WTF-Beck: 'It took a long time to enslave an entire race of people...but it can be done'

[kpete]

The President is exactly right when he said ’slaves sitting around the campfire didn’t know when slavery was going to end, but they knew that it would. And it took a long time to end slavery.’ yes it did. But it also took a long time to start slavery.

And it started small, and it started with seemingly innocent ideas. And then a little court order here, and a court order there and a little regulation here and a little more regulation there. And before we knew it, America had slavery.

It didn’t come over in a ship to begin with, as an evil slave trade. The government began to regulate things because the people needed answers and needed solutions. It started in a court room then it went to the legislatures. That’s how slavery began. And it took a long time to enslave an entire race of people, and convince another race of people that they were somehow or another, less than them. But it can be done.

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http://www.mediaite.com/online/glenn-beck-blames-evils-of-slavery-on-government-regulation/

[SalmonChantedEvening]

1. There goes my brain again.

:nuke:

[CanonRay]

2. This is among the stupidest things I've ever heard in my life

and I'm pushing 60. Just when I think it can't get any dumber...

[spanone]

3. what history books did mr beck study? not this planets

[LiberalFighter]

4. The government? Try religion and market conditions.

[wilt the stilt]

5. innocent?

I own you. What an innocent idea? Slavery goes back to biblical times. How anyone can honestly say it is innocent is beyond any logical thought. This guy is weird and his followers weirder.

[golddigger]

6. Those wacky Mormons and their beliefs.

[Moostache]

12. Ran into 2 Mormon "elders" yesterday...

at WalMart. I had to chuckle to myself as they were 2 skinny kids, about 20-22 years old and clearly on their "mission" to save souls, who were buying of all things Creatine Powder that body builders use.

The image of these two in a gym trying to make converts for Mormon Jeebus is definitely one that is seared into my subconscious now! Well...that and the cartoon about "Meet the Mormons"!

[Brewman_Jax]

7. WTF is Beck's problem?

Is he mad that he didn't live in that timeframe and wanted to be a slaveowner? He sounds jealous. :crazy:

[Gman]

8. He must be talking about Egypt and the Israelites

Damn those ancient Egyptian legislatures.

[CBGLuthier]

9. This must be on planet XuSoo where elder god Josepiah SmithHat now rules

[deutsey]

10. How is this guy still taken seriously?

:evilfrown:

[Lucy Goosey]

11. OMG YOU GUYS!1!!1! OBAMA is slowly ENSLAVING white people!!!

That's what the takeaway is supposed to be for Beckheads, right? Big government created slavery, Obama is creating big government, therefore Obama is creating slavery. Neither premise is true obviously, but for those who hold them as articles of faith, the conclusion could make sense, I guess.

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. You're right. Beck is saying "that 19th century stuff wasn't REAL slavery; the present day is"

It's a very offensive message from him, but what he is trying to do is convince his teabaggers that they are worse off than real slaves, and that anything from government is 'slavery'.

[Demoiselle]

13. I don't think he's talking about the Triangular Trade here, folks.

He's talking solely about that hideous monster, Creeping Socialism, and, in one fell swoop, ignoring completely our nation's history, the awful bloody centuries of bigotry and cruelty and murder. I've noticed that a number of rabid rightwingers minimize or ignore completely the presence and effect of slavery on our country's history. And they PAY this cretin for this? And people actually LISTEN to it?

[Dash87]

15. All that you need to know about Beck was in that SNL skit.

He's a complete wacko. :)

♥

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. and what exactly does Beck know

about enslaving people?

Would he care to share?

:wtf: