Dexter Taylor: Thank you, Your Honor. I appreciate it.
Family, friends, and allies, and foundationalist and honored adversaries, today we enter the
next phase in the fight to protect our God-given rights from a government that wishes to take them from us and grant us mere privileges in return. To quote another patriot from
another place and time:
"This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. This is perhaps, the end of the beginning."
And so as we enter this new phase, there should be no question in the mind of any patriotic American as to why we fight. After all, only slaves lack the right to arm self-defense, and we are no slaves but free citizens of a great republic, and we contain multitudes each of us from builder, a healer, a teacher, a statesman, a soldier, a judge, and attorney at law a sergeant at arms, and an image of God. So, we know why we fight.
The question before us is how we must fight. What
kind of discipline we must bring with us into battle and
what spirit we must show to our friends and adversaries
alike, and by way of answering, we refer to our core
doctrines.
The foundationalist's manifesto calls us to listen
closely and to speak clearly. To deny the self at the same
time to defend the individual. To respect tradition and
also to cultivate the future. In short, as foundationalists,
we are called to embrace disciplines what seem to contradict
each other but, nonetheless, to embrace them with all of our
strength.
So, it is in our current fight because this
system as dysfunctional as it often is, as unjust as it
often is, it is, nonetheless, our system. It is a feature, not a bug, of our American civilization. Like any other structure built from man's crocked timber, it is not
perfect.
Judges and attorneys and trial courts and juries
in the light of day not are not perfect. Judges and
attorneys and trial courts and juries in the light of day
are merely what we have instead of the blood feud and the
vendetta and the dagger in the dead of night.
Knowing this, we give challenge even as we give thanks. Knowing this, we
prepare ourselves for battle in a spirit of profound
dissatisfaction and profound gratitude in equal measure.
That is the apparent contradiction we face as we
continue this struggle for the civil rights of our fellow
New Yorkers and our fellow Americans.
On the one hand, to hate this system, our system enough to fight it but on the
other hand, to love it enough, love it enough to think it's
worth fighting for. Nothing else will do for us but this
profoundly Christian habit of defeating a contradiction by
fully embracing both sides of it. So, when our adversaries
look for us, let them find -- to quote my Christian friend,
"A bee shiniest at a wasp's hostility."
Let us show them a soldier's intensity and diplomat's calm. Let our
adversaries find us stern in battle, patient in defeat, and
gracious in our ultimate victory, which is certain. In short, when our adversaries look for us, let them find reasonable men and irrational patriots.
When I was a boy, my grandfather told me that fire
is a great servant but a terrible master, and so it is with
Government. And to the extent that our own Government
attempts to be our master, we must oppose it. We must fight
to the utmost limits of our strength, but in that fight, our
spirit must be one of restoration, not destruction. We must
confront the enemy as the firefighter confronts his enemy, and for the same reasons that the structure itself may yet be saved.
God bless and keep you all, and may God bless the United States of America. Thank you, Your Honor.
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