On this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck talks about the recent death of Charlie Kirk and how the left is responsible for the deaths of so many Americans. He also talks about why we have to face the dark and embrace the fire.
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00:08:23.220For as dark as things are getting, when I tell you what's happening in England today and then I tell you what's happening in South Korea,
00:08:32.480I think South Korea is the model that they're going for to collapse us.
00:08:38.660So you need to understand what's happening in South Korea.
00:08:41.200I didn't really understand what was happening in South Korea until I had a South Korea woman sitting in my office yesterday.
00:08:51.060She was, you know, when they had the vigil for Charlie Kirk in South Korea, it's because she brought Charlie Kirk over and tried to explain to him what was going on.
00:09:00.340He had just left South Korea and he said, I'm going to make everybody in America needs to know this.
00:09:06.560I'm going to make your story very, very famous.
00:09:10.260He took a picture with the people that he was with.
00:09:14.720I'm going to explain all this because they were afraid that they were going to go to prison even just for talking to Charlie Kirk.
00:09:22.660The reason why Charlie didn't talk about it is he was killed before he had a chance.
00:09:27.260They came to us yesterday and I told them I will pick that up happily for Charlie and we're going to expose it today and it is going to be a long road.
00:09:42.120I'm hoping if I don't make things worse by doing this, I'm hoping to go to South Korea.
00:09:47.900But when you understand the story, that may make things worse.
00:11:30.380That is it's just too weird to happen, especially.
00:11:35.080You know, I mean, Donald Trump was being, you know, hammered yesterday for hammering Ilan Omar.
00:11:40.680He said she's spreading vile lies against ICE.
00:11:45.580You know, she was responding to a report from a family of a Guatemalan man who was being sought Tuesday by ICE agents.
00:11:55.160And the family and she claimed that the agents held this guy's autistic five-year-old daughter out as bait to try to coax him out of his home.
00:12:05.900Uh, and so they're just making ICE, just like stormtroopers.
00:12:15.920Uh, and what's going to happen is, look, we're reaching a really bad place where decisions are going to have to be made and we're not going to like any of them.
00:12:33.660Michael Snyder wrote this, this great piece, um, that, uh, was about the collapsing and then how America is reaching this boiling point.
00:12:43.980And he said, the left deeply hates the right, the right deeply hates the left, but how is a bitterly divided nation supposed to thrive?
00:12:53.520Those that founded this country shared a common set of core values, but today there are no core values that still unite us because the core values that our founders believed in so strongly have been
00:14:54.080The reason why we are falling apart is we have no principles in common anymore.
00:15:00.160Everyone is talking about the bill of rights, but how many people actually believe in the bill of rights?
00:15:07.840How many people believe you have a right to freedom of speech and the only speech that needs to be protected is the speech that everyone despises or you despise.
00:15:22.400You do not shut speech down in a free society.
00:15:27.440The minute you do that, you are no longer a free society.
00:15:32.140And I've got a lot of stuff, Jimmy Kimmel to say about that today, but we must get back to our core principles.
00:15:41.120The things that we all used to find self-evident that God is endowing his created beings with certain rights and governments are instituted among men to protect those rights.
00:15:58.840And we are to rule ourselves, but our society doesn't function if you don't choose to rule yourself.
00:16:06.920If you choose to tune out, if you choose not to regulate yourself, if you choose not to find something of a higher purpose than yourself or your grievance, then this system doesn't work and you need a dictatorship.
00:16:24.020You will get the kind of king you deserve.
00:18:25.040Otherwise, we start wanting vengeance, envy.
00:18:31.680All of the bad, the seven deadly sins, all of those things grow inside of us.
00:18:37.760By the way, this student that was saying that, you know, you don't have a right to free speech, she said that she was influenced by her learnings about Chairman Mao because she believes in the Chinese leader's authoritarianism.
00:18:59.380She was in her class, Revolution, Socialism, and Reform in China.
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00:22:29.040When you don't defend free speech, things fester and they get out of control.
00:22:36.660And the speech that you must stand up for is the speech you despise.
00:22:41.980I will fight to the death for that man's right to say it, but I don't agree with him.
00:22:47.840That's the American freedom of speech.
