The FReepers "celebrate" MLK day. A chilling reminder, as usual.

[Faygo Kid]

Lest any of us forget what is on the Dark Side, check the responses to a post claiming Dr. King as "their own." They speak for themselves.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559019/posts

To: sure_fine
The Black/Negro/"Afican-American"/Government "Employee(hacks)" liberals made "Dr" Martin Luther King Birthday a "Holiday" and in doing this we "lost" President Lincoln's Birthday as a national celebration. Thanks Alot LIBERAL HACKS!

5 posted on 01/16/2006 10:15:32 AM PST by zzen01
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[Seen the light]

1. Racist Freepers?

MY GOD, I'M SHOCKED!! :sarcasm:

Those people are so disgustingly sick, it's disturbing.

[mzteris]

30. By saying that phrase - you're being totally

redundant!

[shanti]

35. you'd be surprised

at the number of "black" republikkkans on black websites. it always amazes me.

[colonel odis]

2. their stupidity is unfathomable sometimes

[JeffR]

14. Sorry colonel

I disagree. It's unfathomable ALL the time.

[PatrioticLeftie]

3. Yeah...

We liberals and our futile sense of equality...

[melody]

4. the actual face of the modern GOP n/t

[cali]

5. I read that thread, but I didn't find it chilling.

I thought it was simultaneously hilarious and pathetic.

[Fenris]

6. I don't remember this being in the constitution...

To: Reagan Man

Actually it has nothing to do with racism. The federal government should not, and really was not intended to, be in the business of establishing national holidays by law. Most of the holidays we 'celebrate' these days were not signed into law until the 20th century. This goes for President's Day, MLK Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc., the lot of them. Get rid of mandatory national law recognizing them. Any holiday recognition clearly falls under powers of the states.

17 posted on 01/16/2006 10:32:00 AM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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[NoPasaran]

9. I wasn't aware that Mothers/Fathers Days were national holidays

Of course, the Post Office doesn't deliver mail on them---because they fall on Sundays!

[arcane1]

13. in my hometown it's celebrated as Lee/Jackson/King Day

yes, that's right- Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King are honored and celebrated on the same day :crazy:

[susu369]

22. We took a photograph last year of sign on bank door

Says:
In Observance of
Martin Luther King, Jr / Robert E. Lee Day
the Bank will be closed
Monday January 17th, 2005

We had to get a photograph to make sure we were not hallucinating...

[Fenris]

15. BWAHAHA

Evil liberals!

[BattyDem]

7. Well, since Lincoln DID issue the Emancipation Proclamation ...

I don't think he would mind at all that MLK's birthday is celebrated.

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Oy... their stupidity knows no bounds:

To: sure_fine

I tend to think, had MLK lived longer, he'd likely be a conservative today. I find his writings and speeches to be very inspiring. Letters from Birmingham jail are fantastic reads. His youngest daughter is an Elder in an Atlanta evangelical church. That's my say!

12 posted on 01/16/2006 1:22:37 PM EST by katieanna

:crazy:

[davidinalameda]

11. let's ignore Coretta and play up the fundie daughter

If Dr. King was alive, I'm betting that he would set the daughter right

[sakabatou]

19. Let him watch last night's Boondocks episode

[Faygo Kid]

12. Others are not nearly so subtle. . .

To: sure_fine
If MLK had lived, he'd today be running around calling President Bush a Nazi murderer for his policies on terrorism, he'd be demanding the release of all the terrorists in Gitmo, he'd be calling Alito a fascist who will roll back "civil rights" and "women's right to choose", and he'd be howling for quotas and reverse discrimination against whites.

There's a tendency among many conservatives to claim King as one of our own because he spoke of freedom, advocated a color blind society, and never got involved with the pro-abortion types. What they forget is that that was true of nearly EVERY left-winger in the 1960's.

Sure, they spoke of "freedom", but what did they mean? Free markets and traditional liberties? No, they meant the "freedom" to raid the treasury and do as they pleased without consequences.

They all spoke of being color blind back then, too. Liberal senators vowed to eat the entire Congressional Record if the civil rights laws they were passing led to quotas or reverse discrimination against whites. Only after these laws were solidly in place did they suddenly do a 180 degree turn. By then, King was dead, but had he been alive he'd have turned, too.

He'd likely also have jumped on the abortion bandwagon, as "Reverend" Jesse Jackson did the moment it became politically opportune to do so. Granted, I can't prove that, but I suspect it.

As for military issues, King was already on the anti-American side, supporting the pro-Communist anti-American crowd.

For that reason, plus his personal misconduct, I don't support the MLK holiday.





18 posted on 01/16/2006 10:32:50 AM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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[sakabatou]

21. Give this a hand for being so frickin ignorant

[AspenRose]

27. "personal misconduct"

Oh, like Newt Gingrich?

Dumb ass.

[Loonman]

10. Freepers hate non-white people

Pretty much.

[mzteris]

32. Nah, man

Freepers hate EVERYBODY - and most especially - themselves.

[Faygo Kid]

16. Their moderators have alerted the members to this thread. So, speak up.

Yep, we have been caught sharing. You can check it on the link; apparently the moderators are not overly proud of the discussion on this topic on FR. No surprise.

[Spirochete]

17. Freepers celebrate MLK day

on the 4th of April.

