Glenn Beck (4:08)
You know, while I was on vacation and I said this when I came back, one of the things that I found in my travels on vacation across the country was that we just, we are people that go from circus to circus. That's really all that's happening right now. And this, this case in, in Charlotte is exactly the same thing. It is a, it's a, it's going from one outrage to another outrage. And the press knows exactly what they're doing. And I, I believe their silence was an attempt to whip you into violent action. First of all, they didn't cover it because, you know, it didn't fit the narrative. And then after a while, you don't cover it because, well, wait a minute. You know, when I, when I silence people, when I don't cover something, um, what does that do? I mean, they know. They know you're violent. You've already been labeled and targeted as a violent extremist. They honestly are baffled by your nonviolent reaction. In the last 20 years. Okay. Because they think they know us. It's, it's so strange. Uh, I had, I had about 30 kids at the house yesterday and I was teaching the Declaration of Independence and, and, and our founding documents. And I, I was, I got up this morning and I read this and I'm thinking about the press and how they think they know us. And I felt exactly if, I think, I felt like Thomas Jefferson must have when he was writing our breakup letter, you know, the Declaration of Independence with King George. Because in that, it's a plea. It's, he's saying, look, we owe it to humanity. We owe it to the world and all mankind to when we're going to do something this big, we owe the world a reason and we own the king a reason for doing it. And basically he's saying, because you don't understand us, we, we have been trying to tell you that we don't believe the same things that you do. You believe you're the king and you have the divine right of the King because God has appointed you to be king over us. And, and we're, we're subjects. We're not even citizens, we're just subjects. And we don't believe that. We hold these things to be self evident. Okay? And that's the way I feel right now, that the press thinks they know who we are and they won't listen. We've tried to tell them over and over again. We've tried to tell the, you know, anybody reasonable who doesn't vote like us. We've been trying to say we're not those people. We're not who you say we are. We don't hate the government. We just don't trust the government. And neither do you, quite honestly. And we shouldn't, we should hold them accountable. We know what the problems are. Just like you know what the problems are. You know, many people in your camp are trying to overthrow the United States of America. I'm not, I'm trying to return her to her founding principles. You know, I hold these truths to be self evident. You know, we just heard. What's his name? I want to say. Was it Tim Kaine that just said that? You know, they say our rights come from God. Yes. Those are self evident truths that have. All that is the American standard. You don't believe that. You believe things like King George believed. I don't. So how am I the revolutionary today in America? We're not like you. You want to tear things down and destroy. We want to build. You believe the lie of that, you know, there's. There are sheep and ranchers and you're the rancher and we're the sheep. Some people are just born to be in charge because they know better. And because they know better, they can get rich by any corrupt way they choose. But you, you have to pay your fair share, play by the rules, and then we're going to make the rules to make it so you can't really ever succeed. They believe they rule not just the world, but our world, our personal world, because they know better. And they're going to force us to live their way. Sorry. I hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. And there are certain unchangeable rights that were given not by government, but by God to me and you. And I have confidence in the supreme judge of mankind. I have total confidence God is not neutral in the affairs of man. He's not. We need to do what is right, righteous and legal. I believe it is time we start to pursue legal accountability. We have to demand laws that strip blanket immunity from prosecutors who are refusing to enforce the law. If you are going against federal laws, the federal government should be able to go after you as a prosecutor. We have to have real consequences for negligence in office. There's, there's consequences for negligence on the street. Why is there no consequence for negligence in office? Why is it we can have all those people killed in Afghanistan on our pullout and nobody was held accountable? Nobody. How is it we can have prosecutor after prosecutor act in ways that let criminals back out in the streets that are killing over and over and over again? Our neighborhoods are not safe, our towns are not safe, our people are dying from drug cartels, and yet nobody's held for negligence. I mean, I'm being nice by saying negligence. We need to begin to look to the law in all of our states. And it is high time our Congress gets off their fat, lazy asses and starts to prosecute people they know. They already know. They know. They have all the evidence. Why is it being bogged down in Congress? Because many of them are involved. Well, maybe it's time you appoint a citizens council. Maybe it's time to have citizens in charge of oversight of our government. People who have not been paid off, people who are not involved in the corruption. We have to refuse to forget. We have to refuse to sit down. We have to refuse to remain silent. Even though everything you say might be used in a court of law at some point should things turn ugly. Refuse to remain silent. You know, two Months ago, I wrote a document. I've been trying to figure out how to explain internally and to you as well, what the. What the torch is and what our responsibilities are. And I wrote a document for this program and what. What we must do, what I feel our duty is to you and to the country. And I shared it with a couple of people and they were like, I don't know, that's pretty harsh. And I'm like, how is that harsh? That is just common sense. And it's true. And I've been sitting on it and been praying on it, been thinking about it. And you know what? Today I got up after thinking about all of this stuff last night, yesterday and today and seeing what's happening in the world, and I'm sorry. I don't care if it's harsh. I don't care if I don't think you're