Glenn Beck's Message on 9/11

Read this truthful story, Glenn Beck words speak such truth and I could never agree more with him. I love you Glenn Beck!

Taken from: glennbeck.com

In my lifetime, there has never been a bigger story than the events that took place on September 11, 2001. When 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial planes and carried out their suicide attacks, murdering 3,000 people — it changed us.

Before 9/11, Americans had become complacent. We took our security and our freedoms for granted and assumed it would always be there for us. We fell asleep at liberty's wheel and were slapped into reality in a few, fateful moments.

Friday is a day of remembrance. We cannot allow ourselves to slip back into our pre-9/11 ignorance or we will be doomed to let history repeat itself. That is why we must never forget the sights and sounds from what started as a glorious Tuesday September morning in 2001.

But as I watch the memorial services here in Manhattan, I can't help but notice that the hole in the ground where the World Trade Center once stood so mightily is still a just a hole in the ground.

Year after year it's the same thing.

Are you telling me that eight years is too little time, in America today, to construct a high-rise building? Is this the really the best we can do?

When we built the Empire State Building, construction began on March 17, 1930. After 57,000 tons of steel, 3,400 workers and just 400 days, it opened on May 1, 1931.

The Hoover Dam, a 1,200-foot long and 700-foot tall concrete dam in the middle of nowhere, was started in 1931 and finished just five years later. Over 100 people died building it.

When Americans want to do something, we find a way to get it done. It's who we are or at least it's who we were.

These two events happened in the 1930s; do we have less imagination now? Do we have less technology than we did in 1930? Less spirit or drive?

We've been waiting eight years now for the new Freedom tower and we still have a hole in the ground. Four hundred days to build the Empire State Building and 2,920 days to have this?

Why?

I believe if it were up to you or me, the Freedom Tower would have been done years ago and it would be towers — not tower — because we would have built both of them the way they were before, except they would have been better and stronger and my guess is they would have been 25 stories taller. And have a big, fat "come and try that again" sign on top. We would have built it with our bare hands if we had to because that's what Americans do. We fail or we face a crisis and we make things better.

I believe the only reason we haven't rebuilt isn't because of Americans; it's because we're being held back — by politicians, special interest groups, unions, political correctness, you name it.

Did you know it's not the "Freedom Tower" anymore? It's going to be One World Trade. Why? Freedom tower — ooh, yeah, that might be too offensive and we want to make sure we have the occupancy. Who could possibly find something offensive about freedom? Well, China for one. But I don't want anyone in the "Freedom Tower" who is offended by freedom, do you?

Today, on 9/11, remember the victims, but also remember why we were attacked.

We were attacked by the enemies of freedom. What better way to remember the fallen than to build a tower named after the very thing they died for? To remind us of who they were and who we are.

We have forgotten: We're not Europeans, we're Americans! We run in to burning buildings, not away from them. We are a good and decent people and we are free. Although, it seems every day more and more, it's becoming clear that all those things we did to stay free are going to eventually end up enslaving us. Grab it while you can — you can't bottle it, you can't really hold on to it, but you can live it.

You can pursue your dreams here. People aren't risking their lives to leave oppressive countries in order to go to France. How many in Hollywood are paddling an inner tube to get to Cuba? They come to America because of who we are, who we've always been.

Get the politicians, the special interest groups and everybody else the hell out of the way, and let Americans build the "Freedom Tower." Send a message to the world: You cannot keep us down; anything you destroy will only make us stronger.

And here's a message to those in Washington: Get the hell out of the way. That scar on the end of this island is your monument. That's what you do with a tragedy or an emergency. Beat it! Let's give Americans a chance to do it themselves. Because the American spirit is still alive; it may have been dormant for a while — dazed and confused, held down by people who are trying to put a cap on American ingenuity — but I believe it's about to come out of the smoke, dust itself off and declare itself free again.

If any of you have ever watched the video in slow motion or heard what the firefighters who were there said, it was like a demolition. Could a building that size collapse to nothing after being hit by a plane? People just listen to whatever BS excuses and explainations the corrupt government wants to shove down our throats. How could people go into a building and set explosives, it must have took a while and nobody noticed?

I don't know what all those people died for but it wasn't for our freedom. It was a senseless tragedy.
I think it should be up to the victim's families if they want a memorial and what to name it as for those it offends, they should be told to bite the big one!

I think glenn beck is one of the most disgraceful figures on television, i'm glad all the advertisers are pulling out of his show.

He is a total nutjob, every time I hear him talk I wince intensely.

Check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA7-BvVDV10

(3.39 is where he opens up...lol))

Someone get him off the TV and radio.

Thank you Britt for your words, I am glad I posted this. And I am glad you listen to Glenn Beck just about every day, I am interested in reading Common Sense, my parents have..

