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From: rkoch@banmlkday.com

WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things
that they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons,
to deny the people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But
even more insidious than the theft of the people's weapons was
the theft of their history. Official Communist "historians"
rewrote history to fit the current party line. In many
countries, revered national heroes were excised from the history
books, or their real deeds were distorted to fit Communist
ideology, and Communist killers and criminals were converted
into official "saints." Holidays were declared in honor of the
beasts who murdered countless nations.

Did you know that much the same process has occurred right here
in America?

Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy
of adulation for the so-called "Reverend Doctor Martin Luther
King, Jr." King has even had a national holiday declared in his
honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Washington,
not Jefferson, not Lincoln. (Washington and Lincoln no longer
have holidays -- they share the generic-sounding "President's
Day.") A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until
the year 2027. What are they hiding? Let's take a look at this
modern-day plastic god.

Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the
time only as "Daddy King." "Daddy King" named his son Michael.
In 1935, "Daddy King" had an inspiration to name himself after
the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his
congregation that henceforth they were to refer to him as
"Martin Luther King" and to his son as "Martin Luther King, Jr."
None of this name changing was ever legalized in court. "Daddy"
King's son's real name is to this day Michael King.

King's Brazen Cheating

We read in Michael Hoffman's "Holiday for a Cheater":

The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the
Ebenezer Baptist Church, was plagiarized from a homily by
Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled "Life is
What You Make It," according to the testimony of King's best
friend of that time, Reverend Larry H. Williams.

The first book that King wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom, - -was
plagiarized from numerous sources, all unattributed, according
to documentation recently assembled by sympathetic King scholars
Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J. Garrow.

And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors
of "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official
publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent
Social Change, Inc., whose staff includes King's widow Coretta),
stated of King's writings at both Boston University and Crozer
Theological Seminary: "Judged retroactively by the standards of
academic scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by
numerous instances of plagiarism.... Appropriated passages are
particularly evident in his writings in his major field of
graduate study, systematic theology."

King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experience in Finding
God," written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of
theologian Edgar S. Brightman, author of "The Finding of God."

Another of King's theses, "Contemporary Continental Theology,"
written shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely
stolen from a book by Walter Marshall Horton.

King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptions
of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman,"
for which he was awarded a PhD in theology, contains more than
fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertation
of Dr. Jack Boozer, "The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's
Concept of God."

According to "The Martin Luther King Papers", in King's
dissertation "only 49 per cent of sentences in the section on
Tillich contain five or more words that were King's own...."!

In "The Journal of American History", June 1991, page 87, David
J. Garrow, a leftist academic who is sympathetic to King, says
that King's wife, Coretta Scott King, who also served as his
secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. ("King's
Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation," The
Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87)


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