Beck adds Van Jones, Al Qaeda to conspiracy theory about purpose of New York convicts law
November 11, 2009 11:46 am ET
From the November 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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SOME white people in aour nation are against the idea of minorities getting up out of poverty- making better lives for themselves. The last thing many of these folks is to see messages of inspiration in our prisons and black/latino communities. It sort of reminds me of back in the days of our Founding Fathers when it was against the law to teach slaves how to read.
Its FEAR- plain and simple
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"Neither proposed constitutional amendments has drawn any public opposition."
This is a complete non-issue.
Except Beck uses it to make the Van Jones-Obama-Al-Qaeda connection. I am sure there's a special place in Hell for Glenn beck.
"During regimented times during the day, the prisoners would have different task to perform everyday. Some of these task included making “nails, barrels, clothing, shoes and boots, carpets, buttons, carpenters’ tools, steam engines and boilers, combs, harnesses, furniture, brooms, clocks, buckets and pails, saddle trees...”. During the year 1840s, the prison began to make production in the silk business by bringing in silk worms and trees."
You know when prisons started putting their prisoners into jobs? About 1820 with the Auburn System. SURPRISE, SURPRISE, this system was founded in non-other than Auburn, NY. Yes, Ny has played a leading role in prison reform throughout history. Unfortunately, the specific reform Beck is railing on was implemented almost two centuries ago. YOUR 189 YEARS TOO LATE BECK!!!! So close yet so far.
"As of 2005, local jails held or supervised 819,434 individuals. Nine percent of these individuals were in programs such as community service, work release, weekend reporting, electronic monitoring, and other alternative programs"
Of course, Beck is like most propagandists, he's saying exactly what his audience wants to hear, and the last thing they're going to do is question any of it.
It's the same as right wing sites like Human Events or RedState. I love to read their articles, the ones that have alarms and buzzers going off in my head, raising all sorts of questions about the "facts" presented, then move on to the comments from the teabaggers, who don't seem to have any of those questions occur to them.
See White House.. you cant give these bastards an inch. YOu gave them the head of Van Jones and they STILL WONT SHUT UP ABOUT HIM.
It's not about Van Jones, its about President Obama and his skin color. It's time we stopped ignoring the elephant in the room.
I have to admit, with everything the rightys are wrong about, they have proven themselves dead right about one thing; Fundamentalist, bigoted, conservative religious wackos can not be appeased.
OK, they were talking about "Islamofascist Terrorists", not themselves, but give them credit anyway.
even when you give them what they want, it isnt enough because they want the end of Obama (one way or ... sigh ... the other.)
The election of a black man drove them crazy. That is very evident.
Reminds me of Anti-vax, moon landing hoax believers, 9/11 truthers, etc.
Ah you say they were in juvenile detention for what ? Well I'll tell you what they got caught at. They were caught sending birth announcements to the local papers in Hawaii.
Ah but the plot thickens. As young kids in Kenya, they met George Soros. George heard about thier sending birth announcements to local papers in Hawaii and their group ACORN. So George financed their trip to the United States, and employed them at ACORN.
George noticed that Barack could read from a teleprompter better than anyone he had ever seen before. George had a eureka moment, and told Barack he could run for president and turn the country into socialist, fascist, Nazi country in a heartbeat. Of course George would finance the whole thing.
Hey what does everybody think? Do I have a future in right wing talk radio or what!
Or back in WW2, Korea and Vietnam, where offenders were offered the opportunity to serve their country or go to jail, paradoxically to serve with draftees who were threatened with jail if they did not serve.
Does anyone remember Drexel-Burnam, where the culprit geniuses were released to educate the public about their misdoings.
Let's see how this works now, Wall street destroys the economy in order to save it, for themselves, no body goes to jail, they continue to sell bubble producing derivatives without regulation, millions are unemployed, the population is outraged over them rewarding themselves for screwing us, crime and civil disorder are expected to increase in the next year due to the lack of work and disappearing unemployment benefits and now the disappearance of affordable healthcare.
It seems Al Quida recruitment is the least of our worries, they'll be sitting in their cells/caves watching this cr@p on TV.
*FACEPALM*