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enhanced_deficit
10-17-2013, 05:54 PM
SWC plant of neocons knows how to pick em:

Thursday, Jan 13, 2011 05:56 PM EST
Obama official: MLK would love our wars! (http://www.salon.com/2011/01/13/obama_official_mlk_supports_our_wars/)

A top Pentagon official says the antiwar civil rights leader would support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

http://media.salon.com/2011/01/obama_official_mlk_would_love_our_wars-460x307.jpg (http://media.salon.com/2011/01/obama_official_mlk_would_love_our_wars.jpg)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Right: Jeh C. Johnson

(UPDATED)With Martin Luther King Jr. Day right around the corner, attempts to misuse and/or whitewash his legacy are to be expected, particularly on the right.

But this (http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62448), from Defense Department general counsel Jeh Johnson (http://www.defense.gov/bios/biographydetail.aspx?biographyid=173), is brazen even in the annals of misappropriations of King:

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2011 – If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, would he understand why the United States is at war?
Jeh C. Johnson, the Defense Department’s general counsel, posed that question at today’s Pentagon commemoration of King’s legacy.

“I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’s military should not and cannot lay down its arms and leave the American people vulnerable to terrorist attack,” he said.
Johnson goes on to argue that American soldiers play the role of the Biblical Good Samaritan cited by King because they “have made the conscious decision to travel a dangerous road and personally stop and administer aid to those who want peace, freedom and a better place in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in defense of the American people.”
Journalist Jeremy Scahill calls (https://twitter.com/#%21/jeremyscahill/status/25668960699555840) the speech “one of the most despicable attempts at revisionist use of Martin Luther King Jr. I’ve ever seen.”

http://www.salon.com/2011/01/13/obama_official_mlk_supports_our_wars/



Former Pentagon Official to Be Nominated as Homeland Security Chief (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/us/jeh-c-johnson-will-be-nominated-as-homeland-security-chief.html)




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WASHINGTON - President Obama plans to nominate Jeh C. Johnson, who framed many of the administration's national security policies as the Defense Department's general counsel during Mr. Obama's first term, to become the next chief of the Homeland ...

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FrankRep
10-17-2013, 05:59 PM
SWC plant of neocons knows how to pick em:

Jeh Johnson is a Progressive Democrat. FYI.

Feeding the Abscess
10-17-2013, 06:00 PM
What is SWC?

enhanced_deficit
10-17-2013, 06:07 PM
Jeh Johnson is a Progressive Democrat. FYI.

Most of neocons are left wing, no surprise.



What is SWC?

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?427800-Freedom-Acronyms-OFC&p=5226304&viewfull=1#post5226304

Antischism
10-17-2013, 06:27 PM
What the hell does this idiot know about a dead man's perspective?

enhanced_deficit
10-17-2013, 10:51 PM
Good question.
Would be a miracle if someone from plant's team was surfing this forum and tried defend above stance.

fearthereaperx
10-17-2013, 10:54 PM
This guy is bad news:(

Heavy Democrat supporter too.

Democratic Party involvement

Johnson is active in Democratic Party politics, as a fundraiser and adviser to presidential campaigns. Johnson served as special counsel to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign,[9] and was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, active as a foreign policy adviser and as a member of his national finance committee

CPUd
10-17-2013, 11:09 PM
http://i.imgur.com/6oGQcaG.gif

fr33
10-17-2013, 11:25 PM
Expect this revisionist history to appear in public school text books. This is how government dumbs down society.

eduardo89
10-17-2013, 11:28 PM
What kind of a name is Jeh? Does it rhyme with meh? (Which is what I bet he says every time the issue of civil liberties comes up)

Snew
10-18-2013, 07:04 AM
lol, MLK being the guy who consistently warned against America taking the "policeman of the world" role... yeah, sorry Jeh, but no.

Root
10-18-2013, 07:09 AM
racist. :p

Warlord
10-18-2013, 07:20 AM
What is SWC?

Suspected War Criminal I believe it's an abbreviation he uses

NIU Students for Liberty
10-18-2013, 09:12 AM
I'm surprised the usual "MLK was a communist, therefore his opinions on war are invalid" lines haven't entered the thread yet....

AlexAmore
10-18-2013, 10:23 AM
What kind of a name is Jeh? Does it rhyme with meh? (Which is what I bet he says every time the issue of civil liberties comes up)

I'm guessing it sounds like Jay with a soft y.

enhanced_deficit
10-18-2013, 10:09 PM
Suspected War Criminal I believe it's an abbreviation he uses

Warlord is correct.

enhanced_deficit
10-18-2013, 11:25 PM
Expect this revisionist history to appear in public school text books. This is how government dumbs down society.

