Posted on 09/30/2009 11:33:53 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is audio of Glenn Beck today responding to Bette Midler's attack on him yesterday, where she said that he is "terrifying," and that Beck could spark a "civil war" in America like what happened in Rwanda.
Beck plays the clip and then responds by hammering her for displaying the "progressive movement's" disdain for anyone who disagrees with their worldview.
Beck said it is Midler's "progressive" kind of thinking that has led to genocide all over the world.
He also said liberals are trying to "whip up their base" by constantly saying conservatives want to "kill people."
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The “bad guys” are the folks who vote for the marxists...
You cant vote those bad guys away... All you can do is come up with a way that they have no influence over your life and liberty. When “overwhelming” them doest work, separation is a justifiable alternative.
Of all people... she says this stuff? She supports the party and the President who put Isreal on the chopping block?
Go figure
Since when is taking away constitutional rights...constitutional!? Elections aren’t the mere means of remove the constitution. Changes to it require the process endowed.
Never mind the laws for a minute...where would this country be if it ignored it’s own common sense!? Would our founder have even broken off if they just accepted limited control over their destiny and what sort of government could exist if free-speech was wholly eliminated!?
Rwanda, is she referring to the Clinton administrations refusal to call it genocide? Or is she referring to the Clinton administration send blow up rafts so they could pull thousands of dead bodies out of the water or is she talking about pulling UN peace keepers out so they could finish off the job.
The Question of Genocide The Clinton Administration and Rwanda
Holly J. Burkhalter
The Rwandan genocide, which claimed the lives of upward of a million people in a three-and-a-half-month period beginning in April 1994, will be remembered as one of the greatest human rights disasters of our time. However, the Clinton administration, facing what was the clearest case of genocide in 50 years, responded by downplaying the crisis diplomatically and impeding effective intervention by U.N. forces to stop the killing. The reasons for its stance include a lack of leadership within the Clinton ad- ministration’s foreign policy bureaucracy; its refusal to deal with the crisis as the human rights disaster it demonstrably was; Ameri- can distrust of peacekeeping in Africa fol- lowing the loss of American servicemen in Somalia last year; bureaucratic inertia at the United Nations ; and a general U.S. withdrawal from engagement in countries for which there is no strong domestic constituency.
U.S. policy throughout the Rwandan genocide can best be understood by looking at the five phases of the crisis. Interestingly, the Clinton administration responded with vigor and creativity to the fifth phase, the mass flight of Rwandans to neighboring countries. Several thousand U.S. soldiers were deployed in Zaire and Rwanda itself in late July to break the back of a massive cholera epidemic and to provide food, water, medicine, and shelter to refugees and dis- placed people. Top Clinton officials visited the refugee camps, and humanitarian issues there were a visible priority for the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon.
This vigorous approach during the refu- gee p...
Wonder how many gazillions Joy Baher makes?
Lets see 200 million murdered under Communism vs Zero under Democracies and Freedom.
Pray for America and Our Troops
I don’t recall ever caring what Bette Midler thinks.
If we revere the Constitution, then we should use it to change things in our government that we don’t like. If you feel that a law or government decision is depriving you of a Constitutional right, then you take it to court - all the way up to the Supreme Court.
The reason that we have the Constitution structured the way it is is because our Founders didn’t want to have to resort to a war or an insurrection every time there were grievances against the government. They created the Constitution to deal with those grievances. They didn’t include a “Civil Unrest” clause - but they did include insurrection against your elected government as an offense called “treason.”
If you can prove that you have had a Constitutional right stripped from you - you can find lawyers all over the Yellow Pages. There are probably a few here that will take your case. Our founders gave you the tools to control your destiny. What have you done to use those tools - have you ever run for an elected office? Did you go to Washington on 9/12? (I didn’t see any water cannon or other weapons being fired at the crowds - did you?) Were the marchers rounded up and thrown into “Free Speech Areas” like we saw at the National Conventions in 2004? No, people went and had their say.
And now it’s time for them to put that say into electoral action. Are you working to get your candidate elected in next year’s Congressional election? Have you volunteered yet?
“Changes to it [I assume you mean the Constitution] require the process endowed.” And what exactly IS the process that the Constitution gives its citizens to change it? Elections, Constitutional Conventions, and the passage of amendments. They are work, but they are better than government changed by the pointing of guns.
Maybe that’s the reason the Founders, in their wisdom, developed such a carefully balanced system. They wanted only those ideas that people were willing to work for to become the law of the land. Or are you saying that civil war is a better way? Then why didn’t the Founders sanction civil war in the Constitution?
Because they thought Americans could solve their problems without violence. Do you agree with them or not?
