by Glenn Beck
PAGE 88: “‘of the institutions he creates’” “Ike Warns U.S. Dream May Turn into Nightmare,” St. Petersburg Times, October 25, 1949. • “‘good and evil you shall not eat’” 1 Genesis 2:16-17 (New Revised Standard Version). • “‘Republican House and Senate’” “Text of Nixon’s Address to the Republican Club Dinner Here; Cites Nation’s Prosperity Puts Case in Nutshell Calls Democrats Reactionary to Keep Individuals Free on Racial Minorities Praises ‘Practical Leaders’” New York Times, February 14, 1956, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50612F93F58157B93C6A81789D85F428585F9. • “‘all men are created equal’” Jim Cullen, The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 126. • “‘by the peddlers of despair’” “‘Peddlers of Despair,’” Eugene Register-Guard, October 15, 1964.
PAGE 89: “‘for the purpose of increasing what he has’” Jim Powell, “Alexis de Tocqueville: How People Gain Liberty and Lose It,” The Freeman 46, no. 7 (July 1996), http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/alexis-de-tocqueville-how-people-gain-liberty-and-lose-it/. • “‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’” John R. Vile, The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of American Founding, Volume 2 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2005), 518. • “‘whatever God intends he should become’” Ronald Reagan, The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America (New York: Devin-Adair, 1968), 41. • “‘brokerage firm that bears his name’” Christopher Gardner, “Biography,” ChrisGardnerMedia.com, http://www.chrisgardnermedia.com/about/bio (accessed March 31, 2012).
PAGE 90: “‘Hyper-Charge the American Dream Movement’” Campaign for America’s Future, “2011 Take Back the American Dream Conference Agenda,” ourfuture.org, http://www.ourfuture.org/conference/agenda (accessed April 1, 2012). • “‘because of economic problems’” “The American Dream: Many Have Lost Faith, Study Reveals,” St. Petersburg Evening Independent, March 1, 1978. • “‘is becoming just that—a dream’” Bob Ferri, “Literally the American Dream,” Portsmouth Daily Times, January 12, 1982. • “‘the home in which they grew up’” “American Dream Is Still Strong,” Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 23, 1984. • “‘the poor get poorer’” “American Dream Fading for Young as Rich Get Richer, and Poor Get Poorer,” Salt Lake City Deseret News, September 5-6, 1988. • “‘tax the wealthy’” Michael Graham, “Will ‘Generation Gimme’ Ever Work for the American Dream,” MichaelGraham.com, December 2, 2011, http://michaelgraham.com/archives/will-ldquo-generation-gimme-rdquo-ever-work-for-the-american-dream.
PAGE 91: “‘financial security. . .on top’” Michael F. Ford, “Five Myths About the American Dream,” Washington Post, January 6, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-american-dream/2011/11/10/gIQAP4t0eP_story.html. • “‘money is a worthy end in itself’” Michael F. Ford, “Five Myths About the American Dream,” Washington Post, January 6, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-american-dream/2011/11/10/gIQAP4t0eP_story.html. • “‘only 31% of the population overall’” Xavier University Center for the Study of the American Dream, “The American Dream: The Second Annual State of the American Dream Survey” (survey findings, Xavier University, March 2011), http://www.xavier.edu/americandream/programs/documents/Final-American-Dream-Survey-PowerPoint.pdf.
PAGE 92: “‘God-given ability will take you’” Jennifer L. Hochschild, Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 18. • “‘success of our great nation’” Nancy Pelosi, interviewed by Brian Wingfield, “Nancy Pelosi on the American Dream,” Forbes.com, March 22, 2007, http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/20/nancy-pelosi-dream-oped-cx_bw_dream0307_0322pelosi.html. • “‘meaning of the ‘American Dream’?’” Max Frankel, “‘Brain’ Counts Russian Queries; U.S. Cigarette Price Tops List,” New York Times, August 5, 1959. • “‘Obama team could be bringing it to an end’” Star Parker, “Parker: The End of the American Dream,” ScrippsNews.com, February 20, 2009, http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/41099. • “‘those at the bottom of society’” Nicolaus Mills, “American Dream Is About Equality, Not Wealth,” CNN.com, July 8, 2011, http://articles.cnn.com/2011-07-08/opinion/mills.debt.dream_1_american-dream-james-truslow-adams-puritans. • “‘universal suffrage and education’” Max Frankel, “‘Brain’ Counts Russian Queries; U.S. Cigarette Price Tops List,” New York Times, August 5, 1959. • “‘the American nightmare’” Fox News, “Van Jones: Death to the ‘Great White Suburbs’,” FoxNews.com, March 22, 2012, http://nation.foxnews.com/van-jones/2012/03/22/van-jones-death-great-white-suburbs.
Chapter 6
BORDERING ON INSANITY
Drugs, Terrorists, and Murder in Our Backyard
PAGE 96: “‘You will be met by an overwhelming response’” Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera, “U.S. Warns Mexican Cartels on Cross-Border Violence,” reuters.com, January 31, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-usa-mexico-napolitano-idUSTRE70U5TB20110131.
PAGE 97: “when bodies are burned or put into buckets of quicklime” “51 Bodies Found at Mexico Dumping Ground,” cbsnews.com, July 24, 2010, http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-202_162-6709785.html. • “if the violence crosses some imaginary line” Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera, “U.S. Warns Mexican Cartels on Cross-Border Violence,” reuters.com, January 31, 2011, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-usa-mexico-napolitano-idUSTRE70U5TB20110131.
PAGE 98: “La Nacha controlled much of the Juárez heroin, morphine, and marijuana trade” Elaine Carey and Jose Carlos Cisneros Guzman, “The Daughters of La Nacha: Profiles of Women Traffickers,” NACLA Report on the Americas, May-June, 2011, https://nacla.org/sites/default/files/A04403025_8.pdf.
PAGE 99: “where he’s serving three consecutive life terms” John Lee, “Camarena Figure Gets 3 Life Terms,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1991, http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-09/local/me-1914_1_honduran-juan-matta-ballesteros.
PAGE 101: “‘dangerous cartel operating in Mexico’” Michael Ware, “Los Zetas Called Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel,” cnn.com, August 6, 2009, http://articles.cnn.com/2009-08-06/world/mexico.drug.cartels_1_los-zetas-drug-cartels-drug-war?_s=PM:WORLD. • “‘lack the extensive training and discipline of older members’” Samuel Logan, “Los Zetas: Evolution of a Criminal Organization,” ISN Security Watch, March 11, 2009, http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch-Archive/Detail/?id=97554.
PAGE 103: “movie piracy in Mexico costs Hollywood at least $590 million annually” Michael White, “Hollywood: Organized Crime Goes to the Movies,” Bloomberg Businessweek, April 7, 2011, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b4224016208623.htm. • “‘with profits reaching $2.2 million a day’” Lucas Urdaneta, “Familia, ‘Pirateria’ and the Story of Microsoft’s ‘CSI’ Unit,” insightcrime.org, February 10, 2011, http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/540-microsoft-familia-michoacana-selling-pirated-software. • “and a calf for up to $20,000” Liliana Alcántara, “Robo de Ganado, Nuevo Negocio del Crimen,” El Universal, September 6, 2010, http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/primera/35497.html. • “seven major tunnels along the San Diego border with Mexico” Douglas Stanglin, “More Than 32 Tons of Pot Seized in San Diego-Tijuana Tunnel,” USA Today, November 30, 2011, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/11/more-than-32-tons-of-pot-seized-in-border-tunnel-linking-san-diego-and-tijuana.
PAGE 104: “It was also lighted and ventilated” Douglas Stanglin, “More Than 32 Tons of Pot Seized in San Diego-Tijuana Tunnel,” USA Today, November 30, 2011, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/11/more-than-32-tons-of-pot-seized-in-border-tunnel-linking-san-diego-and-tijuana. • “meet a grisly fate in some Arizona lettuce field” Peter O’Dowd, “In Risky Twist, Using Ultralight Planes To Drop Drugs,” npr.org, May 26, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/05/26/136644297/in-risky-twist-using-ultralight-plans-to-drop-drugs. • “made of a plaster and cocaine mixture” Robin
Emmott, “Mexico Drug Smugglers Make Jesus Statue of Cocaine,” reuters.com, May 30, 2008, http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/05/30/us-mexico-drugs-idUSN3031343320080530. • “hollowed out and filled with packages of cocaine” Robin Emmott, “Mexico Finds Cocaine Haul Hidden in Frozen Sharks,” reuters.com, June 17, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/06/17/us-mexico-drugs-idUSN1631193420090617. • “swallowing dozens of little drug-filled balloons” Mariano Castillo, “Authorities: Woman Carried 91 Heroin Pellets in Body,” cnn.com, January 6, 2011, http://articles.cnn.com/2011-01-06/us/michigan.drug.mule_1_heroin-pellets-internal-carriers-cbp-news-release.
