Glenn Beck (18:18)
I'm going to get into this a little later about the refusal to give them a trial. There's a lot of things in this country that this country does that we don't insist on a trial for American citizens. So we'll get into that a little later. But just comparing this lawful and constitutional act. He says that it's the Gestapo and we're sending them off to foreign torture chambers. That's a new one. I didn't. I didn't hear that one, did you? Are you aware of the foreign torture chambers we were sending them to? Stu? I. That's news to me. Then yesterday you have a U.S. attorney saying, quote, Today my office has charged Congresswoman McIver with violence of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111A1, for assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement. And what is Swalwell's reaction? A red line has been crossed. Trump is prosecuting his political enemies in Congress. This is just the beginning. We must Take whatever we've done before to show dissent and go one rung higher. And to save your BS Documents on this, you'll need them when you testify. Okay, let's take that statement. This is a representative of the United States of America. A red line has been crossed. Yeah, but I think we see a different red line. We see a line where people do not pay for their actions anymore, and they get away with anything. And especially if they're privileged, they don't ever pay a price. So a red line has been crossed. Um, nobody seems to pay for their actions, even though there are laws. We're a nation not of laws, but of men. Here's a woman decides she's gonna do what she wants. It's clear. It's on videotape. She now is being prosecuted by the doj, as everyone who breaks the law should be. And he says Trump is prosecuting his political enemies in Congress. Let me ask you something. Congresswoman McIver. I've never even heard of her. I've heard of the TV show, but I never even heard of her. He is not worried about Congresswoman McGiver. She is not an enemy of Donald Trump. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever. She's a nobody. Then he says, this is just the beginning. We must take whatever we've done before to show dissent. Okay, well, that has been a shooting at the President of the United States that has been stirring things up against SCOTUS and actually having one of your supporters go and try to kill two of the Supreme Court justices. We've seen you burn down Minneapolis. We've seen you burn down city after city. We've seen you rape and pillage cities. We. We've seen Portland, what you're doing in Portland. What is the next rung on that ladder? Successful revolution. We must take whatever we've done before to show dissent and go one rung higher. There is a storm coming, and you have to decide what side you're on right now. And it's not about politics. It's not. It's about what kind of country do you want to live in. One side. Donald Trump's side is talking about when America was great, but America wasn't great for everybody. We all know that. He knows that. But I think there's a better way to define that, and I think we should start defining it differently, because we need something aspirational. And aspiration doesn't come just from success. It doesn't come from money or any of that stuff. Where does inspiration come from? Higher Ideals. One side is saying we're going to get more violent. One side is saying we're going to take what we've done before to show dissent, which is not Martin Luther King. They don't believe in Martin Luther King anymore. I wish they did, but they don't. One says, we're going to do that. And the other says, well, here's what we're going to do. We're going to, we're going to make America profitable again. We're going to set things right. We're going to start charging people with crimes. That's all good. All of that stuff is good. But let me, let me lay out a another vision. What do you want your country to be like? I want a country where we all know that there is no ruler over the other. I don't care your education, I don't care your class. I don't care where you were born, how you were born. I don't care if you're from a foreign country or your people have been here since the Pilgrims or before. I don't care. I want a country where we're all looking at each other and going, man, you got a shot just as much as I do. Now, that doesn't mean that everybody is guaranteed a success. It just means that we all start as an individual. Not in our stations, but, but as an individual, equal. And we should be judged on the character, the content of our character, who we are and what we produce. I want to live in a country where we don't bust down doors in the middle of the night, where we don't scoop people up in the middle of the night unless they're here illegally or unless they've broken the law. Now, I don't want them just disappeared if they're an American citizen. But here's what I would like. I would like to know that as an American citizen, I could be driving around with cash in my car. And I'm not a drug dealer. And if the police stop me, they can't just take that cash and then just say it's ours. No, I want a hearing. I want a hearing on that. I, I want a jury of my peers. I, I, I want a chance to defend myself. No, you don't have that as an American citizen. But they now want to give people who came here illegally, and especially the most violent people, they want them to have a trial. But not you. You don't get that. I want everyone to have the same opportunity. I want everyone treated with respect. I want everyone to be free of fear. As much as possible. No government can, can make people, can make a society that doesn't have fear in it. Fear is part of life. But I don't want fear of the government. I don't want fear that somebody could just snuff my life out. And I want to be left alone. I mean, I want to work together as a team, but I don't want the government telling me everything I have to do. I want to live in a place where we, each of us come together and understand that if we were all on an island someplace, we'd have the right to choose our own way of dealing. We're shipwrecked and there's 50 of us. What would we do? We would eventually, if there's no rescue, we'd eventually set up a little society with 50 of us and we would trade with each other and we would just take care of things, all of us together. It would be a direct democracy because it'd be small enough and we just talk it out and we'd punish the people that needed to be punished, etc. Etc. And if some guy came in a boat and said, you know what? I'm going to rule over you. I'm king, we would all say, no, you don't have the right to be