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| 'Obama will get Israel nuked' say protesters at Glenn Beck rally |
| 2010-08-29 |
| [Haaretz] Tens of thousands of conservative activists rallied Saturday in the U.S. capital of Washington D.C. on the anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous I Have a Dream speech. Civil rights leaders were protesting the event. Rally organizer TV pundit Glenn Beck, who speaks to a faithful audience nightly on the conservative Fox News television network and daily on talk radio, insists it's just a coincidence that his "Restoring Honor" rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial is overlapping with the 47th anniversary of King's speech. Beck is known for his extreme views and statements. He has described Obama, the first black U.S. president, as a racist. Speaking with Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, the participants made sure to stress how angry they were with Obama's policy regarding Israel. "He [Obama] will get Israel nuked," said 61-year-old Victoria Nikolov from New York, who had left home at 1 a.m. in order to make it to the rally on time. "He's not doing anything to prevent [Iran from developing nuclear weapons]. I came here to protect you, even though I'm not Jewish, and to restore the constitutional republic to this country." "I've done my research, I've read both his books" she continued. "I am confident that if he had to choose between America and Islam, he'd choose Islam. But I am afraid he might stay president, because he has the support of the press, and when the press supports a president, the people just don't get the truth." "We are inch away from socialism. I think African Americans could make great presidents -- just other people, like Condoleezza Rice or Walter Williams," she went on to say. Rob Arnold from Washington's Pentagon City said "You can't spend and dupe this country into oblivion and hope to get away with it." "He [Obama] was a friend and neighbor of Louis 'suck the blood of Jews' Farrakhan. He had Jeremiah 'God damn America' Wright for his pastor. A man who is a friend of these people can't be a friend of Israel," Arnold told Haaretz. "And he arranged peace talks in Washington?" he asked. "It's all for show. I believe that if he could, he would rather see Israel annihilated. I don't think he believes Israel belongs to the Jews. I think he sympathizes with terrorists. I believe he is an anti-Semite." Mark DelMaestro from Phoenix, Arizona, a Vietnam war veteran, told Haaretz that "maybe he [Obama] did some good things, but the bad things he did are overwhelming." "I don't think he represents the fulfillment of Martin Luther King's dream. He represents socialism, communism, oppression and all the things that stand against freedom. I am the man of 'God bless America' and he is a man of 'God Damn America.'" "I am very worried about Iran, I am confident the moment they get the bomb they will drop it on Israel. Obama has to do everything possible to stop it, even the military option as a last resort. He must understand that unlike other places, we don't fight for Israel, we fight with Israel, we have the same color of soul." Two months before nationwide Congressional elections, which could cost U.S. President Barack Obama's Democrats their majority in the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate as well, Beck's rally becomes only the latest symptom of rampant political partisanship that is splitting the country and drowning out voices of moderation. The crowd - organizers had a permit for 300,000 - was vast, with people standing shoulder to shoulder across large expanses of the Mall. The National Park Service stopped doing crowd counts in 1997 after the agency was accused of underestimating numbers for the 1995 Million Man March. Civil rights leaders protested the event and scheduled a 3-mile (5-kilometer) plus march from a high school to the site of a planned King memorial near the Tidal Basin and not far from Beck's gathering. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 IMO unless somebody does something really stupid, THE REAL THREAT FROM A NUC IRAN STEMS FROM POST-2012 "ASYMMETRIC" NUCLEAR MILITANCY-TERRORISM", aka NUC RADICALISM, EXTREMISM, etc., via the spread of ADVANC NUC/MILTECHS to various Islamist + other International Militant Groups. Short of TECH + WEAPS, ETC. TRANSFERS from ANTI-US GOVTS-STATES, its going to take time for Iran to dev its own indigenous NUC ARSENALS JUST TO ACHIEVE PARITY OR "SUFFICIENCY-OF-SCALE" FOR DETRRENCE PURPOSES, LET ALONE SUPERIORITY, ESPEC AGZ ANY LT IMPROVEMENTS IN US GMD-TMD. IMO iff ISLAMIST IRAN + other "ROGUE STATES" are ina rush to achieve "Great Power" status vee already established WOrld-Nuc Powers, then IMO THE IRAN + "ROGUES" WILL WANT THE MILITANT GROUPS TO GO NUCLEAR ASAP IN ORDER TO DESTABILZ + WEAKEN THE LATTER RELATIVE TO THEMSELVES. "GREAT GAME" + GEOPOL DIALECTICISM = "WEAKNESS IS WEAKNESS, STRENGTH IS STRENGTH" IRREGARDLESS IFF FROM A LOYAL ALLY OR A HATED ENEMY. SUN TZU > [paraph] "THE ENEMY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE QUALITY, STRENGTHS OR WEKANESSES, OF YOUR SHIELD + ARMY + CAMP". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-08-29 19:50 |
| #6 Yes, there is a possibility that BHO will get Israel or the U.S. nuked. Yes, he does exhibit racism. If the liberals did not try to throw out the Constitution and upheld it, rights would be guaranteed for all citizens. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-08-29 10:51 |
| #5 Maybe minorities all have the same civil rights as whites, so there's no need for a civil rights movement at all. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-08-29 08:03 |
| #4 Enough said, |
| Posted by: Goodluck 2010-08-29 06:28 |
| #3 Odd that an Israeli newspaper would label a man extreme that stands so strongly with Israel. Mike H., Ha'aretz prides itself on being the New York Times of Israel... with all that entails. One of their reporters was recently arrested for pulling a Wikileaks --thousands of IDF documents were involved. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-08-29 05:52 |
| #2 "Beck is known for his extreme views and statements. He has described Obama, the first black U.S. president, as a racist." Say what? Glenn is speaking about restoring honor, smaller government, personal responsibility and lower taxes. Where's the extreme part? Yes, 0bama IS a racist Odd that an Israeli newspaper would label a man extreme that stands so strongly with Israel. But I guess Israel has a 5th column too, just like we do in America. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-08-29 02:40 |
| #1 Maybe it is time to take the civil rights movement away from its current owners. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-08-29 02:38 |