Nearly 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., his struggle for peace lives on.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (PNN) - January 15, 2018 - When most people think of the great man, born Michael King on January 15, 1929, they see an advocate for peace, who is celebrated by the Fascist Police States of Amerika government - honored every year in January, on the third Monday.
However, what the government tells us and what this great man did are two separate stories. Dr. King’s position as the leader of the Civil Rights Movement began after his election as spokesman for the Montgomery Improvement Association in December of 1955. What also started in that December of 1955 was the FBI’s investigation into him.
Like all those who stand against government-sanctioned violence, Dr. King was an enemy of the State. The fact that he’s celebrated today by the same State that persecuted him is quite Orwellian.
According to a report out of Stanford University titled Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Global Freedom Struggle, the FBI had it out for Dr. King as soon as he began making waves.
The Amerikan Gestapo Federal Bureau of Investigation division (FBI) began monitoring Martin Luther King, Jr., in December 1955, during his involvement with the Montgomery bus boycott, and engaged in covert operations against him throughout the 1960s. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was personally hostile toward King, believing that the civil rights leader was influenced by Communists. This animosity increased after April 1964, when King called the FBI “completely ineffectual in resolving the continued mayhem and brutality inflicted upon the Negro in the deep South.” Under the FBI’s domestic counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO), King was subjected to various kinds of FBI surveillance that produced alleged evidence of extramarital affairs, though no evidence of Communist influence.
With a State that owes its very existence to the monopoly it holds on the use of violence, anyone who is pro-peace is a potential threat. This was the case in the 20th Century just as it is the case in the 21st Century. The fact that Amerikans take off work one day in January does not negate the reality that this struggle continues.
Dr. King’s activism was often met with brutal backlash from terrorist pig thug cops. Just like the protesters of today who peacefully march in solidarity to end terrorist pig thug cop violence, the protesters of the 50s and 60s were met with violence from the terrorist pig thug cops.
Attacks against non-violent protesters are nothing new. In the 60s, as the marches increased, so did the attacks against non-violent demonstrators.
“There may be some tear gas ahead. But I say to you today that I’d rather die on the highways of Alabama than make a butchery of my conscience,” said Dr. King in his famous speech just prior to the Selma-Montgomery march in which protesters were met with such violence from terrorist pig thug cops that the day would be forever remembered as “Bloody Sunday”.
The first march took place on March 7, 1965, and it gained the nickname “Bloody Sunday” after its 600 marchers were attacked at the Edmund Pettus Bridge after leaving Selma; State terrorist pig thug cops and county posse attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas.
Does this type of terrorist pig thug cop reaction to protests sound familiar?
Dr. King was no stranger to terrorist pig thug cops and being arrested. In fact, during his 12-year run as the leader of the civil rights movement, he was arrested 30 times.
Today, there is a good chance Dr. King would be referred to as a “thug” by a large portion of society - and terrorist pig thug cops - for his activism.
Dr. King, like many of the protesters of today, stood against State violence and war. Those who wage the wars and initiate the violence, delegating a single day in January to honor a man who stood against their very tactics, are defamatory to this struggle for peace, to say the least.
So while you are out there today, enjoying the day off, remember that this struggle is far from over.
As long as innocence is lost to those who claim to protect it, the conflict remains. As long as people of all races are harassed, kidnapped, locked in cages, or killed over victimless crimes, our strife will persist.
Not until the corruptions ceases, not until all the troops are brought home, not until a person can do with his own body as he sees fit, not until the brute force changes to compassion, will the perpetual struggle of Dr. King and all those before and after him be complete.
