Recently, with all of the violence in Egypt, Glenn beck has been doubling down on his rather apocolyptic predictions on what might happen. For instance, in this recent screed from his radio show he says this:
Now, then, Chris Matthews, a few days ago on Hardball, said that he had never seen anything like that said on TV. You must live in a different part of the country. For every Sunday for years, itenerant preachers have been putting out predictions of Armageddon starting in Egypt.
Here is Jack Van Impe from his Sunday morning program. A program 12 YEARS AGO..
Now I have been saying for some time that the Tea Party movement...the REAL Tea Party movement, was inspired not by people like Sarah Palin, but by people like Van Impe who have preached that these are the "Last Days" as predicted in Revelations, and that those who are with the Lord (specifically those who are straight, white, asexual, and conservative) have a duty to eliminate certain heathen from the earth to please the coming savior.
So with a date set (MAY 21st), some of those apocolyptic visions that Glenn Beck has been having might just come true...but they won't be from the left. It would be from the very teabagging, flag waving, Islam-hating, Xian warriors who hang on every word of Beck's and his cohorts on FoxNews, and in places like World Net Daily.
The tragedy in Tuscon has given rise to a mindset that certain media personalities have sparked a new anger in America that is resulting in Congresswomen, judges, and 9-year-old girls being killed at supermarkets around the country.
We go to December 19, 1994. Sarah Palin was still on the Wasila, AK city council, and Glenn Beck was still spinning the hits at KC101 in New Haven, CT. So they couldn't have caused this.
There are people, long before even this, who have declared war on their own country. They continue their sporadic assualts, in part, because America would rather fight well-known straw dogs, than fight their neighborhood butcher who may also be plotting a violent overthrow.
On May 31, 2009, abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was shot in the head by Scott Roeder. Tiller was at his Wichita, Kansas church when he was attacked.
Now if for any second you think this is just a small bunch of crazies just making noise, look at what they have already done:
Arizona Hispanics flee state in droves before new immigration law S.B. 1070 takes effect in July
BY Meena Hartenstein
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Hasta la vista! Reports are swirling that Hispanics in Arizona are fleeing the state before a controversial new immigration law goes into effect July 29.
The law, which has sparked a heated national debate, requires police officers to conduct routine traffic stops or other checks to ask people about their immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" they're in the country illegally.
Though precise numbers are not yet available, early anecdotal reports from local schools, businesses and residents indicate that Hispanics could be leaving in droves to avoid the law's impact, USA Today reported Wednesday.
Superintendent Jeffrey Smith of the Balsz Elementary School District, which is 75% Hispanic, said 70 students were pulled out of school following the law's passage April 23 and that parents said it was the reason they were leaving.
It is already having the desired effect. You see, we're not talking about Canadians or Europeans who might be in AZ illegally (about a quarter of a million Canadians alone are in this country undocumented). They want to get rid of the Hispanics.
The fear of a Brown planet in 2010 seems to have eclipsed the fear of a Black planet in the late 1900's.
Minorities now make up a fifth of Utah's population
Utah continued to become more ethnically and racially diverse last year, according to Census Bureau estimates released Thursday, and Latinos grew to account for 12 percent of the population.
The state's share of white, non-Latino residents slipped to 81 percent in 2009, down from 85 percent in 2000. So minorities made up nearly a fifth of Utah's population last year -- and a quarter of Salt Lake County's.
These latest minority estimates -- perhaps conservative, a leading state demographer says -- show a state continuing to look more like the nation of immigrants in which it rests, and where, in coming decades, a minority-majority population will recast how Americans define "minority."
Already the United States this year is, for the first time, experiencing more minority than white majority births, and Utah is about two generations behind but catching up, University of Utah demographer Pam Perlich said. The only way to stop the trend, she predicted, is to throw the state into a lasting economic slide. http://www.sltrib.com/D=g/ci_15272323
But fear of Mexicans is just the tip of the iceberg. White, middle-aged, born-agains are seeing their entire world go up in flames.
Radio stations they've listened to for ages now are in Spanish or Asian languages. The local KFC may now be a El Pollo Loco. Gays are not only marrying, but those unions seem to be outlasting straight ones.
People in their 60's are looking and acting younger. Every sexual more seems to have been accpeted as normal except incest and bestiality, and they seem to be next. Sweet songs of love have been supplanted with hard-edged tunes about fellatio and mastrubation.
America is no longer feared. More laughed at than anything else. Christianity seems to be losing out to Islam, Buddism, and even Scientology. Nothing is as people think it's supposed to be.
And on top of that.......on top of all that.......this great country is being run by.....one of.....them.
One of.......THEM.
Is it any wonder why, despite one of the most organized efforts to drive someone off the airwaves I have seen since the Smothers Brothers in the mid 1960's, Glenn Beck continues to to attract more than 2.3 million people. And his advertisers are not the usual bunch either. Gold coin sellers preaching that the only currecy that will be allowed after The New Troubles will be gold. Survival food distributors. The type of clients usually found on small market, ultra-rightest, the-illuminati-are-coming-to-get-you tak shows.
And it's more than that. Beck's 9/12 movement has become, indeed, a politcal machine. A machine that is beyond the control of the traditional GOP or even the Tea Party's queen bee, Sarah Palin. It is the baggers who control THEM, not the other way around.
