What about the PEACE and NON-VIOLENCE, MSM?
Didn't you guys even LISTEN to what he said?
Here's some reposts from his real birthday:
"I post these articles, as well as my own memory hole from a year ago from the greatest man who ever lived in my lifetime.
"MARTIN LUTHER KING’S WORDS OF THE PAST ~~ MEANINGFUL TODAY
"This is a speech he gave in opposition to the Vietnam War. He was murdered a year later. I think you will find it shocking in its relevance to the situation today"
"MARTIN LUTHER KING - THE FATAL SHOT CAME FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTION"
"According to the government, James Earl Ray shot Dr. Martin Luther King. There is, needless to say, no physical evidence to prove this charge. James Earl Ray spent his life in prison based solely on a coerced confession which he immediately retracted. None of the ballistics tests, which were performed on the rifle James Earl Ray allegedly used, were able to link that rifle to the actual bullet that killed Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King's family does not think James Earl Ray was the killer, and recently won a civil court case proving there was a conspiracy.
Now, thanks to writer Ted Wilburn, in a story which follows, new evidence has surfaced to prove that the government and the media have been lying to the public about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King."
Please click on that link to see the tremendous amount of evidence the author has assembled, readers.
"MARTIN LUTHER KING ~~ THE DREAM LIVES ON"
"Irony, it seems, is as American as apple pie… a man hounded all his life by the FBI, local police and racist organisations suddenly becomes a national hero after his death. Martin Luther King Jr. is that man whose life will be celebrated tomorrow on a special day named in his honour.
Where was that honour when this great man was alive? Some of us did give him that, both then and now…. the following is an edited versiion that appeared earlier on my Blog…. as long as racism lives, so will the dream to end it.
It was 44 years ago that Martin Luther King delivered his famous 'I Have A Dream Speech' at the Great March on Washington for Peace and Freedom. To see a video of the complete speech, click HERE.
I was there along with a quarter of a million fellow Americans. It was the most gratifying day of my life as I was on the organising committee for that March the entire summer. To witness such a success was most rewarding. To hear the words of the great Dr. King, spoken live, were most encouraging. The last paragraph of his speech is the part that has stayed with me every day of my life since then…
“And when this happens, When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
What I see in every day life in Israel reminds me that those words are still just a dream. We have a long way to go before it becomes a reality.
I see discrimination daily… it is as ugly now as it was 44 years ago. I see it more from Americans in Israel than from anyone else… here is an incident that occurred just the other day…
I was in a gift shop and an American tourist entered. The conversation went as follows…
Tourist— Do you have any Arab toy soldiers?
Clerk— No, why would you want them anyway?
Tourist— So I can teach my grandson how to kill them.
Me— Have you ever met an Arab?
Tourist— Of course not, I keep away from them because they all want to kill me.
Me— I have met thousands of Arabs, I have never met one that wants to kill me, but I have met hundreds of American Jews, like yourself, that want to kill Arabs.
What possesses a person to be so hateful? What possible reason could there be, was he trying to impress the clerk with his ‘machoness’, his reverent zionism, or was it just plain stupidity? My guess is that it was the latter. But I do see a rise in this hatred being imported from the United States. The most extremes of the Judeo nazis of the past were also imports, the kahanas, the goldsteins , may their names be erased from memory. It must not be tolerated or it will be thought of as acceptable thought. It isn’t.
Israel has tried openly to show their opposition to this type of thought. Racism is illegal in Israel(in the books), racist orgnisations are outlawed (in the books)… we all know that is a load of bull! Racism is alive and well in Israel… and is strengthened by the hatred that is imported from the States.
I want to see the dream fulfilled… I want to see a world without hatred. I want to see an Israel/Palestine without walls, I want to see peace.
Perhaps if we all go back to the top of this post, click on the speech and listen to it carefully, more of us will realise that there is another way….
‘DEEP IN MY HEART, I DO BELIEVE, WE SHALL OVERCOME ONE DAY.’"
Unfortunately, the dream seems further away than ever.
I think Dr. King, were he alive today, would experience revulsion at the state of the world today. Some discriminations have eased since his time; however, the wars of aggression and lies would no doubt break his heart.
It almost seems as if AmeriKa has fallen BACKWARD since Dr. King's day."
And my Memory Hole:
"(Updated: Originally posted January 15, 2007)
Now here is my Memory Hole from one year ago:
Happy Birthday, Dr. King!
You are the greatest man who existed during my lifetime.
Unfortunately, my country's values totally counter what you preached.
Yet, we continue with the self-adulation in our ceremonies for you, all the while being "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."
Dr. King's true message was revealed to me in the fall of 2001, right after the 9/11 attacks.
At that time, I was attending a small rural school and the instructor -- whom I consider a very important person that has passed through my life, although they will never know that -- veered from the planned lessons and distributed several of Dr. King's materials.
I'm not going to break down the letters from jail or the non-violent philosophy because I already hold those views, but the instructor to which I referred struck a chord in me, unleashing a torrent of thoughts, emotions and passions.
This person has come the closest anyone ever has to understanding me.
It has taken me five years to realize this; however, despite the short-lived and turbulent experience (they were gone from my life within a months), I now -- in some ways pathetically -- feel stronger than ever about them.
Sadly, I can not reclaim or repair that past, even if I knew how.
Therefore, Martin Luther King's birthday reminds me of more than civil rights, non-violence and peace. It reminds me of a very special person, and as I wish for peace for Dr. King, I find myself asking for forgiveness from a person I feel I treated badly as I tried to hang on to that which was slipping away.
I truly pray they are O.K. I truly mean that, Lord. They will never know it, and the attempt may be corrupt or futile; however, I send them all the solace I can summon and direct it into the cosmos and towards them.
Surprisingly, it is one year later, and as I blog in abject loneliness, my feelings for this person are stronger than ever -- even as they further fade and recede from my life.
So Happy Birthday, Dr. King, and serenity and peace to the special person who has been the subject of my reminiscences.
Please watch over and protect them, Lord.
Please make them happy, since that would make at least one of us at this point."
