I watched a video on Facebook recently that epitomized a long-loved quote of mine:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
-Edmund Burke-
In that video, a man named Dr Cordie Lee Williams triumphed for the good. I want everyone to hear what I did (my transcript of it is also available to read, below). Dr Williams, a retired US marine-turned holistic doctor, addresses heavily armed national guard outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento during a peaceful protest against Governor Newsom’s Lockdown on May 1st, 2020. He spoke on a dynamic level: honing in on his street-wise ex military cred (to better connect and release the tension between him and the guards) while eloquently and methodically speaking as a doctor who incorporates speeches and lectures into his practice. The informal yet compelling speech is what made this husband, father, and son an all-American hero and impromtu leader to the crowd that day. This is just what we need to ease our fellow citizen’s fear as it emboldens their hearts and minds in defence of their freedoms against abject tyranny.
I don’t know how many other non-polarizing patriots like Dr Williams who are out there in the world right now, but I hope this video encourages them to come to the forefront. These men—the ones with a spiritual and political backbone—form a new dimension of being on “the frontlines.” These individuals standing up for their communities brilliantly harness sound intellect and commonsense to expose generations of ideological dogma and complacency—and it’s waking people up. America has rested on her laurels for far too long. We so often forget that we stand on the shoulders of giants who planted the seeds before us, defending our crops from every beast and burden so that I —so that you—so that WE—can enjoy this cream of the crop free society today. Let us continue that and never ever take our liberties for granted: because they are not just merely inked on a 2D piece of paper gathering dust for the past 230 years, no, they are living and breathing in all of us and we must nurture and defend them everyday.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
So a couple of you guys left and a couple of you guys stood down, so the question is: are you going to stand down?
In the face of tyranny and the face of freedom are you going to sit there in your fight against peaceful protestors or are you going to say “You know what, it’s time to stand up for my country.”
Because I took an oath of office that said I would stand up to all foreign enemies—both foreign and domestic. You might lose your job--but I’d rather lose my job than lose my soul. Because what are you going to go tell your little boy or little girl tonight? That you took aside and crushed somebody’s skull--who was a mom? Is that what a tough guy does? That’s not what honor, courage and commitment means in the Marine Corps.
So the question is, do you say, you know we always have in the military, “what is a lawful order?” And you got to check your nutsack when you’re given an order and ask yourself, “is this a lawful order or a bullshit order?” And when something is a bullshit order and it doesn’t pass the sniff test, that’s when you say sergent, that’s when you say colonel, that’s when you say general, that’s when you say governor—“I’m not doing that, I didn’t sign up for that”. That’s what it takes.
So the question I want each and everyone of you to do is a nutcheck right now. And there’s guys over there that are lieutenants and there’s political gains happening right now and people are talking about people and there’s somebody over there looking at me with binoculars right now (sniper), God bless him, but what I want you to get is now is the time for you to decide what side of history do you want to be on. I’m serious, somebody’s gonna ask you that question. A bunch of people have video of everybody out here. It’s gonna be out there in the media, some of it is going to be fakes news. But there is going to be some of you that hit somebody, who threw pastor Jim down like a piece of trash—and he was just standing there—and that is going to be on your conscious. And so this isn’t a republican thing, this isn’t a democratic thing—even though Governor Newsom is making it that so President Trump doesn’t get back in the White House and we get sleepy creepy Uncle Joe back in there, right?
What I want you to get is this is a patriotic American thing, that’s what I want you to get. So the question is, you got a steady paycheck coming in but how many people right here, and pardon my language, are getting fucked right now? They’re getting fucked right now. And you guys are supporting that, endorsing that, by being here today and pushing people back with those batons, you’re endorsing that. You’re saying, “you know what, I’m ok with that. The guy up there with the creepy voice and the slick-back hair that wants to give $125 million to illegal immigrants-- you know, I’m alright with that. I’m alright with the fact that we can pounce on anyone that protests out here”—we were only here an hour and you guys were already starting to draw a line! And I get it, you guys are only trying to do your jobs but your job right now is to do a nutcheck. You’re job right now is to ask “is this ethical and moral?” And if it’s unethical and immoral then you don’t follow that order. It’s not constitutional.
I talked to my master sergeant that I have not talked to in 10 years yesterday. And this guy was an ’03 ’11; he did two tours in Desert Shield and Desert Storm and this guy is the most ethical guy I’ve had in my life and if he was a law enforcement officer he wouldn’t be standing up with a baton in his hand right now. He would be standing up to the people who were telling him to stand up with a baton in his hand right now.
What would it look like if you guys all called in sick the next time you got called to do this? What if you stood up with the Sacramento PD? I’m texting the Sacramento PD office right now and who said their time is needed and they said “we’re not taking anybody they arrest.” So, your own comrades are telling you right now something doesn’t pass the sniff test. Something doesn’t pass the sniff test. If the Geneva Convention says that I can’t kill somebody or shoot somebody with a weapon that is sticking up for their rights and religious freedoms then I kind of think the constitution of the United States says the same thing. I kind of think it says the same thing.
So, I would encourage you guys just to think about that right now. As nobody up here is maintaining their social distancing, that’s so interesting to me. Nobody. It’s so fascinating to me. People are talking in the background without their masks on but there’s no social distancing going on, it’s hilarious. So you have to see how ludicrous all this is and you guys are representing and endorsing that—everytime you stand up here, everytime you cash that paycheck, you’re saying “you know what, I’m ok with other people getting screwed and I’m ok with beating on childrens and mothers and moms and throwing a pastor on the ground.”
So, I hope everybody thinks about the guy in the backwards hat standing up on the podium tonight, and if you get a heart palpatation its called anxiety, you can call me, I’m a doctor, I’ll help you out. So, we’re going to have to do a lot of neurological releasing on the neurological turmoil you’ve been put through.. [unaudible, music, crowd starts clapping]
