The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program ｜ Guest： Ezra Levant ｜ 4⧸12⧸21

00:00:00.000 All right, welcome to the podcast. The return of Glenn Beck today. We'll keep this short and sweet here as Glenn, among other, you know, kind of catches us all up on some of the big news developments, including a bunch of companies that are getting together and kind of trying to figure out how they should be dealing with these terrible voting laws across the country.

00:00:19.240 We get into a real controversy in Canada, as well as churches are now being fenced off and officers are coming in to raid churches and attacking conservative journalists. We'll get into that as well with Ezra Levant.

00:00:33.100 But probably the thing you might want to hear most today is Glenn addressing why he was out last week and the tragedy his family had to go through.

00:00:41.480 A really tough time, and he gets into that in hour two today. That's something you definitely do not want to miss. Here's the podcast.

00:00:49.240 I'll give you a story here, and I invite you to stay with us, especially if you're a liberal. If you're a Marxist, you're going to be fine with this.

00:01:08.700 But if you're a liberal or a traditional Democrat like my grandfather used to be, I'm not sure that those people exist anymore. I have real hope that they do.

00:01:21.500 But if you're one of those people that actually believe America is a good place, that we have our problems and we should admit to our problems, but we're a good place.

00:01:36.560 And that the people sometimes get it wrong, but the people should be in control of their own destiny.

00:01:45.540 I want you to listen.

00:01:49.760 For those who have listened for a while, I want you to understand we have just everything that they have ever said about, oh, it's a conspiracy theory on the Great Reset.

00:02:01.300 You can throw that in the garbage now because by their own fruits, by their own actions, you will know them.

00:02:09.220 Something happened this weekend that is absolutely unprecedented.

00:02:16.280 I have done this job for 40, I don't even know how many years, almost 50 years.

00:02:23.200 And I've never seen anything like this.

00:02:27.780 Leaders of over 100 major corporations got together and spoke via Zoom on Saturday about how they could combat election integrity laws similar to the one that was proposed in Georgia.

00:02:45.800 Multiple reports, Wall Street Journal and others directly quote people that were on the phone call.

00:02:54.080 They talked about potential ways to show how they opposed the legislation, including by halting donations to politicians, fine, who support the bills and even delaying investments in states.

00:03:09.060 That's blackmail that pass restrictive measures.

00:03:14.260 Now, this is according to people who were on the call.

00:03:16.380 Now, I want you to understand what they are calling restrictive measures are actually just going back to the way it was before COVID-19.

00:03:28.060 Remember, we had this unprecedented election and we had to change these laws.

00:03:34.580 In fact, they couldn't even go through the legislative branch.

00:03:38.020 They just had to be done many times by executive order.

00:03:41.320 And the states changed their laws to make it easier for people to vote because of COVID.

00:03:48.980 Everything that they had done was unprecedented one time only.

00:03:54.200 So now these laws that are saying, OK, we're not doing that anymore.

00:04:00.160 Now it's being called restrictive.

00:04:02.880 All the states are doing is bringing it back to where it was pre-COVID.

00:04:12.620 They are just protecting what George Soros' cronies made vulnerable.

00:04:18.880 That's it.

00:04:21.380 Now, who is there?

00:04:24.020 Delta Airlines.

00:04:25.120 We don't have a full list.

00:04:27.140 Delta Airlines.

00:04:28.620 Citigroup.

00:04:30.500 Hmm.

00:04:30.860 Viacom, CBS, UPS.

00:04:36.920 The owner, by the way, UPS is deep in this.

00:04:39.760 If you're using UPS, use the federal government's postal service over UPS.

00:04:46.700 And for God's sakes, Federal Express, they may be involved as well.

00:04:52.460 But I know UPS is actually deeply involved in the Great Reset.

00:04:57.880 The owner of the Atlanta Falcons was there.

00:05:01.560 He also co-founded Home Depot.

00:05:04.100 The chairwoman of Starbucks.

00:05:07.160 LinkedIn.

00:05:08.420 Levi Strauss.

00:05:12.340 A Boston consulting group.

00:05:14.940 The CEO of AMC Entertainment.

00:05:17.620 Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

00:05:20.680 He is a Yale School of Management professor who helped organize the meeting.

00:05:26.320 He said to the Washington Post that corporate leaders on the call felt very strongly that these voting restrictions are based on a flawed premise and are dangerous.

00:05:36.080 What is the flawed premise that this was a new way to vote in America for covid?

00:05:42.300 The discussion scheduled to last an hour went 10 minutes longer.

00:05:48.760 It was led at times by Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express.

00:05:55.440 Notice we have financial industry well represented here.

00:05:59.720 Also, Kenneth Frazier, the chief executive of Merck.

00:06:05.900 Student Merck make a are they out with a with a vaccine?

00:06:15.180 Does Merck have one?

00:06:18.060 Not that's approved here in the United States.

00:06:20.220 I don't know if they've honestly I don't know.

00:06:22.020 I'm not sure.

00:06:22.460 They told the executives on the call that it was important to keep fighting what they viewed as discriminatory laws on voting.

00:06:30.960 Chenault and Frazier coordinated a letter signed last month by 72 black business executives that made the same point.

00:06:37.740 The letter that first drew attention to the voting bills in executive suites all across the country.

00:06:43.660 The call's goal, listen to this, was to unify companies that had been issuing their own statements and signing on to drafted statements from different organizations after the action in Georgia.

00:06:58.600 This according to Sonnenfeld.

00:07:00.660 Can I ask, is anyone on the right meeting with corporations?

00:07:04.740 Is anybody on the right actually holding Zoom call meetings and saying, hey, look, we've got to start working together?

