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Glenn is going to the border...

July 09, 2014
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On Tuesday’s Glenn Beck Program, Glenn delivered a monologue further explaining his stance on the immigration crisis. Glenn made it clear that amnesty is not an option and the government must work swiftly to handle the “border crisis.” Meanwhile, it is time for the American people to step in and begin correcting the “humanitarian crisis.”

Glenn announced he will be visiting the border town of McAllen, Texas on Saturday, July 19. He will be joined by politicians like Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and faith leaders as Mercury One begins to distribute the goods and services it has accumulated through donations to its Children and Family Border Relief Fund.

Over the last several days and weeks, Glenn has read countless emails and social media comments from fans who both support and oppose the position he has taken on this issue. On radio this morning, Glenn shared details about his upcoming trip to the border and sought to further clarify why he believes “there is no justice without mercy.”

Below is an edited transcript of the monologue:

We announced yesterday that I'm going to go down to the border a week from Saturday. And we have been asked if we would provide aid to the churches that are actually standing and bearing the brunt of what is happening on our border. This is Cloward and Piven. They're trying to collapse the system. We can't allow the system to collapse. We have to dig in and do all that we can while we stand and fight against illegal immigration. While we stand and say, ‘These people must be returned home,’ we must have compassion and not allow the system to collapse.

I am being joined by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) a week from Saturday, and if you think those guys are soft on illegal immigration or soft on the Constitution, you might want to check yourself before you wreck yourself. I announced this yesterday on television, and we saw people change their position – not everybody – but a lot of the people who had written just two, three weeks ago who said they'll never watch or listen; they're going to cancel their subscription; they're definitely going to stop helping Mercury One help people; those people wrote to us and said, ‘I have been thinking about this. I've been praying about this. I have been watching what's going on. And I do not agree with illegal immigration.’ Neither do I. ‘But we have to be human first, and take care of human needs and don't let the system collapse.’ The way we will lose is by appearing to be something that we're not, by appearing to be hateful people that don't care about children. That's how you lose. Guarantee it.

Do you know how we lost the gay marriage thing? Because we made it about homosexuality. I don't hate homosexuals. If you are in love with another person, and you want to get married, okay. But don't force me to perform the marriage. Don't force me or my church to accept you into the fold. There are other churches that will. That's my right to freedom of conscience. Your right to freedom of conscience is you want to get married. Great. Why is the government in the marriage business in the first place? Control. Power. To be able to use this to separate one another.

I am for legal immigration reform. The system does not work. But we've got to change. Nobody is going to listen to you if they think they're a hatemonger. They're not going to listen to you. You're going to lose this again. So, what can we do? Pick up our personal responsibility with malice toward none and charity toward all and go and serve.

Now, I'm going down to the border in McAllen, Texas, next Saturday. I am also going to the border at night with Louie Gohmert. Louie is going to help us unload these trucks. Louie is going to be there along with some of the pastors. Some of these pastors disagree with us. Some of these pastors are all for illegal immigration. What we're doing is not political. Because I can tell you Louie Gohmert is not for illegal immigration. Ted Cruz is not for illegal immigration. Mike Lee is not for illegal immigration. We are all for the rule of law.

But our first responsibility is take care of one another. And we can do that together. And as we do that, believe me, we will be having conversations with people. We will be having conversations and they will probably be the first conversations where we're not yelling at each other. Why? Because everybody unloading those buses will know we love people. We don't hate people. So we're starting at a different place. ‘Look, you care about the children just as much as I do. By the way, can anybody tell me at the HuffPo how many truckloads of food they've raised? Can anybody tell me any liberal talk show host – how much money you have raised? Can you tell me, anybody, anybody, who has gone down there and actually unloaded the buses or the trucks, the semi-tractor trailers, how many have you fed? How many of the liberal talk show hosts on MSNBC have gone and actually had a breakfast and a lunch where they served these people?’

I will tell you that next Saturday, I'm going to be doing that. And I invite everyone else to put your time – not your money –where your heart is. My heart is with anyone who is suffering. My brain is with the law. The law must be enforced. My heart is where I have mercy. And there is no justice without mercy. You have to have both of them. And right now, the conservatives only look like they just want judgment, and the liberals only look at it as mercy. You cannot have a rule of law if it is nothing but mercy. You cannot have justice without mercy. You need both. So why don't we lead the way? Why don't we do both? Why don't we demand real justice by being the first to stand up? Let us lead the way with mercy and duty and sacrifice and honor and integrity. And we will humble ourselves. We will swallow or pride. We will do the right thing even though it really kind of rubs us wrong because we shouldn't have to be doing this if you would have obeyed the law in the first place. But we voted these people in.

