The Glenn Beck Program - Best of The Program | 6/21/21

Episode Date: June 21, 2021

Two people were run over at a pride rally, and the media and the Democratic mayor of Fort Lauderdale were quick to label it a hate crime … but then the evidence came out. Hundreds of citizens may never get their private items back thanks to the FBI’s seizure of safe deposit boxes. How is civil asset forfeiture not theft? Buffalo Bills player Cole Beasley said he would rather retire than get the COVID vaccine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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No doubt in Fort Lauderdale at the LGBTQIA2 plus pride parade. You're doing double Q there now? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because I've noticed the Q is sort of a, a controversial part of the acronym, if that's what it is. LGBTQIA 2 plus was that way for a while.

When you look at what the cue means, it would give you several things. Yeah. Queer. Yes. Questioning. Isn't there one more or two? I only know about queer questioning,

which is why I always do the two cues. So you double cue. I am upset that some people leave out either the queer or the questioning. I don't think either group should be left out. And it's deep within me, so I say it correctly every time. L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-A-2-plus. Yes. And plus is much worse than the Q.

Because plus seems to just say everything else. So why does it just call it plus? Because we don't know what else there is right now, but we're going to discover it soon. Okay. So anything that we discover, we have to put in there. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. with another letter.

It would be easy to just say, how about L plus? Right? That would cover G, B, T, Q, I, A2. No, because we know about them, so you must use their letters. Okay. Yeah. That's like when they were doing this, uh, AAPI hate. AAPI?

Yeah. Which is. I'm sorry, you don't know. I do you not know what AAPI hate? Okay. Asian American and of course, Pat. Oh, Pacific Islanders. Pacific Islanders.

Yes. Yes. Now, Atlantic Island. We don't care if you hate them. Okay, if you are from an Atlantic-based island, if you're Bermuda, we can hate you all we want. That's totally fine. But if you're in the Pacific Ocean, then no.

And that island sits there absolutely hate is bad. Now, they should do AAPI plus hate. And then we'd know, you know, if you live on the outer banks on an island, you cannot be hated as much. much. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

But as of right now, if you're living on, let's say, Tybee Island off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, right. You can be hated. Wow. Absolutely fine to hate those people. But if you're in Tonga, absolutely not. If you're in Tonga, no. Absolutely not.

Those are PIs and PIs cannot be hated. Yeah. So that's how we get LGBTQQIA2 plus. And, you know, some of the lesser known people in that group, the intersex and the asexual. I don't think they get enough airtime. I really don't. I don't think they,

and that's a hate in and of itself. Now, in your show, Pat Gray on Leash, you did do a 14-part series. I did, yes. On intersex and then a 17-part series on asexual. Yes. Yes.

And so you've been giving them the attention they deserve. I've tried. I've tried to make up for it. The mainstream media. I'm only one person and the mainstream media will not cooperate. They don't care. They don't care. A lot of times,

they'll just say the LGBT community. Yeah, they will. Which is disgusting. It's despicable and it's hateful. Because if you don't throw the plus in, then you're really, I mean, at least the plus gives you plausible deniability. Like, well, we just included them in the plus. Right.

Right. Yes. But no, not the media lately. They've been saying LGBT. Because I remember when we started the Blaze, it was GBTV. And everyone pointed out that we should just add an L. and make it LGBTV. Right.

It would make it a lot easier. And we probably get like funding from the government for our evil right-wing conservative news source. Sure. It could have worked. But we didn't do it. We did not. We did not do it.

So as we celebrate this month, you know, it's not a day. It's not a week. We have to celebrate an entire month. That's how seriously we take LGBTQIA2 plus month. Pride month is fantastic and at a pride celebration though they had a real bad tragedy

where a truck ran into a crowd of people killed one of them, badly injured another, that person's in the hospital. So immediately the Democrat mayor of Fort Lauderdale

jumped all over it as a terrorist attack and so did everybody on Twitter all the left wing idiots on Twitter. We're talking about the terrorist attack, the right-wing extremists, the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, over and over, over, over. It turns out the person who did it got his foot stuck between the brake and the gas pedal, is actually a gay person who was participating in the parade and was, in fact, a member of the gay chorus and was wearing the t-shirt of the gay chorus. and just accidentally. I mean, it's really sad.

But for everybody to jump to the conclusion immediately that it's some white, enraged, homophobic person, just not true. Just not accurate. It's very typical, though, right? So typical. There's no reason to believe when a car accident happens that it's terrorism.

