This is what it’s like when Glenn REALLY needs to vent about Baltimore

Let’s be honest - no one is perfect. As much as Glenn wants to be the one emulating Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. when the news gets dark, sometimes you really, really need to let off some steam. On Tuesday’s TV show, Glenn couldn’t hold back his frustration on what was happening in Baltimore. Here’s what he had to say to say about the protests and where the country is headed unless people wake up.

Shame on all of us today. Shame on Baltimore. Shame on America.

Today, they have heaped tragedy upon tragedy, and the facts are still not clear on why a 25-year-old man died while in police custody. Despite not knowing what happened, the city of Baltimore is crippled with riots. At least 144 cars have been burned. Stores have been looted, 15 buildings set on fire, hundreds of arrests. Once again, American streets resemble a battlefield. Cops in riot gear square off against the angry mob.

Unfortunately, I have warned about this for quite some time, and I was mocked. So were you if you told your friends. I hate to say this, but last night as I was writing before I went to bed, I wrote in my journal Martin Luther King is truly dead. If nothing changes, our country will suffer the same fate.

Amidst the bullets, the rocks, the shattered glass, the fire, remains a glaring vacuum of leadership. As Baltimore burns, where are the voices crying out for peace, for common sense? As angry protests ferment chaos, powerful voices remain painfully silent. Hillary Clinton’s chance to seize the moment was met with a clueless Tweet offering a chance to win a free Hillary bumper sticker. Nature abhors a vacuum, so who’s filling that leadership void?

Well, let me show you exactly who’s filling that leadership void. We have the Crips, the Bloods. I’m sorry, I’m not in the Crips. Is Crips with a “Y” or is Crips with an “I”? An “I,” okay. Then you have the Nation of Islam, and then you have SEIU. You’ve got to have a good labor union in there, don’t you? Gotta have a labor union. This is who’s leading.

The Crips and the Bloods, two of the most violent gangs in American history are standing side-by-side with the members of the Baltimore City Council, the ACLU, the Baltimore Block, SEIU, the Mayor Stephanie Rawlings. Who else? Oh, the Nation of Islam, the other really, really violent set of people. The mayor said she wanted to walk a fine line and, I’m quoting, give those who wish to destroy the city plenty of room to operate. Watch.

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Mayor Rawlings: It’s a very delicate balancing act because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well, and we worked very hard to keep that balance.

Can I ask you what space besides a jail cell is required to give to people that wish to destroy? Now, she was confronted by the press about this statement, and she denied it.

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Mayor Rawlings: I never said, nor would I ever say, that we are giving people space to destroy our city.

Pretty incredible. The mayor is apparently okay with the city being destroyed here and okay was standing alongside with groups like the Nation of Islam. Because she likes to say she didn’t say things, I’d like to show her singling them out among the faith communities that are helping.

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Mayor Rawlings: Many members of the faith community were out there trying to calm the crowds and discourage violence. I want to also thank the Nation of Islam, who have been very presence in our efforts to keep calm and peace.

Yeah, they’ve been very present. So, how does it feel, Baltimore? How does it feel to have these guys be your leadership? How does it feel, labor unions, to have these guys, stand with them? If you are a member of SEIU, how’s it feel to know that your hard-earned money has gone to them, and they are helping plan in Baltimore and they’re arm in arm with violent murderous gains?

They’re giving you a bad name. They’re giving Baltimore a bad name, and I think the majority of people in Baltimore are good. In fact, let me show you. Here’s a mom going after her son. She saw him on television throwing rocks at police. I love this. We can’t play much of it on the air because most of it is foul language, but she took him down. Amen.

Now, let me show you another guy. This is another man calling out a masked man who cut the fire department’s hose as they tried to put out the fire to the local CVS. Wake up, America. Why is that guy by himself? Wake up, labor unions of America. SEIU is playing an organizing role in these riots. The mayor herself is closely aligned with SEIU. Radical leftists who believe in bottom-up, top-down are now running the show.