And they seem to be ready to die for their cause. And kill.
The President has been strangly quiet about this. The reasons for that I'll let you assume for yourselves. The one question that can be asked here is....are there people in the United States, right now, who wish to conduct war on Mexico?
Man charged with threatening to kill senator David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Federal agents on Tuesday arrested and charged a man with threatening to kill Washington Sen. Patty Murray because he was angry about her vote in favor of the major health care legislation.
According to a criminal complaint, Charles A. Wilson, 64, of Selah, Wash., made threatening phone calls to Murray's office in Seattle from March 22, the day after Congress approved the health care law, to April 4. One recorded message said, "I want to kill you."
Wilson was charged with one count of threatening a federal official, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Murray is the fourth-ranking Democrat in the Senate and the highest-ranking woman in the majority leadership. Several lawmakers reported threats and vandalism after the bill passed.
"I hope you realize there's a target on your back now," Wilson said in a voice mail message on March 22, according to the complaint. "There are many people out there that want you dead." Another message said: "Kill the bill. Kill the senator, too."
The calls were made from a blocked telephone number, but officials said they obtained records showing the calls came from Wilson's home in Selah, about 110 miles southeast of Seattle.
In the complaint, Carolyn W. Woodbury, a special agent of the FBI, said harassing phone calls had been made to Murray's office over several months, but staff members had said the messages, often laced with expletives, had turned threatening.
Special Agent Frederick Gutt, a spokesman for the FBI in Seattle, said Wilson did not appear to have a criminal record and seemed to have acted on his own.
As this continues, one has to realize that this is more than a bunch of yahoos reacting to right-wing bloviators on Fox News. These people had declared war on what this country has become long before Rupert Murdoch ever set foot in this country.
This is why the day that Timothy McVeigh drove a fertilizer-filled truck into a goverment building and destroyed it is so significant. It was the opening shot in the war which mostly white, education and finacially challenged "patriots" hope will "return the country to them." A country where anyone who skin is darker than theirs would be a third-class citizen. Lesbians would only be good for driving UPS trucks, gay men would only do interior decorationg, blacks and Latinos would do our heavy work...all without complaint...and at the end of the day, say "yessim," and quietly dissapear into the woodwork. Where sex does not exist, and the pnly faith would be that based on a bizarre interpretation of the Holy Bible that seemed less like the Sermon on the Mount, and more like "Clash Of The Titans." In 3-D.
Until we realize that these people are not the creations of Fox News or large corporations, that the reason they are massing is that their worst fear has been realized....a non-submissive Black President....until we realize that, we will not be able to stop them.
And for the sake of our union, they must be stopped.
Say what you will about Glenn Beck, but there is no doubt to anyone that the man is one hell of a communicator. As he breaks down the actions and motives of Joe Stack, the man who flew a plane into the building that held the Austin, TX offices of the Internal Revenue Service.
The one thing as you hear his monolouge that it does not matter what your ideology is or his. He killed innocent people and that is wrong.
What is interesting to me is that, he says that "you don't want 'these kind of people' around you..." Then explain this....
Not only were you around them last weekend, Mr. Beck, but you were their keynote speaker.
But let's stay with the first part of Beck's screed, which was right on. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR KILLING PEOPLE. This morning on Good Morning America, Stack's daughter said this:
AUSTIN, Texas -- The daughter of a man who crashed his small plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service called her father a hero for his anti-government views but said his actions, which killed an IRS employee, were "inappropriate."
Joe Stack's adult daughter, Samantha Bell, spoke to ABC's "Good Morning America" from her home in Norway. Asked during a phone interview broadcast Monday if she considered her father a hero, she said: "Yes. Because now maybe people will listen."
Authorities say Stack, 53, targeted the IRS office building in Austin on Thursday, killing employee Vernon Hunter and himself, after posting a ranting manifesto against the agency and the government. He apparently set fire to his home before flying his plane into the office building.
Hunter's son, Ken Hunter, said he's alarmed by comments that the pilot was a hero.
"How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane ... and flies it into a building to kill people?" Hunter told ABC." "My dad Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad's a hero."
Bell said she offered her deepest condolences to Hunter's family. She said her father's last actions were wrong.
Now there are people of midsets left and right who have called Samantha Bell out on this. Actress Marlee Matlin, for instance (from her Twitter account)
In the note, signed "Joe Stack (1956-2010)" and dated Thursday, he said he slowly came to the conclusion that "violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer."
The problem I am having is that there are people who are now at the end of their incdividual and collective ropes. There are some who are seeing the lifestyle they have lived for so long change. The President is different, the government is different. Traditions thay have held on to for centuries, some right...many wrong, are changing. Nothing seems to make sense. People find themselves out of date, or not compatable with the world around them.
Then there are others who have never fit in....wanting what the majority have, but what the majority say that can never have, believing if certain things are accepted, the Wrath Of God would decend upon them (though in many cases, some of those same members of the Majority are actually misfits in stealth).
They have done the things that people have said they should do. They voted. They got involved. They were good citizens.
All for nothing.
When people get desparate, they do desparate things.
Joe Stack was not the first. I fear he will not be the last.
