32 - Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr. Speak To Us About the War on Terrorism

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Jack Clark

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🗓️ 9 March 2006

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "Beyond Vietnam" speech at the Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, he was not only laying out a case against the Vietnam War and the negative role the U.S. was playing in the world. No, Dr. King was speaking to us also, in words eerily prophetic about our present day crusade in Iraq and our efforts to thwart democracy in Haiti, Bolivia,

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0:00.0	Saddam Hussein produced and possessed chemical and biological weapons.
0:06.7	There's no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction
0:12.5	biological chemical particularly simply stating there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
0:20.4	Greetings, this is podcast number 32 of Blast the Right.
0:25.3	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com.
0:34.2	Today we have one big super interesting topic, let's get right into it.
0:41.2	A couple of podcasts ago, the one about the Coretta Scott King funeral, I mentioned that I really ought to do a segment
0:49.8	about Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam speech and its relevance to the war on terrorism.
0:57.7	Well, here is that segment.
1:02.0	The official version of Dr. King's life is that he was a fighter for racial justice in America and that's that.
1:12.4	The reality is, in the last years of his ministry, Dr. King articulated a far broader vision
1:21.0	encompassing an analysis and severe criticism of the role the United States plays in the world,
1:28.0	politically, militarily and economically.
1:33.4	This vision was articulated most powerfully in Martin Luther King's Beyond Vietnam speech,
1:41.4	which was delivered at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967.
1:51.4	While Dr. King was speaking about Vietnam and other conflicts then current,
1:58.2	his words resonate down to us today and apply to our own Vietnam, Iraq,
2:05.5	as well as to the other conflicts and interventions being undertaken by our government today around the world.
2:16.0	Dr. King's speech is so powerful, no major figure speaks like this anymore.
2:23.2	To me, it's fascinating to listen to and, at the same time, quite poignant.
2:32.8	I hope you'll feel the same way as you hear Dr. King articulate his deeply held beliefs.
2:41.6	Now if you have the time, please read or listen to the entire speech.
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