We are seeing how the 1960s would have played out if Martin Luther King wasn’t there. If Martin Luther King wasn’t a God-fearing, intelligence, peaceful, and rational man, this is what the whole country would have looked like. Malcolm X is the one that wanted violent reactions. He was the guy who said grab your guns. That was his first reaction, and it was MLK that stopped him. When Malcolm X. saw the error of his ways and changed, the group that he was a leader in, the Nation of Islam, murdered him. And now we have the mayor of Baltimore thanking the Nation of Islam?

This is exactly what I warned about when we talked at FOX. I sat on the edge of my desk at FOX, and I told you the coming insurrection. This is it. When I told you about Frances Fox Piven, her wildest dream, an oppressed people rising up and forcing the top to come crashing down, the Watts riots were a defining moment for her. She sees riots as a good thing. She’s getting what she’s hoping for, and they will continue to grow. I will tell you this, I talked to my daughter on the way in. We were driving in today, my oldest daughter, Mary, and she told said to me, “Dad, explain how you see these riots spreading.”

Because there’s going to be a problem, one place after another, and officers will continue to kill, and they will continue to be killed. And there will be people who always want to break in. Do you realize that—what was the name of that movie, The Purge? Do you realize they are now mirroring the movie The Purge? They’re calling, in Baltimore, they’re calling tomorrow, I think it is, purge day, where they can go in and purge and not be held accountable for their actions.

If you saw that movie, you know exactly what that movie was. What happened in that movie? You could kill and not be held responsible. There was no accountability for one day. That’s what people actually think is happening because nobody is holding anybody accountable. The escalation will continue, and this is a sick as the Middle Eastern mothers who send their sons out to be martyrs. It is that sick.

The American left has become a death cult. That’s pretty profound to say that. I mean, that takes some balls to say that. You’re damn right. The abortion industry and forcing people to pay for abortions and to accept that it’s okay and the DNC not even willing to say you can’t kill a baby, what is that if that’s not a death cult? The end of life care where we are cheering for people who are taking their own life, the complete lives system where grandma, you got yours, time now to maybe think about checking out, and now the riots, it’s a death cult. They don’t care.

The protesters don’t even know what the hell they’re even protesting about. What are they doing? Really, honestly, what are they doing? They’re capitalizing on a tragedy so they can get free stuff. It makes absolutely no sense. Why would you trash your own city? Why would you do that? Because you don’t care. It’s fun. You can get free stuff.

How does giving this sort of depravity room to operate, in the mayor’s words, help anything? How is it she didn’t have the curfew last night? How does burning and trashing a CVS help? Do you realize your mom or your grandparents or your neighbor’s grandparents might have lifesaving medicine at that CVS that you can no longer get? How does burning a car get justice for Freddie Gray?

What would Frederick Douglass say if he were around to see this? Or Booker T. Washington? I’m telling you, he would disown his own race. It’s despicable. What would Martin Luther King say? I don’t know. I believe he would probably quote from the Bible, but that’s this close to being something that’s unacceptable to say. I believe he would denounce the men who claim to be of the cloth and stand arm in arm with criminals and the Nation of Islam.

We are demonstrating to the world, not just us, we’re demonstrating to the whole world America cannot govern itself anymore. Man’s experiment on being free does not work, and the top must come crashing down because we are no longer a moral enough people, people that are in self-control enough to be able to restrain themselves. Wouldn’t it be fun to go out on a purge night and just take stuff out of the store? Yeah, maybe. Do you do it? No. Why? Because you’re not an animal.

You know, the beginning of this country, and things were different, I know that, we didn’t even have a police force. It was citizens, citizens. Do you know that it was Jimmy Carter that was the one who told us that we should wait for the first responders? He talked a lot about first responders. To hell with Jimmy Carter. We are the first responders. We are the ones.

It used to be the neighbor lady that used to police our children. I used to get in trouble by Mrs. Olson, and Mrs. Olson would actually come out and take me by the ear and take me home to my mother or my father. You know what one of the most powerful deterrents was back when I was growing up? Shame, but there is no shame anymore. Shame is dead. It doesn’t matter. Shame? Why? It made me famous.

