There are no final solutions , there is no absolute truth, there is no supreme leader, there is no totalitarian solution, that says that if you will just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you simply abandon your critical faculties, the world of idiotic bliss can be yours. You may lose the faculties, you may not know as a result, that the idiotic bliss is even more idiotic than it looks.
Well it is fairly obvious why he doesn't believe education should be a right, because educated people overwhelming reject religion. Education teaches critical thinking, and the need to base your belief on evidence.
Religion teaches that you should believe it because it says so and if you don't believe it you get punished in some way. They can't show you evidence so they just threaten you.
So what if the soviet constitution had education as a right. Americans are so obsessed with socialism.
Article 26 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (extract)
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups.
if God grants rights then he can take them away as well....like he did...when he took away our rights to own slaves. Ok, well we as humanity decided that but I'm sure God was gonna get to that.
God made the goverment to keep everything in order but its the people in congress who don't care about keep things in a order that will help people but they use that power for their benefits, and we all suffer for it. The only fair judge is god and he sees what's wrong in people and rite only 2 things in the constitution have the same laws as the tens commends. God loves his people its people that hate people.
Education is a liberty you have, not a right. This means that you are not restricted from educating yourself. It is not the responsibility of the US government to do that for you. State governments DO have a responsibility to provide access to a K-12 education because they decided to mandate requirements for such.
So...if education was a right...then we'd be communists? so education is bad? So the less we know, the better off we are? and so ignorance is strenght !? OMG, I just linked Glenn Beck to 1984'S Big Brother, and Beck style at that ! I gotta go write it on my black board quick!
The universal rights are natural rights. If you're Christian you of course believe in turn that natural rights derive from God, but it is unfortunate of Glenn Beck to simplify the reasoning that way. Listen instead to the following:
Wow only Glen Beck would claim education is not a right. Everyone has the right to pursue education. Whether the government pays for it or not everyone has that right.
Why am I not surprised that the Becktard has a distaste for education? Maybe because he flunked out of college in less than one semester? Or maybe because he fears what might happen if the retards who comprise his fan base actually learned...anything? Nah...it's just cause that thar book larnin is for commies!
Beck misses the point. How is having a nation where education isn't a right conducive to a having healthy nation? History shows that an educated populace is absolutely necessary to having a successful and lasting democracy.... Wait, hold on, we're talking about a moron who preaches to other morons and panders to the most shamelessly uneducated people in any developed nation the modern world has ever seen. As such, this comment was pointless. Carry on. *depression*
@Leaderspdx Confusion on Rights: Education is a pursuit, not a Right; driving a car is a privilege, not a Right; obtaining wealth is a pursuit, not a Right; manmade rights are edicts labeled as rights implemented, at will, by an oligarchy for other men to follow; etc. The only fundamental Rights we have are: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness bestowed onto us by the Laws of Nature at conception. See proof at: watch?v=tdNYVZQYJqI
fucking retard, first of all god does not exist, sorry, he does not fucking exist, second, just because the soviet constitution (why does he have it) has an idea in it, that doesn't mean anyone else that had that idea is a soviet, it's simple logic, especially if it is a good idea, like education, also, why the fuck shouldn't everyone have education? do you know what a 'human right' is? some people could really use some education, especially fucking idiots like glenn beck. goddamn
Words can't describe what a complete bastard this guy is. It's truly scary not only that this guy has a job on a popular American tv station, but that apparently he is very popular.
If this is the way popular American opinion is turning then the rest of us in the civilised world should be afraid.
@jcfan42 Thanks for agreeing that the UN documents includes the right for education. As for the UN being a globalist organization that wants to take away our rights: maybe so, but so is the US, so I'd rather pick the former.
@sdohmi The problem with siding with the United Nations is that if they are given power over countries, or any group like them, and they start taking away rights like they want to, it would be more difficult to "fight back" - imagine a worldwide dictatorship if you will. Not only that, but there will be nowhere to go - people used to flee one country for another for better political situations (for example N. Korea to S. Korea), where will we go if there is tyranny everywhere?
Besides that, the main problem with the US is that it is a case of a country losing its way; it started off going in the right direction but got off track somehow.
@jcfan42 lol I was just messing. Of course it's not what it once was, there have been hundreds of complications that were added in the span of 300 years. Things go from order to disorder, it's just a matter of time before it bottoms out and then starts fresh.
@FatalityX9 Oh, okay. It can be hard for me to tell sometimes. It is strange how things turned out, it is worse than I could have imagined. It appears as though the whole world has lost its mind; hopefully we can get it back somehow.
@toolegit2quittttt Were you not listening? He was discussing the difference between positive and negative liberties and why there is such a strong difference between a free republic and someplace like the Soviet Union.
If education isn't a right, It should be. An uneducated population is a useless population. When a man doesn't have the right to learn, he is a slave, who cannot rely on himself or his mind, but the words of those who yell to him what to do. Of course Glenn Beck would be against education as a right - if people were educated, no one would listen to him.
@thecoloradanempire The only thing public education has ever been good for is teaching a particular viewpoint to unthinking masses, we should think for ourselves, that is the point of liberty. I have learned a lot outside of public education, when you say people cannot learn otherwise, you assume they are at least intellectually lazy if not entirely.
As much as it pains me: free education is not a "right" - it's a priviledge. As soon as one starts taking things for granted, it loses its value. People should stop diminishing the value of education by claiming it is a "right".
Actually the founders interpreted that God gave the rights. Have you read the bill of rights? In it, the founders don't even question this. They assume the rights come from God. The bill of rights is written to ensure the rights given by our creator are protected.
@summerwav11 Where? I have replicas of the Bill of Rights, the Articles of Federation, the Constitution, and every amendment. I read over them all, and I see no mention of any god except in the first amendment.
