As it is the 50th birthday of Glenn Beck, Unit 1012 will post
a powerful speech he gave at Washington D.C on June 19, 2013. We chose this
speech to speak out about overcoming evil in the country.
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‘We Will
No Longer Accept the Lies’: Glenn Beck’s Powerful Speech at Washington, D.C.
Rally
Jun. 19,
2013 11:19am
Editor’s
note: Below are the prepared remarks for Glenn Beck’s speech in Washington,
D.C., on June 19, 2013. This post has been updated with more up-to-date text,
though the delivered remarks may slightly differ.
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Today,
inside, they dedicated a new statue of another American giant, Fredrick Douglas
– a man born into slavery, but who knew instinctively that he was not born a
slave. No man is.
To
keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the
elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs
and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you
no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere
rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up
and do what ever it is the circus requires.
(Scroll
down to watch the full speech)
Fredrick
Douglas was lucky enough to live in a house where he was taught to read, write
and think. He knew God did not make men masters over others. Nor did he ever
intend any man to impose unrighteous dominion over another man or beast.
It
is time we remind ourselves of this truth again, and begin to rise up against
the intimidation before the handful of peanuts from our new political circus
masters is considered a kindness and not the symbol of evil cruelty.
In
the building behind me, they are now excusing storing all data, phone calls,
financial transactions, geotracking on every American for our “safety,” while
allowing anyone to cross our borders either on foot or in underground tunnels
without any worry or consequence.
They
have not suspended or fired but promoted
those at the IRS who rattled the chains of control to any group that disagreed
with their policies. And now, after pushing misery and death through the
so-called “Arab Spring” in country after country, they are plotting a new war
with Syria. This will bring death and destruction the world over. We are told
that we need to pick sides and arm those who are so far down the scale of
decency that even Vladimir Putin asked Americans if they knew that those we are
arming have literally eaten
their enemies on the battlefield.
The
fact that he even needed to ask that question, and that most have never even
seen the video of the commander of the rebel troops on TV engaging in this
ungodly horror, is an indictment of our government officials and our media.
I
am surrounded today by some modern-day spiritual giants. All from different
faiths, different backgrounds and many different views. But we all have one
thing in common. We don’t recognize our country anymore and because we know
that God is just, we tremble for our children’s future.
We
wonder, are we even worth defending anymore? If so, why? Who are we? And will
we even notice or care when the chain is finally snapped around our legs?
What
will be written about us? The greatest generation has passed. We are who
historians will watch.
Will
it be said that none called for justice not one pleaded for truth? They trusted
in vanity and spoke lies. They conceived mischief and brought forth iniquity.
What
is it we even believe as a people anymore? Where did we get these ideas that
now seem so popular?
Our
forbears came to these shores not for free stuff, but for freedom. The chance to
make their own way, create a different life. They came here because they knew
that God made them free to make their own way in life, take the risk, do their
best and take responsibility for their own lives.
They
came here because they wanted to serve Him in the way they believed, not as
they were told.
But
how many care about our history? And, of those who do care, how many really
still believe?
Some
things are worth
believing in. That the little guy can make it. Every single life has value and
is worth living. That honor and integrity do matter. That justice will prevail
– if not in this life – then the next, and that God does exist. And what we do
in our lives matters.
It
is the meek and the humble that inherit the earth. Have we forgotten?
We
have declared ourselves masters of the earth — spread our troops all over the
world, taught the world how to do banking like we do it here in America.
Even though we can’t even master our own
homes, protect our neighborhoods, or simply balance a check book. How grotesque
and garish we must appear to those looking in.
I,
for one, still believe in the silly notion of truth, justice and the American
way.
Since
our founding, a good percentage of our fellow citizens closed their eyes to the
civil rights of all Americans. “I’m okay. I don’t want to think of the bad
things going on. I am busy. It doesn’t affect me. It can’t be that bad and even
if it is, I am just one person and what can I do about it anyway?”
Nothing
has changed, except the chairs at the table.
Someone
has always been on the losing end of the stick of power. Blacks are the most
obvious, the Chinese, the Native Americans, but lets not forget the Irish, the
Catholics, the Mormons, the Jews, and now it seems all those of faith that will
not conform.
For
those that think men make progress collectively: I warn you, history teaches
that you couldn’t be more wrong. We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no
“family pass” ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket, one life at a
time.
Man
doesn’t vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to
the Irish. Atheists to Christians.
But
as always, there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, Gandhi and
Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends; man
must be ever-vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.
They
never forget that truth, justice, and freedom are the wellspring from which the
waters of man’s civil rights come. And so they must be upheld for all men –
those you know, those you do not, and maybe more importantly — they must be
upheld for those who you do know but do not like or agree with at all.
If
they are lost for one, in the end they are lost for all.
In
the past, these historic stands which we now call civil rights movements were
done by a small but dedicated portion of our citizens which led to great shifts
in our culture. But those movements always came from the same
institutions … the church. And usually not the church with the popular
preacher, but the one who put it on the line to tell the people the truth.
