You do not speak for me.

From The New York Times:

WASHINGTON — It seems the ultimate thumb in the eye: thatGlenn Beck would summon the Tea Party faithful to a rally on the anniversary of the March on Washington, and address them from the very place where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech 47 years ago. After all, the Tea Party and its critics have been facing off for months over accusations of racism.

But many of the busloads of Tea Party activists expected in Washington this weekend do not see any irony or offense. In fact, they have come to see the Tea Party as the aggrieved — its loosely affiliated members unfairly characterized, even persecuted, as extremists.

How dare you.

How dare you, Tea Partiers, compare yourselves to the millions of black men, women, and children who gathered in Washington to march for their basic rights as human beings. How dare you compare your "persecution" to the discrimination these people faced every day of their lives.

How dare you, Glenn Beck, compare yourself in any way to Martin Luther King, Jr. How dare you defile the progressivism and constitutional liberalism for which he stood. How dare you use this day as just another in a long line of efforts to push your ill-founded, ill-argued views about what you think the Founding Fathers intended for their country to do and be 200 years after they died.

If Beck really wants to be like Dr. King, perhaps he should prepare himself for assassination.