Skunkboy wrote:"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
-MLK
I believe that the main reason that MLK was killed was that he was starting to forge an alliance between the civil rights movement with the peace movement. It probably freaked the PTB out to think of these two social justice movements joining forces.
http://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/a ... -revol.php
And he was starting to unite blacks and whites - not just students & middle-class intellectuals, but workers above all -
and he was speaking out ever more clearly about the evils of the capitalist system per se.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee,
where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peac ... g-bio.html
That's why King had to be murdered. He wasn't content to propagate flabby uplift about Hope and Change, and they knew it.
I wish to god he was alive today. I wish he could see, and describe, what Robot Man has made out of his 'legacy'. And if there's ever going to be a General Strike in the US, then Martin Luther King Day (a day of nothing but flabby uplift, so far) would be an ideal day to start it.