There's no reason to believe that. But that's all that these groups seem to care. about. They don't care about the actual people. Not in the least. They only care about whether they can use it on Twitter to score points. I get retweets. I don't even understand it. It's so crazy. It's the same thing with Black Lives Matter. Black lives are like 9 zillionth on their list of priorities.

That I promise you. They don't care. They don't care. It has nothing to do with Black Lives. We obviously, like, if it had something to do with Black Lives, they would be focusing on the 99 9% of murders that aren't police officers, right? Obviously, they don't care about this. This is something completely different. And we're supposed to play along with it and act as if this is an honest, earnest effort when clearly it's not. Clearly it's not.

The mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Dean Trentales said this is a terrorist attack against the LGBT community. I'm sorry. Again, leaving off. The QQIA 2 plus? Thank you. Yes, exactly. So those people weren't victimized in this? I guess not.

Just the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and trans people were. They were the only ones terrorists, terrorized. So no one who was questioning was victimized in this attack. No. Nor the queer. What about the two spirit? No. They were not victimized.

And again, I will point out, and I don't want to out you on the air. That's not my goal here. Obviously, we're doing, you know, we're doing the show we work together. But your series on two. Spirits was only eight episodes long, much shorter than your asexual or, and I don't, I mean, I don't even know what your pansexual series was. I barely could, I missed it. I missed a couple of shows and it was over. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. I apologize for that. Clearly, I'm working on eight more episodes. Okay. It'll be part two. This doesn't happen yet. Okay. But it's coming.

Okay. Good. It's coming soon. So he says, this is a terrorist attack against the LGBT community. This is exactly what it is. Hardly an accident. It was deliberate. It was premeditated. Oh my gosh. And it was targeted against a specific person. Luckily, they missed that person, but unfortunately, they hit two

other people. He's alluding to the fact that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was in the area. Right. And I think he's saying they were trying to kill her. This is bizarre because he's providing specifics. Yeah. Right. Of the mindset of the attacker. That he's just making

up. He's just making them up. He doesn't know anything about the mindset of the attacker because there wasn't an attacker. Right. And Justin Knight, who is the president of the Fort Lauderdale gay men's chorus. Oh my God. Only gay men are involved in this chorus. So no else. No. No B's. No T's. No cues. No Q's. No I. No A. No two. And no pluses? Right. That's a hateful organization is what That is. It is. It is. And yet somehow he was allowed to speak.

He said, our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the tragic accident that occurred when the Stonewall Pride Parade was just getting started. Our fellow chorus members were those injured. And the driver was also a part of the chorus family. To my knowledge, this was not an attack on the LGBTQ community. We anticipate more details to follow and ask for the community. love and support. So the guy, the driver, who supposedly was the, you know, hate mongering terrorist, is actually part of the gay men's chorus.

I just, and this all came out pretty quickly, too, and yet people are just still sticking with their agenda of trying to make this out to be some sort of white supremacy, which, as we know, is the greatest threat that mankind faces today. Along with climate change, yes. along with climate change. Caused by straight white men and their white supremacy. Exactly. But they caused the climate change, which is also a huge threat.

Yes. To the LGBTQIA2 plus community. Well, more to that community than any other. Disproportionate. Can I throw in disproportionate? Whenever you throw in disproportionate, then you know you're being smart. You're being... Woke.

And you're certainly woke. Yes. So I always try to throw in disproportionately. Because most, you know, they always talk, they're like, well, look, the genocide of violence against the LGBTQIA 2 plus community and POCs across the world is disproportionately. It's like, if it's a genocide, you don't need the word disproportionate. Right? Like that, they were never like, you know what? Hitler is killing a lot of Aryans, but disproportionately, he's focused on Jews.

Like, that's not how that works. It's really, you never need to make the disproportionate addition to a genocide. Now, I don't mean to call you out, Stu, but you just made the, you just made the mistake. Oh, no. What did I do? Of calling people POCs. Right. People of color.

Right. Yes. You left out the black and indigenous people in the POCs. It's BIPC, thank you. It's B-I-POC. That's true. It's the black indigenous people of color, if you would. No, is it...

From now on, if you could just call them Bipox, I would appreciate it. I believe, by the way, it's just Bipoc. Okay, Bipok. Because that would be people of colors. That's true. And that's not, you can't pluralize that one. That's true. Which is hard to do.

So the Bipak. Yes. Yes. And so black indigenous and then people of color. People of color. Again, that's the people of color is another scam. It's a plus. It's like black indigenous.

