As I begin my presidency, I want to thank you, the nation, for putting your trust in me. The risk is tremendous. I can think of no president disliked by the powerful and the wealthy as I am.

You have spoken. You had courage to finally vote for a candidate with the pride to say what needs to change. You realized that playing it safe by not voting for someone outspoken has limited your freedom, made you afraid and increased the distance between what the upper classes have and what the middle and lower classes earn.

I expect my presidency to be a successful one. I have always believed politics to be a noble endeavour and that there can be nothing more noble than a dynamic president fulfilling his oath to the constitution and the people of this nation.

America, I feel, is in a crisis as great as the Civil War and as great as the Depression. We too are in danger of civil war. We are in danger of a depression.

But our greatest crisis is our lack of civil liberties and the fear and mistrust we Americans have toward one another. If we had more civil liberties and were not under surveillance, perhaps our fear and mistrust of one another would decrease. I will do my best to put the fear into our police beauracracies that they put into you.

I will need your support when I do this. While I am pushing for a more free America, the America Jefferson hoped would evolve into and Lincoln died for, you need to be trusting each other more, fearing each other less, telling congress the Patriot Act and Department of Homeland Security must be abandoned.

You must be less greedy. You must engage each other more, demand your children be free thinkers and not consumers of fashion.

Our times are times of fear. America progressed from a theory of liberty in the 1700s to laws of equality in the 1800s. In the 1900s ours was a Golden Age of Prosperity.

It is our prosperity that makes us fear one another, that allowed us to be duped by leaders. When you voted for me, whether you knew it or not, you admitted prosperity has made Americans soft, that we are slaves to our worst passions, that now you want to be free.

I believe in freedom more than anything. It kills me we have so little of it and did not mind watching it erode. I hope I, you, we have the courage to continue this great risk my election symbolizes, to if necessary, pay the ultimate price.

Freedom means that those who have it live the divine spark each of us is born with. We have lost that spark. Now we will fight to regain it.

I pray we succeed, that this age of fear becomes an age of wisdom and freedom, that we are beginning a golden age of rapport, courageous activism and unshakeable faith in our future.

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