You know, the phrase that Lincoln said has been really coming to mind in the last couple of days. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” How true that is, America. We’re destroying ourselves. I saw us fashion a noose and put a gun in our mouth last night in the streets in Baltimore. We will be destroyed from without? No, from within.

We have to choose to commit national suicide, and that’s exactly what we did last night—boom. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve swallowed a handful of sleeping pills long before Baltimore. We voted for corruption. We laughed at crime. We watch light snuff films from Hollywood for entertainment. We justify it and watch it with our kids because we say our kids know the difference between reality and make-believe. No, they don’t.

We don’t teach our kids anything other than do as I say, not as I do, and then when we say that to them, we hand them a phone number to an attorney should they ever be offended, God forbid, or not given a first-place trophy. Our marriage rates have plummeted, divorce rates skyrocket, children out of wedlock even higher, only to be outdone of the number of lives snuffed out by brutal abortion.

Baltimore is on fire, but the country is upside down. We arm the radical terrorists in the Middle East so they can fight their own wars and influence American interests. When it doesn’t work, we send our young men to fight, except not really fight. They have to be handcuffed by ridiculous rules of engagement that make them sitting ducks, and even when they do do the job and capture the enemy, politicians put them back on the battlefield.

The Muslim Brotherhood has access to the Oval Office. Do you? The Muslim Brotherhood has access to the State Department. Do you? Do you have access? Have you been into the antiterrorist command centers for the DHS? Because I haven’t been. I’d be stopped at the door. The Muslim Brotherhood is there.

We negotiate with countries while they are currently chanting “death to America,” and we treat them as a respected partner. The blood of innocent Christians cry out from the desert sands and falls on deaf ears of Americans. We ignore their call. We don’t just deny, we now openly mock God. In our arrogance, we just assume ultimate knowledge and wisdom belongs to us. Our pulpits stand by afraid to offend or heaven forbid lose the tax-exempt status, so they just keep it quiet.

You know what, in America, it’s just so much easier not to say the hard things. Isn’t it? It’s just so much easier. Why say them? Don’t. God forbid you say it from a pulpit. No, that’s not what you’re there for. You’re not there to actually set the world on fire from the pulpit, no. Have another hand of sleeping pills, everybody in the congregation. Don’t worry about that. That’s politics. This is religion.

Why say anything in Congress? You can be a billionaire if you just shut your mouth and play along. On TV, no, it’s too important to be famous. Everybody wants to be famous. You know, I’m on TV. Hello, Mr. DeMille. On social media, anything goes—well, almost anything. If you say what you believe is the truth, then the local news will come down and hunt you down, and you might lose your job. We’ve averted our eyes, and in doing so, we have become totally blind.

Oh, we’ll never lose freedom. That’s just fearmongering. That’s ridiculous. Yet, we say nothing when our kindergarten kids are charged with a class II look-alike firearm. What’s a class II look-alike firearm? This. Scary, isn’t it? They go to jail for this. We say nothing on this. We say nothing as our kids toil night after night fighting ridiculous Common Core math problems that don’t make any sense.

We say nothing to the dynasties who promote such nonsense just to merely enrich themselves and get thrust into the national spotlight by the entrenched political parties. We say nothing as our kids graduate from this corrupt system without the ability to think or reason for themselves, and at the end, the result, a hapless soul gets pushed into a harsh world completely unprepared. They can’t find a job. They can’t fend for themselves. They don’t how to think.

They’re strapped with outrageously bloated college loans, and then along comes the savior, a government promised to paying off all those loans—just serve me—promising a good paying job that will never materialize, promising free health care, free internet, free phones, free everything, and the cycle of slavery continues. And we’ve done it to ourselves.

I could go on and on and on diagnosing what the hell is going on, but unfortunately, most Americans have the attention span, and I’m not kidding, shorter than a goldfish. I believe 4-½ seconds is the new number of our attention span, 4-½, so why bother? This is a 20-minute monologue. How many people are watching? Four by the time I’m done.

