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Posted on 01/16/2012 8:45:29 AM PST by Pelham
The Kennedy Administration engaged in an unforgivable act of government intrusion when it wiretapped Dr. Martin Luther King. That view is baked into the history books, and Jimmy Carter was just reprising this theme in his eulogy to Coretta Scott King. But the truth is that the famous civil rights leader brought those wiretaps on himself. This is not an untold story, as much as it is a forgotten one.
The Cold War was in full swing in late 1963 when Bobby Kennedy authorized the first King wiretap. On JFK's watch, Khrushchev had put up the Berlin Wall and had almost provoked a nuclear exchange by introducing atomic-armed missiles into Cuba. "Wars of National Liberation" were being fully stoked by the shoe-pounder in the Kremlin. Yet King, already a powerful civil rights figure, had surrounded himself with several radical advisers, including at least two long-time members of the Communist Party.
Stanley Levison was one of them. He may have been, as King's friendly biographer, David Garrow sometimes suggests, King's most trusted adviser from 1956 until the civil rights leader's death in 1968. Levison, an important CP member, was also responsible for placing on the board of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference Hunter Pitts (Jack) O'Dell, who became a member of the national committee of the U.S. Communist Party in 1959. These were the indisputable facts that eventually impelled the Kennedy Administration to wiretap King.
Levison's Red Ties
Levison's closeness to King is beyond question. Proof can be found in the FBI files on Levison -- many of which are in this author's possession -- and in Garrow's prodigious works, including his 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of King, Bearing the Cross. Garrow, with additionally released FBI files on hand, also focused sharply on the Levison-King relationship in the July-August 2002 ...
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
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Ouch! Sentence construction.
These very close advisers and speech writers of MLK are believed to be responsible for King's hard swing to the left during his last few years of life.
These very close advisers and speech writers of MLK are believed to be responsible for King's hard swing to the left during his last few years of life.
These very close advisers and speech writers of MLK are believed to be responsible for King's hard swing to the left during his last few years of life.
sorry for the repeats - this crazy machine gets stuck every once in a while and each attempt to free it becomes a post.
Don’t care who it is, there is a tendency to turn great men (and women) into infallible messiah-like demigods. That happened with George Washington (”I cannot tell a lie” was a story that never happened), it happened with Gandhi, and it happened with MLK.
The guy was human, and as such, had human frailties. I need not spell them out here, as they have been known for years.
People also ascribe to great historical figures political views on today’s topics — witness Sojourn’s tweet the other day, “What would MLK do today?” (To which I responded that King was a Republican, and therefore I claimed he’d be running the Herman Cain campaign...)
What is remarkable isn’t that “one man changed the world”, but rather, that one man tapped into a larger sense of morality and shamed the world into changing by simply reminding them of their own rules.
The “I cannot tell a lie” is an attempt to discredit the truth about George Washington. The truth is, he was a truly remarkable man. To edit what he stood for in his life into a provable lie, is a smear. While MLK and Ghandi did some good, while living examples of personal immorality, GW lived a life as loving, charitable and heroic as any that trod Earth. It is hard to find a better man than this “Indispensable Man”, George Washington.
Had the politicians of the day (like today) done the right thing and pushed for equal justice under the law, and followed the US Constitution, none of the civil rights movements would have been infiltrated by the communists. Instead they buried their heads and wanted oppressed peoples to just shut up and go back to work (like the current powers-that-be want conservatives to do).
They had assumed that African-Americans were the perfect "American Proletariat." The strong religious orientation of the group at the time, family structures, and their devotion to the Republican Party (!!! check it out!) defeated the commies at ever turn.
As the Truman style Democrat, i.e., patriotic working people, phased out and the Left took over the Democrat Party, The Welfare Lifestyle and the eventual destruction of African- American mores phased in.
Somehow, in one of American History's greatest ironies, the Democrat Party became, in theory, the party of Civil Rights in the African-American mind. A more dispassionate look might show a reasonable onserver that the Democrat Party had fought civil rights since 1865. Joining the Southern Democrats at every turn were the Northern Democrats like JFK, whose voting record on "Civil Rights," particularly in his unwavering support of segregation, was atrocious!
However, the truth be damned! The Left, and the Communists (an overlapping membership) have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. The African-Americans are 100% Democrat, their votes bought and paid for by the party of segregation.. Communists like Van Jones are appointed to high office by the most radical Left Wing President in History, whose communist connections are far stronger than those of MLK, which were bad enough!
“What is remarkable isn’t that “one man changed the world”, but rather, that one man tapped into a larger sense of morality and shamed the world into changing by simply reminding them of their own rules.”
Race relations were improving when King arrived on the scene. He, and the race-hustling poverty pimps who put themselves forward when he was killed, put the whole thing on the wrong road like so many malevolent pied pipers.
Race relations and living conditions for many Negroes are worse now than they have been the in past six decades, and that is directly attributable to MLK.
I don’t know whether he was a leftist enemy of the United States or just a useful idiot, but I don’t think it really matters.
So then it’s a safe bet that John and Robert Kennedy would have wiretapped Barack Hussein Obama.
He’s had enough shady associates to warrant it IMO.
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