gardenstate
03-15-2010, 07:08 PM
Glenn Beck, a Latter Day Saint of Capitalism and Zionism, has had a bad month.
If carrying the burdensome stone of Israel wasn't enough for Glenn Beck, the recent electoral success of the French Front National and Geert Wilders Dutch Freedom Party has led to many sleepless nights.
This is evident in the recent paranoia tone of Beck's monologues on the success of "fascist" political parties in Europe (white European fascism not Islam), and his diatribe against Father Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. Beck has declared that Capitalism is the way, the truth and the light for all Christians.
According to Beck any political movement that connects the word "justice" to the terms economic, social, political, or legal is a de-facto Communist or National Socialist subversive movement. He uses the example of Father Coughlin's Social Justice newspaper to warn the Tea Party movement not to abandon Capitalism for the social justice teachings and programs of far-right demagogues.
Just in case that the targeted Tea party audience wasn't heeding his clarion call against all economic philosophiesnon-Capitalistic, Beck wants the Tea Party movement to know that these movements are all anti-semitic.
Fascists, Father Coughlin, anti-semites... Oh my!
So what is the heretical political platform of the National Union of Social Justice? The following established sixteen principles of Social Justice espoused by Father Coughlin:
1. I believe in the right of liberty of conscience and liberty of education, not permitting the state to dictate either my worship to my God or my chosen avocation in life.
2. I believe that every citizen willing to work and capable of working shall receive a just and living annual wage which will enable him to maintain and educate his family according to the standards of American decency.
3. I believe in nationalizing those public necessities which by their very nature are too important to be held in the control of private individuals. By these I mean banking, credit and currency, power, light, oil and natural gas and our God-given natural resources.
4. I believe in private ownership of all other property.
5. I believe in upholding the right to private property yet in controlling it for the public good.
6. I believe in the abolition of the privately owned Federal Reserve Banking system and in the establishment of a Government owned Central Bank.
7. I believe in rescuing from the hands of private owners the right to coin and regulate the value of money, which right must be restored to Congress where it belongs.
8. I believe that one of the chief duties of this Government owned Central Bank is to maintain the cost of living on an even keel and the repayment of dollar debts with equal value dollars.
9. I believe in the cost of production plus a fair profit for the farmer.
10. I believe not only in the right of the laboring man to organize in unions but also in the duty of the Government which that laboring man supports to facilitate and to protect these organizations against the vested interests of wealth and of intellect.
11 . I believe in the recall of all non-productive bonds and thereby in the alleviation of taxation.
12. I believe in the abolition of tax-exempt bonds.
13. I believe in the broadening of the base of taxation founded upon the ownership of wealth and the capacity to pay.
14. I believe in the simplification of government, and the further lifting of crushing taxation from the slender revenues of the laboring class.
15. I believe that in the event of a war for the defense of our nation and its liberties, there shall be a conscription of wealth as well as a conscription of men.
16. I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.
In 2008, Glenn Beck attempted to save the Republic from all enemies foreign and domestic. He hoped to save the Republic by demonizing Ron Paul supporters as domesticterrorists and supporters of the Palestinian intifada who needed to be arrested and detained.
Second, third, or maybe fourth thoughts about Glenn Beck?
I have been reading some old copies of the Social Justice newspaper that I purchased last year. From the Februrary 26, 1940 edition an article titled "How New Deal Shifts Tax from Rich to Poor"
... social jusice for the poor. Oh? Sounds so fascistic.
If carrying the burdensome stone of Israel wasn't enough for Glenn Beck, the recent electoral success of the French Front National and Geert Wilders Dutch Freedom Party has led to many sleepless nights.
This is evident in the recent paranoia tone of Beck's monologues on the success of "fascist" political parties in Europe (white European fascism not Islam), and his diatribe against Father Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. Beck has declared that Capitalism is the way, the truth and the light for all Christians.
According to Beck any political movement that connects the word "justice" to the terms economic, social, political, or legal is a de-facto Communist or National Socialist subversive movement. He uses the example of Father Coughlin's Social Justice newspaper to warn the Tea Party movement not to abandon Capitalism for the social justice teachings and programs of far-right demagogues.
Just in case that the targeted Tea party audience wasn't heeding his clarion call against all economic philosophiesnon-Capitalistic, Beck wants the Tea Party movement to know that these movements are all anti-semitic.
Fascists, Father Coughlin, anti-semites... Oh my!
So what is the heretical political platform of the National Union of Social Justice? The following established sixteen principles of Social Justice espoused by Father Coughlin:
1. I believe in the right of liberty of conscience and liberty of education, not permitting the state to dictate either my worship to my God or my chosen avocation in life.
2. I believe that every citizen willing to work and capable of working shall receive a just and living annual wage which will enable him to maintain and educate his family according to the standards of American decency.
3. I believe in nationalizing those public necessities which by their very nature are too important to be held in the control of private individuals. By these I mean banking, credit and currency, power, light, oil and natural gas and our God-given natural resources.
4. I believe in private ownership of all other property.
5. I believe in upholding the right to private property yet in controlling it for the public good.
6. I believe in the abolition of the privately owned Federal Reserve Banking system and in the establishment of a Government owned Central Bank.
7. I believe in rescuing from the hands of private owners the right to coin and regulate the value of money, which right must be restored to Congress where it belongs.
8. I believe that one of the chief duties of this Government owned Central Bank is to maintain the cost of living on an even keel and the repayment of dollar debts with equal value dollars.
9. I believe in the cost of production plus a fair profit for the farmer.
10. I believe not only in the right of the laboring man to organize in unions but also in the duty of the Government which that laboring man supports to facilitate and to protect these organizations against the vested interests of wealth and of intellect.
11 . I believe in the recall of all non-productive bonds and thereby in the alleviation of taxation.
12. I believe in the abolition of tax-exempt bonds.
13. I believe in the broadening of the base of taxation founded upon the ownership of wealth and the capacity to pay.
14. I believe in the simplification of government, and the further lifting of crushing taxation from the slender revenues of the laboring class.
15. I believe that in the event of a war for the defense of our nation and its liberties, there shall be a conscription of wealth as well as a conscription of men.
16. I believe in preferring the sanctity of human rights to the sanctity of property rights. I believe that the chief concern of government shall be for the poor because, as it is witnessed, the rich have ample means of their own to care for themselves.
In 2008, Glenn Beck attempted to save the Republic from all enemies foreign and domestic. He hoped to save the Republic by demonizing Ron Paul supporters as domesticterrorists and supporters of the Palestinian intifada who needed to be arrested and detained.
Second, third, or maybe fourth thoughts about Glenn Beck?
I have been reading some old copies of the Social Justice newspaper that I purchased last year. From the Februrary 26, 1940 edition an article titled "How New Deal Shifts Tax from Rich to Poor"
... social jusice for the poor. Oh? Sounds so fascistic.