Beck: States should secede from America to protest bailouts.

[Are_grits_groceries]

Today on his radio show, conservative talker and future Fox News personality Glenn Beck suggested that states should “secede” from the union to protest the recent string of Wall Street bailouts:

BECK: So the question is, do states have the right to secede anymore? Because it was a compact. It’s not perpetual. In fact, in the Declaration of Independence it says it is our right, it is our responsibility to get away from a government who doesn’t listen to us any more.

Do you even have a right to do that as a state any more? Do you have the right to say, “You know what, you guys are going down a path that I don’t even agree with”? Is that even possible?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/25/beck-secession/

Now there's an original idea - secession :sarcasm:
Does he want them to secede one at a time or are there certain blocks set up?
Does each state that secedes become a sovereign nation? That's a truly scarey thought.
Beck is an idiot. He needs to take his "sweater" and wrap it around his head to warm
his brain.

[islandmkl]

1. dear glenn beck:

go back to junior high school...re: American History 1854 - 1865, specifically....

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Yeah, How'd That Work Out For Them

What a tool. The "compact" idea was played out 140+ years ago.

Glenn, try to catch up.
The Professor

[charlie]

12. It's always the uber-patriot jingoes,

ever attuned to the depth of YOUR "love" for your country, who are the first to shitcan the union when they're unhappy.

These guys are beyond annoying, they're crushingly dreary.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Impossible To Add Anything

GAC

[pampango]

2. Apparently secession is a good idea, if done for the "right" reason.

Southern whites who don't want to be governed by a black president could join the secessionist movement under the guise of protesting the bailouts. The Confederacy could live again. ;)

[Kalyke]

6. Dear... there are whites all over this nation who don't want

to be governed by a black president. We Southerners (and I'm white and voted for Obama) don't have the corner on the market on racism.

Our problems in the South is social issues. Too many fundie churches and too may right-wing radio shows.

[pampango]

7. Sorry. I'm from Alabama and have lived in Ohio for a long time. You are entirely correct.

My poor attempt at humor focused on the South only so that I could work in my zing at the revival of the Confederacy. :toast:

[tularetom]

3. He reminds me of a grown up Raplhie from the Chirstmas Story movie

Maybe he'll shoot his mouth out instead of his eye.

[Alter Ego]

4. Oh, Glenn...you crazy, retarded, lying sack of shit you.

[Gman]

5. I can just hear him with that "sincere" alcoholic tone he gets

I can just see him sitting on a bar stool talking this shit.

[tama]

9. Here's the bottomline

Federal state is evil. Wall street and Federal Reserve are evil. They need each other to form the Empire of Evil. Sooner you get rid of them, the better the world will be. Every secession is a good idea. Especially Lakota nation.

[KG]

10. hey glen, don't like it here? feel free to leave!

love it or leave it, right?

huh, how bout it, mouthy RW asshole?

[MineralMan]

11. One word, Beck...

Paraguay. All your buddies will be down there soon. Look into it.

[Lyric]

14. "Fuck the South"

http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

There's one person who wouldn't mind seeing the southern states off our backs.

(Note: I am providing this for comic relief--I do NOT actually support secession.)

[lpbk2713]

15. AHA! He's an AIPer. I knew it.

ANOTHER close tie to Sarah Failin'. :rofl:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. How about Glenn Beck secede from the United States himself?

He can go find himself a nice deserted island and broadcast radio shows to himself there.

[TexasObserver]

17. So now our uber patriots are urging TREASON?!

But it's OK when they do it!

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Well Not Treason

Merely sedition. :sarcasm:

Much more palatable, no?
The Professor

[iamahaingttta]

18. Blather, blather blather...

...yap, yap, yap.

They need to fill up time in between the commercials, which is what pays the bills, and they prefer to fill it up with crap that makes people just a little crazy. Particularly people like you. They are trying, and succeeding, in making YOU just a little crazy. People who are a little crazy make easier to control worker-drone-consumers.

Yap, yap, twitter, blather, yap, yap, drone...

You know, every time you watch or listen to these idiots spouting these remarkably stupid bunches of electrical impulses that pass for thoughts, you give the entire system that backs this idiocy incredible power. You might hate Gleenn Becck, but when you tune him in, when you talk about him on the internet (don't forget about adsense!) you're giving his advertisers what they want. A demographic delivered to their ads, passive eyes and ears and brains keeping the whole system going.

Yap, yap, blather, blather, yap, yap, SCREAM!

And, of course, every time you tune in to this crap, you make yourself just a little bit crazier. These "shows" are all about reinforcing "unresolved contradictions" so that you, the consumer, are always just a little bit crazy and easier to control by the very few people at the top who own you and everything else. Congratulations, you are making certain that your own slavery is enforced every time you tune in to that idiot! Good Job!!

Yap, yap, flap, flap, crap, crap, BINGO!

[qazplm]

20. can we get Beck to secede?

That would work out for everyone I think.