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Here’s Why Glenn Beck Says to Stop All Those Secession Petitions: ‘Are You Out of Your Mind?’

Nov. 14, 2012 10:30am Erica Ritz

Glenn Beck responded to the wave of post-election secession petitions (which have now hit all 50 states) during both his radio and television programs Tuesday, relaying a simple message to his audience: taking part isn’t smart.

“Now how do you think that’s going to work out?” Beck asked on his radio show. “I mean, how dumb do you have to be? Really? You’re putting your name on a list that goes directly to the White House, and you’re putting your name on a list and saying, ‘yeah I think we should secede, I think there should be a Civil War.’”

When co-host Stu Burguiere pointed out that the petitions request a “peaceful” secession, adding that it really is just a place to “make a statement,” Beck appeared unconvinced.

“Uh huh…[And] do you think that these people don’t forget who made a statement to them? Are you out of your mind?”

Beck continued to say that many of the signatories are probably thinking something along the lines of, “They voted for this, let ‘em have it!”

“Instead of focusing on, ‘I’m not doing anything with you guys,’ just focus on the positive,” Beck countered. “What are you going to do? Anyone who wants to secede, that issue’s been settled. Now I don’t happen to agree with it, because I don’t understand how the Constitution could be a suicide pact…that’s what the Civil War settled.”

Here is video from Beck’s radio show:

On his television program later that day, Beck continued to explore the role of the Declaration of Independence in modern-day secession petitions, and how the petitions could justify tighter control by the federal government.

“This is exactly the kind of fuel the president will use to order measures to ‘protect’ the Republic. And he’ll have the Department of Homeland Security at his disposal to enforce them.”

Noting that President Obama signed his 141st executive order expanding the “partnership” between the Department of Homeland Security and local police, Beck said that when the federal government gets involved, local police almost always take a back seat. Moreover, reports of the Social Security Administration buying 174,000 hollow-point bullets suddenly become much more troubling.

“If the government begins arming itself against the citizens at the federal level, and say ‘by the way, we’re your new state police,’ that would indeed be the point in the course of human events where it becomes necessary to dissolve political bands,” Beck said, concluding with a passage from the Declaration of Independence.

But, Beck said, “secession is not an option,” and so it is up to you to contact your governor, find out what your kids are learning, and change the media. Because the next step isn’t going to be easy.

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eddw2112
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:52am
*thinks out loud*… I wonder how long it will take Beck to complete his 5 year plan if everyone who signed the petition is carried off to Canada and can no longer pay for their Blaze Subscriptions?

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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:10pm
  ‘time will tell the tale’
  
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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:26am
  You people are actually giving money to this ridiculous site? You really are suckers.
  
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Nevermind
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:50am
SquidVetOhio
I think that’s what they are trying to do genius. You’re telling people who want to secede to leave? They’re trying to leave and take their state with them. How freaking smart are you. You might want to look up the word secede in the dictionary.

Tell you what, go down to Texas into the local bar in Ft. Worth somewhere and tell them boys to quit being a bunch of crybabies and leave town. PLEASE TAKE VIDEO. That’s an epic ass-kicking I wouldn’t want to miss.
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I spent several years of my life in texas ( USAF) and said exactly what i had to say in many bars there and guess what? Texas boys get knocked out just like West coast boys, i could care less where you are from since it dont make you any togher than the next man. All humans have the same weaknesses so you can be born in the toughest place in the world but a few pounds of pressure in the right spot will stop anyone. Your tought talk of Texans dont scare me at all.

As far as me saying leave to those that want to secede, so what? If you dont like how this country works then go to a different one. Texas or any other state isnt ” yours” anyway so spare me.

