The Founding Father's Real Reason for the Second Amendment
And remember the words of Thomas Jefferson "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." See Video of Suzanna Gratia-Hupp’s Congressional Testimony: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For, below (u-tube HERE).
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On radio Thursday, Glenn Beck told his audience that while on his way to South Africa, there was a curious incident that occurred during a planned stopover in Egypt.* But what we didn’t know yesterday is why. Now we do: it’s partly because of Hugo Chavez.
Beck told the Chavez-related story on his show Friday, and said that Chavez raised questions about Beck’s planned stop in Venezuela, and those questions were relayed to Beck during his stop in Egypt.
“I am informed by [my chief of staff] Joe that Hugo Chavez wanted a detailed itinerary of what I was planning on doing in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, and Hugo didn’t like it, and he would not allow my plane to land in Venezuela,” he explained.
Beck is planning on visiting South America as part of a special leg of a global human rights campaign.
Despite the push back from Chavez, however, Beck may have gotten the last laugh. According to him, he has “found a way” to still get his message across in the dictator’s country: via technology.*
“Hugo believes that he is going to stop people like me from speaking out and speaking their mind,” Beck said.
BECK ISSUES CALL FOR ‘HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY’ MOVEMENT; DEPARTS JERUSALEM FOR SOUTH AFRICA
Scroll down for video and links to full text of Beck’s speech and Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities
The heat of the afternoon sun in Jerusalem could not match the fervor of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Courage” call to follow a “pillar of fire” in pursuit of the truth and wisdom.
After months of preparation, the controversial event unfolded smoothly with Beck telling the large crowd, “I have been asked: What can you teach Israel about Courage? My answer is simple. Nothing. Then they ask: Why are you coming to Israel? Because, I say: In Israel, you see courage.”
Beck described the world as “confused,” and pointed to flash points in Europe as signs of societies losing touch with philosophical moorings:
“In Europe, the great nations of the past – Greece, Italy, Spain, Britain – are falling into chaos and violence.
We have raised up a generation who cannot tell the difference between what they owe society and what society owes them.
They interviewed the rioters in England. Why, they were asked, are you stealing shoes or televisions. “Because,” the rioters said in response, “because we deserve them.”
We may think: Oh, how different are today’s youth! But the young merely imitate their parents. They have seen how the world reacts to evil – with indifference. They watch, they learn, they imitate. What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”
Anti-Beck protests chanted from outside the Old City walls, but groups of pro-Beck Israelis countered with signs and songs of their own.
Beck challenged the live crowd and those watching on his new GBTV network to read what he is calling a Declaration of Rights & Responsibilities:
In order to continually experience life, liberty and happiness as promised, nature’s God demands obedience to His law to protect those rights.
This is where we have fallen short and therefore, in order not to lose the blessings of freedom, the people of the world must turn from the sole focus on rights, and recognize the inherent and required responsibilities that we have.
Among the responsibilities to which we must adhere to maintain our God given rights are honor, courage and vigilance.
Over time, we believe that these basic human responsibilities have been trampled, and replaced with degradation, fear and apathy.
Saying that “it didn’t take a prophet to see these things,” Beck described his growing concern that turbulent world affairs would bode ill for Israel:
“And so this year, when I saw Tunisia’s and Egypt’s rulers crack and fall and the world called it the Arab Spring, I said: Where could this be going? And behind these revolutions was a familiar force, a force that will place those nations under a new pharaoh. And that force, I said, would come up to the borders of Israel. And so it has.
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. We need inspiration. We need a model to follow.”
For the full text of Beck’s speech and additional video clips click here.
Beck said that at the conclusion of his speech he would leave that instant for South Africa:
“Some people call Israel an apartheid state. I reject that. And so immediately following this program I will fly to South Africa, which is where apartheid actually existed. I will broadcast from Cape Town tomorrow morning to remind the world what the evil of apartheid really looked like.
