Posted on 10/16/2011 4:53:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In a belated dedication speech for the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial today, President Obama suggested that the civil rights leader would have stood on the side of Occupy Wall Street:
"At this moment when our politics appear so sharply polarized and faith in our institutions so greatly diminished we need more than ever to take heed of Dr. King's teachings," the president said.
"If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there," he said, adding: "Aligning our reality with our ideals often requires the speaking of uncomfortable truths and the creative tension of non-violent protest."
I find that hard to believe. When Dr. King was organizing for social change, he certainly wouldn't have tolerated the type of behavior taking place in Zucotti Park. There was a particular goal, and everyone knew that they had to dress and act in a respectable manner in order to garner change. The King Center published the Six Steps of Non-Violent Social Change:
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He also seemed to support the socialism of the yahoos at the OWS gathering.
I'd say King would have stood with these yahoos stinking up parts of the civilized world.
Who’s kidding who here? MLK would completely be with OWS.
I doubt MLK would support a bunch of commie socialist anti semetic drones who poop on cop cars and want to destroy Capitalism
He knows its the only way he has any chance of winning in 2012..he knows that by creating anarchy, we won’t have any election in 2012..he knows he’s toast so this is his only shot at winning
MLK would have said to Obama, “What you want, white boy?”
Don't you find just a tad bit curious that the media never seem to focus on how many protesters are actually at these “OWS" events across the country? The Salt Lake City event is a joke that seems to be losing steam every day.
I'm not impressed, nor afraid.
As one Marxist to another....
I know what you’re saying and I agree, but does their leader agree. He can cause hate and discontent with these people and I believe that is his army.
I stand corrected.
He is a liar and he has desecrated MLK’s legacy. It’s obscene.
Yes, perhaps. And Mao Tse Tung, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro would have supported Barack Obama.
Barry Soetoro says a lot of things that are not true. Thats because he’s a pathological liar. MLK was interested in procuring Civil Rights for Blacks and unity among the races. He would have had zero interest in being associated with this band of miscreants and frankly I don’t think MLK would have had a lot of use for BHO either.
That’s ironic coming from the king of crony capitalism (Solyndra and others) and government regulation.
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