Please don't tell me, ‘Well, I didn't vote these people in.’ Really? Because I see the results of Congress. I see what John McCain did. I see what George W. Bush did on the border. So don't tell me we didn't do this. All of us have been involved.

I would like to ask you if you'd like to join me. This is not going to be a path for the sunshine patriot. It's not. I will tell you, you're going to make enemies on both sides now. I've already done that. I have already been called a traitor to the Constitution, a traitor to the republic. You name it, I've been called it. So now I am not popular on the right or the left. So be it.

I said last night, my fans are mocking me on Facebook and that's okay. Believe me, I went into this one wide open. I know exactly where I'm going. I know exactly who I am, and I know exactly what the consequences of that could be. And that's fine. But what I said on TV last night is: I've said a lot of controversial things. I've asked you to do a lot of crazy things. People will say all the time to me, ‘Glenn, you know what? You were right on so many things.’ ‘My gosh, I can't believe your track record.’ ‘You know, I thought you were crazy on the collapse of the economy in 2008, and you turned out to be right on that one.’ ‘I thought you were crazy about Cloward Piven, and then I started seeing stuff.’ ‘I thought you were crazy on the Progressives.’ ‘I thought you were crazy on what happened in Egypt.’ ‘I thought you were crazy that there could be a caliphate.’

I’m not talking about the border. I am talking about the human condition. I am talking about our heart, and I have never been more right on anything in my life than I am on our heart. If we close our heart, if we don't do the hard work right now – and I mean it's going to be hard. You're gonna do things and you're gonna stand with people you don't want to stand with. Nothing worthwhile comes easy. Hard times make us, to quote JFK. We don't do these things because they're easy. We do them because they are hard, because they're right. I've never been more right on anything ever in my life, and if it means I do it alone, then I will do it alone.

But I ask you to join me because I know who you are. I know who you are. It's why I love you so much. It's why I love this audience so much. It's why I have so much respect for you. You are unlike any other audience. You really are. You are not the typical talk radio audience. You are not the typical television audience. You are so atypical. I wish there was some verifiable way I could prove it to you. There is no other audience in the history of mass communication like this audience. Period.

I have said this to you since September 11th – and this does not come from me, this comes from my gut, from the prompting, whatever you want to call it – you are going to be responsible for a great change. You are going to be the ones that save the nation. And if I have to be out in the middle of a field all by myself with 10 people saying: Love one another. Be better than everyone else. Do the hard thing. Be kind. Be gentle. I know the world wants you to hate. I know the world is teeming with hatred. It's teeming with darkness. Shun it. Be good. Be a beacon of light and hope. Be the flame on the Statue of Liberty that the whole world looks to and says, ‘I want to go that way.’ You will be the shining city on the hill. I don't know what that city looks like in the end. But that's what we're supposed to build. And the eyes of the world will be upon us. They already are. Let's show them who we really are. Let's prove the world wrong.

If you'd like to make a donation and join me, you can make a donation at MercuryOne.org. If you can't make a donation, because you can't afford one, just pray for us. If you don't want to make a donation, please accept my hand as your friend, and I hope someday you'll be able to join us.

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Is the U.N. plotting to control 30% of U.S. land by 2030?

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A reliable conservative senator faces cancellation for listening to voters. But the real threat to public lands comes from the last president’s backdoor globalist agenda.

Something ugly is unfolding on social media, and most people aren’t seeing it clearly. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) — one of the most constitutionally grounded conservatives in Washington — is under fire for a housing provision he first proposed in 2022.

You wouldn’t know that from scrolling through X. According to the latest online frenzy, Lee wants to sell off national parks, bulldoze public lands, gut hunting and fishing rights, and hand America’s wilderness to Amazon, BlackRock, and the Chinese Communist Party. None of that is true.

Lee’s bill would have protected against the massive land-grab that’s already under way — courtesy of the Biden administration.

I covered this last month. Since then, the backlash has grown into something like a political witch hunt — not just from the left but from the right. Even Donald Trump Jr., someone I typically agree with, has attacked Lee’s proposal. He’s not alone.

Time to look at the facts the media refuses to cover about Lee’s federal land plan.

What Lee actually proposed

Over the weekend, Lee announced that he would withdraw the federal land sale provision from his housing bill. He said the decision was in response to “a tremendous amount of misinformation — and in some cases, outright lies,” but also acknowledged that many Americans brought forward sincere, thoughtful concerns.

