President Beck: I Wouldn’t Detain Terror Suspects, I’d ‘Shoot Them All In The Head’
President Beck: I Wouldn’t Detain Terror Suspects, I’d ‘Shoot Them All In The Head’
Today on his radio show, CNN host Glenn Beck expressed his disdain of the recent Supreme Court ruling granting terror suspects the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts, exclaiming that if he were President, he would do away with detaining and prosecuting terrorism suspects altogether. Instead, a President Beck would “shoot them all in the head [if] we think that they are against us.”
BECK: We’re going to shoot them all in the head. If we think that they are against us, we’re going to shoot them and kill them, period. Because that’s the only thing we’ve got going for us is we can put them away and get information. If we can’t put them away and they’re going to use our court system, kill them.
Listen here:
If Beck were President since 9/11, he would have killed many innocent people. Here are some of those held in Guantanamo who have either been cleared of charges or were mistakenly detained. For example:
– The “Tipton Three” who were forced into false confessions and later released.
– Huzaifa Parhat, an ethnic Uighur Chinese national swept up by the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, who was improperly classified as an “enemy combatant.” Parhat has been recommended for release by U.S. officials, while a military tribunal found no evidence that Parhat was a member of any radical group.
– Over 30 former Guantanamo detainees who have already been released.
Not only would such a policy undoubtedly kill innocents, but as former Navy general counsel Alberto Mora has said, the belligerent treatment of terror suspects increases the recruitment of “insurgent fighters into combat.”
– Lee Fang
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Glenn Beck is a terror suspect.
Handle it…
June 25th, 2008 at 7:17 pmSo Beck advocates murder of prisoners, without fair trial.
I believe that would be a war crime, penalty if found guilty is death.
neocons = nazis
June 25th, 2008 at 7:17 pm“Mr.NiceGuy” is really Glenn Beck? Whoda thunk it?
June 25th, 2008 at 7:17 pmIf Glenn Beck were President, I would gladly advocate for and participate in the overthrow of the U.S. Government, and subsequent war crimes and crimes against humanity trials of citizen Beck and his henchmen. Providing of course that “the people” haven’t already gotten to him and given him and his pals the Mussolini treatment.
Just saying . . .
June 25th, 2008 at 7:19 pmPresident Beck: I Wouldn’t Detain Terror Suspects, I’d ‘Shoot Them All In The Head’
Which is just one of the multitude of reasons your listernship/viewership is amongst the lowest in the country , Glenn Speck(of shit)………
June 25th, 2008 at 7:20 pmIf Beck were President
This scenario is as likely as the election of one of our trolls. To dogcatcher.
And a good thing in both cases.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:21 pmThere are fools of this ilk on radio stations all over the country; this one happens to be on TV. Think Progress does a lot of great work. Is its time really worth spending on a dry drunk moron?
June 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pmGive Beck a loaded gun and send him down to Gitmo. Open the gates, let him in, and then let Darwinism take over.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:31 pmpenalcolony,
Some of us rely on good people willing to sit through that crap and let us know what the less intelligent are being told in this country. TP does this, and Newshounds watch FOX so you don’t have to. Knowing what they’re being told (because goodness knows I’m not going to sit through an hour of Glenn Beck when there’s perfectly good fingernails I could be pulling out of my own fingers) helps us educate people when they try to tell us at work the next day what they “learned”.
In this case, they learned that Glenn beck has no respect for the law, no respect for our judicial system, and no respect for humanity.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:32 pmYes, bring the Star Chamber back!
Yes Glenn, go have your heart-to-heart conversation with your daughter on how we should kill anyone who could even possibly disagree with our way of life without any proof.
It is very Christian of his intolerant views.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pmWhy is it always the so-called “tough” guys aka “chickenhawks”, that say “WE”. “THEY” are not gonna do a damn thing, but talk tough waaaayyyy behind the front line.
RIP
June 25th, 2008 at 7:49 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Wayne A. Schneider Says:
Some of us rely on good people willing to sit through that crap and let us know what the less intelligent are being told in this country. TP does this, and Newshounds watch FOX so you don’t have to.
