Posted on 08/22/2010 5:33:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Glenn Beck says that this Saturday’s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” rally is about far more than just politics.
“This isn’t a rah-rah USA kind of thing. This is a sacred reflective spot in our nation… the Reflecting Pool,” said Beck, in an exclusive interview with Townhall.com and Townhall Magazine. “I think if you stand between Lincoln and Washington, spiritually, mentally, morally, we will heal our country.”
Healing his country is at the top of the agenda for the media mogul, who has recently introduced a prayer to his daytime radio show and frequently touches on his spiritual background during his top-ranked cable program. Restoring Honor is one way to propel his talk into action, and to provide a platform for agenda items that he plans on releasing at the rally.
“We have worked very, very hard on something that is extraordinarily delicate and fragile. It will be announced at the end of this, as the beginning of something that I believe will have restorative change as a result,” said Beck. “I don’t mean restore it back 2000, or George Bush, I mean restore us back to where we belong and where we should be as a nation and where we have been very few times in our nation’s history.”
The rally will take place between 10 and 2pm, Beck said that he had been working on something for the past eight months that had not been done in 240 years. He did not say if that was a reference to the Badge of Military Merit, issued in 1780, or has something to do with our nation’s founding, in 1776. What he did say was that the event will be of historic proportions.
“There is a revolution coming, whether you like it or not, whether that be a hot revolution or a cold revolution. A revolution is already underway in America,” said Beck. “Now who’s going to win? Is it going to be those who understand the Constitution and our founding principles and know that we have gone off those principles decades ago? Or are we going to throw this baby out with the bath water and say “we have got to try something entirely new”? That’s the question of our age and we better decide which side you are on.”
It’s clear which side Beck is on. Through a mix of Christian theology and political evangelism, he’s established himself as a man who is nothing if not dedicated to our Constitution and a religious order.
“I see this as a George Washington said, ‘Meet me on the battlefield of ideas.’…Does man have a right to decide his own destiny without the coddling of the collective? Does man pay for the sins of the mistakes of his father or for the grandeur of his father does he get reward? Or does a man have to stand on his own two feet and live and die in his own merit with the understanding that there are some, some, in our society that just can’t stand on their own two feet and we have a responsibility to take care of those. Is that where we are headed?”
Perhaps another option is an oligarchy, said Beck. He is especially concerned about the intersection of politics and power. “Or are we headed towards… some sort of controlling government that will only allow man to expand, succeed, and fail just so much. That’s the first battle and that’s the battlefield of ideas,” he said.
Beck has received scores of criticism from those who say the timing of his event – on the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech – seeks to overshadow the civil rights movement in a negative or demeaning way. For example, Media Matters has titled the event Glenn Beck's 8-28 "reclaim the civil rights movement" rally. But Beck is nonplussed.
“I’ve read Martin Luther King’s speeches, I’ve read his sermons, I have listened and respect the words he said, I take him at his face value and that is to follow God, listen to God, be peaceful, but stand for the right of man to be equal and have an equal shot,” said Beck. “That it is not about the color of skin, it is about the content of character. I don’t know if there is going to be a word on stage that Martin Luther King would disagree with.”
One-thousand buses have reserved space in D.C. for the event. By comparison, there were about 3000 buses for President Obama’s inauguration.
I don’t understand what he is doing, the purpose?
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All this hype from Beck about something-that-he-can't-say-what-it-is reminds me of all that Segway BS. When was that, 1999?
Lot's of stories about "It". "It" was going to change civilization.
"It" has become a comic platform for fat cops and park rangers.
Civilization remains the same.
I fear Beck has fallen into the same super-duper-schmuper-over-hype of something that's not that big of a deal.
And I say that as a person who is a big fan of the Glenn Beck show.
I am praying for Glenn to be used by God. But the gnawing concern is will it be typical Beck: huge build up and promtion, big let down. Our country does not need that now. We need a return to God. Not looking here for that.
Why don’t you read the editorial, it gives a clue
...Perhaps another option is an oligarchy, said Beck...
I would refer Beck to one of his shows on Goldman Sachs and how entrenched they are in Treasury and the Fed.
We are already living under an oligarchy.
I think it's LONG past time that we need to play hardball with the domestic enemies of freedom, and engage in FORCEFUL truth-telling and political debate, just as our founders did, and just as has been done throughout our history.
Here's an email I wrote Glenn after he said on his show that he didn't want anyone to carry signs:
Dear Glenn,
I USUALLY agree with you Glenn, but you are supremely WRONG to ask us to not carry signs to events. AND, you are technically WRONG that attendees at MLK's civil rights events did not carry signs (see attached picture that took me about 1 or 2 SECONDS to find on the internet). I have attended two Tea Party rallies here in Atlanta, and I carried signs for many reasons. First and foremost, as an INDIVIDUAL American citizen, I have a 1st Amendment RIGHT to do so. Secondly, though the Tea Party started as a purely FISCAL sanity movement, it has become so much more. In my opinion, it is all about FREEDOM, and all that entails (Constitutional rights, history, tradition, etc.), and as such, I, as an INDIVIDUAL want to STRONGLY (needed to try and counter the left-wing sycophants in the mainstream media) voice MY opinions, and not just fall in lockstep with the various "leaders" of the Tea party movement. I respectfully ask that you reconsider your view that we not carry signs, and merely ask that you continue educating the public to be careful, when making signs and voicing opinions, as to not give our domestic enemies any ammunition to use against us. Thanks Glenn.
I'm thinking that of all the places I might go to reflect that would be somewhere near the bottom of the list. It's in the middle of a loud, smelly, crowded city.
I always thought it was called the Reflecting Pool because it reflects a view of the other monuments. Silly me...
Ouch! The response here on FR seems pretty tepid. I like Glenn, but I wonder if he’s setting himself up for failure on this one.
I’m going.
Will let you all know a 1st hand account.
We are going as well.
Not only won’t he let us bring signs, he wants us to bring our kids. My kids are in their 40’s and 30’s, like most Patriots. I don’t know what he’s even talking about.
I got a little worried when he talked last week about Hebrew writing being found in America.he is Mormon and I sure hope he’s not going to go all Mormon on us. I know some nice Mormons, but I am a Lutheran.
I looked it up in wikipedia, and they say it’s a Mormon thing to be looking for things like Bible writing in the US, but most people say it’s not real. Here’s the web-link to that in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Egyptian
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