00:07:16.900 They have infiltrated our boardroom, which was a goal of the Tides Foundation back in the 1980s.

00:07:23.400 They have infiltrated our boardrooms.

00:07:26.380 And now these corporations think they rule over us.

00:07:31.280 They think it's their responsibility, not the elected officials, but their responsibility.

00:07:39.960 By the way, some of them, because they're so with the people, some of them made the phone call from Augusta, Georgia, where they were attending the Masters golf tournament, which was so woke of them, I think, to be able to go to Georgia where they are protesting.

00:07:56.520 But they wanted to see the Masters.

00:07:59.460 Right.

00:08:00.060 Right.

00:08:00.520 Okay.

00:08:02.100 One Georgia-based executive talked about how the final version of Georgia's legislation, which Brian Kemp has said, actually expands voting access, a claim that the left challenges, they say, was much worse than expected.

00:08:17.360 And it should serve as a warning to other chief executives as more states consider adopting their own voting bills.

00:08:24.900 Now, why is this, should this be a warning to other chief executive officers?

00:08:32.080 Why is that a warning to CEOs?

00:08:36.780 Wouldn't it be a warning to the American people?

00:08:39.840 Are we just too dumb?

00:08:44.700 And so we aren't going to support some of these things?

00:08:48.480 And so the corporations, they're going to act as a, what, a secondary government?

00:08:55.720 One that I don't know.

00:08:57.120 I didn't elect the CEO of Merck.

00:09:01.480 Did you, Stu?

00:09:02.420 I don't remember the ballot where I voted for the CEO of American Express.

00:09:07.380 Yeah.

00:09:07.820 No, I'm not a shareholder.

00:09:10.380 So I do not.

00:09:11.380 No.

00:09:11.720 I'm not a shareholder.

00:09:13.760 And they are, they have one voice.

00:09:17.720 Isn't this amazing that the people that are organizing this and are fine with it are the ones that say that corporations have no voice.

00:09:29.840 The, the, it's the Republicans, it's the libertarians that say corporations can do what they want to do.

00:09:37.320 But the ones that are saying corporations are evil, they keep people in poverty, they're the ones that are stepping to the plate and backing all of this.

00:09:50.100 Why?

00:09:51.520 Two reasons.

00:09:53.060 One, the great reset.

00:09:55.620 Two, they know they'll be eaten by those people.

00:10:00.480 If the great reset doesn't work, if the great reset isn't the answer, then maybe Marxism is, they would think.

00:10:10.980 And if that happens, they're done.

00:10:15.500 Corporations, Citibank, Coca-Cola, Delta, Microsoft, all have criticized Georgia's new election integrity bill.

00:10:26.140 Major League Baseball, good, moved its all-star game from Atlanta to Denver, like Denver's any better.

00:10:35.500 And this all came from the pressure from the White House.

00:10:39.560 Remember, the White House is saying corporations should do this, not the people.

00:10:45.280 We have gone not, we've gone from BLM, which is another story I can't wait to talk to you about.

00:10:52.260 We've gone from BLM, a supposed grassroots organization.

00:10:58.060 We've gone from the left saying that the Tea Party wasn't legitimate because it was AstroTurf.

00:11:06.040 It was funded by big money.

00:11:09.720 We've gone from that to now corporations openly meeting and coordinating efforts to change laws.

00:11:19.760 This is fascism, guys.

00:11:25.020 Fascism is when government and corporations work hand in hand.

00:11:31.920 That is fascism.

00:11:35.080 While no final steps were agreed on, the meeting represented an aggressive dialing up of corporate America's stand against controversial voting measures nationwide.

00:11:45.620 I have to tell you, they're not controversial.

00:11:49.060 It's just going to the way they were before COVID.

00:11:54.140 It's a sign that their opposition to the laws didn't end with the fight against the Georgia legislation.

00:12:02.040 Many of the corporate leaders who joined the call seem to view the voting restrictions as a tax on democracy.

00:12:08.560 Saturday's call between company executives, this is a quote, shows they are not intimidated by the flack and they're not going to kowtow.

00:12:20.320 That's according to Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

00:12:22.680 He's the Yale management professor, one of the call's organizers.

00:12:26.280 They are not afraid of the flack.

00:12:29.300 So, in other words, they don't care what the people who buy their products do or say.

00:12:40.760 Mike Ward, co-founder of Civics Alliance, a nonpartisan group of businesses focused on voter engagement, said he felt there was a broad consensus at the end of the call.

00:12:49.920 The company leaders plan to continue working against any voting bills they think are restrictive to lean into this, not lean away from this.

00:13:00.820 It's going to get worse.

00:13:02.520 And this is the official start, the public outing of what you're going to live under with the Great Reset.

00:13:14.560 But it's corporations that are going to make the rules.

00:13:19.540 And their lie about stakeholder capitalism is this.

00:13:27.020 The capitalists, the ones that are going to be running the companies, the CEOs of these giant companies, not the capitalists like me or you, the small business person,

00:13:36.080 but the people at Merck, the people at Citigroup, the people at Coca-Cola, they'll set the rules and they'll crush anybody underneath them.

00:13:47.920 And they'll work with the government or I should say with the left and those in power from the left.

00:13:55.760 They will work with them and your voice.

00:14:00.760 Well, you have a share in this, too.

00:14:03.260 You're a stakeholder.

00:14:04.320 So your stake, your voice is at the table as well.

00:14:08.060 Not on this private phone call.

00:14:10.700 No, no, no.

00:14:11.500 Not in any of these groups that are planning all of this stuff.

00:14:15.500 No, no, no, no.