Unfortunately, Beck isn’t on FOX…he’s on CNN. I also believe Beck likes to claim that he’s a born-again Christian. I think Jesus would like to have a meeting with him and clarify His stance on such issues.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:50 pmimpeachcheneythenbush Says:
I think Jesus would like to have a meeting with him and clarify His stance on such issues.
“Second coming of Jesus a catastrophe after Glenn Beck shoots him on the head, film at 11″
June 25th, 2008 at 7:52 pmGlen Beck must be a real genuine rooting-tooting tough guy cowboy just like his hero Dubya.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:53 pmSome christian’s really know howto be peaceful, loving and kind, to bad this natzi isn’t one of them..Blessings
June 25th, 2008 at 7:57 pmReminds me of a scene from Schindler’s List where the Nazi has a great time shooting people from his balcony for no reason. Don’t these people have any idea what they are saying? Such vileness on the public airwaves. Just turn it off.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:58 pmIf Glenn stepped into a cell at Gitmo with a gun, my bet isn’t on Glenn to win…not in infinity billion years.
Glenn is a sh*t talker when it comes to religion. He’s not “born again”. He was “born again” because it plays to the conservative base he’s cavorting. It makes his story that much sadder and inspirational, but it’s a work of fiction…like what he says he believes in.
June 25th, 2008 at 7:59 pmThree weeks ago Conservative radio talk show host Michael Reagan said that Anti-war people should be killed..and he said :”he’ll be glad to provide the billets”.
Two weeks later, another Conservative radio talk show Mr. Savage said “he’ll hang all these people in Getmo prison”.
Now Beck is saying that he’ll shoot them all.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:02 pmThese guys seems to be competing for who will kill first and by what methods…
It sounds all B.S. to me…they are selling themselves as the macho and the talking tough guys,because they know well that their listeners love this B.S. killing talk.
Don’t get too worked up over Beck, please. His only job is self-promotion. The name of the game is “Say something outrageous, controversial or stupid”, then rinse and repeat. It’s what Coulter and O’Reilly and Limbaugh do on a daily basis then laugh all the way to the bank. Most people tune in to them with the expectation of more of the same, like the old “Gong Show”. The whole lot of them, listeners included, are little children in grown-up bodies, afraid to even think about the garbage they spew and the effect it may have on others.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:07 pmI guess it’s the season to show that it’s “Compassionate” to kill in the name of the Union and Patriotism.
Wait a minute…the side of Evangelicals and Conservatives, wanting to kill, in the name of the State with no means of legal recourse for those they want to put on the slab! Give me a second. Sounds like they’re taking the worst things from the Holocaust, the secret round-ups under Stalin and the Crusades and mixing it all together in the name of “self defense and never again”.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:10 pmWho is Glenn Beck that all of TP comments him?
CNN is right down there with Fixed nonnews and yammering talking heads .
June 25th, 2008 at 8:10 pmLet me try to be perfectly clear. The calling for the slaughter of innocent citizens who happened to be collected in a mass group (many simply rounded up because of bounties on anybody), along with presumed/alleged combatants (technically POWs), is a calling for an act of terror. And Glenn, Rush, and even McCain have made this call, to all of their supporters, and spoken often about ignoring any and all laws (national and international) when it comes to terrorizing our presumed enemies. Indeed Osama bin Laden is assumed to be guilty of terrorist acts because he “masterminded” (called for others to commit terror by slaughtering innocent citizens who happened to be near or part of known enemies), and the three talking idiots have all said that they would kill him for that. Thus these three are in every way identical to Osama, and if their call for “revenge” is valid on any points, it must be valid for all sides. So it would be appropriate for our presumed and alleged enemies to call for their deaths as well, right? And whatever collateral damage ensues is merely part of the necessary acts of violence to protect some such thing or other.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:17 pmThis guy must have a lawyer, right? How does HE feel about his client, who has now publicly given away the right to counsel and will be found guilty of anything he is ever accused of automatically. Meanwhile, the SCOTUS is saying you cannot execute someone where nobody died. Of course, “President Beck” (God help us..), would install justices who disagree, but that is the law of the land at the moment.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:40 pmDoesn’t the natural progression of this attitude lead to shooting suspected murderers, suspected rapists, suspected bank robbers? Indeed it prompts the question, where does one draw the line? How about CNN hosts who advocate abolishing Constitutional rights?
