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Beck says "what is ahead may loosen the bonds of society," may end with "a French Revolution"

March 18, 2010 10:59 am ET

From the March 18 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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    • Author by Old55 (March 18, 2010 11:01 am ET)
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      And the hits just keep on comin'! I don't know how anyone takes this guy seriously.
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    • Author by marco21 (March 18, 2010 11:01 am ET)
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      24/7 crazy. Glenn won't be satisfied till a minion fires a few rounds.
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    • Author by bintx (March 18, 2010 11:02 am ET)
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      When is someone going to investigate these people for treason. What Beck is advocating and Rep. Steve King is out and out calling for is the overthrow of our government. I think a case could be made that this constitutes treason under Article 3, Section 3.
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      • Author by txthinker (March 18, 2010 11:05 am ET)
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        Rep. King should probably be removed from office for his treasonous remarks.
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        • Author by bintx (March 18, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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          That's what I think, also. He definitely broke his oath

          I do solemnly swear (or affirm) 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; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
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          • Author by magnolialover (March 18, 2010 11:21 am ET)
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            Maybe, Rep. King believes that Obama is an enemy to the Constitution?

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            • Author by bintx (March 18, 2010 11:23 am ET)
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              He'd have to prove it. I think the man should be run out of town on a rail, myself. He's an elected official of our government. He should have more self-control than to make seditious and treasonous remarks like he did the other day.
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      • Author by The_Cat (March 18, 2010 11:22 am ET)
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        Apparently, Beck hasn't considered which side of the French Revolution his pay scale puts him on. His ignorance of history could, in this case, literally cost him his head!
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (March 18, 2010 11:06 am ET)
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      The French Revolution was all a big misunderstanding...?

      Thanks for the info, Glenn... ;>)

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    • Author by New Frontier (March 18, 2010 11:07 am ET)
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      "may end with "a French Revolution"
      Freedom Revolution, Glenn. Please.
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    • Author by Alone in Texas (March 18, 2010 11:14 am ET)
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      I finally get it, Glenn suffers from Schizophrenia.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (March 18, 2010 11:24 am ET)
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        Do you think schizophrenia can be worsened by cocaine?
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        • Author by Alone in Texas (March 18, 2010 11:34 am ET)
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          lol, sure won't make it any better!
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        • Author by raddave43 (March 18, 2010 12:11 pm ET)
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          Yes it can.
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          • Author by John Paradox (March 18, 2010 4:21 pm ET)
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            Cocaine abusers can also experience severe paranoia—a temporary [?] state of full-blown paranoid psychosis—in which they lose touch with reality and experience auditory hallucinations.

            http://www.drugabuse.gov/InfoFacts/cocaine.html
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        • Author by MiniTru (March 18, 2010 1:44 pm ET)
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          Do you think schizophrenia can be worsened by cocaine?
          Well, if he was snorting for two...
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    • Author by nerzog (March 18, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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      I hope this bill passes, just so we can watch Glenny's on-air meltdown.
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (March 18, 2010 11:22 am ET)
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        He will then give up his position, his salary, Move to the Projects, and live a life of quiet angst.
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    • Author by magnolialover (March 18, 2010 11:22 am ET)
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      Did the French Revolution pretty much end with the King being decapitated?

      Is this code for someone must take out Obama? Sure sounds like it might be.

      Either that, or Beck doesn't know his history, which is probably more true.
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      • Author by IRONY 101 (March 18, 2010 11:25 am ET)
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        Yea, but that was a misunderstanding...acording to the scholar, Beck.
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      • Author by jediknight65 (March 18, 2010 1:20 pm ET)
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        to answer your question....no it didn't end there.

        its end point is debatable. because the bloodshed didn't end with Louis' death, or even marie antionette.

        it either ended with the death of robespierre

        or the rise of napoleon

        or even after the 100 days

        or even the rise of napoleon the third.

        or even the formation of the third republic.

        it depends on one's perspective as to when it actually ended.

        though i personally find that a statement by Chou en Li (forgive my spelling if ive gotten it wrong) about the effects probably holds true best as its end. he said "we are still feeling its effects"
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        • Author by magnolialover (March 18, 2010 1:39 pm ET)
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          True enough, I guess what I meant was, what the French Revolution is mostly known for, at least in America, is the beheading of their leaders in the public square.