Because of the strict rules surrounding the budget reconciliation process, Lee couldn’t secure legally enforceable protections to ensure that the land would be made available “only to American families — not to China, not to BlackRock, and not to any foreign interests.” Without those safeguards, he chose to walk it back.

That’s not selling out. That’s leadership.

It's what the legislative process is supposed to look like: A senator proposes a bill, the people respond, and the lawmaker listens. That was once known as representative democracy. These days, it gets you labeled a globalist sellout.

The Biden land-grab

To many Americans, “public land” brings to mind open spaces for hunting, fishing, hiking, and recreation. But that’s not what Sen. Mike Lee’s bill targeted.

His proposal would have protected against the real land-grab already under way — the one pushed by the Biden administration.

In 2021, Biden launched a plan to “conserve” 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030. This effort follows the United Nations-backed “30 by 30” initiative, which seeks to place one-third of all land and water under government control.

Ask yourself: Is the U.N. focused on preserving your right to hunt and fish? Or are radical environmentalists exploiting climate fears to restrict your access to American land?

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As it stands, the federal government already owns 640 million acres — nearly one-third of the entire country. At this rate, the government will hit that 30% benchmark with ease. But it doesn’t end there. The next phase is already in play: the “50 by 50” agenda.

That brings me to a piece of legislation most Americans haven’t even heard of: the Sustains Act.

Passed in 2023, the law allows the federal government to accept private funding from organizations, such as BlackRock or the Bill Gates Foundation, to support “conservation programs.” In practice, the law enables wealthy elites to buy influence over how American land is used and managed.

Moreover, the government doesn’t even need the landowner’s permission to declare that your property contributes to “pollination,” or “photosynthesis,” or “air quality” — and then regulate it accordingly. You could wake up one morning and find out that the land you own no longer belongs to you in any meaningful sense.

Where was the outrage then? Where were the online crusaders when private capital and federal bureaucrats teamed up to quietly erode private property rights across America?

American families pay the price

The real danger isn’t in Mike Lee’s attempt to offer more housing near population centers — land that would be limited, clarified, and safeguarded in the final bill. The real threat is the creeping partnership between unelected global elites and our own government, a partnership designed to consolidate land, control rural development, and keep Americans penned in so-called “15-minute cities.”

BlackRock buying entire neighborhoods and pricing out regular families isn’t by accident. It’s part of a larger strategy to centralize populations into manageable zones, where cars are unnecessary, rural living is unaffordable, and every facet of life is tracked, regulated, and optimized.

That’s the real agenda. And it’s already happening , and Mike Lee’s bill would have been an effort to ensure that you — not BlackRock, not China — get first dibs.

I live in a town of 451 people. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, housing is unaffordable. The American dream of owning a patch of land is slipping away, not because of one proposal from a constitutional conservative, but because global powers and their political allies are already devouring it.

Divide and conquer

This controversy isn’t really about Mike Lee. It’s about whether we, as a nation, are still capable of having honest debates about public policy — or whether the online mob now controls the narrative. It’s about whether conservatives will focus on facts or fall into the trap of friendly fire and circular firing squads.

More importantly, it’s about whether we’ll recognize the real land-grab happening in our country — and have the courage to fight back before it’s too late.


This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

URGENT: FIVE steps to CONTROL AI before it's too late!

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By now, many of us are familiar with AI and its potential benefits and threats. However, unless you're a tech tycoon, it can feel like you have little influence over the future of artificial intelligence.

For years, Glenn has warned about the dangers of rapidly developing AI technologies that have taken the world by storm.

He acknowledges their significant benefits but emphasizes the need to establish proper boundaries and ethics now, while we still have control. But since most people aren’t Silicon Valley tech leaders making the decisions, how can they help keep AI in check?

Recently, Glenn interviewed Tristan Harris, a tech ethicist deeply concerned about the potential harm of unchecked AI, to discuss its societal implications. Harris highlighted a concerning new piece of legislation proposed by Texas Senator Ted Cruz. This legislation proposes a state-level moratorium on AI regulation, meaning only the federal government could regulate AI. Harris noted that there’s currently no Federal plan for regulating AI. Until the federal government establishes a plan, tech companies would have nearly free rein with their AI. And we all know how slowly the federal government moves.

  

This is where you come in. Tristan Harris shared with Glenn the top five actions you should urge your representatives to take regarding AI, including opposing the moratorium until a concrete plan is in place. Now is your chance to influence the future of AI. Contact your senator and congressman today and share these five crucial steps they must take to keep AI in check:

Ban engagement-optimized AI companions for kids

Create legislation that will prevent AI from being designed to maximize addiction, sexualization, flattery, and attachment disorders, and to protect young people’s mental health and ability to form real-life friendships.