going to find it harsh. I think you're going to go, damn right. But I want to declare what this program stands for and what. What our attempt and what we believe, what I believe we should do as a company. And the good news is, it's my company. So I want to share that with you next hour because I. I think is the same thing you should make as. As your duty as well, because I think this goes to all of us because we're all in this same boat. We're all in this together. And if we don't, if we, for instance, on this Charlotte story, if we erase Irena's name and just forget about it, her death just becomes another casualty of a political narrative war. And that's what we are in. We are fighting evil. And evil is just a political narrative at this point. That is all it is. Justice is not persecution. Justice is not vengeance. Justice is holding the guilty accountable, whether they have a knife in the shadows or a prosecutor's pen in the courthouse. Hold people accountable. You know, Irena deserves that. She deserved that. We deserve that. And if we don't demand it, you know, the next victim can be any. Any one of us. And I go back to what I told you just a minute ago, how the words of the killer coming out of his mouth. I guess I got that white. How that reminded me of what was said to me by a crazy man on the Streets of Washington, D.C. today's the Day I'm gonna kill me a white man. As he circled me and pointed at me and looked me in the eye and said it repeatedly. Today's the day I'm gonna kill me a white man. I mean it. Today is the day. I'm gonna kill me a white man. I got up today and I thought, I'm gonna kill me a white man. That was a clear threat, and that's exactly what happened to Irina. And if we don't stop this, you may be the next victim. Because these people are empowered. They're in the streets. And if they are, if they are whipped up by the media, if they are revolutionaries, they need to go to jail. If they are just crazy people, they need to be removed from society and put into a treatment program or being held until they are sane. But we're not doing any of those things because our mayors are unaccountable, our prosecutors are unaccountable. No one is being held to anything except for you. That's not a society that will last. Let me talk to you a little bit about Jace Medical. September is National Preparedness Month. And even if you were, you know, to get ahead of the curve, you know, you're still behind the curve. So now is the time to do it. Whether we're headed for a recession or just more of the same unpredictable chaos, who knows? But being prepared isn't paranoia. It's common sense. And that's why I would like to recommend Jace Medical. They offer practical, real world solutions that help you stay ready, not reactive. With the Jace case, you'll get 10 emergency medications and antibiotics prescribed by a doctor and shipped right to your door. Now, it's not just a good idea, it's a game plan for when disaster strikes. For those of us who take daily prescriptions, they also offer Jace daily, giving you a full year's supply of your chronic meds so you're not at the mercy of the supply chains or the pharmacy shortages, should they come during National Preparedness Month, Jace is running a massive sale even easier to afford. Go to jace.com, enter the promo code Beck at checkout. Get a discount on your order. It's promo code beck a s e.comjace.com now back to the podcast. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. And don't forget, rate us on itunes. So I wrote a document because I am trying to explain to my staff, to myself, so I can then translate this on what the torch really is. Because the torch is something that I'm starting in January. It is a pretty massive move in my career. And. And I. It's gangly. It has so many different arms to it, but they're all pulling in the same direction. And part of that is to expose the truth and that's in current events, and that's what this show is for, to expose what's really going on, to help you understand not only what happened yesterday, but what it means, what's coming over the horizon tomorrow and what to do about it today and to hold people, to hold a record of what has happened. Because that's one of the other arms of the torch is history. And when we think of history, we think of history, you know, the old dusty powder wig kind of history. But history is happening right now. What happened in Charlotte is now part of American history. And you have to know history to be able to see what happened to a society, what happened to this civilization, and how do we get back, if we choose to get back. So I wrote something a couple of months ago, and I want to share it with you. It was our principles of truth and duty. And this was something that I wrote for my staff. But I think it applies to everybody, you know, that cares to heed the warning. There comes a time in the life of a nation, a people, or even a single soul when silence becomes betrayal. Not because silence itself is evil, but because it allows evil to metastasize. When the foundations of liberty are under assault through lies, miseducation, bureaucratic rot, or quiet erosion of conscience. It becomes not just advisable, but incumbent upon us to act. This is not meant to be a call to arms. This is a call to accounting, a call to record, to expose, to resist the machinery of falsehood with clarity, with courage, and a relentless commitment to the truth. We have a duty to document. Again, this was meant for internal use, but I think this is all of our duty. We have a duty to document. We have an urgent obligation to gather, organize and preserve every fact, every document, every statement and record. Record this, put it on the record. Anything that reveals how truth has been suppressed and freedom distorted. Because tyranny rarely kicks down the front door, it seeps through the cracks. Rewritten textbooks, judicial overreach, regulatory capture, and a media more loyal to narrative than fact. Our mission is to leave no stone unturned. We must collect evidence from those who have been silenced, the whistleblowers, the scholars, the citizens. We must document the abuses in education, religion, politics and the press. We must preserve the testimonies of those who still remember what America was meant to be, so that the record can't be altered by those who wish to remake it in their image. This is a stewardship not of history alone, but of memory. 