On Monday, we noted that President Obama was set to announce that new restrictions were being put in place that would limit the use of military equipment by local police forces, which kind of threw a wrench into Glenn Beck’s current conspiracy theory that Obama is intentionally militarizing the police ahead of a planned federal take over a police forces all over the nation.
Needless to say, this new announcement has not, in any way, actually undermined Beck’s theory, as he spent the opening segment of his television program last night explaining that these new restrictions are nothing but “a show” designed to conceal the fact that Obama is actually implementing more federal control over local police forces.
Ignoring all of the actual prohibitions and restrictions that have been put in place, Beck insisted that this is nothing but cover for a well-coordinated White House plan to use groups like Code Pink, Move On, CAIR, and the New Black Panthers to stir up civil unrest for the purpose of providing an excuse for the government to seize control of local police departments.
“This is a show by the president,” Beck said. “Expect to see more protests continue … Expect sometime between now and I don’t know when, these groups are going to be instrumental in setting our cities on fire, getting us to tear each other apart, getting us to cry out, ‘Somebody’s got to stop the madness,’ and the president will be happy to do it with centralized control of police and a national police force”:
