Dueling Eschatologies
Dueling Eschatologies
Junious Ricardo Stanton
When we peer
into the fog of Trump and Netanyahu’s War on Iran and bypass the lies, the propaganda,
the bluster and bombast and closely scrutinize the cultural values, we see
there are additional motivations for this war beyond land grabs, regional
hegemony, egos and imperial objectives. This war is also about conflicting
religious eschatologies and beliefs about so called end times or last days.
Each of the participants: Israel, the US and Iran has their own ideas, myths,
doctrines and dogmas about some event or series of events they each believe
will usher in a period of peace, justice, reigned over by their holy person
they each have their own name for and allegiance to.
All three
religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam have their fanatical wings, sects or
unhinged elements. Each of them has their doctrines and worldview which allows
them to feel good about themselves, what they believe and the god of their
understanding. They each are anticipating the appearance or arrival of a great
one, a savior or redeemer who will lead them as loyal followers and adherents
of their religion into an era of peace, utopia and righteous reign over the
whole planet
A key
principle in Judaism is their notion of a Messiah who’s anticipated
coming many believe is near, some claim he is already here. The Messiah is a High
Priest King, a descendant of the Biblical King David who is human who will
restore Israel, who will sit on the throne and usher in an era of global peace
and unity. This priest king will welcome
all Jewish believers from around the world to return to Israel. The Temple of
Solomon will be rebuilt and their governing council, the Sanhedrin will
be reestablished and reconstituted.
They believe the world will
recognize (acquiesce to) their notion of God, their Messiah, their righteous governance
of the planet which will be conducted from Jerusalem and the “Jews” will be the
preeminent administrators of this new global order. The problem with this is
most of the people who call themselves Jews are not descendants of the Biblical
Judeans, Israelites or Hebrews. DNA proves they are from Eastern Europe or
Eurasia. Looking at how they treat the Palestinians and wage war on their
neighbors is the opposite of justice and peace.
Iranians are
Persians. While they are Muslims, they are Shia Muslims and most Arab Muslims
are Sunnis. Shias anticipate the emergence of a special Imam they call The Mahdi.
Muhammad al-Mahdi was born in 869 AD the son of a major Shia Imam (religious leader)
who became an Imam when he was just five years old following his father’s death.
Shias believe he was divinely protected and hidden from political enemies. They
believe he is still alive and awaiting the appropriate time in reveal himself. They believe the al-Mahdi will arrive during a
time of severe corruption, injustice and oppression. They believe al-Mahdi will
usher in an era of peace, justice and Islamic rule.
However, Sunni Arabs question how al-Mahdi
could live so long and how he could be an Imam at five years old. A schism in
beliefs exists within Islam. Nevertheless, many Iranians believe they are
living in a time which is ripe for the emergence of a righteous religious
leader especially since they currently find themselves engaged in an
existential war against The Great Satan. This is incentivizing the
Iranians to fight to the death in their war against the US and Israel. It does
not bode well for world peace.
Christians
have an end time scenario also. Theirs is quite complicated. There are
differing views on how and when The Rapture will occur. I don’t have
space to deal with that here and now. The most ardent adherents to this eschatology
are the Protestant Evangelicals. The Catholics, Greek Orthodox and most so
called mainstream Protestant denominations do not prioritize Eschatology as
much as Evangelicals.
Part of Christian theology is the
expectation of the return of Jesus Christ to earth to rule. Evangelicals
believe in order for Jesus to return there must be a great tribulation, a time
of suffering, divine wrath, upheaval and apocalyptic wars. Some believe at this
time “Jews” will accept Jesus as their Messiah, Christians will be taken up
into the sky and Jesus will return to earth to defeat the Anti-Christ, raise
the dead, and establish a thousand-year Millennial Reign from the city of Jerusalem.
The leaders
of all three participants in this war have their notions about the god of their
understanding, how war is inevitable and how they will fare as future events
play out. These beliefs are critical factors in current events and we need to
grasp the crucial roles and implications of their eschatology to understand the
reasons for this carnage.
From my perspective all of this is
of man, it is man’s ignorance, arrogance, bloodlust and drive for temporal
power, not of God. But try telling this to religious fanatics.
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Who Will Stand For Truth?
Who Will
Stand For Truth?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
They say the first casualty of war
is truth. This is obviously true the in second unprovoked war of aggression
against Iran by Israel and Donald (Willye E. Coyote) Trump. When you listen to
the Trump administration’s “explanations” for this naked aggression against a
country who poses no threat to the US it becomes clear they are liars. These
lies are no small thing; they are resulting in the loss of thousand of innocent
lives.
We
are used to Israel engaging in wanton genocide but now Trump has made the
United States of America even more complicit in crimes against humanity
continuing an ongoing tradition which dates back to the end of WWII over succeeding
administrations. Is there a discernable pattern here? What can we learn from this
history?
In
January Trump sent US military assets in close proximity to Iran in the Gulf
and West Asia regions, threatening he would unleash them unless Iran made a
deal. Iran naively responded by agreeing to participate in negotiations
brokered by Oman. The most recent meeting was on February 26 in Geneva
Switzerland. Previous talks had been held in Muscat Oman and Rome Italy. Allegedly
according to the mediators progress was being made in the Geneva talks.
Trump in a wanton act of deceit once again
used the negotiations as a cover, knowing full well, he was going to attack
Iran! Two days later on February 28 Trump launched another unprovoked attack on
the sovereign nation of Iran. He used the same tactic prior to the Twelve Day
War last June. So, who is the real terrorist? Who is the real maniac?
What
is the major take-away from this? Obviously, Trump is a liar and a warmonger. But
we knew that already. The outcome should be that all rational leaders, allies
and adversaries alike view Donald (Wyllie E. Coyote) Trump and the United
States of America as untrustworthy.
As far as Israel is concerned the motto of
their Mossad is “By way of deception thou shalt make war. This tells us all we
need to know about them. We have witnessed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
frantically proclaiming for thirty plus years Iran is months, days, minutes,
seconds away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon. Thus far his Chicken Little
accusations have proven untrue. Which of the two nations Isreal or Iran has
nuclear weapons?
We are being lied to,
big time by Donald (Wyllie E. Coyote) Trump his minions and acolytes;
warmongers all. I call Trump Wyllie E. Coyote after the Loony Tunes cartoon
character because like Wyllie, the stuff Trump does always blows up in his
face. Consider his tariffs and trade wars and now this. To add injury to insult
the lies are blatant. He said Iran posed an eminent threat to the United States
and their allies; they didn’t. He said Iran had nuclear weapon capabilities;
they don’t. Trump demanded Iran give up their ballistic missiles, after the US
and Israel’s brazen and unprovoked attacks on Iran last June, only an imbicle
would agree to such a demand. Who in their right mind would sign off on
that? Trump said he was the peace
president, obviously he isn’t! Trump initially
said his war (and this is his war), would be over in four days, it isn’t.
The Iranians stated
repeatedly they had/have no nuclear weapon ambitions, the US and Israel who both
have major nuclear weapons stockpiles, who are engaged in numerous simultaneous
aggressions in their spheres of influence scoffed at the Iranians’ statements. In
psychology this is called projection, when you accuse others of what you
yourself are thinking and doing! As we have seen since Trump returned to office
last year, he is a warmonger, not a man of peace.
The truth is the Iranians
support Hezbollah in Lebanon. Fact: Lebanon has been a frequent target of
Israeli attacks for decades, the Iranians supported the Houthis who were
engaged in a protracted war with Saudia Arabia which was supported by the US! So
what? That’s what allies do, they support each other. Just like the US is actively
supporting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine against Russia, supporting Israel in its
genocide in Gaza and its aggression against Iran, that’s what allies do!
TRUTH is in short
commodity, don’t fall for the okey-doke, the flim-flam, or fooled by the lies
and pro-war propaganda. Stand up for TRUTH and PEACE!
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The Mask Has Completely Come Off
The Mask Has Completely Come Off
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
When Trump
launched a second unprovoked attack against Iran early Saturday morning, his mask
completely came off, the mask/persona Trump donned to portray himself as a “peace
president”. Now the world sees Donald Trump for what he truly is, a mentally
unstable war criminal. Trump drunk from his successful take down of the
Venezuelan leader actually thought he could attack Iran and that nation would
capitulate and surrender to US and Israeli aggression.
