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Martin Luther King:

the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.

look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: “This is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: “This is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.”

... and your point is?

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“As a conservative, I will not be overly enthusiastic about voting for John McCain on November 4 - but I will be sprinting to the polling place to do so!”
Matthew May, conservative commentator, The American Spectator

MLK sound’s like Rev Wright,

not to be confused with Rev Ike.

MLK sound’s like Rev Wright,

I don’t remember Rev. King saying “God Damn America.”

Criticism is one thing.  Curses and insults are another.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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MLK sound’s like Rev Wright,

Funny! What part of “I have a dream” sounds like “God Damn America”?

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Great minds!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

Woof: Well, not all Americans believe as you and I do, but, “This way of settling differences is not just” is hardly in the same league with “KKK-USA!” or, “The chickens have come home… to roost!”

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“As a conservative, I will not be overly enthusiastic about voting for John McCain on November 4 - but I will be sprinting to the polling place to do so!”
Matthew May, conservative commentator, The American Spectator

This sounds like “God Damn America”?

the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.

The reaction to Kings’ words was like the reaction to Wright.

Time called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi”, and The Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”

This sounds like “God Damn America”?

the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government.

Nope! Not even close!

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

WOOF - MLK sound’s like Rev Wright

No, he doesn’t. Not at all.

I never heard MLK God damn his own country. Can you show me where he had ever done that?

Martin Luther King: “we shall overcome”

Jeremiah Wright, “No! No! No! God damn America!”

Excuse me?

Do you know how to make distinctions, WOOF?

MLK:

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Woof: 

demanded by the oppressed

Obviously, you have strong negative feelings about MLK. But your efforts to link him with the likes of Jeremiah Wright are vain. Rev. King was a devotee of Ghandi’s non-violent, passive-resistance; a far cry from the hate-based, racist liberation theology of Rev. Wright and his ilk.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“As a conservative, I will not be overly enthusiastic about voting for John McCain on November 4 - but I will be sprinting to the polling place to do so!”
Matthew May, conservative commentator, The American Spectator

Huh?
PP:

Obviously, you have strong negative feelings about MLK.

MLK was an effective revolutionary.
Detested by the media , harassed ,imprisoned, wiretapped, and blackmailed by the gov’t.

He has my respect.

Fair enough.  But he is no Rev. Wright.

"Here lies, in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God.”

“As a conservative, I will not be overly enthusiastic about voting for John McCain on November 4 - but I will be sprinting to the polling place to do so!”
Matthew May, conservative commentator, The American Spectator

MLK was an effective revolutionary.
Detested by the media , harassed ,imprisoned, wiretapped, and blackmailed by the gov’t.

The government? You mean the JFK administration with RFK as his Attorney General?
What’s your point, WOOF (Forgive me for assuming you have one!)Are you trying to tear down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and say that he is equally as bad as Jeremiah Wright? Or is your point to expose the corruption of the Democrat Robert Kennedy, JFK’s nepotism on parade?

For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this: When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success. Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.

Frederick W. Kagan

I believe that it was all those Democrat local and state governments that did all those nasty things to MLK.  Another example on how the liberals support the downtrodden.

You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

You refer to the Dixiecrats who became the soul of the Republican party?

at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, King said America’s war in Vietnam might incur God’s wrath. “We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world,” King said. “And we won’t stop it because of our pride and our arrogance as a nation. But God has a way of even putting nations in their place

So Robert Byrd and Al Gore senior are the soul of the Republican Party?

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem