On Jan 18, 6:18*pm, Rusty Trombone wrote:
The Truth About "Martin Luther King, Jr."

WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things that
they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons, to deny the
people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But even more insidious
than the theft of the people's weapons was the theft of their history.
Official Communist "historians" rewrote history to fit the current
party line. In many countries, revered national heroes were excised
from the history books, or their real deeds were distorted to fit
Communist ideology, and Communist killers and criminals were converted
into official "saints." Holidays were declared in honor of the beasts
who murdered countless nations.

Did you know that much the same process has occurred right here in
America?

Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of
adulation for the so-called "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr."
King has even had a national holiday declared in his honor, an honor
accorded to no other American, not Washington, not Jefferson, not
Lincoln. (Washington and Lincoln no longer have holidays -- they share
the generic-sounding "President's Day.") A liberal judge has sealed
the
FBI files on King until the year 2027. What are they hiding? Let's
take
a look at this modern-day plastic god.

Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the time
only as "Daddy King." "Daddy King" named his son Michael. In 1935,
"Daddy King" had an inspiration to name himself after the Protestant
reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his congregation that
henceforth
they were to refer to him as "Martin Luther King" and to his son as
"Martin Luther King, Jr." None of this name changing was ever
legalized
in court. "Daddy" King's son's real name is to this day Michael King.

King's Brazen Cheating

We read in Michael Hoffman's "Holiday for a Cheater":

The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer
Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman
Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled "Life is What You Make It," according
to
the testimony of King's best friend of that time, Reverend Larry H.
Williams.

The first book that King wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom, - -was
plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according to
documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars Keith D.
Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow.

And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of
"The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official publication of
the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc.,
whose
staff includes King's widow Coretta), stated of King's writings at
both
Boston University and Crozer Theological Seminary: "Judged
retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his writings]
are tragically flawed by numerous instances of plagiarism....
Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his
major field of graduate study, systematic theology."

King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding God,"
written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar
S. Brightman, author of "The Finding of God."

Another of King's theses, "Contemporary Continental Theology," written
shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a
book by Walter Marshall Horton.

King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God
in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman," for which he
was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than fifty complete
sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer,
"The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."

According to "The Martin Luther King Papers", in King's dissertation
"only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on Tillich contain five
or more words that were King's own...."!

In "The Journal of American History", June 1991, page 87, David J.
Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says that
King's
wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his secretary, was an
accomplice in his repeated cheating. ("King's Plagiarism: Imitation,
Insecurity and Transformation," The Journal of American History, June
1991, p. 87)

Reading Garrow's article, one is led to the inescapable conclusion
that
King cheated because he had chosen for himself a political role in
which a PhD would be useful, and, lacking the intellectual ability to
obtain the title fairly, went after it by any means necessary. Why,
then, one might ask, did the professors at Crozer Theological Seminary
and Boston University grant him passing grades and a PhD? Garrow
states
on page 89: "King's academic compositions, especially at Boston
University, were almost without exception little more than summary
descriptions... and comparisons of other's writings. Nonetheless, the
papers almost always received desirable letter grades, strongly
suggesting that King's professors did not expect more...." The editors
of "The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers" state that "...the failure of
King's teachers to notice his pattern of textual appropriation is
somewhat remarkable...."

But researcher Michael Hoffman tells us "...actually the malfeasance
of
the professors is not at all remarkable. King was politically correct,
he was Black, and he had ambitions. The leftist [professors were]
happy
to award a doctorate to such a candidate no matter how much fraud was
involved. Nor is it any wonder that it has taken forty years for the
truth about King's record of nearly constant intellectual piracy to be
made public."

Supposed scholars, who in reality shared King's vision of a racially
mixed and Marxist America, purposely covered up his cheating for
decades. The cover-up still continues. From the "New York Times" of
October 11, 1991, page 15, we learn that on October 10th of that year,
a committee of researchers at Boston University admitted that, "There
is no question but that Dr. King plagiarized in the dissertation."
However, despite its finding, the committee said that "No thought
should be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree," an
action the panel said "would serve no purpose."

No purpose, indeed! Justice demands that, in light of his willful
fraud
as a student, the "reverend" and the "doctor" should be removed from
King's name.

Communist Beliefs and Connections

Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide
PhD, and his name isn't really "Martin Luther King, Jr." What's left?
Just a sexual degenerate, an America-hating Communist, and a criminal
betrayer of even the interests of his own people.

On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther
King and four others at a strange institution called the Highlander
Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The Highlander Folk School was a
Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (Communist Party
organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for
North Carolina). The leaders of this meeting with King were the
aforementioned Horton and West, along with Abner Berry and James
Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the Communist Party,
USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states
to initiate demonstrations and riots.

From 1955 to 1960, Martin Luther King's associate, advisor, and
personal secretary was one Bayard Rustin. In 1936 Rustin joined the
Young Communist League at New York City College. Convicted of
draft-dodging, he went to prison for two years in 1944. On January 23,
1953 the "Los Angeles Times" reported his conviction and sentencing to
jail for 60 days for lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion. Rustin
attended the 16th Convention of the Communist Party, USA in February,
1957. One month later, he and King founded the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, or SCLC for short. The president of the SCLC
was
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The vice-president of the SCLC was the
Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who was also the president of an
identified Communist front known as the Southern Conference
Educational
Fund, an organization whose field director, a Mr. Carl Braden, was
simultaneously a national sponsor of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee,
of which you may have heard. The program director of the SCLC was the
Reverend Andrew Young, in more recent years Jimmy Carter's ambassador
to the UN and mayor of Atlanta. Young, by the way, was trained at the
Highlander Folk School, previously mentioned.

Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized
the first of King's famous marches on Washington. The official organ
of
the Communist Party, "The Worker,- - openly declared the march to be a
Communist project. Although he left King's employ as secretary in
1961,
Rustin was called upon by King to be second in command of the much
larger march on Washington which took place on August 28, 1963.

Bayard Rustin's replacement in 1961 as secretary and advisor to King
was Jack O'Dell, also known as Hunter Pitts O'Dell. According to
official records, in 1962 Jack O'Dell was a member of the National
Committee of the Communist Party, USA. He had been listed as a
Communist Party member as early as 1956. O'Dell was also given the job
of acting executive director for SCLC activities for the entire
Southeast, according to the St. Louis "Globe-Democrat - -of October
26,
1962. At that time, there were still some patriots in the press corps,
and word of O'Dell's party membership became known.

What did King do? Shortly after the negative news reports, King fired
O'Dell with much fanfare. And he then, without the fanfare,
"immediately hired him again- - as director of the New York office of
the SCLC, as confirmed by the "Richmond News-Leader - -of September
27,
1963. In 1963 a Black man from Monroe, North Carolina named Robert
Williams made a trip to Peking, China. Exactly 20 days before King's
1963 march on Washington, Williams successfully urged Mao Tse-Tung to
speak out ...

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Chas