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Beck enlists special ops to his revolution

December 14, 2010 2:41 pm ET by Jeremy Holden

Glenn Beck called on the United States military to choose sides in the revolution that he insists has begun.

Beck urged his listeners to check out a video featured at The Blaze that shows Elizabeth Warren, a special advisor to President Obama, saying the word "revolution" while describing changing attitudes toward financial regulatory reform. This, Beck exclaimed, goes to the core of "why progressives are called progressives":

Evolution not revolution. They said revolution is the wrong way to go because it's too dangerous. You evolve into it.  Well they've gotten to the point now to where they are so convinced that everything is in their favor, that this thing is going to collapse into their hands, they are now openly talking about revolution. They are now saying, "Just push it. Push it."

Anybody within the sound of my voice that was a special ops person - anyone who has done any special ops for the United States military - you must inform your friends of the truth.

This is the way it happens. Whenever we have been - in special ops, if you've ever been, over the collapse of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of any other country, you know our special ops people are sent in at times just like this. And what is the instruction? Be there to help pick up the pieces and push, nudge, just nudge  it. Push it.

That's what they're doing. They know what point we're at, and they know whose hands it's going to fall into. And so they're pushing it into revolution, and if you're in special ops, please - please - tell your friends, wake them up.

I know you probably have, but it's time for people to come out into the open and be vocal about it and tell people what we're up against. Because nobody in the media is going to.

This is not the first time Beck has told members of the military that they will play a role in what he calls a revolution. Just last Thursday, as he announced that "the revolution has begun," Beck called on members of the armed forces to remember that their oath is to defend the constitution:

The revolution has begun -- I never thought I would say those words, but I understand that it has today.

The people you're up against have buried themselves in our government and they have been wearing masks for a long time, but they're about to take those masks off and understand, they want control of every aspect of your life because the world is about to change. And while they try to convince you that it's not, it is and they know it is. They want to control every aspect of life to make society more just, but from their perspective.

I showed you last night, I told you that if I were going to take over the world, because that's what "Forbes" said that Soros said of me, that I was going to start some dictatorship because you're too stupid -- two years ago, as I was trying to figure out how far along are they, I put a list together and this is just some of them. If I were going to take over the United States, what would I need? What would I need to do?

Well, you would have to control the financial sector. They did it with a financial bill. They control everything in the financial sector. You'd have to control health care, who lives, who dies. You'd have to control industry. That could be done through the financial sector, it can be done through taxes and it can also be done through bailouts, just taking them like GM.

You would need to control the military. This one is really tough because the military is not going -- they protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Please, dear God, if you are listening to me in any part of the world, and you are military, please, dear God, please remember your oath to the Constitution of the United States because this is the only piece they can't get.

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    • Author by beDecent (December 14, 2010 2:53 pm ET)
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      If I were going to take over the United States, what would I need? What would I need to do? Well, you would have to control the financial sector. They did it with a financial bill.

      If this is true, prior to the "financial bill", bankers controlled the United States.

      You'd have to control health care, who lives, who dies.

      If this is true, prior to healthcare reform, insurance companies also controlled the United States, since they could freely drop people as they got sick as well as deny people who were already sick.

      You'd have to control industry.

      If this is true, the CEOs of the top companies in any given industry control the United States.

      Here's the thing, Becky: more regulation does not equal government control; more regulation means less control for greedy citizens (people like you) and more for the consumer (most citizens, i.e. middle class).
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    • Author by jjtb4v (December 14, 2010 3:07 pm ET)
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      I am so sick and tired of this enemy combatant, Glenn Beck, calling for revolution and subverting the constitution. If I ever run into him, believe me, he will wish he was in jail.
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      • Author by thebewilderness (December 14, 2010 4:20 pm ET)
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        It is an odd thing, innit.
        People have been designated enemy combatants, kidnapped off the street, and tortured for less than what this fella says and does every day on the corporate media.
        Tell the truth and you will be charged with a crime. Incite violence with lies and you will be a celebrity millionaire.
        Strange country.
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      • Author by angels4light (December 14, 2010 8:28 pm ET)
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        Solitary confinement in a SuperMax, for his protection?
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (December 14, 2010 3:13 pm ET)
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      Wonder when old Glennie is going to show up in camos, and an ammo belt around his shoulder?
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      • Author by cdb (December 14, 2010 5:08 pm ET)
           
        Camos and an ammo belt? That will be his christmas outfit.
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      • Author by iJoey (December 14, 2010 10:25 pm ET)
           
        http://www.bolgernow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/glenn-beck-book.JPG

        The leaders of the revolution usually name themselves "General" or "el Heffe." :D
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    • Author by jcarr190 (December 14, 2010 3:25 pm ET)
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      Wasn't Timothy McVeigh a special ops person?
      I was on my way to the Murrah building when that "special ops" murderer blew it up. The blast threw me down the street, along with many other persons. McVeigh and Beck are cut from the same cloth. Both Beck and McVeigh are and were, right-wing nut jobs who believe the government is out to get them. These are dangerous people with simple minds. Heartless. Keep it up Beck. Some prophesies are self-fulfilling.