Here it is in black and whites. It’s really easy. There’s no leadership, and when there is no leadership, there’s no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish. The president finally worked in some time today after huddling in private to discuss what to say, and then he came out with all the enthusiasm and the passion of Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Class? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

If you see people trashing a city, what possible private brainstorming do you have to do? You get up off your presidential ass, and you say knock it off. That’s what you do. This isn’t helping anyone. This is a disgrace to Martin Luther King’s legacy. Here, Mr. President, why don’t you try this? Why don’t you challenge them to take an oath of nonviolence? Is that so hard? Only if you’re actually against an oath of nonviolence you would have a hard time with that.

There are people losing their heads to swords of madmen. There’s a third world nation right now suffering from the punishing effects of a natural disaster. We as Americans should be pooling our vast resources trying to help the world. Instead, we’re tending to self-inflicted wounds. The sun set on America last night in a blaze of chaos. Now, the question is you were born at this time for a reason. Are you brave enough, are you smart enough, are you humble enough, are you committed enough to renew the American promise so not us, but the next generation, will be able to say it’s morning in America once again?

What do clay pots have to do with to preserving American history?

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Editor's note: This article was originally published on TheBlaze.com.

Why should we preserve our nation’s history? If you listen to my radio program and podcast, or read my columns and books, you know I’ve dedicated a large part of my life and finances to sourcing and preserving priceless artifacts that tell America’s story. I’ve tried to make these artifacts as available as possible through the American Journey Experience Museum, just across from the studios where I do my daily radio broadcast. Thousands of you have come through the museum and have been able to see and experience these artifacts that are a part of your legacy as an American.

The destruction of American texts has already begun.

But why should people like you and me be concerned about preserving these things from our nation's history? Isn’t that what the “big guys” like the National Archives are for?

I first felt a prompting to preserve our nation's history back in 2008, and it all started with clay pots and the Dead Sea Scrolls. In 1946, a Bedouin shepherd in what is now the West Bank threw a rock into a cave nestled into the side of a cliff near the Dead Sea. Instead of hearing an echo, he heard the curious sound of a clay pot shattering. He discovered more than 15,000 Masoretic texts from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D.

These texts weren’t just a priceless historical discovery. They were virtually perfect copies of the same Jewish texts that continue to be translated today. Consider the significance of that discovery. Since the third century B.C. when these texts were first written, the Jewish people have endured a continued onslaught of diasporas, persecutions, pressures to conform to their occupying power, the destruction of their temple, and so much more. They had to fight for their identity as a people for centuries, and finally, a year after the end of the Holocaust and a year before the founding of the nation of Israel, these texts were discovered, confirming the preservation and endurance of their heritage since ancient times — all due to someone putting these clay pots in a desert cave more than 2,000 years ago.

I first felt a prompting to preserve our nation's history back in 2008, and it all started with clay pots and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

So, what do these clay pots have to do with the calling to preserve American history? I didn’t understand that prompting myself until the horrible thought dawned on me that the people we are fighting against may very well take our sacred American scriptures, our Declaration of Independence, and our Bill of Rights. What if they are successful, and 1,000 years from now, we have no texts preserved to confirm our national identity? What kind of new history would be written over the truth?

The destruction of American texts has already begun. The National Archives has labeled some of our critical documents, like our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, as “triggering” or “containing harmful language.” In a public statement, the National Archives said that the labels help prepare readers to view potentially distressing content:

The Catalog and web pages contain some content that may be harmful or difficult to view. NARA’s records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records. As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly violent views and opinions. In addition, some of the materials may relate to violent or graphic events and are preserved for their historical significance.

According to this statement, our founding documents are either “outdated, biased, offensive,” “possibly violent,” or a combination of these scathing descriptions. I’m sorry, the Declaration of Independence is not “triggering.” Our Constitution is not “outdated and biased,” and our Bill of Rights certainly is not “offensive and possibly violent.” They are glorious documents. They should be celebrated, not qualified by such derogatory, absurd language. Shame on them.

These are only the beginning stages of rewriting our history. What if they start banning these “triggering” documents from public view because they might offend somebody? Haven’t we torn down “triggering” statues before? What if we are no longer able to see, read, and study the actual words of our nation's founding documents because they are “harmful” or “possibly violent”? A thousand years from now, will there be any remnant to piece together the true spirit behind the nation that our founders envisioned?

