Speech given April 12, 2013
 What makes the United States greater than any other county in history? If you had to say what was the difference between the United States and every other country in the world, what would you say? I say to you; what makes the United States great, what makes us different, what separates us from the rest of the world; is that the United States is founded on  we the people. What do you hear in these words, “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.” What about these words “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” I hear what President Abraham Lincoln knew when he said in his Gettysburg address; [we are a] “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” Today we the people must stand up and say once again no to that fact that American citizens are not been aloud their God given rights. Today we the people must stand up for justice, for life, for liberty and for our posterity. Today we the people must say no to the assassination of our own citizens.
    We are in a terrifying place in American history when we can assassinate our own citizens without due process.
    The 14th amendment of the US Constitution says “no state shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property (Pause) without due process of law
    Jonathan Turley, a Law Professor at George Washington University Law School said on Cspan that President Obama has just stated a policy that he can have any American citizen killed without any charge, without any review, except his own. If he’s satisfied that you are a terrorist, he says that he can kill you anywhere in the world  including in the United States.”
    We declared our independence from the king of England for many reasons; such as “he was depriving us the right to trial by jury, he suspended our own legislators and declared himself the power to legislate for us in all cases”.
    In 2011 President Obama authorizes the assassination of two US citizens, a US born AL-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awalaki and Samir Khan, who according to the New Zealand Herald “wasn't considered operational but had published seven issues of Inspire Magazine offering advice on how to make bombs and the use of weapons.”  Two weeks later in a separate drone attack, Anwar’s 16-year-old US born son was accidently killed. George Bernard Shaw stated,  “assassination is an extreme form of censorship.”
    Attorney General Holder stated in a letter to Senator Rand Paul dated March 4, 2013, "It is possible, I suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the President to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the United States." This statement was an answer to a question about using drones on US soil to kill American citizens. Senator Paul responded with "The U.S. Attorney General's refusal to rule out the possibility of drone strikes on American citizens and on American soil is more than frightening - it is an affront the Constitutional due process rights of all Americans.”
    Richie Warren in his article "Judge blocks 'kill list' memos" says, the attacks, carried out by unmanned drones, are controversial because, critics say, it appears that the administration may have violated the Constitution's requirement of separation of powers. The Founders sought to avoid a government in which one branch could wield the authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner
    We no longer can allow this injustice to deteriorate the morals and ethics of our great nation. Grover Cleveland said, “a government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and interest of the people themselves.”
    We as college student realize the importance of education; we must educate ourselves in regard to our rights under the Constitution. We must act upon our education for education without action is of no value. President Eisenhower once said, politics ought be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
    We must join our Senators who according to the New Zealand Herald, the Senators themselves [have taken] up the attack, complaining at being kept in the dark by the CIA, and demanding full access to documents setting out the legal basis for the President's "unfettered power" to order killings, especially of United States citizens.
    Just like our founding father we must rise up and declare that we will no longer stand by and allow the fabric that hold this great nation together to be trampled upon, that we hold dear to hearts what our four fathers where willing to die for. President Lincoln has said, “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men that pervert the Constitution.
       As we imagine how we change such a enormous government as ours, ponder these words: buy all the knowledge you can and sell everything you have for understanding of that knowledge

    Knowledge of our rights is a priority that can change our destiny.
    Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”
    George Washington Carver stated, “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
    The proof of understanding is how we put all of our great knowledge into practice.
    President Lincoln says, “The history of liberty is history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    President Nixon said, “We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
    Here is what we should do, don’t try to eat an elephant in one bite, eat the elephant one peace at a time.
    We can help other people become educated to this terrible loss of our rights.
    President Van Buren said, “There is a power in public opinion in this country and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers.”
    We can write, email or visit our President, Senators and Congressional Representatives and express that the assassination of our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, and children cannot be tolerated.
   

If we the people; the American citizens do not stand up for justice, for life, for liberty, for others; who will stand up for us. Remember we are a “government of the people, by the people, for the people, it is we the people that must stand up for our God given rights. Lets have the courage, the conviction and the fortitude of our founding fathers, to take a stance that says no more injustice for US citizens. Today I would like us to sign this petition that says to our government representatives that we are “one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” and no longer will we stand idly bye while our brothers and sisters our not aloud there right under the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson stated, “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.”