Glenn Beck Slams Secession Petitioners

Glenn Beck Radio Show ^ | 11/13/12 | Glenn Beck

[central_va]

Well freedom fans, Glenn thinks the hundreds of thousands who e-signed the various peaceful secession petitions are crazy.

[tentmaker]

Our ancestors created this country with axes and flintlock smooth bores. They were giants, we are pimples.

Then we have a choice: be a pimple and sit in the corner, squeezing ourselves, or go find axes and flintlocks and be giants.

[catfish1957]

Too many Freepers are okay with the status quo of our government running up a $17T debt. I as a Texan for one, think I like our odds as our own country.

[ridesthemiles]

EXACTLY.

[ArGee]

Efforts like this always make the people organizing and supporting them look like extremist idiots

Or, they point out that the people running the country are extremist idiots.

I think the authors of the Declaration of Independence were extremist idiots.

I'm not saying I favor any state seceding on its own. I am saying that it can get bad enough to make that the only viable option, and we're on a road to it becoming that bad.

[Solson]

Why is it a waste of time and effort? The effort has been tiny so far as well as the time. And it's creating a conversation about the true and right role of government AND it shows people are pissed.

How is that bad?

[central_va]

Being on that list may make you an enemy of the FedGov™ but not the enemy of (your) state. This is a republic, get it?

[catfish1957]

The only crazy part I can see is giving your information to the White House.

Well the WH is going to be pretty busy. 4 days into this, there 75,000 signatures. Who knows, there may be 500,000 by the time the petition ends. WH is going after that many?

[righttackle44]

This secession baloney is one big Conservative temper tantrum. If sound and fury really does signify nothing, it’s example is in the secessionist movement.

[chromdome35]

What you fail to address is that many of those signatures are the same person signing multiple petitions.

The whole thing is invalidated if someone from Nebraska can sign the Texas petition.

If you look at the source information on the petitions the VAST majority of signatures aren’t from the same state as the petition addresses.

FAIL

[Dick Vomer]

He also asked if you really wanted your name on a list that the government can look at and declare you an enemy of the state.

that's my take. same with the groups in the armed forces that will resist or protect the constitution or any type of "group" that wants my name.

Everybody needs to chill out and just start paying attention to the local landscape. Find out who is lib and who isn't. Cause if the SHTF in real terms then intel is the key to any resistance. A couple of books for some holiday reading might include

http://www.squidoo.com/total-resistance-book-review?utm_source=google&utm_medium=imgres&utm_campaign=framebuster

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/

[hiredhand]

I can’t take his constant, shrill, “impending disaster” tone. It doesn’t take a genius to observe the things that he does, but he capitalizes on it and makes a good living because of it.

[central_va]

It starts a dialogue that is long overdue.

[Lloyd227]

I listened to exactly the same Beck discussion you did and I can say unequivocally that you are GROSSLY MISREPRESENTING the message. This is bullshit

[EEGator]

I don’t think it will start any meaningful conversation. One-hundred thousand people is .0333% of America.

[Errant]

I'm not too sure, one way or the other about sending the government your information and requesting secession. Seems like a good way of expressing your dissatisfaction with big gov, but then I remember the Chinese program this program was derived from (thousand something, something). Many of those folks disappeared after submitting their suggestions.

As far as state secession, even our beloved firebrand Ann Barnhardt doesn't think it's such a great idea. You can find her reasoning in the video presentation below:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2958062/posts

[EEGator]

I agree, it won’t.

[Viennacon]

I agree. Conservatives and liberals are now two completely different people. It is cruel that either should have to live under the tyranny of the other’s beliefs just because one has 51% of the vote. We should just go our seperate ways. Are these petitions viable? Probably not, but OBama will be the first president since the civil war to even have to take notice of something like this. For those talking about ashamed veterans, those who died to defend us from threats to America wouldn’t have bothered had they known we would become a banana republic under a Leninist thug.

[EEGator]

It’s not creating a conversation, it’s creating people with the same ideas agreeing with each other. I think the media will use it to make us look crazy. I’m pissed as well, I just don’t think this will do anything. If you want to sign petitions, that doesn’t bother me at all. You have your free will. I just voiced my opinion on the matter.

[catfish1957]

Enjoy your entitlement state RINO Freeper. Were you an Obama voter?

[My Favorite Headache]

Which is exactly why I haven’t signed anything.