Glenn Beck (17:15)
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Set a Holocaust survivor on fire in her own American home. An illegal alien from Egypt that the Biden administration ignored the expiring visa two times shouting, free Palestine sets this Jewish grandmother, survivor of the Holocaust, on fire in America. Now, here's what we know more of today. This wasn't a crime of passion. It wasn't a lone wolf. It wasn't spontaneous. No, Muhammad Solomon had planned it for over a year. He waited patiently, strategically. He waited until his daughter had graduated so he could burn the Jews alive with a clean conscious and a clear schedule. He's not mentally ill. He wasn't confused. He was resolved. He said if he had given the chance again, he'd do it again and again and again. That's not just terrorism. That is evil. It's hatred made flesh. And it happened here in America. What the hell is wrong with us? Why aren't more people upset about this on American soil, in a college town in the new West? You know, I think, I don't know if you know who Primo Levi was, but he was a Holocaust survivor. He wrote several books. And he's the guy who coined the term gray zone. And he described the gray zone as a murky moral space that happened in the concentration camps where the victims were often coerced into morally compromising situations. You know, just not out of ideology, but just to survive. Okay, that's the gray zone. Let me trans, let me transpose that idea into modern day America. I think many people in America today are not silent because they're indifferent. Don't get me wrong, a lot of people seem to be indifferent, but a lot of people are also remaining silent. Not because they're indifferent. They're silent because speaking out, especially online, will could destroy their career, their reputations, their families. Doxing, blacklisting, swatting, losing your job for a single comment, just being generally unpopular. Fear in that kind of environment becomes the governing force. Fear does. And fear is the soil in which totalitarianism grows best. So yes, Americans who instinctively recoil from today's overt antisemitism but keeps quiet out of self preservation are not morally equivalent to the aggressors. But they are perhaps inside a digital gray zone, one where the cost of conscience is rising and silence becomes a survival strategy. Are we there yet? I hope not. I kind of hope that it's more apathy in a way because maybe we can wake people up from their apathy. But if you're already feeling that I'm not speaking out because I'm in a moral gray zone, really bad things are around the corner and yet the media is still yawning. I don't think they're in a gray zone. They're making their choice. The anti racism advocates scroll by in silence. The very people who claim to be defenders of truth and tolerance just can't seem to summon any kind of moral clarity or truth here. They can't say evil is evil and this is evil. Not mistaken, not. Well, I don't understand what his motivate. No, it's not misguided, not mistaken, it's not hard to understand. It's evil. And then here's what really haunts me today. If this had been the other way around, if a white man had firebombed a mosque while screaming ethnic slurs, this country would be on fire today. The entire media landscape would be on fire. We'd have task force, we'd have blue ribbon panels, ribbon hashtags, every anchor on every channel, you know, in black ties and solemn tones, warning, warning, warning. But a Jewish woman in her 80s gets burned alive by a radicalized illegal and the media just kind of pretends not to see it. Let me ask you, I asked this yesterday. Where are you adl? Where are you today? I mean you told me years ago that when I warned warned that this was gonna what we saw in the 1930s on the streets of Germany and Europe we would see again on the streets of America. You called me a fear monger. You called me a hater. You called me an anti Semite for saying that I was dangerous, told me to sit down, be quiet. Well, I ask you now, should I still be sitting down? Shall I still be quiet? Because I'm not going to. I just want to know what your opinion is. You can't fight darkness if you can't name the darkness. You can't stop the flames if you refuse to admit that the match has already been struck. The deeper truth here is this is not about one man. This is about. It's not about one Molotov cocktail. This is about systems that we have allowed to rot. Our borders are no longer defended. The idea, the ideologies that we no longer even challenge. The universities that have surrendered and now have become a church and our real churches have been emptied. The spirit has been forgotten. This is what you. This is what happens to a civilization when you abandon truth for tribalism, when you trade your