[depakid]

18. Sometimes I need to be reminded

of how sick many Americans are. Gets me motivated to finish my degree and find work abroad.

[Betsy Ross]

20. "work abroad"?

Did you miss Al Gore's speech today? Seems he pretty well covered the matter by saying that we are the only ones who can fight the fall of our democracy. If you check the news, you will notice that what happens in the US impacts the entire world so there ain't no place to run.

[depakid]

37. Game's already over here

Too many unique structural problems to think the system can be changed from within on the necessary scale, absent a crash and/or a collapse. In addition, too many people have been brought up uneducated and propagadized by the far right years of Reagan/Bush and Clinton's neoliberal economics. They don't remember what the US was like before the media was "deregulated" and prevented from lying.

The final nail in the coffin is the federal courts, which once Bush and the cowardly Dems are done, will be able to thwart any responsible reforms or much needed corporate regulation.

True, the US impacts the rest of the world- but the rest of the world's wising up. In the next 2 decades, American preeminance will be gone- and fighting for our ethnocentricim and unsustainable lifestyle ain't gonna go over well with potential allies.

[Brewman_Jax]

23. Racist freepers

is redundant. They're either whining that black people are taking all of their money, or succeeding and making them look bad. Why can't they pick one and stick with it? :shrug:


:rofl:

[Mutley]

24. Is this a 'War on MLK Day'?

:shrug:

Where's O'Reilly's outrage?!

[RandomKoolzip]

25. Are they reading this?

Good:

We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I have been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now.

I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land.

I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm not fearing any man.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord...."

[mandyky]

26. First of all Lincoln Day was in February

They combined Washington and Lincoln to be Presidents' Day.

I am not sure that change and adding MLK Day was anywhere near the same time, though.

Leave to the freepers, they could screw up a wet dream.

[AspenRose]

28. Right!

Washington and Lincoln had birthdays near each other, so they combined the days to commemorate both presidents!

Had NOTHING to do with MLK day!

Washington: Feb 22nd
Lincoln: Feb 12th

Maybe Freepers would LEARN SOMETHING lurking over here!

[Obamanaut]

29. Here it is for them. Do they research at all?

If the freeper quoted in the OP will follow the links provided, he’ll find that he ‘lost’ Lincoln’s birthday several years before Pres Reagan signed the MLKjr day bill.

http://www.patriotism.org/presidents_day/

<snip>In 1968, legislation (HR 15951) was enacted that affected several federal holidays. One of these was Washington's Birthday, the observation of which was shifted to the third Monday in February each year whether or not it fell on the 22nd. This act, which took effect in 1971, was designed to simplify the yearly calendar of holidays and give federal employees some standard three-day weekends in the process.

Apparently, while the holiday in February is still officially known as Washington's Birthday (at least according to the Office of Personnel Management), it has become popularly (and, perhaps in some cases at the state level, legally) known as "President's Day." This has made the third Monday in February a day for honoring both Washington and Lincoln, as well as all the other men who have served as president.<snip>

For the freeper, if you consult the link provided, you’ll see that Lincoln’s birthday while a legal holiday in some states, was never a federal holiday.

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Day

<snip>At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. It was observed for the first time on January 20, 1986.
On January 18, 1999, for the first time, Martin Luther King Day was officially observed in all fifty U.S. states. The day is marked by demonstrations for peace, social justice and racial and class equality, as well as a national day of volunteer community service.<snip>

[Charlie Brown]

31. This is perfect evidence that Bush's Emancipation Proc stunt was a shamn/t

[Charlie Brown]

33. LOL! Read this:

"Let me think, a near communist that had a penchant for being a whore master and beating white prostitutes as a conservative??????I don't think so."

Ummm, what?

and this:

"As to King's religion (and that of most Black Americans), they've never been treated as Fundamentalist chr*stians. Their white co-religionists didn't recognize them as co-religionists, and now the atheists and religion haters don't regard them as co-religionists of the loathesome "rednecks."

It is unfortunate that it took extreme radicals to do something that the Republian party should have done a hundred years earlier in giving Blacks full citizenship. It is also unfortunate that Black Fundamentalists are so blinkered in their outlook that aside from the race and welfare issues they don't seem to give a d@mn about what is going on in this country."

nice

"So pretty much what you are saying is, if you don't like and agree with Marxist Luther King, you're a racist/bigot.

Sounds like a left-wing charge to me."

[TahitiNut]

34. Everyone knows it's liberals who're against more than 10 national holidays

After all, everybody knows it's liberals that objected to limiting the work week to only 40 hours and 8 hours per day. Everybody knows it's liberals who insist that labor can only have 10 holidays and 10 vacation days every year. Everybody knows it's liberals that insist that corporate owners get over 50% of the value of what labor produces. Everybody knows it's liberals that keep the net federal minimum wage lower today than it's beeen in 50 years.

Yep. Everybody knows. :crazy: :dunce:

[CatholicEdHead]

36. WTF?

:wtf:

"To: puroresu
I have little doubt that King would be pushing for gay "marriage" were he alive today.

I sometimes wonder if FDR were alive would the (soon to be) 124-year old boy be out there in his wheelchair leading a bestiality rights parade.

<snip>
58 posted on 01/16/2006 11:07:48 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Shallach 'et `ammi veya`avduni!)
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[Rocknrule]

38. These people would've called MLK a "liberal commie traitor"

if he were alive today