The lies
being uttered by the Trump administration to justify this blatant imperialism and
aggression are: Iran poses an immediate security threat to the US, it doesn’t,
Iran has nuclear weapons capabilities, they don’t and Iran is the largest
sponsor of terrorism in the world, they aren’t! They say Iran is the bad guy
and they US and Israel are the innocents trying to bring peace by killing Iranian
school children and other innocent civilians.
The ultimate irony is, Donald Trump
in his insanity partnered with known war criminal and mass murderer, Benjamin Netanyahu,
to murder the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Kamenei, the man who
remained steadfast for thirty-seven years insuring Iran did not pursue the
development of nuclear weapons! The Ayatollah is the second ranking leader in
the global Shia Muslim community.
Their actions will have severe
consequences. The Iranians responded within an hour of the decapitations by launching
deadly attacks on US military bases and assets throughout the Gulf region, successfully
hitting Israel with successive waves of missiles and drones and threatening to
close the vital seafaring throughway the Strait of Hormuz which is the
key transit point for much of the world’s oil supply.
As this war goes on, look for the
economic fallout to be huge not just for the price and availability of oil but
for its impact on products made from petroleum such as plastics. This is only
the third day; things are going to get much worse because Iran sees itself in
an existential crisis a fight for their lives; for them, it’s do or die.
We must never forget, amidst the
noise of Trump’s bluster, bombast and false bravado he was the one who exited
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018. The JCPOA agreement
facilitated by the Obama Administration in 2015 was a signed mutual working
agreement among the US, Iran, the United
Kingdom, France, Russia, China, Germany and the European
Union designed to ensure Iran’s nuclear program remained peaceful. Iran by all accounts
honored the agreement throughout its existence. It was Donald Trump who
unilaterally pulled out of the agreement in 2018. Now look where we are.
The
Trump Administration and the Israeli lobby are spinning this war as a just war
to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons capabilities. Netanyahu, a modern-day
Chicken Little has been screaming for over thirty year “Iran is months, weeks,
days seconds away from have a nuclear bomb.” Time has proven this to be totally
false. Yet Trump fell for the proverbial okey-doke. So, we have to place the
blame for this insanity where it belongs at the feet of Donald J. Trump and
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Trump
knew in January after his meeting with Netanyahu he was going to attack Iran. Nevertheless,
he engaged in deception by negotiating with Iran making offers he knew Iran
could not and would not accept. Trump in
his psychopathy has proven the Native American saying, “the white man speaks
with forked tongue” to be absolutely true. The mask is off and the world sees
Trump and the American ruling class for what they are, warmongers and monsters.
Trump will surely reap what he has sown.
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More Food for Thought
More Food for Thought
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The Epstein
files have become a major distraction; they are being used by the powers who
shouldn’t be to re/misdirect Americans’ attention away from other critical and
pressing issues. Yes pedophilia, financial manipulation and fraud and
government corruption/capture are extremely important issues but unfortunately,
what we are seeing now is a form of national voyeurism and salaciousness propagated
by the media. Other than Epstein and Maxwell no one else in the US has been
indicted, arrested or gone to jail! Why isn’t the media asking why? Around the
world the fallout from the release of the Epstein files has been more severe,
unlike here in the US, in Europe numerous prominent men have been arrested or
forced to resign! Why isn’t the US media asking why this hasn’t happened here?
The media knew over ten years ago
what Epstein was up to, how he received a sweet heart plea deal in Florida which
allowed him to serve minimal jail time and be released for short periods of
time every day to go to his office! Epstein was charged in both Florida local and
US courts. Alexander Acosta the US Attorney trying the case in Florida was told
Epstein was “intelligence” meaning he was either CIA or Mossad which supposedly
prompted him to approve the lenient deal Epstein received. This deal when it came
to light prompted Alexander Acosta to resign his position as US Secretary of
Labor in the first Trump administration. At the time the local media made a
fuss but the deal was done.
The media and authorities also knew
prominent men were flown on Epstein’s private jet to his private island in the
Caribbean and around the world. They also were told by the victims underaged
girls the names of several prominent men who abused them. Plus, Epstein’s
flight logs also named names of the men who flew when and where. However,
Epstein’s fortunes changed when he was indicted in New York on federal sex
trafficking and networking charges.
The questions for me are: when are
more people in the US going to be held accountable, when are more US men going
to be indicted, arrested and jailed and what are the Epstein files coverage keeping
off the front pages and the main spotlight? The media only focuses on one big
story at a time so when are the Epstein files going to fade into the
background.