Establish basic liability laws

Companies need to be held accountable when their products cause real-world harm.

Pass increased whistleblower protections

Protect concerned technologists working inside the AI labs from facing untenable pressures and threats that prevent them from warning the public when the AI rollout is unsafe or crosses dangerous red lines.

Prevent AI from having legal rights

Enact laws so AIs don’t have protected speech or have their own bank accounts, making sure our legal system works for human interests over AI interests.

Oppose the state moratorium on AI 

Call your congressman or Senator Cruz’s office, and demand they oppose the state moratorium on AI without a plan for how we will set guardrails for this technology.

Glenn: Only Trump dared to deliver on decades of empty promises

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The Islamic regime has been killing Americans since 1979. Now Trump’s response proves we’re no longer playing defense — we’re finally hitting back.

The United States has taken direct military action against Iran’s nuclear program. Whatever you think of the strike, it’s over. It’s happened. And now, we have to predict what happens next. I want to help you understand the gravity of this situation: what happened, what it means, and what might come next. To that end, we need to begin with a little history.

Since 1979, Iran has been at war with us — even if we refused to call it that.

We are either on the verge of a remarkable strategic victory or a devastating global escalation. Time will tell.

It began with the hostage crisis, when 66 Americans were seized and 52 were held for over a year by the radical Islamic regime. Four years later, 17 more Americans were murdered in the U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut, followed by 241 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing.

Then came the Khobar Towers bombing in 1996, which killed 19 more U.S. airmen. Iran had its fingerprints all over it.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, Iranian-backed proxies killed hundreds of American soldiers. From 2001 to 2020 in Afghanistan and 2003 to 2011 in Iraq, Iran supplied IEDs and tactical support.

The Iranians have plotted assassinations and kidnappings on U.S. soil — in 2011, 2021, and again in 2024 — and yet we’ve never really responded.

The precedent for U.S. retaliation has always been present, but no president has chosen to pull the trigger until this past weekend. President Donald Trump struck decisively. And what our military pulled off this weekend was nothing short of extraordinary.

Operation Midnight Hammer

The strike was reportedly called Operation Midnight Hammer. It involved as many as 175 U.S. aircraft, including 12 B-2 stealth bombers — out of just 19 in our entire arsenal. Those bombers are among the most complex machines in the world, and they were kept mission-ready by some of the finest mechanics on the planet.

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To throw off Iranian radar and intelligence, some bombers flew west toward Guam — classic misdirection. The rest flew east, toward the real targets.

As the B-2s approached Iranian airspace, U.S. submarines launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles at Iran’s fortified nuclear facilities. Minutes later, the bombers dropped 14 MOPs — massive ordnance penetrators — each designed to drill deep into the earth and destroy underground bunkers. These bombs are the size of an F-16 and cost millions of dollars apiece. They are so accurate, I’ve been told they can hit the top of a soda can from 15,000 feet.

They were built for this mission — and we’ve been rehearsing this run for 15 years.

If the satellite imagery is accurate — and if what my sources tell me is true — the targeted nuclear sites were utterly destroyed. We’ll likely rely on the Israelis to confirm that on the ground.

This was a master class in strategy, execution, and deterrence. And it proved that only the United States could carry out a strike like this. I am very proud of our military, what we are capable of doing, and what we can accomplish.

What comes next

We don’t yet know how Iran will respond, but many of the possibilities are troubling. The Iranians could target U.S. forces across the Middle East. On Monday, Tehran launched 20 missiles at U.S. bases in Qatar, Syria, and Kuwait, to no effect. God forbid, they could also unleash Hezbollah or other terrorist proxies to strike here at home — and they just might.

Iran has also threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz — the artery through which nearly a fifth of the world’s oil flows. On Sunday, Iran’s parliament voted to begin the process. If the Supreme Council and the ayatollah give the go-ahead, we could see oil prices spike to $150 or even $200 a barrel.

That would be catastrophic.

The 2008 financial collapse was pushed over the edge when oil hit $130. Western economies — including ours — simply cannot sustain oil above $120 for long. If this conflict escalates and the Strait is closed, the global economy could unravel.

The strike also raises questions about regime stability. Will it spark an uprising, or will the Islamic regime respond with a brutal crackdown on dissidents?

Early signs aren’t hopeful. Reports suggest hundreds of arrests over the weekend and at least one dissident executed on charges of spying for Israel. The regime’s infamous morality police, the Gasht-e Ershad, are back on the streets. Every phone, every vehicle — monitored. The U.S. embassy in Qatar issued a shelter-in-place warning for Americans.