PAGE 105: “equipped with lighting and ventilation.” “Big Mexican border drug tunnel between San Diego and Tijuana discovered,” The Associated Press, December 1, 2011, http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/big_mexican_border_drug_tunnel.html.
PAGE 106: “Juan García Ábrego, is also serving multiple life sentences” Dane Schiller, “Ex-Cartel Boss is Doing Harder Time Now in Feds’ Supermax,” Houston Chronicle, May 18, 2011, http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Ex-cartel-boss-is-doing-harder-time-now-in-feds-1690243.php. • “the Mexican government kept many details surrounding the massacre to themselves” Gary Moore, “Unraveling Mysteries of Mexico’s San Fernando Massacre,” insightcrime.org, September 19, 2011, http://insightcrime.org/insight-latest-news/item/1583-unravelling-mysteries-of-mexicos-san-fernando-massacre.
PAGE 107: “‘an act of terrorism has been committed’” Sylvia Longmire, “Calling Casino Attack In Mexico An ‘Act Of Terror’: Rhetoric Or Rethinking?” hstoday.com, September 1, 2011, http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/correspondents-watch/single-article/calling-casino-attack-in-mexico-an-act-of-terror-rhetoric-or-rethinking/eacdae763fccc24686651bdb4fe41bd6.html. • “partly blame the United States for the attack” William Booth, “Mexico Blames US Drug Culture, Guns for Casino Massacre,” Washington Post, August 26, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/calderon-mexico-casino-fire-deaths-act-of-terrorism/2011/08/26/gIQAmnVEgJ_story.html. • “police department issued a confidential memo” Tucson Police Department, “International Terrorism Situational Awareness: Hezbollah,” Tucson Urban Area security initiative, September 20, 2010, http://publicintelligence.info/AZ-Hezbollah.pdf.
PAGE 108: “help of his cousin, who was a member of Hezbollah” Tucson Police Department, “International Terrorism Situational Awareness: Hezbollah,” Tucson Urban Area Security Initiative, September 20, 2010, http://publicintelligence.info/AZ-Hezbollah.pdf. • “‘jeopardize those operations’” “Terrorist Group Setting Up Operations Near Border,” 10news.com, KGTV, May 4, 2011, http://www.10news.com/news/27780427/detail.html.
PAGE 109: “Middle Eastern terrorist organizations” Sylvia Longmire, “Border Security: Hezbollah Presence in the United States is No Surprise,” hstoday.us, January 10, 2012, http://www.hstoday.us/focused-topics/border-security/single-article-page/hezbollah-presence-in-the-united-states-is-no-surprise/2e1af4c017be5f75d5a5da67329b6b91.html.
PAGE 110: “assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States” Charlie Savage and Scott Shane, “Iranians Accused of a Plot to Kill Saudis’ U.S. Envoy,” New York Times, October 11, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/us/us-accuses-iranians-of-plotting-to-kill-saudi-envoy.html.
PAGE 112: “come from our neighbor to the south” U.S. Department of Justice, National Drug Intelligence Center, National Drug Threat Assessment 2011, report, August 2011, http://www.justice.gov/ndic/pubs44/44849/44849p.pdf. • “long-term drug abuse killed an estimated 37,485 Americans” Kenneth D. Kochanek and others, “Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2009,” National Vital Statistics Reports, 59, no. 4 (March 16, 2011), www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr59/nvsr59_04.pdf. • “largest meth labs ever discovered in the United States” Andria Simmons, “Half-ton of Meth Seized in Norcross ‘Superlab’,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 30, 2010, http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/half-ton-of-meth-759047.html. • “creates five pounds of toxic waste” Foundation for a Drug-Free World “What Is Meth Made from?” drugfreeworld.org, accessed April 19, 2012, http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/crystalmeth/what-is-meth-made-from.html.
PAGE 113: “discovered in North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, and Michigan” Dr. John Gettman, “Marijuana Production in the United States,” Bulletin of Cannabis Reform, December 2006, http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/MJCropReport_2006.pdf. • “Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin” Mark Rockwell, “Mexican Nationals Get 10 years for Marijuana Growing Operations in Wisconsin Forest,” Government Security News, February 6, 2012, http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/25582. • “Sheriffs’ deputies, hikers, and hunters have been shot at” United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Eastern District of California, “Lassen County Marijuana Growers Present At Fatal Shootout Sentenced To 15 Years Imprisonment On Drug And Firearms Convictions,” press release, January 11, 2012, http://www.justice.gov/usao/cae/news/docs/2011/01-11-11LassenMarijuana.html.
