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Crank the game Glam back is on Glam, The fusion of entertainment, enlightenment and empowerment. This is the Glenn Beck Program. Hello America. I want to talk to you a little bit about Minnesota. Pam Bondi has announced a couple of arrests today. She has been up in Minnesota this week. Thank God. Thank you. I mean, I've been harsh on Pam Bondi and especially in this last week, but I think it's important to point out when somebody is doing the right thing. And she is appearing to kick butt in Minnesota and when Donald Trump comes home, I think he's made it very, very clear. You yesterday in a speech about Ilana Mar, the investigation into how she went from like 100, I think she went from 10,000 to 50,000 to $125,000 in net worth to the very next year being worth 30 million. How did that, how did that happen? Boy, pays to be an immigrant in America. I can see why everybody wants to beat the doors down to get here because all you have to do is just beat and you're worth $30 million. Wow. It's fantastic. But things are getting worse in Minnesota, not better. And I was thinking last night, I've seen this scene before. Where have I seen this scene? And it clicked. And I want to tell you that story after I update you on what's happening in Minnesota in 60 seconds. First, the burner launcher. Most people think about having to engage in self defense. You're not looking, looking for something bulky, complicated, hard to live with. You know, you want something that fits your real life, not one that demands constant adjustment or attention. And it is exactly why the Burner Compact Launcher exists. It is a smaller, more conceived, concealable version of the Burner system designed for people who want serious personal protection. In a form that is easy to carry and easy to handle. 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She is one of the activists that was storming the church the other day. She apparently took home over a million dollars from the anti poverty nonprofit that she led. Wow. And I got to get into these anti poverty, you know, I'm helping the poor people things because, wow, you can make a lot of money apparently, in that. A lot of money in that. Meanwhile, the NGOs, left wing NGOs are planning an economic blackout across Minnesota. And what they're doing is the Democratic Party has aligned with dark money NGOs. We've known that left wing militia groups and anti Trump labor unions and one of the big labor unions in Minnesota is, that is the, not just the teachers union, but the nurses union. And the nurses union is, is saying that you need to go out on a general strike and you need to get involved in this because, quote, it's time to suspend the normal order of business and demand immediate cessation of ICE actions in Minnesota. Accountability for federal agents who have caused the loss of life and abuse to Minnesota residents and call for Congress to immediately intervene. And, you know, I was, I was thinking about all this yesterday, last night, and talking to a friend of mine and, and, and I'm like, I've seen this before. What is this? What is this? It's delusional, right? Nobody is talking about the crimes that have been committed. Now let's just be fair and say, okay, ICE committed a crime. I don't believe they did, but let's just say. But that doesn't mean you excuse everything else. There's no logic in any of this. Okay, so where have I seen this before? Where have I seen this scene? And then I remembered. Then it became very, very clear, ah, there were two guys that were offered to a crowd, okay? And, and the governor said, hey, one of these guys, I'm going to let go. And one of them was Jesus, right? Innocent, unarmed, a teacher. Not an enemy to Rome, but anybody who opposed the will of God. He was an enemy. Okay? The other one that he said, or you can take Barabbas, the enemy of the crowd's enemy, Rome. He, he was in prison, if I'm not mistaken, for murder, at least violence and rebellion. He was tied to violent rebellion, insurrection, murder, robbery. He was not a good guy. Well, when they're given this choice, who does the crowd call for? Not Jesus. It chanted for Barabbas. Now, this is the part where I think anti Semites always say, well, see, they just hated Jesus so much. No, that is not the lesson you should pull from that. That's not what they were saying. Crowds are like a weather system. They move on pressure, not principles. Pressure. And they're not choosing who to condemn and who to good and who to go free based on good or evil. They were actually choosing what kind of hope felt the most satisfying in that moment. Okay? And the two choices are the slower hope of Jesus that demanded repentance and true change in everybody's life, or the faster hope of the revolutionary Barabbas. The people always wanted to go the fast way. They chose revolution, not repentance, because they hated Rome more than they hated sin. They. They let what they were against lead them instead of what they were for. And so they lost the ability to see the truth of the situation because of their anger. They were truly blind. Now, take that human pattern from that time, because that's what it is. It's a human pattern. We all can go through this easily and put it up against what we're seeing in Minnesota. This is possibly the biggest fraud case in American history, okay? And there's no way the Democrats in power didn't know about it. But no one's talking about that. No one's talking about how you, the taxpayer, the people who are now saying, Barabbas, how you were ripped off, how maybe your children were hurt because your government, the state government, and the local government, was giving money knowingly to people who are abusing the system. And when the government comes in to arrest, they start shouting for revolution. And they're shouting for it because of the leaders, the same leaders who likely allowed the fraud, know the people in the streets will look past their egregious sins if it means stopping Trump. Okay? Now let me make this really clear. We're not talking about Trump or whether the federal government is right or wrong, okay? You can protest government power. You can distrust the federal government. I do. You can demand accountability and transparency. I do. Those things are sane, even if we disagree on what should be transparent or exposed, okay? They're sane. Those things make you an American. Distrust is not an American sin. It's a survival instinct in a fallen world, okay? But there's a line, and it's quiet and it's invisible. Where distrust becomes devotion, where you stop evaluating the facts because you're devoted. Where your movement stops being about justice and becomes about being against something so completely that it doesn't matter what you're now defending when. When people are told these arrests are targeting truly dangerous criminals, the sober response isn't blind faith in the government. Okay, I don't have that. I'd like to see. Can we see the evidence here? The sober response is separation, case by case. Show it to me. Show me the evidence that person. Does that match up with what you say? And if the claim is true, if people are being swept up who are really violent, predatory, destructive, then the society is indeed standing in a knife's edge. Cliff's edge. Okay? Not because enforcement can't be abused. It can. Not because the state can't lie. It can. But because a crowd can begin to treat evil as an acceptable ally as long