00:22:50.180But there is a there is a really, really wicked monster that has been unleashed and and we have to talk about it and we have to lance this boil.
00:23:08.400You know, the New Hampshire man that was trying to kill the governor, you know why?
00:23:13.100It's his weapon of mass destruction because Jews must die.
00:34:31.100Maybe they'll do some uni, maybe they'll do some learning, but they are not going to be on campus to get themselves into massive debt, to be indoctrinated by people who look like those weirdos on campus.
00:34:45.320I want to—she—and I talked to her about this off-air, and I didn't go back to it because I didn't want to pry.
00:35:35.180Here's a woman who, through society, through the left, through the government—imagine the government paying for a play called The Assassination of You.
00:35:49.660Imagine what your family is going through.
00:35:55.940You are—she said, I was one of the more popular people in England, and then because I was speaking out differently, I became the most hated person.
00:36:47.940Imagine living in a society—that's one step away from China, gang, where they will take your children away.
00:36:58.300They voluntarily moved their children, changed their children's name, had them grow up with different parents.
00:37:07.240She had no contact with her children until they were of age, and they were set in life.
00:37:14.920And until things started to turn around, imagine you've been so persecuted by your so-called free country that you have to give your children up because it's the only right thing to do because you—because society will destroy them because they've already taken everything else that matters from you.
00:37:40.320And so get the children—I tell you, I've always thought she was funny.
00:37:50.520She's, you know, she's got a tough sense of humor, but I've always thought she was funny.
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00:43:10.560So if that is true, you know, again, we want to make sure we understand the entire story before jumping into any conclusion, unlike what you saw on the left over the past few weeks.
00:46:09.620And so are some other things are about to come under attack.
00:46:12.780And I want to have a discussion on, so what do you do?
00:46:15.980What do you do about the world we are creating right now?
00:46:20.380We'll talk about that coming up in just a second.
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00:48:50.180Now, on the second side of this triangle is speech control.
00:48:58.180Governments, corporations, international bodies working in tandem, NGOs to decide what can be said, what has to be silenced, and who's allowed to stand in the public square.
00:49:07.380And they'll tell us it's all for our public safety.
00:49:10.120That's what happened last time under Biden.
00:49:14.960We find out now that the FBI was working with an NGO, a pro-abortion NGO, that was helping them identify people that they thought should go to jail.
00:49:27.120It's never been done before in American history that we are aware of, at least.
00:49:31.100And there's going to be met by a big yawn.
00:49:34.600Google yesterday reinstating people that they were told had to get offline.
00:49:40.620And again, nobody's really reporting it.
00:49:42.180This freedom of speech stuff, censorship, it's happening.
00:49:51.000When dissent can't be spoken, it festers in the dark.
00:49:55.720That's why you can't ever shut down speech.
00:49:58.580It's better to hear people know where they come from, try to understand it the best you can, and then police it the best you can in your own life.
00:50:05.980But you don't want to, I want to know who the bad guys are.
00:50:09.640I want to know who believes in communism and who doesn't.
00:50:13.620Not because I'm going to do something about it, just so I can understand that's a person I don't trust.
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01:08:49.520Obviously, prayers for all those affected, particularly the law enforcement community and what they're dealing with as we get the facts.
01:08:55.300Can you tell me, the left is coming out now, and it's interesting to me that CNN and MSNBC are sticking with this story and Fox News is not.
01:09:07.600It might just be a judgment call, but it also may be that this was a right-wing kind of guy.
01:09:15.520Is it true that the ones that were killed were not ICE but illegals?
01:09:22.060So, right now, I'm getting intel as fast as I can, as you are.
01:09:28.200I've gotten some insight in broad terms that it appears to have been the detainees who were killed or wounded, but we don't know for sure yet.
01:09:38.600I want to be very clear that we don't know.
01:09:41.620So, there could be varying motives, right?
01:09:52.100What we do know is that there continues to be a disrespect for law enforcement and a disrespect for the rule of law, because no matter what's going on here, if it's a gang, if it's a cartel, if it's a right-wing lunatic or a left-wing lunatic, you've got a disrespect of ICE such that they felt that they could go in and shoot up an ICE facility.
