Alan Keys, Vs Alan Dershowitz

This was a debate I saw between Alan Keyes, and Alan Dershowitz. I am not ahuge fan of Alan Keyes, but when I saw this debate I belive the man is a brilliant debater!

The thing that's always intrigued me isn't how you get into slavery; it's how you get out.

You see? And the reason that I am wary of all these folks coming forward now and saying, "I wish there were unalienable rights! I wish there was a God who guaranteed all this," and so forth and so on, is that wishes don't encourage people to brave death against slavery. But the firm belief in God surely did. I know, we like to pretend that the people who were in the underground railroads, and all these folks we talk about during Black History, and so forth and so on . . . we forget that Mr. Dershowitz ridicules the idea of people who hear the voice of God, and go out and do stuff--a lot of those folks who were braving death and danger talked to God everyday, did exactly what He told them. And what He told them to do was to go out and risk everything, in spite of the fact that they had nothing and were former slaves themselves, in order to bring people out of bondage.

The weird idea that someone who stands up and respects the Founders' belief that we needed a tribunal beyond human power that would guarantee to every individual, whatever their power, the courage and encouragement to stand fast in their human dignity--the idea that that notion has some resemblance to fanaticism or tyranny or oppression or Khomeini or anything else--shows how far some people are willing to go in order to score points when they don't have a point.

The truth of the matter is that the people who braved the dogs in Selma came from churches where they prayed beforehand in order to do so. And I will look at the example of those folks who have been through every kind of fire, who have been through every kind of deprivation, who have been through eras when they have had less than nothing, but who were able to hold on to the kernel of their human dignity because they knew it did not depend on the voice of their slave master, on the money of the beneficent liberals, it depended on God's will and God's judgment, and as their dignity came from His hands, no human being could take it away.

I will stand with greater reliance on that ground than I would on the ground that Alan Dershowitz is offering. Because I admit that, you know, a bunch of clever lawyers like Mr. Dershowitz, as O.J. Simpson proves, can probably get you out of anything.

But I warn you . . . I warn you . . . . deliver yourself again into the bondage that comes from allowing human power to lay claim to you in the absence of a divine power, and no argument by clever lawyers will get you out of that. Thank you.