If King Had Lived, What Now?
By ALLEN G. brEED – 16 hours ago
The preacher in him would have continued speaking out against injustice, war and maybe even pop culture. He would likely not have run for president. He probably would have endured more harassment from J. Edgar Hoover.
Four decades after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fell to an assassin’s bullet, colleagues and biographers offer many answers to the question: What if he had lived?
For his children, however, the speculation is more personal. They know their lives would have turned out differently had they had their beloved father to guide and teach them.
Instead, history moves on, remaking the world in myriad ways. The nation has grappled with issues of race and inequity without the benefit of King’s evolving wisdom. A generation has come of age celebrating him in a national holiday, like other figures of the frozen past.
But given the trajectory of his life — from his appearance on the national scene during the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott of 1955 to his death on a second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968 — some of those closest to him have a good idea what King might be doing now, and where we might be as a country.
In the months before his death, King was speaking out against the growing U.S. involvement in Vietnam and was working with other civil rights leaders on a Poor People’s Campaign, with a march on Washington scheduled for that May. He was in Memphis that spring day to support striking sanitation workers.
Were King alive today, the disciple of Mahatma Gandhi would most certainly be speaking out against the Iraq War, says King biographer David J. Garrow. However, citing the famous “Drum Major Instinct” sermon King delivered from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta just two months before his death, Garrow says people might be surprised to hear echoes of presidential candidate Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor.
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Yes, yes, and yes. The USA holds more prisoners than any country in the world, including China, and I doubt if Wackenhut Corrections Corporation or the Corrections Corporation of America see it as waste so much as free money.
No. It wasn’t owned by the CIA at all.But it was once rented by the CIA from a small, shady company for use in a rendition flight. Before being sold to another guy who lent it to drug smugglers. Supposedly.
I don’t doubt this is true but why would the CIA want to sell cocaine? Surely if they bust their customers they lose money?
Because it’s pleasurable (initially, at least) and people generally have trouble distinguishing pleasure from happiness.
Coke sales ain’t about anything but money.You bring the coke into the country, a quarter of the yayo is sold pure or just stepped on a couple of times for “upper class White Collar sales”, and the rest is cooked up into crack with has a far higher financial turnover in urban areas.You then get the shit on the streets and get your people moving it and then just wait for the money to start rolling in.You can make fat dollars moving coke…far more than moving X, or smack.Shoot, don’t you know? Smack isn’t a poor man’s drug anymore. Rich people do heroin nowdays. Movie and Rock stars are the ones shooting up now. For the purposes of financial turnover, you can’t use heroin sales to generate a comparable return versus cocaine sales.Look at history. In the 50’s and 60’s you had pot heads and junkies. Folks smoking weed and shooting up heroin. All of that changed when cocaine came on the scene. It’s less expensive to process coke, even cheaper to cook it up to rock.Selling rock is all about the money. Get them hooked on sucking that glass dick and they’ll keep coming back.The government knew what they are doing.Bastards.
Alot of people might be moving to Montana. Do you think they would secede?
I was merely speaking of effective drugs for interrogation techniques, and that cocaine wouldn’t work in the OP’s scenario.I agree that the CIA’s operations were effectively a war on the underclass, though.
No, the CIA figured out what went there.
Get out of Jail pass? Lets join the CIA, quick!