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Morse may well be crazy but that doesn't make him wrong on every issue. "Just cause you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you". King was interested in civil rights as an end in itself. The communists were interested in civil rights as a means to an end, as they saw this as a wedge issue to weaken their adversary and as a propraganda tool. There was a confluence of interests, and that confluence was exploited by both sides. The documentation for this thesis is there for the looking. This doesn't make King a communist, but he was, to use a convenient shorthand, a "fellow traveler".

The US government and the mafia back in the 60's had a confluence of interests vis a vis getting rid of Castro. The mafia hated Castro for kicking them out of Cuba and the government was opposed to Castro for obvious reasons. There was a confluence of interests that both sides exploited. That doesn't make the US part of the Mafia, but it does not good to ignore what is verifiable historical fact, IMHO.

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Thanks for the history. I am well aware of the US, Mafia relationship via Cuba, but to make that somehow analogous to King and Communist is preposterous.

Paranoid people may be right on occasion, but not in Morse’s case. His logical and factual leaps defy reason and boarder on the pointless.

Unless you are suggesting that Kings was a Soviet agent, then the point of any leftist sympathies that has might have had it meaningless.

He never displayed them, wrote, talked about, or associate with communists. His effort, though horribly distorted by those who succeeded him, was and honoring of the words and intent of the founders.

Attempting to cast that aside with fanciful conspiracy theories is repugnant.

The sacrifices of the founders and Lincoln made King possible, necessary and justified.