          At least, that's what I think of when I hear French Revolution, and Bastille Day.
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      • Author by Caliman73 (March 18, 2010 7:19 pm ET)
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        I definitely think that what Beck says and does on his show is code to incite anti-government hatred and violence, but the French Revolution did not end with the decapitation of the King. That was just the end of one phase. The French Revolution went on for many years after the monarchy was deposed. It turned on itself and became much uglier as the Reign of Terror ensued and people were killed wholesale in fits of paranoia over who was ideologically pure. It consumed the people who had planned and implemented it until people were so tired of the violence and uncertainty that they accepted Napoleon Bonaparte as their dictator.
        Now this is a simplistic summary, but Beck is so stupid that he does not understand that once you unleash the mob you cannot control the mob. He talks about taking back freedoms but when the killing starts and doesn't stop, people don't care so much about freedom and they turn to dictators to stop the violence. Beck has no idea what his stupidity will bring about.
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    • Author by christopher howard (March 18, 2010 11:23 am ET)
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      And in the role of Robespierre...
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      • Author by jediknight65 (March 18, 2010 11:34 am ET)
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        the committee for public saftey was a REAL death panel.
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      • Author by jediknight65 (March 18, 2010 11:35 am ET)
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        funny isn't it that robespierre, when he was a lawyer and before the national convention, had argued against the death penalty.
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    • Author by jediknight65 (March 18, 2010 11:40 am ET)
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      wait a min.........i just remembered something. There was a Vietnamese student who studied the French Rev. while he was at the Uni. of Paris in the 1910's. and he applied to lessons to become a leader. his name was Nguyễn Ái Quốc. he became a communist.

      so if beck is calling for another French Rev. that means Ed Wood is a Communist! I KNEW IT!
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      • Author by christopher howard (March 18, 2010 11:51 am ET)
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        I always thought it was an interesting historical point that Ho Chi Minh was petitioning the US to urge the French to leave their colonies in Vietnam in 1919 during the negotiations surrounding the Treaty of Versailles. If we had done that then, the bloody Vietnam War 40 years later would probably have been averted.
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        • Author by jediknight65 (March 18, 2010 1:15 pm ET)
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          im impressed you know who i was referring to
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          • Author by christopher howard (March 18, 2010 1:26 pm ET)
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            I read about it in...

            http://www.amazon.com/Paris-1919-Months-Changed-World/dp/0375760520/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268933090&sr=8-1#noop



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            • Author by jediknight65 (March 18, 2010 2:03 pm ET)
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              dont forget Ho chi minh also petitioned Churchill and Truman to abide by their own atlantic charter. Truman was actually supportive but Churchill for whatever reason actually sided with the hated FRENCH for some reason. (i think the general agreement is that the loss of prestige was something churchill was scared of cause if it happened to the french then how soon would it happen to britain.)
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              • Author by christopher howard (March 18, 2010 2:10 pm ET)
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                Exactly. Britain had its own colonies to worry about.
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        • Author by jediknight65 (March 18, 2010 1:36 pm ET)
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          don't forget the fact that if there was a downed pilot in Vietnam, ho chi Minh had contacts with the OSS and would always bring them back. but there was a similar arrangement with Mao. oh my the OSS was full of Communists too! no wonder they called William Donovan "Wild Bill". and James Angleton! he was a Mafia plant! and and and Allen Dulles! he must have been right up there with Donovan! Communists all of them. no wonder the Bay of Pigs failed. they were the ones who leaked it and let the Cubans get killed. its a PLOT!
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    • Author by DAWUSS (March 18, 2010 12:19 pm ET)
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      But when tragedy strikes, it ain't his fault - he was taken out of context
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    • Author by Conchobhar (March 18, 2010 1:52 pm ET)
         
      I'd say I need to hear more to figure out where he's going with this, but I get the vapors after a minute-and-a-half. However, it does sound as if he might be trying to walk himself back a bit, or to give himself "plausible deniability, in case some of his listeners decide to eradicate some "vermin."
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    • Author by shaggles (March 18, 2010 5:42 pm ET)
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      More class warfare rhetoric. Why isn't it class warfare when rich broadcasters like Beck and Rush say things like people are unemployed because they want to be or people are poor because they're lazy?
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      • Author by Conchobhar (March 18, 2010 6:22 pm ET)
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        It is class warfare, just as union-busting, out-sourcing and off-shoring are class warfare.
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    • Author by michaela (March 19, 2010 1:45 am ET)
         
      The record is clear his notion of separation had some political viability. It was an issue in the election of 1800. The Rev. William Linn said, "The election of any man avowing the principles of Mr. Jefferson" would "destroy religion, introduce immorality, and loosen the bonds of society." And incumbent John Adams, who once called the idea of a divine Jesus "a conventional cover for absurdity" put aside his own feelings to oppose Jefferson's separation in a vain attempt to hold onto the presidency. (http://www.ibka.org/en/articles/ag02/kirkhart.html)
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