01:10:12.300And that is the product of a lawless Biden administration who didn't give a crap about law enforcement, who crapped all over ICE, who crapped all over Border Patrol, who wanted to defund the police across the country, who wanted to stand with criminals over law enforcement, who leave our borders wide open, and frickin' George Soros leftists who put dangerous criminals on our streets.
01:10:32.200So I don't want to hear any of the backtracking bullcrap out of MSNBC and these radical leftists who want to endanger us and then dare to try to lecture me on whatever the motives may or may not be of these individuals.
01:10:44.720You know, I really don't care what the motive was.
01:11:02.420So in saying that, and I know you feel exactly the same way, we, if this continues to grow at this existential rate that it has been, we are, we're going to have to make moves.
01:11:17.660And that is going to play into the hands of those who say, see, this is an authoritarian.
01:11:22.720What can we possibly do to get this kind of violence under control without violating civil rights?
01:11:32.940Well, you have to respect the rule of law, Glenn.
01:11:37.600You stand up in defense of the rule of law.
01:11:40.100You don't put criminals on your street.
01:11:42.040You don't let George Soros funded Ren collective left-wing radicals say that we should have cashless bail and let criminals on our street and don't prosecute them.
01:11:51.000You put people behind bars who should be.
01:11:53.540You don't have your borders be wide open.
01:11:55.860You prosecute people and you call out criminals when they are violating the law.
01:12:00.080And whether you're a left-wing kook, when you're one of these radicalized transgender folks, whether you're a right-wing kook, I don't care.
01:12:16.900But one thing that matters, and this is what I want to be clear about.
01:12:20.040When you create a climate and a culture that disrespects the rule of law, that disrespects sovereignty, that undermines Western civilization, if you are undermining the fact that it is our collective faith in the Lord Almighty and the biblical underpinnings of what built this country from the Declaration of the Constitution all the way through our laws, then you are undermining our safety and security.
01:12:45.340And that's this real story behind the radical left.
01:12:54.780I do care that the Marxists are undermining our way of life, breaking down Western civilization, moving us away from God, importing radicals, putting criminals on the streets.
01:13:06.480That's what we need to be at war against.
01:13:08.400We need to reclaim the rightful birthright for our kids and grandkids of a safe and secure America that believes in the rule of law, backs up law enforcement.
01:13:18.440And, yes, you protect civil liberties.
01:13:20.340Damn right you protect civil liberties.
01:13:21.700But you don't have a civil liberty to go shoot up ICE or to go run drugs or to move Fendal or to be gang members.
01:13:29.040You don't have a civil right to do that.
01:13:30.480So, you know, with Antifa now, and I don't know, I think it has to be funded yet, doesn't it?
01:13:37.320I mean, the president signed an executive order, but what are we going to do with the Antifa stuff?
01:13:57.840Glenn, I mean, when you go back and look with credit where credit is due, what Jack Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy and the people that were trying to break apart the mob, if you were one of the individuals willing to take on violent cartels.
01:14:09.900Look, when I was in the U.S. attorney's office, you had to know that if you were taking on the cartels, if you were taking on violent gang members, you were putting yourself in jeopardy because you knew you were going to the heart of the problem.
01:14:22.160And we've got to recognize that the radical leftists, the Antifa, the organized crime, and by the way, I'm against all organized crime, whatever their political motives are, whatever the profit motives are.
01:14:33.420But you've got to recognize it when you see it, and Antifa and Southern Poverty Law Center and all of these organizations, they're a part of a radicalized network that want to undermine what you and I just talked about.
01:14:46.560So when the president declares Antifa a terrorist organization, he is correct to do so because they are radicalized and undermining freedom, undermining the rule of law.
01:14:55.680Go take them out and follow the money.
01:14:59.240Go follow the money to the Wren Collective.
01:15:00.920Go follow the money to SPLC and Antifa.
01:15:03.900Go follow the money to all of the groups, to 250 organizations that the Center for Immigration Studies outlined that were funneling illegal aliens into our country,
01:15:13.160knowing many of them were affiliated with Trende and Agua and other gang members that were undermining our security.
01:15:46.240But Congress needs to get off the damn mark.
01:15:48.380The reason I sent a letter calling for a special select committee, identifying the radical left networks and tying them out and exposing them is because the American people need to know it.
