Glenn Beck wants to choke companies to death

CNN Transcripts ^ | August 23, 2006 | Glenn Beck

[Dane]

Mike Hethmon, he is with the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He`s one of the groups backing the California lawsuit.

Mike, thank you for doing this. I`ve been saying for a long time, "Choke these companies to death." Give me the lawsuit in a nutshell and the chances of it actually winning.

[Dane]

JMO, sounds a lot like with his anti-business venom and love of tort lawyers.

I find it interesting that people who rail against immigration the most since behind desks or microphones and spew venom against business like hillary does(remember hillarycare).

Yep Glenn sick these ambulance chasers against those evil farmers and contractors, since they do such evil things such as grow food or build shelter.

[X918]

In this case,choking the company that hires an illegal criminal is a good thing.GO GLENN!

Businesses that hire illegal aliens have no excuse to do so other then break the law and not pay taxes.

[William Terrell]

Ah. What other laws do you want to not enforce?

[cripplecreek]

If they aren't breaking the law it wouldn't be an issue. I'm sure crack dealers feel that they're being unfairly targeted as well but that's just tough noogies.

[Dane]

Businesses that hire illegal aliens have no excuse to do so other then break the law and not pay taxes.

And you know they are not paying taxes how?

[Dane]

If they aren't breaking the law it wouldn't be an issue. I'm sure crack dealers feel that they're being unfairly targeted as well but that's just tough noogies.

And a farmer is the moral equivalent of a crack dealer, how?

[SaveTheChief]

I've never heard Glenn speak out AGANST big business and cheerlead for ambulance chasers. Are you sure you aren't going a bit overboard with your analysis?

[Fee]

Ditto. Furthermore it allows illegals to stay, get an auto with no insurance and slam it into an innocent driver on the road. If that driver survives, I hope he or she can sue the employer for abetting an illegal resident who in turn is in a position to buy an auto with no insurance and do more damage to our society.

[Ghengis]

I am with you on the point that the immigration problem needs to be handled on a criminal, not civil level. I cringe at anything that brings about more civil litigation.

Glenn Beck is right more than he is wrong. And he is never afraid to debate a point.

[X918]

Why else hire an illegal...because they are good workers?..HAHAHAHAHA!

[libbylu]

I agree, send the illegals back and let them file to get in legally. If the government was doing the job, lawyers wouldn't be needed, but I hope they win and help stop companies from breaking the law hiring illegals.

[cripplecreek]

You're still trying to promote the poor oppressed farmer brown lie?

[DTogo]

Anything for the almighty dollar, cheap lettuce and strawberries, eh, Dane?

[MikefromOhio]

Unless there are VERY STRICT penalties for those who hire illegal aliens, there isn't much incentive to stop the practice.

[Dane]

I've never heard Glenn speak out AGANST big business and cheerlead for ambulance chasers. Are you sure you aren't going a bit overboard with your analysis?

Huh using rhetoric such as "choking these businesses(mostly farmers and contractors) to death" is not anti-business?

[AlexandriaDuke]

He looks like Tom Goes to the Mayor. Not so much in this pic. But on TV, I swear, it's the same guy.

Just as painfully unfunny too.

[libbylu]

So you want open borders and just let anyone come in for any reason they want? I say throw out every illegal found and pray we find them all.

[gaussia]

I have no problem with American companies that cannot survive without illegal labor being "choked to death." What are we, incompetent fools? Next thing you know, Dane will be defending the right of every company to have their own Senator.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>I find it interesting that people who rail against immigration the most since behind desks or microphones and spew venom against business like hillary does(remember hillarycare). <<<

How many illegals are you hiring these days, Dane?

[Dane]

I have no problem with American companies that cannot survive without illegal labor being "choked to death." What are we, incompetent fools?

Oh you mean the way the American health care system has been choked to death by the trial lawyers.

