- This is the text of of Mr. Steele's speech given at
annual conference of Council of Conservative Citizens in Atlanta, Georgia
on June 22, 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 Grants 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 years and the husband 12 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 60's - 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 Tue/Fri 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
which erode due process beyond even the woefully-named Patriot Act.
Recent FOIA changes implemented by Bush has 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 Sate...where you are guilty until proven innocent and there is no
way to prove your innocence.
Tomorrow, 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 overÖwe 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 existÖthat 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.
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