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My current book, The Democrat Murder of America, has a section that deals with Dr. Martin Luther King. Most people are aware of his “I Have A Dream” speech. My co-author, Sheriff Richard Mack, and I believe this famous speech alone was likely not what led to his killing. We think another speech, given almost four years later on April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church in New York, was the reason he was killed.
He gave the speech exactly one year before his assassination. His closest friends and staff called it his finest and most powerful speech, but it was also his most controversial. It is known today as the “Beyond Vietnam” speech. Most Americans have never heard of this powerful speech.
Fifteen years after King’s assassination, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation proclaiming Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday, and another 17 years passed before it was recognized by all 50 states. Schools, banks, and all government offices close the third Monday of January as we honor the memory and message of Dr. King. The legislation for MLK Day designates it as “A day on, not a day off.” It is intended to be a day of remembrance and activism, and Americans are encouraged to find common causes and ways to improve their communities.
In our book, The Democrat Murder of America, we raise the question, Will anyone play the historic “Beyond Vietnam” speech as they celebrate MLK Day? Not likely.
Dr. King struggled with the speech as he wrote it in the days leading up to delivering it. I invite you to read transcripts and commentaries available from many sources online, but here are some excerpts from the dissertation, given to a standing-room-only crowd made up mostly of White people: “I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government…”
King said, “If America’s soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read, Vietnam.”
The morning after he delivered this speech, the national media and many politicians condemned Dr. King as a traitor and a liar. They labeled it his anti-government rant. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover used the speech to justify illegal monitoring, wiretapping, and surveillance of the American Baptist preacher.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was enraged by Dr. King’s accusations, and for good reason. JFK tried to prevent the Vietnam War, but as soon as he took over the presidency after Kennedy’s assassination, LBJ did the opposite. One has to deal with this question, “Did the Democrats want the war in order to gain power and to continue to expand their power and control of the nation?”
As reported in the Pentagon Papers, through lies and misinformation, Johnson dedicated his presidency to sending hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops into Asia to fight in a politically fabricated war where among many other atrocities and waste of human life Black soldiers were “given the honor to serve” and used as shields and pawns for white soldiers. That was one of the reasons Muhamed Ali refused to answer his federal draft notice. Ali was charged criminally for failing to go to Vietnam but was later exonerated by the United States Supreme Court.
Prior to the speech, King and Johnson were friends. But afterward, LBJ publicly criticized King’s Riverside Church speech. Even some people within the Civil Rights movement spoke out against King.
The criticism and attacks against Dr. King were so widespread that he could not deal with it all. Sources close to him reported he felt lonely and depressed. His doctor suggested that he seek psychiatric counseling, but his staff warned him not to do so because they feared his arch enemy, the FBI, would discover it and depict him as unstable and crazy. So, Dr. King refused the counseling.
The $39 trillion question – the amount of our current national debt, thanks to corrupt politicians spending money we do not have is simply this – “Has corruption within the federal government and FBI decreased since the 1960’s?”
Lamentably, no. Things have gotten even worse. America is run by the bullying and cruelty of Democrat bureaucrats who seek to control our lives with excessive regulations and policies. Justice is often absent, and corrupt politics rule the courts and legislatures. Our borders are controlled by cartel gangs, and international terrorists have infiltrated our country by the hundreds of thousands. And all this to make certain that 30 million illegal aliens can be added to the voter rolls nationwide. All of this destruction at the hands of Democrats.
I believe Dr. King’s statement, that the soul of America is being poisoned, has proven prophetic. The increase in crime, drugs, human trafficking, murders, sexual exploitation of children, the lack of national security, and fabricated false-flag wars are collateral damage of those who have orchestrated this chaos, with their primary goal being the ultimate destruction of our own country the Democrats.
Dr. Martin Luther King told the truth in 1967, and one year later an assassin’s bullet killed him. James Earl Ray was accused of King’s murder; he even initially confessed to it. But just days later he recanted his confession, proclaimed his innocence, and demanded a trial. The government refused to give him one! No doubt they feared such a trial might expose too much. MLK’s son, Dexter King, met with James Earl Ray in prison. Dexter asked Ray directly if he had killed his father, and Ray said he did not.
Dexter King then said, “I believe you and my family believes you.”
The King family testified in a court of law, pleading with their own government to allow James Earl Ray to have a trial. But the request was denied. Why would the government refuse a trial that had the complete support of the widow and fatherless children of Dr. King? Why?
Well, take a big guess who the King family thought had a hand in the assassination of their father and husband. That’s right! The Democratic Party, which King himself called the greatest purveyor of violence in the world, and murderers of America.
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