Press Conference 1/26/06

Drive Out The Bush Regime

How long will it take for the people of good will and intent to stand up for truth and justice? How much more hypocrisy, in high places will the people of spiritual persuasion need to see before they are compelled to act out? How much more duplicity and obvious lies of Supreme Court nominees and other presidential appointees, pretending to be fair and balanced will it take before we will demand the whole truth that a three year old can see clearly but which seems to confound senators? How many more American lives will it take? How many maimed, physically and emotionally for life? Another 2,000 dead, 50,000 wounded; maybe 40,000.00 more Iraqis dead? And then IRAN? North Korea, The Congo? And other African Land Reformation Nations? I'm here speaking to the good people of America, the conscious people, those who profess to believe in the dream. How long will it take?

I don’t even bother to ask this question of those of you who believe that this nation and its western minions have some God given right to the resources of other nations, those who believe that white might, makes right! But just as those citizens of Nazi Germany, whose hands were not directly murderous, have not escaped the judgment of history; neither will we who do not act vigorously to Drive Out This Terrorist Bush Regime and all regimes that despoil life. How long will it take?

History speaks to us through my ancestor, Frederick Douglass "Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.”

"This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” The Environment can't wait, Peace Can’t wait Freedom Can’t wait. MAAT Can't Wait, Truth, Justice, Righteousness, Propriety Cant Wait.

The World Can’t WAIT! Drive Out The Bush Regime!!

1/26/06 Rev. Richard Meri Ka Ra Byrd