king. What are you talking about? We know common sense tells us that if we were on that island, we would all know we have a right to put our own rulers, if you will, our own government in place. And, and that government, its first job should be to protect me as a citizen and you as a citizen and just make sure we're playing fair with one another. Do you know what I just described? Are you with that? Is that the kind of America you want to live in? Because it is the one I want to live in. I just described a country that has never, ever graced the presence of the earth because people are involved. But that's what we should be striving for, that kind of situation. Let me express it this way. I want to live in a country where all men are created equal and they're endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable, unchangeable rights that among them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That nobody can come in the middle of the night and just take your life, nobody can take your liberty and throw you in prison without a trial. And the pursuit of happiness, you just want to be left alone to do what you want to do as long as you're not breaking the law. And to secure these rights, governments are instituted by Men among men. Men make it. We as individuals, like we're on that island. We vote for it. We put it together. And what we put together, that government derives their just powers from the consent of the governed. So we have to consent to it. And they don't have just powers. They have just powers. And that if a, if a government becomes destructive, it's the right of the people to alter or abolish it. Well, why do we keep saying, oh, you want to go back to the old timey days? No, I, I don't. I, I don't. I don't want to have to leave my house in the middle of night and poop, you know, in a big hole behind my house. Don't want to do that. I don't want to go back to a time where people lived in fear because somebody was going to knock on their door or throw a rock or a brick through their window like they did with Martin Luther King and set a cross on fire. I want to live in a neighborhood where we all look alike, we all don't look alike. Nobody cares because we, in many ways, in the most fundamental ways, we think alike. We're all trying to protect our society, which is just and governed by people we all selected. And those people, because we selected them. We select people that have the same idea of what this government and what this country should be. And this country and this government should be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that all men are created equal. That's what it should be. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on something so celestial as freedom and liberty. We have to pay a price for this liberty. And that price right now just means to be engaged, to be good, to. To take a stand on good and evil. There is good and evil, period. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Yesterday I went over the seven stage cycle of civilizational collapse. This is how they start and this is how they fall. And now this is from Sir John Glubb's Fate of Empires, but it comes from history. Just looking at history and all the empires as they rise and fall. How it happens. The first stage is the age of pioneers. Tell me, tell me where these all are and where they happen. The age of Pioneers. Driven by vision, courage, hard work, often religious or moral conviction. Okay, Rome's Republic era, era. And also the United States, the very beginning. Up until about 1820, the values are sacrifice, virtue, risk and independence. The age of conquest. Strength and expansion. Military or economic conquests. They expand their territory and influence. Civil institutions are built. Education spreads Infrastructure grows. That's the early empire of Rome. It is also 1820 to about 1900. Patriotism, law, innovation, unity. Then comes the age of commerce, wealth and complexity. Economic strength becomes dominant. Luxury increases. Business elites rise. Trade, speculation eclipse. Risk taking. Pioneers, examples. Venice, the Netherlands, British Empire, the 1800s and the United States starting in the early 20th century. You know, with the quote robber barons and all the way through World War II. After World War II it really became the the age of commerce. That leads us into the age of affluence. About 1980. Leisure and decay begins. Material wealth now explodes. Government growth accelerates. Citizens grow dependent on the system. Virtue gives way to entitlement. Education becomes secular, critical of founding ideals. Example Rome, 2nd century AD and US 1980s into the 2000s. The values are comfort, consumption and cynicism. Then the age of intellect. This is where it becomes very interesting, the age of intellect. The elite rule and fragmentation. Experts and technocrats dominate. Reason replaces faith. Society becomes obsessed with process, bureaucracy, identity and division. The people grow disconnected from the elites. Populist backlash begins. This is France pre 1789, Weimar, Germany and US post 2000. The values are relativism, narcissism, hyper educated with a moral void. Wow. Now the sixth out of the seven stage of the fall of empires. The age of decadence. Moral decline and decline of courage. National identity collapses. Immigration without assimilation, Public debt surges. Bread and circuses replace responsibility. Political corruption is normalized, gender confusion, family disintegration, loss of fertility, drugs and hedonism dominated. This is Rome 3rd to the 5th century and us today. Hedonism, nihilism, entitlement. Now comes the age of decline and collapse. And this usually happens quickly. The age of decline and collapse. Its internal distrust, factionalism and scapegoating. The other thing is currency collapse and loss of external power or invasion. Well, we're there, we don't. We have an internal distrust, infectionalization and scapegoating. Everybody's saying, yeah, but you. Yeah, but you. Yeah, but they. You know, the one thing that I ever considered up until about 2006, maybe 5, 4, was that there were people in our own country that despised our country. I mean, I knew there were some, but I didn't think it was as many as possible. But they've been there for a long time. Overwhelm and collapse. That's the cloud and piven strategy. And it, it has two distinct stages in it. And this is where we are. We're in the last stages of the Republic, unless we decide to turn it around. The first the first stage is the fast track. We saw this in action in New York city in the 1970s. Progressives pushed massive amounts of people onto the