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To: Austin Willard Wright
Perhaps the King bashers had been unable to find evidence of secret party membership, because no such evidence exists.

Odd, then, that King's defenders don't say they have tried to find it, and it doesn't exist.

Mind you, I'm not saying it does exist. I suspect it does not. But I also suspect nobody has tried to find it, so that they can make the same denial that the Chaplin biographer makes, for the reason I surmised earlier: even asking the question can be a career-ender.

41 posted on 01/25/2003 12:49:26 PM PST by aristeides
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To: aristeides
Chaplin may, or may not, have been a party member but he the nearest closest thing: an outright apologist for Stalin.

King, by contrast, often criticized Communism *as a philosophy and as applied." Chaplin never did. In fact, King powerful anti-Communist quotation which I posted many, many, times here is a more effective indictment of the philosophical basis of Communism than any penned by most freepers.

Unfortunately, every time I post this quote (taken from original sources not secondary hatchet jobs), it is greeted with total silence by the King bashers. They don't even want to consider that they have misjudged the man.

As I have said many times, King had his flaws and politically went off the deep end in the late 1960s. The claim that he was a communist, however, is pure fantasy.

42 posted on 01/25/2003 1:22:44 PM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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