about today? I made a little list...
How about AIDS, abortion, Iraq flag burning, drugs, crime, budget, PLO, Israel, terrorism, savings and loan, healthcare, Social Security, education, Soviets...
How about the H-Bomb, POWs, environment, prayer, corruption, homeless, unemployment, animal rights, gun control... Any others?
Well let's see... The USA Today says that we have 19 cities that have set all-time records for heinous crimes, meaning murder, armed robbery and this type of thing.
Here's an article that says one in every four people in the continent of Africa has AIDS.
Here's another one, it's full-page I kind of thought it was representative of 1987 America. It says states face record tax hikes, food stamp recipients hit an all-time high and we're on the brink of war and Reagan pledges swift action. Now let's see what else...
Just little statistics... People like statistics. I think we're all the time receiving some kind of poll that says America has never been better off and 89% of the people support President Ronald Reagan.
Violent crime is up five hundred and forty four percent, teenage pregnancies between 10 and 14 years up 553 percent, sexual disease transmission up two hundred and twenty six percent, unmarried living together three hundred and fifty three percent, divorces up 117 percent. Boy, we are in good shape, aren't we?
Well there is hope because in USA Today here is a half page ad that says Jesus is coming to all in the autumn of 1988... all right, Hallelujah!
Well now here's a newspaper article that says Singapore has a new card up its sleeve. It's an electronic ID that tracks its citizens, and they have a new debit card in Singapore... here's the article on it.
The new debit card requires everybody 18 years or older to register; they get a barcode ID card in which they can use credit and debit and it also has a electronic matrix - that's what they call, it the matrix - will include every government agency - from traffic tickets to school loans to paying your telephone bill to taxes - whether you're wanted for murder, whatever.
Whenever you use this card these agencies are checked electronically so if there is any kind of outstanding warrant against you the light turns red and you don't get your 10 gallons worth of gas or you don't get your groceries. It says here that the ID has a telephonic arrest warrant now where when the agency sees on the computer that you are at the 7-eleven and you haven't paid your traffic ticket or your parking ticket and they simply dial the 7-eleven and say hold this person under arrest until the authorities arrive.
Well I got one a little bigger, I blew this one up, this is right out of Time magazine. You see, everybody believes Time magazine. Mikhail Gorbachev is Time Magazine's man of the decade and they give you some kind of electronic Tracey watch if you take time, so I know that all of you are subscribers.
So there in Time magazine it says "Peddling Big Brother". It says underneath that foreign governments are snapping up surveillance systems that are produced in the West, and here's a women showing her bar coded ID card, which, just like in Singapore, in Thailand, 16 years of older you're required to register. This also will serve as a credit or debit card...
Well, let's turn now to proposed reforms of the United Nations. This is a government printing document, let me read you what it says under the title of "Committee to Frame a World Constitution". This is the preamble to the "World Constitution", I'm just going to read the last couple of lines here.
It says quote, "The age of nations must end. The governments of the nations have decided to order their separate sovereignties into one government to which they surrender their arms".
What do you think George Washington, James Madison, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson and those others would have thought about this kind of a preamble, to the new constitution? Those are treasonous and they are fighting words in those days, they ought to be fighting words today.
Huh, but here's a nice ad that if you haven't seen, it you will. This ad was in Phoenix, it's going around the United States, and it says, "Imagine Being a Citizen Under the New World Order". And do you know who the keynote speaker is? It says here that Dorothy Nelson, judge for the ninth district court of appeals, is the keynote speaker.
This symposium is presented as a public service, which means they don't have to pay for this ad, by the United Nations Association, the Baha'i faith, co-sponsored by the global interactions and World Federation Association, and it says here "imagine a global society filled with solutions".
Oh, what are some of the solutions? Well, this one just came like two days ago. It is to all who owned an automobile in Arizona.
This is from the State Farm Insurance Company... how many of you have State Farm? Here, I see some of you do. So if you're in Arizona you've already got this because here's what it says: it says "...the Arizona House bill 2098 requires insurers to provide policy owners with a special identification card which can be scanned by optical character recognition equipment. This endorsed scannable card must be presented in order for you to register your vehicle once a year".
Well, what does this all mean?
It means that the legislators, not just in foreign countries but here, in the United States of America, are betraying us. They are betraying our interests, our beliefs, and they are attacking the very voters that landed them where they are today.
I remember the oath of allegiance that I took and the oath, when I raise my hand to the square, was to bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America, to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
That does not mean covering up for my bosses wrongdoings. That doesn't mean shredding documents. It doesn't mean lying before the United States Congress.
And this is why I have decided to run for the Senate seat in this great state of Nevada. As your senator, I will remain honest, firm and committed, with the integrity that I have displayed throughout my life. I will be the voice of the people of this state.
A vote for me, Nevada, is a vote for you!"
-An excerpt of a campaign speech given by Bo Gritz, senate candidate in Nevada