Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Glenn Beck tearfully advocates secession.

It's hard to summarize a broadcast like this. Glenn Beck begins by attacking the well documented conspiracy of conservative historians who have fabricated events like the Civil War. Luckily, Glenn was not convinced that our founding fathers didn't intend for us to secede from the country whenever our feelings got hurt.

The Constitution is not a suicide pact, and if a state says: "I don't wanna go there because that's suicide!" They have a right to back out!





This is the ultimate state of patriotism. Glenn Beck is so faithfully dedicated to his country that he is advocating its dissolution; he so thoroughly believes in the rights protected by the Constitution that he asks us to ignore it.

Glenn Beck may well be reliving history for us. A few weeks ago he was doing PR for the new 'Boston Tea Parties', a broadcast memorable as much for its idiocy as the interviewee's chesire cat smile when Glenn Beck asked him if he was a party shill. Beck seems to have skipped ahead about 88 years since then to 1861. God help him, he may eventually move to 1869 and unleash another pity party on national television.

Regardless, this cry for secession represents a segment of the population that has long been inconsequential and easily ignored. They might have even stayed that way had their arguments not been so incorrigibly stupid.

Texans generally aren't the rugged, independent, liberty-conscious folks they once were. Like most Americans, they happily acquiesce to the U.S. government's steady theft of their rights and property via unlawful statutes, programs, and activities.

Unfamiliar with historical or legal details, being largely products of public (i.e., government) "education," today's Texans easily adopt the "politically correct" myths that litter the landscape of American popular opinion. Many don't even know what the word secede means, and believe that the United States is a "democracy" (hint: it's not).
These are the same people who are doing their best to forbid teaching evolution in Texas; the same ones who "[have] accused "liberal New York publishers" of inserting "stealth" homosexual messages into textbooks" and "forced the publisher of another to replace a picture of a woman carrying a briefcase with a picture of a woman baking a cake". I cannot fathom what their ideal educational system would be.

Glenn Beck at least puts a face on this madness. I'm still unsure what exactly the 'economic suicide' refers to - is it the establishment of multilateral financial institutions? is it the bailout? TARP? Are we threatening your constitutional right to whine? Are we taking your guns, Glenn? Are we hurting your feelings?

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