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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:06 PM Original message |
If the Civil Rights Movement happened today, Would Bush have already locked MLK up in Gitmo? |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. No, but he'd be marginalized by the media |
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Fresh_Start (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. yes to both; in Gitmo and marginalized NT |
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Kucinich4America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. Nah, they would just shoot him |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. The government back then did. |
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Vanje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
5. He wouldnt have needed to |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
6. No one would even know it was happening because the media wouldn't cover it. |
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iamjoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. Nah, But He'd Be On A No Fly List (eom) |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
8. he'd be a threat, protestors would be hosed down and tasered |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
9. In 1963 RFK had the FBI open an investigation |
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ngant17 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
10. He would have been targetted for assassination |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
11. If the Repiggies Controlled the Media in the 60's Like They Do Today… |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. The question seems to infer that the "civil rights movement" was/is a far more transient event than |
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berni_mccoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 03:34 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Thanks for that reminder Tahiti. I did not mean to phrase it that way, but it certainly |
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allalone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-21-08 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. nothing that obvious |
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