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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-08-06 09:56 AM
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If the good Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King was alive....
What would he do?
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Niccolo_Macchiavelli Donating Member (641 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-08-06 10:04 AM
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1. shut down the country
with a general strike picketing of recruiting stations and repug party bases...i suppose
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-08-06 10:33 AM
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2. Organize, organize, organize...
and tell it like it is....

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence
In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S. military advisors in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru.

It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. 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.



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Geoff R. Casavant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-08-06 11:53 AM
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3. Tasteless joke alert
If he were alive, I expect he'd be frantically clawing at the inside of his coffin.

Now I will return to being an adult.
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