While all of this Epstein stuff is
going on in the media, little is being said about Trump’s saber-rattling,
bluster and bluffs against Iran. Trump has massive US military assets parked
within striking distance of Iran but little is said in the press because the
media is fixated on the Epstein files. Is there a cover up, no doubt. Do
Epstein and Maxwell’s victims deserve their day in court and justice?
Certainly. But what about the potential for WWIII? Isn’t this important?
We have to realize the media
selects the stories and “analysis” they want us to internalize and believe. We
are routinely lied to by our government and the media working in cahoots as a
team to treat us like mushrooms, kept constantly in the dark and feed massive
amounts of cow manure. We were fed a bunch of cow dung about Iraq’s WMDs and
COVID-19. We are being gas-lit and lied to about the economy and affordability
and why the government does what it does.
We are being told by Isreal, our
government and the media Iran is the bad guy, a sponsor of terrorists and a
prime agitator within the region. But let’s look at the facts. Which country,
the US or Iran, formed, armed and sponsored Al-Qaida a global terrorist
organization with components around the world the US or Iran? Which two nations
have been engaged in expansionist wars since their founding the US, Israel or
Iran? Which nation is currently engaged
in a genocidal campaign within the region against unarmed harmless civilians, Iran
or Israel? Which country has been lying for thirty plus years about the other
having nuclear weapons Israel or Iran? Which country actually has nuclear
weapons Israel or Iran? Which country is bombing and targeting Syria, Lebanon,
Yemen; Israel or Iran? Which two nations launched unprovoked attacks on another
country in June 2025, the US, Iran or Israel? Which nation overthrew the duly
elected government of Iran in 1954? Which two nations (Iran, Israel or the US)
are currently threatening to launch preemptive attacks which could potentially
spark a regional or global conflagration? Which nation is a global empire with
over eight hundred military bases around the world and is currently engaged in
hostile actions against numerous nations, Iran or the US?
Based upon the answers to these
questions which two nations are the greatest threats to peace in the region?
Food for thought.
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COurts Hand Trump Several Important Loses
Courts Hand Trump Several Important Loses
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Last week Donald
J. Trump was handed major setbacks by Federal District Court Judge Cynthis F.
Rufe and the United States Supreme Court. On Monday February 16
th
Federal District Court Judge Cynthia F. Rufe ordered the Independence Hall
National Parks Service to completely restore the President’s House Slavery
Memorial exhibit, located at Sixth and Markets Streets adjacent to where the
Liberty Bell is located, to its original condition.
. The President’s House Slave Memorial Exhibit
is totally unique. It is the first exhibit on federal property created to pay
homage to enslaved persons. It was built to honor the lives of nine enslaved
persons of African descent who labored in bondage while George Washington
resided in Philadelphia during his presidency.
The Avenging The Ancestors Coalition a
grass-roots alliance of historians, activists, educators and elected officials
fought to have the exhibit erected. It has been standing since 2010 and is a
major tourist and educational attraction for the city of Philadelphia. It is
located within an historical area which include Independence Hall, Carpenter’s
Hall, the Liberty Bell and the Constitutional Visitors Center.
Judge Rufe
ordered all the instructive panels be returned and restored to their original condition,
the video monitors be in pristine working order and the whole site made
accessible to the public. She also ordered the site to be restored by Five PM
Friday February 20th.
A rally was held Thursday February 19
by the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition at Three- thirty PM, but the site had
not been totally restored at that time. National Parks Service workers were
working to comply with Judge Rufe’s order, but they stopped to allow the rally
to take place on site.
The Trump administration has filed an
appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The struggle intensifies.
Also on Friday February 20th,
the US Supreme Court voted 6-3 against Trump’s universal tariffs stating Trump
overstepped his authority imposing the tariffs. The majority decision which was
written by Chief Justice John Roberts noted the power to impose tariffs and taxes
lies with the US Congress not the executive branch as is written in the US
Constitution. The Supreme Court ruling confirmed a lower court ruling that use
of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, (IEEPA) was not appropriate since the IEEPA lacks
specific language authorizing the levying of tariffs and taxes.