June 25th, 2008 at 8:45 pmBeck is un-American.
June 25th, 2008 at 8:46 pmBeck’s only productive role in society is to disabuse the naive of the notion that CNN even remotely qualifies as a news network as opposed to the cheap, tawdry infotainment network that it is. Otherwise, he is just a poor man’s Limprod (like we need that) — a bigoted junkie blessed with neither wit nor insight — but with incredibly low ratings.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:00 pmPresident Beck.. LOL! That’s scary. Beck sounds like a Hitler wannabe.
I agree with comment #26. That is un-American. I am certainly holding my breath on the MSM criticizing Blowhard Beck’s comments. *cricket* *cricket*
June 25th, 2008 at 9:01 pmOne of the few people on the planet stupider than Chimpy thinks he’s wise enough to decide who should be shot in the head?
June 25th, 2008 at 9:02 pmHahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
This utter disregard for innocent lives, particularly from other cultures is nothing new,
What is so disturbing is how, hundreds of years later, so many people still think this way.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 25th, 2008 at 9:03 pmYeah, I can just see RamBeck in his limo, pointing his pasty finger at dark-skinned people from behind the tinted glass, and saying “Bang! Take that you filty muslim!”
A filty little weasel.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pmSad to see, once again, that in the beginning of this new century, a full-blooded Nazi coward, wrapping himself in American patriotism can appear on one of the premier information shows of the nation and advocate for a program of wholesale murder. Why isn’t this little pus-bag a commander of special forces in some branch of the military where he might actually have the opportunity he seems to crave of killing people face-to-face? Like Weiner, like Reagan, like Limpbaugh, O’Really, et al he’s a chicken…t coward.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pmMarie Says:
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Beck is un-American.
He’s ALSO an
June 25th, 2008 at 9:07 pm-arrogant jackass
-bigot
-fool
-a no talent bum
-as Grady (Sanford&Son) would say;
deep down, low down, rotten to the core
And to rodger an intellectual giant
take care
tony and lido
rogerse
June 25th, 2008 at 9:12 pmNutcases like Beck are only showing their true colors. Unfortunately, they still have a microphone and far too many people agree with their hate. I have wondered for a long time why Ted Turner can’t at least issue a press release to put CNN in their place.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:14 pmThe very court system and laws that Beck mocks with comments like”We’re going to shoot them all in the head. If we think that they are against us, we’re going to shoot them and kill them, period.” Is the very system that protects his Free Speech and allows him a forum for his vile tirades.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:21 pmGlenn Beck is easy to dispense justice, as long as it doesn’t apply to him, any of his family members, his friends, co-workers, congregation members or anyone who he remotely knows. In essence, he wants to enact a will of putting any criminal he decries as dangerous in a deep, dark pit where they fester and come out even more depraved than when they went in. At the same time, he wants to amend those sentences to keep up with the latest headline grabbing crimes, so the prisons fill up and the courts are even less effective and can’t dispense real justice. Glenn’s world of make believe tough talk has him with a bloody sword in one hand, a bible in the other, a cowboy belt with a six-shooter at his side and a black cowboy hat on his head in a pair of whitie tighties. The man will talk tough because he is just a pudgy piece of crap that lives in a bubble, where all his tough talk is backed up with absolutely nothing except non-action.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:28 pmno trolls to defend herr beck?
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as progressives, liberals and ordinary democrats
begin to lead their conservative opponents in the polls
we can expect to hear more and more of this kind of
violent rhetoric.
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following democratic election victories we can probably expect
real conservative violence and domestic terrorism.
inspired by the likes of beck (and aided and abetted by cnn)
sadly, there will be probably be another oklahoma city.
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good luck.
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June 25th, 2008 at 9:30 pmBeck is rather uninformed.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:49 pmDr. Hussein Matt Says:
rogerse Says:
dems pander terriurists, but Beck shuld heros of no dems to the atleast foreever mure of that they there are too the dems..
the spelling
the syntax
the grammar
that’s a very good parody of rogerse.
