GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: Mesa, Arizona, 23-year-old loses control of his pickup truck, slams into a sidewalk bus stop, strikes an elderly man. Don't know the identity of the elderly man as of yet. He had just completed his grocery shopping. He was hit by this truck with such force that he was thrown across the parking lot, landing in front of a restaurant in a pawn and loan shop. Would you be surprised if I told you that the pickup driver fled the accident scene. 23 years old. That's what he did. Do you remember when people would actually stop at the scene of an accident so they could see how they could help? Now we just drive by. So many are fleeing the scene. 23 years old, not taking responsibility for his actions. Why should you? In today's society, why should you take responsibility for your action? It's not my fault; it's somebody else's fault. It's my parents' fault. It's my childhood's fault. It's my boss' fault. It's this disease that I have. I'm not responsible for anything else. We don't know who this is yet. Dying in the parking lot, the elderly man who had been struck with such force, he flew up into the air and dropped his grocery bags. What happened next? People began picking up the groceries and taking them.

Another guy, Boro Mitrovich -- he doesn't sound like an immigrant. He was sitting close to the old man when he was hit by the pickup truck, went over to help the old man. Tell me we don't want immigrants in our country. They refresh us. They remind us of who we are supposed to be. While he was helping, his groceries were stolen. 23-year-old driver identified as Alan Ricardo Flores-Ocon. He fled on foot, be charged with leaving the scene of an accident. I don't know if Alan Ricardo Flores-Ocon is here legally or not. Maybe, maybe not. If you're not here legally, you generally flee the scene of an accident because you don't want to be caught because you're not supposed to be here. The vultures who pilfered the groceries, if anybody can identify them, cops say they'll arrest them. The elderly man, he died. Oh, by the way, around the same time he was dying, a group calling itself Atheist Alliance International which describes itself as the only Democratic national atheist organization in the United States, was holding a meeting where topics included, science must ultimately destroy organized religion. Second topic, God is a myth. Third topic, children should not be schooled in any faith. Not the politicians that we need to worry about. Not the politicians in Washington who have the power to make our society valueless and irreligious. It's individuals. It's individuals, it's groups that hate organized religion, loathe anyone's value system but their own. It's individuals who think "I deserve it, nobody matters but me." It's that assault that we have to challenge. We have to stand up. We have to let people know what our values are, what they mean to us. We have to let ourselves know what our values are. And not by preaching values. Not by having a little bumper sticker that says elect me because I appreciate family values. Not by some politician saying, well, I'm your family values guy. Not by preaching to us about family values but actually living the family values. Living in a world where there's common sense. Today for me is common sense day.

Common sense will tell you a society will not stand if you've got a guy, an old guy getting hit by somebody who hits him in a truck and then goes away. Only one guy comes over to help him while everybody else on the scene steals the groceries and the good samaritan's groceries were stolen at the same time. Common sense will tell you and so will our founding fathers that you cannot erase religion and God and have this country stand. Our founding fathers are extraordinarily clear on that. Common sense will tell you the same. Common sense today will tell you that the guy, the judge who sued the dry cleaner in Washington that we all laughed about, sued this family for $53 million because they lost the pants or they didn't get them back on time or whatever it was. Remember how funny that story was? Let me give you the aftermath now. This comes from the Washington Post. Even on the day they beat Roy Pearson in the $54 million pants lawsuit, Soo and Jin Chung looked as if they had taken blows to the gut. Two-year ordeal that turned a pair of great trousers into a global symbol of how easy it is to hijack the U.S. legal system, a D.C. superior court judge ruled the owners of Custom Cleaners had not abused their customer in any way and, yes, the outraged public embraced the couple and donated more than $100,000 to cover their legal bills, but that is not the end of the story. About how long to emotional and financial burdens created by the legal battle over a $10.50 alteration, Custom Cleaners has now gone out of business. The Chungs have announced that they have sold their shop in Washington, D.C., let all of their employees go and are down to one store. Happy Cleaners on Seventh Street Northwest. That's across the street from the Washington Convention Center. Soo Chung was there over the weekend sweeping the floor. She looked a little more at ease, but the strain of the two years of strangulation by lawsuit was evident as she wrung her hands and furrowed her bow at the mention of Judge Pearson. When the conversation turned to the couple's return to Happy Cleaners, she brightened. She said, this was our first store. This was our first job when we came to America in 1992. We opened this store. We were happy to be here, Happy Cleaners, good job, good store. They were tired of the ordeal. They just wanted to put everything in their past. They couldn't understand how someone, over a $10.50 alteration, could try to destroy their lives for so long. When Judge Pearson, when Judge Pearson started gathering material in his quest to squeeze this Korean family and put them out of business and sue them for $54 million in 2005, he went around the neighborhood and posted flyers on all of the light poles in the neighborhood asking residents to feed him horror stories about their company. Business was strong until those flyers went up. They declined significantly and never, ever came back. She said, you'd think that all the publicity would have been good, but we're just a local dry cleaner. It doesn't matter. Our customers are from the neighborhood. The judge is appealing. The Chungs are not free of him yet. The attorney is going to handle the case, the appeal, for free. The judge didn't respond to a request by The Washington Post to comment because technically he's a D.C. administrative law judge. The panel that decides on reappointments has notified him that they intend on firing him and cutting him loose. His appeal will not be heard until next year. The Chungs have not heard from him since they offered to drop the demand that they be awarded attorney fees, a gesture they thought was an olive branch that would help Pearson drop his appeal. The lawyer said it obviously hasn't worked. The Chung family spent their last days on their second dry cleaner before they closed shop, writing thank you cards to their regular customers. Prospects for profits were better at Happy Cleaners. They clean clothes on site. They can't do it now. They now have to outsource. The margins are tighter. Mrs. Chung said we're back here, we're back here, where we started, she smiled, where life was good.

How does your heart not break for somebody who comes to this country in 1992 to pursue a dream, lives the dream and then has this country turn on them. It's not you, it's not me. We've allowed the legal system to be so perverted that people who are just trying to do their job can have their life destroyed by somebody who, I mean, quite frankly I think the guy should go to jail. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This guy has taken away their pursuit of happiness. This guy is anticapitalist as Karl Marx and yet he was allowed to pursue it. What has happened to us? It's the only time honestly that I wish I lived in D.C. I'd love to be able to send my dry cleaning down to the Happy Cleaners. Why come to America? 

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