The ruling is a major blow to Trump’s
agenda and at least temporarily checked his willful pattern of taking unilateral
authoritarian actions since his return to the White House in 2025. But it
didn’t take long for Trump to react and respond. Following the Supreme Court
ruling, Trump in a fit of petulance immediately announced he would issue a 10%
universal global tariff then later in the day, he said he would add another 15%
to the tariffs! This is childish as his tariffs are not being used properly.
Tariffs are designed to protect domestic markets and producers as well as raise
money, not as bargaining chips and threats. The US Congress needs to step up
and do its job as outlined in the US Constitution.
What we are seeing is a man determined
to push the envelop on executive power, taking actions which are obviously
unconstitutional. Trump will attempt to use other legislation to circumvent the
US Constitution. He has used Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act in the past to
take action against nations in the various trade wars he has instituted during
his first administration.
While there are laws on the books that
sanction specific international trade actions, Trump’s use of them always seems
to blow up in his face. Take his trade wars with Canada, Mexico, China and the
EU during his first term. They were a disaster.
Neither Friday court ruling has
deterred Trump, he is pressing on. If his past patterns are a precursor to the
future, his actions will blow up in his face like a Wylie E. Coyote ACME
contraption. Stay tuned to see what happens.
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Tell The Truth Restore Our History
Tell The
Ruth Restore Our History
Junious Ricardo Stanton
When you
read Donald Trump’s March 27, 2025 deceitful and misnomered Executive Order # 14253,
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500408/pdf/DCPD-202500408.pdf
you discover Trump maliciously targeted the Presidents House Slavery Memorial located
a Sixth and Market Streets in Philadelphia and the Smithsonian African-American
Museum in Washington D.C. for shuttering. Trump’s Executive Order spells it out
based upon a disingenuous prism with the express intent of obliterating and
erasing the truth. The Executive Order is a shameful attempt to erase the factual
documentation of American history and foster ignorance about George Washington
and how deeply the institution of slavery was embroidered into the fabric of
the American tapestry.
On Thursday
January 22, 2026 Trump’s order was executed by National Parks Service employees
who dismantled and removed educational panels throughout the site which depicted
the truth about George Washington (a documented enslaver) who kept nine persons
of African descent in bondage and servitude while he resided in the Robert
Morris Mansion in Philadelphia during his tenure as the first President of the
United States.
The City of
Philadelphia immediately filed a lawsuit claiming the National Parks Service
violated aspects of the Administrative Procedure Act by unilaterally
dismantling the exhibit without conferring with the city. The legal team from Avenging
the Ancestors Coalition and the Presidents House Slavery Memorial
Alliance headed by University of Pennsylvania law school, Professor Cara
McClellan filed an Amicus brief in support of the City’s lawsuit claiming the
government’s action created irreparable harm to both the city and the
community.
Their brief asserted the exhibit’s
dismantling directly harmed the local tourism industry and the community at
large, from an historical, cultural, educational and economic standpoint. They
argued Trump’s actions were a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal
Protection clause. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and the Pennsylvania
Senate Democrats also joined the lawsuit as friends of the court and expressed
their unequivocal support of the City’s lawsuit.
As part of a
comprehensive response to Trump’s spiteful attempts to whitewash American
history the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition and the broader based President’s
House Slavery Memorial Alliance’s legal team presented their case during a
hearing at the Federal Courthouse on Friday January 30th.
Federal Judge Cynthia M. Rufe heard
oral arguments and insisted she wanted to inspect the removed panels and the
site before rendering her ruling on the motions. On Monday February 2 Judge
Rufe inspected the panels and visited the site where she was given a tour by
Mijuel K. Johnson a local activist and member of The Black Journey an organization
that provides walking tours of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia. The
Judge said her decision will be rendered shortly, promising it would not drag
on into the Spring or Summer.
When they
learned about Trump’s Executive Order, activist attorney Michael a founder of Avenging
the Ancestors Coalition stated ATAC and The Presidents House Slavery
Memorial Alliance headed by Roslyn McPherson initiated a coordinated
campaign to bring attention to Trump’s reprehensible action. ATAC announced its
latest initiative entitled Tell the Truth and Restore Our History. It is
an concentrated thirty-day campaign designed to galvanize public opinion and pressure
by enlisting support from media, elected officials, coordinated activism which
includes social media, letter writing campaigns, a children’s letter writing
campaign, an Online petition, a rally on February 10th at the Independence
Park Presidents House Slavery Exhibit at Sixth and Market Streets, broad based
inclusive faith based organizations, activist recruitment and engagement designed
to keep this issue in the forefront of
America’s consciousness. They will also create a video testimony to chronical
how important the site is to individuals, the region and the nation.