00:14:17.220 You voted for somebody in Washington.

00:14:19.580 Well, I don't know the last time I felt comfortable with my representation in Washington.

00:14:26.580 It's been a long time.

00:14:31.340 This law, by the way, in Georgia, expands early voting opportunities for most counties and expands voter ID requirements to absentee ballots.

00:14:43.980 And that's what they're saying they can't have, because apparently minorities are just too poor.

00:14:51.660 They're just it's too tough for them to get any kind of ID.

00:14:56.700 It's so horrible.

00:15:00.100 Uh-huh.

00:15:00.840 Can we talk about vaccine passports for a second?

00:15:05.100 Isn't that discriminatory? 0.94

00:15:06.980 How is it that somehow or another minorities can not only get the passport, but will be able to get the vaccine and then the passport? 0.71

00:15:18.540 Because they'll need to have that before they go anywhere, right?

00:15:24.140 Why is it voting is the only thing that you don't need a license or identification to do?

00:15:33.260 Why?

00:15:33.640 I rent a car.

00:15:35.320 I need identification.

00:15:36.940 I open up a checking account at Citigroup.

00:15:39.800 They require identification.

00:15:43.520 They're now pushing for vaccine identification and vaccine passports.

00:15:49.400 The lie does not hold up if anyone has critical thinking whatsoever.

00:15:58.280 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:16:03.640 Last Monday, I was sitting in this chair and Sarah had just said in my earphones, two minutes.

00:16:18.580 I had been home.

00:16:20.300 I'm broadcasting from my home.

00:16:22.100 Um, my back is just really bad and car rides are not so real.

00:16:26.940 They're not real good for it, but thank goodness I was home.

00:16:33.460 Last Monday, two minute warning comes.

00:16:36.480 Stu said to me, you ready for the show?

00:16:39.520 I hadn't even had time to really discuss it with him.

00:16:42.360 And I said, yeah, I got it all mapped up.

00:16:44.700 Just follow me.

00:16:46.320 And that's when my wife came to the door of the studio here at our house and said, I, and she had the phone up.

00:16:58.200 And, uh, then she collapsed on the floor in tears and I ran out of the studio and grabbed her and held her up and said, what's, what's wrong, honey?

00:17:14.120 And she was holding the phone.

00:17:15.380 And she tried to tell me again and she collapsed again and she handed me the phone and it was my mother, my mother-in-law.

00:17:23.040 Uh, and I couldn't get very much out of her either.

00:17:28.840 I just knew that Tanya's brother had passed to say this was a shock is, um, an understatement.

00:17:42.740 Vince, I always looked at him kind of as an older brother, uh, even though he was younger than me.

00:17:47.700 Uh, I looked at him as an older brother because he helped me learn the ropes of being in an Italian family.

00:17:53.800 You know, I'm from German descent and that's screwed up six ways to Sunday.

00:17:58.000 But, uh, being in an Italian family, there's some ground rules.

00:18:03.060 There's some things you really need to know, you know, like your first Easter or Christmas.

00:18:08.680 Slow down, Jack, slow down.

00:18:10.840 There's a lot more food coming.

00:18:14.720 And family.

00:18:17.700 This family, I'm, I married into, I think, the greatest family I've ever met, the Kelowna family.

00:18:27.920 And I didn't realize, I mean, I know what a change it's made on my life, but I didn't realize how great this family even was until this last week.

00:18:39.100 My wife is, she's got a servant spirit and she just serves, she shows her love by taking care of people and doing things and never, never says, oh, it's too much.

00:19:03.700 I have to tell her, I have to tell her all the time, honey, don't take this on.

00:19:08.860 Last night, she was, she's still up in Connecticut and she called me last night about the dog food and she was like, the dog food and you got to get more dog food.

00:19:16.500 And I'm like, honey, honey, I got it, relax.

00:19:22.820 Even though I probably don't actually have it, but.

00:19:25.060 My brother-in-law had four children.

00:19:38.940 He had wrestled with Crohn's disease for a long time.

00:19:41.600 My sister has Crohn's and it can be awful.

00:19:44.080 It can be awful.

00:19:45.500 But you'd never really know it.

00:19:47.520 He was always the kind of guy that was always like, how you doing?

00:19:52.140 Good.

00:19:53.960 How you doing?

00:19:55.540 Good.

00:19:56.800 How you doing?

00:19:58.200 When he said, eh, that meant horrible.

00:20:03.120 I should be in a hospital.

00:20:05.940 But he was always the guy who lit up the room.

00:20:10.460 He was always the guy helping others.

00:20:12.700 He would never stop because he was always helping others.

00:20:17.520 I didn't realize how much of a servant spirit he had until the wake on Friday.

00:20:27.860 I don't know how long that line was, but it was a constant moving line, constant moving line for four hours.

00:20:37.460 I think the line was not in cars, in people, a quarter of a mile.

00:20:44.040 And it just didn't stop.

00:20:49.520 And it was people that would come up and say, I didn't even know Vince, but I met him because I was in need of help.

00:20:57.820 And he just rolled up his sleeves and he just took over and was like, okay, we got it.

00:21:02.380 It was people in the community that he lived in.

00:21:09.040 He was on the school board.

00:21:11.180 He was a little league coach.

00:21:13.200 He was a soccer coach.

00:21:14.800 He helped build the church.

00:21:17.040 He took care of the lawn of the church.

00:21:19.040 He was constantly doing things, raising money for charity, working over here, helping organize this.

00:21:27.060 But he was never the guy in the spotlight.

00:21:30.660 He was just the guy doing it.

00:21:32.500 And we had no idea how much he had done because he never talked about it.

