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Title: Remembering MLK
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Break Point
URL Source: http://www.breakpoint.org/2018/04/breakpoint-remembering-mlk/
Published: Apr 4, 2018
Author: Chuck Colson
Post Date: 2018-04-04 13:17:04 by redleghunter
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Remembering MLK by: Chuck Colson Fifty years ago today, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Today on BreakPoint, we’ll share Chuck Colson’s thoughts on a great man and the idea of moral law. On April 4, 1968, the leader of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.,, was gunned down on his hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. It was a tragic, violent death of a great man of peace. To honor Dr. King’s legacy today, I want to share with you a BreakPoint commentary Chuck Colson aired on Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” The issues Dr. King raised about the nature of law, what constitutes an unjust law, and how we should respond to unjust laws are eerily pertinent today. Here’s Chuck Colson. “I have a dream,” he said, “that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” While we know of the speech, most people are unaware that King also penned one of the most eloquent defenses of the moral law: the law that formed the basis for his speech, for the civil rights movement, and for all of law, for that matter. In the spring of 1963, King was arrested for leading a series of massive non-violent protests against the segregated lunch counters and discriminatory hiring practices rampant in Birmingham, Alabama. While in jail, King received a letter from eight Alabama ministers. They agreed with his goals, but they thought that he should call off the demonstrations and obey the law. King explained why he disagreed in his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail. “One may well ask,” he wrote, “how can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer “is found in the fact that there are two kinds of laws: just laws … and unjust laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws,” King said, “but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” How does one determine whether the law is just or unjust? A just law, King wrote, “squares with the moral law of the law of God. An unjust law … is out of harmony with the moral law.” Then King quoted Saint Augustine: “An unjust law is no law at all.” He quoted Thomas Aquinas: “An unjust law is a human law not rooted in eternal or natural law.” This is the great issue today in the public square: Is the law rooted in truth? Is it transcendent, immutable, and morally binding? Or is it, as liberal interpreters argue, simply whatever courts say it is? Do we discover the law, or do we create it? Many think of King as a liberal firebrand, waging war on traditional values. Nothing could be further from the truth. King was a great conservative on this central issue, and he stood on the shoulders of Augustine and Aquinas, striving to restore our heritage of justice rooted in the law of God. Were he alive today, I believe he’d be in the vanguard of the pro-life movement. I also believe that he would be horrified at the way in which out of control courts have trampled down the moral truths he advocated. From the time of Emperor Nero, who declared Christianity illegal, to the days of the American slave trade, from the civil rights struggle of the sixties to our current battles against abortion, euthanasia, cloning, and same-sex “marriage,” Christians have always maintained exactly what King maintained. King’s dream was to live in harmony with the moral law as God established it. So this Martin Luther King Day, reflect on that dream—for it is worthy of our aspirations, our hard work, and the same commitment Dr. King showed.More than forty years ago, on August 28, 1963, a quarter million people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. They marched here for the cause of civil rights. And that day they heard Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, a speech in which he challenged America to fulfill her promise.
Another good piece from last night by Jason L. Riley (WSJ) is found here: Martin Luther King: We Can't Keep on blaming the white man
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#10. To: A Pole (#7)
OMG have you seen South Afika since blacks started ruling it? Nobody is safe black or white. Blacks are not better off in SA. That's just a fact. 50 SA are murdered each day. That's nearly 20k murders a year!!!
Yeah, but we get a day off from work. Maybe if somebody shot Obama, we'd get another day off.
No, the burden of proof is the obligation to present enough evidence to prove that your allegation is true. Pete and I and many others have already long researched, disassembled and discovered the truth of the matter.. Then please, share.
Nobody is safe black or white South Africa is in turmoil, millions of tribal people migrate to poor city neighborhoods and have to learn in one or two generations the ways of civilization that is 3000 years old. Hard task to catch up. South African blacks are not inferior as humans to me or you. Your ancestors after they started to get out of northern forests and dugouts were causing much worse havoc for centuries. But you cannot keep people in a cage for ever. Are you really a Christian? You will have to give account for your thoughts, words and deeds at the Judgement.
Be the Ostrich/Zombie you embrace. I understand your ilk... The Alternative Truth is after all much safer for you. It means you need not be ashamed of accepting lie after lie as you believe plausible deniability is preferable over accountability.
So, you've got nothing. It's ok, we both knew that already didn't we?