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too cowardly to speak out for himself.
don’t let him off the hook
should he have the nerve to speak out
for himself.
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good luck.
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June 25th, 2008 at 9:50 pmJune 25th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Beck is clearly not professional.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:57 pmBeck probably jacks off to this picture.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:59 pmZooey
i was expecting cheney
or rumsfeld
or even w.
but, under the circumstances,
i think you’re right.
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June 25th, 2008 at 10:06 pmjoe cantwell,
Beck thinks he’s better than people like that — but he’s wrong.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:11 pmFascist do*che-bag says what?
-GSD
June 25th, 2008 at 10:12 pmI was expecting a gay “snuff film”. I’ll accept the half point.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:13 pmpete
June 25th, 2008 at 10:22 pmCan we add some stomp to your snuff?
It is not the fault of this clown to be on nightly show of a major news network like CNN, it is the fault of the network that hires him,gives him a nightly show and fills his pockets with millions of dollars for the silly act he performs night after night sold to viewers as worthy news.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:30 pmIf we think that they are against us, we’re going to shoot them and kill them, period.
There are so many things wrong with this single statement, that it is difficult to know where to begin.
“If we think”: No need for evidence, concrete or otherwise. Just a faint suspicion will do.
“that they are against us”: they don’t need to actually do anything, just a difference of opinion will do.
“we’re shoot them and kill them”: No need for a trial. Death penalty for everyone.
So there you have it: Beck is essentially calling for the mass murder of all those he suspects just might hold a different opinion.
Beck. What a complete idiot.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:46 pmcaught up with tanq
on hatch/fisa post.
challenged him to
come over here.
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i don’t think he’s coming.
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maybe he’s afraid?
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good luck.
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tap fists.
June 25th, 2008 at 10:53 pmSince I know that Beck is against me, by his own logic I ought to be able to shoot him in the head.
June 25th, 2008 at 11:43 pmsectionop92 Says:
Yes, bring the Star Chamber back!
Yes Glenn, go have your heart-to-heart conversation with your daughter on how we should kill anyone who could even possibly disagree with our way of life without any proof.
It is very Christian of his intolerant views.
Yes, Burn those Witches, Warlocks, Pagans, Liberals, Gays, Vegetarians, Peaceniks, Hippies, Ravers, and Feminists.
From Steppenwolf’s “Monster”:
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches
But from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
But she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
Then once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And ’til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man
But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light
The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog
And though the past has it’s share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it’s protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it’s a monster and will not obey
(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it’s keepers seem “friendly” and kind
It’s leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they were paying no mind
‘Cause the people “got” fat and “grew” lazy
now their vote “is like a” meaningless “Tune”
“You know they talk about law “about” order
But it’s all just an echo of what they’ve been told
Yeah, there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin’
Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin’ the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can’t understand
We don’t know how to mind our own business
‘Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who’s the winner
We can’t pay the cost
‘Cause there’s a monster on the loose
It’s got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching
(America)
June 25th, 2008 at 11:58 pmAmerica where are you now?
Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
Don’t you know we need you now
We can’t fight alone against the monster
If the one thing going for us is the ability to shoot anyone that we think is against us, we are indeed in a weak and unstable position. Could that conceptual framework explain our penchant for political extremism?
June 26th, 2008 at 12:16 amOk…CNN should seriously consider taking this guys show off the air after such a remark like that. I mean, this is insane! It’s just as bad as what Don Imus or Michael savage said to get themselves thrown off their networks. To make such a broad hateful statement is completely irresponsible when you represent a news agency such as CNN.
CNN, you can do better than this guy!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:18 am.
GLENN BECK thinks US Courts aren’t good enough.
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:54 amsorry…
HITLER HAS PRIVATE COURTS THAT DENIED REPRESENTATION AND THEY INCLUDED EXECUTION ON THE SPOT, TOO!
HOW WERE THEY A GOOD IDEA?
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:59 amOops, sorry…
Hitler HAD…
Bush HAS!
My bad :/
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:00 amI understand that the General Tire Company has contracted with Mr. Beck to salvage his unused rubber-brained ideas and apply them to make cheaper tires. Can anyone update me on this report?