The Declaration of Independence is not “triggering.”

That is why in 2008, I was prompted to preserve what I could. Now, the American Journey Experience Museum includes more than 160,000 artifacts, from founding-era documents to the original Roe v. Wade court papers. We need to preserve the totality of our nation’s heritage, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We need to preserve our history in our own clay pots.

I ask you to join with me on this mission. Start buying books that are important to preserve. Buy some acid-free paper and start printing some of the founding documents, the reports that go against the mainstream narrative, the studies that prove what is true as we are continually being fed lies. Start preserving our daily history as well as our history because it is being rewritten and digitized.

Somebody must have a copy of what is happening now and what has happened in the past. I hope things don’t get really bad. But if they do, we need to preserve our heritage. Perhaps, someone 1,000 years from now will discover our clay pots and, Lord willing, be able to have a glimpse of America as it truly was.

Top 10 WORST items in the new $1.2 TRILLION spending bill

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Biden just signed the newest spending bill into law, and Glenn is furious.

Under Speaker Johnson's leadership, the whopping $1.2 TRILLION package will use your taxpayer dollars to fund the government through September. Of course, the bill is loaded with earmarks and pork that diverts money to fund all sorts of absurd side projects.

Here is the list of the ten WORST uses of taxpayer money in the recently passed spending bill:

Funding venues to host drag shows, including ones that target children

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Money for transgender underwear for kids

Funding for proms for 12 to 18 year old kids

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Border security funding... for Jordan and Egypt

Another $300 million for Ukraine

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$3.5 million for Detroit's annual Thanksgiving Day parade

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$2.5 million for a new kayaking facility in Franklin, New Hampshire

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$2.7 million for a bike park in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, a town with a population of less than 2,300 people

$5 million for a new trail at Coastal Carolina University

$4 million the "Alaska King Crab Enhancement Project" (whatever that means)

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There is no doubt about it—we are entering dark times.

The November presidential election is only a few months away, and following the chaos of the 2020 election, the American people are bracing for what is likely to be another tumultuous election year. The left's anti-Trump rhetoric is reaching an all-time high with the most recent "Bloodbath" debacle proving how far the media will go to smear the former president. That's not to mention the Democrats' nearly four-year-long authoritarian attempt to jail President Trump or stop his re-election by any means necessary, even if it flies in the face of the Constitution.

Meanwhile, Biden is doing worse than ever. He reportedly threw a tantrum recently after being informed that his polls have reached an all-time low. After Special Counsel Robert Hur's report expressed concerns over Biden's obviously failing mental agility, it's getting harder for the Democrats to defend him. Yet he is still the Democratic nominee for November, promising another 4 years of catastrophic policies, from the border to heavy-handed taxation, should he be reelected.

The rest of the world isn't doing much better. The war in Ukraine has no clear end in sight, drawing NATO and Russia closer and closer to conflict. The war in Gaza is showing no sign of slowing down, and as Glenn revealed recently, its continuation may be a sign that the end times are near.

One thing is clear: we are living in uncertain times. If you and your family haven't prepared for the worst, now is the time. You can start by downloading "Glenn's Ultimate Guide to Getting Prepared." Be sure to print off a copy or two. If the recent cell outage proved anything, it's that technology is unreliable in survival situations. You can check your list of supplies against our "Ultimate Prepper Checklist for Beginners," which you can find below:

Food

  • Canned food/non-perishable foods
  • Food preparation tools
  • Go to the next level: garden/livestock/food production

Water

  • Non-perishable water store
  • Water purification
  • Independent water source

Shelter

  • Fireplace with a wood supply
  • Tent
  • Generator with fuel supply
  • Go to the next level: fallout shelter

Money

  • Emergency cash savings
  • Precious metals

Medicine

  • Extra blankets
  • Basic first aid
  • Extra prescriptions
  • Extra glasses
  • Toiletries store
  • Trauma kit
  • Antibiotics
  • Basic surgery supplies
  • Potassium Iodate tablets

