Hamas has called for its supporters around the world to take part in a "day of rage" on Friday, October 13, 2023. But while cities and companies ramped up security and France even banned pro-Palestinian protests, should we live in fear? As for Glenn, he refuses to "buckle under these monsters." It's time to choose, he argues: What kind of people we will be? Will we stand for truth and return to sanity?
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GLENN: Stand up. Stand up.
That is -- that is kind of the theme of today's program. Stand up.
Here we are, on the day of rage. America and all those who are listening overseas, that happened to believe in eternal truths, we stand at a precipice today.
We are lucky enough, to live in a moment of history, where the choice we make today, will echo not only throughout our life, but throughout generations yet unborn.
Not a lot of people live at a time like this. But we have to recognize it.
There's a necessity now more than ever, to choose. I don't know if you remember the landmark speech, a time of choosing, from Ronald Reagan.
It came out in the early 1960s. But it is time to choose. Our choosing today, encompasses not only the fiscal sanity, but a reclaiming of the moral and ethical standards, that have seemingly just slipped through our collective fingers.
Our national debt surmounts now a stagger $33 trillion. Congress, Senate, entrapped by a seemingly unending cycle of spend and tax.
Corruption. Back room dealing. Place on our children and our grandchildren, the yoke of financial burdens, that they didn't create. The financial burden that we have ourselves. Did you create it?
I don't even know what they're spending the money on.
The administrative state, bloated, unaccountable people that we send, continues to metastasize, infiltrating every aspect of our lives, crafting rules without our consent.
And exercising the power that rightfully and constitutionally belongs to you.
Furthermore, we are seeing now the erosion of timeless and foundational truths in our society.
The very moral fiber that has held us together.
Held the quilt of our nation together. An unsettling wave of attempts to nullify the fact that men are men. Women are women.
And only women can bear children. These are not just societal norms. These are biological and spiritual truths.
They are linked to nature, and, yes. Nature's God.
I might people every day, and they ask me, the same question. Almost everybody asks me the same question.
I don't know who to trust. How do I know what stories are true?
How do I know what outlets I can trust?
I'm going to answer that for you. And not in the blanket way that I have usually answered it in the past. None of them. Don't trust anybody. Don't even trust me.
Do your own homework.
But I'm going to make it a lot easier.
A lot easier.
I will give you a way to actively know, an intelligent way, an easy measuring stick, if you will. And apply it to every story, and every outlet.
Apply it to me.
If the news source, the influencer, the pastor, or even the family member, refuses to recognize eternal truths. Such as gender, is specific.
And nothing that man can say or do, will change that.
Or forgiveness is free, and personal, and given to everyone.
The sin of the father, is not the sin of the son.
The fact that all men and women and all peoples, are created equal. But that doesn't mean you get an equal outcome. Merit. What you do with your life.
Your mistakes. Your weaknesses. Your strengths. Your thoughts. What you put into it, is what matters.
I will not board a plane if every mechanic and pilot is hired because of race, creed, or gender.
I don't know. I would like the best person based on merit.
If the news outlet and friend cannot admit these things, freely, quickly, without any qualifications, don't trust them. Don't trust just not that story.
Don't trust them ever again. They must always be clear.
Here's one. Killing innocent children.
You're killing innocent children. You're doing it intentionally. It's always wrong. Whether it be a terrorist shooting or beheading a family, including the babies. Or a doctor, chopping off the limbs of a child in the womb.
It is wrong, it is murder, it always will be.
Eugenics, under any new name is still eugenics, and it's evil.
Doctors killing epileptics in America, and later in Nazi Germany. It was wrong then.
It's wrong now. It will be wrong forever.
Doctors, deciding that a vet needing a stair lift, such as in Canada, has no quality of life. And therefore, should be offered assisted suicide. Or the teenager who suffers from depression.
That person should never be encouraged to take advantage of compassionate assisted suicide. If your news source cannot get that right, every single time, they should be dismissed and never be given any consideration on any topic, ever again.
Never listen to those who are confused by the concept, that justice is blind. If it's wrong for one. It's wrong for all.
If you do the crime, you do the time. It doesn't matter if you're the president, or a pauper. A Republican or a Democrat. White or black.
Justice is blind.
If it's wrong to protest rights, due to a pandemic, it remains wrong for those protesting during that pandemic, police powers. And it's always wrong to destroy, the US capital, or a capital. Or burn a city in a riot.
Always. I don't care whose side did it.
If my children have to have a vaccine, before they go to school. So do those children, that go to school, even if they came across the border illegally.
And, by the way, it's an easy call. And it should always be clear. Our border is not secure. Open borders are not compassionate. It is suicidal.
If your source can't get that basic fact right, never, ever consider anything they say to be trustworthy.