We should have education written into the Constitution. What an over sight! God isn't in the rights business. No holy book on earth was at the core of race, human, or gender rights. None of them would approve of freedom of religion or separation of church and state. God doesn't give rights, the government doesn't either, it is up to us to determine and demand our rights.
i dont see whats so illogical about what hes saying its not like hes saying people shouldnt have easy access to education it just has to be monitored closely as to who is educating our children.
of course if education is government run theres going to be politics and bias.
do you think schools in england talk about the american revolution like "oh we were so wrong and america is great" no. they dont.
i hate i hate i hate the connection between conservatism and god
I do consider myself a conservative but I part ways when it comes to their belief in god. So I suppose I'm a fiscal conservative? These clowns make it seem like you have to be all or nothing. I disagree. Smaller government, constitutional rights, lower taxes, free enterprise and, my favourite, the separation of church and state, can all be accomplished and have all been accomplished without the need for, as Christopher Hitchens puts it, a celestial dictator. Glenn Beck is a kook.
Besides, don't want to go to Public School? No problem, you DO realize there are THOUSANDS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, of Private Schools, right? Heck, I went to Private School for 12 years, no public schools for me. Well, unless you count the University, although I kinda paid for that. Private School has God as the main curriculum, so if you don't want public education, if politics is really that important, fork the dough and go to Private School.
Regardless of whether or not it was not in the Constitution, Education SHOULD be a right, a CHOICE, which all Citizens can benefit in. Please allow me to clarify. Getting an education is not something you have to get, you do realize that right? Beck fails to mention that, more than likely because it won't further his nonsensical cause. If you do NOT go to school as a child, you will NOT go to jail, regardless what you may think. So, don't want government-run school? Fine, don't go.
Government can not grant the right of education, because then it can revoke the right of education. the right of education is a natural right. The same natural rights which formed the precedence of the constitution (see declaration of independence).
Of course for the above to be true you would need to accept the deist creator of the founding fathers..... and thats a lower case g.. not the upper case G of the bible who instructs us that slave ownership is a right.
wait, wait...so what's the logic here? Just because the founding fathers didn't think free education was possible in 1787 means we shouldn't pursue it now either? Apparently to GB welfare for the mass has always been a Soviet thing, not a MODERN thing. He can go back to 18th century for that all I care...then again, the founding fathers wouldn't want him around shouting BS either.
@yyangcn Well, first of all, there is no such thing as "free education" - it has to be payed for somehow - and second, public education was present early on in our country, but it was controlled locally as it ought to be - although I would rather it not be public at all. Actually, the founders might have tolerated him if not even liked him.
First healthcare, now education is a right too? What is not a right to these socialist communists? Why are we inventing new rights that never existed in the Constitution. Another entitlement welfare program.
un fucking believable. of course Fox News doesn't want you to be educated, its so they can keep shoving propaganda down you're throat and you'll love it. And of course God doesn't want you to be educated because then you'll know that religion is B.S. anyway. And what's with the socialism ties? Fox always uses fear to cloud rationality, Education is a HUMAN right. The more educated you are the better life you'll have
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— declaration of independence
for you simpletons that means rights come from god
ratings is quantifiable I can believe that claim since the data does exist. so Beck has better arguments and fewer lies, better and fewer than who? and if you say he has fewer instances of lies, you are admitting that he still lies, so why is he still lying and presenting specious arguments and spinning? Present some data, otherwise you are just making shit up.
@jwandrew I suppose the part about arguments would be considered subjective (it seems I would be more likely to agree with him than someone like Rachel Maddow), but the sense I get is that the media is controlled by profiteers, just a matter of how far they go in lying. Perhaps they are closer on this count.
Beck oozed out of someone's pussy on the wrong continent. If he wants God's country, he need not look further than those religious freaks in Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia ... to name the few. He sounds exactly like them only he is not in some fucked up costume welding knives and cutting throats in the name of Jebus. Someone should beat the shit out of this waste of space.
Wait a minute, I thought Glenn Beck liked calling himself the modern day Thomas Paine? Does he then not realize what Paine's views were on a universal free public education system? lmao
--Of course! We can't use the government to ensure rights (i guess the whole Bill of Rights thing was way off) because then the government could take away our rights. So let's be sure to declare no rights and just let God take care of it!--
Unfortunately there are people who do actually take this guy seriously.
Clips like these from TV in the US is always entertaining until you realize that they're not actually kidding. People in the US need to put their foot down and not allow religious morons like him to get away with crap like that. Sure, free speach is important but it comes with responsability as well. You can't say what you want and then expect to not be criticized for it.
1. i've got news for you: god doesn't exist. in the very least, nobody knows wether god exists.
2. rights are a human creation through social contract. modern human rights are an attempt to mitigate pure darwinism, based on the insight that cooperation benefits individuals.
3. people who listen to glenn beck and believe they're freeing their minds are just swapping bullshit for cowshit. spoonfed, for that matter.
You have the right to pursue those things you desire, which includes education. But not the right to education,That would mean the government must provide and control that. It isn't necessary for it to be a right, but you know that dont you.
And im curious, i see all these comments on how "glenn is so fucking stupid he doesnt know what he's taking about". Well you're entitled to your opinion just like he is but what why are u guys so pissed? What did he say in this video that is so offensive? All hes doing is repeating the founding fathers.
Check out the ninth amendment. "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Just because education isn't specifically mentioned doesn't mean that treating a quality education as the birthright of every American child is somehow "communist."
Glenn Beck is a piece of shit. God? What about our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, for which so many fought and died? Nope, it's Glenn Beck's God, who he will be so kind as to interpret for you.
Glenn beck has finally snapped what thin thread of credibility he ever, at one time, once posessed.
This is the most unamerican, propagandist bunch of right wing garbage i've had the displeasure of listening to since I escaped my old roommate (who would daily listen to michael savage at full volume, without the courtesy of using his headphones).
So if we take the bible literally (especially from my favorite book, the Leviticus), that means thats gays, eunuchs, little people, blind people, crippled people, and people with crooked backs don't have any rights and should not be given any because God says so... that's nice to know. *sarcasm*
Rights come from your humanity, some people think God created humanity and hence say your rights come from God. The constitution and the bill of rights only recognize and guarantee to protect the rights you already have. You can't call something a right if it interferes with someone else's rights.
Did he just argue that we need to be stupider? That having an education ruins the way we look at things?
