Glenn Beck, the Ogre-fuck that Keeps on Fucking

[This is one of those posts that I keep starting, erasing, and re-writing (like the post about the Republican mayor and fire chief allowing a man's home to burn to the ground) because it's mostly cursing and little sense.  Hopefully I've overcome that. - AM]

Glenn Beck is dangerous.  He is inciting violence and hatred.  How close to coming right out and telling people to kill other people do you have to get to be guilty of incitement in this country?  Apparently there is no "close."  You can't suggest that someone is guilty and should be executed and be guilty of a crime, you have to actually tell someone directly to kill that person.  Glenn Beck has encouraged the assassination of our President* (though he will deny it), he has encouraged the bombing of abortion clinics (again he'll deny it), and he's encouraged attacks on institutions he thinks help poor people like ACORN or the Tides Foundation.  Now in each of these cases he (and his associates) did not actually say "assasinate the President," "bomb abortion clinics," "shoot Dr. Tiller," "film nonsense at Acorn clinics and then edit to appear incriminating," or "attack the Tides Foundation with multiple firearms" but his rhetoric implies, without a doubt, that these are things that should be done.  He even encourages his listeners to listen to what he is saying "between the sentences."  But since he doesn't explicitly say these things he cannot be tried for the crime of causing them to happen.

Beck's rhetoric inspired the real life shoot-out on I-580 in San Francisco between Byron Williams and the police.  Williams is an ex-felon that heard what Beck was telling him "between the sentences."  From the SFGate story:

"He hasn't been able to get a job because he's an ex-felon and nobody will hire him," [Williams's mother Janice Williams] said.

She said her son, who had been a carpenter and a cabinetmaker before his imprisonment, was angry about his unemployment and about "what's happening to our country."

Williams watched the news on television and was upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items," his mother said.  [emphasis added - ED]

In two separate jailhouse interviews Williams states that Glenn Beck told him what was "really" going on.  The "news" he was watching was the hate mongering Glenn Beck and the Fox News family of hate mongers.  But there is no legal way in this country to inform Mr. Beck that his rhetoric is inspiring violence and that if it happens again he will go to prison for incitement.  Apparently we have no recourse against this horrible, horrible man for his crimes against humanity and our country.  But smoke a joint in public and go to prison.  Yep, that's American justice for you.

*Blowing his dog whistle as hard as he can Beck has insinuated the "Left" will assassinate Obama [1, 2, 3] (read:  if you kill him we'll blame the hippies) and recently he's decided that he and his Tea Party followers are on Obama's list of people to assassinate [1, 2, 3](read:  protect me from the evil Kenyan!).


And just in case you still have doubts about Glenn Beck, there's this.