civilization for a hashtag or a slogan, when you embrace nihilistic, intersectional worldviews that sees Jews as oppressors, Christians as relics, and America as the village. I don't say this lightly because I know what this word actually means, at least from Ezekiel. But the watchmen are asleep. Woe unto us when the watchmen sleep. Our walls are down, the fire is spreading. And let me ask you, do you think Boulder, what happened in Boulder, do you think that's going to be the last time this happens? Do you think Solomon is the only one that was doing this kind of planning? If we know anything from history, it's this evil is never satisfied. Never. And it doesn't stop with one grandmother or one synagogue. It moves, it spreads. It's a fire in dry grass. We are a nation of dry grass and kindling. And if we don't put this fire out right now, open our eyes and close our borders, clean out our house, clean out our house ideologically, then this is just a dress rehearsal for something much, much, much bigger. And what will happen to a country like ours if we're hit like 911 again? Will we. Will we just go right immediately into blame? Or will we unite? I mean, it would be a miracle if we united. It would be great if we could unite, but I don't think we do anymore. I wonder. I hope we're never having to prove this. But the fire is not going to be put out this time by sending soldiers overseas. Send them overseas where? The army is here. We let it in. We still have Democrats saying you've got to let them in. They have rights too. No they don't. No, they don't. They don't have a right to be here. They don't. It's a privilege to be in America this time, unlike 9 11, when it comes, it's going to come with AI generated lies, deep fakes, bot armies, mobs so drunk on grievances that they will light the match, set you on fire while screaming it is justice. We really have reached the moment where the Old west needs to rise up again or be reduced to myth. Is, is there the old West? Is there the spirit of the Americans? And I don't mean the gun slinging new sheriff in town, I don't mean that. I mean the west where, where the towns gathered to stop the bad guys. Where there were still pioneers, there were still people who believed in the, the ever expanding sky of the West. We were meant to be more than this. We are not meant to be serfs. We're not meant to be Europeans. We're meant to be the city on the hill. But we've let that hill erode. It's like a hill in California. Mudslide is coming, gang. We've let the lamps go out and the wolves are watching and they are here. So here's the choice. Do we discover who we really are? Do we rediscover what we believe? I mean, we have to start questioning. We have to start critically thinking again. We have to start, we have to stop saying usa, usa, USA and wave the flag and start understanding what that flag stands for. It's not the flag, it's the ideas behind the flag. Do we even know them? Do we know our rights and our responsibilities? Do we know what we have to do to remain a decent civilization? Because I tell you, if it happens this time, Patriot act is going to look like a puppet show. This time it is going to come with AI and surveillance of literal, possibly biblical proportions. And I mean the kind of biblical surveillance that you find at the end of the book, what's worth fighting for, what's worth living for? Or are we just going to sit here quietly hoping that maybe, just maybe, the fire is going to pass us by? You know, that Donald Trump can solve this one too. The fire doesn't pass. It never does. Fires consume and strangely that is right up the alley of many people on the left. That's what they want. A fire that will consume and burn it all down to the ground. Now if I were, if I were Jewish today, I'd kind of be panicking. I really would be. This is three weeks. Three weeks. Look at what's happened to America in three weeks, to Jews. This. This should not create fear. It should create resolution. It's not about hate. It's about our moral courage. It's about standing up right now while we still can and say, no, no, no. Not one more. Not one more time, not one more person, not one more era. No more. No more grandmothers. Nobody. No more college students, not a synagogue, no one. And there is no excuse. We have refused to call evil by its name. So I will. Islamicists, people who believe Islam is superior and therefore they can do whatever they want. That's evil. Draw the line. Name it. Say it. If you're an Islamist, you are evil. Rebuild the wall not just around our border, but in our hearts, our institutions, our resolve. Build a wall around our civilization because the fire is spreading again. And this time, it will not be mercy that finds us if we remain silent. Mercy won't find us. Only judgment will find us.
