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Beck: Blow-up coming by 2010
Glen Beck Show | 2/10/09

Posted on 02/10/2009 7:36:55 PM PST by pabianice

Beck was animated tonight. He predicts some sort of blow-up/revolution by next year. Rationed healthcare for those over 50. Obama's Brownshirts. Three trillion dollars down the toilet in ObamaAid. The Left confiscating private firearms. Illegal aliens getting "stimulus" money and amnesty. The Obama war on religion. The second and third ranking Justice Department nominees child pornographers and anti-military hatemongers. Interesting.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; agenda; beck; bho44; cwii; foxnews; glennbeck; socialism; thecomingdarkness
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To: gtsamson

Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.

No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free— if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable—and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace— but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!


321 posted on 02/11/2009 3:35:46 PM PST by myself6 (.)
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To: Kozak
That's my line in the sand.

In spite of all the talk about no taxation without representation. The shooting didn't start until the lawful authorities went for the arms of the colonists.

Then all hell broke loose.

322 posted on 02/11/2009 3:38:43 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: 6ppc
LOL! Things were building to a fever pitch, weren't they?
323 posted on 02/11/2009 4:02:53 PM PST by an amused spectator (Obama: Besteuerung Macht Frei)
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To: El Gato
The shooting didn't start until the lawful authorities went for the arms of the colonists.

Another interesting fact from the 1770s is that the British overlords actually paid the taxes that they levied on the colonists, too.

They weren't a crew of arrogant Tax Cheats who were "too smart", "too important" and "too connected" to pay the taxes everybody else had to pay.

324 posted on 02/11/2009 4:07:13 PM PST by an amused spectator (Obama: Besteuerung Macht Frei)
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To: pelican001
This should include fixing the lack of limits as to how much the government can confiscate in taxes. There are presently no limits.

That's definitely one. Another will be that each law passed by the Congress must be justified by the articles of the Constitution - no more passing laws to make the political elites appear as though they are doing something. A third will be mandatory term limits - no exceptions. A fourth will be that the Congress will no longer pass its own pay raises - those will be determined by the citizens of each state through their state legislature.

325 posted on 02/11/2009 6:29:26 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: pelican001

Another one that comes to mind is limiting Congressional sessions. We don’t need Congress in session year ‘round, they only get into more mischief. I say they show up once every two years for 6 months to pass a budget and take care of other pressing matters, then they adjourn and go home. If the president needs them for something between sessions, he can call them back into special session to do ONLY those things for which the special session was called.


326 posted on 02/11/2009 6:33:31 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: RJS1950
Having been career military I don’t think that the bulk of the military would obey BO Plenty if he order them to put down a civilian rebellion against his regime.

I fully agree. I'm not sure that he will EVER have the trust OR support of the military.

327 posted on 02/11/2009 6:40:41 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Windcatcher
The way to get the Marxists thrown out is to make them abject failures.

Ray Nagin was an abject failure and got reelected.

Can say the same thing about most mayors of large cities, to say nothing of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.

328 posted on 02/11/2009 9:34:42 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring
You're talking about those mayors who are BLACK, no? They could be caught on video raping infants and the BLACK city residents (usually a majority) would re-elect them (hmm, why would that be?)
329 posted on 02/11/2009 9:50:53 PM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda arm.)
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To: Windcatcher

It’s obviously the culmination of the dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. that one day people “...would be judged by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character”.


330 posted on 02/11/2009 10:24:38 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: elpadre

The south is not the sole conservative stronghold that the press makes it out to be. Look at the county map of red and blue from the last election and you find a lot more red in places other than the south.

The point was that it was the democrat south that seceded and it was the south that remained primarily democrat up through the 60s.

The thought should not be a segmented country but one country again united under a constitutional republic and with an outlawed democrat party.


331 posted on 02/12/2009 6:25:00 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950
“...The thought should not be a segmented country...”

that thought of a segmented nation is repugnant to me. However, looking at the county map to which you refer, note the democrat counties, by and large, are centered around the urban areas. The colors are not mixed throughout the country, but rather they are segmented - urban counties versus the remainder.

332 posted on 02/12/2009 9:33:41 AM PST by elpadre (nation)
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