Preachers
like these men, who know that we are all born free, but that freedom comes at a
great price — a profound responsibility to stand against injustice, hatred and
bigotry. Our pulpits have gone quiet out of arrogance, fear and apathy. Their
faith is found in the wisdom of man and not in the power of God. For some,
losing tithing checks or the gold Rolex watch has become more important than
losing man’s freedom.
Whatever
the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is
no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.
I
humbly suggest to you that Martin Luther King knew the answer, and he lost more
than congregants during his long march. Students are taught that his vision
came from the ideas of Gandhi. Maybe a new radical 20th century progressive
philospher was the one that taught MLK that “although we be free of all men,
when we choose to make ourselves servants to all, we gain the more.”
Let’s
get a couple of things straight. What MLK and Gandhi did was not progressive or
new. It was an ancient idea. Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was
the source of power of the 1960s freedom movement.
God
was.
He
was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice
Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn’t John Lennon that
taught people about love and peaceful resistance — that job fell on the
shoulders of a Jewish carpenter. And it is there that we will find the answers
that will break the chains that are being forged for a new generation of
slaves.
The
rights that so many Americans ignorantly preach about so often are not really
their rights.
They belong to God and they are given to us for stewardship. They
are pretty important and obvious. So obvious that we used to say they were
“self-evident,” meaning that humans don’t need to be taught; you instinctively
know that you have a right not to be executed without a trial, held without
charge, searched without warrant or spied upon without cause.
The
government is no longer the protector of those civil rights, and so we must be.
When we are told that it is okay for the IRS, EPA, ATF, FBI or anyone to
hassle, threaten or intimidate others because of their skin color, religion or
political belief, we stop being the country that we all want to build, and
start being the country the world should fear.
The
long train of abuses regarding these rights are the same MLK marched against,
and the very same our dusty founders warned us about losing.
Men
may make progress, but man never changes. Man loves power and money. No matter
the skin color, religion or income level. These symbols of our nation make men
drunk with power, who then justify their lust for more by claiming they are
public servants. The only difference between Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. is
that at least Vegas has the decency to admit the town is full of hookers and
crooks.
We
must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have
played us, lied to us and stolen from us, while the getaway car was driven by
the media. A media that can no longer claim with a straight face the role of
journalist. Journalists print the things the powerful don’t want printed. What they do
is public relations. Those PR firms will not print the truth about the average
American who finds himself concerned with the direction of our country today.
So we must.
We
are not violent. We are not racist. We are not anti immigrant. We are not
anti-government. And we will not be silent anymore.
Those
who wish to use unrighteous dominion over mankind are not enemies of ours; they
are enemies of God, and He will not be silent much longer either.
We
will no longer accept the lies, the corruption, or the information and data
gathering. It is evil. And we come here today to send a message that we will
surround all of those who wish to stand and break the cycle of corruption. We
will use ourselves as shields to protect those in the system, the elected
officials or whistle blowers with the courage to stand.
We
come here today to respectfully, but with the power of the spirit, demand to be
treated as an equal member of society. I am a man, and I will be treated as
such. I answer to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We
have chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as
well.
We
come today to declare our independence, to reaffirm our founding principles.
We, as a nation, acknowledge a creator. We acknowledge that he gives certain
natural, guaranteed rights to man. We declare that government exists primarily
to protect these natural, God-given rights. He has established right and wrong.
He is just and therefore, man must pay for his mistakes either now on Earth, or
through God’s justice later.
There
is no such thing as social justice. Only God can balance things out, and we are
not God. But honest and decent men can fight for and establish equal justice.
There
is no such thing as collective salvation. We, however, are going to be judged
on how we treat our fellow brothers and sisters. Thus we must serve them, help
them with charity toward all. “Malice toward none,” Lincoln said. God said it
slightly differently – vengeance is mine.
Anyone
who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is
clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say so.
America:
it is now your time to rise up and boldly declare those same self-evident
truths that changed the world, and demand that those truths remain the basis of
our laws.
My
civil rights will not be trampled, and I say this not for me but for my
children, and all those who yearn to breathe free. Those who make your Apple
products at Foxxcon, those who languish in prisons in Cuba, North Korea and
Venezuela. Those homosexuals who are stoned to death in the streets of Egypt or
Iran, while our so-called civil rights leaders hold coffee klatches with third
graders in the White House.
We
will stand not for our job, house or income, but we will stand for those
immigrants who came here the right
way, and not have their dreams destroyed by increasing competition at the
lowest rung of the ladder while keeping the brightest and best minds out of the
visa pool allowing for little competition at the top.
We
will not pervert women’s rights and twist it into a gross silent defense of
abortion doctors in Philly and Houston while turning our eyes from the
forgotten women who have never had the civil right to walk alone on a street
without a man, or to drive a car in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, and even those
who now cower in fear with their faces covered in states like Florida,
Virginia, New York and Minnesota.
We
will not waste another second shadow boxing the demons of the past when the
fight to end actual slavery is still happening today. Call it what you will,
but those who make your iPad in China – those who make your cute little Mao
purses – are the very people you claim to care so much about. They are the ones
yearning to breathe free. And worse, there is the oldest form of human degradation
man has ever known, the sex slave trade that currently has in its coils over 2
million children. The biggest source of this evil is a wide open hole in our
Arizona border.
