Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican

[clb09]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tenn., after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

 

[sofia]

ML King was a sexual pervert and a communist. Biggest fraud of the 20th century.

 

[pcosmar]

The best thing that came out of that era was that COINTELPRO was exposed.
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/churchfinalreportIIIb.htm
http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/cointel.htm
Sadly, most ignore the implications.
Even worse is that the smears and disinformation that was created by the Government is still believed today.

 

[UnReconstructed]

thats what they said about all the "rebel rousers" back then

abe lincoln was a republican too

 

[clb09]

ML King was a sexual pervert and a communist. Biggest fraud of the 20th century.

A bigger fraud than Ronald Wilson Reagan?

I don't think so!

 

[Liberty Star]

So were Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby and W Bush and his daddy and Lindseay Graham and McCain LOL

What does that prove?

Not much.

 

[sofia]

A bigger fraud than Ronald Wilson Reagan?

I don't think so!

According to King's associate - Ralph Abernathy -...the "reverend" King enjoyed having rough sex with white prostitutes and screaming..."I'm fu**ng for the Lord."

He was also exposed as a plagiarist.

 

[sofia]

So were Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby and W Bush and his daddy and Lindseay Graham and McCain LOL

What does that prove?

Not much.

They dont have Federal holidays and huge statues and streets named after them.

 

[erowe1]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500

Shouldn't we be extolling the Democrats for standing up against the Civil Rights Act?

 

[UnReconstructed]

would you outlaw rough sex with white prostitutes? if you outlaw rough sex with white prostitutes then only outlaws will have rough sex with white prostitutes.

 

[pcosmar]

MAJOR FINDING


The Committee finds that covert action programs have been used to disrupt the lawful political activities of individual Americans and groups and to discredit them, using dangerous and degrading tactics which are abhorrent in a free and decent society.

Subfindings

(a) Although the claimed purposes of these action programs were to protect the national security and to prevent violence, many of the victims were concededly nonviolent, were not controlled by a foreign power, and posed no threat to the national security.

(b) The acts taken interfered with the First Amendment rights of citizens. They were explicitly intended to deter citizens from joining groups, "neutralize" those who were already members, and prevent or inhibit the expression of ideas.

(c) The tactics used against Americans often risked and sometimes caused serious emotional, economic, or physical damage. Actions were taken which were designed to break up marriages, terminate funding or employment, and encourage gang warfare between violent rival groups. Due process of law forbids the use of such covert tactics, whether the victims are innocent law-abiding citizens or members of groups suspected of involvement in violence.

(d) The sustained use of such tactics by the FBI in an attempt to destroy Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., violated the law and fundamental human decency.

MAJOR FINDING


The Committee finds that information has been collected and disseminated in order to serve the purely political interests of an intelligence agency or the administration, and to influence social policy and political action.

Subfindings

(a) White House officials have requested and obtained politically useful information from the FBI, including information on the activities of political opponents or critics.

(b) In some cases, political or personal information was not specifically requested, but was nevertheless collected and disseminated to administration officials as part of investigations they had requested. Neither the FBI nor the recipients differentiated in these cases between national security or law enforcement information and purely political intelligence.

(c) The FBI has also volunteered information to Presidents and their staffs, without having been asked for it, sometimes apparently to curry favor with the current administration. Similarly, the FBI has assembled intelligence on its critics and on political figures it believed might influence public attitudes or Congressional support.

(d) The FBI has also used intelligence as a vehicle for covert efforts to influence social policy and political action.

MAJOR FINDING


The intelligence community has employed surreptitious collection techniques -- mail opening, surreptitious entries, informants, and "traditional'' and highly sophisticated forms of electronic surveillance -- to achieve its overly broad intelligence targeting and collection objectives. Although there are circumstances where these techniques, if properly controlled, are legal and appropriate, the Committee finds that their very nature makes them a threat to the personal privacy and Constitutionally protected activities of both the targets and of persons who communicate with or associate with the targets. The dangers inherent in the use of these techniques have been compounded by the lack of adequate standards limiting their use and by the absence of review by neutral authorities outside the intelligence agencies. As a consequence, these techniques have collected enormous amounts of personal and political information serving no legitimate governmental interest.