Ever since I took a film studies class this year in high school, I look at films a lot more differently than before. I see why directors use an oblique angle rather than a birds eye view, or an establishing shot rather than a medium shot. It certainly has ruined the way I look at films before, but it helps me to appreciate the way these films are made.
He was arguing that education now doesn't teach the things necessary for a constitutional republic to survive. Essentially he is arguing against educating children to be collectivists and instead wants them to be educated to be individualists.
I had to look up the term collectivists, but it helped to make sense of what he was arguing; it also helped me to understand why he would use the communist thingy in the video.
And I decided to read your other comment on this video as well, good points were made in it!
So, it's more so that you only have basic human rights if it doesn't interfere with others'? That makes sense, and no I'm not trying to be sarcastic, nor trying to troll you.
Basic human rights don't interfere with others' rights. When people start labeling things rights that require other people for them to work, they can't really be called rights even if they are good.
I've watched this three times, and I still don't know what the hell he's talking about with that bit about the chair at the end. I'm just a lowly NPR-listener. Someone please interpret for me!
I'll say it before and I'll say it again, Glenn Beck is a nut job. Only a corrupt, phony enterprise like Fox "News" gives sickos like him a legitimate voice. The only place Beck belongs is in a mental institution.
I'm noticing an awful lot of ugly, hateful, mean-spirited comments. This is exactly how Glenn Beck is described by all of them. How ironic.
And why is the term "ignorant" used so often by those trying to suppress the opposition's point of view? Who determines who is ignorant and who is enlightened? Wouldn't you assume both would think they are the other? Try to see things from the other person's point of view without being blinded by your own ignorance.
-We don't even know if that's the actual Soviet Constitution, it's in Cyrillic so he could claim it gives healthcare to jaguars and you'd never know if it was right or not
-Also he loves to misinterpret the constitution as a god-given bible on how to live your life, not an enlightenment inspired document about how the government should be designed
education leads to knowledge, which leads to power. uneducated people are easier to lead. it just seems to me as if that has something to do with this.
Holy shit, even his TV is 50's era. His pandering to paranoid geriatrics is so painfully obvious. How cynical of an asshole must this guy be to blatantly fuck with people for a paycheck? The damage these people do is incalculable.
yea it has to be part of the deal. but that is okay, there are many people like this. what isn't okay is the people who follow him. the public is only to blame. Im an american but I don't know why there are so many idiots who believe this shit. that is what i admire about europe, whereas this is what many americans fear about europe. americans are extremely illusioned about reality
By glenn beck's analogy - you are a slave to the government because our constitution grants you freedom of speech, and therefore can somehow take it away (?).
Way to go glenn beck, you completely ruined your own argument and aren't even aware of it.
@oogaboogan What he said was that the SOURCE of your rights is what is important - our rights in America are not granted by the government, they are merely stated in the constitution to restrict the government. What the government grants can be taken away. I have a right to free speech whether anyone else likes it or not.
@lynth Yes, here in America, we have rights like "free speech" which protect people who say things. I would probably be executed in whatever miserable country you are from...
Germany. And no, you would just be publicly ridiculed by every sane person available so you stop being so insanely stupid.
You know, there is a difference between having an opinion and being destructively stupid. This is a disgustingly stupid moron on TV brainwashing even more stupid people. People watch this shit. It's pathetic. No sane human is able to take this person seriously, yet he is on TV? Hahaha...
It's scary, and times like these that make me fear the future of humanity/mankind if people as idiotic as Glenn Beck are allowed to host a television show.
I hear-by command you, by the powers invested in me as supreme being, to shut the hell up. Further more, I care nothing about human rights, that's up to you.
He's absolutely right that the right to education is nowhere in the United States Constitution. It doesn't have to be; it's in the United Nations Constitution; Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Has this idiot ever even heard of Locke or Hobbes?! Have the words "social contract" ever graced his ridiculous ears? This is appalling, ignorant, and disgusting propaganda.
well said glenn beck ! without jesus there would be nothing but "educated" people don't always realize that so it seems to me education only makes you more stupid and them liberals don't even know what a chair is anymore lol
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i dont expect the lib commies to understand what he is saying because theyve been brainwashed by our fascist public school sistem. BECK IS RIGHT, and yall dumocrats are just walking around with fingers in your ears humming some negrto music
@MAdk1p Fascist public school system? I don't know where you were educated, but your grammar is horrible. At least the "fascist public school system" taught me how to write.
Beck is a demagogue trying to invoke the red scare into people's hearts. The cold war is over, yet to Beck, it's still an ongoing thing.
You're absolutely right. I've been brainwashed by the school system with facts, evidence, and they've armed me with critical thinking and a foundation for systematically deciphering a collection of facts so that I can come to an objective conclusion. I should be more like you who just accepts whatever the man on T.V. tells me.
Glenn Beck so stupid, believing that the US Declaraion of Independence is the absolute standard for the world.
To the British people, healthcare is a right afforded to all. Why? Because democracy made it so.
BasilFawlty4444 3 weeks ago
This guy is a douchebag. Makes me glad im not american, or religious
0banon 1 month ago
There are no final solutions , there is no absolute truth, there is no supreme leader, there is no totalitarian solution, that says that if you will just give up your freedom of inquiry, if you simply abandon your critical faculties, the world of idiotic bliss can be yours. You may lose the faculties, you may not know as a result, that the idiotic bliss is even more idiotic than it looks.
nigelsenchez 3 months ago
geez! Ive never seen such ignorance,is this a joke or is this guy actually that stupid
PAULOcbi 3 months ago
Well it is fairly obvious why he doesn't believe education should be a right, because educated people overwhelming reject religion. Education teaches critical thinking, and the need to base your belief on evidence.
Religion teaches that you should believe it because it says so and if you don't believe it you get punished in some way. They can't show you evidence so they just threaten you.
So what if the soviet constitution had education as a right. Americans are so obsessed with socialism.
SeanACampbell 4 months ago
An educated populace is a bad thing? What kind of rational thinking is that? Oh its Glenn Beck never mind.
brewerbrian420 6 months ago
Beck would benefit from a brief stint in Soviet Russia... How on earth can you fault the idea of free education?
joshdw92 6 months ago
Article 26 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; (extract)
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups.
fintaneh 7 months ago
if God grants rights then he can take them away as well....like he did...when he took away our rights to own slaves. Ok, well we as humanity decided that but I'm sure God was gonna get to that.
