In Retrospect: MLK Revisited

There is a lonely phrase in MLK’s “I have a dream” speech.

“You have been the veterans of creative suffering” — a line that preceded King’s more famous dream words.

So I know the context in which it was written. But I just can’t help seeing, in hindsight today, an even wider target for those words. There is a fertile audience.

There are a lot of “veterans of creative suffering” in our country today, maybe not in the same way. Granted to a lesser extent than King’s intent. Nevertheless, veterans of creative suffering… by the very government that was suppose to represent, stand for, and defend their rights.

When a government gives its own people the cold shoulder while at the same time gushes over the concerns of illegal aliens, even before they enter the country, then we have lost.

When securing our border is defiantly called an act of immorality, we have lost.

We have lost when a government by the people for the people has become a government against the people, and against its most vulnerable. We have become witnesses to it when a law like the freedom of information act is transposed into the Freedom From Information. When the objective “for the people” becomes for the self-serving politicians.

And this theme continues on in its incremental desire to control the people, not free them; to tread over them rather than lift them up; seeks to overcome and obstruct the people rather than remove obstacles in their way. A government that plots to remove obstacles in the way of an organized invasion, for the sake of their own political lust for power. A government that has over years encouraged this invasion.

When everyone else in the world is entitled to have a dream but the American people. And their dream supersedes our dream.

Creative suffering?

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Boycotting America: the infertile resistance breeds

The week of hypocrisy and double standards, and here we go.

The hearings were one thing, emphasis on race and Russia – not necessarily in that order — but dialogue and media are another which got progressively worse, right on script.

We finished the week by having the self-anointed civil rights leader, John Lewis call Trump’s election and his presidency illegitimate. Anyone NOT see that coming? These people certainly are predictable, if nothing else.

“I don’t see this President-elect as a legitimate president,” Lewis told NBC News Friday. “I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected. And they helped destroy the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.” – NBC

No, unfortunately, Lewis was not a lone voice. Predictable. He did it intentionally on Friday before MLK Day — which I guess is now ensconced as the day of hate.

Now you would think that Lewis making this statement would be like a bomb going off, and the shock of it from a sitting senior Congressman would outrage people. You would think immediately people would distance themselves from his remarks, en masse. The condemnation would be fierce. And you would think a media outcry would demand every single Democrat condemn his remarks or be condemned. Nope.

Actually, Michelle Obama kicked it off on Oprah saying “we’re feeling what not having hope feels like.” She was praised for saying we have no hope. They cheered her on.

One Democrat pundit said on Sunday, “this is the resistance; this is just what it looks like now.” Ah, “what it looks like now” is short for this is the way it’s going to be. No, it’s actually going to be worse. They know it and so do we. And then their shadow Obama government will be adding to the resistance.

What you would think should be a normal response, in their racist political correctness, now is reversed. Rather than blanket condemnation, the praises for John Lewis came from everywhere: media, Congress, the black community, the public. Hard to find anyone who does condemn his statements.

Remember Joe Wilson, the SOTUS “heckler”? He had the audacity to make a public disagreement with Obama. He got a good talking to from the Republican leadership. And Mitch McConnell, all he said was that job #1 was to make Obama a one-term president. Democrats turned that into a giant insult and classic racism. Justice Alito shook his head. People were called racists for asking questions about Obama’s birth certificate or records — since he really had no trail. Just questioning Obama was blatant racism.

So it was way more than Obama ever received, even before Trump takes office. Now resistance is celebrated. Calls for obstruction ring from every corner of the Left. Respect is out, Resistance is in.(lockstep of course) In fact, the Left even says, proudly, it is following the model that worked so well for Republicans. (choke, gag) Get that, they even blame us for their radical resistance. They blame Russia for the election results. And they blame Trump for the condition of America which preceded any thought of his to run. Now they are trying to even make us own Obamacare.

Well, the total fallout of John Lewis is wide agreement with him. In fact, 23 members of Congress are boycotting the inauguration. It’s the cool thing now to join the resistance. They will institutionalize it, celebrate it, take it into schools and claim it as righteous.

All this deception won’t work. The people have been awakened and are not going to take their eyes off this, We survived their decade of decadence and aren’t happy. Sorry, Dems, don’t even try to out anger us. It ain’t happening. The blame projection won’t work. But they have the towers of media carrying their water, and soon will have every one of their shadow operatives opposing Trump. Exactly the way they did in the general election. Almost as if the election never happened because, to them, it didn’t.

