1/15/18

MLK Day and the Freedom to Be Wrong About Moral and Political Issues

Each year when the milkman rings in the dead of January, some Americans choose to pause to consider how the only American with a national holiday named for him earned it. Others reach for a bowl of chips and guacamole or they may also watch football or play video games of less value than chess for the creative mind.

Martin Luther King, although named importunately for a democracy that revolted against a tyrannical, oppressive and evil British King and his minions with ancestors that brought African slaves to America to toil in abject misery on their vast aristocratic land grant plantations, embodied the American tradition of individual civil and human rights-self sovereignty-with none above him socially except for God, as a fundamental inalienable principle. Today it is important to remember that the Dream speech was about judging people on the basis of their content of character rather than party affiliation, skin color, foreign immigrant background or ignorance about macro-economics except as that comprises an aspects of character content. Martin Luther King was not a derm or gender, much less a perversion based leader seeking to advance special political interests. Instead he sought general equality for all people who are citizens of the nation equally within the law. He might have hated those that regard themselves as above the laws of the United States, and cross the border to import devastating high-quality meth to which users return like bouncing water birds a year after kicking the habit.

Martin Luther King probably would have respected the fact that President Donald Trump did not take sides in the Charlottesville Klan march conflict where professional agitators clashed with KKK or neos legally staging a march regardless of his personal opinion about the political ideas of the marchers. A President should be the Chief executive officer of the constitution of the United States and let Congress make the laws. What the President should not do is to take sides and stimulate conflict himself and subvert the legal paradigm of full constitutional rights for all citizens. If some have extremist opinions as those of some southern pseudo-Christians and atheists that homosexual marriage is o.k. if advocated by a black President who also supports abortion, the president must respect those misguided, wayward souls and their right to be wrong. I cannot believe that Dr. King would have urged his congregation at Ebenezer baptist to vote for a homo-marriage and abortion advocate, each of which are in stark contrast to the character of the Bible.

Dr. King would have respected the law however, after it was made law, except as he saw a need to violate an unjust law that seemed out of character with the U.S. Constitution. He would not have supported all sorts of clandestine organized crime designers exploiting the poor, nor organizations that victimize individuals illegally just because they are powerful and can get away with it. In the present tech era innumerable opportunities exist for national and international organized crime and narcotics-even human-trafficking that can be resisted only by those respecting rule of all and the sovereignty of individual rights and the national sovereignty of the U.S. border. Dr. King would have recognized easily that the primary responsibility of President Trump is to look out for the interests of the people of the United States rather than those of the globe with so many evil national leaders abroad as there are. President trump isn’t supposed to help MS 13 of El Salvador infiltrate narcotics traffickers into the U.S. heartland, nor support the Sinaloa Cartel’s expansion plans to bring more billions of dollars from corrupt Americans to Mexican gangs that corrupt Mexican civil society. MLK was a realist I his day, rather than a posturing, pompous pretender posing for camera and making silly, divisive, irrelevant speeches that had little effect on the socio-economic well-being of whatever people he represented needed.

MLK saw that his people needed freedom from vermin in local and state government that had the power to intimidate and repress ordinary Americans going about their lives. Today the primary problems with that are wise-guy globalists that would create a U.S. branch of a global plutocratic society lording it over a debased U.S. population. The United States has 330 million souls already---it doesn’t need to double that or add chunks of a million here and five or ten million years. Mexico doesn’t need that and in fact no one does with the limited and rather poorly used resources of the earth in 2018. responsible and stable national ecological economic policy needs to develop with solutions for all the basic problems of poverty and oppression solved right off. The national environment need be conserved and recovered too, as if the Earth were to be a place with a healthy wild element that can exist for thousands of years into the future rather than disappearing within a few decades more.

Would MLK have even been able to have a Holiday named for him in 2018, or would a reputation as being a little fast with women have taken him down? Could he have survived the intense feminine scrutiny of the day or would he have been thrown out with former Senator Al Franken into the dust bin of history as a chauvinist pig? How the content of character issues of tomorrow play out will be interesting to observe.

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