[MikefromOhio]

If the companies can't survive without illegal labor, they shouldnt' be in business in the first place.

[taxed2death]

GREAT NEWS!
Go after the scumbag tax cheats and illegal businesses!

I LOVE it!

Let's even the playing field and make everyone play by the same rules. This is capitalism at it's BEST.

Only the STRONG survive.....let the scumbags wither and die on the illegal vine.

[TC Builders]

Oh - Insane Dane, are you getting worried about being hit with a big law suit.

[Dane]

How many illegals are you hiring these days, Dane?

None, also I don't want to see farmers and contractors "choked to death" as the American health system has by the ambulance chasers.

[MikefromOhio]

If they can't do their job without illegal labor, to hell with them.

[taxed2death]

"And a farmer is the moral equivalent of a crack dealer, how?"


A farmer who hires illegals and a crack dealer? They're both scumbags who are breaking the law.

[Dane]

If the companies can't survive without illegal labor, they shouldnt' be in business in the first place.

And a farmer hiring a guy named Jose is evil how, and he also should be lawsuited to death.

[calcowgirl]

Makes perfect sense! This sounds pro-LAW ABIDING business to me.

BECK: ... Businesses who are playing by the rules are now suing competitors who hire illegals because they have an unfair advantage over them. Mike Hethmon, he is with the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He`s one of the groups backing the California lawsuit.

Mike, thank you for doing this. I`ve been saying for a long time, "Choke these companies to death." Give me the lawsuit in a nutshell and the chances of it actually winning.

MIKE HETHMON, IMMIGRATION REFORM LAW INSTITUTE: In this lawsuit, we have a legitimate labor contractor, a guy that recruits through our H-2a program, guest workers from foreign countries, follows all the rules, brought them up to California, and was told they couldn`t pick grapes fast enough. And who replaced them? Scofflaw agricultural contractors hiring illegal aliens.

So this suit was brought under the unfair competition or the unfair business practices laws in California and is asking for damages. And damages are the only way that we are going to show these scofflaw employers how this situation needs to unfold.

(snip)

HETHMON: We have a choice. We can follow the American model or we can follow the Brazilian model. We can do things for ourselves, and this is what this lawsuit is all about.

Most businesses are, in fact, law-abiding, and they want to do the right thing, and they want to uphold all the laws.

[isthisnickcool]

This thread seems a bit misleading?

And in California, that`s exactly what`s happening. Businesses who are playing by the rules are now suing competitors who hire illegals because they have an unfair advantage over them. Mike Hethmon, he is with the Immigration Reform Law Institute. He`s one of the groups backing the California lawsuit.

Mike, thank you for doing this. I`ve been saying for a long time, "Choke these companies to death." Give me the lawsuit in a nutshell and the chances of it actually winning.

Beck was for going after companies that illegally hire illegals. He didn't say anything about "choking companies to death" in general.

[MOgirl]

Hello,

OMG, you are still at it! Are you an illegal? Any family that are? Hire illegals? What is with you?

MOgirl

[MikefromOhio]

And a farmer hiring a guy named Jose is evil how, and he also should be lawsuited to death.

It's not whether or not it's evil, it's that the practice is ILLEGAL. What don't you understand about the concept Dane?

[Hoboto]

And you know they are not paying taxes how?

Easy. By paying day laborers "under the table" in cash. It happens every day.

[MikefromOhio]

well of course it's misleading, look who posted it.

[cripplecreek]

All I know is that if I'm ever injured by an illegal alien and I find the company that hired them, I'll be getting a lawyer who will go after that company for the big payout.

[Gabz]

Huh using rhetoric such as "choking these businesses(mostly farmers and contractors) to death" is not anti-business?

It's not where I live. The conglomerate farmers and contractors that utilize the practice of hiring the illegals are putting the small guys who don't right out of business. I see it on a daily basis.