2. The necessity of public exposure to give people information is no longer Enough. Collecting information is no longer enough. Truth locked in a drawer is no different from truth that never existed. Our task is to make the darkness visible, to shine a light on it so intensely that no rational mind can deny what it sees. Therefore, we must publish. We must speak. We must create platforms immune to the corrosive pull of centralized control. If the towers of culture no longer permit dissent, we must build new towers. If the institutions of learning no longer teach, then we must build new institutions. We must teach it in our homes, we must teach it in our churches, in our communities. Through the digital ether, it must be taught. Truth must be weaponized, but not to wound, simply to wake. 3. The importance of naming names. It is not enough anymore to condemn evil in the abstract. The machinery of corruption operates through people, through planners, financiers, bureaucrats, ideologues. We must, with discernment and precision, identify those who have abused their power, manipulated the system, or enabled tyranny. Not for vengeance, but for accountability. A future generation must be able to trace how the fire spread so they may build firebreaks. That last. 4. The spiritual cost of inaction. Though this isn't a religious document, it should be known there is a spiritual dimension to cowardice. When good men and women fail to speak, they don't merely preserve their safety. They transfer their burden to those who will come after them. Every truth left unsaid becomes a lie. The next generation must live under. We all will be asked, what did you know? When did you know it? And what did you do with what you knew? We cannot give the answer. I waited for somebody else. 5. The power of the individual. This statement of purpose is not for a mob. It's not for the crowd. It is for the individual, the mother, the teacher, the soldier, the student who still believes the truth matters and who's willing to carry the weight of remembering and resisting. No contribution is too small. None is too small. No act of courage is wasted. You may at some point be the last light, last light in your circle. That is all the more reason to burn brighter. To remain silent now is to become complicit. To act is not optional. It is essential. Therefore, it is our duty to document, to expose, to speak, to teach, and to stand. Because in the end, history is not written by those who whisper in safety. History is written by those who stood when standing cost them dearly. That is the path to restoring the promise. That is our duty, our responsibility, and our honor. I don't know how you can find that radical. I don't know how you can find that to be anything other than true. And I share that with you today because I knew this when I wrote this. But it feels more important today as I'm seeing what is happening in our country just with this Charlotte thing. There are people that are hell bent in tearing us apart. There are people that are negligent. You know those people on the train that did nothing, Though some did stand up eventually and tried to help, but it was too late. And I don't know if you could have saved her. Anyway, I don't. I don't judge those people. I don't. I don't know what was going through their head. I didn't like the action. I didn't like the fact that nobody went to her. You know, the woman sitting across just turned her face, turned her head while this woman is dying on the floor. I mean, I think you have a. You're going to pay a personal spiritual cost for that. Although I could be wrong. I don't know what was going through that woman's head. But if we don't act, if we don't. If. If we only protect ourselves and we don't stand. You know, this is what we learned after 9, 11. Remember, all the planes went down because nobody did anything, because they thought it was only them. But once that last plane over Pennsylvania, they were able to get messages to and from their people, their families on the ground. And once they found out, no, we are just one of many planes being taken down, they knew they had to act. They had to stand together. Let's roll. That's heroic. We have a responsibility. You have a responsibility to record facts so at some point people can be held responsible. For instance, I am waiting. I am waiting for this government to hold George Soros responsible for what he has done to the freedom of the West. There are several countries that will not allow his NGOs in. He's not welcome in several countries. They know exactly what he's done. They know what he's capable of. They know what he really is trying to do, no matter what he says. And we just. We just accept it. He's doing it to our cities, to our children. He's helping these prosecutors turn our country into a hell hole. A hellscape, a murder scene. And we don't do anything about it. I'm not calling for vengeance and I'm not calling for violence. I am calling for justice. I'm calling for common sense. We must, as a nation, stand against what he is doing. And he's not alone. The Code Pink thing, they were out trying to disrupt President trump and. And J.D. vance and Marco Rubio. Pete Hegseth was there. Other officials. They were having dinner, and they, you know, they're marching out in front and they're trying to, you know, do everything they can to disrupt everything. They're chanting. They feast while Gaza starves. Free DC Free Palestine. Stop terrorizing communities all over the world. Shut up. You know, if you were honest, maybe, maybe I could tolerate it, but you are not. You are not. You haven't been honest in anything that you've done. And beyond that, you are funded by the Chinese Communist Party through Neville Singham. Why aren't we going after him? Why aren't we, as a nation shutting things down? And I'm not saying opinions. You can have an opinion. You can march in the street. You can say things that I vehemently disagree with. But when you are funding organizations who intent. Their intent is to cause revolution in our country, don't we have a responsibility? We as citizens must document who these people are, how they're doing it, and then we must call for accountability, and our government must act. Otherwise, it ends the way it's ending now on the other side of the globe, I want to bring you a story that you probably didn't even pay attention to, if you even heard it yesterday, but it is a very important story because it relates right directly back to you and us. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program. Hello, Stu, our executive producer, and also hello to our chief researcher, Jason Butrell. Hi, Stu.
