My Life-Mary's Life
As an addendum to my October 07, 2006 post-My Life, I would like to quote from "Parting The Waters, America In The King Years"-The definitive historical work on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"I concur," Hoover scrawled at the bottom of the memo. With that, on King's thirty-fourth birthday, the FBI officially wrote him off as unfit for mediation or negotiation. Thereafter, upon receiving intelligence that someone was trying to kill him, the Bureau would refuse to warn King as it routinely warned other potential targets... The FBI assigned full enemy status to King, who had staked his life and his religion on the chance that enemy-thinking might be overcome. That an intelligence agency took such a step in the belief that King was an enemy of freedom, ignorant of the reality that King had just set in motion the greatest firestorm of domestic liberty in a hundred years, was one of the saddest ironies of American history." page 692
If the FBI could do this to Martin think what the drug corrupted system are trying to do to Mary and myself!
"I concur," Hoover scrawled at the bottom of the memo. With that, on King's thirty-fourth birthday, the FBI officially wrote him off as unfit for mediation or negotiation. Thereafter, upon receiving intelligence that someone was trying to kill him, the Bureau would refuse to warn King as it routinely warned other potential targets... The FBI assigned full enemy status to King, who had staked his life and his religion on the chance that enemy-thinking might be overcome. That an intelligence agency took such a step in the belief that King was an enemy of freedom, ignorant of the reality that King had just set in motion the greatest firestorm of domestic liberty in a hundred years, was one of the saddest ironies of American history." page 692
If the FBI could do this to Martin think what the drug corrupted system are trying to do to Mary and myself!
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