I used to be with Laura Ingraham on “Shut Up and Sing.” Now it’s just SHUT UP!
I’ve been to a Bette Midler show, years ago. I was ok, no more. Today you could not give me a ticket.
I’m in favor of civil war because I know who would win. Bring it on Bette!
Look up the phrase ‘Fag Hag’ in Websters and there will be a pic of Midler with Barry Manilow playing keyboard in a NY bathhouse. Never could understand the media hype that surrounds her.
Take away the college professors and celebrities and spoiled rich punks and what you have left is lower IQ folks, poorer folks, richer but still un-educated UNION folks...all who BELIEVE the ridiculous LIES of the left and continue to vote for the fake promises.
The elite liberal democrats are EXPERT and causing race issues, inciting the poor and un-educated and MANIPULATING these good Americans into voting for them....the liberal elite ruling class is so low and dirty and full of crap that it is no wonder the sides are FINALLY starting to rip apart.
There, fixed it for you..
I dunno, folks, I'm just not seeing all of this hysteria, but I'll grant you, I don't live in the armpit of the country, either. I'll also admit that when our family was under siege, I started to get VERY paranoid, but I'm over it.
Honestly, is there anyone here who is that far gone? I may be wearing my rose colored glasses, but even the most hard right person I've encountered wants this guy defeated in the lawful elections (frankly, I'd settle for his puppet masters — Nancy and Harry). I'm just not getting it. Bette really needs a chill pill and so does Nancy.
This is the old Liberal / Leftist Double Standard at work... Big Time.... yelp, scream, screech, yada yada yada.
The Left can say and do anything - insult Republican Presidents, hurl outrageous accusations at Conservatives ...they have no limits in their outrageous behavior.
But we fight back with a strong counter-attack - hitting them where it hurts... with facts and revelations (ACORN, Van Jones, and more) — AND since they have no defense of logic and strong facts to come back and defend their position — then then attack -— Conservatives are RACISTS - Conservatives are Right Wing Extremist ready to start a civil war... and other such puke.
The Liberal/Leftist movement is just losing the argument - no hope of wining the argument - so they fling insults - we’re all racists, haters and worse ...
... when in fact the real Intolerant HATERS are on the Liberal/Left.
I say - Pour it on !!! Just keep it up until every neighborhood is marching with signs “throw the bums out”...
Pour it on... never - even stop fighting Obama-Reid-Pelosi (the ‘ORP’ and their GANG OF DEMOCRAT THUGS.
I wonder where they were when a certain Columbia University professor called for a million Mogadishus? We let Moore and Sheehan ramble on until she became a laughing stock. While the Left work to crush dissent because they fear the truth.
Immaculee Illibagiza is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Her entire family was killed, but she survived because a local pastor harbored nine women for three months in a 3 foot by 4 foot bathroom. Because they could have been found out at any moment, they basically could not talk, or move, for those three months. “”For example, when I remember what went on in Rwanda, I think a call - just a telephone call - from the White House, would have stopped the genocide in a second. If the president or somebody had just called the country, and called the people who were doing it - because they were saying it on radio, it was not something they were hiding - if he had called, with a phone call and told them “Stop it, otherwise we are going to punish you” they would have been scared. They would have stopped it. They did not even need arms, or soldiers to come stop it. They would have stopped the radio, and the genocide would have stopped in a second.
She may be right. All the President needs to say is “Those of you who are doing this will be hunted down and prosecuted. It may take us a year to get a force over there that can stop you, but rest assured, we will hunt you down no matter how long it takes. The U.N. Will convene a special tribunal to prosecute these crimes, and we will get you.””
-— Clinton may have been able to save 400,000 lives with a phone call. Just the threat of future assured punishment might have stopped the whole thing. And also interesting was the comment that “they would have stopped the radio” - this I take to mean that instructions or incitement given over the radio was instrumental to keeping the hatred flowing. And a radio station is something that could have been taken out with a single cruise missile.
“Because they thought Americans could solve their problems without violence.”
The Founders FOUGHT a war to make our government!? <—Read that again, please. I guess they don’t live up your standard? I guess we should label them under treason and remove them as heroes in our history books.
This is silly. I’m not saying one shouldn’t exhaust the options available. In fact, I would say I’m very very hesitant on the idea of civil war. It in my opinion would require those options to be exhausted and to be eliminated in some sense.
Historically it’s obvious that people can and sometimes should fight to remove their government (AS WE DID), and so I leave that option. Personally I think we’re a long ways away from that. I may not like Obama and the current admin, but nothing remotely wants me to see violence.
It’s very workable from here, but you seem to think I’m walking around with my bayonet on.
oh goodness are you calling bette a jew hating jewish person?
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