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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 48
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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LOUIS FARRAKHAN -- 03/14/96
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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has been awarded
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"Newsmaker of the Year" by the National Newspaper Publishers
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Association. He spoke, at a dinner given in his honor by that
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association, on March 14, 1996. The speech was broadcast on C-
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Span that same day. The following are excerpts from his talk.
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[Farrakhan had recently returned from a trip to Africa and the
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Middle East.]
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[...continued...]
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You don't know, America, unless you've travelled! And if you've
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travelled and *seen*, you can't keep your mouth shut if you're a
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human being, with moral consciousness.
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I'm not anti-American. This is the only country I know. I was
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born here. With all America's faults, there's not another country
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like this anywhere on earth. And I said this in the *heart* of
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those persons who don't like America. I said, "If I spoke like
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this in this country or any other country, I probably wouldn't
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live tonight." But I can speak like this in America. That is
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America's saving grace: freedom of speech, because we can correct
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her when she goes astray. We pay a price for it though. Oh yeah.
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Oh yes. But you have to be willing to pay the price.
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This is a ship, a great ship. But her rudder is gone. And she
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needs guidance. If she doesn't get right guidance, this great
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nation will go the way of those nations before her, that died of
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an internal rot. There's no nation outside of America that can
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destroy America. America's destruction is coming from within! And
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she has been set up already and made *ripe* for a takeover. Why
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shouldn't I be able to *say* this to the American people!?
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You are like masturbators, playing with your sex organs while
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your *world* is going to hell! Should not somebody tell you!?
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What's *wrong* with the preachers, what's *wrong* with the
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teachers, what's wrong with you that your government has gone
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astray and you can't say it? And if I say it, I'm an
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"unpatriotic", "anti-American", "cavorter with dictators".
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That's awful. That is awful.
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I got up, after the Million Man March, and I had no desire to
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speak anymore. I looked in Newsweek magazine, and I saw a
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caricature by a cartoonist. He had the tomb of Martin Luther
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King, Jr., and on that tomb, "I have a dream." And then a
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caricature of Louis Farrakhan, "I have a scheme." "The dreamer is
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dead. The schemer lives."
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What is the subtle message there?
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Mr. [Carl] Rowan writes, "Farrakhan is a curse that just won't go
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away." Will you now *send* me away?
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Brothers and sisters: this is a dangerous time. And that's why
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the NNPA [National Newspaper Publishers Association] should be
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applauded. Because they had the courage to make Farrakhan "Man of
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the Year". People call you and say, "Why would you do that? He's
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controversial." But I heard there was a big argument in the
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boardroom of Time magazine, because they also said *there* that I
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should be "Man of the Year", at Time magazine. They said, "How
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can we do this?" [laughter] So Newt Gingrich won out. [laughter]
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(I *heard*. I don't really know that that's true. It's *rumors*,
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you know. And you all print rumors. [laughter] So print *that*!)
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I'll be finished in a second.
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I became so despondent after the Million Man March. I wanted to
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be quiet, to know what I should do next. And I went out into
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Arizona, in the desert, and I became quiet and I prayed and I
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fasted. And the Spirit told me to get up, and leave the country
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immediately, and go to Africa and make a world day of atonement.
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Go to the Middle East. Go to those countries that are under
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sanction and see the effect on the people.
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You live in America, and that is a great blessing. Because you've
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never suffered one city to be bombed. Only we, the blacks in
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America, have experienced bombing [sic]. In Oklahoma, and in
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Philadelphia. But as a rule, Americans have not suffered like the
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peoples of the world. You can look at war stories, but to live
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them... You can go and see the devastation of cities like
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Sarajevo, Mogadishu(sp?), and Beirut: once beautiful cities,
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levelled because of civil war, civil strife. But you have not
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seen that, except of course during the rebellions of '64, '65,
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'66. And after Dr. King was assassinated, in '68. We rose up, and
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burned down neighborhoods. But in the Rodney King situation,
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people were thinking a little differently and there was serious
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devastation. But by and large, the American people are very
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blessed. Very, very, very blessed.
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But when God told me to get up and go... I didn't hear a voice; I
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don't want you to think that I heard a voice now. I didn't hear
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no voice. It's just the Spirit. And when the Spirit moved me to
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do that, I got up.
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And usually a trip like that will take 6 months to plan -- and a
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*minimum* of 3 months. It was planned in *3* *weeks*.
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And brother, in the middle of the planning, President Ab-
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Acha(sp?) of Nigeria sent an emissary to me, to ask me if I would
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come to Nigeria. And I said on one condition -- two conditions:
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that there be security (because I didn't want to take a chance
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and get assassinated in Africa). And secondly, that I must be
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allowed to speak to Chief Ab-Eola(sp?), I must be allowed to
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speak to the opposition. And within 3 days, I got word back that
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my petition was granted.
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And so we included Nigeria on our world tour. Now when you *read*
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about it, they'll make you think that I only went to Sudan,
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Nigeria, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. "Thug-fest".
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Well let's see all the thugs that were in that fest.
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We landed in Ghana. (President Rawlings(?) is very respected in
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these circles these days.) And we had *serious* talks, private
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talks, about Africa, about democracy, and about Nigeria. I wanted
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his opinion. And I got it.
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From there we went to Liberia. War-torn Liberia -- which is
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produced of America. And yet hundreds of thousands of lives have
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been lost, and America hasn't done anything; the United Nations
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hasn't done anything. Not anything.
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We visited Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Libya. (I gotta say something
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about Khadaffi.)
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Members of the press, look: When the Million Man March was over,
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I got a call from President Khadaffi. I was surprised. He was so
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excited, I couldn't even recognize his voice. When he calmed down
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(and then he spoke through an interpreter), he said words to this
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effect: he was so impressed with the Million Man March, that he
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would put the wealth of Libya behind the Nation of Islam.
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Now that's what he said. And I *know* the CIA has it, 'cause it
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was trans-Atlantic telephone.
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Now I went to Libya. Not "grubbing" -- looking. [laughter] If
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Khadaffi wants to grant us a billion or more dollars, some of you
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say, "Well I won't receive it." Well fine. But with America
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cutting back on *everything* that is meaningful to us... "Welfare
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reform", huh? Well then if Khadaffi wants to *grant* a billion
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dollars, for us to build homes... I certainly won't buy guns. You
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know my history, and you know the history of the Nation of Islam.
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We buy farmland. We set up schools, universities, factories.
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Isn't this what black folk need!? *Send* the money, Khadaffi!
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[applause]
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And listen: if there is a *legal* way to do it, I think I should
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receive it. (We don't want to do anything illegal. Oh no. *Oh*
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*no*. But we want to do everything *legal*.) And if he sends it,
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and I receive it -- you'll be the beneficiary. I don't need a
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billion dollars. But *we* do.
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We've got plenty of money in America. But that would help, to get
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something started. Can you think of what we could do with it? I
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thought to myself (honest to God), "The NAACP. That's my
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organization. They shouldn't have to be in debt. Not with what
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they've done for all of us." I would love to free *all* black
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organizations from white philanthropy.
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[...to be continued...]
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