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To: lentulusgracchus
I disagree; they both have operated from similar, and related, subversive playbooks: Obama from that of Saul Alinsky, as modified by Bill Ayers (who once said he and his comrades would have to "disappearicide" about 25,000,000 Americans in death camps to make the Left's dream real), and King from that of Mohandas Gandhi's passive-aggessive "passive resistance" movement.

OK, you're right, Obama is worthy to tie MLK's shoes. You equate deathcamps with passive resistance?

Obama is a world class communist, MLK was an American.

46 posted on 01/20/2009 3:28:39 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
You equate deathcamps with passive resistance?

Obviously not. It isn't clear what MLK envisioned as the political end-state of the contending black and white segments of Southern society, but in order to achieve his dream of black "equality", he and his fellow civil-rights movement leaders would have somehow to counterfeit, i.e. trump, the political advantages within the Southern States accruing to the white majorities. You see the conundrum.

In order to "protect" black citizens' rights, how could white citizens' rights be sustained? But if white rights were nullified by federal action, what would black citizens' rights be worth? Fully protecting black citizens from white ones implied the subjugation of all by the federal government, and the substitution of political influence of black Northern voters and leaders for black Southern citizens' rights as citizens, which would be in the toilet with everyone else's.

But it's impossible to tell, from King's public record, that he ever thought through to the end, the implications of the day-to-day civil rights struggle. He was an intelligent man, so he had to be aware of the theoretical problem of contending rights and the fact that he was invoking, or maybe provoking, a Power to quell a majority for the benefit of a minority.

Obama is a world class communist, MLK was an American.

That's a fair distinction. Obama is a member of an internationalist, elitist, imperial movement in a way that I don't think MLK ever was.

57 posted on 01/21/2009 3:00:45 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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