He has opened so many eyes to the real world and he has helped this world...I hope you never go off air Glenn Beck, stay strong!

I think most liberals understand the need republicans have for fox news to tell them how the country should be run after they lost the presidential election.

Though I don't believe all of the so called talk host are as mentally unstable as Beck most are still in denial
This clip bellow is only after a sip of root beer , but he was probably off his meds Lmao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul9YGlapNiA

Glen Beck does not need anyone to make him look like a mad maniac . He does that himself.

I agree that anyone who believes building a large biulding, and telling government to get out of the way should learn more from history

CIA Warns Bush Of Possible Iraq Civil War. by Steve. Remember how integral to Karl Rove's grand plan is the partial withdrawal of thousands of US troops ...

I thought the Central Intillegence Agency was supposed to prevent us to slipping back into ignorance

"When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining." "The Glenn Beck Program," Sept. 9, 2005

Well Pumkin you seem to be a good judge of rhetoric

Propaganda is a valuable tool that can easily backfire. We can laugh at Glen Beck and if we did not he could sway people to accept insanity as the norm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrzRhIiLQ08&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u_0L6_2A4U&feature=fvw

No one is sane except you and I but sometimes I wonder about me

Now get out of my cyberspace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glenn beck supporters:
http://pubrecord.org/multimedia/5191/revealed-party-march-really-about/

Rikki, the difference is is that in pearl harbor we were attacked by another government. In 9/11 we were attacked by a terrorist group and the president used that attack to declare war on a country that didnt really have anything to do with it. The line was blurred and we still fell on the wrong side of it.

Glen Beck is so arrogant he probably would have told God to stay out of the way while the pinheads were building the Tower of Babel

"Since then the call to be strong and to seek your vengeance has been slowly diminishing. The number of people wanting to show your enemy mercy and forgiveness is increasing and in return that same enemy and those who support them are showing less and less respect for you as you appear to be growing weaker."

I would say that is due to the U.S. going after Iraq instead of the perpetrators of 9/11. Instead of going after a rogue Saudi who is hard to find, let's make an example of Saddam and hope that does the trick, obviously it didn't and wouldn't.

The times I have listened he avoided the issue by talking crap about people calling anyone that does not agree with him a pinhead

He does not have an issue with a Tower of Babel
because he babbles constantly, and when asked what he would do he screams Get off my phone

"It is not stupidity it is simply capitalism! Every party who is involved in this "project" trying to make as much profit as possible"

The golden rule of greed is the ones who have the gold rule

I have defended capitolism many times

My great-great granfather was said to have gone to school with Abraham Lincoln whom believed all men in this country should be free and not just the elite

While the people on fox news never seem to criticize the man they say kept us safe for eight years, I believe they know that not all Americans are safe until the troops are not needed in Arab countries anymore. If the country is going broke I would rather that money be spent on all that is needed in their efforts more than just a symbol

I believe it is arrogant and rude to tell the government to get out of the way even though many believe they were out of the way on 911

^generalizations where always the minority tar the majority
And of course there are those that work and those that think they are owed a living.

^Use other people's money and when you've lost that, convince the government that it is in the national interest to be kept afloat. After all, those banks still has all those bonuses to pay their top level staff for doing such a wonderful job of losing their money.^

That is my absolute most favorite thing you have ever said Rikki. Isn't that the truth!

My husband loves to listen to AM radio all the guys on WTAM including Glen Beck. I don't like to put myself in any group I am not right or left liberal or conservative, I am Rachel and I don't always agree with everything everyone says. Glen Beck says some very smart things sometimes and some very stupid things other times. He is on both sides of the fence for me so I guess I am one of the people that isn't love or hate him. It is not my priority to listen to him but I don't mind if that is what my husband has on. I have heard him criticize both Bush and Obama which we should all be able to do with anyone because nobody is perfect and nobody has all the answers to all of our problems. I don't think he should be calling people names just because they don't agree with him though......if that is why, I didn't hear the conversation, maybe she is a pinhead, I know some of those. LOL!

I agree that Glen Beck is a disgraceful human being.

The reason i dont like him is that he is smarmy, hypocritical, and a horrible actor. Hearing/seeing him talk just makes my skin crawl. Almost as much as ann coulter.

Rev. James Martin, S.J.Catholic priest and author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
Posted: March 8, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQcrM4HQQyg

Glenn Beck said last week on his eponymous show that Christians should leave churches that preach "social justice." Mr. Beck equated the desire for a just society with--wait for it--Nazism and Communism. "

"I'm begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes."

