KING FUNERAL TURNS POLITICAL:
BUSH BASHED
Wed Feb 8, 2006 00:13
KING FUNERAL TURNS POLITICAL: BUSH BASHED BY FORMER PRESIDENT, REVEREND
Tue Feb 07 2006 15:49:48 ET
http://drudgereport.com/flash8.htm
Today's memorial service for civil rights activist Coretta Scott King -- billed as a "celebration" of her life -- turned suddenly political as one former president took a swipe at the current president, who was also lashed by an outspoken black pastor!
The outspoken Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ripped into President Bush during his short speech, ostensibly about the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
"She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war. She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there," Lowery said.
The mostly black crowd applauded, then rose to its feet and cheered in a two-minute-long standing ovation.
A closed-circuit television in the mega-church outside Atlanta showed the president smiling uncomfortably.
"But Coretta knew, and we know," Lowery continued, "That there are weapons of misdirection right down here," he said, nodding his head toward the row of presidents past and present. "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor!" The crowd again cheered wildly.
Former President Jimmy Carter later swung at Bush as well, not once but twice. As he talked about the Kings, he said: "It was difficult for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretaps." The crowd cheered as Bush, under fire for a secret wiretapping program he ordered after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, again smiled weakly.
Later, Carter said Hurricane Katrina showed that all are not yet equal in America. Some black leaders have blamed Bush for the poor federal response, and rapper Kayne West said that Bush "hates" black people.
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... Rev. Joseph Lowery, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the group the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once ...
King eulogists jab Bush Sydney Morning Herald
Update 3: Bush Praises King for Changing the Country Forbes
Presidents join 10,000 paying last respects to King's widow
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Four presidents and a rowdy funeral for a King
Reuters.uk, UK - 3 hours ago
... The 10,000 mourners also heard the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil-rights leader, cite Mrs. King's legacy as a champion of nonviolence and racial equality while ...
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CORETTA SCOTT KING
PBS - 2 hours ago
... REV. JOSEPH LOWERY, Southern Christian Leadership Conference: I am neither gambler nor bettor, but who could have brought this crowd together except Coretta. ...
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ML King Murder A Government Plot
"M.L. King Murder A Government Plot,"
Says Former CIA Participant. "I was part of it."
"Raoul" Identified as FBI Agent
Martin Luther King, Jr. = The Civil Rights Movement
http://hammer.ne.mediaone.net/mlk/mlk.html
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html
Martin Luther King, Jr. - "I Have a Dream"
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/graphics/chin.jpg
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/biography/index.htm
Martin Luther King's
Letter from Birmingham Jail--a rhetorical analysis
http://www.millikin.edu/wcenter/king1a.html
I have a Dream
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/new/MLK/MLK.html
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and
every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed
up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews
and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and
sing in the words of the old spiritual, "Free at last, free at last.
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
http://www.commonconservative.com/library/dream.html
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IN BRIEF
Just past noon on January 15, 1929, a son was born to the
Reverend and Mrs. Martin Luther King in an upstairs bedroom
of 501 Auburn Avenue, in Atlanta, Georgia. The couple named
their first son after Rev. King, but he was simply called
"M.L." by the family. During the next 12 years, this fine
two story Victorian home is where "M.L." would live with
his parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and
their boarders. The home is located in the residential
section of "Sweet Auburn", the center of black Atlanta.
Two blocks west of the home is Ebenezer Baptist Church,
the pastorate of Martin's grandfather and father. It was
in these surroundings of home, church and neighborhood
that "M.L." experienced his childhood. Here, "M.L."
learned about family and Christian love, segregation in
the days of "Jim Crow" laws, diligence and tolerance.
It was to Ebenezer Baptist Church that Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. would return in 1960. As co-pastor with his
father, "Daddy King", Dr. King, Jr. would preach about
love, equality, and non-violence.
The family's detailed analysis of the Department
of Justice "limited investigation" report.
November 15, 1999
http://www.apfn.org/pdf/MKL-TheTrial.PDF
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