00:21:42.200 We also didn't know how much mental anguish he was in because he never talked about it.

00:21:51.480 And last Monday morning, after spending Easter with the family, everybody thought it was fine.

00:22:04.040 He got up at three o'clock in the morning.

00:22:05.960 He was staying with my mom and dad, Tanya's mom and dad.

00:22:11.320 And he got up at three o'clock in the morning.

00:22:20.880 He went into the office.

00:22:23.580 He put everything together that the family might need.

00:22:28.800 Took all of the things that his children and his wife would need.

00:22:32.520 And left a note on the person who he's worked with for 30-some years on their desk because they always come in first.

00:22:44.500 Don't go upstairs.

00:22:45.680 Just call 911.

00:22:48.680 And he killed himself.

00:22:53.000 This is now the third family member of mine that has gone through this.

00:23:08.840 And I keep seeing it play out over and over and over again in exactly the same way.

00:23:23.000 We had an immediate family member in my family that the police were called to my house this, I don't even know how long ago it was now, a few months ago.

00:23:43.940 An attempt at suicide.

00:23:50.140 The world is sick.

00:23:53.960 We are sick.

00:24:02.780 When I talked to Tanya on Monday, all she could get out of her mom at the time when they were both hysterically crying was what she thought she heard was,

00:24:17.680 and Vince kicked dad on the way out.

00:24:21.480 And I'm like, oh my gosh, what was that all about?

00:24:26.360 How did that happen?

00:24:27.940 And all day I'm thinking, what is my dad going through right now?

00:24:32.260 What is he thinking about, you know, his relationship with Vince and everything?

00:24:38.040 Because that just came out of the blue.

00:24:39.560 I found out that he kissed him on the way out, which was a much better way to go.

00:24:45.580 But I looked at that and even that was an act of service.

00:24:52.940 To let your dad know how much you loved him on the way out.

00:25:01.340 I know this sounds weird if you don't know much about suicide or if you've never gone through it yourself.

00:25:11.800 And really the only way to understand it is to be close to it yourself.

00:25:17.120 No matter how close you get to it, if you've never experienced it, you don't understand it.

00:25:22.940 Because it doesn't make any sense.

00:25:27.960 It doesn't make sense because it's insane.

00:25:37.060 But you get trapped in this place to where you actually start to believe that the world would be a better place without you.

00:25:45.740 That your family would be a better place without you.

00:25:49.320 That they would have it easier if you were just gone.

00:25:52.220 None of that is true.

00:25:57.000 As a survivor of three now in my family, it hasn't been even close to true any time.

00:26:07.740 Suicide has such a long tail to it that even when you think you're past it and you've recovered,

00:26:14.640 that tail comes swinging around and can smash you at a time when you think the dragon is gone.

00:26:30.360 I know what these four kids are going to go through because I went through it.

00:26:34.880 I'm speaking at my other brother's son's wedding, giving the father's toast this summer because his father is not there.

00:26:55.300 Let me say this first.

00:26:58.360 First, if you are thinking about suicide, if you think there's no reason to live, if you think there's no way out,

00:27:07.600 if you think the world would be better without you, it's a lie.

00:27:13.860 And I know because I've been there.

00:27:16.920 I've thought those thoughts myself.

00:27:19.580 And I was lucky enough to have a friend take me to the hospital.

00:27:25.340 I went against my will.

00:27:27.280 I actually said that this is not going to change anything because I know what the problem is.

00:27:33.800 The problem is me.

00:27:36.280 And while I had good reason to think that at the beginning, those were reasonable thoughts of I've got to change my life.

00:27:43.880 But it spirals down into everything.

00:27:47.880 And if you do it, it's only going to make things much worse.

00:28:02.340 And there is relief.

00:28:05.920 And there is love again.

00:28:07.760 And there is light.

00:28:08.820 And there is joy.

00:28:09.780 You were born to experience joy.

00:28:17.380 Please call for help.

00:28:19.640 Please, if you're on the receiving end, do not dismiss this.

00:28:28.600 Don't tell somebody, oh, well, it's going to get better.

00:28:32.100 Keep your chin up.

00:28:33.280 Cheer up.

00:28:36.340 There's nothing more offensive than that when you're in this situation.

00:28:40.720 If they give any indication at all, the good ones won't.

00:28:53.240 They might leave a few breadcrumbs.

00:28:55.780 But in our case, it was a guy who you would have never thought.

00:29:00.180 Because he's always fine or meh.

00:29:03.660 And he's always helping other people.

00:29:05.640 But he couldn't get help himself.

00:29:09.620 He didn't know how to accept help himself.

00:29:18.000 It's a two-way street.

00:29:19.960 You have to ask for help.

00:29:21.760 And then somebody has to be there to help you.

00:29:24.400 And if you don't know what to do, just take them to the hospital.

00:29:27.760 The hospital will know what to do.

00:29:31.680 But if you're in the situation to where somebody did something,

00:29:35.840 there's nothing you could have done.

00:29:39.420 Nothing you could have done or said.

00:29:44.180 It's not your fault.

00:29:47.900 Now, what did I learn from all of this?

00:29:52.780 So my father asked me to speak at the funeral.

00:29:55.240 And, oh my gosh, I've, I pull, in the course of my career, I've spoken about,

00:30:05.680 it's estimated at, what did they say it was, 160 or 170 million words.

00:30:13.000 And some of those have been hard.

00:30:14.900 But I don't think there's been anything harder than this.

00:30:17.120 Because I didn't know how to describe him.

00:30:18.680 He was, you know, a brother, a friend, a father, a husband, a son.

