So this past Saturday I attended the Glenn Beck 912 rally to restore honor to America. It is a noble cause and emphasizes the restoration of original Judeo/Christian values to our culture via its citizens with the hope of rubbing off on our elected officials who somehow disregard the notion that they represent our voice and instead believe their purpose is to decide for us what we believe. It had a historic vibe about it because it was the same day and location that Dr. martin Luther King gave his famous “I have a dream ” speech.

Funny thing about epic events I discovered, they look and feel better on TV than in person. The first thing that came to mind was everything was in color. The original MLK “I have a dream” speech footage was in black and white which for some reason not only gives it more authenticity as a historic event, but made it not seem as hot! Here it was late Aug in DC at noon and these people were in suits or crying out loud and nobody was sweating, meanwhile people at Becks were selling their bottled water for black-market prices and we were gobbling it up like heroin addicts!

The good news is it was peaceful and optimistic and fun to be a part of. Of course there were those who joined the event simply to antagonize the rest of us because that is what liberal thought in America is now, shove their belief down your throat and censor dissent from the right as dangerous. Face it nothing is more divisive than God and country. Just ask the founding fathers!

Even though we have the writings of our founders that to a man (yes, that includes Jefferson and Franklin) they believed in divine providence to secure our victory over tyranny and the Judeo/Christian God and His revelation to guide us, the only way that can be interpreted by the revisionist constitutional “scholars” is that they were deists.

Of course a deist is someone that believes in God but also believes He stays out of human affairs and leaves us to ourselves. Kind of counterintuitive to the many prayers offered up thanking God for His providence and asking Him to keep us grateful and seeking His wisdom, but then again when you begin to confuse secular/humanists with facts it makes them more aggressive to maintain their “faith” that our “faith” is anti-intellectual.

There was a black student from Howard that was interviewing whites asking them if they felt it was insulting to him as an African/American for Beck to hijack Martin Luther Kings “dream” speech since it was 47 years from the day he spoke it. This was ironic to me since the implication there of course is the “dream speech” was for black Americans which, had you asked King I’m sure he would have responded it was for America as a whole, thus revealing an underlying racism (I.E. King only cared about black’s) in the implication of the Howard students inquiry. That made me sad.

There were a couple signs stating ” I am brown and born in this country, why do you hate me?” another implicating Beck as a terrorist. Now remember these were 3 signs in a sea of over 200,000 people so it is obvious they were looking for conflict not resolution or even dialogue. Yet even with those who were there with an agenda and a desire to disrupt it was a beautiful example of free speech in America in real time.

There was one guy from Long Island that recognized me and asked if he could get a picture of us both but other than that I pretty much blended in with all the other Americans of every age color and creed. It was great to be with my own tribe and to see what I have been saying as a comic for the past 8 years played out on a big stage. Yes it was hot and hard to find a good place to see, but it was a moment I will not soon forget, I can only pray America won’t either.

Brad Stine is a stand-up comedian, actor, author and contributor to The Conservative Declaration Blog. More information about Brad can be found at his website www.bradstine.com