James Traficant's Last Public Speech

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“We’ve lost the country and it’s going to get worse. Now everybody up here talking different politics. I want to say one thing while I’m here. I know how they do things down there, what they’re doing, and what they’re thinking before they do it. For example, they did not want Barack. They wanted Hillary. They kept Gore out, they kept Kerry out, and said there’s no way this black guy with a Muslim name from Chicago is going to beat our girl. They didn’t want Barack Obama. And I’ll say one thing for him now. He has kept us out of war. And if you would’ve had Clinton or Romney your sons and daughters would be coming back in body bags right now. 

Now I want to say this because this gets really controversial. They wanted George Bush to initiate war with Iran so that when Hillary comes in she wouldn’t have the burden of the war, she could say I inherited it and I’m prosecuting it. They could fool these people. Can’t fool me. When they realized they may not be able to beat Barack Obama the Clintons took him to AIPAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee. They’re so powerful they damn near control Congress. In the late 80s, early 90s, they fired a top ranking woman, she gave a whistle blower’s account of their political activity. The top political target in the world was James Traficant of Youngstown, Ohio. . .I’ve been labeled an anti-Semite. And I certainly am not. But I will tell it like it is. Israel has gotten so much power they’ve started to control the election process in this country. It’s no good. Guys like me, I couldn’t raise a dollar. 

But I looked at our country. I looked at the misery. The unfairness. We’re all slaves. We’ve joined our black brothers from years gone by. We’re slaves to a tax system. Think about everything we’ve talked about. All these forms you’ve seen. . . Why do we have a sixteenth amendment? First of all, I’m not going to get into the legality. It makes no difference if it’s legal. Powers that be made it legal. We have the sixteenth amendment because when they first come with the income tax it was taken to the Supreme Court and it was stricken down. Unconstitutional. The founders did not want your personal industry, your labour, to ever be taxed. It was only supposed to be, what, the top 1 percent gonna be taxed? And all the little people, ‘Yeah, go get them,’ and every election, ‘Yeah, raise the taxes on the rich.’ What a joke. Those richest get more tax breaks after it’s over and you pay more taxes.” – James Traficant, an excerpt from his speech in the video below.

Video Title: James Traficant’s Last Public Speech. Source: Batr Sartre. Date Published: September 29, 2014.