If Someone Reminded Us that King Called His Gov."The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World"
What if someone of consequence and world attention, difficult for US monopolized and controlled media to ignore, reminded us that one year before receiving a bullet to his brain, King had made bold print headlines in newspapers worldwide reading,"KING CALLS US "GREATEST PURVEYOR OF VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD.."[1]
Would it not weaken US deep state media credibility as it tried to explain how this world shaking event in the life of Martin Luther King had not been known by millions who celebrate his birthday on a national holiday for a great civil rights leader? - the only American, so honored.
That same morning in 1967, Wall St. owned, and CIA controlled, TV and newspapers, [2] which had all defended, some even praising, the war in Vietnam, vilified King as a traitor to his country and an embarrassment to the African-American community for King's condemning the American war in Vietnam as a series of inhuman murderous atrocities.[1]
During the half-century since King's murder in 1968, corporate media would block all reference to King's 1967 'nightmare-ish' New York sermon condemning horrific wars meant to maintain US predatory overseas investments,[3] and instead give high priority time to telecasting King's four years earlier Washington sermon "I Have a Dream" over and over and over again. Thus now, in 2023, the minds of most Americans and even corporate media's international audience, all attention is focused on King's anti racism. King's later world shaking condemnation of US wars for imperialist capitalism forgotten or unknown.
America's many dozens of lifetaking invasions and violent overthrows of Third World nations would be worthwhile remembering, especially today, while the overwhelming focus is on the criminal Russian war in the Ukraine?
Why?
- The same great news and entertainment corporate conglomerates still hail Vietnam War veterans as heroes, though during years of body counts, reports were very often around 15 Vietnamese bodies for each American body. - Seems insulting to citizens of Communist Vietnam, long a profitable US trading partner. In 1995, Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the US Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians.
- The same media now praises every veteran who invaded whichever small country as having served to protect Americans at home and to keep America free.
- The US government spends more money on weapons and preparations for war than the next highest spending eleven nations all together.
If someone reminded us that King called his Gov. "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world," there would certainly be differing reactions by various sectors of the public both in the United States and abroad and US media would have difficulty explaining how such an American hero could have once castigated and condemned his American government so severely. Followers of Dr. King might well come to have an incentive to learn more about their government's wars, both past and present. For example:
Why Ukraine's European Lives Matter! Iraqi Vietnamese Asian MidEast African Latin Lives Didn't!,and still Don't! Intense media coverage showing compassion for the thousands of lives taken by Russian military in the Ukraine is very humane. Little or no Western media attention for the many millions of lives taken by US/NATO in Asia, Africa, MidEast and Latin America is cruel and heartless. It is being noticed outside the US and Europe.
End Notes
1. 'Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence' sermon delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City click here
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