This is the MLK speech I listen to every year in celebration of his birthday. Likely this,

[kelliekat44]

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along with his speech and march in Memphis, is the real reason he was assassinated. It is long but well worth the true history lesson it teaches. I t speaks as much to our world and nation today as it did when first delivered.

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For those unfamiliar with the history contained in this speech:

http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/od/alliesenemies/a/The-Geneva-Accords-1954.htm

Entire text of this speech for those who are interested.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

[kelliekat44]

1. These words could well apply today and over the past 60 years to Iran, Iraq, ME, So. America,

Central America. Within this speech is more history on the seeds of what is going on today in the UK, France, Africa, ME, China, Russia...and the US.

The freedom marchers, protesters, anti-war, anti-poverty masses still speak out and politicians, heads of state world-wide still ignore them.

"... I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." MLK

[kelliekat44]

2. Kicking for the celebration today.

And adding links that demonstrate the same kind of US behavior and hiding of truth expressed by MLK in this speech on Vietnam as happened with Saddam concerning Iraq.

"Hanoi remembers how our leaders refused to tell us the truth about the earlier North Vietnamese overtures for peace, how the president claimed that none existed when they had clearly been made. Ho Chi Minh has watched as America has spoken of peace and built up its forces, and now he has surely heard the increasing international rumors of American plans for an invasion of the North. He knows the bombing and shelling and mining we are doing are part of traditional pre-invasion strategy. Perhaps only his sense of humor and of irony can save him when he hears the most powerful nation of the world speaking of aggression as it drops thousands of bombs on a poor, weak nation more than eight hundred -- rather, eight thousand miles away from its shores." MLK speech on Viet Nam war.

Tell me again why invading Iraq, killing Saddam and his family and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis is not a war crime?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2003_Saddam_Hussein_interview

Here are videos on that interview.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrSbnlxvLxURLMAz0pXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0bThodmlhBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1NNRTkyMF8x?p=saddam+hussein+dan+rather+interview

[Cha]

3. Kicking too.. mahalo kellie

[kelliekat44]

4. Thanks !

[Cha]

5. Happy Martin Luther King Day!

[oberliner]

6. Interesting to contemplate how he would be perceived today had he not been killed

What else would he have done in the 1970's and beyond - and would his legacy be different as a result?

[HappyMe]

7. k&r

[kelliekat44]

8. Kicking again. Electrifying! nt