A spokesman for the International Union of Police Associations, which represents over 500 police unions, criticized Glenn Beck for the comments that helped inform Williams plans for his killing spree that resulted in injuries to several highway patrolmen. IUPA spokesman Rich Roberts told mediamatters.org, that Beck "stirs people up and not in a good way. He is a source of problems. I have to watch Beck because I don't have a choice, I have to stay in touch with what is going on."
Mediamatters reported,
Arianna Huffington asked Fox News head Roger Ailes, "Aren't you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using -- which is, after all, inciting the American people?" She cites a case where Beck tells his audience, "They are taking you to be slaughtered." Ailes replies that Beck was, if at all, talking about Hitler. Beck denies it altogether. But Arianna, comes back with this article, Glenn Beck Goes After Me, But Forgets His Show Is on Video and Lies About Things He "Never, Never" Said. Of course, Beck did say, then lied to his audience.In a recent interview with Media Matters, Williams repeatedly cited Beck when discussing his conspiracy theories that informed his assassination plot.
Beck, Williams said, is "like a schoolteacher on TV." Williams added, "... he's been breaking open some of the most hideous corruption."
Williams also said: "Beck would never say anything about a conspiracy, would never advocate violence. He'll never do anything ... of this nature. But he'll give you every ounce of evidence that you could possibly need."
Roberts said Beck's rhetoric is a dangerous thing because it can drive people to violence.
"The Becks of the world are people who are venting their opinions and it is inflammatory, it generates a lot of emotion and generates in some people overreaction that apparently happened in the California case," Roberts said. "Inflammatory speech has a tendency to trigger those kinds of emotions."
Roberts added about Beck: "He is self-serving and has no interest in improving, informing or educating."
This sure looks like proof that Beck is doing all he can, without outright calling for violence, to push the buttons of unstable, weak minded people like Williams. They are out there. They are being propagandized and they are already in motion, as the Williams case proves. Williams says there are hundreds of thousands like him. It's just a matter of time before Beck, Jones and Savage, in particular, set these domestic terrorist time bombs off. My question is, why hasn't Williams been called a terrorist? Why isn't Glenn Beck being treated as a terrorist supporter and fomenter? Why isn't Fox news considered a danger to American lives?
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