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Glenn Beck and A Moral Movement:
Two Ways to Learn and to Stay Abreast of What is Happening Today
September 24, 2009
It is obvious to me and , I'm sure, many others that there has been a great awakening of the American people to the unconstitutional powers that the U.S. government has been taking on for so many decades now. In addition to the huge number of everyday volunteers in the 9/12, tea party, and other people-power movements, where there is no single, charismatic leader, a few important people have opened verbal fire on the establishment. One media person in particular, while assuming no organizational leadership role, has risen to the top simply because he is not afraid to speak the truth and admits to be steadily learning--still--as we all should.
I first started listening to Glenn Beck on 9/12/2001. Since that time, I have witnessed Glenn starting out as neo-con, relatively unread, Republican talk show hack and then transforming into one of the premier spokesmen of the people's movement to restore the Constitution and our representative republic. He is nearly where many of us were back then and still are today.
(He is even close, it seems, to denouncing the useless continuance of an unconstitutionally declared war (even if you don't mind the war, you must admit that CONGRESS only has the authority to make war) that continues to bleed thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of tax dollars and debt (mostly into corporate coffers) during the occupation of countries after successfully destroying their militaries and war making infrastructuresand deposing their corrupt and tyrannical leaderships in campaigns that costs relatively few American soldiers' lives.)
Glenn Beck's investigations and easy manipulation of the socialist/fascist media have been fascinating to watch. He plays the liberal prejudices and biases of the press like a fiddle in a game of breaking news in areas that the other outlets show disdain for and ignorance of. He forces them and the organizations, like ACORN, that he is investigating to prematurely launch into a cover-up/false explanation mode that this then blown away by further revelations. Glenn Beck and his investigative research team have made an art of making fools of the fools in the so-called "mainstream" media that he now refers to as the "fringe" media.
Glenn Beck's humor is energetic and often silly but, from a Shakespearean viewpoint, makes for a good mix of drama and humor in the attempt to digest any bad news of the day. Beck excels at mocking the arrogant elites in both parties who have a royal sense of entitlement to the reins of our government and who then use government's brute force to invade every aspect of our lives. At the most mocking and silliest extremes of his humor Beck is often stating the obvious about big government in the only way that a rational person can look at it without, as he often puts it, "making blood shoot out of your eyes."
I, of course, highly recommend his television show on Fox News Channel Monday through Friday at 5pm eastern time zone. His daily radio show continues to be a great way to keep on top of the latest news and those otherwise unreported (but eminently verifiable) events and facts that are too important for good citizens to miss.
If you haven't been paying attention, you still probably haven't missed the news on the ca. 2 million everday, RESPONSIBLE citizens who showed up in D.C. and made their displeasure known in an unprecedentedly large protest based largely on libertarian/constitutionalist ideals and mostly non-partisan in nature.
In case you have had your head in the sand until now, I'm here to tell you that we are on the cusp of a great moment in this country and if you're still thinking in terms of what plunder you can get from the Federal government or what things you can do to otherwise game the system, you need to change your morals or get out of our way.
Yes, this is a moral movement. For a fundamental understanding of true liberty and the moral compass it provides to law making and to the government that creates and enforces the law, please take a little time to read or listen to The Law by Frédéric Bastiat:
http://bastiat.org/en/
http://www.freeaudio.org/fbastiat/thelaw.html
His common-sensical, prima facie argument explains the categories of tyranny that erupt in the pursuit of false philanthropy and stupid greed. This book is a must for those who wish to expand their understanding of the basic concepts of life and government.
wtc
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