June 26th, 2008 at 1:50 amI think Glenn should have someone he cares about herded into one of these detention facilities, held without legal recourse and then have one of his loudmouth conservative buddies (preferably Mikey Savage) sound off about how he/she wants Glenn’s loved one “shot in the head” in a military-style execution. If we can imprison falsely accused individuals, one of Glenn’s relatives is one screwed up Mormon mission away from a possible trip to “places unknown”.
Being humble is a Christian trait to be practiced, is it not…and not just for ratings?
June 26th, 2008 at 3:14 amGen. George Washington would have had Mr. Beck shot for mistreating prisoners.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:39 amThe number of posts on this thread is about twice the number of the beckster’s audience. This guy is in his death spiral and will be off CNN within a few months.
What a worthless piece of crap!
June 26th, 2008 at 7:00 amfunny thing is, Glenn Beck talks about being a Christian…being religious.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:13 amYeah the US court system would be used against us like Tim Mcvey a terrorist used it against us. I don’t understand where the power would stop. Kill citizens accused of murder ignoring the fact that lots of them have been found innocent later and God knows that was just a fraction of the innocents that where discovered
June 26th, 2008 at 8:26 ambust a cap in his ass.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:40 ambeck is such an idiot that he would shoot himself in the head if he had a gun. lol
June 26th, 2008 at 9:47 amThe really scary thing is….there is way more than one of people like him.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:05 amWould that the likes of Beck could face the same fate they wish on others. The charge in his case: ‘being beyond stupid, and bragging about it to the world.’ And the world would respond: Good riddence to such garbage.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:20 amWow. So, um, I guess El Presidente Beck would be just fine with other nations declaring AMERICANS to be terrorists – and shooting *THEM* in the head, eh…?
OK. Jebus. What a flarking fascist MORON.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:27 amHmmm, I think YOU are against us, Glennie.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pmWe are about to celebrate July 4, the holiday of our independence where people Glen Beck admires fought their govenrment primarily over that government’s misuse of power including arrests and punishment without due process.
But our current government can do whatever it want without the slightest proof. You know, these knuckleheads like Beck want to be able to literally shoot anyone who slightly annoys them but if they get a parking ticket improperly they cry to the heavens about the injustice.
BECK!!! You can’t ask for justice for you while advocating killing other people summarily. On the other hand, if you’ve developed the ability to read minds to know who the real bad guys are, you should share that with us, we’d like to know how that works.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:11 pmThis is why these guys don’t believe in evolution: they are ruled by the reptilian part of their brains, the most primitive part. Hatred, fear, predatory instincts, violence–they are willing to inflict it all. This guy’s a real looney. From Wikipedia: “Glenn Beck was raised a Roman Catholic. He was born in Mount Vernon, Washington, and attended high school in Bellingham. He graduated from Sehome High School in 1982. His mother committed suicide when he was thirteen. One of his brothers also committed suicide, and another reportedly had a fatal heart attack. Beck is a self-described reformed alcoholic and drug addict.” Too bad the people he targets are opposed to eugenics. This guy shoulda been aborted.
June 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pmI don’t imagine people in Utah are running around selling “Glenn Beck is a Mormon” tee-shits. The ones I saw said “I don’t know Glenn Beck.”
Some of the smarter Mormons are selling tee-shits that say “Glenn Beck is a bag of shit.” This is one guy you’re sorry ever “got religion” if you’re a Mormon.
Great job, Glenn, you’re really a great example of a Christian convert. I hope other people will come to Jesus because of you.
Hey, I have an idea!! How about we put some crazy Jews on TV too!? Oh, I’m sorry, we already have some crazy Jews on TV. Kristol, Krauthammer, Lieberman…
Nevermind.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:16 pmlol! poor Beck.. nobody likes him
June 26th, 2008 at 4:18 pmOK, so I guess this will make me a ‘troll’ but whatever. Did anyone actually think about what he said here? He is talking about soldiers on the battlefield. Our guys are now being asked to take enemy combatants [who aren't even in uniform - see Geneva Convention --- "Under the Geneva Conventions, soldiers who fight out of uniform or commit atrocities such as, murder prisoners or target and kill non combatants may be shot by firing squads"] and take them prisoner so that they can be afforded the same rights to trial as an American citizen? That is totally nuts. Even our own soldiers aren’t afforded those rights – they too have to go to a military tribunal. Civilian courts have never been used in this manner.