And I will learn from the people who conquered the hatred, ignorance and bigotry and who chartered a peaceful course for a new South Africa.
Then on Friday I will fly to South America to plead the case of human responsibility to a group of nearly 5,000 local leaders from all over the continent and ask them to join me in standing in defense of Israel, the Jewish people and responsibility.
Finally on Sunday, I will speak to 5,000 Americans in Dallas, Texas. I have chosen to end my week in the town where I will headquarter the charitable division of my company, Mercury One. Dedicated to the idea that one man, inspired by one God, makes a difference. This trip will end where a global moment begins.”
While Glenn Beck’s Restoring Courage event in Israel appeared to go off without a hitch to those watching, he revealed on radio Thursday that he and his team were forced to make last-minute changes because several confirmed participants faced threats, including threats on their lives.
Beck said that the choir scheduled to perform canceled just days before the finale after they were called into a meeting last Friday and told they would be dismissed, and would probably never work again, if they contributed their talents. Despite being in full support of the program, they decided that the consequences were just too great.
The choir that performed, then, was “cobbled together” after the original choir canceled on Sunday.
Several others suffered similar threats, including death threats.
“I have to tell you some of the stories that I wasn’t able to tell you before and let’s start with this,” Beck explained while broadcasting from South Africa. “Yesterday, if you watched the broadcast on GBTV, if you watched the whole event that unfolded at the Temple Mount, what you may not know is how many people canceled at the last minute, and not because they were, you know, ‘I’m not going to stand with him,’ none of that. The reason why they canceled is because they were under death threat.”
In fact, Beck revealed that an Arab participant couldn’t even sing words when he took the stage. Instead, he could only utter melodic moans — anything else could have cost him his life.
“I don’t blame them for this at all,” Beck said regarding those who decided to pull out. You can listen to him explain the threats and the changes below:
Which 2012 candidate 'STOOD WITH Israel'? Only one of the announced GOP Presidential hopefuls made the trip to Glenn Beck's three-day "Restoring Courage" event in Israel. You can see who visited the Western Wall and attended the big event HERE.
If you were about to host a three-hour radio show on hundreds of stations in the middle of an exhausting week, what would be the last thing you would want to do?
Well, if you are Glenn Beck you tell everyone to deploy to the Old City of Jerusalem for a full rehearsal of the opening to Wednesday’s Restoring Courage program.
And, if you are Glenn Beck, you decide to do this less than 60 minutes before your radio show begins!
But, of course, it turns out to go flawlessly and the powerful moments in the rehearsal trigger more than a few goose bump moments.
‘COURAGE TO REMEMBER’: BECK HOSTS JERUSALEM PROGRAM FOCUSING ON THE HOLOCAUST
Photo by Lange Studio
The second night of the “Restoring Courage” events in Israel took place the Old Train Station in Jerusalem.
“An amazing land, an amazing people,“ Glenn Beck said as he began the program he entitled ”Courage to Remember.” The program focused on the Holocaust and the lessons that need to be newly learned today.
Photo by Lange Studio
Rabbi Moshe Rothchild opened with a prayer tying the evening‘s location to the evening’s theme:
“Tonight as we gather beside these old train tracks in Jerusalem, we remember another set of tracks.
The tracks that led our brothers and sisters to the infamous places of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buchenwald, Majdanek, Treblinka and Sobibor…and all the places of death and darkness.
We pray that our gathering her tonight should bring forth healing and light.”
This clip includes the initial remarks by Beck and Rabbi Rothchild:
Beck then introduced actor Jon Voight, who’s talk veered from comical accounts of his attempts at dancing to Jewish tunes, to deeply serious stories of his work in Israel with victims wounded by suicide bombers. “What I witnessed would tear my heart out,” he said. “I feel completely outraged for anyone who would make any excuse for this kind of barbarism. And I feel complete contempt for anyone who is not intelligent enough to see that this propaganda in the media, painting the Palestinians as poor victims, is capable of destroying the Jewish nation in Israel.”