PAROHO9 8 months ago 2
@PAROHO9 we would still be waiting for god to make the call on that too.
NoddingNabob 8 months ago 2
God made the goverment to keep everything in order but its the people in congress who don't care about keep things in a order that will help people but they use that power for their benefits, and we all suffer for it. The only fair judge is god and he sees what's wrong in people and rite only 2 things in the constitution have the same laws as the tens commends. God loves his people its people that hate people.
europeanguns 8 months ago
i have no idea what he is talking about
21ad 8 months ago
I think we're starting to see why Beck has been fired from his TV job.
wesj1989 8 months ago
@wesj1989 The only advertisers he had left were gold selling companies. Everyone else jumped ship when he started losing his mind.
Pooternackle5 7 months ago
If he wants government to grant -him- rights, he should start looking for a proper job.
I mean, I'm usually for equal rights for all, but as it is... no tolerance with the intolerant. Same principle.
Artwich 9 months ago
......
There is a differance between a Constiutional/Civil Right and a Human Right
And if Rights come from God, where was God when the Catholic Church was oppressing everyone it could find in the Dark Ages?
JDarach 9 months ago
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Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish.
johnjhuff 9 months ago
Education is a liberty you have, not a right. This means that you are not restricted from educating yourself. It is not the responsibility of the US government to do that for you. State governments DO have a responsibility to provide access to a K-12 education because they decided to mandate requirements for such.
TashiRogo 9 months ago
So...if education was a right...then we'd be communists? so education is bad? So the less we know, the better off we are? and so ignorance is strenght !? OMG, I just linked Glenn Beck to 1984'S Big Brother, and Beck style at that ! I gotta go write it on my black board quick!
fbaumans 10 months ago
What the fuck?
ChocolateMudkips 10 months ago
The universal rights are natural rights. If you're Christian you of course believe in turn that natural rights derive from God, but it is unfortunate of Glenn Beck to simplify the reasoning that way. Listen instead to the following:
watch?v=nrT0kBeld3Q
watch?v=RDzgwmuhYnI
enevighet17 10 months ago
Is this satire? Or is mankind a doomed species.
TomHPMc 10 months ago
Well then I guess that the soviets and russians will and are always going to be smarter than us.
killCrsiller45 10 months ago 2
He's against education because he'd run out of viewers if the people were too smart.
meta1storm 10 months ago 7
@meta1storm lmao,
Trouterr 10 months ago
Didn't he allegedly rape and murder someone in 1990? I'm only asking since I don't know for sure.
fanirama 10 months ago
Wow only Glen Beck would claim education is not a right. Everyone has the right to pursue education. Whether the government pays for it or not everyone has that right.
CtheWolfe 1 year ago
Why am I not surprised that the Becktard has a distaste for education? Maybe because he flunked out of college in less than one semester? Or maybe because he fears what might happen if the retards who comprise his fan base actually learned...anything? Nah...it's just cause that thar book larnin is for commies!
MaximusRelaximus 1 year ago
Holy fuck.
BrendanIsCool 1 year ago
Beck misses the point. How is having a nation where education isn't a right conducive to a having healthy nation? History shows that an educated populace is absolutely necessary to having a successful and lasting democracy.... Wait, hold on, we're talking about a moron who preaches to other morons and panders to the most shamelessly uneducated people in any developed nation the modern world has ever seen. As such, this comment was pointless. Carry on. *depression*
Leaderspdx 1 year ago
@Leaderspdx Confusion on Rights: Education is a pursuit, not a Right; driving a car is a privilege, not a Right; obtaining wealth is a pursuit, not a Right; manmade rights are edicts labeled as rights implemented, at will, by an oligarchy for other men to follow; etc. The only fundamental Rights we have are: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness bestowed onto us by the Laws of Nature at conception. See proof at: watch?v=tdNYVZQYJqI
Mike10four 1 year ago
.... Would someone please invent a time machine, go and bring back the Founding Fathers and show them the sad state of their beloved country?
Soulfunk89 1 year ago
Wow, Glenn Beck is a fucking moron.
cheescaeks 1 year ago
Glenn Beck thinks that Human RIghts and U.S. Constitutional Rights are the same??
Amazing...
theanvilcracks 1 year ago
I went to school, does that make me a commie?
appeltaart88 1 year ago
fucking retard, first of all god does not exist, sorry, he does not fucking exist, second, just because the soviet constitution (why does he have it) has an idea in it, that doesn't mean anyone else that had that idea is a soviet, it's simple logic, especially if it is a good idea, like education, also, why the fuck shouldn't everyone have education? do you know what a 'human right' is? some people could really use some education, especially fucking idiots like glenn beck. goddamn
charlietomb585 1 year ago
What. The. Fuck. That was honestly one of the dumbest things I have ever witnessed.
hunterW1134 1 year ago
Words can't describe what a complete bastard this guy is. It's truly scary not only that this guy has a job on a popular American tv station, but that apparently he is very popular.
If this is the way popular American opinion is turning then the rest of us in the civilised world should be afraid.
MrLtPink 1 year ago
The UN document for human rights mentions the right for education Glenn. What an idiot you are !
sdohmi 1 year ago
@sdohmi Yes, it does - and the United Nations is a globalist organization bent on taking away real rights.
jcfan42 1 year ago
@jcfan42 Thanks for agreeing that the UN documents includes the right for education. As for the UN being a globalist organization that wants to take away our rights: maybe so, but so is the US, so I'd rather pick the former.
sdohmi 1 year ago
@sdohmi The problem with siding with the United Nations is that if they are given power over countries, or any group like them, and they start taking away rights like they want to, it would be more difficult to "fight back" - imagine a worldwide dictatorship if you will. Not only that, but there will be nowhere to go - people used to flee one country for another for better political situations (for example N. Korea to S. Korea), where will we go if there is tyranny everywhere?
jcfan42 1 year ago
Besides that, the main problem with the US is that it is a case of a country losing its way; it started off going in the right direction but got off track somehow.
jcfan42 1 year ago
@jcfan42 Clearly, it's because America is evil.