King was one of the premier advocates of communist revolution in this country. He cheated his way through school and repeatedly cheated on his wife. He was an absolute duplicious rotter euligised as a saint.
Clearly black people can manage themselves. But there is a clear issue of people who can not and never have. They were allowed to rule over people for racist reasons instead of doing the right thing. Like all good progressive policies it fucked everyone and did absolutely worst thing possible. Its really kinda funny because SA was never really a black place and really was not populated until the Boers came in and made the land habitable for living. Now that the Boers make it a place people wanted to live people claim ownership and are trying to steal it in the name of racism. Progressives made it happen and now we have a place that does not work for anyone. What is there to think and say?
Cognitive dissonance is no excuse for continued willful ignorance. IF you want to disprove the facts regarding MLK -- and what three posters have already acknowledged AS factual -- you'll have to do you own leg work on the infinite online resources at your fingertips. Otherwise you're just one more disingenuous Lefty who can't handle the truth.
What are YOU smoking, Comrade? Commies do NOTHING BUT undermine the peace and create division and strife. EVERYWHERE. Can you possibly be THIS ignorant with respect to Communism?? The ANC have DESTROYED South Africa, had necklaced THOUSANDS of Whites and political opponents (both white AND black), and now yor precious Commies are looting, raping, and pillaging white-owned farms, proprieties without compensation. They did some good things. The world isn't black and white with permanently assigned roles for the guys in black and white hats as is in the Pete's hermetic world. No, but on the measure of Communism, HE is as right as can be. And you 100% WRONG. Btw, the ping to Comrade Jameson was a nice touch.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/11/04/jfk-files-link-mlk-jr-to-multiple-affairs- say-possibly-fathered-child-out-wedlock.html "The data, part of the JFK files recently released by the National Archives, also includes the assertion that singer Joan Baez was among the multiple women with whom King allegedly had affairs, the New York Daily News reported. Described in the 20-page report is a "two-day drunken sex orgy in Washington, D.C." that was linked to an event that King attended, the Washington Examiner reported. The dossier cites information obtained from “a responsible Los Angeles individual,” who was said to be a relative of King’s alleged lover -- who was described as the wife of a prominent black dentist. The source said King may have fathered a baby girl with the woman, the Daily News reported. "
Nobody is safe black or white. Blacks are not better off in SA. That's just a fact. 50 SA are murdered each day. That's nearly 20k murders a year!!! FACTS!! Do NOT complicate the fevered minds of Commie-Leftists with those!! It's unfair because inconvenient facts don't count for Utopian Marxists. ONLY ALLOWED: Riding Unicorns and hand-holding on a mountain under a rainbow like on one of those old Coke commercials.
Hoo-boy... Jameson: "But...but....Dat's FOX News. They're fake." /insanity
That was a repost of wpo I believe that fox did.
The Boers (aka Whitey) BUILT the modern cities which you claim are the destination of nearby tribesmen. SA is in "turmoil" precisely because it's black Commie ruling class refused to evolve and progress despite the HUGE head start the White Boers gave them by BUILDING EVERYTHING and setting up a highly functioning economy and government. What its citizenry will learn (as whites are driven from South Africa) will have to be started from scratch all over again. That nation will be cratered like Rhodesia. Thanks to your Commie system and thanks to racist hate. South African blacks are not inferior as humans to me or you. Your ancestors after they started to get out of northern forests and dugouts were causing much worse havoc for centuries. But you cannot keep people in a cage for ever. Stunning. Just stunning. ALL you Commies ever want to do is "cage" people. As to your fictionally contrived "history," let's just be kind and say...Your Communist "education" was pathetic. Are you really a Christian? You will have to give account for your thoughts, words and deeds at the Judgement. Just when I thought your thoughts and post couldn't get any more absurd, you pull out the "YOU'RE-NOT-A-CHRISTIAN!" card?? Justified's "words" were the truth. YOU are the one appears to take great liberty's with the truth. Does your Communist ideology/demogoguery trump Faith in your world? As to "deeds" and "judgment," it doesn't appear you know much about the Gospel.