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critterbait
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:49am
Not to sign it in fear is Bullcrap,,How many names are pouring in over gun sells.Think about that if they wanted to collect names…
If we base it all on fear you may as well run now…These folks dont care what people think or they would have started change when over a million people where in DC at the rallys…Who knows what will triger a clamp down could be this could be that…War is never a answer but sometimes it is,, I guess necessary..Lets just pray it’s not and we can find away peacefuly other wise no one wins, we all lose…

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libertylion
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:49am
Odd that a petition goes to the White House for a state to secede. Secession goes through the State’s legislature and not to the current tyrant in the WH (or past for that matter).

The feds have been stocking up on ammo for the last few years preparing for civil unrest and I wouldn’t want to place a bullseye on myself by giving them my information through a secession petition. I am sure they already have my information through some other mechanism since they are monitoring virtually all online activity.

Our country was founded with a peaceful uniting of the states and destroyed by our first tyrant Lincoln when SC wanted to evoke their constituional right of secession. Many northern states had threatened to secede prior to the war of northern agression and they werent threatened with war. I am also sure that Lincoln should have been tried for treason for declaring war on a state as written in the Constitution. We weren’t founded as a Nation, but as these united states. There is a difference!

The only recourse that we did have was to move to a different state if we didn’t agree with a state’s policies. Now, with the federal govt in control of vrtually every aspect of life – how do you escape it’s reach w/out leaving the country.

The State Legislatures are the only peaceful means of either separation or resistance, but it is defenitely not through a petition at the WH.

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9X18
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:49am
Really. Beck is quick to quote our founding fathers but rather short on their character traits. We will all be cowering in a corner (Texas) if he has his way. Thank God there were those who thought for themselves and STOOD for what the believed They didn’t just pray their way to freedom they were willing to pay the price. Don’t be afraid of the big bad wolf Glen he already knows your address.

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dbeach22
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:48am
I love how Glenn turns the arguement to gold at the end of the first video saying you have doubled your money. What an idiot. You have double a dollar that is losing its buying power and is soon to collapse. If you want real security buy guns and ammunition. I cant believe I use to listen to this guy daily. What an idiot.

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TarheelFlyer
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:45am
By this logic Glenn, the Revolutionary War never should have happened….Again, here is the Decl. of Ind.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

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tnusagirl
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:45am
The map on the front page of The Blaze, is your name on the list Glenn is talking about. If you are registered as a Republican, your name is on a list. If you ever registered a gun in your name, you are on a list. If you are a member of the Tea Party, you are on the list. If you belong to the NRA, you are on a list. Seriously Glenn??

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TexasMade
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:43am
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under

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HowardBeale1
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:43am
There is NO WAY in hell I’m signing ANYTHING that goes straight to the current regime. While I do disagree with just about everything they do, I think it wise to keep much of it to myself. I’ve begun to CEASE speaking with so-called “friends” and co-workers. This is the time to go UNDERGROUND. We need SILENT weapons for QUIET “wars”. I’ll make my own plans for surviving this madness.

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TADTAD
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:38am
Another thing, Beck; Mike Trivisonnon on WTAM 1100 in Cleveland has recently declared you as somebody that is no longer relevant. With your views regarding this petition matter, I now agree with Trvisonno. You’ve lost me, sir.

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Restore the Republic
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:36am
What part of “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it” do you not understand Mr. Back….????

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SIXFRIGATES
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:31am
Imagine a Glenn Beck in 1941. Hugs and tears lose the war in the Pacific and Europe, now we are all speaking a blend of Japanese and German… Germanese.

Imagine a Glenn Beck in 1776. Bear hugs and pies arrive at the Kings palace, he laughs and 250 years later the North American continent is still a British satellite.

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StormRider
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:31am
I am sorry I left Beck when he went Ghandi, sorry but I knew where this was going. There is no living with these thugs, instead of live and let live, their focus is you will bow down to our liberal philosophy.And as far as being on a list, we already are so what the problem, Glenn?.

