{"id":2118,"date":"2017-02-27T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2017-02-27T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:34:31","slug":"hear-sheriff-clarkes-cpac-speech-extolling-virtues-self-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/hear-sheriff-clarkes-cpac-speech-extolling-virtues-self-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Why YOU should hear Sheriff Clarke&#8217;s CPAC speech extolling the virtues of self-governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Delivering closing speech at CPAC around 3:30PM ET<br>\nI will not fail to deliver. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xUWf1UHlwH\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xUWf1UHlwH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheriffClarke\/status\/835543520513560578\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0At CPAC last week, thousands of conservatives gathered to celebrate the election of Donald Trump and talk about the shared values that make America great. \u00a0But one speaker, Sheriff David Clarke, went beyond the common ways that conservatives are united now, and explained what originally made America great.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Frank Luntz <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4682090\/frank-luntz-america-relationship\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>, \u201cIf there is one thing Democrats, Independents and Republicans agree on \u2014 and there is, in fact, only one thing \u2014 it\u2019s that it\u2019s time for a new relationship between the citizenry and their government.\u201d \u00a0We agree, and so \u2014 apparently \u2014 does Sheriff Clarke. He said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">And once we have tasted it, we can\u00a0 never have enough to be sated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cA piece of freedom,<\/i>\u201d said the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., <i>\u201cis no longer enough for human beings, nor for the nation\u2026Unlike bread, a slice of liberty does not finish hunger. Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible \u2013 we have it all, or we are not free.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">And at it\u2019s core, as a conservative, I believe with all my heart that in furtherance of the common good, Freedom means: You decide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">You.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Your family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Your household.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Your neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Your small town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Your State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">And, yes, in those few matters of national scope, Your Nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">But to cede, as a matter of simple course or expediency, to cede those powers too quickly or injudiciously to Washington DC is just wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">And it always has been.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>\u201cSo we have come to a time for choosing,\u201d <\/i>said President Reagan<i>. \u201cEither we accept the responsibility for our own destiny, or we abandon the American Revolution and confess that an intellectual belief in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">How refreshing is that simple concept, that we who run our lives know the course of our own destiny better than some Congressman from California, or Judge from Joplin, may know it, sitting in a mahogany-paneled office in Washington making the decisions that can undermine all of our best efforts?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">And how refreshing to see a return to that respectful thought, of the importance of self-determination, and a turn away from the conceit that was its predecessor, on Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I can\u2019t tell you how much I enjoyed the Sheriff\u2019s speech, and how I want every single American to hear it again and again. \u00a0Self-governance is the key to this nation\u2019s future. \u00a0Thanks, Sheriff, for the reminder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Listen to the whole speech by clicking CONTINUE:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-r8LJgpsLk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop what you&#8217;re doing right now and listen to this speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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