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   From: rkoch@banmlkday.com   
      
   Today and tomorrow, children all over America, will likely spend   
   some portion of the day eulogizing a modern-day saint, who has   
   been canonized by the media.  Assemblies will be called, guest   
   speakers will be brought in, and even others will be “mobilized”   
   in memory of this supposedly greater-than-life hero.  Likewise,   
   on this day (an honor not even accorded the founder of the   
   United States) the media, on this day, will whip themselves up   
   into a frenzy of praise for the so-called “Reverend Doctor   
   Martin Luther King, Jr.”   
      
   But like all icons of modernity, who are held to lofty heights   
   by the sycophantic politicians and spineless media, let’s take a   
   closer look. Who was Martin Luther King, and is there more to   
   this man than meets the eye?   
      
   Let’s start with his titles, “Doctor” and “Reverend”.  According   
   to many sources, King, was a habitual plagiarist.  For instance,   
   in 1947, he delivered his first public sermon.   
      
   It is widely acknowledged today that this sermon was plagiarized   
   from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick   
   entitled “Life is What You Make It”. King’s first book, “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.   
      
   As if that weren’t enough, the four senior editors of “The   
   Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr” (available here from the   
   University of California Press) admit that: “Judged   
   retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his   
   writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of   
   plagiarism.”   
      
   Even 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 doctorate 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”.   
      
   So it appears that the “Doctor Reverend King” was neither truly   
   a doctor, nor a reverend, but neither was his real name “Martin   
   Luther”.  Born Michael King, his name was changed by his father   
   to “Martin Luther,” after the Protestant reformer.  He never   
   legally changed his name. To this day, he lived and died as   
   Michael King.  This, however, is a relatively small detail in   
   comparison to other, more shocking details of King’s life.   
      
   The late Samuel T. Francis, an iconoclastic columnist of the   
   late 20th century, quotes Charles D. Brennan, the former   
   Assistant Director of the FBI, as saying regarding King’s more   
   intimate life was characterized by “orgiastic and adulterous   
   escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in   
   his sexual abuse of women.”   
      
   Because King was suspected of links with communist agents (most   
   notably Stanley Levinson), under the order of U. S. Attorney   
   General Bobby Kennedy, the FBI wired King’s offices and hotel   
   rooms from 1963 to 1968.  The tapes showed that in Las Vegas,   
   King’s aids paid $100 each to prostitutes to join him in orgies;   
   they also show that in New York City, an intoxicated King   
   threatened a young White girl working for civil rights to submit   
   to his strange sexual tastes or he would jump from the 13th   
   floor window.   
      
   Despite the fact that this was common knowledge at the time, a   
   federal judge ordered that this damning evidence be sealed until   
   2027.  It should be noted that this kind of cover-up is not   
   insignificant.  At a time when the media posthumously maligned   
   Osama bin Laden and Colonel Mummar Gaddafi as borderline sexual   
   deviants, even without much evidence, the very same media goes   
   to the utmost lengths to disguise Michael King’s awful conduct.   
      
   Today, criticism of King’s lifestyle, even if they are mutually   
   exclusive of his worldview, are met with disdain.  At a time   
   when almost any living or historical figure can be cast as a   
   villain, Michael King still occupies a prominent place in the   
   pantheon of secular religion.   
      
   In America, any time a justification for any act is needed,   
   King’s name is invoked, much as the devoutly faithful might   
   invoke a saint’s intercession.  Perhaps we could only expect so   
   much from a society in which the only article of faith is   
   absolute egalitarianism.   
      
   As Francis pointed out: “In the new nation and the new creed of   
   which the King holiday serves as symbol, all institutions,   
   values, heroes, and symbols that violate the dogma of equality   
   are dethroned and must be eradicated. Those associated with the   
   South and the Confederacy are merely the most obvious violations   
   of the egalitarian dogma and thereform must be the first to go,   
   but they will by no means be the last.”   
      
   However, the iconclasts are finally speaking out, and with their   
   bold new introspection, the myths are finally coming tumbling   
   down.   
      
   http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2012/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-a-   
   false-idol/   
          
      
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