00:30:30.540 And then when I went to the wake and I saw and I listened to people,

00:30:34.080 I realized that the word that was needed was not even servant.

00:30:41.140 It was loved.

00:30:48.140 And I've pondered that over the weekend.

00:30:54.300 You know, there are two great commandments.

00:30:58.240 Love God and love your neighbor.

00:31:02.920 I mean, I'm grossly abbreviating those, but

00:31:06.000 love God and love your neighbor.

00:31:15.040 And I realized

00:31:16.560 that this is the biggest thing

00:31:20.680 we're missing right now.

00:31:24.840 So many of us,

00:31:26.240 the fear up in Connecticut

00:31:28.320 was palpable.

00:31:30.060 Now, I know I live in Connecticut

00:31:31.240 and I could tell those

00:31:32.320 who had bought into the hysteria

00:31:36.120 over COVID

00:31:36.900 because I'd say,

00:31:38.700 oh, I'm from Texas

00:31:39.460 and they would back away from me.

00:31:41.740 But the fear is palpable.

00:31:46.340 Fear doesn't come from any place good.

00:31:49.160 And the fear is

00:31:50.440 not needed.

00:31:52.680 It is not needed.

00:31:55.780 So how do you combat that?

00:31:57.760 And what do we do to save ourselves

00:32:00.460 and our country

00:32:01.240 and our children?

00:32:05.900 The best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:32:18.280 I think Canada has lost its mind.

00:32:21.460 It has extended its COVID-19 lockdowns.

00:32:24.240 It has thrown a pastor in church

00:32:26.440 now is thrown

00:32:28.120 put a fence around a church

00:32:31.740 closed it down

00:32:33.320 not a crazy radical church

00:32:36.000 not any of that stuff

00:32:37.460 closed it down

00:32:38.800 and then started arresting journalists

00:32:41.100 who were covering the story.

00:32:43.680 What is happening

00:32:45.060 in Canada?

00:32:48.060 Well, let's go to Ezra Levant.

00:32:50.600 He is the founder of Rebel News.

00:32:52.600 That's kind of like

00:32:54.120 a blaze up in Canada

00:32:56.340 and he hosts

00:32:58.040 the Ezra Levant Show.

00:32:59.600 Welcome to the program.

00:33:01.860 Thank you, Glenn.

00:33:02.940 I love Americans.

00:33:04.980 One of the things I love

00:33:05.880 about Americans

00:33:06.460 is they care about freedom

00:33:07.600 around the world.

00:33:08.760 I know that you care about

00:33:10.040 the freedom of people

00:33:11.380 in Xinjiang, China,

00:33:13.380 the Uyghur Muslims.

00:33:14.520 I know you care about

00:33:15.380 Christians in Iraq 0.88

00:33:16.600 and other places

00:33:17.840 in the Muslim world.

00:33:19.000 But I sort of feel shy

00:33:22.260 to say it.

00:33:22.780 I think we might need

00:33:24.080 some help up here in Canada.

00:33:25.300 I know that sounds odd

00:33:26.420 but I sure would like it

00:33:28.400 if you could help shine

00:33:29.160 a light of scrutiny

00:33:29.860 on what's going on

00:33:30.700 up north here

00:33:31.320 because the trouble

00:33:33.420 is about religious freedom

00:33:34.420 and press freedom.

00:33:35.200 They're not just

00:33:35.660 in faraway places now.

00:33:36.920 They're just across the border.

00:33:39.840 And I can tell you

00:33:40.960 two crazy cases.

00:33:41.980 The first is what you mentioned,

00:33:43.220 the Grace Life Church.

00:33:44.320 It's a very nice church

00:33:45.960 outside Edmonton, Alberta.

00:33:47.200 I visited it myself.

00:33:49.080 Loving, peaceful,

00:33:51.080 the friendliest folks.

00:33:52.540 I tell you,

00:33:52.980 if I wasn't Jewish,

00:33:54.200 I'd go every week.

00:33:55.920 Great people.

00:33:57.420 And the pastor

00:33:58.620 was sentenced

00:34:00.840 to 35 days

00:34:02.360 in a maximum jail,

00:34:04.360 maximum security jail,

00:34:06.180 because he wouldn't

00:34:07.360 close his church.

00:34:08.320 By the way,

00:34:09.040 when he was in jail,

00:34:09.920 the church kept open anyways.

00:34:12.300 Another pastor presided.

00:34:15.180 And they didn't do anything.

00:34:16.800 They didn't do anything

00:34:17.620 to that pastor.

00:34:18.460 They didn't do anything

00:34:19.080 to the church.

00:34:20.560 No, and there was no need to.

00:34:22.300 And by the way,

00:34:22.940 there was never a single case

00:34:24.540 in the church,

00:34:25.280 let alone an outbreak.

00:34:27.040 And everything was fine

00:34:28.640 until one day

00:34:30.580 they moved in at dawn.

00:34:32.800 There was no one

00:34:33.840 in the church.

00:34:35.340 The police seized the church,

00:34:38.800 occupied the church,

00:34:40.740 and turned it into,

00:34:43.040 well, the only way

00:34:43.860 I can describe it

00:34:44.660 is a paramilitary garrison,

00:34:47.240 like a fort.

00:34:48.540 They have a perimeter fence,

00:34:50.640 and then within it

00:34:51.940 they have another fence.

00:34:53.280 They put up a big black tarp

00:34:55.100 around it

00:34:55.620 so you can't see

00:34:56.500 what they're doing.

00:34:58.160 They have police

00:34:59.200 coming and going

00:35:00.000 in shifts.

00:35:01.280 These are heavily armed police.

