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I don't understand why you guys are making the link between Beck and Gore's followers going postal. The criminally insane will latch on to anything, whether that be Beck or Gore or anyone saying something they can agree with.
Gore made a call for "civil disobedience" and he inspired a guy to take people hostage. Civil disobedience is clearly not arming yourself and taking a building over. Beck wrote a fiction book and if that inspires a guy to go batnuts, I wouldn't blame Beck for it. Batnuts Man was already insane and ready to act violently, he just needed something to fight for.
Just because Beck has thousands (millions?) of followers, doesn't they will all follow him into a fight. In fact, I'd be willing to make a bet saying less than .5% of them would do anything violent.
Phrases Beck has used: "wake up" could mean to educate yourself. "Be concerned" could mean that the country is going no where fast, we should be concerned about that.
Tully, I'm surprised that you ou of all people took that Beck/Thomas Paine video out of context. "Time for talk is over" and "our enemies will fear it" were both in reference to the DC rally Beck had. He's saying our enemies will fear our free speech and ability to say what we want; "time for talk is over" means instead of only talking about things, we should get up and try to be the change we want to see.
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