PAGE 114: “‘better now than it has ever been.’” Stephanie Condon, “Napolitano: Border Security Better Than Ever,” cbsnews.com, March 25, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html.
PAGE 115: “‘whether perpetrated in Mexico or the U.S.’” Kristin M. Finklea, William J. Krouse, and Mark A. Randol, Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence, Congressional Research Service, report for Congress, August 25, 2011, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R41075.pdf. • “between cartel members in the United States” Kristin M. Finklea, William J. Krouse, and Mark A. Randol, Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence, Congressional Research Service, report for Congress, August 25, 2011, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R41075.pdf. • “‘the border is better now than it’s ever been’” Stephanie Condon, “Napolitano: Border Security Better Than Ever,” cbsnews.com, March 25, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html.
PAGE 116: “She also says that overall violent crime is down across the southwest” Stephanie Condon, “Napolitano: Border Security Better Than Ever,” cbsnews.com, March 25, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html. • “‘violence on the other side of the border’” Nina Mandell, “Woman in El Paso Struck by Stray Bullet That May Have Come from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,” NY Daily News, February 22, 2012, http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-02-22/news/31088760_1_stray-bullet-juarez-police-ciudad-juarez. • “he had sold it and kept the money” Laurie Merrell, “Chandler Beheading Tied to Mexican Drug Cartel,” Arizona Republic, March 2, 2011, http://bit.ly/IO4DUJ. • “grandfather owed a cartel over one million dollars” Jeff German, “Suspect Pleads Guilty in Drug Cartel Kidnapping,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 18, 2011, http://www.lvrj.com/news/suspect-pleads-guilty-in-drug-cartel-kidnapping-114175549.html. • “throats slit in northern Alabama by men working for the Gulf cartel” Pauline Arrillaga, “Grisly Slayings Brings Mexican Drug War to US,” Arizona Republic, April 18, 2009, http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/18/20090418drugwar-fightathome18-ON.html. • “while responding to a cartel-related kidnapping call” Lynn Brezosky, “Hidalgo Sheriff Says Shooting ‘Spillover’ from Drug War,” San Antonio Express-News, November 4, 2011, http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Hidalgo-sheriff-has-no-doubt-deputy-s-shooting-2245516.php. • “happened on a McAllen, Texas, highway” “Sources: Fatal Gunshots on McAllen Expressway Point to Gulf Cartel,” Monitor, September 27, 2011, http://www.themonitor.com/articles/mcallen-55174-point-expressway.html. • “near the Hollywood sign” Veronica M. Cruz, “Link Probed Between LA Body Parts, Local Corpse,” Arizona Daily Star, January 20, 2012, http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/link-probed-between-la-body-parts-local-corpse/article_5040a9ab-1435-5824-b363-2e52c2d2adeb.html.
PAGE 118: “from the branches to mark their conquests” Mariela Rosario, “‘Rape Trees’ Found Along US Southern Border,” Latina, March 11, 2009, http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/rape-trees
-found-along-southern-us-border. • “are sexually abused in some way” Mariela Rosario, “The Steep Price of Immigration for Latin American Women,” Latina, March 17, 2009, http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/steep-price-immigration-latin-american-women. • “fifty-one Guatemalan nationals, including six children” “More Than 50 People Found in Phoenix Drop House,” Associated Press, June 29, 2010, http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/06/29/4584646-more-than-50-people-found-in-phoenix-drop-house. • “broken ribs, cuts, and bruises” Jennifer Thomas and Jared Dillingham, “Illegal immigrants tortured in drop house,” azfamily.com, December 8, 2011, http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/18-people-found-inside-an-Avondale-drop-house-135242228.html.
PAGE 119: “from persecution by another group” Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, “Law Inhibits Many Mexican Asylum Cases,” El Paso Times,” July 31, 2011, http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_18587920.
PAGE 120: “More than forty-seven thousand people have been killed” Damien Cave, “Mexico Updates Death Toll in Drug War to 47,515, but Critics Dispute the Data,” New York Times, January 11, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/world/americas/mexico-updates-drug-war-death-toll-but-critics-dispute-data.html.