We gather today to remember those men who sacrificed themselves so that we may live. I am proud to say that I knew some of these heroes like Robert J. Mathews and the other Bruders. I am honored that I was able to serve with them.

Twenty-three years ago many of you were young children. Some of you were not even born yet. I agreed to join with Robert Mathews and the Bruders because we wanted to do our part to make the world a better place for you. Some may question our methods and means, but I assure you our hearts were in the right place.

Unfortunately, the world we left to you is a worse place. Thousands of our brave, young men are sent to fight and sacrifice their blood in foreign lands for goals that are not our own. Our jobs are sent overseas while those jobs that remain are not paying decent wages because some third worlder who slithered across the border is willing to take your job and work for peanuts. Millions of our people cannot afford to own a home. They have no health care and both Mom and Dad are required to work in order to pay the rent and put food on the table. Their credit cards are maxed out and along with most of us; they are up to their eyeballs in debt. Many are a paycheck or two from living on the streets. All this time the suits at Halliburton and Big Oil companies are counting all their shiny pennies. They could care less that Euro folk birth rates have declined and are continuing to decline. As long as more immigrant workers pour into the country and continue to breed us out of existence, they are happy. In the process we have been reduced to less than 50% of the population in our own country in our lifetime. It has already happened in five states in the U.S., including California and Texas.

We will not enjoy the same standard of living as our parents and grandparents. The post World War II slogan of our grandparents’ day, “A house, two cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot,” is now, “A crowded apartment, a clunker at the curb, and a package of microwavable Ramen noodles.”

My friends, some of us refuse to settle for second best. We come together today to remember our Martyrs who gave their all so that we might live. Let us honor them by each of us resolving to give something of ourselves. You come from Noble blood. You have the ability to lead. Robert Mathews was a simple man. He didn’t aspire to be a leader nor to gain fortune and fame. He truly wanted only to farm his land and raise a family. But he saw that something needed to be done and did what he felt was best at the time.

Look around you. These men, these women gathered here are your brothers and sisters. Get to know one another better. Network with each other. I am not encouraging you to engage in criminal activity, nor declare war on the government. Rather, I want you to pledge to assist one another with finding employment, with providing childcare, or with finding shelter. Help lift one another up and avoid the in-fighting and other activities that cause dissension and serve only to divide us and bring us down. Extend a hand to pick up your brother and sister. Empower one another. Educate our Folk. Teach them of our Noble past and rich heritage. Work together to build better tomorrows. I am grateful that you have come together on this day to remember our true heroes. By your coming together, I know their sacrifice was not in vain. Knowing that you remember to honor our fallen, serves to make my incarceration all the more bearable, and my meager sacrifice seem worthwhile.

By ones and by twos,
By scores and by legions.

May we be united with single purpose and resolve to make this world a better place for our children.

I remain dedicated to the Folk and pledge myself to honor the 14 Words.

Richard Kemp