Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam"
Words to heed even now. Especially now.
This not only seemed appropriate because of it's being his birthday weekend, but also because what he has to say will sound sadly familiar.
Dr. King talks about "those who would equate dissent with disloyalty," and about dark times "when high level authorities will use every method to silence dissent."
You will sadly hear much more ring true in what Dr. King had to say, as we have not progressed since his time but actually regressed, or at best, remained in roughly the same place.
Which may be why we now find ourselves in exactly the same situation as we did when feeble-minded conservatives in both parties spoke of "victory" without definition in that last fool's errand abroad, and a different yet equally idiotic generation of Kristols and Podoretzs predicted world chaos if we let those darn Commies rule in Vietnam--you know the country we now openly trade with.
