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Fear Machine Redux: Right-Wing Media Use Overseas Turmoil To Stoke Fears Of U.S. Revolution

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Our would-be ruling class has abandoned the principles that founded this nation. They are attempting to establish a state of affairs where the people serve the government and the government determines your success or failure. Corruption no longer matters. Sovereignty no longer matters. The rule of law no longer matters.

They have won in a bloodless coup.

Or so they would like you to think.

Whether they actually win or not depends upon how much you love your family and your nation and the principles that made this nation great. Our founders themselves believed in the right of revolt, and knew better than any of us that governments must be replaced from time to time. They were wise enough to provide us with a constitutional framework that will outlast any government, including this one. We can dispose of this government, and restore the Constitution that has served us and the rest of the world so well for so long.

We stand at the brink.

We are on the right side of history. Our would-be rulers, fat on self-appointed largesse and drunk on their own purloined power, imagine us subjects, not free men and women.

Revolution is a brutish, nasty business. Innocents will fall along with patriots and the corrupt, and success is not assured.

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The question for you, my fellow Americans, is simple.

Will you fight, or will you surrender your liberties?

I pray for peace. [Confederate Yankee, 7/31/10]

Palin Tells Tea Party Convention That "America Is Ready For Another Revolution And You Are A Part Of This." During her February 6, 2010 address to the National Tea Party Convention, Palin told her audience, "America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this." [Fox News' live coverage, 2/6/10]

Beck Regularly Warns Viewers Of "The Coming Insurrection," U.S. Revolution. As Media Matters for America has previously documented, Glenn Beck routinely claims "revolution" or an "insurrection" is coming to the U.S. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Glenn Beck Program, 3/24/10, Fox News, The Glenn Beck Show, 6/9/10, 10/27/10, 12/9/10, 12/14/10, Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 2/13/09]

Beck Openly Encourages Listeners To Get "In The Streets" And Revolt. Beck has also openly encouraged his listeners to start a revolution. On the July 22, 2010 edition of his Fox News show, Beck said, "What is wrong with us, America? Why are people not in the streets? Your republic is over!" [Fox News, The Glenn Beck Show, 7/22/10]


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