To Celebrate Snowden's Russian Asylum Request, Here Is Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" Speech Submitted by Tyler Durden on 07/12/2013 10:53 -0400 It is surprising how things change diametrically in 30 short years... From the Ronald Reagan address to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983. It was C.S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable “Screwtape Letters,” wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now…in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is…not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result, but it is conceived and ordered; moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Well, because these “quiet men” do not “raise their voices,” because they sometimes speak in soothing tones of brotherhood and peace, because, like other dictators before them, they’re always making “their final territorial demand,” some would have us accept them at their word and accommodate ourselves to their aggressive impulses. But if history teaches anything, it teaches that simpleminded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom. So, I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority... I urge you to beware the temptation of pride–the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire , to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. ... I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last–last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man. Yes, change your world. One of our founding fathers, Thomas Paine, said, “We have it within our power to begin the world over again.” We can do it, doing together what no one church could do by itself. Isn't it ironic that 30 years later, those who refuse to " remove themselves from the struggle between right and wrong, between good and evil " and those " who speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority " are forced to seek asylum in... the Evil Empire ? Average: 4.421055 Your rating: None Average: 4.4 ( 19 votes) Tweet !-- - advertisements - -- - advertisemen Login or register to post comments 9725 reads Printer-friendly version Send to friend Similar Articles You Might Enjoy: Snowden Requests Russian Political Asylum Snowden Withdraws Russia Asylum Request; Nine Countries Deny Application Ronald Reagan's 1981 Christmas Address Paul Farrell Explains Why America Needs An "Evil Plan" In Advance Of The Next Revolution Presenting The "Evil Empire's" Projected Debt
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