On his radio program today, Glenn Beck declared that we have witnessed “the death knell of the American Constitution” because Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Sen. Rand Paul saying that there could possibly be hypothetical “extraordinary circumstance” under which it would be necessary for the President to authorize the use of military force within the United States, perhaps to stop attacks like Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
That somehow morphed into a revelation by Beck that he and his inner circle have recently come under spiritual and physical attack by the forces of darkness, which made him realize that “we’re not fighting man” and “that something is on the horizon.”
“We are headed for a great depression,” he went on to declare, “and we are headed for civil unrest, and we are headed for things that you never thought was possible in your country.”
“Remember the Japanese internment,” he continued, because “progressives and collective thinking always – hear me – always goes wrong”:
