Glenn Beck 5/11/2011 -- winds of war

Since I'm writing about non-interventionism this week, it's appropriate to address Beck's first part of his show regarding the current pressure against Israel from her enemies. Beck believes that Israel is being set-up for destruction, and that America is considered Israel's partner, and both considered Satans by radical Islamists. A Soros group is warning that Israel should submit to the Palestinian state solution or face war. I have no problem with Beck's analysis, because radical Islamist groups and Mid-East leaders have made no secret of their hatred of Israel, and even in America there's a building opposition to Israel among leftists. The question is what should an American response look like?

We should have nothing to do with it. We should be neutral unless we are attacked or viably threatened with attack. It's too late, though, for our non-involvement and neutrality, because we're up to our national neck in Mid-East battles. But in a non-interventionist America, we'd allow Israel to defend herself, and Israel can defend herself. If the rhetoric became heated and suggestions were made that America should be attacked, after gathering credible information, we would make it clear that if we are attacked we'll respond with full force, we'll destroy, then we will leave -- otherwise, we will produce, trade, live our lives in peace, and leave others to live as they choose.

Glenn Beck 4/6/2011 - Radical connections ( is Beck leaving?)

Beck talked more about the radical connections between the Left and radical Islamists, making clear that he doesn't believe that Michael Moore and a radical cleric have the same goals, but they both want revolutionary change away from the capitalism of the west toward a more socialist-type global system of governance.

I won't go into the particulars -- anyone who keeps up can see the connections, and France is now is experiencing the problem first hand as multi-culturalism crumbles and groups struggle for power. This is the problem I see with the American Left -- they are forming coalitions which can never hold, and the chaos they create will not achieve their stated idealist goals. Destruction in and of itself is senseless unless a viable re-building project is planned or the cleared space can be enjoyed with little change. But what we have is a global battle in which we are more interdependent than ever. All it will take is one senseless spark, like the flotilla bravado planned for Israel, to start something that has awaful consequences.

The Left's plan for enforced social justice, whatever that means, is just the creation of more tyrants. The world has enough tyrants.

Get out of the UN -- the bogus Goldstone Report

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/04/05/united-nations-goldstone-report-does/

Goldstone admits the report on Israel human rights violations was/is bogus. The UN knows it's bogus, yet they will go ahead and punish Israel. We need to get out of the UN -- yet, we're following their resolution regarding Libya. The UN is corrupt, and we've wasted enough money pretending it isn't. 

Glenn Beck 3/29/2011 -- Pro-Israel

There was a time in the US when there was doubt whatsoever that Americans support Israel and have a very special relationship with Israel -- politically, economically and spiritually. Now, it appears that many on the Left are following a global revival of anti-semitism, although most on the Left would say they have problems with the State of Israel, not with the Jewish people, but why does the Left have a problem with Israel. Beck made comparisons between Israel and the average Muslim-controlled country. Israel, although not perfect, just as no nation is perfect, matches our values much more closely than Muslim nations which persecute gays and women, suppress free speech and squash all dissension and religious differences. There is no question that Israel is a kindred spirit to America, so why the pressure from the Left? I find it difficult to believe the extreme Islamic version of Palestinian suppression and abuse by Israel, and I have to wonder why the Left is so eager to believe this version? 

Does it have to do with the Left's overarcing goals, as Beck claims, and that the Left accepts what George Soros said when he claimed that America, and by extension, Israel, presents the main obstacle to a new world order? It's one of the only explanations that makes sense.

Beck claimed it's time to make judgements between good and evil. I realize that it's intellectually fashionable to resist such judgements, but when situations deterioriate to the point of being dangerous, humans survive only by making such judgements. Is the Left evil? The Left is an abstraction for a huge number of individuals, so it's ridiculous to call all these individuals evil, but ideas can be evil and need to be judged as evil because of the damage they cause -- as what happened in Russia, China, France, Germany, and, in America during certain times when evil ideas inspired humans to act against our own interests and morals.

Hopefully, we've learned from history, and this mistaken path taken by the Left can be corrected and it will not lead to tragedy. Yes, it's time to make judgements. I choose Israel, because, despite all of Israel's faults, those who surround Israel are preaching destruction, and it's obvious that's not the answer.

Glenn Beck 3/28/2011 -- al Qaeda, Mahdi, Unions, Radicals, etc

The world is in turmoil -- from Libya and the posssible al Qaeda rebels receiving US support to unions protesting in Britain to Syria, Bahrain, Yemen, on to America's Left and their attempts to disrupt corporations to the President who will explain some of it tonight -- the world is in turmoil. Beck has a lot on his plate these days. Much of what Beck predicted in the Mid-East has happened, and there's no reason to doubt his claim that Israel is being set up. Beck played a video of a UN representative, Richard Falk, comparing Israel to Nazis. Then Samantha Powers' Responibility to Protect doctrine appears to have influenced Obama in Libya, and it could influence Mid-East countries and European countries like France in the UN to "protect" Palestinians from vicious Jews and force the creation of a Palestinian State without input from Israel.

The Left, represented by radicals like Stephen Lerner, are proposing the disruption of corporations rather than changing the crony system and fighting for fair competiton, and, as Beck reports, Soros is funding a Jewish organization to disrupt Beck and get him off the air rather than refute Beck in open debate. We are witnessing a collusion of Leftists and Islamic radicals forcing their will on others in order to control others. This "revolutionary" movement is not an improvement, it's a change of power, or the attempt to change power. There is no formal union, just a spiritual union of revolution, with some real coordination in places, like the union activity in Egypt.

The Left is on the wrong track. On the far Left, Louis Farrakhan is calling Americans "beasts" and he states we are "evil". I'm okay with specific charges of evil against individuals or certain ideas, but this generalized fight against  western culture is going to backfire. At least I hope it backfires -- if not, it's all over. A serious rebellion in America will be crushed, and it's the Left's fault, ironically, since they have pushed more than others for State power -- the State, as they say, powerful enough to give you everything is powerful enough to take it all. Beck understands the danger of Farrakhan and the ideas that people like him and Lerner are loosely spreading. Their ideas are destructive, and they have no solutions except for more coercive power to enforce their vague plans for social justice through redistribution.

There was a time when I didn't believe much in voting, because I didn't think it changes anything, but our only hope is peaceful change within the system, and the only way to change the system is by voting in serious men and women with the courage to make the changes. This will be a herculean effort, but it can be done. We must limit the State, not empower it more than it already has been empowered by decades of statist policies.