00:35:03.700 They also have

00:35:04.640 lesser armed police.

00:35:06.840 They brought their latrines in,

00:35:08.740 and I think

00:35:10.340 it's very disrespectful.

00:35:11.580 They put them

00:35:11.900 right outside

00:35:12.620 the front door

00:35:13.280 of the church,

00:35:14.220 the bathrooms.

00:35:15.680 So they're literally

00:35:17.380 doing to the church

00:35:18.460 what they're also

00:35:19.120 figuratively doing.

00:35:20.380 I wonder if they would

00:35:21.160 defile a mosque 1.00

00:35:22.640 in the same way.

00:35:23.880 But they have turned

00:35:24.940 this church

00:35:25.440 into a garrison.

00:35:26.500 Why?

00:35:27.120 Because if they were

00:35:27.880 to leave,

00:35:29.020 the church members

00:35:29.660 would just go back in.

00:35:30.580 So they are

00:35:31.080 a permanent

00:35:32.100 occupation

00:35:33.780 and militarization

00:35:35.400 of Grace Life Church.

00:35:37.040 I know you're thinking

00:35:37.920 that can't be true.

00:35:39.520 Well, there's plenty

00:35:40.260 of video of it.

00:35:40.940 So this weekend,

00:35:42.020 obviously,

00:35:42.680 Sunday,

00:35:44.260 two interesting

00:35:45.300 things happened.

00:35:46.860 First of all,

00:35:47.520 the church members

00:35:48.760 met,

00:35:50.160 but they did not

00:35:51.100 meet at their church.

00:35:52.540 They met

00:35:53.140 at a second

00:35:54.300 secret location,

00:35:56.780 an underground church,

00:35:59.100 like they do

00:36:00.000 in China.

00:36:00.840 China.

00:36:01.580 So the actual

00:36:03.280 congregants

00:36:05.260 of Grace Life Church

00:36:06.800 and their pastor

00:36:07.720 did not go

00:36:09.200 to their building.

00:36:09.900 They went somewhere else.

00:36:10.840 They believe

00:36:11.560 that the church

00:36:12.880 is with them.

00:36:13.560 It's not a piece

00:36:14.640 of bricks and metal

00:36:15.800 and mortar.

00:36:16.420 Correct.

00:36:17.400 And so they're having

00:36:18.620 an underground church,

00:36:19.820 China style.

00:36:20.560 But at the same time,

00:36:22.340 almost a thousand people

00:36:24.180 not with the church

00:36:25.660 went to the church

00:36:27.660 in solidarity.

00:36:28.560 Now,

00:36:28.700 there were different

00:36:29.320 approaches.

00:36:30.340 Some of them

00:36:30.880 were more angry,

00:36:32.500 some were more peaceful,

00:36:33.540 some prayed for the police,

00:36:35.220 some shouted at the police,

00:36:37.220 and there was a moment

00:36:38.260 when some of the

00:36:39.340 protesters

00:36:40.240 knocked down

00:36:41.820 the exterior fence.

00:36:44.300 And by the way,

00:36:45.260 some people

00:36:45.700 affiliated with the church

00:36:46.920 said,

00:36:47.220 no, no,

00:36:47.660 don't do that.

00:36:48.260 We could have taken

00:36:48.860 the church physically

00:36:49.980 any time

00:36:51.000 if we wanted to.

00:36:52.100 We're not

00:36:52.660 protesting

00:36:54.620 a piece of metal.

00:36:56.040 We're here

00:36:56.780 for the right

00:36:57.280 to pray.

00:36:58.520 So there was

00:36:59.240 an interesting

00:36:59.800 divergence in view.

00:37:01.740 Should they

00:37:02.300 physically retake

00:37:03.400 the church

00:37:03.920 or not?

00:37:04.940 In the end,

00:37:06.220 the fence

00:37:06.740 went back up

00:37:07.300 quickly,

00:37:07.720 but not before

00:37:08.640 a huge brigade

00:37:11.080 of heavily armed

00:37:12.760 SWAT-style police

00:37:14.700 from the Mounties,

00:37:16.180 the Royal Canadian

00:37:16.980 Mounted Police

00:37:17.720 came,

00:37:18.520 gas masks,

00:37:19.980 riot gear,

00:37:21.080 basically stormtroopers.

00:37:22.360 They were at a

00:37:22.980 staging facility

00:37:24.060 nearby.

00:37:25.480 What are they

00:37:26.000 going to do?

00:37:26.540 Were they going

00:37:27.440 to shoot people?

00:37:28.700 It was so insane.

00:37:30.300 So you have

00:37:30.920 an underground church

00:37:32.100 in hiding,

00:37:33.260 a pastor conducting

00:37:34.540 secret services

00:37:35.760 out of the

00:37:37.820 surveillance of police.

00:37:39.480 You have a church

00:37:40.760 being turned

00:37:41.280 into an armed

00:37:42.220 garrison like a

00:37:43.340 military base.

00:37:45.520 You have hundreds

00:37:46.500 and hundreds

00:37:47.160 and hundreds,

00:37:47.700 close to a thousand

00:37:48.540 people protesting this

00:37:50.360 when some of them

00:37:51.360 pressed against

00:37:52.160 the fence

00:37:52.640 and knocked

00:37:53.060 it down.

00:37:53.920 They dispatched

00:37:54.740 stormtroopers

00:37:56.300 heavily armed.

00:37:58.960 That is Canada,

00:38:00.600 and I happen to be

00:38:01.340 from that province

00:38:02.100 of Alberta.

00:38:03.180 Its motto is

00:38:04.100 strong and free.