Subfindings

(a) Given the highly intrusive nature of these techniques, the legal standards and procedures regulating their use have been insufficient. There have been no statutory controls on the use of informants; there have been gaps and exceptions in the law of electronic surveillance; and the legal prohibitions against warrantless mail opening and surreptitious entries have been ignored.

(b) In addition to providing the means by which the Government can collect too much information about too many people, certain techniques have their own peculiar dangers:

(i) Informants have provoked and participated in violence and other illegal activities in order to maintain their cover, and they have obtained membership lists and other private documents.

(ii) Scientific and technological advances have rendered traditional controls on electronic surveillance obsolete and have made it more difficult to limit intrusions. Because of the nature of wiretaps, microphones and other sophisticated electronic techniques, it has not always been possible to restrict the monitoring of communications to the persons being investigated.

(c) The imprecision and manipulation of labels such as "national security," "domestic security," "subversive activities," and "foreign intelligence" have led to unjustified use of these techniques.

I find this stuff fascinating reading.

 

[dannno]

ML King was a sexual pervert and a communist. Biggest fraud of the 20th century.

No, you see, you completely missed the point of the OP...

The FBI made up all that stuff about Communism and sexual perversion to discredit King. The reason you hold your opinion of him is because you listened to government FBI propaganda. Then the government assassinated him. He was a Republican, he was on our side. He believed in freedom.

You need to open your mind a bit..

 

[dannno]

So were Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby and W Bush and his daddy and Lindseay Graham and McCain LOL

What does that prove?

Not much.

There is another thread making the rounds right now where the voters decided to get rid of political parties. Obama is speaking out against it and the Feds are overturning the decision because they are saying that blacks need black Democrats to vote for because that is who they want to vote for. It's like mind control or something. I hate the elite.

 

[qaxn]

hahahahahha oh my.
see the speeches "If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins," "Where Do We Go From Here?," or basically anything said in the run up to the poor people's campaign.
dude was so socialist he makes fdr look like goldwater.

 

[clb09]

hahahahahha oh my.
see the speeches "If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins," "Where Do We Go From Here?," or basically anything said in the run up to the poor people's campaign.
dude was so socialist he makes fdr look like goldwater.

It's obvious Dr. King was not a Ron Paul republican.

But he fought the government...and won.

I respect that.

Not all of our heroes can be Ron Paul.

It would be nice but we need to cultivate our leaders from the stock we are given.

 

[Vessol]

I don't agree with all of Dr. Kings views and opinions, but I do think he was a major campaigner for equal rights in America and admire him greatly.

Ghandi liked giving enemas to young girls and was a huge racist, but people still admire him.

Mother Terresa was a sadist who thought physical suffering was the only way to God, but people still admire her.

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

I absolutely admire Dr. King; even though he was a socialist, even though he cheated on his wife (that wasn't cointelpro, read his 'autobiography'); even though he was a fundamentalist Christian. I admire him because he saw injustice and made it his life's work to fight that injustice no matter the cost to him or his family. He wanted freedom and he never fired a shot to get it. What made him an enemy of the state was not his stance on civil rights, but near the end of his life when he began to speak out against the war in Vietnam.

 

[teamrican1]

He was a Republican, he was on our side. He believed in freedom.

You need to open your mind a bit..

King despised Goldwater, who was the only Republican of that era who was worth a damn. King's "side" was the side of socialism and government. Admire him as a practitioner of civil disobedience, but when it comes to political philosophy, King was a naive fool at best and downright evil at worst. Malcom X was far closer to being on "our side" and it is no coincidence that government has used their propaganda to vilify him while lionizing the appeaser King.

 

[ForLiberty-RonPaul]

King despised Goldwater, who was the only Republican of that era who was worth a damn. King's "side" was the side of socialism and government. Admire him as a practitioner of civil disobedience, but when it comes to political philosophy, King was a naive fool at best and downright evil at worst. Malcom X was far closer to being on "our side" and it is no coincidence that government has used their propaganda to vilify him while lionizing the appeaser King.

unfortunately, this is true. King saw Goldwater and free markets as a serious threat to Americans. This feeling still rings with prominent voices today like Dr. Cornel West.

 

[sofia]

"We see dangerous signs of Hitlerism in the Goldwater campaign."

-Martin Luther King 1964.

P.S.....For you young pups out there, Barry Goldwater was the Ron Paul of the 1960's......screw ml king