FatalityX9 1 year ago
@FatalityX9 The cause is not the result. By this, I mean, America has changed, not because it was evil, but that it is now.
jcfan42 1 year ago
@jcfan42 lol I was just messing. Of course it's not what it once was, there have been hundreds of complications that were added in the span of 300 years. Things go from order to disorder, it's just a matter of time before it bottoms out and then starts fresh.
FatalityX9 1 year ago
@FatalityX9 Oh, okay. It can be hard for me to tell sometimes. It is strange how things turned out, it is worse than I could have imagined. It appears as though the whole world has lost its mind; hopefully we can get it back somehow.
jcfan42 1 year ago
what the shit is he talking about?
toolegit2quittttt 1 year ago
@toolegit2quittttt Were you not listening? He was discussing the difference between positive and negative liberties and why there is such a strong difference between a free republic and someplace like the Soviet Union.
jcfan42 1 year ago
If education isn't a right, It should be. An uneducated population is a useless population. When a man doesn't have the right to learn, he is a slave, who cannot rely on himself or his mind, but the words of those who yell to him what to do. Of course Glenn Beck would be against education as a right - if people were educated, no one would listen to him.
thecoloradanempire 1 year ago
@thecoloradanempire The only thing public education has ever been good for is teaching a particular viewpoint to unthinking masses, we should think for ourselves, that is the point of liberty. I have learned a lot outside of public education, when you say people cannot learn otherwise, you assume they are at least intellectually lazy if not entirely.
jcfan42 1 year ago
As much as it pains me: free education is not a "right" - it's a priviledge. As soon as one starts taking things for granted, it loses its value. People should stop diminishing the value of education by claiming it is a "right".
barneylec 1 year ago
So... free education is a bad thing...
Preeemo 1 year ago
Actually the founders interpreted that God gave the rights. Have you read the bill of rights? In it, the founders don't even question this. They assume the rights come from God. The bill of rights is written to ensure the rights given by our creator are protected.
It's crystal clear in the bill of rights.
summerwav11 1 year ago
@summerwav11 Where? I have replicas of the Bill of Rights, the Articles of Federation, the Constitution, and every amendment. I read over them all, and I see no mention of any god except in the first amendment.
adrenaltheory 1 year ago
We should have education written into the Constitution. What an over sight! God isn't in the rights business. No holy book on earth was at the core of race, human, or gender rights. None of them would approve of freedom of religion or separation of church and state. God doesn't give rights, the government doesn't either, it is up to us to determine and demand our rights.
tpro83 1 year ago
I can't really believe this! This guy is more dumb and stupid than I thought he would be.
Juanchopepe86 1 year ago
How's the eye degeneration coming, Glenn?
RobertPPino 1 year ago
i dont see whats so illogical about what hes saying its not like hes saying people shouldnt have easy access to education it just has to be monitored closely as to who is educating our children.
of course if education is government run theres going to be politics and bias.
do you think schools in england talk about the american revolution like "oh we were so wrong and america is great" no. they dont.
i hate i hate i hate the connection between conservatism and god
1somekid 1 year ago
I do consider myself a conservative but I part ways when it comes to their belief in god. So I suppose I'm a fiscal conservative? These clowns make it seem like you have to be all or nothing. I disagree. Smaller government, constitutional rights, lower taxes, free enterprise and, my favourite, the separation of church and state, can all be accomplished and have all been accomplished without the need for, as Christopher Hitchens puts it, a celestial dictator. Glenn Beck is a kook.
mgfaxlad 1 year ago
This makes sense if you think God wrote the U.S. Constitution. But he didn't; a bunch of atheists did.
PtrckSh 1 year ago
Is this a sarcastic video? He's acting, right?
cre599 1 year ago
Besides, don't want to go to Public School? No problem, you DO realize there are THOUSANDS, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, of Private Schools, right? Heck, I went to Private School for 12 years, no public schools for me. Well, unless you count the University, although I kinda paid for that. Private School has God as the main curriculum, so if you don't want public education, if politics is really that important, fork the dough and go to Private School.
eternalshogunx 1 year ago
Regardless of whether or not it was not in the Constitution, Education SHOULD be a right, a CHOICE, which all Citizens can benefit in. Please allow me to clarify. Getting an education is not something you have to get, you do realize that right? Beck fails to mention that, more than likely because it won't further his nonsensical cause. If you do NOT go to school as a child, you will NOT go to jail, regardless what you may think. So, don't want government-run school? Fine, don't go.
eternalshogunx 1 year ago
Burn the books !
Government can not grant the right of education, because then it can revoke the right of education. the right of education is a natural right. The same natural rights which formed the precedence of the constitution (see declaration of independence).
Of course for the above to be true you would need to accept the deist creator of the founding fathers..... and thats a lower case g.. not the upper case G of the bible who instructs us that slave ownership is a right.
Torakization 1 year ago
wait, wait...so what's the logic here? Just because the founding fathers didn't think free education was possible in 1787 means we shouldn't pursue it now either? Apparently to GB welfare for the mass has always been a Soviet thing, not a MODERN thing. He can go back to 18th century for that all I care...then again, the founding fathers wouldn't want him around shouting BS either.
yyangcn 1 year ago
@yyangcn Well, first of all, there is no such thing as "free education" - it has to be payed for somehow - and second, public education was present early on in our country, but it was controlled locally as it ought to be - although I would rather it not be public at all. Actually, the founders might have tolerated him if not even liked him.
jcfan42 1 year ago
First healthcare, now education is a right too? What is not a right to these socialist communists? Why are we inventing new rights that never existed in the Constitution. Another entitlement welfare program.
