Remembering Martin

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   Phil Perspective on January 17, 2010 at 11:51 pm

   He said that the Great Society, with its noble programs had, in a sense, been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam. King was right.

   He might as well be talking about asswipes like Kent Conrad or Evan Bayh.  I’ll always say that Bayh is a lot bigger disappointment then Kent Conrad can hope to be.  I hope I don’t need to explain why.

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   seabe on January 18, 2010 at 3:16 am

   Obama’s speech on MLK day 2008 is what converted me from the HRC camp to the Obama camp.

   I don’t know what else I have to say whenever I hear MLK speak, but this is what I will forever think about. Two people who are striving for justice, trying to bring the country through, to justice. And then, the accounts of the Civil Rights Union’s protests…etc. Gosh, I can’t even imagine…it makes me tear up every time because of the thoughts of people just fighting for their rights…

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   Oscar In Dallas on January 18, 2010 at 8:40 am

   Spoken only a few weeks before he was assassinated:

   But this is why we are drifting. And we are drifting there because nations are caught up with the drum major instinct. “I must be first.” “I must be supreme.” “Our nation must rule the world.” And I am sad to say that the nation in which we live is the supreme culprit. And I’m going to continue to say it to America, because I love this country too much to see the drift that it has taken.

   God didn’t call America to do what she’s doing in the world now. God didn’t call America to engage in a senseless, unjust war as the war in Vietnam. And we are criminals in that war. We’ve committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I’m going to continue to say it. 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. The God that I worship has a way of saying, “Don’t play with me.” He has a way of saying, as the God of the Old Testament used to say to the Hebrews, “Don’t play with me, Israel. Don’t play with me, Babylon. Be still and know that I’m God. And if you don’t stop your reckless course, I’ll rise up and break the backbone of your power.” And that can happen to America. Every now and then I go back and read Gibbons’ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. And when I come and look at America, I say to myself, the parallels are frightening. And we have perverted the drum major instinct.