      There is fine line between being a "wanna be" terrorist and the lunatic fringe you inhabit. A radical right wing conservative ,just like Beck, killed 168 of my fellow Oklahomans.

      I won't forget it. You shouldn't either.
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    • Author by News Corpse (December 14, 2010 3:29 pm ET)
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      This isn't even subtle anymore. Glenn Beck announces that the revolution has begun and then incites mutiny by members of the military.

      At what point does this become illegal?
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    • Author by grrson (December 14, 2010 3:31 pm ET)
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      Glenn Beck is the kind of rich coward who will cry for days about how he can't bring his gun onto an airplane.

      He also brags about carrying a gun (to protect his inflated ego and massive wealth), but was just too chicken (and on too much coke and booze) to put his life on the line for his country like the "special-ops" people he seems to know so much about.

      Fraud.
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    • Author by icjohn (December 14, 2010 3:39 pm ET)
         
      With Glennie leading the counter-revolution by exposing the Soros led incursion and draft an army, the revolution is doomed. Full credit for the revolution's failure will then be something that Glennie will humbly accept.
      Psychotic like a fox with rabies.
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    • Author by leanease (December 14, 2010 3:40 pm ET)
         
      When he comes to the reality that his head is "messed up". He will become known as the new Jim Jones. The kool-aid will flow.
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    • Author by worrierking (December 14, 2010 3:47 pm ET)
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      I see our friend the thumbs down phantom has hit each comment in this thread so far.

      More cowardly behavior from someone who thinks Beck advocating treason is "patriotic".
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      • Author by DAWUSS (December 14, 2010 3:53 pm ET)
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        Careful, that could be leading to some philosophical discussions way over the head of Drive By Thumbs Down Anon Guy
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      • Author by Manelvagor (December 14, 2010 4:29 pm ET)
           
        Funny, I don't hear you whining about that "anonymous thumbs-up phantom" one little bit. Is it cowardly to click thumbs-up as well?

        You know quite well that any post that doesn't tow the MM° line is going to be tattooed with 'nay's. So buck up and accept your occasional thumb-tack in the spirit that it was intended - that I don't like mindless minions who come and post remarks like - "Yeah, uh, Beck's a violent traitor just like MM told me he were, uh, yeah."
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    • Author by Manelvagor (December 14, 2010 4:17 pm ET)
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      Leave it to the fearmongers at MediaManipulators° to spin their hardest to make Glenn Beck look like an ultra-violent nazi-type when just the other week lefty radio jock Mike Malloy was touting an author guest on his show for his new book CALLING FOR THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF AMERICA! I'll bet you didn't hear about THAT from MediaManipulators, did you.

      But as soon as the latest anti-Beck hate-speech is posted, here come the "useful idiots"(look it up) wagging their fingers and even threatening to kick Glenn's a** in an airport if ever they see him.

      I'll bet none of you have ever evem SEEN his show except for the cherry-picked clips that MediaManipulators° and Jon Stewart feed you. So you've probably never seen Beck imploring his audience on a daily basis to be peaceful. Yet you're so glad and grateful that you have such a great resource to help you get accross this busy and complex media highway - but I've got some bad news for you sunshine - the traffic is coming from BOTH directions and this propaganda dump only has you looking out to the right.

      By the way, I thumbs-downed your stipid remarks and now I've just told you why - or is any dissent allowed at this supposed "bastion of free speech"?
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    • Author by clams casino (December 14, 2010 6:57 pm ET)
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      Anybody within the sound of my voice that was a special ops person - anyone who has done any special ops for the United States military - you must inform your friends of the truth.


      That part cracked me up. "Anybody within the sound of my voice"? Isn't that a Christian Bale line form the most recent Terminator movie? Beck's fantasizing that he's some lone voice in the wilderness, calling out to the faithful and the converted.
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    • Author by angels4light (December 14, 2010 8:27 pm ET)
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      Since their oath is (as I recall):

      "I <state name> do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

      Why in the world should any of them (or us) listen to Glenn Beck??? Is Mr. Beck implying that he is either the POTUS, VPOTUS, or an officer in a military branch somewhere? You know, it COULD be stretched (amazingly far) into a criminal charge of impersonating an officer...
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    • Author by PremisedPerfect (December 14, 2010 10:12 pm ET)
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      It sure sounds like the "patriot" Beck is trying to choreograph the violent overthrow of the US government. Why is this schmuck not in jail?
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