Campaign to Pull Glenn Beck Off the Air Gains Momentum, Here and Abroad

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Antonin Scalia: No right to secede
By Robert Barnes
February 17, 2010; 11:27 AM ET

Is there a right to secede from the Union, or did the Civil War settle that?

Certain Tea Partiers have raised the possibility of getting out while the getting's good, setting off a round of debate on legal blogs. The more cerebral theorists at the smart legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy question whether such a right exists.

Enter a New York personal injury lawyer, and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The lawyer, Eric Turkewitz, says his brother Dan, a screenwriter, put just such a question to all of the Supreme Court justices in 2006 -- he was working on an idea about Maine leaving the U.S.and a big showdown at the Supreme Court -- and Scalia responded. His answer was no:

"I am afraid I cannot be of much help with your problem, principally because I cannot imagine that such a question could ever reach the Supreme Court. To begin with, the answer is clear. If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, "one Nation, indivisible.") Secondly, I find it difficult to envision who the parties to this lawsuit might be. Is the State suing the United States for a declaratory judgment? But the United States cannot be sued without its consent, and it has not consented to this sort of suit.

I am sure that poetic license can overcome all that -- but you do not need legal advice for that. Good luck with your screenplay."

So that's one vote. But unlikely to end the debate.

 

Belief in the constitution using hate-speech, fear mongering, racism, sexism?

Few Glenn Beck quotes

African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. Ok so you were brought over — either your family was brought over through the slave trade or you were born here and your family emigrated here or whatever but that is not a race.

“Can you spare some change? Have you ever been asked this by some random panhandler? A good response is ‘Sorry, I only carry hundreds.’ It gets em every time.”

“If anyone doesn’t know what shared sacrifice means, it’s the poor because they are never asked to pay for anything”

“Palin/Beck? Ridiculous…I was just thinking, what I’m gonna take backseat to a chick? While you’re at it, go shoot a bear! Make some stew! I’m hungry in here.”

You self-centered, self-righteous, socialist, out-of-control, dangerous, man-hating bitch. Shut your mouth. We might have bought into this crap in the 1960s because too many people were doing LSD. We’re not on LSD anymore. You need to start making sense.

“Ugly people, if you’re a guy, you can get past it. I don’t think you can as an ugly woman.” Adding, “you’ve got a double-cross, because if you’re an ugly woman, you’re probably a progressive as well.”

 

America would be so much better with slaves, isn't that what you're saying piker?

 

Maybe that's what you heard because it's your fervent desire but it's not what I wrote nor implied.

 

Tell me something do you consider the above line you put in which i have quoted to be racist?

 

I don't consider it racist, I consider it rude.

What about the quotes you left out, I'd like some explanations for them as well.

 

Glenn Beck Compares Illegals to African Slaves

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Glenn Beck vs. Glenn Beck on Racism

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Best Of Beck Clips

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And THIS, is the guy gnome loves sooooo much that he put all who disagree on ignore, no matter how civil

Actually, in hindsight, Beck, who is clearly unbalanced, would elicit that type of behavior in his followers.

Please, gnome, dont hit us over the head with shovels