welfare roles in the goal, in reality was to crash the system and, and institute universal basic income. Okay, this. Back in the 70s, they brought new York City to its knees. It did default. It collapsed. Now, progressives never got what they really wanted, but the theory that it could be done was now proven. It was proof of concept. And then they moved on to other ways to crash the system. Next, the motor voter law. You know who was behind that one? Cloward and Piven. Then to immigration. Now we saw the fast track stage again. Under Biden administration, 8 to 10 million illegals surged on our borders, probably more. We watched the border states hinge on collapse. We saw major cities like New York and Chicago announce anywhere from $1 billion to $12 billion diverted to address the invasion. The funds were diverted from policing, education, housing, you name it, to house illegals. Progressives have the same access to budgets and ledgers that we do. They knew what they were doing. And the whispers of the 1970s in New York were now screaming, now is the time ripe for collapse. But then you and I happened. Millions of Americans happened. The American voter showed up. And the Trump administration now sits in the Oval Office and is trying to stop a lot of this. He's right now on Capitol Hill trying to get people to stop with the green New Deal. Republicans, knock it off, stop it, stop spending. Because overwhelm and collapse never stopped. Because the second part of this is not just to collapse us economically, but to collapse our trust. This has been going on for a long time. It's a slow process, but it builds on work that has already been done in the past and just keeps building. Unless somebody wishes to pull a thread and start to unravel it all. It begins again with the issue of illegal immigration. Now, the left has chosen the angle of attack because it accomplishes two major progressives progressive milestones. It not only pushes cities and states to the brink of collapse, which I think we can all agree, but it also pushes voting and elections into a new dangerous territory. It imports a new friendly electorate while imploding the older system. Now, this is why the courts have been weaponized. I mean, they are rabid to stop these deportations. Why? Well, for the two reasons I just told you. To collapse the system and collapse trust. Now here's how it works. Listen to this. The courts are rabidly weaponized. As soon as Donald Trump was inaugurated, the injunctions began Another one happened just a couple of days ago. The courts want more due process granted to people that are not citizens of this country and or who have been identified as members of foreign terrorist organizations like trend and MS.13. Now hang on just a second. This doesn't make any sense, does it? No, and it's not supposed to make sense. You'll never figure this out if you're trying to. If you're trying to solve it with a mind that's not trying to collapse the country. They know if you look at the current state of immigration, the court with around 4 million cases in backlog, you might do a little research, find out. It already takes four years to resume to review asylum cases and now they want to give violent illegals more time for due process in the system. Are you kidding me? It doesn't make sense because it's not supposed to. You are supposed to lose faith in government institutions. It's supposed to overwhelm the institutions and overwhelm our bank accounts. And it's doing it. You lose faith in government institutions. That trust further erodes when we start looking into these courts and the judges and the activists that never seem to care about the shadow of illegal immigration. You know, here's something I would ask you to consider if you're for, you know, hey, we've got to ask and have them do have due process. Obama decided he could drone strike American citizens. Court said that's all good. Wait, what, what about the due process for an American citizen? Now he's all right, it's all good. Okay, how about civil asset forfeiture? That's when you're pulled over or somebody comes into your house and you have cash and it's all legal cash, but you decided to go to the bank and take your cash out and keep your cash because you don't believe in the banking system or whatever it is. They can come in and claim civil asset forfeiture, steal your wealth and your property without due process, the government can write. Now, red flag laws confiscate your guns in clear violation of the second amendment and without due process. Now, according to these lawyers and these judges and activists, you don't deserve due process in these cases. You don't deserve it. They can take your property, they could take your money, they can take your guns, they can drone strike you and you don't need due process. Word of the government, word of the government is fine. But deporting violent people who are not even citizens of this country, they get a backlog of due process that in some Cases will take years and years and years to process. Why are you frustrated sometimes when you read the news? Because it doesn't make any sense. And, and it's true, it doesn't. If you read the news like somebody who loves the country, who isn't trying to collapse the country or doesn't think like a 1970s radical, if you think like a 1970s radical, you're going to get it. You're going to get it. And for those who are listening to those 1970s radicals and they think it's okay to just gun somebody down on the street because they're a united health care worker, these are the same people. They say that makes sense. That doesn't make sense to me. Where's the due process in that one? It doesn't make sense to people who can disagree with each other, can vote differently, but don't want to collapse the country. If you want to collapse the country, then everything that the radical left is doing through the Democratic Party, you know, that'll all make sense to you if that's what you want. Unfortunately, too many of our, our friends and neighbors are caught up in it because of Trump derangement syndrome or, you know, whatever it is. We have to deprogram ourselves. You notice I didn't say them we have to deprogram ourselves. That's why I said the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than a man who reads nothing but social media or nothing but CNN or nothing but the Blaze. This is the time for strong thinking men and women. This is the time for them to rise up and be a part of the solution. The ones that rise up with their virtue, rise up with their intellect, rise up with peace and love in their hearts. Those are going to be the ones that fix the Republic.