If the source you're questioning, whether they're trustworthy or not, believes drag queens are appropriate for children's shows. For schools.
That parents, are -- are not the final say.
It's the teacher, or the teacher's union. Or the school. Or that gender mutilation, is -- is okay.
This time. I mean, it's wrong. When it's oppressive Muslim country doing it. But now it's not so much a horror, if the science this new religion is settled.
If they believe these things, then you have your answer. If the source cannot admit these simple and eternal truths. If you read or hear one news story, and cannot decipher who is who, or what is what, because of newspeak, don't trust what they say.
Stop reading it.
Don't trust what they say. They print. On are what they preach.
It is a time of choosing.
And it is becoming very clear and easy.
I choose truth. And I don't know what the truth is on some things, but I am very clear on what the truth is on many topics. I choose nature's laws, and nature's God.
Today, across the sea, we observe with heavy hearts, the storm of conflict. On this day of rage.
Conflict rages on, with Israel. A beacon of freedom, in the Middle East.
Enduring, yet again, continual assault by Hamas.
The streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, echo with cries of the innocent.
The international community must choose.
And answer this question: Will we stand against those who sew the seeds of chaos and destruction?
Or will we forsake our fellow man?
Women, children.
To violence and terror. Do Jews have a right to live?
I thought we settled this a long time ago.
Do Jews have a right to be Jewish?
Do they have a right to live?
Do they have any place in the human family?
I know this answer.
But apparently, many do not.
Do we repeat the sins and the horrors of the past, and do we do it, because so many of us are just too busy. Too bogged down in our even life.
That we just don't have time to even think about it, or get involved?
Are there times, where there is nothing more important than stopping all that you're doing. No matter where you are. And how bogged down you are. And what a crisis your life is in.
Is there -- are there times, that you stop all of that? And stand speak against the unspeakable evil.
That man does to his fellow man.
Make no mistake, I've heard all this week, these terrorists. They're animals. No, they're not.
Animals don't go in and behead the babies, and leave them.
They don't go and kill the entire family, and leave them. They kill for food.
These people, these terrorists, are below the animal.
They are terrorists. It's time to choose. Who we are and what kind of world we want to leave for our children. And I say this to the Palestinian people as well. There are no innocence if you remain silent in your own community. That's what we believed with the Germans. We didn't go and just kill all the Germans.
But we fought the Germans, and begged them to stand up themselves, and stop the insanity of those who led them.
Because they didn't, we had to.
And, yes. Many German people in their homes died. But there is a time to choose. There was a time to stand.
And if you don't stand now, when will you?
The bedrock of our civilization is crafted from the values we uphold.
The respect for life, the respect for opportunity, the liberty and the freedom to choose your own path. And the pursuit of happiness. A civilization that discards the intrinsic worth have every individual, that allows the you extinguishing of life, be it in a war-torn land. Or a comfortable domestic setting.
To become a footnote, loses its moral compass.
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of every single minute. Every day. Every opportunity.
As many children, get older. The sands of time slip, so rapidly through our fingers.
We have to ascertain, who we are.
What kind of civilization do we wish to forge?
Will we build a society that respects life, enshrines justice, and seeks truth?
Or are we going to sink into the abyss, where moral relativity, and unbridled power govern our actions and darkens our future.
It is time to choose.
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I -- I look at what we're doing today, and, you know, are you sending your school -- your kids to school today, on the day of rage?
Damn right. Yes.
Yes.
Yes. I am not going to buckle. Under these monsters. I am not going to give in to fear.
We have to anchor ourselves, in the harbor of unassailable truths. And if we don't drop that anchor now, we are just setting ourselves adrift in a boundless sea of deception and despair.
Our future, right now, hangs in the balance. And you've been given the gift to live and choose, at this time. And that chaos is going to determine the path, on -- on our -- on the hill.
On the mountain that we're about to climb.
In our hands, lies the capability to restore, to rejuvenate, to reclaim. The liberty, the morality, the ethical governance. That once was America.
But it requires a return. A staunch and unwavering commitment, to the principles, that forged us.
If we fail, we condemn our children's children. To a world unanchored. Unhinged. And absolutely unsustainable.
It is the time of choosing.
I urge you, to choose, now.
No matter how busy, no matter how downtrodden. No matter how worried you are about things.
Choose.
Will I stand for those things, that I know are true? And never sit down?
Choose. Who you are going to be, today.
Encourage everyone you know, and everyone I love, to return to sanity. And choose.
This is my prayer to you, for you. This is my prayer, that we would all choose, and choose wisely. It is Friday. There is a ton to cover, and a ton to do. But it's also Friday. It's -- oh, my gosh. It's the day of rage. We're not going to freak out. If you would like to, well, you've made your choice. We're not going to.