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: Video file 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
