Independent Americans on the Offensive

by Dan Hansen (Nevada)

Speech given at the Barbecue of the IAP National Conference, July 14, 2001, Kearns (Salt Lake City), Utah.  Dan Hansen is a former State Chairman of the Independent American Party of Nevada. 

It's tough to follow Will Christensen [the previous speaker], an infernal optimist. I enjoyed listening to the speech by Joel Skousen [an earlier speaker] today, and that was right down my alley. Well, you know, the Lord is a great missionary and I think Joel's on the right track, to tell you the truth. Because there's no atheist in a fox hole. So I think when things get tough, like he suggests, that we might have some more recruits.

In the meantime, he's provided us the common man, with the common man's "urim and thummin" today. Everybody has access to it. Its the Internet. You can get all the information in the world off the Internet. And a lot of this information is being spread out. People are taking part and getting involved. There is a tremendous revolution going on.

There's a tremendous revolution against the income tax, for example. Millions of people simply are not paying anymore. Morale is down in the IRS, and collections are down 98%. There is a lot of good news out there. And there's a lot of good wisdom on the Internet.

Doctors and Guns

And I picked this up off the Internet, and my son-in-law sent it as a letter-to-the-editor. He says, as a local businessman and a father of six children, I find the following statistics significant. 

Subject: Doctors and Guns.

There ought to be a law. Number 1.

Number 2. Number of physicians in the US: 700,000.

Number 3. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year: 120,000.

[4] Accidental deaths per physician: 0.171 -- from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

[5] Number of gun owners in the US: 80 million.

[6] Number of accidental gun deaths per year: 1,500.

[7] Accidental gun deaths per gun owner: 0.0000188.

[8] Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

[9] Remember, not everyone has a gun, but everyone has at least one Doctor. [laughter]

[10] Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. [laughter]

[11] Remember guns don't kill people, doctors do! [laughter]

Natural Man

Well, let me ask you a question. What does it take to stink? No effort at all, you sit around for two or three days -- everybody's going to stink. It takes great effort to be clean. Alright, so people tell you its only natural -- to do what your mother's been fighting for years to get you to be unnatural, to be clean. We have to shower. We have to shave. We have to use deodorant. It takes great effort to be clean. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

These civilized efforts take a great deal of effort. You go out and you plant a garden. And you get the finest soil and the finest seeds, and you put them in, and you plant them in the garden, and you walk away for two or three days -- and the weeds come up naturally. Don't they.

Well natural man is an enemy of God. We know that. And the natural condition of man throughout the history of the world is the condition of slaves within the institutions of government. First, they are slaves to their own natural prejudices, proclivities, and ignorance. And then they are slaves to pharaohs, and kings, and dictators, and emperors, and con men. And so the natural condition of man is to be a slave.

Comfort and Slavery

Now there is no worse a slave than those who believe they are free. Are we free? Well, when over 50% of our income goes to the government in the form of taxes -- we have less income than the serfs did during the feudal days. But we're still very comfortable. Still very comfortable in the position we're in.

Now let me tell you about the "Swine Principle." My son raised a bunch of grandkids out on my farm. He had apple trees everywhere, with apples falling everywhere. And he got a little pig. And this little pig ran around the farm free eating all the apples he could possibly eat. And the kids were grooming it, petting it -- and it was the best friend -- and they went swimming with it in a little pool of water we had there. For sure, that little pig was in hog heaven -- right up until the time my son butchered it.

Now we have to be very concerned that we know the difference between comfort and slavery. And I submit that when the presidents of the world -- whether its Bush, or Reagan, or Clinton, or the son of a Bush -- who are going around the world, giving hundreds of billions of dollars away to foreigners. And they are sending the IRS tax collectors to Reno, Nevada -- against the little waitresses who are struggling to make a living -- to intimidate them, to make sure they pay every last nickel that they make in gratuities to the IRS. That makes us tax slaves to the world, I don't care how comfortable you are. So, one of the conditions of servitude is slavery. Now one of the reasons is -- and I'll tell you another story.

Folly of Conservatism

You've heard about the Conservative dog. Remember, that was Newt Gingrich's dog? He was Conservative, and he was very loyal to Newt Gingrich. And they went out hunting and they got lost. And Newt Gingrich, being a very resourceful politician in that sort of thing -- and they had no food, they were in a desperate state. So he cut the tail of old Conservative off. And he cooks it up, and eats it, and has a nice broth in the meat. And when he's still cooking this dog tail of old Conservative, he takes the bone and he passes it around to old Conservative. And Conservative eats it up hungrily. And then he went and licked his masters hand in gratitude afterwards. Well, that's what a conservative is.

You can never win a war unless you're offensive. Remember that -- unless you're offensive. You can't be conservative. You can't win a football game being conservative. You can't try to be comfortable and conserve the status quo. If you want to have freedom, you've got to go and get tough. You've got to go after the enemy. We can't be conservatives. We've got to quit calling ourselves conservatives. The very meaning of conservative condemns us. We are Independent Americans, so what are we trying to conserve?

Okay, for those concerned, Phyllis Schafley, a wonderful women -- but she wasn't on Air Force One the other day. Because the conservatives in Congress, and the Republicans that conserved Bill Clinton -- and now we have Bush in there. And he has -- who's on Air Force One with him? Hillary! Hillary's flying around with Bush -- the son of a Bush.

So what have we done? We have conserved everything the Clinton administration had. Bill Clinton proposed a 1.65 trillion dollar budget. And Bush proposes nearly a 2 trillion dollar budget. Who's the greatest socialist? Who's' the greatest threat? Its alright, because he's conservative. What's he conserving? He's conserving the New World Order. He's conserving the destruction of America. He's conserving the tax structure that is destroying our families.

