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   From: rkoch@banmlkday.com   
      
   WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things   
   that they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons,   
   to deny the people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But   
   even more insidious than the theft of the people's weapons was   
   the theft of their history. Official Communist "historians"   
   rewrote history to fit the current party line. In many   
   countries, revered national heroes were excised from the history   
   books, or their real deeds were distorted to fit Communist   
   ideology, and Communist killers and criminals were converted   
   into official "saints." Holidays were declared in honor of the   
   beasts who murdered countless nations.   
      
   Did you know that much the same process has occurred right here   
   in America?   
      
   Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy   
   of adulation for the so-called "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther   
   King, Jr." King has even had a national holiday declared in his   
   honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Washington,   
   not Jefferson, not Lincoln. (Washington and Lincoln no longer   
   have holidays -- they share the generic-sounding "President's   
   Day.") A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until   
   the year 2027. What are they hiding? Let's take a look at this   
   modern-day plastic god.   
      
   Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the   
   time only as "Daddy King." "Daddy King" named his son Michael.   
   In 1935, "Daddy King" had an inspiration to name himself after   
   the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his   
   congregation that henceforth they were to refer to him as   
   "Martin Luther King" and to his son as "Martin Luther King, Jr."   
   None of this name changing was ever legalized in court. "Daddy"   
   King's son's real name is to this day Michael King.   
      
   King's Brazen Cheating   
      
   We read in Michael Hoffman's "Holiday for a Cheater":   
      
   The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the   
   Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by   
   Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled "Life is   
   What You Make It," according to the testimony of King's best   
   friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams.   
      
   The first book that King wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom, - -was   
   plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according   
   to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars   
   Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow.   
      
   And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors   
   of "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official   
   publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent   
   Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King's widow Coretta),   
   stated of King's writings at both Boston University and Crozer   
   Theological Seminary: "Judged retroactively by the standards of   
   academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by   
   numerous instances of plagiarism.... Appropriated passages are   
   particularly evident in his writings in his major field of   
   graduate study, systematic theology."   
      
   King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding   
   God," written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of   
   theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of "The Finding of God."   
      
   Another of King's theses, "Contemporary Continental Theology,"   
   written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely   
   stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.   
      
   King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptions   
   of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman,"   
   for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than   
   fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation   
   of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's   
   Concept of God."   
      
   According to "The Martin Luther King Papers", in King's   
   dissertation "only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on   
   Tillich contain five or more words that were King's own...."!   
      
   In "The Journal of American History", June 1991, page 87, David   
   J. Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says   
   that King's wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his   
   secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. ("King's   
   Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation," The   
   Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87)   
      
   Reading Garrow's article, one is led to the inescapable   
   conclusion that King cheated because he had chosen for himself a   
   political role in which a PhD would be useful, and, lacking the   
      
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