We
beg the American people to wake up and help the 8-year-old children being sold
into sex slavery. The press may say, ‘How dare these men declare themselves the
next Martin Luther King or civil rights leaders?’
How
blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights
movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the
beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off,
and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the
way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are
not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can
stand against the dangerous arc of this story.
But
we need people who are willing to speak truth.
The
last century was a century of genocide. A century where collectivist, national
socialist, and communist evil rose up again and again… swallowing up the lives
of millions. It happens every time man says the collective is more important
than the right of the individual. That one phrase becomes in the end – every
time – a license to kill anyone deemed to be standing in the way of progress.
But
evil met its match. Goodness eventually prevailed. People like Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lech Walesa and Mother Theresa awoke the
world. They gave their lives to the pursuit of human rights. They took the side
of justice against injustice; they held aloft the torch of freedom to push out
the darkness of hate. These men and women lived difficult lives. They often
lived shortened lives. They were often born to relative privilege, but willing
to take on suffering. They did want not to martyr themselves. They would have
happily lived to the end of their natural lives in comfort… but to the
righteous, there is no comfort when evil has taken root.
But
the cause of human rights has been taken over by organizations who share little
with the individuals who led the movement. Human rights was once a cry for
justice. Now it used as a threat. These organizations have become bullies and
grotesque parodies of the principles they pretend to represent. They criticize
free nations and spare the unfree. They denounce nations like Israel and
America, who have high standards for freedom, and leave alone nations that have
no freedom at all. They are nearly comical in their double-standards.
They
are no more than the enforcers or the attack dogs of those who wish to keep men
confined in spaces they design. Whatever moral force they once had is spent.
Their time is up. And so, we dismiss them. Today we take back the phrase “human
rights” and place it where it belongs, as the first half of God’s plan for
humanity. The second half is responsibility.
If
we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with
responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable
with responsibility.
Who
will protect your rights better? A king, president or you?
Who
will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or you?
Who
will protect and teach your children to seek truth? A textbook committee, an
education bureaucrat, or you?
Did
a commission of wise men stop the Holocaust? Did a committee of Congress end
Jim Crow?
No.
In each case, the work was done by individuals who would not abide convenient
lies.
They
saw injustice and they called it out. They saw their nation wage war against a
single group and they said “not in my name.” They didn’t wait for the
conventions of society to catch up to God’s laws. They pushed. They pressed.
And they were victorious.
Each
of us have been waiting for a leader to rise from among us. And none have. How
many have been called and refused to serve? How many must have failed to heed
the call for the Lord to make it all the way down to us?
I
pray now that those who have heard the call to rise up in the tradition of
peaceful resistance do so now before, as it was with Bonhoeffer, it is too
late. I beg those with eyes and ears to heed the call and begin to train under
the exact system used by MLK. Search his words out. You will find that your
history professors and civil rights activists left out the real author of the
words of Gandhi, King and Bonhoeffer.
Read
them, ponder them, and risk living them. Even though they will make you a
target of the NSA, having your name on their list as an enemy may in the end be
the way your name is forever etched in his book of life.
Pastors,
priests and rabbis: I challenge you. What have you done with your knowledge and
priesthood power that those without have not done this week? If you cannot
answer that with power every day, what does that say about you?
Average
citizens and college students: I challenge you. Martin Luther King didn’t take
a class, get a certificate and a bunch of permits. He saw injustice, studied
eternal truths, exercised discipline and marched.
If
you don’t find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.
Christians:
I believe in the free market. If your preacher is too afraid to preach it from
the pulpit, maybe you should preach it from the street corner. Many are called.
Will you answer?
Our
spiritual body is out of shape and we need intensive training right now.
Get
back to God, and know that some things are true and worth believing in. The
good guys do win
in the end. Evil does not stand unless good men never rise up. The time is now
and we are the
people the world is waiting for. We must never stop being the shore that others
can come to for shelter and hope.
But
to do so we must realign ourselves with truth and rise up and stand. This is
the vision. We must preach good tidings to the meek, bind up the brokenhearted,
and proclaim liberty to those held captive. To declare vengeance belongs to God
and God alone. We must give unto those who mourn — beauty for ashes and water
the trees of righteousness. We shall not perish.
I
can’t help that most of us don’t like to hear the truth, but hear it we must:
George Washington told us religion and morality are the only stable and lasting
basis of individual life and public policy. If we are to survive, they must be
part of our public policy rather than driven from it.
It
is no longer enough to just be a good person. We must work to be the next
Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King. It is noble to strive to be the size of
the bronze giant they dedicated this morning in the building behind me.
Fredrick Douglas’ time was in the 1800; King’s time has passed. This is our
time. This is the next long march toward civil rights and we shall overcome.
Stand
without fear, lock arms and stare down the bullies that wish to enslave mankind
yet again.
Honor,
courage and love are what is required, and they are contagious. Spread the word
and proclaim liberty throughout the land.
“Let
us, today, raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest
is in the hands of God.”
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