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   From: rkoch@banmlkday.com   
      
   By:Eugene Girin | January 20, 2015   
   In one of his most famous quotes, Winston Churchill described   
   Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma".   
   Today's America could be described as a country led by a   
   plagiarist, with the help of another plagiarist, which   
   celebrates a holiday in honor of a third plagiarist: Barrack   
   Obama, Joe Biden, and Martin Luther King.   
      
   That Martin Luther King was an inveterate plagiarist is beyond   
   doubt. As Theodore Pappas, formerly of Chronicles and now of   
   Encyclopædia Britannica estimated in his 1994 book The Martin   
   Luther King, Jr., Plagiarism Story (published by The Rockford   
   Institute) that 2/3 of "Dr." King's dissertation was plagiarized   
   - 45% of the first half and 21% of the second. But that is only   
   half the scandal. The first public revelation of King's   
   plagiarism came back in 1989 with the publication of an article   
   in the London Sunday Telegraph. Needless to say, the American   
   mainstream media, even in those less politically-correct days   
   conveniently ignored it. Only in January of 1991, thanks to an   
   article in Chronicles ("A Doctor in Spite of Himself: The   
   Strange Career of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dissertation"), did   
   the American public find out about the plagiarism of America's   
   secular saint. The dissertation was not the only thing King   
   plagiarized. Far from it. His famous "I Have a Dream" speech was   
   "borrowed" from Archibald Carey Jr.'s address to the GOP   
   convention in 1952.   
      
   The revelations in Chronicles led to feral attacks on Theodore   
   Pappas by the Establishment, described by Reed Irvine of   
   Accuracy in Media:   
      
   For his role in bringing this to the public's attention, Pappas   
   says he received three death threats, one left hook to the jaw   
   and 40 rejections from 40 publishers in 40 months. This is quite   
   a record.   
      
   And unsurprisingly, the mainstream media, including the   
   "conservative", "rightwing" Wall Street Journal joined efforts   
   to suppress the truth about "Dr." King's dissertation.   
      
   The Wall Street Journal, considered by some a conservative   
   newspaper, heard the story was breaking and ran its own piece --   
   a whitewash of the charges against King. Even the Journal's   
   editorial page tried to suppress the significance of the story   
   by insisting that it had to be covered in a "carefully   
   modulated" manner.   
      
   Writing in the New Republic magazine, Charles Babington would   
   later reveal that the Washington Post, the New York Times and   
   the New Republic itself all had known the facts about King's   
   plagiarism but refused to publish them. The Times eventually did   
   cover the issue but in a subsequent editorial suggested that the   
   plagiarism was somehow comparable to a politician using a ghost   
   writer for speeches.   
      
   Then there was King's pathological philandering; his demand for   
   a "minimum guaranteed income" from the federal government;   
   unabashed advocacy of big government socialism; and close   
   associations with leading communists. The fact that he is the   
   only person with a national American holiday established in his   
   honor speaks volumes about modern American society. Even in the   
   old Soviet Union, there were no holidays in honor of the   
   birthdays of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. As Yakov Smirnov used to   
   say: "America, what a country!"   
      
   https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/what-mlk-day-says-about-   
   todays-america/   
                
      
      
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