"LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL" (and how it relates to Terri)

The King Center ^ | April 16, 1963 | Martin Luther King Jr.

[Tribune7]

Here's the link to the whole thing

[Tribune7]

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[expatguy]

Civil Disobedience and our Duty as Americans

[Travis McGee]

Great and timely post!

[wagglebee]

From the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The judiciary is completely out-of-control, and it is the duty of the executive and legislative branches to remedy this situation in order to preserve liberty.

[Zechariah_8_13]

bttt! thanks.

[grassboots.org]

For those who have read this before, we needed to hear it again. For those who have never read it - it is eye opening.

[macamadamia]

MLK's letter and the Dred Scott case certainly provide an interesting context.

Its oddly and sadly fitting that Schiavo (skee A vo) is Italian for "slave."

[mtbopfuyn]

Jeb should read this sometime - soon.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Its oddly and sadly fitting that Schiavo (skee A vo) is Italian for "slave."

I just looked it up on Babelfish and you're exactly right. It's certainly true that Terri became a slave after marrying & adopting the name Schiavo.

[macamadamia]

"It's certainly true that Terri became a slave after marrying & adopting the name Schiavo."


Well said. The symbolism runs deep.

[FBD]

"...And the judge said "remove it" in a make-believe trial
And slapped lawyer Felos on the back with a smile
Said' supper's waitin' at home and I gotta get to it"

That's the night a woman’s rights went out in Florida
That's the night that they starved an innocent woman.
Well, don't trust your soul to no Florida hospice lawyer
'cause the judge in the town's got bloodstains on his hands..."

http://www.rense.com/general63/retiredsheriffspeaks.htm
(victim of spousal abuse, murder victim Helene Ball McGee was denied protection by Judge Greer)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371060/posts
("Judge Greer Got Donation From Mike Schiavo's Lawyer")

[syriacus]

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

I agree the letter is applicable and I've been putting a link to King's letter in some of my posts on FreeRepublic.in the the past week.

And the following sentence from the letter is applicable, too.

It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany

[dawn53]

This is one of my favorite pieces of "literature."

I think it should be a must read for every high school student.

[Earthdweller]

Terri Schiavo Before dehydration

God Bless you Terri in your hour of death

Let everyone who said your beautiful smile was fake be haunted by it for the rest of their days.

[Tribune7]

I think it should be a must read for every high school student.

You think the ACLU would sue?

[Travis McGee]

BTTT!

[TAdams8591]

Agreed. And once again they failed miserably!

[don-o]

That takes me back. George Wallce stood in the "school house door" symbolically defying the federal power to integrate the University of Alababma.

He did that out of deeply held principles. Yet, later in his life, came to understand that he had been wrong, and said so.

MLK was a man with the faults and failures that men have - but, he espoused bedrock principles that turned the nation onto a better road, with a minimum of turmoil.

Pity, that ones like him come along so rarely.

And more the pity, that his "legacy" is co-opted by poverty pimps and race hustlers.