00:38:05.840 That's false

00:38:06.540 advertising today,

00:38:07.560 Glenn.

00:38:09.940 First of all,

00:38:10.700 when did the

00:38:11.160 Mounties lose

00:38:12.000 their cool horse

00:38:13.420 and red jacket?

00:38:15.860 Well, that's the

00:38:16.640 thing.

00:38:16.920 Mounties are so 0.92

00:38:17.700 beloved because

00:38:18.940 they have such

00:38:19.680 a great reputation

00:38:20.640 going back more

00:38:21.400 than a century.

00:38:23.100 You know,

00:38:23.260 there was that

00:38:23.640 old show,

00:38:25.720 oh boy,

00:38:26.840 I just,

00:38:27.680 there was a show

00:38:28.440 about a Mountie

00:38:29.060 in the States,

00:38:29.800 the fish out of

00:38:30.300 water kind of show.

00:38:31.420 I just forgot it.

00:38:32.300 I mean,

00:38:32.480 Mounties are 0.99

00:38:34.160 beloved.

00:38:35.080 They're friendly.

00:38:36.020 It's like the

00:38:36.440 British Bobby.

00:38:37.380 Everyone loves

00:38:38.060 the Mountie,

00:38:39.060 but that's not

00:38:39.900 the Mounties today.

00:38:41.460 The Mounties today,

00:38:42.420 they only wear

00:38:43.060 their red jackets

00:38:43.900 and ride their

00:38:44.420 horses for fancy

00:38:45.980 ceremonies.

00:38:47.060 Today,

00:38:47.280 they were doing

00:38:47.800 the dirty work

00:38:48.620 of shutting down

00:38:49.700 a church.

00:38:50.340 I can't imagine

00:38:51.220 that any young

00:38:52.340 man grew up

00:38:53.000 and said,

00:38:53.500 I want to grow

00:38:54.060 up and go

00:38:54.880 to the police

00:38:55.380 academy and

00:38:56.380 get a shield

00:38:56.940 and a badge

00:38:57.600 and a gun

00:38:58.500 and so I

00:39:00.860 can,

00:39:01.420 what,

00:39:02.920 catch bank

00:39:03.400 robbers,

00:39:04.220 catch murderers,

00:39:05.160 or expropriate

00:39:07.880 and occupy a

00:39:09.140 church and throw

00:39:10.400 pastors in prison.

00:39:11.620 That same prison,

00:39:12.540 Glenn,

00:39:13.260 they emptied out

00:39:14.020 400 violent

00:39:15.280 offenders because

00:39:16.780 they were worried

00:39:17.560 they would catch

00:39:18.160 COVID in the

00:39:18.880 prison.

00:39:19.280 I'm not making

00:39:19.680 that up.

00:39:20.380 400 violent

00:39:22.040 men were released

00:39:22.840 from prison,

00:39:23.620 but they put

00:39:24.500 the pastor in

00:39:25.520 that same prison

00:39:26.660 for 35 days.

00:39:28.900 That's Canada

00:39:29.700 and I don't

00:39:30.920 want to seem

00:39:31.880 alarmist,

00:39:33.960 but I sure

00:39:34.700 would love it

00:39:35.380 if, you know,

00:39:36.440 Americans with

00:39:37.080 a big footprint

00:39:37.760 like Senator

00:39:38.860 Ted Cruz

00:39:39.540 or Marco

00:39:40.020 Rubio,

00:39:40.760 people who

00:39:41.220 talk about

00:39:41.680 freedom in

00:39:42.340 China or 0.92

00:39:43.400 Cuba or Iran,

00:39:45.360 boy,

00:39:45.660 I'd love it

00:39:46.240 if they would

00:39:46.600 put out a

00:39:47.100 statement about

00:39:47.760 this.

00:39:48.180 And can I

00:39:48.620 tell you one

00:39:48.960 more story

00:39:49.360 from Montreal

00:39:49.920 this weekend

00:39:50.500 that I was

00:39:50.880 personally at?

00:39:52.820 If it's about

00:39:53.640 the media,

00:39:54.220 I want you

00:39:54.540 to hold on

00:39:55.120 to that.

00:39:56.140 Sure,

00:39:56.420 I'll hold on

00:39:56.820 to that.

00:39:57.100 It's crazy.

00:39:58.200 One of our

00:39:58.560 people was

00:39:59.000 arrested yesterday.

00:40:00.440 Hang on just a second.

00:40:01.140 I want to talk

00:40:01.580 about that here

00:40:02.220 in a second.

00:40:02.920 I want to ask

00:40:03.520 you one question

00:40:04.300 on the media

00:40:04.780 and then I'll

00:40:05.080 take a quick

00:40:05.560 break.

00:40:07.020 The mainstream,

00:40:09.140 you know,

00:40:09.320 the CBC,

00:40:11.100 are they even

00:40:11.720 covering what's

00:40:12.560 happening at

00:40:13.000 this church?

00:40:13.480 They don't

00:40:15.660 cover it often

00:40:16.560 and when they

00:40:17.120 do,

00:40:17.520 they cover it

00:40:18.280 with aggressive

00:40:19.980 criticism.

00:40:21.020 They paint the

00:40:21.780 church as

00:40:23.220 criminals.

00:40:24.480 Radicals. 0.97

00:40:25.280 Yeah,

00:40:25.920 radicals.

00:40:26.600 They smear it

00:40:27.420 as unhealthy

00:40:29.040 super spreaders,

00:40:30.840 even though I

00:40:31.260 say again,

00:40:31.740 not one case,

00:40:32.680 let alone an

00:40:33.160 outbreak.