Russia and China both condemned the strike. On Monday, a senior Iranian official flew to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin. That meeting should alarm anyone paying attention. Their alliance continues to deepen — and that’s a serious concern.

Now we pray

We are either on the verge of a remarkable strategic victory or a devastating global escalation. Time will tell. But either way, President Trump didn’t start this. He inherited it — and he took decisive action.

The difference is, he did what they all said they would do. He didn’t send pallets of cash in the dead of night. He didn’t sign another failed treaty.

He acted. Now, we pray. For peace, for wisdom, and for the strength to meet whatever comes next.


This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Globalize the Intifada? Why Mamdani’s plan spells DOOM for America

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If New Yorkers hand City Hall to Zohran Mamdani, they’re not voting for change. They’re opening the door to an alliance of socialism, Islamism, and chaos.

It only took 25 years for New York City to go from the resilient, flag-waving pride following the 9/11 attacks to a political fever dream. To quote Michael Malice, “I'm old enough to remember when New Yorkers endured 9/11 instead of voting for it.”

Malice is talking about Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist assemblyman from Queens now eyeing the mayor’s office. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state representative emerging from relative political obscurity, is now receiving substantial funding for his mayoral campaign from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR has a long and concerning history, including being born out of the Muslim Brotherhood and named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case. Why would the group have dropped $100,000 into a PAC backing Mamdani’s campaign?

Mamdani blends political Islam with Marxist economics — two ideologies that have left tens of millions dead in the 20th century alone.

Perhaps CAIR has a vested interest in Mamdani’s call to “globalize the intifada.” That’s not a call for peaceful protest. Intifada refers to historic uprisings of Muslims against what they call the “Israeli occupation of Palestine.” Suicide bombings and street violence are part of the playbook. So when Mamdani says he wants to “globalize” that, who exactly is the enemy in this global scenario? Because it sure sounds like he's saying America is the new Israel, and anyone who supports Western democracy is the new Zionist.

Mamdani tried to clean up his language by citing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which once used “intifada” in an Arabic-language article to describe the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. So now he’s comparing Palestinians to Jewish victims of the Nazis? If that doesn’t twist your stomach into knots, you’re not paying attention.

If you’re “globalizing” an intifada, and positioning Israel — and now America — as the Nazis, that’s not a cry for human rights. That’s a call for chaos and violence.

Rising Islamism

But hey, this is New York. Faculty members at Columbia University — where Mamdani’s own father once worked — signed a letter defending students who supported Hamas after October 7. They also contributed to Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. And his father? He blamed Ronald Reagan and the religious right for inspiring Islamic terrorism, as if the roots of 9/11 grew in Washington, not the caves of Tora Bora.

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This isn’t about Islam as a faith. We should distinguish between Islam and Islamism. Islam is a religion followed peacefully by millions. Islamism is something entirely different — an ideology that seeks to merge mosque and state, impose Sharia law, and destroy secular liberal democracies from within. Islamism isn’t about prayer and fasting. It’s about power.

Criticizing Islamism is not Islamophobia. It is not an attack on peaceful Muslims. In fact, Muslims are often its first victims.

Islamism is misogynistic, theocratic, violent, and supremacist. It’s hostile to free speech, religious pluralism, gay rights, secularism — even to moderate Muslims. Yet somehow, the progressive left — the same left that claims to fight for feminism, LGBTQ rights, and free expression — finds itself defending candidates like Mamdani. You can’t make this stuff up.

Blending the worst ideologies

And if that weren’t enough, Mamdani also identifies as a Democratic Socialist. He blends political Islam with Marxist economics — two ideologies that have left tens of millions dead in the 20th century alone. But don’t worry, New York. I’m sure this time socialism will totally work. Just like it always didn’t.

If you’re a business owner, a parent, a person who’s saved anything, or just someone who values sanity: Get out. I’m serious. If Mamdani becomes mayor, as seems likely, then New York City will become a case study in what happens when you marry ideological extremism with political power. And it won’t be pretty.

This is about more than one mayoral race. It’s about the future of Western liberalism. It’s about drawing a bright line between faith and fanaticism, between healthy pluralism and authoritarian dogma.

Call out radicalism

We must call out political Islam the same way we call out white nationalism or any other supremacist ideology. When someone chants “globalize the intifada,” that should send a chill down your spine — whether you’re Jewish, Christian, Muslim, atheist, or anything in between.

The left may try to shame you into silence with words like “Islamophobia,” but the record is worn out. The grooves are shallow. The American people see what’s happening. And we’re not buying it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.