THAT. IS. THE . TRUTH. Its really kinda funny because SA was never really a black place and really was not populated until the Boers came in and made the land habitable for living. Now that the Boers make it a place people wanted to live people claim ownership and are trying to steal it in the name of racism. Progressives made it happen and now we have a place that does not work for anyone. What is there to think and say? Absolutely spot on. One more thing -- let's stop calling them "Progressives" and refer to these thieves, murderers, thugs by who they really are: FASCISTS who are COMMUNISTS. The entire American SJW/Antifa/BLM/Liberal/Democrat/Queer Movement are all on that same page. They operate on the principle of intimidation, coercion, threats, envy, and covetousness. Anything BUT "Justice" or the priciples of the Ten Commandments.
Yeah but... "social issues don't win elections".
You follow the "Gospel" of Calvin.
Don't be ignorant. I have no interest in disproving anything. I simply believe that sneeky and your claims are questionable, and require proof. what three posters have already acknowledged AS factual So that's your proof? The opinions of 3 old farts on a chat board???
Weak.... A "dossier" from “a responsible Los Angeles individual,” published by "the Daily News" - yet lacking a valid URL... and finally spewed forth second hand from fox news......... compelling..........
You must be either a banker or a government employee - the rest of us working stiffs didn't get the day off. That's the theory,but nobody really knows what heshe dug up. Hoover turned out to be one of the rarest things in the known universe,an honest crook. None of his blackmail files have ever surfaced AFAIK. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
There is claim that there is taped evidence of those affairs. Believe what you will I do not care. JFK files link MLK Jr. to multiple affairs Scroll down this page. Should see the article. Not sure why it will not pop up(Must be google again! ;))? Its not very far down and on the left side.
I don't believe you. And you think I actually care? Please back up your claims with verifiable proof. Bite me! I don't work for free. Besides,if you are even a tenth as bright as you seem to THINK you are,you could have verified what I wrote in the time it took you to get snarky. Unfortunately...... Thanks You're welcome. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Can't argue with that. He said so rationally. Logically. Reasonably. Without resorting to thug-ism. Well,it's not like he had much choice if he wanted to get heard. If he had gotten militant the press would have stopped calling,and the bags of gold from Moscow would have stopped showing up on his doorstep. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
You mean it's a world of "comrades",comrade? In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
There were even reports said to have been leaked by the Feeb agents that followed him around to bug him and record every word he whispered that he was beating a blonde whore in his hotel room the night before he died,and shouting "I ain't no Knee-grow now,am I,bitch?" In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
HEY! Watch it! What are you going to do next,tell him there ain't no Santa? In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Yeah,and at least a thousand bridges,highways,high schools,and other public buildings named something like "Barack Obomber Hi Skool,where dey keeps de white boys". In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
BTW,how come nobody ever mentions there were NO BLACK TRIBES LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WHEN THE BOERS MOVED IN? They moved there for the improved working conditions created by the white man,and to not face potential starvation every year. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
It's ok, we both knew that already didn't we? Good one,comrade! ROFLMAO! You are living proof that ignorance is it's own reward. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
True,but I prefer the simpler and more accurate title of "Regressives" for those asshats because their dream is to bring the entire world back to being a tribal society ran by hereditary dictators that tell "the people" what to do and think. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Weak.... A "dossier" from “a responsible Los Angeles individual,” published by "the Daily News" - yet lacking a valid URL... and finally spewed forth second hand from fox news......... compelling.......... Don't you have a Tan Klan meeting to attend? In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Thanks a good idea! I think for now on I will because that is really who they are.
Thanks a good idea! I think for now on I will because that is really who they are. You are welcome,and I hope others pick up on it,also. We need to shine the light of truth on those cockroaches. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Can you or I prove it. Not any more than we can prove it rained two days ago. South Africa was mostly unihabited originally. However it would turn to the plow and made a good resupply area for ships sailing around the horn of Africa.
Very simple, because local tribes lived there for tens of thousands of years before Bantu (Zulu, Xhosa), Dutch, British invasions. It is how these indigenous people look: They have very ancient genetic setup, while other peoples migrated from Africa north and west, with gene pool diverging giving rise to the white and yellow races, "San people" share some genes with the East.
You mean like Palestine before Jewish settlers? ;)
Actually, about a third of private business are closed on MLK day.
Very simple, because local tribes lived there for tens of thousands of years before Bantu (Zulu, Xhosa), Dutch, British invasions. WOW! You have color photo from the 17th century! BTW,the Bantu and San are not of the same genetic group as the African blacks. Yeah,there were a few scattered Bantu and San wandering around in the vast area that is now called South Africa,but so few it was virtually uninhabited. The ancestors of the people that control South Africa today were from the big norther tribes of black Africans,not the Bantu or San. In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
Actually American Communist WERE zealously supporting civil rights for the blacks in USA and in South Africa. They did some good things.
