[Nick Thimmesch]

Cute: really cute.

[cyborg]

Is this the future model of DFU radio?

[sirshackleton]

Let’s not mince words. Were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alive today, he would be at risk for being imprisoned indefinitely, without charges or access to legal counsel, as an “enemy combatant.”

Yes, because certainly RFK never found it necessary to do things like bug his conversations......

[Straight Vermonter]

Bullshit

[smith288]

Nick Thimmesch Since Mar 27, 1998

Troll... ;)

[Who dat?]

He would be decried, by powerful figures inside and outside government, as at worst a domestic terrorist, at best a publicity-seeking menace whose criticisms of America gave comfort to our unseen enemies.

I guess the dippity-doo author wasn't around at the time. People did. They still do. They still celebrate James Earl Ray Day, among other things.

[Viking2002]

That moron needs to be medicated before he hurts himself.

[EveningStar]

ping

[U S Army EOD]

Well actually if the same things were going on in the States right now that were going on in the 60's in the civll rights movements and the anti-war movements, there just might be a little more truth to those statements than you would like to think.

This is especially true when you remember Detroit, Watts and some of the marches in DC by the anti-war crowd. I was there in some of them and had good friends in some of the others.

[Old Sarge]

He would be decried, by powerful figures inside and outside government, as at worst a domestic terrorist, at best a publicity-seeking menace whose criticisms of America gave comfort to our unseen enemies.

Sounds pretty accurate to me.

[rface]

If King were to be arrested as a terrorist - then what could Jesse Jackass be hauled in as

[randog]

Sounds to me like the author has "persecution envy", i.e. he sees the crap the civil rights leaders waded through in the 60's and wants to be a part of it. So he goes out to protest the Iraq War, march for "gay rights", signs marijuana legalization petitions, etc., etc., and what response does he get? The government yawns while the public either laughs or tells him to sit down and shut up. Please, someone at least give this guy a parking ticket before he starts crying.

[RLK]

I remember King well. Just before he was killed he was un bed with two women other than his wife as a shinning example of adherence to the ten commandments. He plagerized his way through school. While affecting a shallow veneer of non violence he presented himself as the alternative to violence in such a way that radical leftists gathered around that alternative. He was one of the most effective Marxist organizers of the twentieth century. Over the years there has been a concerted effort to force him into being accepted as a saint. Unlike most, I haven't caved into it. He was amoral Marxist trash.

[dc-zoo]

5-year old troll. Should've know better. Racist tripe.

[elli1]

Well then, splain how jj & sharpie keep managing to get out of jail.

[freebilly]

Where's the heave alert...?

[Huber]

It's time to do justice to the memory of Dr King and all of the other courageous activists who continue to work for positive change in our society. Just as we recognized the injustice of celebrating the memory of only two presidents, Washington and Lincoln, and established "Presidents Day" (so that we could honor Jackson, Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton as well), it is now time to honor all activists, and hereby declare the second Monday in January, "Activists Day".

Activists Day could celebrate, in addition to Dr. King, Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Jane Fonda, Rachel Corrie (the bulldozer girl), Patricia Ireland, the Reverend Al Sharpton and others as well as (in being inclusive) Phylis Schlafly, Ward Connerly and others on the right.

What do you all say, can Freepers make a difference in the name of inclusiveness and expand Dr. Martin Luther King Day to Activists Day?