Plus. Yeah, what colors are we talking about? B-I-plus. And that used to be the knock on saying colored people. You weren't supposed to say that. Right. People of color or colored people because the comeback would be, oh, what color are they?

What? I don't know. Just all people of color. Right. Non-white people. I don't know. I don't know. Certainly not white people.

They're not involved in the plus. No. No. Now, if they happen to be, let's say, two-spirit. Mm-hmm. Or questioning. Their two-spiritness. then they can be involved.

White people are allowed to be involved in the group. As long as they have some different sexuality, yes. Some alternate lifestyle. Yes. Then it's okay to include a white person. But don't you dare. Don't you dare come to me some cisgendered white person. Don't you do it?

Cisgendered and straight. I don't want to hear it. I hate cisgendered white male men. I hate them. Don't we all? You know, they've ruined everything. and they don't deserve to have the plus. They don't.

They don't deserve it. They don't deserve to be involved in the plus unless, of course, then, you know, they happen to be LG. They identify as LGBTQQIA2 plus or, or black. If they identify as black, then it's fine. Right. As white people, if they identify as black, then that's okay. The best of the Glenn Beck program. Door valuables in a safe deposit box may never see their cash again.

or their precious metals or their heirlooms unless a federal judge finally intervenes this week. Now, a couple of months ago, we told you about this seizure from the FBI at the U.S. private vaults, the U.S. PV. So some families and some private citizens have gotten together to sue the government for the contents of about 800 deposit boxes that were taken everything. in them was just taken by the FBI in March in a raid of the storage provider and the provider was indicted for conspiracy to sell drugs and

launder money. Now none of these other Americans who had their valuables in these safety deposit boxes has been charged with anything. And some of them have hundreds of thousands, if not into the millions, in these safety deposit boxes. Now if you don't trust a bank, where are you going to put your money?

Probably one of the likely places would be a safety deposit box thinking, okay, it's going to be safe here. No, not from the FBI. Not from the federal government. I mean, who would have thought that the FBI would pull off the largest bank heist in American history? That's just unconscionable. How can this stand? And it does time after time.

But usually this involves, you know, people traveling. Like you're on the freeway. You get pulled over by state police. they for some reason decide to search your vehicle and do so and find 10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000 in cash and they just take it. Or you're at the airport and the TSA confiscates it.

Both of those situations have happened many, many times. This is the first one I've known of where you just got your valuables put in a safe place and the FBI comes and takes it anyway. even if you're not accused of a crime. They're not accused of anything. Like that should be the standard to me. Not even charged.

You could say all you want and I'm going to put my stuff in a safe place. However, if you are convicted of a crime and, you know, deemed that these were ill-gotten gains, right? Like your money's never in a safe place, right? Like, that's the legal system. If you get convicted of a crime, they may take your stuff, especially if you got them through that that you know some illegal way but to do it when you're not even convicted is completely it's criminal to me when you're not accused yeah like that's not even allegation of wrongdoing here it's just theft it's straight up theft and it's grand larceny i mean this is a lot

of money they're taken from people um the asset list In the seizure notice, discloses more than a dozen boxes containing more than a million dollars each in cash and many more in six figures. Others list jewelry, collectible coins, gold and silver, precious items. And so people have millions of dollars worth of things in these safety. That's what a safety deposit box is for, right? You put valuables in it, stuff that you want to be kept safe. and you never think, well, if the FBI raids the owner of this place, I'm going to lose all my money. You would never think that.

Why? Because this is the United States of America, right? I don't even know that there's precedent for this in the Soviet Union. I mean, maybe, maybe they did this kind of stuff. I don't know that people had that kind of wealth to be taken from them in the Soviet Union. But there's no redress here. They sue and they just tell you, nope, sorry, you can't have it. So you just hope a federal judge finally intervenes and says, give them back their money now or face the consequences.

But I don't know what your recourse is. If the judge doesn't step in, you're just out of everything you had saved up in these things. It's really something else. It's incredible. It's incredible that this stuff happens routinely in the United States. of America and it's also one of those things somewhat like critical race theory right that has been going on over the past a couple of months when people realize what this is they generally speaking are on the right side of the issue you know like yeah people people look oh I'm being

trained in my office and they're saying I should disavow my whiteness you know even not only white people, but African Americans and Hispanics and everybody else looks at this and say, okay, that's just racism repackaged. Right. Like, that's critical race theory, which is a catch-all at this point and probably, you know, catches too much at times. But the bottom line is people can inherently recognize that it's wrong without even thinking about it.

