Remembering M.L. King: "It's Great to Do Something Peaceful and Moving"

Monroe (LA) News-Star ^ | 01-16-03 | Evans, Robbie, City Govt. Reporter

[Theodore R.]

Former Ouachita Parish Police Juror Ervin "Peter" Turner believes elected officials should be on the frontlines of working toward the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of a better, more equal America.

Turner, who served on the Police Jury for 16 years, made his comments as keynote speaker Wednesday at the city of Monroe's 24th annual Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event was held at the Monroe Civic Center Theatre and was attended by more than 300 people.

[Theodore R.]

King has a holiday in his honor, signed into law by Reagan. Washington must share his holiday with 41 other individuals. New Orleans, LA, has removed the hated name "Washington" from a school building to protest his having owned slaves.

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[ClearCase_guy]

I always say that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the 2 greatest humanitarian acts of the 20th century. Think of the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives that were saved because the US did not have to invade the home islands.

Likewise, if the US wants to do something for Peace, I think we should make war against Iraq and North Korea. Done properly, 2 violent, frightening regimes will be ended -- and the world will learn that threatening your neighbors is a bad national policy.

[Treebeard]

Peaceful and moving, eh? Try a mild laxative, kid.

[jammer]

From the Title: "It's Great to Do Something Peaceful and Moving"

Isn't that the motto of nursing home residents as they take their laxatives?

[G.Mason]

Sorry all.

Perhaps I am in need of a lobotomy as I have not changed my views on M. L. K. since the first Newark, NJ riots in 1967.

M.L.K.and his band of merry mayhem minstrels left the city and within minutes the city was in flames.

Non-violence, my behind.

His legacy?

Go to Newark and walk (or drive) around any given night.

Yes sir! That's progress.

[sticker]

"Remembering Martin Luther King Jr"

Be an agent for the spy service of a country that wants to destory America?

[JohnGalt]

"I always say that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the 2 greatest humanitarian acts of the 20th century"

And China's one child policy has prevented 115 million girls from having to grow up in a frightening Communist regime...what sad logic you implore.

[Theodore R.]

That was the headline in the Monroe News-Star, and the Free Republic administration says that we should use the same headlines as the publications. Sometimes, however, the publication's headline is just wholly inadequate for the needs of Free Republic readers.

[ClearCase_guy]

And China's one child policy has prevented 115 million girls from having to grow up in a frightening Communist regime...what sad logic you implore.

So, you see Moral Equivalence between dropping bombs on the enemy during time of war, and aborting 115 million female babies in order to comply with the arbitrary rules of a totalitarian dictatorship. Interesting.

[jammer]

Oh, I was just teasing. lol. I know the problem.

[JohnGalt]

Nagasaki and Hiroshima were unfortunate events that were believed necesary at the time; to think of them in humanitarian terms is nothing short of satanic.

[ClearCase_guy]

They were extremely necessary at the time. Estimates of casualties from a US invasion of the home islands were put at 1.2 million for the US and over 2 million for the Japanese, if I remember correctly. The atomic bombs killed less than 200,000. Therefore, the atomic bombs saved roughly 3 million lives.

I can think of no other isolated acts which saved so many millions of lives.

[JohnGalt]

Or we could have just accepted the Japanese surrender in July. For many reasons, some good some bad, we did not. To use speculative human calculus to call the horror of Nagaskai and Hiroshima 'humanitarian' is twisted. Justifiable, perhaps, but not humanitarian.

But then, you probably did not have a Great Uncle tell you what he saw in the streets of Nagasaki, August 1945.

[ZULU]

''It''s great to do something peaceful and moving''

Bill Clinton would agree with Mr. King's application of this theory.