Viral video: 'Fight with me to take back America' You have got to watch this US retired Army Officer give his take back America speech!
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charges for using shock interrogation tactics to protect his soldiers
in Iraq.
Taped at the Revolution Nightclub in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in
October, the video captures West giving supporters a taste of what it
must have been like to prepare for combat in Iraq with the lieutenant
colonel.
"It's OK to come out here and cheerlead," he told the enthusiastic
crowd. "But you've gotta get your butts out there and understand
there's a fight – and you'd better be willing to fight for this
country."
Recalling the oath he took as an Army officer to support and defend
the Constitution, West said "there's no statute of limitations on that
oath, and, tonight, everyone of you needs to take that oath."
Calling 2010 a defining moment for the nation, he cited Thomas Paine's
famous "times that try men's souls."
"If you're here to shrink away from the duties, there's a door. Get
out," West said. "But if you're here to stand up – to get your musket,
to fix your bayonet, to charge into the ranks – you're my brother and
sister in this fight."
West said Americans need to gather together and "start talking about
restoring our liberty and fighting back against a tyrannical
government."
Recounting his own story of being raised in inner-city Atlanta by
lower-middle class parents, he stressed America offers equal
opportunity, not equal achievement.
He pointed out he received an education and earned a commission in the
Army, where he served 22 years, "not because the government came down
and tried to make the rules and change it for me."
"We cannot live in a country where the government sits around and
tries to design results and outcomes," he said in the taped speech.
"Every time they try to do that – Everyone has a right to own a home –
how does that end up? Everyone has a right to health care – how does
that end up?
"The Constitution says promote the general welfare, not provide
welfare," he said. "It is about setting conditions for our success."
West said big government has produced an entitlement class,
exemplified in a widely viewed video clip during the 2008 presidential
campaign in which an Obama supporter exulted that if the Democrat won
the White House, he would put gas in her car and pay her mortgage.
"If we are not willing to take a stand right now and take this country
back and put it back on the right track with the principles and values
it was established on, you're complicit," West said. "It's your
fault.
"It's your fault," he continued, pointing to different sections of the
auditorium. "It's your fault up there."
West, who captured 45 percent of the vote in his Florida swing
district in 2008 against incumbent Democratic Rep. Ron Klein, says his
positions on the economy and national security are resonating in South
Florida. And while he received no support from his party last year,
the National Republican Congressional Committee has identified him as
one of its most potent recruits.
Allen West leading a briefing in Afghanistan in 2007
As WND reported in 2003, West was threatened with court martial for
tactics he used to flush out information from an uncooperative Iraqi
policeman. Threatening to kill the Iraqi if he didn't talk, West fired
a pistol near the policeman's head, producing an immediate flood of
information that purportedly led to the arrest of two insurgents and
cessation of attacks on West's 4th Infantry Division battalion.
In an interview during last year's campaign, West told WND his
controversial ordeal in 2003 – during which he drew support from
congressmen and many Americans who regarded him as a hero – should
tell voters what kind of a lawmaker he would be, particularly when it
comes to issues of defense.
"If you're a bad guy, and you try to get between me and the safety and
lives of American citizens, you're going to lose," West said.
Army prosecutors charged West with aggravated assault, and he faced
the possibility of up to eight years in prison. At a hearing, West was
asked by his defense attorney if he would do it again.
"If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through
hell with a gasoline can," he said.
West eventually accepted a non-judicial punishment, the forfeiture of
two month's pay, about $5,000. He retired from the military and moved
with his wife, Angela, and two young daughters to Broward County,
Florida, where he taught high school. He served in Afghanistan as an
adviser to the Afghan army until November 2007.
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