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presence
08-24-2013, 07:57 AM
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/24/march-washington-50th-anniversary-martin-luther-king/2693667/


WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands gathered early Saturday on the nation's "front yard," the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the Rev. Martin Luther King 50 years ago in his "I Have a Dream" speech.

BlackTerrel
08-24-2013, 03:23 PM
Would have loved to go. If I was East Coast I would have tried to make it.

Christian Liberty
08-24-2013, 03:28 PM
That they do this at the Lincoln Memorial is downright disgusting.

I wouldn't have attended.

compromise
08-24-2013, 03:28 PM
Rand Paul is like MLK without the socialism. In the future, hundreds of thousands will gather at the Jefferson memorial to commemorate him.

BlackTerrel
08-24-2013, 03:30 PM
That they do this at the Lincoln Memorial is downright disgusting.

I wouldn't have attended.

Washington Memorial would have been more fitting?

Christian Liberty
08-24-2013, 03:33 PM
Washington Memorial would have been more fitting?

I don't really like the concept of Memorials period, but the Lincoln Memorial is exceptionally disgusting because the man was a murderous tyrant.

jdmyprez_deo_vindice
08-24-2013, 03:42 PM
I don't really like the concept of Memorials period, but the Lincoln Memorial is exceptionally disgusting because the man was a murderous tyrant.

Must spread some rep before giving it to you again.

jdmyprez_deo_vindice
08-24-2013, 03:43 PM
Maybe next time they should find a Karl Marx memorial to hold it at.

Antischism
08-24-2013, 04:12 PM
Maybe next time they should find a Karl Marx memorial to hold it at.

At least Karl Marx wasn't a murderer.

MelissaWV
08-24-2013, 04:13 PM
Organizers expected 100,000 people to attend the rally and march from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, passing by the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

This IS rather symbolic.

enhanced_deficit
08-24-2013, 04:30 PM
Rand Paul is like MLK without the socialism.

Did MLK ever call Israeli blockade Palestinians an act of war or opposed US aid used to occupy Palestinian land?

if not, they are not same.

MLK probably would have seen Obama as a war criminal though. RP probably sees him that way too.

Tywysog Cymru
08-24-2013, 05:16 PM
MLK probably would have seen Obama as a war criminal though. RP probably sees him that way too.

If MLK was alive today he would be hated by both main parties, and would have thought of Iraq and Afghanistan the same way he thought of Vietnam.

BlackTerrel
08-24-2013, 05:20 PM
I don't really like the concept of Memorials period, but the Lincoln Memorial is exceptionally disgusting because the man was a murderous tyrant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery

What was Washington?


Although Washington personally opposed the institution of slavery after the American Revolutionary War, he had no tolerance for slave revolts and in 1791 as President he authorized emergency financial and military relief to French slave owners in Haiti to suppress a slave rebellion.

Sending foreign aid to suppress a slave rebellion.

BlackTerrel
08-24-2013, 05:21 PM
If MLK was alive today he would be hated by both main parties, and would have thought of Iraq and Afghanistan the same way he thought of Vietnam.

His views would probably be similar to those of his son - who spoke at this event.

FrankRep
08-24-2013, 05:23 PM
At least Karl Marx wasn't a murderer.

His ideas lead to millions of deaths under the banner of Communism.

Antischism
08-24-2013, 05:43 PM
His ideas lead to millions of deaths under the banner of Communism.

If you truly believe that, then you've never actually studied Marxism and believe a perverted version of Marxism under the banner of "communism" is true to its original form. That's like saying Jesus Christ is responsible for military interventionism or atrocities under his name/the name of God. That the inquisition means Christianity and Jesus stand for murder. It's a silly, ill-informed argument. Might as well believe that cronyism/corporatism is true capitalism if you're going to make this argument.

Christian Liberty
08-24-2013, 05:53 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery

What was Washington?



Sending foreign aid to suppress a slave rebellion.

A bad choice, but not even nearly the same scale.

If you truly believe that, then you've never actually studied Marxism and believe a perverted version of Marxism under the banner of "communism" is true to its original form. That's like saying Jesus Christ is responsible for military interventionism or atrocities under his name/the name of God. That the inquisition means Christianity and Jesus stand for murder. It's a silly, ill-informed argument. Might as well believe that cronyism/corporatism is true capitalism if you're going to make this argument.

While this is true, real communism would lead to mass starvation.

bolil
08-24-2013, 08:00 PM
A bad choice, but not even nearly the same scale.


While this is true, real communism would lead to mass starvation.

Well, maybe. It has never really been tried.

FrankRep
08-24-2013, 09:03 PM
If you truly believe that, then you've never actually studied Marxism and believe a perverted version of Marxism under the banner of "communism" is true to its original form. That's like saying Jesus Christ is responsible for military interventionism or atrocities under his name/the name of God. That the inquisition means Christianity and Jesus stand for murder. It's a silly, ill-informed argument. Might as well believe that cronyism/corporatism is true capitalism if you're going to make this argument.

I have read the Communist Manifesto many times and it's quite frightening.