Do I believe these terrorists should have rights? Yes, but only those afforded to them under the Geneva Convention – which is not much seeing as how they are not sanctioned by any government as an army or defensive force. They are cowards who hide among the civilian population – and THEY are the ones that should receive blame when our troops accidentally kill an innocent. You people need to figure out who and what we are fighting!
June 26th, 2008 at 6:01 pmNo! The detainees should be allowed habeas corpus (the right to be charged with a crime or to be let go), then if charged that the trail is held under the military/enemy combatant system. The detainees would not be granted the same rights as an American citizen, just the right to have charges presented against them or be granted freedom if no real charges are found. You certainly do lack the basic knowledge that these people have been and are still being held in detention with no real charges against them and your post is made up of GOP talking points.
June 26th, 2008 at 8:03 pmThe first time I heard Glen Beck was a few weeks before the war started. This man was such a supporter of the war, that he not only went to rallies around the country, but he also organized them. He did this for weeks. Finally one day choked with phony emotion he told his audience that he was going to have to curtail his mission. It was interferring with his home life.
When you know that this man is a former drunk and has a testy relationshiip with some members of his family, you can understand how he is able to say such things. He is a Limbaugh wannbe. He has like so many talk show hosts on the right, and like some on the left, no real talent. He tries to hide this fact by doing what they all do. The ones like Limbaugh, Hannity, etc. Use verbal bullying and total bs to make up for the fact. He talks louder and more outrageously hoping no one will notice what a shallow man he is.
I don’t believe in censorship. I simply turn off the station. And anyone who expects at this late date that radio station owners or television moguls will do anything serious about on air talent are mistaken. These people are hired to do just what they do. Stir up controversy and lies. It brings in money and the idiots that listen to them. Some people are so dense, they believe this is journalism. It’s not. It’s empty talk.
And when these people sometimes get fired like Michael Savage or anyone else, they get hired immediately. The days when talk shows had to have some civic relevance and responsibility have gone the way of the corporate media or the dodo bird. They are meant to entertain the lowest, stupid, common denominator in America. They do not inform or move forward any meaningful, intelligent discourse in this society. You cannot put perfume on a skunk and call it anything but stink. These hosts stink. And the people that listen to them as if they are being informed are stupid.
The news for the last ten years has been regulated to the entertainment section of television. For instance CBS news has less of war news then any other television station. And the rest have so little some nights it is not mentioned at all. This is who they are now. And it is what we deserve for not complaining loudly and often. As for me, I don’t have television anymore. I get my news from a few isolated places here in this country. And the rest I get from news sources outside the US.
As a last comment. In case any of you still have not caught on to just how uninformed Americans are. Try this. America used to be 1st in the world as free objective press. We now are ranked 44th in the world and falling. The Netherlands is ranked #1.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:33 pmQuite simply, American news channels have to abandon the whole of objective press coverage because opinionated shows bring viewers that pay the bills. Headline News used to be a near complete network devoted to the news and updating incoming news. Now they devote nearly half of their broadcasting to Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace and entertainment news that is anything but relevant “news”. Sadly, where CNN used to be a leader they are following the Fox News Channel’s model of highly opinionated shows and few if any slots to put any shows that report news without a slanted view to it. At current, there are few real alternatives…broadcast or print…that have more than an average amount of objectivity. In all reality, the internet is home to objectivity in the news now because ownership and domination of websites and the flow of information isn’t something that the media moguls have an avid interest in because of the cost/benefit margins.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:34 pmlol – I don’t think I’ve ever been accused of repeating GOP talking points. I’m just stating my opinion here. When it comes to these terrorists, I have little sympathy for them.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:40 amOnly if you have verifiable knowledge of the circumstances under which the detainees being held without charges
are you in any way qualified to be so pedantic.
“You people!”