[Dane]

HETHMON: We have a choice. We can follow the American model or we can follow the Brazilian model

Hmm, micromanaging business by govt. and nuisance lawsuits sounds like the Brazilian model to me.

[taxed2death]

"And a farmer hiring a guy named Jose is evil how, and he also should be lawsuited to death."

He's only "eeeeeeviiiiillll" if Jose is illegal.

:)

...in which case....sue his ass into oblivion.

Maybe he'll come around and hire LEGAL workers.....but I doubt it.
Too bad.

[Dane]

It's not whether or not it's evil, it's that the practice is ILLEGAL. What don't you understand about the concept Dane?

Uh yes it is about if a business is evil or not. Is farming inherantly evil and should a trial lawyer be sicked on a farmer trying to get his product to market.

[MikefromOhio]

Uh yes it is about if a business is evil or not.

Well you can equate illegal activity to EVIL activity. Again from previous threads to this one, you seem to have a serious problem grasping this concept. You know, laws and such.

Is farming inherantly evil and should a trial lawyer be sicked on a farmer trying to get his product to market.

Again if they can't do it legally, they take the chance of having to deal with whatever else comes down the pike. Again I point you to the concept laws and RIGHT vs. WRONG. You don't seem to understand.

[taxed2death]

"Huh using rhetoric such as "choking these businesses(mostly farmers and contractors) to death" is not anti-business?"

Nope.....it is PRO LEGAL business......

Fantastic!

Some one is finally standing up for legitimate business owners!



Yiiiipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


:)

[Dane]

Well you can equate illegal activity to EVIL activity. Again from previous threads to this one, you seem to have a serious problem grasping this concept. You know, laws and such.

So if a law was passed tomorrow that the speed limit on the Interstate is 10 MPH, you would defend it because it is the law?

What would you say to people who say going above 10 MPH is evil.

[taxed2death]

"Hmm, micromanaging business by govt. and nuisance lawsuits sounds like the Brazilian model to me."

Wrong again! Providing an even and fair business climate for legitimate businesses to compete is the AMERICAN WAY!

[gaussia]

You evaded my question regarding the number of illegals wanted by the LAPD. Still working on an answer?

[isthisnickcool]

Uh yes it is about if a business is evil or not. Is farming inherantly evil and should a trial lawyer be sicked on a farmer trying to get his product to market.

I was watching the Glenn Beck show and went back and read the transcript. Your thread here is misleading.

[Dane]

Wrong again! Providing an even and fair business climate for legitimate businesses to compete is the AMERICAN WAY!

And govt. getting out of the way of business used to be the American way also.

[BW2221]

Didn't you get beat up bad enough earlier when you suggested that conservatives were getting more votes in Texas because of more Hispanics and at least a dozen people proved you wrong?

You didn't stay on that thread long when you started taking heavy blows. It was a butt-whippin' of Biblical proportion.

If you think illegal immigration is so wonderful, and obviously you do, why not illegally immigrate to Mexico?

[MikefromOhio]

Dane don't be an idiot.

We aren't talking about speeding on the highway or anything.

WE are talking about employing someone who is in (well I would say OUR but I'm not entirely sure you are from the US anymore) MY country illegally.

What don't you understand.

They are committing a crime.

And you seem to want to cover for it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Sir,

As a point of reference and a friendly question here,

Do you personally know any companies (particularly in Texas) who have or currently do, hire, illegal immigrants and who might be subject to such lawsuits?

[Dolphy]

You are exactly right, the Marxist rhetoric when it comes to immigration and capitalism reveals itself on almost everyone of these threads is revealing. This country was built on cheap immigrant labor and I guess what is now considered "evil" business. (And it certainly was more "evil" then, in the days before unions, OSHA and the rest of the regulations now working to strangle business to death.)

[MikefromOhio]

The government is charged with protecting and securing the country.

Illegal immigration does indeed illustrate a hole in that security.

If you can't handle it, maybe you should move to Guatemala or something.