Photo by Lange Studio
The main part of the program featured a screening of a very personal documentary, “Kleiner Rudy,” which tells the family story of filmmaker Michelle Stein Teer. She chronicles her grandfather’s return, at age 85, to the German town of Norden where he lost his own father and thirty members of his family the Holocaust.
Photo by Liz Stephans
Photo by Lange Studio
Beck gave an impassioned introduction to the documentary:
After the screening Beck led a panel discussion including Michelle Stein Teer, Rabbi David Greenblatt of United With Israel, David Brog of Christians United for Israel, and auther Mike Evans who‘s emotional life story was a highlight of the first evening’s program in Caesarea.
Photo by Liz Stephans
Here’s a section of the panel discussion:
The evening concluded with poignant musical moments and a tribute by the Blaze
As the sun eased it’s way into the Mediterranean horizon Sunday evening, Glenn Beck greeted an enthusiastic crowd of over 3,000 at the Caesarea Amphitheater: “Welcome to the land of milk and honey!”
Beck’s week of “Restoring Courage” events is beginning with a religiously themed evening entitled “The Courage to Love.”
Early in the program Beck was joined on the stage by historian David Barton. Grammy-nominated vocalist Vernessa Mitchell was accompanied by an ensemble of Israeli singers and musicians. In the first half of the program the audience heard passionate remarks by author Mike Evans and Florida pastor Tom Mullins.
Mullins challenged the capacity crowd:
“It’s time for the people of faith to stand with a courage that flows from God’s deep love and defend Israel!
We are gathered in the very spot, where, centuries ago, the faith of the Apostle Paul was put on trial. Paul resolutely refused to compromise the truth of his faith. He stood with great courage and embraced his destiny; and his life had profound, eternal impact on the world.”
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin defined “courage” in contrast with its “fraternal twin” strength:
“Strength is physical prowess: Courage is spiritual sensitivity.
Strength is rooted in selfish self aggrandizement, hell-bent on taking over and dominating “other” on destroying one’s enemy.
Courage is rooted in self sacrifice, Heaven-sent to give to and share with “other” to turn one‘s hated enemy into one’s beloved friend.
Strength revels in power.
Courage reaches out in love.”
Indeed, Courage begets and demands love; the very Hebrew word for love Ahava, derives from the root verb HAV which means to give.
Pastor John Hagee spoke just before Beck’s concluding remarks:
“We have come tonight to say to the people of Israel, you are still the apple of God’s eye, you are still the chosen people, you are still the covenant people, you are still cherished the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Beck began his final talk by asking the audience to “Honor these people who have honored God for so long.”
While noting that many in the crowd had come at “great expense,“ he praised those who had come at ”great risk” to their personal safety.
Here are some pictures from the early moments of the program.
The main Restoring Courage Event will be on 8.24.11 but there will be events all week like this one. It will be covered in full on GBTV.com
One year ago Glenn Beck and his team put on Restoring Honor in Washington D.C. It was a major success, but he told his staff that they would not do that again. But this year he was called to do Restoring Courage in Israel.
As Mediaite readers know, Glenn Beck is the undisputed king of the angry monologue. Unfortunately though (or fortunately, depending on your opinion of the man), we haven’t gotten much of it recently in this time between his Fox News and GBTV shows. However, today on his radio show, Beck let loose with a torrent of anger and frustration at an issue he described as having been going on for a few weeks now. Before he began, Beck said he would post what he was going to say online, thus forever disproving anyone who thought he was a “shill” for the Republican Party.
Considering the amount of venom he then let out towards the GOP establishment, he can consider his point made.
It all started with a conversation with Rep. Joe Walsh who described sadly the fact that House Speaker Boehner’s office had denied his and other congressmen’s requests to attend Beck Israel rally in an official capacity as a fact-finding mission. Beck maintained his composure during the call with Walsh, offering the Illinois Congressman a free GBTV membership to watch from there. However, you could hear just how frustrated he was with the whole situation as he wondered allowed if Boehner wasn’t just punishing Tea Party Republicans for not voting for his debt plan.