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TADTAD
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:30am
Give me liberty, or give me death. Treason? Really? That arguement is like the pot calling the kettle black. Er, half black. No, half white. No, wait; that could be interpreted as racist. Racist? I must be a homophobe. Homophobe? I must be a hater. Hater? Yes, I hate the idea that Mr. Beck is discouraging freedom of speech. If the White House decides to prosecute us signers of a petition and strip us of our glorious citizenship, then there WILL be a problem. Wisconsin per deer hunter registrations alone comprises the 8th largest army in the world. Come and get me, punks. We will go see God together, and I am right with Him. Are you? I’m already on their damned list. This guy Obama makes Nixon look like a Cub Scout. Semper Fi

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- Reality_Bites_You_on_the_Ass
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:39am
  God does not actually exist. It’s just a fairy tale to control children and the intellectually stunted.
  
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TROLLMONGER
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:29am
Oh and btw, Beck is completely paranoid using Obamas relection to fuel more fear and end of the world BS. And yet most Beckbots still believe his conspiratorial nonsense without question. They are completely brainwashed by Beck.

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SIXFRIGATES
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:29am
…because holding hands, hugging and crying is winning the fight for our Republic. Grow up Glenn, you sit on your $100 Million and say what you feel, but what you feel is not reality. The Republic is already lost and you made it easier by softening up too many fools. The Founders did not use love and tears, they used violence.

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Pantloadian
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:29am
And the tea buggerers continue to outwhirl the dervish. No principles. No convictions. No power. Just a long and plantive whine.

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TROLLMONGER
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:27am
You see old Beckbots. Even your messiah Beck says not to cecede. I bet you are completely confused now….LOL! But of course most of you want civil war because its in your nature to be war thirsty.

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SquidVetOhio
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:26am
Glenn Beck is the Joel Olsteen of political revolution. Just think happy thoughts and all will be well. Stand for what you believe in. Unless of course, that means any kind of confrontation. Then hide under your bed and quote Ghandi like a good Christian.

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vasco
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:26am
agreed. Barry will use it to rename our country to the USSA, and lock us down, and take our freedoms.

Then what will we have to do.

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Trigus
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:25am
“I mean, how dumb do you have to be? Really? You’re putting your name on a list that goes directly to the White House, and you’re putting your name on a list and saying, ‘yeah I think we should secede, I think there should be a Civil War.’”
Glenn Beck

How naive you are. Barry and his band of 40 thieves already have their list created. Military personnel will be the first to be picked up, then talk show hosts, then God fearing free thinking Americans.

“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.”
John Adams

“If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
Samuel Adams

Glenn, do you know how many ex-military live in the United States? I shall plant a seed. A organized, well armed, ex-military force inside the United States would be the one of the largest standing Armies in the world.

Military including Reserves: China 4.5m , US 2.9m , Iran 3.8m , Israel 795k, and Russia 2.2m

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Miss Anne
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:25am
Who exactly did Glenn Beck vote for? I’ve tried to research this question, but for some reason, Glenn has been very vague on this point.

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tbacct
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:25am
Glenn’s attitude here is exactly why I’m not continuing my Blaze membership when it expires this month.

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- Ex_marine_dude_8313
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:56pm
  You PAY for this? lol
  
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RodT82721
Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:25am
I think these succession petitions are a great idea.
If Congress and the administration have to spend their 15-20 hours working a month on these, then maybe they wont have time to come up with more of their big spending ideas to fix something else that don’t need fixing.

Between their vacations, meeting with their lobbyist backers and getting their face on TV, these over paid self important union supporters, don’t have a lot of time to take up legislation, so filling their legislation times with meaningless talk, could save tax payers a lot of money.

By the way, the states are supposed to run the Feds, not the other way around.

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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:59pm
  FREEDOM of CHOICE is a GOD given RIGHT from the beginning
  
  ———————- there were TWO Trees ————————
  
  - CONSEQUENCES for BOTH – GOOD or BAD – BLESSING or CURSE -
  
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