One thing you have to give Glen Beck, he doesn’t back away from pounding on that panic button in the minds of his listeners. Here’s what he told them on the radio the other day (courtesy of Media Matters):
See, Obama is pursuing a “soft coup” now. But just you wait until someone stands up to him. It’ll be “Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!!” because that’s …
… the way a soft revolution happens. If somebody starts to turn on them, or they can’t get everyone to silence, that’s when when the arrests come, or that’s when they start a hard revolution. That’s when they start just shooting people.
Yep, Left Wing Death squads are waiting for the day, or Obama’s cadre of Red Guards, waiting for the day when the can come to take you away. And you wonder why stuff like this is happening:
More than 113 census takers have been the victims of assaults or attacks this month, the U.S. Census Bureau said late Wednesday.
In response to inquiries by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Census Director Robert Groves said the bureau’s temporary workers knocking on doors to collect information have faced 29 threats involving a gun, four robberies and three instances of being held against their will or carjacked. Seven workers died in car accidents and one was killed while off duty. […]
Bureau officials said the overall pattern and types of incidents are similar to the 2000 census, but cautioned this year’s figures are already much higher than ten years ago and include a mix of news accounts and formal reports to the bureau’s safety office. […]
Aides said Maloney requested the information to determine whether news reports were accurately reflecting a trend or merely focusing on a few incidents.
“These acts of violence against census enumerators are tragic, especially when you consider these temporary workers were only trying to do their job making sure their neighbors are accurately and fairly counted in the Decennial Census,” Maloney said.
You know, I’ve run into a couple of census workers in my neighborhood trying to find addresses of people who didn’t send in their forms or who were scheduled for one of the more extensive interviews. They were just kids. Kids driving beat up cars and they probably took their temporary census jobs because it was the only one they could find.
They were polite, even apologetic when they cam up to me to ask a question or two. They were dressed in casual clothes, not in any uniform, nor were they carrying a gun or backed up by armed Federal Agents ready to storm the houses of unwilling homeowners.
One thing they most definitely were not. They were not dangerous. They were just out in the middle of a hot day trying to do a thankless job. But thanks to people like Glen Beck putting the fear of Obama led “coups” and “arrests” and “shootings” in the heads of his listeners, their job is more dangerous than it needs to be.