ToxicOdiousOne 1 year ago
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eternalshogunx 1 year ago
un fucking believable. of course Fox News doesn't want you to be educated, its so they can keep shoving propaganda down you're throat and you'll love it. And of course God doesn't want you to be educated because then you'll know that religion is B.S. anyway. And what's with the socialism ties? Fox always uses fear to cloud rationality, Education is a HUMAN right. The more educated you are the better life you'll have
bluradio 1 year ago
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.— declaration of independence
for you simpletons that means rights come from god
9jmccartney 1 year ago
Does anyone still watch him though? I mean really, does anyone, with an IQ over 100, watch him?
jwandrew 1 year ago
@jwandrew Well, he seems to be doing better than MSNBC, anyway, whatever that is worth.
jcfan42 1 year ago
@jcfan42
Better? expound on that please.
jwandrew 1 year ago
@jwandrew In terms of ratings, but now that I think about it, arguments as well. Not to mention fewer instances of outright lies and spin.
jcfan42 1 year ago
@jcfan42
ratings is quantifiable I can believe that claim since the data does exist. so Beck has better arguments and fewer lies, better and fewer than who? and if you say he has fewer instances of lies, you are admitting that he still lies, so why is he still lying and presenting specious arguments and spinning? Present some data, otherwise you are just making shit up.
jwandrew 1 year ago
@jwandrew I suppose the part about arguments would be considered subjective (it seems I would be more likely to agree with him than someone like Rachel Maddow), but the sense I get is that the media is controlled by profiteers, just a matter of how far they go in lying. Perhaps they are closer on this count.
jcfan42 1 year ago
Beck oozed out of someone's pussy on the wrong continent. If he wants God's country, he need not look further than those religious freaks in Afghanistan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia ... to name the few. He sounds exactly like them only he is not in some fucked up costume welding knives and cutting throats in the name of Jebus. Someone should beat the shit out of this waste of space.
ermias01 1 year ago
Wait a minute, I thought Glenn Beck liked calling himself the modern day Thomas Paine? Does he then not realize what Paine's views were on a universal free public education system? lmao
atlbraves7 1 year ago 10
@atlbraves7 George Whitfield, not paine.
Glenn666 1 year ago
I know ChrisBrand, you'd think this was satire.
--Of course! We can't use the government to ensure rights (i guess the whole Bill of Rights thing was way off) because then the government could take away our rights. So let's be sure to declare no rights and just let God take care of it!--
Unfortunately there are people who do actually take this guy seriously.
orange343434 1 year ago
Some people are born retarded assholes, this guy is the textbook example.
swedisagnostic 1 year ago 2
Clips like these from TV in the US is always entertaining until you realize that they're not actually kidding. People in the US need to put their foot down and not allow religious morons like him to get away with crap like that. Sure, free speach is important but it comes with responsability as well. You can't say what you want and then expect to not be criticized for it.
TheChrisBrand 1 year ago
Wow.. is this guy for real? Put this idiot out of his misery.. I sure hope none is listening to this and taking it to hearth..
As soon as someone mention god being the one making all the decisions, everyone should just stop listening and walk away. Seriously...pathetic.
TheChubfish 1 year ago
isn't free education a good thing mister Beck? or do you prefer to pay for it :P
Icedude32 1 year ago
@Icedude32 Perhaps it should be payed for, the money has to come from somewhere.
jcfan42 1 year ago
One of my earlier relatives was a Governor of Florida who fought for public education for all children.
If Beck had his way the only children who'd be educated would be those of the well-to-do.
DillonX 1 year ago
Apparently, god has also endowed Glenn Beck the right to be a dumbass.
Johnny1969 1 year ago 12
Tell me this Sara palin supporting asshole isn't a Republican in Libertarian clothing.
MendingMedia 1 year ago
Who would have thought that the Meth head and bat shit crazy was such a strong Republican voting block.
MendingMedia 1 year ago
1. i've got news for you: god doesn't exist. in the very least, nobody knows wether god exists.
2. rights are a human creation through social contract. modern human rights are an attempt to mitigate pure darwinism, based on the insight that cooperation benefits individuals.
3. people who listen to glenn beck and believe they're freeing their minds are just swapping bullshit for cowshit. spoonfed, for that matter.
wortwechsel 1 year ago 3
Free education began in 1635 - several centuries before socialism. This loony is a raging moron who needs to check his facts
jumpoff1000 1 year ago
Beck is right.
You have the right to pursue those things you desire, which includes education. But not the right to education,That would mean the government must provide and control that. It isn't necessary for it to be a right, but you know that dont you.
hydin1 1 year ago
And im curious, i see all these comments on how "glenn is so fucking stupid he doesnt know what he's taking about". Well you're entitled to your opinion just like he is but what why are u guys so pissed? What did he say in this video that is so offensive? All hes doing is repeating the founding fathers.
bRizzle2009100 1 year ago
this is getting old.
yes,glenn,education is not a right,it's a WRONG that would inevitably lead those inoculated with it to realise how idiotic and sad you are.
guillaumepirard 1 year ago
Education isnt mentioned in our Constitution, Bill of Rights, or Declaration of Independence. So where are u getting this from?
bRizzle2009100 1 year ago
Check out the ninth amendment. "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." Just because education isn't specifically mentioned doesn't mean that treating a quality education as the birthright of every American child is somehow "communist."
Syllojism 1 year ago
Glenn Beck is a piece of shit. God? What about our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, for which so many fought and died? Nope, it's Glenn Beck's God, who he will be so kind as to interpret for you.
oswaldtherabbit 1 year ago
Glenn beck has finally snapped what thin thread of credibility he ever, at one time, once posessed.
This is the most unamerican, propagandist bunch of right wing garbage i've had the displeasure of listening to since I escaped my old roommate (who would daily listen to michael savage at full volume, without the courtesy of using his headphones).
oogaboogan 1 year ago 2
So if we take the bible literally (especially from my favorite book, the Leviticus), that means thats gays, eunuchs, little people, blind people, crippled people, and people with crooked backs don't have any rights and should not be given any because God says so... that's nice to know. *sarcasm*
AlbinoTanuki 1 year ago
OMG, he is funny and stupid!
He should host Tonight show !!
TwoRials 1 year ago
This guy is the worst fucking person in the world.
samisyosam 1 year ago
jeez, whats wrong with free education? what a f**k wit. I think jesus would be all for free education if you ask me.
forgibas 1 year ago
Rights come from your humanity, some people think God created humanity and hence say your rights come from God. The constitution and the bill of rights only recognize and guarantee to protect the rights you already have. You can't call something a right if it interferes with someone else's rights.