00:40:34.380 This pastor

00:40:35.260 obviously could

00:40:36.840 have got out

00:40:37.300 of jail in

00:40:38.520 one minute,

00:40:39.060 let alone 35

00:40:39.800 days.

00:40:40.280 It was as if

00:40:40.760 they gave him

00:40:41.240 his own keys.

00:40:42.320 All he had

00:40:43.100 to do was

00:40:43.760 lie and say

00:40:44.740 I won't go

00:40:45.320 back to the

00:40:45.780 church.

00:40:46.620 Imagine a

00:40:47.240 man who

00:40:47.600 would endure

00:40:48.000 35 days of

00:40:49.620 maximum security

00:40:50.400 prison when he

00:40:51.100 had his own

00:40:51.620 keys.

00:40:52.580 He endured

00:40:53.100 that because

00:40:53.620 he would not

00:40:54.420 say a lie.

00:40:55.980 The lie being

00:40:56.540 I won't go

00:40:57.100 back to the

00:40:57.520 church and I

00:40:57.980 won't print.

00:40:58.460 He wouldn't

00:40:58.940 say that.

00:40:59.860 And that is

00:41:00.580 the most gentle

00:41:01.480 man, the most

00:41:02.280 peaceful man,

00:41:03.460 the most

00:41:03.960 non-violent

00:41:04.720 man, the most

00:41:05.300 self-abnegating

00:41:06.260 man you'll ever

00:41:06.820 find, and yet

00:41:07.700 they demonize

00:41:08.680 him.

00:41:08.980 They call

00:41:09.920 him a

00:41:10.300 wacko, an 1.00

00:41:10.920 extremist.

00:41:12.100 They mock

00:41:12.940 the church

00:41:13.840 itself because

00:41:15.400 it's not just

00:41:16.380 that he's a

00:41:16.940 dissident, it's

00:41:18.220 that he

00:41:18.500 obviously believes

00:41:19.340 in a higher

00:41:19.820 power than

00:41:20.420 politicians.

00:41:21.960 And if

00:41:23.260 you are a

00:41:24.460 lockdownist, if

00:41:26.000 that's for

00:41:26.620 superstition, I'm

00:41:27.960 not even going

00:41:28.280 to call it a

00:41:28.680 religion, if you

00:41:29.280 believe in

00:41:29.740 lockdownism, if

00:41:31.060 you wear a

00:41:31.540 mask the

00:41:32.520 same way a

00:41:33.500 Muslim woman

00:41:34.080 might wear a

00:41:34.640 hijab or a 0.92

00:41:35.520 Jewish man

00:41:36.060 might wear a

00:41:36.540 yarmulke, if

00:41:37.340 the mask is

00:41:37.980 your religious

00:41:38.520 symbol,

00:41:38.980 your symbol

00:41:40.060 of submission

00:41:40.760 to your

00:41:41.700 philosophy of

00:41:42.560 lockdownism, and

00:41:43.440 oh now one

00:41:44.420 mask or two

00:41:45.000 masks, the

00:41:45.900 high priest

00:41:46.600 wear three

00:41:47.000 masks, and

00:41:47.600 if you believe

00:41:48.600 in that whole

00:41:49.000 mindset, fine.

00:41:51.760 But there are

00:41:52.300 some people who

00:41:52.980 believe in

00:41:53.520 something higher

00:41:54.420 than Anthony

00:41:55.540 Fauci, and

00:41:57.060 that's why

00:41:57.720 people rage

00:41:59.540 against churches

00:42:01.300 and other

00:42:01.760 institutions,

00:42:02.700 religious

00:42:03.260 institutions that

00:42:03.940 won't close,

00:42:04.660 because they

00:42:05.060 say, aha,

00:42:05.680 you don't

00:42:06.740 believe what

00:42:07.260 I believe, and

00:42:08.660 your resistance

00:42:09.580 is an insult

00:42:11.960 to my belief

00:42:12.760 system.

00:42:13.900 I think there's

00:42:14.740 something to

00:42:15.300 that, Glenn.

00:42:16.140 I think it's

00:42:16.680 nature abhors a

00:42:18.940 vacuum, and

00:42:20.080 this superstition

00:42:22.480 has filled the

00:42:23.200 void.

00:42:23.460 You know, Esri,

00:42:25.880 you're the type

00:42:26.400 of mind that

00:42:26.920 would enjoy, you

00:42:28.100 should read the

00:42:28.740 book, Hitler's

00:42:29.460 Monsters.

00:42:30.280 It's a very

00:42:31.020 scholarly book, but

00:42:32.880 it talks about

00:42:33.800 that, that

00:42:35.020 Nietzsche was

00:42:36.360 right, and

00:42:37.360 once you killed

00:42:38.260 God, what did

00:42:39.420 the German people

00:42:40.380 fill that vacuum

00:42:41.500 with?

00:42:42.380 And it goes in

00:42:43.560 depth on a lot

00:42:45.660 of the stuff that

00:42:46.320 I think we're

00:42:46.800 doing right now,

00:42:48.580 and I'm talking

00:42:49.480 religiously.

00:42:50.280 You start to

00:42:51.300 go into myths,

00:42:52.860 you go into

00:42:53.740 magic, I mean,

00:42:54.960 it is, it's

00:42:56.300 nuts, and we're

00:42:58.220 starting to repeat

00:42:59.100 this, and

00:43:00.180 condemning the

00:43:01.860 church and real

00:43:03.220 believers, and

00:43:03.920 making them look

00:43:04.760 like idiots, 0.86

00:43:06.300 imbeciles, and 0.95

00:43:07.300 radicals.

The Glenn Beck Program - April 12, 2021

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