Posted on 01/19/2009 12:37:49 PM PST by Natural Law
Let us not forget and commit to not letting the world forget that Martin Luther King was a Republican, and for all of the right reasons. He was a Republican because Republicanism assured him and his cause the individual rights and freedom from the tyranny of the majority promised by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
When was the last time you heard a public leader, Democrat, Republican, or Independent, refer to the United States as a Republic? It is critical that we require our leaders to openly state this because our individual freedoms and liberties, and our future as a free nation are vested in Republicanism.
Whether the result of a vast left wing conspiracy or collective ignorance there has been a gross deception perpetrated on the American people. Many who have been most vocal regarding the retention or expansion of their rights have willingly subordinated their individual rights to those of a majority. As Georges Clemenceau stated; “ A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne" nor is it any less cruel and ruthless. Democracy is a lynch mob looking for its next victim.
There has never been a democracy in the history of the world that did not have a permanently oppressed minority as the slaves of Athens, the Catholics and Puritans of Elizabethan England, and the gentry of post revolution France can attest.
America has not been immune from these transgressions. Many of the civil rights tragedies of American history can trace themselves directly to the deficiencies of Democracy. Andrew Jackson, the first Democrat president, was responsible for the codification and implementation of the our ethnic cleansing policy known as the Indian Removal Act. The Trail of Tears is only one example of the will of the majority has affected the rights of minorities.
The next Democrat president was Polk. Among his notable actions was the initiation and prosecution of the Mexican American War which resulted in the acquisition of 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory that Mexico had earlier refused to sell the US. President Grant in his memoirs said of the war; “For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.” It did, however satisfy the demands of a majority at the expense of a majority.
The continuation of Slavery until the 13th amendment, the American Civil War, the horrors of the Reconstruction period, the Income tax, Japanese American internment, Jim Crow laws, were all the result of majority rule Democrat administrations.
Looking ahead to the Obama administration one can only wonder at the individual rights abuses that will be imposed on the American populace in the name of the majority and the greater good. The list will be longer and Martin Luther King will be that much further from the realization of his dreams.
We have two options in life, either we live life subscribing to lies or subscribing to truth. It’s the belief in lies that has been so harmful. I’m less concerned about appearing mean spirited than I am about leading people to the light of truth. That’s why I try to follow Jesus and not men.
I have never advocated ascribing to or propagating lies. I am just proposing that we sift through the immense pile of Bovine Scat given to us by the left and the MSM to find the useful kernels of oats. It is possible to co-opt the virtue in King's message and use it to begin disassembling the socialist machine facing us.
The alternative is to stick to the four legs good, two legs bad, MLK was a complete scoundrel story line while that machine consumes you and your remaining freedoms.
The man doesn’t need to be talked about at all.
“Now THAT is something you’ll hardly ever hear these days.”
Because it’s not true. At least not after 1960.
I never heard of that. I knew he was pro-segregation but that's all.
Alveda King is a Republican, but she herself was a Democrat during her time in the GA House and only became a Republican when she became a pro-life activist. Her grandfather was a Republican until the summer of 1960, a Democrat afterwards. The reference her uncle was a Republican is predicated on the assumption he was like his father, but even if he was for a brief period of time (again, we do not know if he voted for Stevenson in ‘52 & ‘56), he was clearly not one from after the summer of 1960.
The problem with these articles is that they go on a false assumption. MLK embraced a viewpoint that became more leftist and radical by the year up until his death. These aren’t views we’d embrace today as Republicans in the least. The MLK of 1955 was not the MLK of 1968. But we’ve discussed this in many threads ever since Rice’s piece came out. We discussed it in this one today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2167898/posts
There are links to prior discussions as well. Even if it can be proven he supported the GOP in the 1950s, it would be like writing a piece on Jim Jeffords or Lincoln Chafee. We know that NY Democrat Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. endosed Ike in 1956, but that was the one and only time. They were back on the Dem plantation by 1960. They’re better off focusing on known facts, including those pertaining to the Democrat party’s racist history and contrasting it with the GOP, and covering those individuals in history we know were Republicans, such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.
Thank you.
With a few more brick the building of The Myth will be complete and all can worship Saint Martin.
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