Then, once Walsh was off the line, Beck really got into it:
“Speaker Boehner, you should be ashamed of yourself. The Republican Party should be ashamed of themselves. They don’t have to attend my event. Let them come to our biggest ally and our only friend in the Middle East in their hour of need. They don’t have to attend my event! In fact, I’ll ban them. Does that make you happy? Let Congress come here! You should be ashamed of yourself for playing politics. That’s what it is, Boehner, and you know it. The Republican Party sickens me.”
Listen to the full segment including the conversation with Walsh below:
Yesterday I received ‘a special deal’ message from WND yesterday which included a (15-minute) clip from one of Beck’s Fox Shows on Iran and the Islamic Antichrist or 12th Imam that Ahmadinejad believes in and therefore really is at the center of what is going on in Israel and the Middle East. It is a video worth watching… for the first time or a review, so am sharing it again.
Also just a reminder that if you haven’t joined GBTV.com and aren’t already an Insider, Beck’s Event in Israel Restoring Courage is on 8.24.11 and you can watch it there. (Restoring Courage follows his successful event in Washington D.C. last summer Restoring Honor.
In Glenn Beck’s keynote speech at the Christians United for Israel summit in Washington, D.C. Tuesday night he boldly stated, If the world goes down the road of dehumanizing Jews again, “then count me a Jew and come for me first.”
Video of some of the most emotional moments in Glenn’s speech Here:
What will it take for us to wake up and see that we, the world, are going down the same ugly path that we did only 70-years ago? There are still people alive who lived through the Holocaust and we are about to let it all happen again. How can that be??
Where we stand as a nation, as Christians and American Jews and as individuals will matter!!
It really is unbelievable how ‘right on’ Beck was over the past 5-years, including about Israel about what was coming, and there is no reason to think that he won’t continue to be right. What amazes me most, because I have a lot of Jewish friends and acquaintances, is that they generally don’t get it and that they still support Obama and somehow dislike Glenn Beck who speaks up for them more than anyone I know. I grew up in the LA area, so like NYC and Miami, there was/is a high population of Jews and I’ve talked and debated with some of them many times. How could you not see this with Hitler’s Germany still in recent memory?
Of course, not all!! During the ObamaCare cram through, I was leafleting and giving talks about the nightmares in the bill at community centers and anywhere someone would listen. At the end of one session, an elderly Jewish woman came up to me and showed me the numbers tattooed on her arm. With tears in her eyes, she said to me, “Please don’t stop what you are doing because it is happening again and people are again not seeing it!”. I think of her a lot. It both haunts me and motivates me!
You don’t have to be a Jew, as Glenn so eloquently points out to stand with Israel, to understand what is at stake, or to have been (or be in the future) affected by the mentality that created Nazi Germany. And do not believe for a moment that the Reich and the ideas behind it were unique to Hitler, to Germany, or to that era. The supporters include(d) Fabians, American Progressives, Marxists, elites from all over and Muslims to name just a few. Wow sounds like a lot of the same players we have in the NWO movement and the people running America into the ground right now!
I am a first generation Austro-German American. My parents met in an American prisoner of war camp where they married. They had been part of a medical unit. My mom was in the Red Cross and my dad was in charge of medics, both on the German side. (It was the most humane part of the service they could find; not enlisting wasn’t an option!) The Americans made my mom a wedding dress out of gauze bandages. Wish I had a photo. My mom’s family, in Germany, was part of the underground. She told a horrific stories of people disappearing and brutal treatment of dissenters, but the one that always sticks out in my mind is the story of her uncle being caught by the Nazi’s and beaten within an inch of death and then thrown at her grandmother’s front door. She said as he healed chunks of flesh just rotted off his body and he was mentally never the same.