JCJ77 1 year ago
1:38-1:43
Did he just argue that we need to be stupider? That having an education ruins the way we look at things?
Ever since I took a film studies class this year in high school, I look at films a lot more differently than before. I see why directors use an oblique angle rather than a birds eye view, or an establishing shot rather than a medium shot. It certainly has ruined the way I look at films before, but it helps me to appreciate the way these films are made.
eatingfatty 1 year ago
He was arguing that education now doesn't teach the things necessary for a constitutional republic to survive. Essentially he is arguing against educating children to be collectivists and instead wants them to be educated to be individualists.
JCJ77 1 year ago
I had to look up the term collectivists, but it helped to make sense of what he was arguing; it also helped me to understand why he would use the communist thingy in the video.
And I decided to read your other comment on this video as well, good points were made in it!
So, it's more so that you only have basic human rights if it doesn't interfere with others'? That makes sense, and no I'm not trying to be sarcastic, nor trying to troll you.
eatingfatty 1 year ago
Basic human rights don't interfere with others' rights. When people start labeling things rights that require other people for them to work, they can't really be called rights even if they are good.
JCJ77 1 year ago
I really need to get some the that Sh*t he smokes. It's whole different level of thinking, that's why we don't get it.
marcot64 1 year ago
If beck keeps his mouth closed we'd have less of a greenhouse gas problem..
eurogoldexchange 1 year ago
Is it me or does glen beck have a lesbian hair cut?
unfenomeno1 1 year ago 2
@unfenomeno1 Maybe it is a bit, but mostly a result of some lesbians trying to look like men.
jcfan42 1 year ago
cant wait till someone removes this fucker from the face of the earth...
whiteguypl 1 year ago
I've watched this three times, and I still don't know what the hell he's talking about with that bit about the chair at the end. I'm just a lowly NPR-listener. Someone please interpret for me!
herodotus53 1 year ago
LMAO!!!! I could've written the exact same thing. What is this guy talking about, and why am I not listening to NPR right now?
hempec 1 year ago
I'll say it before and I'll say it again, Glenn Beck is a nut job. Only a corrupt, phony enterprise like Fox "News" gives sickos like him a legitimate voice. The only place Beck belongs is in a mental institution.
RocStarr913 1 year ago 2
Is there ANYONE on Fox News who isn't a raging right-wing Jesus freak? I guess there must be since their slogan is "Fair and Balanced".
Isojoki 1 year ago
@Isojoki Shep Smith
slotstik 1 year ago
Glenn Beck logic:
Communists support X, therefore X is bad.
Substitute education, healthcare, etc.
Hey Glenn, you know what else the commies liked to do? Breath. Just sayin.
jcbeta730 1 year ago 3
How appropriate for a man who only went to college for one semester to be against education.
alexvstrex 1 year ago 2
dumbass
kornykay 1 year ago
I'm noticing an awful lot of ugly, hateful, mean-spirited comments. This is exactly how Glenn Beck is described by all of them. How ironic.
And why is the term "ignorant" used so often by those trying to suppress the opposition's point of view? Who determines who is ignorant and who is enlightened? Wouldn't you assume both would think they are the other? Try to see things from the other person's point of view without being blinded by your own ignorance.
bstoffers 1 year ago
lmao... hmm right.. thanks for that bullshit defending Glenn Beck bstoffers. The trouble is, Glenn Beck is a very thick cunt!!
I don't think I need to wonder at my own ignorance if I tell some knob head not to stick his head in the fire.
Perhaps if you and Beck had some sort of education you'd all understand the total stupidity of your point of view.
You are ignorant because you are uneducated not just because you have a stupid opinion.
MonsterMozz 1 year ago
@bstoffers "Try to see things from the other person's point of view without being blinded by your own ignorance."
The irony is palpable.
CBGB42 1 year ago 3
How bout reading UN: Human Rights Article 26?
Ohhh forgot GB dont think those are important ...
warwolf667 1 year ago
Maybe because No one follows the rules of the UN except for the US. Please UN is nothing but a waste of my tax dollars
bryanguy1 1 year ago
Gotta love the manipulative tactics he uses.
-We don't know if that poster was actually used
-We don't even know if that's the actual Soviet Constitution, it's in Cyrillic so he could claim it gives healthcare to jaguars and you'd never know if it was right or not
-Also he loves to misinterpret the constitution as a god-given bible on how to live your life, not an enlightenment inspired document about how the government should be designed
Textbook liar, right there.
TurboSpaghettiRobot 1 year ago 4
@TurboSpaghettiRobot
On the cover it says soviet constitution, but he didn't prove if it was real. lol
Other than that you made some good points.
Zejna90 1 year ago
If you want to live in a country that's run by religion...where your rights come from god....MOVE TO IRAN!
Dandello 1 year ago
I hope Glenn Beck's children get killed right in front of his fucking eyes
Knightcha23 1 year ago
Funny, Osama would agree with Beck that only God grants rights
ziderazzi 1 year ago
Fuck Glenn Beck and his imaginary friend!
mooky1977 1 year ago
Why am I not surprised that an idiot like Beck thinks that Education isn't important
WastingDeath 1 year ago 4
education leads to knowledge, which leads to power. uneducated people are easier to lead. it just seems to me as if that has something to do with this.
mrptzr 1 year ago 2
I certainly home nobody is buying this bullshit. The scary thing is - alot of people probobly does.
CarlMinez 1 year ago
damn GB is an IDIOT - people ACTAULLY listen to him?
58tkdmike 1 year ago
"Kinda looks like old Soviet propaganda, doesn't it?"
HAHAHAHAHAH! This fuckin' guy is STILL on that "Obama is a COMMI" bullshit?
Has this guy peaked yet?
drunewp 1 year ago 4
I finally see GB as entertainment. My concern is that people choose to be entertained by this kind of stuff.
stuntlikedaddy 1 year ago
wow this guy is fucking crazy...
hochdaddy 1 year ago 5
How anyone can watch that moron and not think he's batshit insane is beyond me.
