AK Rockefeller - Passport
Channel: AK Rockefeller
Date: 2011-08-03

"To leave a country is like breaking out of jail, and to enter a country is like going through the eye of a needle. Am I free to travel? Only with a passport!"

THE WORDS:

A: And what's that you're reading?

B: Karl Marx

A: Surely you're not a communist.

B: Do I have to be a communist to read Karl Marx?

A: Well, if you're not a communist what are you?

B: Nothing.

A: Nothing?

B: I dislike all forms of government.

A: But, somebody must rule.

B: And I don't like the word "rule".

A: Well, if we don't like the word ''rule'', let's call it ''leadership''.

B: Leadership in government is political power and political power is an official form of antagonizing the people.

A: But my dear young man, politics are necessary. 

B: Politics are rules imposed upon the people. 

A: Ha! In this country rules are not imposed, they are the wish of all free citizens.

B: Travel around a bit, then you'll see how free they are.

A: But you didn't let me finish...

B: They have the free man in a straight jacket and without a passport he can't move a toe. In a free world they violate the natural rights of every citizen. They have become the weapons of political despots. And if you don't think as they think you're deprived of your passport. To leave a country is like breaking out of jail, and to enter a country is like going through the eye of a needle. Am I free to travel?

A: Of course you're free to travel...

B: Only with a passport! Only with a Passport! Do animals need passports?

A: Have you finished?

B:: It's incongruous that in this atomic age of speed we are shut in and shut out by passports.

A: If you'll shut up and let somebody else talk!

B: And free speech, does that exist?

A: No, you've got it all.

B:  And free enterprise? Today it's all monopoly. Monopoly is the menace of free enterprise

A: In the first place... Now I've forgotten what I wanted to say

B: And the atomic bomb!

A: Ahhh...

B: Its a crime that when the world cries for atomic energy YOU want to make atomic bombs. You want to wipe out civilization, destroy all life on this planet. You and your kind think that atomic bombs can solve all [of] your problems.

A: Listen, you little rat!

B: Today man has too much power.

C: ...Gentlemen?,... Outrageous!...These investigations, sir, are necessary when our security is threatened.
D: Ay! That's communist talk!

B: Only with world cooperation and understanding are we secure

C: if you were older, sir, I'd report you to the authorities.

B: All right, report me! Make me give names. Make a sniveling stool-pigeon out of me. Brainwash me. But you can't. They couldn't brainwash the signers of the declaration of independence and you can't brainwash me!

... That's why my father came to America, to give air and sunlight to his thoughts. The land of the free and the home of brave was his inspiration, but today that freedom is threatened. Committees are searching men's minds, are controlling their thoughts. And those that have the courage to stand up for their rights are boycotted, lose their jobs and are left to starve. They are condemned without trial. Such procedure debases the legality of our courts which says that no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, freedom of speech without due process of law... 

The monopoly of power is a menace to freedom.... If civilization is to survive we must combat power until the dignity and peace of man are restored.

C: What's the meaning of this?

D: I'm sorry gentleman for this unfortunate occurrence.