I was blessed by growing up in a family where we would have get-to-gethers and people would exchange stories from their experiences growing up overseas, from WWI in Germany, WWII in Germany… Austria… and the US and from the Korean War for the U.S. Then later my first husband was corpsman for the U.S. Navy during Vietnam. It gave me a really rich varied perspective of history. M~
Please pray for Glenn, his family and friends… and for Israel and get involved. And remember the words of someone who has lived through it: “Please don’t stop what you are doing because it is happening again and people are again not seeing it!” And if you are a Christian… time to break out the ole Bible! We will each be held accountable as individuals, don’t buy into the Progressive Collective Salvation ruse.
In interview with 'Post' former-Fox News broadcaster promises Jerusalem mega-event in August will be bipartisan, not an anti-Obama rally.
The “vaporization of Israel” and the end of the Western way of life as we know it could be on the horizon, American broadcaster Glenn Beck warned in an interview with The Jerusalem Post in the capital’s David Citadel Hotel on Wednesday.
Beck came to Israel to prepare for “Restoring Courage,” his Jerusalem mega-event set for late next month. He also addressed the Knesset’s Diaspora Affairs Committee, toured Gush Etzion and Sderot, and met with hi-tech entrepreneurs and Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon.
“[Christian Israel supporters] see tragedy coming down the pike unless we take a stand,” Beck said. “Many of us were asleep for a long time. There are Americans who still say it will never happen, and everything will work out because we are America. But I know Americans outside of Washington who know that’s not necessarily true – not unless you change that behavior. We are waking up to what could be on the horizon: and what could be on the horizon is the vaporization of Israel and the end of the Western way of life as we know it,” he continued.
Beck said the way to prevent such a tragedy was to stand together, be righteous and decent and protect one another. To that end, he is organizing three separate events in Jerusalem under the Restoring Courage banner.
One will be for American-Christians and will be viewed in hundreds of churches in the US.
Beck said the event is intended to “get the Christian community in America to wake up and start standing up [for Israel].” Another event will be more political, featuring Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman, Republican presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Herman Cain, and at least two other candidates whom Beck declined to reveal.
He said the event would be attended by more than 30 American national political figures, 70 international politicians and citizen delegations from 100 countries around the world, including Bahrain. At Beck’s request, Americans will be getting together to watch the event, bringing Jews and Christians together.
More than 700 viewing parties have already been organized. “If it’s just an event, we failed,” he said. “It’s a launch of a movement of decent, like-minded, freedom-loving peaceful people who know the answer won’t come from Washington or Copenhagen. It’s not going to come from our political leaders, but from the people. It’s a freedom movement, something the Tel Aviv hi-tech people and the most Orthodox in Jerusalem would understand and come together for.”
Beck vowed that the event would be bipartisan and would not develop into a rally against US president Barack Obama. Even though he is one of Obama’s fiercest critics, Beck makes a point of not criticizing the American administration when he’s abroad. “Now that we’re a global community, this answer doesn’t seem to make sense because a lot of people here in Israel watch my program, but I don’t talk about the policies of my country outside my country,” he said.
“If you want to know my opinion of the policies of the president, you can go to YouTube and see what I said in New York, and will continue to say in New York. There won’t be politics in this event. There will be values, virtues and principles.”
The world leader whom will more likely be a central focus of speeches at the event will be Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Much like Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Beck does not shy away from using Holocaust terminology when warning about Iran’s nuclearization.
Beck, who visited Auschwitz on his way to Israel for a documentary on Righteous Gentiles, says the world must learn from history. “I was on the radio four years ago saying we’re passing all the exits,” he said.
“Soon it’s a cliff. You’ve got to turn the car around. Someone needs to find a solution. Come what may, will we be brave enough? I told Netanyahu when Bush was president, the Americans won’t do it. No one else is going to do it. Those [Iranian] people will build trains again [for the Jews]. [Ahmadinejad] said the Jews will burn in the fires of the Islamic fury. I think that’s pretty clear.”
thecommunists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest; I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, I did not protest; I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
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