The Bush Administration has not accepted that those detained are prisoners of war otherwise they would unquestionably come under the aegis of the Geneva Convention. Labeling them with the confabulated sobriquet of “enemy combatant” was the ploy, a product of fetid and perverse attorneys of the likes of a Yoo or Gonzalez. Amazingly the SCOTUS didn’t by into it.
IMHO, Beck represents an critically clear and present danger to the U.S. and should be dragged into the street, clapped in irons, rendered to some remote tiny island in the middle of a of the South Pacific, encaged in a bamboo pen, sprayed daily with a mosquito attracting pheromone and the U.S. Constitution read at about 85 dB in a Latino accent 24/7 until his eyes cross and he tears off his own ears. Then…. we’ll think of something more unsettling.
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June 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pmSo give Mr. Touch Guy a gun & get him on a plane to Iraq & drop him off outside the green zone where he can put his money where his mouth is.
Btw, didn’t Saddam get the death sentence for killing 147 people HE claimed were a danger to his government. He didn’t believe in trials for terrorists/enemy combatants either.
The neocon idiots prove time & again that they believe in Saddam’s type of law & order.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:08 pmI believe that Herr Beck, in a previous life, wore an armband of red, with a white circle containing a swastika in it.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:02 amHe obviously believes that Goerge Bush “ist der Sieg”.
Like it was said during his last life, Sieg Heil!, Sieg Heil!, Sieg Heil!
With the Neo-Nazis in power and their propagandist helpers spewing hate, God help us all.
“no trolls to defend herr beck?”
Sorry I’m late.
Glenn didn’t say, “If I were president I would shoot all the prisoners in the head.” How many of you even listened to the clip? Listen again. He said if he were president he would release the prisoners.
Some of you may be squeamish with the thought, but our soldiers are shooting enemy combatants in the head. Glenn is saying that Guantanamo is the only thing we have going for us, because it gives us the best option of taking those combatants who surrender as prisoners. He isn’t arguing that we need to kill more of the enemy, he is arguing to allow them to be taken as prisoners, where they can be treated humanely as the enemy, but not as American citizens suspected of a crime. I’m not saying I agree that a “take no prisoners” command is the best alternative to running enemy combatants through our judicial system. But I’m not not saying it either.
July 1st, 2008 at 4:34 amThe Skeptical Cynic,
I assume you would be ‘for’ giving him a trial before you do so?
lol
You all who say or imply that the Bush Administration and republicans in general are full of hate, should read ‘The Skeptical Cynic’ comment carefully. It’s another case of the pot calling the kettle black.
I harbor no hate for anyone who disagrees with my opinions, and yes some of those opinions are conservative (some are liberal as well). For example I’m not ‘for’ Obama in the next election – however, I’m not ‘for’ McCain either. I disagree with just about everything Obama stands for and most everything McCain stands for. So I have to pick the one that I feel is the lesser of 2 evils (in which case I have to lean towards McCain no matter how much of a bad taste it leaves in my mouth to do so). My point is, even though I disagree with Obama’s policies, I’m not going to go on a rant calling him names and making accusations of him.
Sorry got a bit off subject. So back to the point. Perhaps I’m wrong in this fact. So please correct me by providing links to official documentation that shows I’m wrong if I am. Is it not true that if one of our service men are accused of a crime, so long as they are part of our military (i.e. not civilian) they must face a military court system? Assuming that is true, then my next question is – then why should these terrorists be afforded a civilian court system – that is normally reserved for American Citizens? Where in the constitution does it state that prisoners taken by our military must be given a trial in American Citizen/Civilian courts?
This to me is simply crazy. I just don’t see how any American citizen would want to use our courts in this manner. This is why we have a Civilian Court system and a Military Court system.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:59 pmI urge everyone to contact CNN and Beck’s sponsors. Links and suggested messages can be found here http://got.to/firebeck
For example you can contact General Motors and say
July 6th, 2008 at 4:48 pmDear GM, You advertise on the Glenn Beck website. This week he said of detainees at Guantanamo,
“We’re going to shoot them all in the head…If we can’t put them away and they’re going to use our court system—kill them.”
Does GM endorse this statement advocating mass murder of detainees at Guantanamo? Thank you for taking the time to reply.
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