You know, the same thing with like, hey, I went to watch my daughter's track meet this weekend. And she lost by 15. lengths to a boy, right? Like, you know, people just inherently can say, all right, this is wrong. And when people are awakened to this type of thing, to use the woke terminology, they are generally speaking on the right side of it. Yeah, they're generally outraged or right. They're outraged either way.

I think the same thing exists with this. When it comes to this theft, this is really theft. And it's happened to tons of people. People who haven't even been accused of crimes having their livelihoods, their money taken away from them for absolutely no reason at all. I don't know how you could be okay with it, really. And maybe you just, you think, ah, they're rich people. Whatever. I don't care what happens to them.

But some of these clients are not wealthy. Two new clients have just been added to the amended complaint. They already, you know, they had a lot of the people. people already on the complaint. Now they've got other clients like this couple who was storing $2,000, $2,000 in cash and $20,000 in silver. So a total of $22,000, it's their nest egg for retirement. $22,000, that's pretty modest. And now the FBI has confiscated that and they don't have that retirement nest fund. nestag. They've got a telecommunications executive that just jumped on board. He had $100,000 worth of gold and $63,000 in cash, intended as a rainy day fund.

Just taken from him. Just taken. And again, remember, no charges against any of these people have been filed. Now, he's not the guy, because you say telecommunications executive. He's not the guy that came up with robocalls, did he? Because if that's him, then he deserves all. It's all should be taken. As far as I know.

Now, that's not constitutional still, but I still would root it. I would root for it in a big way. No, I mean, how many, this is happening so much. We've talked about this, there was a guy in Chicago who was, he worked on cars. His livelihood was he worked on cars. He would go help out people and sometimes he'd come off away from where he worked. He had this customer who came in who had, who had the car. brought it in,

dropped the car off, needed to go back to work. So as a business owner trying to help his customers, he drove the guy back to work. In the process of driving them back to work, they got pulled over,

and the passenger in the car had drugs in his pocket. Now, no one accused the driver who was just a mechanic of being in the responsible for the drugs. They were never accused of a crime at all.

But they, it took his car in the back of his car was all of his equipment to help people fix their cars so he lost his tools he lost his car for years

and they kept finding him to get his own car out of being impounded based on nothing he had done nothing wrong they didn't even it wasn't like a bad accusation it's hard to communicate

how ridiculous this is because it wasn't like they said oh he was really responsible for the drugs. We know it with no evidence. That would be bad enough. They weren't even saying he was responsible. They weren't saying he was responsible. They weren't saying, oh, you guys are really hiding it. This is a drug operation.

None of that. They knew he was innocent. They knew it. And they still find this guy tens of thousands of dollars. He's a working guy. Man, he doesn't have tens of thousands of dollars to get his car out from impound. And all of his tools,

it ruined his business. It ruined his life. And why? Unreal. Why? It's unbelievable. Because they, law enforcement agencies want the ability to confiscate this so that they can fight the war on drugs.

That's their excuse. And they like the money that comes along with this. They love the money that comes along with it. And look, I'm as pro-police as they come. But you've got to be able to convict a person of something if you're going to take their stuff. Not just charge, but convict them before you confiscate them. Yeah.

before you confiscate their property. Yeah. And they've now gone to the place where they're evading these bans. So people learn about this civil asset forfeiture. And they're like, this is wrong. And this is America. This should not happen. Right.

So many states have now gone to the point where they've passed laws saying you can't do this without a conviction or at least an accusation of wrongdoing. Seems to make a lot of sense. But there's a hole in these laws where if they go to, like basically there's a hole that says if you work with the federal government. So let's say the federal government is in the middle. An agency is going through. They're in the middle of an investigation.

And they need assistance from the state. If it goes through the federal government and they do the civil asset forfeiture thing, the state gets to keep, you know, I think it's 80% of the money. Yeah. Right. Yep. So what these states are doing that have bans on civil asset forfeiture is they're taking the investigation all the way up to the point where they're going to seize the stuff,

and then they're like, oh, we need help from the feds. So the feds come in, they take over the investigation, actually sees it and sees the property, and then the state gets 80% of the money anyway. This is how they're getting around these bans. This is something that is blatantly wrong. And it's not just in liberal states either. This is happening in Texas, in Utah. Texas is actually really bad.