Transportation

  • Bicycle
  • Car
  • Extra fuel

Information

  • Birth certificates
  • Insurance cards
  • Marriage license
  • Immunization records
  • Mortgage paperwork
  • Car title and registration
  • House keys, car keys
  • Passports
  • Family emergency plan
  • Prepping/survival/repair manuals
  • Go to the next level: copy of the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, and other important books/sources

Skills

  • Cooking
  • Gardening
  • Sewing
  • First Aid
  • Basic maintenance skills
  • Go to the next level: farming/ranching
  • Self-defense training

Communication

  • Family contact information and addresses
  • HAM radio

Miscellaneous

  • Flashlights and batteries
  • Lamps and fuel
  • Hardware (tools, nails, lumber, etc)
  • Extra clothes
  • Extreme weather clothes and gear
  • Gas masks and filters
  • Spare parts for any machinery/equipment

Is Trump's prosecution NORMAL?  This COMPLETE list of ALL Western leaders who served jail time proves otherwise.

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Mainstream media is on a crusade to normalize Donald Trump's indictments as if it's on par with the electoral course. Glenn asked his team to research every instance of a Western leader who was jailed during their political career over the past 200 years—except extreme political turmoil like the French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, Irish Revolution, etc.—and what we discovered was quite the opposite.

Imprisoning a leader or major political opponent is not normal, neither in the U.S. nor in the Western world. Within the last 200 years, there are only a handful of examples of leaders in the West serving jail time, and these men were not imprisoned under normal conditions. All of these men were jailed under extreme circumstances during times of great peril such as the Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War.

What does this mean for America? Are Trump's indictments evidence that we are re-entering times of great peril? Below is a list of Western leaders who were imprisoned within the last 200 years. Take a look and decide for yourself:

Late 1800s

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Jefferson Davis: The nearest occurrence to a U.S. President to serve jail time was in the case of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Jefferson was captured in Georgia by Northern Soldiers in 1865 and locked up in Fort Monroe, Virginia for two years. He was offered a presidential pardon but refused out of his loyalty to the confederacy.

Early 1900s

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Eugene V. Debs: Debbs, a Midwestern socialist leader, became the first person to run for president in prison. He was locked up at a federal penitentiary in Atlanta having been convicted under the federal Sedition Act for giving an antiwar speech a few months before Armistice Day, the end of World War I. Many of his supporters believed his imprisonment to be unjust. Debs received 897,704 votes and was a distant third-part candidate behind Warren G. Harding, the Republican winner, and James M. Cox, the second-place Democrat. Harding ordered Debs’s release from prison toward the end of 1921.

Nazi sympathizers and collaborators: After the end of World War II in 1945, several European leaders who had "led" their countries during the Nazi occupation faced trial and imprisonment for treason. This list included Chief of the French State Philippe Pétain, French Prime Minister Pierre Laval, and Minister-President of Norway Vidkun Quisling. The latter two were also executed after their imprisonment. President of Finland Risto Ryti and Prime Minister of Finland Johan Wilhelm Rangell were also tried and jailed for collaborating with the Nazis against the Allied Powers.

Late 1900s

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The end of the Cold War: The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was one of the pivotal moments that brought the Cold War to a close and marked the end of Communist East Germany. With the fall of the wall and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the former leaders were brought to trial to answer for the crimes committed by the GDR. General Secretary Erich Honecker and General Secretary Egon Krenz were both put on trial for abuse of power and the deaths of those who were shot trying to flee into West Germany. Honecker was charged with jail time but was released from custody due to severe illness and lived out the rest of his life as an exile in Chile. Krenz served 4 years in jail before his release in 2001. He is one of the last surviving leaders of the Eastern Bloc.

Lyndon LaRouche: Larouche was a Trotsky evangelist, public antisemite, and founder of a nationwide Marxist political movement, became the second person in U.S. history to run for President in a prison cell. Granted, he ran in every election from 1976 to 2004 as a long-shot third-party candidate. When he tried to gain the Democratic presidential nomination, he received 5 percent of the total nationwide vote. Even though in 2000 he received enough primary votes to qualify for delegates in a few states, the Democratic National Committee refused to seat his delegates and barred LaRouche from attending the Democratic National Convention.