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Beck compares “the ACORN stucture” to the Romans “giv[ing] gifts” to “enslave people” in Britain

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 01/14/10 5:57 PM EST

From the January 14 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

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Previously:

Beck adds to his long, long list of things that constitute slavery: Debt is “a path to slavery”

Beck: Recipients of federal aid have been “taught to be slaves”

Beck: Progressive policies create “slavery”; “slavery to government, welfare, affirmative action, regulation, control”

After ranting about how “illegal immigration is modern-day slavery,” Beck compares himself to Ben Franklin

Beck says he can “make a case” Rathke brothers are “enslaving people through ACORN”

Beck: “modern day slave state” being constructed out of ACORN, SEIU, student loans, census and service initiatives

Beck: “The government's irresponsible spending is turning us into slaves”

Tax deduction change latest Obama proposal Beck claims “involves enslaving people”

Beck: “You know what this president is doing right now? He is addicting this country to heroin-the heroin that is government slavery.”

Beck says of stimulus package: “It is slavery”

Beck again compares recovery bill to slavery

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