[This is the text of Robert Spencer's address at the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland Texas on Sunday, May 3^rd, just hours before two Moslem terrorists were gunned down trying to murder the attendees.]

A very good friend of mine told me right before I left for this event that - you're just poking them in the eye, you're trying to provoke them.  You know, why are you doing that?  You're the one that's being offensive.  And this was a friend, you know, and I was kind of taken aback.  And I had to stop and think - well, what exactly is wrong with that?

And what's wrong with that is that this is only offensive because Moslems have made it offensive. 

Okay, so we have to not draw Mohammed, because that'll poke them in the eye and offend them.  And then we have to not be Jewish, because that will poke them in the eye and offend them.  And then what?  Okay, I guess pork and alcohol are out.  Okay, and then what?

The Islamic State - the Islamic State is beheading people and taking sex slaves, and subjugating the Christians under the hegemony of the Islamic law.  And they're doing it all on the basis of Koranic directives.  And so that's all Islamic.  So I guess we can't say a word about that.  Because that would poke them in the eye and offend Moslems.

You see, step by step by step, we're ending up going in the direction of accepting Islamic law.  Let's put it this way: Every Western media outlet that refuses to publish the Mohammed cartoons is accepting Islamic blasphemy law.

I say it's time for a little cultural self-assertiveness.

Time is a continuous, objectively measurable forward movement. We measure it with the rising and setting of the sun, the orbit of the earth about the sun, and the tilt of her axis relative to that sun as we make our way about it, giving us the changing seasons.

While the mechanics of time in a basic way are well understood, our experience of time and our relationship to time is complex, and can hold the key to our experience of life itself.

It turns out that we all have a  relationship with time and our life that is very personal, and over which we have a good deal of control, which can change our experience of life and our level of happiness dramatically.

Did you know that Slow Joe Biden is up for re-election?  Yes, he's running simultaneously for Vice-President and the Senate.  You'd think it would have to be one or the other.

He's not campaigning much for his seat, as his Republican opponent is some right-wing small town attractive housewife no one every heard of.  Does Christine O'Donnell remind you of anyone?

Christine may become known as the Sarah Palin of Delaware soon, once the two join forces at a campaign rally in the Blue Hen state.

As you read this, every Republican House and Senate candidate in the country is begging for Sarah to campaign for them.  There's no way she has time to help out all but a small handful of House hopefuls, so she'll be concentrating on the Senate's.

For very good reason.  As Vice-President, constitutionally she'll be President of the Senate.

The next morning, Cortez assembled the Cholulan caciques, commanders, nobles, and priests, together with the Tlaxcalan commanders, in the freshly swept courtyard.  Mounted on his horse, he had the Mesheeka ambassadors standing on one side, and Malinali on the other.  Behind him were arrayed his officers, resplendent in polished armor, and a contingent of Totonac warriors led by Mamexi, all in their finest feather headdresses.  Cortez began speaking to the Cholulans sternly:

"Two days ago, the king of Cholula was guilty of a great treachery, which he and his followers paid for with their lives.  The entire city of Cholula deserves to be destroyed for this treachery, and your enemies of Tlaxcala wished to do so.  But you are subjects of the Lord Montezuma, and it is out of my respect for him that I will forgive Cholula.  I will pardon and forgive Cholula on one condition:  that the Cholulans make peace with Tlaxcala.  Nobles and leaders of Cholula:  have you chosen one among you to now be your king?"