This means that you would have to leave the Catholic Church, which has long championed that aspect of the Gospel. The term "social justice" originated way back in the 1800s (and probably predates even that), and has been underlined by the Magisterium and popes since Leo XIII, who began the modern tradition of Catholic social teaching with his encyclical on capital and labor, Rerum Novarum in 1891. Subsequent popes have built on Leo's work, continuing the church's meditation on a variety of issues of social justice in such landmark documents as Pope Pius XI's encyclical on "the reconstruction of the social order," Quadregismo Anno (1931), Paul VI's encyclical "on the development of peoples," Populorum Progressio (1967) and John Paul II's encyclical "on the social concerns of the church" Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987).

The Compendium of the Social Teaching of the Church, published by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, says this:

The Church's social Magisterium constantly calls for the most classical forms of justice to be respected: commutative, distributive and legal justice. Ever greater importance has been given to social justice., which represents a real development in general justice, the justice that regulates social relationships according to the criterion of observance of the law. Social justice, a requirement related to the social question which today is worldwide in scope, concerns the social, political and economic aspects and, above all, the structural dimension of problems and their respective solutions....

Social justice is not just some silly foreign idea. American Catholics know that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have an Office of Justice, Peace and Human Development. On that website the U.S. bishops say: "At the core of the virtue of solidarity is the pursuit of justice and peace. Our love for all our sisters and brothers demands that we promote peace in a world surrounded by violence and conflict."

Get it? Social justice is an essential part of Catholic teaching. It's part of being a Catholic. So Glenn Beck is, in essence, saying "Leave the Catholic church."

But Glenn Beck is saying something else: "Leave Christianity." Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus mentions our responsibility to care for the poor, to work on their behalf, to stand with them. In fact, when asked how his followers would be judged he doesn't say that it will be based on where you worship, or how you pray, or how often you go to church, or even what political party you believe in. He says something quite different: It depends on how you treat the poor.

In the Gospel of Matthew (25) he tells his surprised disciples, that when you are meeting the poor, you are meeting him. They protest. "Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?' And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me."

But our responsibility to care for "the least of these" does not end with simple charity. Giving someone a handout is an important part of the Christian message. But so is advocating for them. It is not enough simply to help the poor, one must address the structures that keep them that way. Standing up for the rights of the poor is not being a Nazi, it's being Christian. And Communist, as Mr. Beck suggests? It's hard not to think of the retort of the great apostle of social justice, Dom Helder Camara, archbishop of Recife, "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."

The attack on social justice is the tack of those who wish to ignore the concerns the poor and ignore the social structures that foster poverty. It's not hard to see why people are tempted to do so. How much easier it would be if we didn't have to worry about the poor!

But ignoring the poor, and ignoring what keeps them poor, is, quite simply, unchristian. For the poor are the church in many ways. When St. Lawrence, in the fourth century, was ordered by the prefect of Rome to turn over the wealth of the church, he presented to him the poor.

Glenn Beck's desire to detach social justice from the Gospel is a move to detach care for the poor from the Gospel. But a church without the poor, and a church without a desire for a just social world for all, is not the church.

At least not the church of Jesus Christ. Who was, by the way, poor.

The Rev. James Martin, SJ is the author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything. A longer version of this post can be found at America magazine's blog "In All Things."

Health care = 9/11?
Posted: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:14 AM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
A Republican running for governor of New York thinks the passing of health reform is the same as 9/11. Per the New York Daily News:

" 'The day that that bill was passed will be remembered just as 9/11 was remembered in history,' Carl Paladino, a Buffalo businessman seeking the Republican and Conservative Party lines, told host Curtis Sliwa on AM 970 The Apple this morning. 'It was an attempt by these people in Washington to defy the Constitution. It is clearly in conflict with all of the basic precepts of the Constitution.'"

+Social Justice Prayer+

Almighty and eternal God, may your grace enkindle in all of us a love for the many unfortunate people whom poverty and misery reduce to a condition of life unworthy of human beings.

Arouse in the hearts of those who call you Father a hunger and thirst for social justice and for fraternal charity in deeds and in truth.

Grant, O Lord, peace to souls, peace to families, peace to our country and peace among nations. Amen

"I think (actually) know Micheal with all do respect, Beck was pointing out the difference between social justice and social justice interpreted by those who would rule your life" Thanks for the due respect, it is very rare sometimes in our government. I have known government employers that had to be respectful to labor unions
I worked as a government employee and have witnessed two kinds of justice, yet did not blame my church
I find Jon sterward's parody very helpfull with the interpretation of becks goofy facial ecpressions
rawstory.com
I found some funny twitters
Glenn Beck cult members, er, viewers do not be alarmed at the PROGRESSIVES trying to PROGRESS YOU INTO THINKING! dONT! dO IT!
2:46 PM Mar 2nd via web
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Media Matters' Burns talks to Countdown about violent rhetoric from Glenn Beck and Fox News