01:16:00.580We have 40 members of Congress who have now signed my letter.
01:16:03.940I want to hear what the speaker, I want to hear what the leaders of the House want to do to go combat this stuff.
01:16:08.960And I want to be very clear, because there's going to be some listeners out there, some leftists who are going to say, Ship Roy was attacking the left.
01:16:15.480And this shooter ends up being whoever he is or she is.
01:17:24.560It is also a good instinct to say that the radical left doesn't get to have a unilateral ability to leverage all of the power of government to go after us.
01:17:36.580And then the right say, wait a second.
01:17:38.980You have a guy who went on a massive corporate network funded ABC Disney show and then is then going out on all of these affiliate broadcasters like, you know, Sinclair and XR, all these organizations that have to make decisions from a business perspective and not have the FCC commissioner be able to raise the question and the prospect.
01:18:02.040You know what, if you say crazy crap, those broadcasters may decide they don't want to put your crazy crap on the air.
01:18:10.400And that has an impact, by the way, in the broadcasting world, when you're talking about licenses, you know it better than anybody.
01:18:16.780You can teach me all the ins and outs, but you can't say anything you want over the air.
01:18:29.040Do we want the government going in and telling us what we can say or can't say unless it's something patently obvious like pornography or, say, you know, an F-bomb on the airwaves?
01:18:41.140But it is reasonable for the FCC commissioner to say what he basically said, which is when he said you can do this the easy way or the hard way, either back off Disney and don't countenance that ridiculousness of saying there was a MAGA shooter and putting out false information.
01:18:55.560Or you're going to deal with the fact that you're going to have licenses, meaning the broadcasters who are going to say, we don't want to broadcast your crap.
01:19:31.080I liked what Brandon Carr said about, and you kind of touched on this, that we're not trying to censor.
01:19:37.000We're trying to give local control back.
01:19:38.920Right now, all of the decisions are made in New York or Los Angeles for these networks.
01:19:44.360And they don't care about these local facilities, local stations, that most of them are small cities.
01:19:50.760Almost everything in Sinclair is in a small city.
01:19:53.660There's a few big ones, but not a lot.
01:19:56.540And, you know, they have a right to say this does not appeal to us.
01:20:00.680In fact, it's an assault to our community standards.
01:20:04.600And what he said was, we have to get back to community standards.
01:20:07.820And these local stations should be allowed to hold up their community standards because that's the way they get a license renewed, is they're upholding community standards.
01:20:21.600But I, you know, I want less regulation, not more regulation.
01:20:26.280I certainly don't want to police freedom of speech.
01:21:18.700I hope you are our next attorney general here in the great state of Texas, because as things get tougher, we really need a good attorney general.
01:21:35.680I want them to grow up in a safe, secure and free America.
01:21:38.980And it's going to take the smartest people we have in this generation who are willing to stand up and fight and defend not just America, but Texas.
01:21:57.040We shouldn't stand back and wait for Joe Biden or some future leftist to leave our borders open or allow George Soros to put criminals on our streets or allow Epic City and Sharia law to march through the streets of Texas.
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01:32:55.520They tried to sue him into oblivion by lawfare.
01:32:59.580And then when they tried to enforce, you know, transgenderism and the whole alphabet soup on the church, he stood in opposition.
01:33:10.400And millions of people marched in all five major cities in South Korea as a result of this man.
01:33:16.700And so when this new regime took over, they came right after Pastor Son.
01:33:23.680And we were in that picture where you, I'm in the room, I'm watching Charlie standing next to him.
01:33:30.260Pastor Son said, it's likely I'll be arrested.
01:33:34.940And Charlie said to him, if you're arrested, I can't speak on behalf of our government, but myself, if you're arrested, I'm going to call the Secretary of State.
01:33:45.280And if he answers, I'm going to make sure he hears this.
01:33:49.100And he said, I'll do everything I can to get attention to this.
01:37:03.840And if the churches don't wake up and start remembering their responsibility and people don't start remembering who we actually are as Americans, it, the whole world plunges into darkness.
01:37:20.060You know, Jonathan Mayhew, Eastern Seaboard minister during the War of Independence, when they were all bagging on him saying, you know, you need to submit to King George because Romans 13 says submit to all positions of authority.