Mnementh2230 1 year ago 4
He's absolutely insane...
Makotoichio 1 year ago
Holy shit, even his TV is 50's era. His pandering to paranoid geriatrics is so painfully obvious. How cynical of an asshole must this guy be to blatantly fuck with people for a paycheck? The damage these people do is incalculable.
SirAlfredSourcock 1 year ago 3
holy crap he's stupid.
MeloDeath31 1 year ago 4
Glenn Beck is clearly in favour of turning America into Mike Judge's 'Idiocracy". Well, keep watching his show people. And his dream will come true.
dakone 1 year ago 3
Glenn Beck is just another idiot. Just turn off Fox you morons.
Zhin85 1 year ago 18
Wow, I pity America more and more.
People like this are allowed to speak in public?
lynth 1 year ago 5
yea it has to be part of the deal. but that is okay, there are many people like this. what isn't okay is the people who follow him. the public is only to blame. Im an american but I don't know why there are so many idiots who believe this shit. that is what i admire about europe, whereas this is what many americans fear about europe. americans are extremely illusioned about reality
timothy51886 1 year ago 2
@lynth Sadly. It's depressing. Although I'm not sure he's considered a person, so :\
lilpoopoo24 1 year ago
@lynth We dont need your pitty you tool. Glenn Beck does not speak for our entire nation, he´s just a fuckin freak.
Zhin85 1 year ago
yep and we're proud of it. We have a little something called Freedom of Speech with is sacred across the political spectrum.
thequietkid10 1 year ago
By glenn beck's analogy - you are a slave to the government because our constitution grants you freedom of speech, and therefore can somehow take it away (?).
Way to go glenn beck, you completely ruined your own argument and aren't even aware of it.
oogaboogan 1 year ago 2
@oogaboogan What he said was that the SOURCE of your rights is what is important - our rights in America are not granted by the government, they are merely stated in the constitution to restrict the government. What the government grants can be taken away. I have a right to free speech whether anyone else likes it or not.
jcfan42 1 year ago
@lynth Yes, here in America, we have rights like "free speech" which protect people who say things. I would probably be executed in whatever miserable country you are from...
jcfan42 1 year ago
@jcfan42
Germany. And no, you would just be publicly ridiculed by every sane person available so you stop being so insanely stupid.
You know, there is a difference between having an opinion and being destructively stupid. This is a disgustingly stupid moron on TV brainwashing even more stupid people. People watch this shit. It's pathetic. No sane human is able to take this person seriously, yet he is on TV? Hahaha...
lynth 1 year ago
It's scary, and times like these that make me fear the future of humanity/mankind if people as idiotic as Glenn Beck are allowed to host a television show.
AhsanU 1 year ago 4
To: Glenn Beck
From: God
Subject: You're a complete freak
Dear sir,
I hear-by command you, by the powers invested in me as supreme being, to shut the hell up. Further more, I care nothing about human rights, that's up to you.
P.S. Pass the buffet and try the salad bar.
Noworkbum 1 year ago 5
By Glenn's logic, if you have no rights, the government can't take them away. ;)
dignifiedaction 1 year ago 4
Learn the difference between a constitutional right and a human right, and stop insinuating that demanding education makes people communists.
Jesus-fucking-Christ up the ass.
Baldurpet 1 year ago 5
He's absolutely right that the right to education is nowhere in the United States Constitution. It doesn't have to be; it's in the United Nations Constitution; Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 14 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Qliphoth 1 year ago 5
Has this idiot ever even heard of Locke or Hobbes?! Have the words "social contract" ever graced his ridiculous ears? This is appalling, ignorant, and disgusting propaganda.
r3ndrag 1 year ago 5
nope, he's too busy with his cult of the founding fathers based on a handful of books he's read.
thequietkid10 1 year ago
well said glenn beck ! without jesus there would be nothing but "educated" people don't always realize that so it seems to me education only makes you more stupid and them liberals don't even know what a chair is anymore lol
j4pan 1 year ago
Glenn fancies himself a himself to be a real history teacher. Except history teachers get real degrees.
NoddingNabob 1 year ago 2
"Your rights come from god, and if the government grants you rights then you're a slave to the government."
So... if god grants you rights, then you're a slave to god.... yup, sounds about right!
photografreak7 1 year ago 7
Beck doesn't want anyone to be educated so that they're dumb enough to watch and enjoy his show.
TheSchimmi 1 year ago 6
You know who else mad speeches? STALIN. Oh and...ADOLF HITLER.
Not only is Beck a COMMUNIST, but he is also a NAZI. Yes a COMMUNIST AND A NAZI.
Awesomeoo100 1 year ago 10
i sincerely hope thats satire.
purplecookie123 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
i dont expect the lib commies to understand what he is saying because theyve been brainwashed by our fascist public school sistem. BECK IS RIGHT, and yall dumocrats are just walking around with fingers in your ears humming some negrto music
MAdk1p 1 year ago
@MAdk1p Fascist public school system? I don't know where you were educated, but your grammar is horrible. At least the "fascist public school system" taught me how to write.
Beck is a demagogue trying to invoke the red scare into people's hearts. The cold war is over, yet to Beck, it's still an ongoing thing.
ns12123 1 year ago 6
You're absolutely right. I've been brainwashed by the school system with facts, evidence, and they've armed me with critical thinking and a foundation for systematically deciphering a collection of facts so that I can come to an objective conclusion. I should be more like you who just accepts whatever the man on T.V. tells me.
HeretikSaint 1 year ago 6
So demanding an education is somehow communist now? Are you people really that fucking stupid that you are against education of all things?
You would rather live in ignorance with this pandering sellout as your compass than actually get educated?
If you could only see how pathetically sad your comment is.
thequantumflux 1 year ago 8
@thequantumflux
No, they would rather the masses live in ignorance so that they are easier to control.
z3r0t0l3r4ns 1 year ago
@z3r0t0l3r4ns well ignorance is bliss after all, and Beck and his crowd are sure blissful.
thequantumflux 1 year ago
This kid ain't worth it.
SpaceHelicopter78 1 year ago