Beck Swindles Swanson

by Scott Creighton

***UPDATE*** You might not believe this, but David Swanson actually wrote an article about this topic, about how Beck may actually be “the best antiwar voice on tv”.  He ran around spaming it up on progressive sites like Op Ed News (where it is still the mainpage headline) and Firedoglake.  But remarkably, he completely misses the main point of Becks interview… the need to run the Pentagon through civilian leadership, just like a business, and without congressional oversight. For a constitutional expert like Swanson is, I find it hard to believe that he would completely miss that aspect of what Beck was saying. Beck also said clearly that we had reason to attack Afghanistan (911) which of course we didn’t even if you believe the official conspiracy theory, Afghanistan didn’t attack us, a small group of people did (if you believe that drivel). That is not justification for the destruction of a nation state according to international law. Swanson seemed to miss that part of Becks piece as well.

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I have to admit, after watching Glenn Beck’s horribly acted “weeping backstage” scene in his first “populist” show way back when Obama first took office, I never thought the guy would ever become this slick. But I was wrong.

Take, for example, this latest twist from Mr. Beck that caught-up the “progressive” icon David Swanson in Beck’s Rainmaker swindle. Apparently David Swanson is thinking he and Beck and even Dennis Kucinich are on the same page when it comes to defense spending. Wow. What a difference a year makes, huh? Either Beck has become a lot slicker or Swanson is spending a little too much time thinking about his next speaking engagement.

This was pegged to the front of David Swanson’s After Downing Street website, a former bastion of liberal ideals.

David Swanson and Glenn Beck: Two Peas in a Pod

Though the title of the segment deals with “cutting defense spending” it actually ends up arguing for the privatization of the entire Pentagon budget and the UNCONSTITUTIONAL removal of congressional control. Think that is what Dennis Kucinch stands for David?

Let me explain how this little ‘bait and switch” trick Glenn Beck used actually works and how it is nothing more than an open call for the neo-liberalization of the Pentagon and more importantly, the Pentagon BUDGET.

No Escape

by Scott Creighton

The rhetoric is floating all around us like a poisonous cloud while we hold our breath, desperately scrambling for the exits. Something wicked this way comes, my friends, and you had better know it.

The neoliberal Clintonista globalists and their MSM mouthpieces are setting the stage. The Liebermann/McCain “Enemy Belligerent Act” is waiting in the wings, promising endless detention without trials for all those foolish enough to keep typing their dissent regardless of the writing on the walls. And the writing is unmistakably clear to anyone capable of thinking beyond partisan talking point slogans.