as it wears the right costume. Resistance. I would like to coin a term here. This is the Barabbas trap. Barabbas doesn't win because people suddenly love murder. They didn't want Barabbas out because they loved the guy. Barabbas won because he was a symbol. He was a symbol of a weapon that the crowd thinks it can aim at the government it hates. And in the heat of that hatred, something breaks. It's human. It breaks. And it's the ability to distinguish between a righteous cause and a righteous person. This is where the blindness becomes really lethal. Because once you lose the habit of judging separately, once you refuse to say, wait a minute, this government action may be wrong and this individual over here may be dangerous, you don't lose just accuracy. You lose the moral language that keeps a civilization a civilization and keeps you safe. And it's not going to be just the country that pays for that collapse. It's you and me and the protesters. When you make yourself unable to name evil, evil will happily borrow your body for a while. It will happily stand behind your slogans. It will march and even carry your banners. It will hide inside of your crowds because crowds are the perfect cover for evil. And if you insist that every badge is tyranny, you will eventually protect the tyrant who doesn't wear a badge at all. Just the one who wears your language, your anger, your righteous pose. Blindness is not neutrality. Blindness is recruitment. It turns ordinary people into shields for causes that they don't fully understand. For actors who don't love them back. For criminals who are not going to hesitate to burn your neighborhood down or the neighborhood that fed them. I mean, think if they already burned down Minneapolis once and people were putting signs at the door. I agree with you. Don't burn down my business. Burn it down anyway, because they don't care. And Then comes the bitterest part, when the inevitable violence arrives. When the bad guy you excused becomes now the bad guy you can't control. The state has to respond harder, and the crackdowns get uglier, and the liberties you thought you were defending begin to shrink. But then what do you do? If you're blind, you protest even harder. You grab your gun, you grab a Molotov cocktail, you start lighting fuses. And the ones who light the fuse, the first fuse, like the governor and the mayor, and some of these that are being arrested today, they're never the ones who stand closest to the blast. It will not be their house that is burned down. It will be yours. That's how a protest becomes a trap. That's how a movement becomes a machine. I mean, these are paid for by oligarchs. These are being paid for by George. Sources of the world. And you're comfortable with that? And I don't understand that, other than to say it's because you haven't thought it through, because you are so wrapped up in the emotion. You cannot separate things piece by piece. Once everything just is one thing, you have no reason left. And that's how you get the oldest story in the world. A crowd demands victory right now. It's going to make us feel good right now. And in the process, it trades away the very thing it claims to cherish. Human dignity, truth, moral clarity. We're living in an amazing time because such dramatic things are happening. And yet the answer is really boring. The discipline that feels boring until it saves your life is this. Judge things separately. Hold two thoughts at once without losing your mind. A government can overreach, and that overreach should be resisted lawfully and loudly. And those conditions should be corrected. And criminals can be criminals. And protecting criminals is not resistance, it's surrender. You can say, investigate the shooting, demand transparency, require accountability. I'll be with you. But you must also say, if this person is a danger, we have to get them off the streets. That's not betrayal. That's called adulthood. And the opposite, refusing to separate leads to a very specific kind of national ruin. And not just. Just disorder, but moral inversion, where people can no longer tell the difference between justice and vengeance, between liberty and license, between courage and chaos. And when that inversion becomes a habit, society becomes really easy to govern by fear because it's forgotten how to rule itself or govern itself by truth. The crowd at Pilot's Platform thought they were choosing freedom. They instead chose a shortcut. Shortcuts never take you to freedom. They take you to the place where freedom is always promised and never ever delivered. Because people who live by blind rage are always just one chant away from being used. Distrust the government if you have to. In fact, I encourage you. Protest if you choose. Demand accountability with every breath. But do not go blind. Because the moment, you cannot name evil, especially when it's standing right beside you cheering at the same volume. You've entered a new level of trouble. Not political, but spiritual trouble. The kind that follows you home and sits with you in quiet until you're asking that one question. When the moment came, did I choose justice or did I choose the chant? And who am I now sitting next to? More in just a second. Your phone bill is one of the few things you pay every single month without really thinking about it. It runs in the background even though it touches almost every part of your daily life. What most people don't realize is that the big phone companies, the money often goes to places they would never choose on their own. I mean, you're not going to do it. You're not going to send money to Planned Parenthood. 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We're not saying that Blue Lives Matter was behind feeding false information to the far left anti ICE protesters. We're not saying that we had teams comprised of hundreds of off duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations. So far less activists thought they were conducting ICE raids. We're not saying that they were in fact just driving around in what appeared to be unmarked vehicles with tinted windows, drinking coffee and listening to Guns n Roses, being chased down and surrounded by protesters. But what we are saying is that if this did happen, it sure worked remarkably well in nine different states. Allowing actual raids to succeed and take place impeded, helping support and capture hundreds of real criminals. Combat combat veterans, off duty officers and patriotic Americans have had enough of the radical left and are being activated across the country to back our law enforcement. They're smarter, more skilled and more driven on. They're also better trained than the left and actually enjoy sitting in a deer stand for days just waiting. Then that's that is tagged DHS Gov Ice gov We've got your back. That's from Blue Lives Matter. This things are crazy. Things are really, really going insane. And you have to know, again, it's the Barabbas thing. You have to know who you're standing with. The Democratic Socialist America. They tried to convince you 25 years ago when I first started talking and warning about them. Socialist is in their name. Oh yeah, but that's not bad. I told you socialism is the step between capitalism and communism. It's a stop. It's a, a it's just a train stop. The Democratic Socialists America have ties to China and the ccp. If you didn't get that story, you need to get our daily email newsletter. 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