01:37:35.160And he pointed out, he said, yeah, but they're there for our good, the scripture says.
01:37:40.040And when they cease to do good, they cease to be the authority.
01:37:42.880And he coined the phrase that inspired the War of Independence.
01:37:46.060He said, disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.
01:37:50.060And we just watched America restore probably another 50 years of liberty because of Charlie Kirk's efforts, inspiring pastors and awakening them.
01:37:59.700And when they were telling us the church was non-essential in California, Charlie stood by me when I defied the governor.
01:38:05.400And when you saw that memorial service on Sunday, now, I'm the first guy who came out and I was asked to present the gospel and give a call to Christ.
01:40:25.240Well, you know, we found out today, or at least I was reading yesterday, that they've, YouTube has reinstated conservative accounts that they blocked.
01:41:55.520I would just say, President Trump, he gave Korea 15% tariffs.
01:42:00.160You know, if they're going to be raiding churches, and they're going to be imprisoning pastors and threatening the equivalent of turning point in Korea, I think 15% is way too low.
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01:42:52.700I don't even know if they have a fund.
01:42:54.040Just put it in the general fund, and, you know, you can market Charlie Kirk, or I'm sorry, South Korea, but she needs a million dollars, and really bad.
01:43:06.400I mean, they're going to go after her for not having the money to pay everybody.
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01:50:03.240People on the left were saying that this was a right-leaning shooter, which didn't make sense to me.
01:50:11.040Still doesn't make sense to me, but they said that because the van that they shot into, they shot in and they killed ICE detainees.
01:50:20.800But he was far enough away not to necessarily know who was in the van.
01:50:25.920But now we have some new information that anti-ICE messages were scrawled on the bullet casings.
01:50:36.360It's according to police as well, not just a Twitter rumor.
01:50:38.860Obviously, we've been trying to be very careful today to make sure that we don't get ahead of ourselves and make sure that we have all the facts that we can gather.
01:50:49.680And that was the biggest thing that came out of the press conference that just happened.
01:50:53.120They said that there were shell casings around the shooter with anti-ICE messages engraved on them in some way.
01:51:04.140We don't know what they were exactly, but that certainly goes a long way to motive.
01:51:07.500So I think this is something that I can clearly say, not as a joke, but as a fact.
01:51:13.200The left now has, there's four injured, two dead.
01:51:19.040So the left is injured and killed more detainees than ICE.
01:51:27.420Now, it doesn't, we don't know at this point whether this was maybe a mistake, right?
01:51:36.580It's very possible, you know, with the discussion of the van, at least, it seems very possible that he just thought there were agents in the back of the van and hit the wrong thing.
01:51:57.060But that back window had, at least what was remaining of that shattered window, was tinted so dark you could fire through the back window and think you're going to hit the driver and the guy in the front seat even if you don't know that there are people, other people in the van.
01:52:11.740I mean, you know, it's just, this is just so evil.
01:54:18.400We do have a message now from Kash Patel, FBI director.
01:54:22.180He says, goes through what happened this morning and says the initial investigation is ongoing, but the review of the evidence, at least the initial evidence, shows an ideological motive behind the attack.
01:54:36.720One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase anti-ice.
01:54:41.860So it wasn't just like anti-ice slogans, the literal phrase anti-ice on there.
01:54:47.180He has a picture of the bullets and one of them does actually just say anti-ice.
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02:04:21.340So if you're tired of patching over the problem, tired of the endless rotation, and maybe this will help, there's a different, far better way to deal with pain.
02:05:26.400Of course, he doesn't actually believe that.
02:05:28.840He's just lying because he wants to sound like Mr. Tough Guy so he can win, I guess, a presidential primary in an election he supposedly believes isn't going to occur.
02:05:37.980But all that being said, this is the type of stuff like you think about these are the types of things that actually did happen in Nazi Germany, right?
02:05:44.120They just canceled elections and named chancellors and all these things.
02:05:49.280And you might remember a little bit of Germany, the history of Germany from this era.
02:05:54.980There weren't a ton of people going on late night talk shows saying how bad Hitler was on television while he was in office.