#11. To: sneakypete (#1)
#12. To: Liberator (#8)
The burden of proof (or dis-proof) is on YOU.
#13. To: Justified (#10)
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OMG have you seen South Afika since blacks started ruling it?
#14. To: Jameson (#12)
#15. To: Liberator, sneakypete (#14)
#16. To: redleghunter (#0)
#17. To: A Pole (#13)
South Africa is in turmoil, millions of tribal people migrate to poor city neighborhoods and have to learn in one or two generations the ways of civilization that is 3000 years old. Hard task to catch up.
#18. To: Jameson (#12)
#19. To: A Pole, sneakypete, Justified, Jameson (#7)
Actually American Communist WERE zealously supporting civil rights for the blacks in USA and in South Africa.
#20. To: Liberator, Jameson, sneakypete (#5)
#21. To: Justified, A Pole (#10)
OMG have you seen South Afika since blacks started ruling it?
#22. To: Justified, Jameson, sneakypete (#20)
#23. To: Liberator (#22)
#24. To: A Pole, Justified (#13)
South Africa is in turmoil, millions of tribal people migrate to poor city neighborhoods and have to learn in one or two generations the ways of civilization that is 3000 years old. Hard task to catch up.
#25. To: Justified, A Pole (#17)
Clearly black people can manage themselves. But there is a clear issue of people who can not and never have. They were allowed to rule over people for racist reasons instead of doing the right thing. Like all good progressive policies it fucked everyone and did absolutely worst thing possible.
#26. To: rlk (#16)
cheated his way through school and repeatedly cheated on his wife. He was an absolute duplicious rotter euligised as a saint.
#27. To: Liberator (#24)
As to "deeds" and "judgment," it doesn't appear you know much about the Gospel.
#28. To: Liberator (#18)
IF you want to disprove the facts regarding MLK
#29. To: Justified (#20)
The dossier cites information obtained from “a responsible Los Angeles individual,” who was said to be a relative of King’s alleged lover -- who was described as the wife of a prominent black dentist. The source said King may have fathered a baby girl with the woman, the Daily News reported. "
#30. To: no gnu taxes (#11)
Yeah, but we get a day off from work.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#31. To: redleghunter (#2)
Which is what J.E. Hoover dug up right?
#32. To: Jameson (#29)
#33. To: Jameson (#3)
#34. To: Liberator (#4)
King: “One may well ask, how can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?”..."There are two kinds of laws: just laws … and unjust laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
#35. To: A Pole (#7)
The world isn't black and white with permanently assigned roles for the guys in black and white hats as is in the Pete's hermetic world.
#36. To: Liberator (#8)
Obviously, Pete and I and many others have already long researched, disassembled and discovered the truth of the matter, whch is already well-known. It's shame, but it is what it is.
#37. To: Justified, APole (#10)
OMG have you seen South Afika since blacks started ruling it?
#38. To: no gnu taxes (#11)
Maybe if somebody shot Obama, we'd get another day off.
#39. To: Justified, APole (#10)
OMG have you seen South Afika since blacks started ruling it?
#40. To: Jameson (#15)
So, you've got nothing.
#41. To: Liberator (#25)
One more thing -- let's stop calling them "Progressives" and refer to these thieves, murderers, thugs by who they really are: FASCISTS who are COMMUNISTS.
#42. To: Jameson (#29)
The dossier cites information obtained from “a responsible Los Angeles individual,” who was said to be a relative of King’s alleged lover -- who was described as the wife of a prominent black dentist. The source said King may have fathered a baby girl with the woman, the Daily News reported. "
#43. To: sneakypete (#41)
True,but I prefer the simpler and more accurate title of "Regressives" for those asshats
#44. To: Justified (#43)
True,but I prefer the simpler and more accurate title of "Regressives" for those asshats
#45. To: sneakypete (#39)
They moved there for the improved conditions created by the white man
#46. To: sneakypete (#39)
how come nobody ever mentions there were NO BLACK TRIBES LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WHEN THE BOERS MOVED IN?
#47. To: rlk (#45)
South Africa was mostly unihabited originally.
#48. To: Deckard (#30)
#49. To: A Pole (#46)
how come nobody ever mentions there were NO BLACK TRIBES LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA WHEN THE BOERS MOVED IN?
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