Protests are highly overrated. Respectful protests were fashionable toward Obama, disrespectful protests toward Trump are now in. When Tea Party protests were born, the IRS and media assailed “speaking truth to power” using their big-gov firehouses, under a black president. It was Democrats in the sixties who opposed Lewis and their ‘civil rights’ agenda. Now they blame Republicans but no one is supposed to know the truth.

Now their resistance stuff is all the rage. Resisting what? – doesn’t matter. On the IRS Tea Party scandal, blacks and Democrats stood on the side of big government fire hoses. They stood up and walked out. Eric Holder was in contempt and they stood up for him, who was standing up for Obama. But now they see illegitimacy as the cause de jure.

So the answer, my friend, ain’t blowing in the wind. No, their answer to nothing is to boycott Trump and whatever he does. Take that Mitch McConnell. He let them beat him up for eight years for a benign statement. Then people bent over backwards for Obama. Republicans stood there like deer in the headlights, as radicals ruled the White House and administration. That really worked?

The boycott of Trump takes full shape before the parade or swearing in. What will they do when he’s in office? I think we know. (whatever was not done to Obama) Can’t you smell what the boycott is cooking? It means de facto protesting America and what it stands for, the rule of law. So civil rights or justice are excuses, the real boycott is against America.

And happy MLK Day, for what that’s worth.

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MLK alive and living in Ferguson…not

So Fergson protestors and race baiters want to build on the MLK legacy. There have been plenty of references in recent weeks by protest leaders and in the mainstream media. They suggest this is a continuation and that if Dr. King were alive he would be aligned with their actions in Ferguson protests. That is a distortion of reality. But it is nothing new.

A couple years ago, I posted on that mentality. MLK explained in an interview:

“I would … say that it is a method which seeks to secure a moral end through moral means,” King said. “And it grows out of the whole concept of love, because if one is truly nonviolent that person has a loving spirit, he refuses to inflict injury upon the opponent because he loves the opponent.” – Source

A moral end through moral means.(that’s key) And I said that:

“You can contrast that with today’s leftists and see a message. The modern Left, in its evolution, has defined and perfected its own system of protest — unlike King’s philosophy. It may get some results; but not only do you have to question the results, but the motivation and means as well.

King said his was driven by love, as opposed to what we see today. Actually it is based mostly on hate, resentment, or some animosity toward their “enemy”. I mean their political enemy. See, politics is everything, with ideology, today. It trumps all. Their activism is not based on love, as in for one another, and it doesn’t contain a moral component. That part was replaced by the religion of politics. With love and morality out of the equation, what is left? A bitter political activism.”

Now that we have Ferguson in full bloom, they want to bring in Dr. King anyway they can. It’s like “Weekend at Bernies”. This is not a movement driven by love but by hate. And race-baiters like Sharpton are no MLK’s either. They are smearing Dr. King’s legacy and what he stood for.

Could you picture King doing marches while everyone is looting stores and lighting the town on fire? “Burn this bitch down!” This is what he stood against. He did not believe that furthered their cause. He claimed they got the results they did because of love. It is Biblically consistent.

If you can say anything about these protestors today, it would be immoral ends through immoral means. (or any means to the end) If King were in Ferguson, I imagine he’d have some strong words for them. How could you hijack King’s legacy by a violent movement?

MLK said: “Violence creates many more social problems than it solves.” And that is being proved abundantly true in Ferguson.

Excerpts from “Loving Your Enemies” — November 17, 1957; Montgomery, Alabama.
Reverend Martin Luther King

In the fifth chapter of the gospel as recorded by Saint Matthew, we read these very arresting words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: “Ye have heard that it has been said, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.’ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.” […/]

“That is why I say, begin with yourself. There might be something within you that arouses the tragic hate response in the other individual.

This is true in our international struggle. We look at the struggle, the ideological struggle between communism on the one hand and democracy on the other, and we see the struggle between America and Russia. Now certainly, we can never give our allegiance to the Russian way of life, to the communistic way of life, because communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept. When we look at the methods of communism, a philosophy where somehow the end justifies the means, we cannot accept that because we believe as Christians that the end is pre-existent in the means.”

The movement today, and the Left, is the antithesis to that. It demands for itself what it will not respect in others. It threatens with violence anything in its way. It is building on Dr King’s legacy with violence and hatred. This is not about a seat on the bus. This is running out in front of the bus and hijacking it by the whims of radicals.

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