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'The leader we need is you,' Beck tells 17,000 at BYU

I hardly know anything about Glenn Beck. I went because I wanted to hear Michael Ballam sing (he was awesome). Regardless, after Beck's speech I felt (1) that America is, despite its problems, a truly great country deserving of my loyalty, (2)that I personally can make a difference for the greater good, and (3)that I am so blessed to live here.

Thank you, Glenn Beck, whoever you may be.

The greatest threat to this country are those who band together and force laws to pass and constitutional amendments to be added that will make America what THEY want America to be. They think they are patriots, but they are Anti-American.

Our system of government is founded on counterbalancing principles: majority governs through democratically elected representatives; majority power is limited to ensure individual rights (Bill of Rights).

Important individual rights include: First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. Right to equal protection under the law-equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, or national origin. Right to due process-fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake. Right to privacy-freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.

If the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled.

Beck's hate speech is laced with proof that he supports limiting rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights: people of color; lesbians and gay men; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor.

Are YOU a TRUE American?

Good one, True Patriot!
I sense that splinter group of counterrevolutionaries that call themselves conservatives are realizing the awesome numbers and power we have.

You know they are in trouble when they must rely on claptrap like Limbaugh and Beck for leadership.

Watch out, Neocons. Real America is on the move!

So you judge person by his look in a picture.

MY how brave and courageous and wise you are.

That you able to judge people by their looks. and just from a picture!

By the way you are still not fooling anyone, writing under several names, having make-believe a converstions with yourself to make it look like there are more people.

IT 's not clever, it's pathetic you left wing nut.

"left wing nut."
Infinitely deep the neocons are, aren't they?
I suppose, like their hero, Rush Limbaugh this sort of civil discourse is supposed to frighten people into voting for McCain.

Good Luck, neocons.

Daniel,

My experiment is complete. How did the cheese taste?

The one-way glass you are looking through doesn't change what we all see: a misunderstood hateful person that is uable to realize the disproportionate hypocrisy of his words.

You and others like you unconscioiusly claim immunity for the verbal garbage you irresponsibly throw around and leave for others to clean up. It is a waste of energy and remains self-destructive, as it always has been.

By condemning anyone's well meaning efforts to make things better, you become the devil's instrument to discourage them from making the investment. Your superiority complex errantly places you in the conterfeit position to destroy anyone who doesn't fit your impossible criteria to have the right to improve this world.

I challenge you to find one word in all your banter that points toward a solution. If you do, then great... You have a long way to go if you are to overcome all your filthy spew and achieve a productive statement.

As I said before, you find what you are looking for. Your "fruits" prove you are desperately searching for victims to unload your enourmous self-grown and cultivated pool of venom on.

Try being nice.

Vegas Mormon,

What in the world are you going on about? I have rarely read so much gobbilty gook in my life.

Try again, only this time add some coherence. Thanks.

Glen Beck is a classic propogandist in the mold of Bill O'Reilly. He persuades his viewers often by means of a split screen (him talking on the left side of the TV screen, and words repeating his views on the right side of the screen). The viewer gets indocrinated by (1) viewing (2) listening, and (3) reading. (3 forms of input).

I also don't like Glen Beck's extreme views, and the fact that he fequently drops cuss words on his RADIO program.

The same can said for every liberal voice, commentator, writer, talkshow host, etc.

So what's your point?

IF you disagree with them they are bad, and we should get rid of them. We get your point.

Fortunately, free speech doesn't work that way.

Nor the market.

Pretty sure "we're on the move" and "True Patriot" are the exact same person, which is hilarious. I'm thinking the only one that agrees with this guy is himself.

RE: We're on the move! | 12:20 p.m.,

I am True Patriot, and I guarantee you I did not post the "We're on the move" stuff.

Is that the best you can do? If you have no valid arguments, then you just try to claim (perhaps though your infallible "spirit"??) that those commenting are the same person?

What an idiot you are.

To Vegas Mormon,

Where is the demonic laugh that should accompany your "experiment"? You wiley and sinister trickster, you!

Hey anonomous,
you say you will resist any leader who follows a Prophet,,,,
What If that Prophet was Elisha and he told you to go and wash 7 times in the river and you would be healed of Leprosy? What if the Prophet was Moses and he told you to look upon the brass serpent he had made after you had been bitten by a poisonous snake. You risk not being healed and or helped by refusing to look.
How rational is it to not hope that God has a Prophet to guide us today? You are saying, well let's see I am on my own here and all I need is me. When life's fire grows dim, where will you go then for support? God be thanked for giving us a living Prophet today!

Ron,

The old testament is filled with errors, sins, and mistakes made by the PROPHETS. Your silly, simpleminded notion that you should always follow prophets no matter what is not only irrational, it is not God's will. God does not want people to be led astray by fallible humans. God wants people to follow HIM, not some man claiming to speak on behalf of Him. God does not need anyone to speak on behalf of Him. He speaks directly to each person's soul, and if they listen, they get His word directly, NOT through some intermediary.

God be thanked for NOT speaking through prophets today.

Riiiight. Keep talking. We're listening and believing every word you're saying.