Texas is too good for him.
Glenn,
just be quiet. Go sell some more books, magazines, web ads, or commercials. Make some clothes to sell. Hell, create a rival tea company.
Your schtick is getting old and people just don’t want to hear it anymore.
He keeps going on about the government getting your info. Just what does he think they will do to all of us? I’m a law abiding, tax paying citizen. I’ll be damned if I’m going to be scared of the government. This is NOT North Korea. And if we really have to fear our government to that degree, then we have a huge problem, and in that case secession would become a legitimate argument.
Anyone signing such petition should not be surprised if they lose, or have denied any security clearance.
There was a time when I considered Beck a valued asset for the country but, as time passed, he has become more of an grade B actor.
I refer to the times when our country has faced calamities. Beck begins his show with a somber monologue and with a quivering voice, long pauses and tearful predictions of gloom for the country then, without missing a beat launches into...AND NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR GOLD-R-US.
Anyone who has the ability to snap out of abject depression to a upbeat manic mode that fast, is either acting or has mental problems.
We have the right to freedom and independence from this evil communist obama and its regime in DC. Beck can join Chris Christie as all they care about is money and imo are democrats in hiding.
This silly talk of secession makes us look like a bunch of crackpots. This goofy stuff belongs at DU.
Watching America turn into a corrupt regime is RIDICULOUS.
Fighting back on all fronts now is imperative. Pontification on radio shows isn’t enough. This is no time to be scared.
Secession should be a last resort, but it may at some time be necessary.
Secession is not ridiculous, it is inevitable. How long do you think a government that is running over trillion dollar deficits will last ?
Glenn (and Rush and Sean will do this too) has to poo-pooh the idea of secession because his sponsors will not tolerate anything else. Sponsors are very timid. Expouse something as controversial as secession, and they’ll jump ship like rats. Sad.
I don't think any of the petition senders expected it to.
It's making a statement- which is good.
Is secession a viable solution? It’s one thing to talk about morality and legality, but quite another to talk about feasibility. If any State attempted to secede, wouldn’t the Liberal Messiah send in the military? We don’t know what the military would do.
My take from this election is the secession will not fix the fact that the takers and the makers is a battle not by states, but within states. Even red Texas is 40% Democrat.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, regressive, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et. al.:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement:
1. Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides had such distinct and disparate tastes.
2. We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
3. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
4. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
5. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
6. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.
7. We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
8.You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
9. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks.
10. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
11. You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
12. You can have the peace-niks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
13. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
14. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain. You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
15. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
16. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors.
17. We'll continue to believe healthcare is an earned luxury and not a right.
18. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
19. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya," or "We Are the World".
20. We'll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.
21. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our constitution and our flag.
22. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely, John J. Wall Law Student and an American
P.S.: Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, and Jane Fonda with you.
P.S.S..: And you won't have to "Press 1 for English" when you call our country.
Years ago at my local watering hole and sports bar the afternoon crowd was always ready to watch Beck on TV.
Now they laugh and sneer at him, all talk and no action, a slave to his sponsors a sellout for an audience and consumerism.
Beck is irrelevant as could be other conservative talk show hosts. The revolution is our Rendezvous with Destiny. If any fault of the conservative base is that niceties of announcing our intentions prior to actions.
I believe right now behind closed doors somewhere a governor is having a meeting of how best to proceed, how to prepare against Federal retaliation, how to organize state assets for the near future should they find themselves isolated.
By all legality 2/3rds of all the states need to simultaneously announce. By all legality that is, but lets just assume its time to throw the rule book out the window, kick the referee off the field and gag the MSM with duck tape as they screech an abomination of the National Anthem.
Time for new rules, new laws, new leaders.
A new day, but we need to embrace the will with a deep solemn truthfulness and commitment. many will be concerned hoping to pull aside part of the herd as if they were primitive cave men trying to hunt from a herd of mastodons.
Some say the GOP is dead, I say we change it to the emblem of the wooly mammoth or mastodon, but then again it may be a stupid idea.