On the Offensive

We don't need to conserve anymore. We have to restore the Constitution. That can only be accomplished when we have an offensive attack on the enemy. We go after them in such things as the United Nations. We go after the "government" school system -- it is not the "public" school system. The government can't indoctrinate without its school system.

Now the odds are against us. How many of you expect to win when the odds are against us in a stacked deck. Oh, well, you expect to win? Okay, I like it. Independent thinkers. Independent Americans. Alright, you've got a monopoly in government schools. A monopoly in the political party system which allows no choice. Its controlled. Its regulated. The results are predictable. And no matter who gets in there, its the CFR and socialists. So that's control. They have a trillion dollar budget. Trillions of dollars they spend out there to keep people in the system locked in. Everybody has got a piece of the pie. Everybody is taking the bait. Everybody is on the hook.

So, socialism is popular. They're in control of the government school system. They're in control of the news media. They're in control of the entertainment industry. Where aren't they in control? And, so to people, the standard in America today is look: Its socialism. That is the standard. And if you want to get elected, you come out there for all of the socialist programs. Who can best administer the socialist programs? -- is what all the debates are about.

So how do we get elected? We have to split the votes. Because there is still a moral minority. There's a moral minority -- no moral majority -- its a moral minority. So we have to be audacious. We have to go on the attack. We have to stand up for our principles. We have to do like we did in Nevada. We are fighting the IRS in court. We are fighting the legislature in hearings. We are fighting in the political arena. We are fighting the BLM, Social Security system, OSHA; and we're fighting the election laws.

We're fighting in the legislature with a full-time lobbyist -- Janine [Hansen]. We fought the ERA. We fought Con-Con. We are fighting them everywhere. We are on the attack. And believe me, we're purists. We are not conserving anything. We are on the attack, we are audacious, we are on the attack, we are Independent Americans.

Independent American Spirit 

Now in the moral minority, you might get in the position where you are as ridiculous as Mark Faux. Where is Mark? Yeah, he's ridiculous. The only idiot around who walked in a parade by himself [with a Votescam poster] -- all by himself. Now I know you're an idiot. Mark, that's exactly the spirit we need. He's on that attack. He's on the alert. He's passing out literature. Whether its by himself, or with a group, or whatever -- he's not going to give up. He's going after.

Now this is the kind of spirit of an Independent American. This is the sort of thing that I come over here to get inspired by. This is what we need. This is what we are. We are on the attack. We don't care what the odds are. In Nevada we say, "My gosh, isn't it great. Its easy. No matter which direction we shoot, the enemies there." [laughter] And when we get a letter from the IRS we say, "Hey, alright. Its a chance to attack again. Go after them."

Today [in Dr. Frank Creel's speech] we got a new spin on Malachi. Now Malachi, said they would turn the hearts of the children to the fathers; and unless this was done, there would be a great curse brought upon the land. Now we all got a new insight to that scripture today. Our hearts are being turned to the fathers -- the founding fathers, we are talking about. We don't need to discover anything, or invent anything. We just have to rediscover what they have already done and follow suit.

Christ said over and over again, Uphold my law. Uphold my law. Uphold my law. That's what we are doing in Nevada, and it is powerful. You take his law to the IRS, and expose their fraud for what it is, and they shake in their boots. Uphold the law of God. Uphold the Constitution. Put forth boldly. That's what we have to do -- turn our hearts, and the hearts of our families and our people back to the fathers. And eventually to our Father in Heaven. That was a brilliant insight. By the way, watch that wonderful movie "Amistad." And that's the final theme in the final part where they went out to the hearts of their fathers to overcome this great evil.

Now there was a war in heaven before we ever got here. There must be opposition in all things, Otherwise, there is no existence. So I anticipate, when we get up to the other side, there is going to be war going on there. Now you should have some hope there.

You heard about the Catholic and the Baptist -- went up to heaven, and were getting a tour of the golden city there with St. Peter. And they said, what's out in that window over there? And he said, oh, that's Hell over there. Can we go look? Well, yeah. They went over, the Catholic and Baptist, and they looked out there, and asked, what did you say this was? And he said its fire and brimstone. And they said, it doesn't look like that. So he walked over there and said, let me look, let me see. My gosh, its all green, and beautiful and pretty. So those damn Mormons are irrigating again. [ laughter] So wherever we go, we're going to make our own heaven. [laughter]

So the point is, there is going to be irrigation. There is going to be battles going on in eternity. God didn't create people like Moroni and Joshua for nothing. We are in an eternal battle against evil -- and, you know, if you ever thought about how privileged we are. I remember when I wanted to be in a school play. I didn't make it. I wanted to be in that play, but I didn't make it. The other kids, they got to be on the stage. They got to be in the play. And we're in the biggest play in life. This is the battle of life. This is what life is all about -- the eternal struggle between good and evil.

Battle for Freedom

And we're on the point of the spear. We are the Marines here. We're on the point of the spear, and we understand the game, and we get to play a significant role. We can have our voices count. We can write our letters-to-the editor. We are here to fight, and stand up. How glorious. What an opportunity this is. So don't be discouraged. We're the few. The valiant few. The privileged few -- who have the opportunity to be Independent Americans in this great battle. To be on the point of the spear. "And should we die before our journeys through, happy day! All is well!

But in the meantime. I like the Pattonian Principle better. We were told by Patton, "Nobody ever won a war by dying for his country. He made the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." So we are going on the attack. We're going out to destroy the enemy. We're out there to make victory. And what do we have to battle with -- The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth! And know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Well, as Independent Americans, we have achieved a great state of freedom. And we have no fear. "Do what is right; let the consequence follow. Battle for freedom in spirit of might. And with stout hearts look ye forth till tomorrow. God will protect you; then do what is right."