For more
information on Tell the Truth Restore Our History, contact the Avenging the
Ancestors Coalition at ATAC.Avengingtheancestors@gmail.com
or, https://www.phslavery.org/ To sign
the Online petition go to https://www.change.org/p/tell-the-truth-restore-the-president-s-house-slavery-memorial?
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How The Legacy of MLK Was Sidetracked
How The MLK Legacy Was Sidetracked
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The powers
who shouldn’t be thought during the height of their hubris and thuggery during
the 1960’s, once they killed Martin Luther King Jr., they would eliminate a
major obstacle to their imperialistic wars in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Loas and
Cambodia and the use of Thailand as a staging area for these wars).
King gained international fame as
the spokesperson for the Montgomery bus boycott which dealt a crippling blow to
the racial apartheid in the city of Montgomery Alabama by using economic
boycotts as a tool but also to US policies of racial oppression. His success in
Montgomery along with an unprecedented string of legal victories by the NAACP led
to intensified challenges to the US system of racial apartheid and oppression not
just in the South but throughout the country. King won a Nobel Peace Prize for
his non-violent movement that shook the foundations of US racial oppression in
the 1950’s.
In addition to his push for full inclusion within
US society, King stood for international peace. He was uncompromising in his
determination to bring an end to US imperialism. King linked the struggles of
poor and marginalized people in America with this government’s racist
imperialistic policies around the world. In addition to his outspoken opposition
and condemnation of the war, King was planning to confront the US government regarding
its domestic policies by staging a multi-ethnic Poor People’s Campaign in
Washington D.C.
King was actively recruiting a
multi-ethnic coalition of poor, marginalized and disposed Americans to join
with him in his efforts to force the US to alter its priorities from war to
peace and from class-based greed to a broad policy of prosperity for all
Americans. None of his popular peers in the American clergy were doing what
King did, not Billy Graham, not Norman Vincent Peale, not Bishop Sheen, not
Cardinal Spellman; none of the television evangelists nor the major Rabbis. None
of them.
None of them stood up to openly oppose
the carnage in Southeast Asia, or the devastation and division the war was
causing at home. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke up and stood up and the peace
movement embraced him for it. King’s vision was an anathema to the ruling class
and their lackies in the government. His ideas posed an existential threat to
the overlord’s dreams of expanded empire, global rapine, pillage and plunder.
So, like the thugs and psychopaths
they are, they ordered his murder. King’s assassination triggered a backlash of
shock and violence. Riots erupted in over one hundred US cities and towns as
people reacted to the brutal murder of a man who worked to bring peace and deep
societal change to America.
Not satisfied with King’s elimination
these demons set out to obscure his mission, to obfuscate what he was really
about and what he was attempting to accomplish. Immediately they began referring
to him as a dreamer rather than a visionary man of action.
A dreamer is asleep. King was not asleep, he
was awake, keenly conscious of the evils and danger America imperialism posed
to the world. He was forced to recognize and admit the greatest purveyor of
violence in the world was his own government and he said so on numerous occasions!
King pulled the scab off of the sore that was American fascism allowing people
to see how they were being oppressed, manipulated and used to further the
ambitions of empire.
In order to obscure what King was
really about they distracted the us. They kept referring to the I Have a
Dream portion of a 1963 speech he delivered at the March on Washington,
totally ignoring the parts of the speech where he said “Instead of honoring
this sacred obligation (of freedom) America has given the Negro people a bad
check; a check which has come back marked insufficient funds… So, we have come to cash this check – a check
that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice”.
The ruling class’s media never plays
that portion of the speech or reminds us of his subsequent attempts to cash the
check he was organizing his Poor People’s Campaign to present to the US
government!
Instead of calling Martin Luther King Jr. a sage
and pushing his agenda of peace, reconciliation and domestic prosperity; the
ruling class concocted a Day of Service to misdirect and dupe the masses
into preserving the very system King was attempting to tear down by doing
isolated deeds of service rather than demolishing the edifice which benefits
from actions like Trump is doing in Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, Iran and Venezuela!
Don’t fall for the okey-doke. Keep
King’s real legacy alive, resist!