Really bad. Yeah. And what was the figure we had, I think last week, it was $20 billion, I believe, that's been confiscated in the last 10 years. $20 billion. So it's like $2 billion a year. $2 billion? And most of these people, if not all of them, are not even charged with a crime? Yeah.

It's unbelievable. And look, look, they do get drug dealers. They do. And they can point, you know, to police. can come to you and say, like, this is a really valuable thing because if we wait until they're convicted, you know, then they're going to find a way to hide all this money and we're not going to get any of it, which is understandable and there's legitimate argument to be made there. However, this is the type of place that is innocent until proven guilty. That's, that's the basis of our system.

So you err on the side of letting guilty people get away with certain things if it's going to protect innocent people. Exactly. That's how. far. We go that far normally. And we've given up on that with civil asset forfeiture. That's not that's not, it's not good. And I will say, the only reason I think people care about this so,

so little is because the name is so boring. Civil asset forfeiture is the least sexy thing in the world. It should be called federal theft of private citizens property. You need something catchy. Maybe that would get

somebody's attention. You need something catching. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. NFL football player, Cole Beasley, who's a less Welker-like slot receiver sort of guy. Meaning he's white. Meaning he's, yes, he's white, he's slow. He's short. And he's on a football field and no one can explain it.

But he's really pretty darn good. He is. He went to SMU, I believe, here in Texas. And he's a, yeah, he's a good player. He played for the Cowboys for a while. He signed a big contract with the bills. So he's with the bills now and the bills are saying that if you don't get vaccinated, that could affect your position here. And so he is saying he's not getting vaccinated and he'll retire before he gets vaccinated.

It feels pretty strongly about it, I guess. And I'm not sure if it's that he's nervous about the vaccine or he's got some sort of principle against the vaccine. I don't know. He didn't really explain. But he did say, I don't play for the money anymore. that'd be nice. Wouldn't that be nice? That would be nice. That would be great. I don't work for the money anymore. I don't need it.

I don't need it. I just do it for fun. That'd be great. My family has been taken care of. Find me if you want. My way of living and my values are more important to me than a dollar. I'll be outside doing what I do. I'll be out in public. If you're scared of me, then steer clear or get vaccinated. I may die of COVID, but I'd rather die actually living. So he's saying, you know, if you're, You're so worried about it, but you're vaccinated.

Why would you worry about it? And I think that's a pretty good point. Isn't the vaccine supposed to protect you from people who have COVID? That is the point of it. Seems like it. And look, it does. I, my view, it does. So I don't understand the messaging of this from the beginning.

I don't know why they've focused on people. Like everyone's always talking about, how are we going to get these people vaccinated? Look, the pandemic ends the day everyone can get the vaccine. and they can choose whether to get it or not. And, you know, we talked about the Dave Portnoy thing. Maybe we'll play that coming up. But it's like, you know, it's not over in the fact that there's still, I mean, I think 90 people died yesterday.

90. Now, we were at a point where-country-wide? Yeah. We were hitting 4,000 a day at one point. Wow. We're down to 90. The lowest number since March 2020. Now, that's not over, right?

People are still dying. It sucks. Like, we don't, you know, but overwhelmingly, these people are the people who didn't get the vaccine. And at some point, you have to say to people, like, if you don't want to get the vaccine, okay, don't. And by the way, the people who don't like the vaccine get to say to people who do like it, it's because they get the vaccine if you want. But I mean, I think it's going to do these terrible things to you. Right. Like, at some point, you get to make your own decision as to what your risk tolerance is. And I think we're at that point. I think we're at that point.

I think we're at that point is absolutely when the vaccine is available to anyone who wants to get it for free, by the way, which it is right now. Yep. We're at that point. point. We are. And yes, there are risks, you know, at some point there could be, you know, variants that there are all sorts of things you can come up with a million different scenarios. But the bottom line is unless you want a society that does not operate unless there are zero deaths from anything, you're going to have to get to, you're going to have to set some sort of standard here. And the standard is like we have something that's pretty non-effective in this. We, every since we started using it are, you know, the deaths have fallen by over 90%

and we just need to sit here and say, look, if Colby's really doesn't want to get it, she doesn't want to get it. That's all. Let people make their own freaking decisions. If the Buffalo bills are all vaccinated around him, what does it matter? Yeah, it doesn't matter.

There's little to no risk, you know? And even if you do get it, you're probably not going to the hospital or anything like that. But we just can't, we can't live in a sane society, apparently. Apparently not. No, no, no.