People misunderstand Glenn Beck.
First of all, despite how he has been depicted over the years, Glenn Beck is not, and never was, a conservative. He is a libertarian, a somewhat different breed of cat. He is not interested in the justice of the matter concerning the kids so unceremoniously dumped, so to speak, on our doorstep, he is moved to humanitarian concerns. Are they being fed and given decent care? Are they well housed? Are they somewhat protected from the predatory types that are circling to take unfair advantage of their situation, perhaps for some kind of exploitation?
Lord knows, these kids will have some astonishing stories to tell in future years, how are they going to remember the days they spent in detention, and possibly being trucked all over the country, before they come to a stable and dependable sort of family situation? Will they be able to return to their country of nativity? Will they even have a choice about that?
Compassion is not Marxism, nor should a phony government-sponsored “compassion”, using other people’s money, be allowed to substitute for REAL charity. This from Glenn Beck is from the heart, and has a real emotional component.
I feel for the kids. They shouldn’t be here, helpless pawns in a game of thrones played with people moved about at the whim of some high authority, that has absolutely no empathy for the plight of the persons being thrust nilly-willy from place to place. It must stop, and the situation made right.
Eventually, nearly all the kids will have to be returned to what is a better situation than where they came from, with the changes that must be made in their native countries. We cannot absorb then in an orderly manner, nor should we. But we don’t have to make their lives living hell until the situation does get sorted out.
Most of those "kids" will never be going back and they will be joined by many times their number of whatever the Obama Administration allows as family members regardless of familial relationship. The are being transported in secret all over the US and will be released into the general population with all of their issues including gang members, diseases and dependencies. The Federal government is engaged in massive human trafficking and will remake the electorate by 2016, if not 2014. Many of the teens will be assured to vote with Democrat front group guiding them at every turn.
Sigh
I have regularly vacillate between calling myself a libertarian and conservative. My latest title is a constitutionalist.
Glenn Beck is a whiney little girl who believes in feathering the nest of Glenn Beck. Didn’t like him before he went all squishy on the criminals that are wet-backing their way I to the country. But my thoughts on him have changed. I dislike him even more now
>> I feel for the kids.
You’ve been snookered, FRiend. The vast majority of these criminals are NOT “kids”.
Unless you consider sixteen-to-twenty-one-year-old gangbangers and murderers to be “kids”.
A lot of Conservatives are much closer to the Libertarian philosophy that you may want to believe..
If Beck is so sincere and so Libertarian why doesn't he just go to Central America where he can fin loads of kids who will undoubtedly not be taken care of. The kids he is helping in S. Texas will get help no matter if he does it or not.
If he is so sincere go to Central America where the needs truly are.
Otherwise GTH off the stage and stop posing for the expletive deleted cameras.
“This from Glenn Beck is from the heart, and has a real emotional component.”
BS. It is all about the money, and this issue is publicity gold.
If actually cared about these kids he would be demanding to know where their parents are.
Funny you should say that. I had a discussion with a Beck fan on another thread who insisted the same thing...but he, on the other hand, had looked into Beck's eyes and seen his soul.
“We cannot absorb then in an orderly manner, nor should we. But we don’t have to make their lives living hell until the situation does get sorted out.”
Agreed.