Progress.

Wonder if plant (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?419799-Shoes-hit-quot-war-criminal-quot-Obama-s-photo-during-his-South-Africa-visit&p=5101343&viewfull=1#post5101343) would say next that MLK would have wanted to see Gitmo remain open with force feeding of hunger striking prisoners and all.

fr33
10-18-2013, 11:37 PM
Progress.

Wonder if plant (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?419799-Shoes-hit-quot-war-criminal-quot-Obama-s-photo-during-his-South-Africa-visit&p=5101343&viewfull=1#post5101343) would say next that MLK would have wanted to see Gitmo remain open with force feeding of hunger striking prisoners and all.

Here's the thing. This forum is full of people saying that if they aren't running as a Republican then their candidacy is useless. Most Republican voters would not be swayed by this topic. They want more wars. And maybe not most of them, but many of them, have no respect for MLK.

All it takes is for a Republican administration and you'll have the republican voters calling you "libtard" for oppossing drone strikes/surveillance or war with Syria.

enhanced_deficit
10-18-2013, 11:58 PM
Johnson is active in Democratic Party politics, as a fundraiser and adviser to presidential campaigns. Johnson served as special counsel to John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign,[9] and was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, active as a foreign policy adviser and as a member of his national finance committee

Unfortunately, I have one thing common with him, the highlighted part. But I realized my mistake very soon.

Here's the thing. This forum is full of people saying that if they aren't running as a Republican then their candidacy is useless. Most Republican voters would not be swayed by this topic. They want more wars. And maybe not most of them, but many of them, have no respect for MLK.

All it takes is for a Republican administration and you'll have the republican voters calling you "libtard" for oppossing drone strikes/surveillance or war with Syria.

Can't disagree with that, "Republicans" have been a huge part of the problem, especialy on foreign policy of late.

ObiRandKenobi
10-18-2013, 11:58 PM
that is the creepiest looking dude

NorthCarolinaLiberty
10-19-2013, 12:18 AM
Yo, Johnson. I just channeled Patrick Henry. He says you're a dipshit.

enhanced_deficit
10-19-2013, 07:37 PM
Yes.

enhanced_deficit
10-20-2013, 01:24 PM
http://i.imgur.com/6oGQcaG.gif

Wonder if this is analogy of our foreign interventions.

enhanced_deficit
01-19-2015, 01:13 PM
Disagraced dronegansta (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?433586-Majority-of-Americans-now-believe-Obama-is-quot-dishonest-and-untrustworthy) in news again.

Obama commemorates Martin Luther King Day (http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2015/01/19/obama-martin-luther-king-holiday-service-project-proclamation/21985791/)
USA TODAY-4 hours ago
President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will honor Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with a community service project in ...


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A. Havnes
01-19-2015, 03:04 PM
How disgraceful!


I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

--Martin Luther King, Jr., Address in Acceptance of Nobel Peace Prize - 10 December 1964


More recently I have come to see the need for the method of nonviolence in international relations. Although I was not yet convinced of its efficacy in conflicts between nations, I felt that while war could never be a positive good, it could serve as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force. War, horrible as it is, might be preferable to surrender to a totalitarian system. But now I believe that the potential destructiveness of modern weapons totally rules out the possibility of war ever again achieving a negative good. If we assume that mankind has a right to survive then we must find an alternative to war and destruction. "Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn."

--Martin Luther King, Jr., "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" in Strength to Love (1958)


World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

----Martin Luther King, Jr., December 1964

I seriously doubt MLK would support anything the current USA government is doing as far as foreign policy goes.

jmdrake
01-19-2015, 03:16 PM
Just 9 more hours to go........

enhanced_deficit
01-20-2015, 07:18 PM
How disgraceful!



Yep.

enhanced_deficit
01-18-2016, 03:47 PM
Mondoweiss Retweeted
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/683555246753366016/4025Asvy_bigger.jpg Rula Jebreal ‏@rulajebreal 1h1 hour ago San Martin, CA

Rula Jebreal Retweeted IDF

Is the IDF so deluded to think that today #MLK would support Israel's military occupation & race-based segregation?

Rula Jebreal added,

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZAX3EbWcAEDqR_.jpg
IDF @IDFSpokesperson On this #MartinLutherKingDay, we salute the power of justice to triumph over evil. Happy MLK!


No official comment from DGP masters as of now.

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