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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumscan someone help me find which speech this is and the original, unedited feed?
it's obviously edited, but I don't know which speech it is.
anyone know?
the President's been edited.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=564598203649075
thanks
mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union, representatives of our NATO alliance, distinguished guests, we meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build. Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve the inevitable conflicts between states.
And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle, through war and enlightenment, repression and revolution, that a particular set of ideals began to emerge, the belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose, the belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding.
And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men, and women, are created equal.
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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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/transcript-president-obama-gives-speech-addressing-europe-russia-on-march-26/2014/03/26/07ae80ae-b503-11e3-b899-20667de76985_story.html
It is edited to say this. His remarks are the exact opposite of this edited/spliced speech. It was in Brussels
MrsBrady
(4,187 posts)thank you
bigtree
(85,992 posts)Video of a speech made by President Obama talking about new world order and "how ordinary men and women are too small minded to govern their own affairs." Obama is also alleged to have said "order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all powerful sovereign."
The Truth:
This is real video of a speech made in Belgium by the president on March 26, 2014, but it was edited and its meaning was taken out of context.
In the first part of the speech the president says:
Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union, representatives of our NATO alliance, distinguished guests, we meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build. Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve the inevitable conflicts between states.
In the second section of the speech the president continues:
And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men, and women, are created equal.
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.
A full transcript of the speech can be read on the Washington Post.
The entire speech:
bigtree
(85,992 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)President Obama Keynote EU Speech in Brussels (FULL Statement) March 26th, 2014
Posted in the BOG:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110224195
Thanks for bringing this up, the edited version did not do it justice!