It did take some searching... but only about 30 minutes... so to find the context for the video, which has in part... But those ideals have also been tested, here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others and that individual identity must be defined by us versus them, or that national greatness must flow not by what people stand for, but what they are against. You had to find... washingtonpost/world/transcript-president-obama-gives-speech-addressing-europe-russia-on-march-26/2014/03/26/07ae80ae-b503-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html Now it is ironic that his speech was all about freedom, while at the same time he is working for laws that restrict and limt the very freedoms he talks about in the context of this speech.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 03:49:20 +0000
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