Touched by the Freedom Lovers in Italy
standing side by side with you
RFK, Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci is #2 best-selling book at Amazon.
Recently he addressed freedom lovers in Italy. In this short clip, notice the grateful and loving faces yearning for freedom greeting him. Stay till the end of the short clip to see the size of the crowd. Humanity will not be conquered by totalitarian evil.
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.
― Vasily Grossman, in his great Russian novel Life and Fate
In this clip, again in Italy, Kennedy talks about dying with his boots on. “They are taking our rights and they will never give them back unless we make them…I will stand side by side with you. If I have to die for this, I will die with my boots on.” If enough people say no to evil, that won’t happen.
There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.
And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
One Italian freedom lover said, “The Green Pass is not part of the Italian Constitution and whoever signed it is a criminal. A criminal who is outside the Italian Constitution, whether he is a head of state or ahead of government.”
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.- 9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In other words, the idea of an all-powerful president terrified the Founders. James Madison clearly stated in Federalist 45 the limited powers of government: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined.” The 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution reserve powers not delegated to the people and states. The 9th Amendment is one of the most sublime expressions of freedom ever written, yet few know what it means. And so, many totally ignore the idea that rights are not granted by government but are embedded within each human being.
My grandparents left Italy in the early 1930’s to escape fascism and Mussolini. When they arrived at Ellis Island and saw the Statue of Liberty, they wept with joy and said freedom. Let’s hope the US remains. I thoroughly enjoy your articles and those by Bari Weiss.
It's touching and hugely important to see RFK, Jr. carrying on the principled, crusading work of his father. Many thanks Barry for this article that deserves a wide audience.