Wiretapping King, Wiretapping Trump

A New Birth of Freedom

Via Notes From the Cuban Exile Quarter, John Suarez:  Russia's secret war against Martin Luther King Jr.

"...Many are aware of the FBI wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr., monitoring of the Civil Rights Movement, and active measures against him but not of the campaign waged against the civil rights leader by Soviet intelligence, also known as the KGB.

What motivated the KGB to work to destroy Reverend King?

Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1967 speech Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence came out against the war, but also to double down on his rejection of revolutionary violence in the United States, stating that, "[a]s I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems." KGB wanted violence to erupt in the United States and viewed the civil rights leader as an obstacle.

Reverend King in his 1958 book Stride to Freedom summed up his views on Marxism and rejected it for the following reasons:

The Challenge of Marxism

During the Christmas holidays of 1949 I decided to spend my spare time reading Karl Marx to try to understand the appeal of communism for many people. For the first time I carefully scrutinized Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. I also read some interpretive works on the thinking of Marx and Lenin. In reading such Communist writings I drew certain conclusions that have remained with me to this day.

First I rejected their materialistic interpretation of history. Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God.⁴ This I could never accept, for as a Christian I believe that there is a creative personal power in this universe who is the ground and essence of all reality—a power that cannot be explained in materialistic terms. History is ultimately guided by spirit, not matter.

Second, I strongly disagreed with communism’s ethical relativism. Since for the Communist there is no divine government, no absolute moral order, there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently almost anything—force, violence, murder, lying—is a justifiable means to the “millennial” end.⁵ This type of relativism was abhorrent to me. Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the mean.

Third, I opposed communism’s political totalitarianism. In communism the individual ends up in subjection to the state. True, the Marxist would argue that the state is an “interim” reality which is to be eliminated when the classless society emerges; but the state is the end while it lasts, and man only a means to that end. And if any man’s so-called rights or liberties stand in the way of that end, they are simply swept aside. His liberties of expression, his freedom to vote, his freedom to listen to what news he likes or to choose his books are all restricted. Man becomes hardly more, in communism, than a depersonalized cog in the turning wheel of the state.

This deprecation of individual freedom was objectionable to me. I am convinced now, as I was then, that man is an end because he is a child of God. Man is not made for the state; the state is made for man. To deprive man of freedom is to relegate him to the status of a thing, rather than elevate him to the status of a person. Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a radical in the sense that he was going to the root of things, and seeking solutions informed by his Christian faith. Reverend King was a Christian Democrat who sought to narrow the gap between the wealthy and the poor with a politics focused on the person because "he is a child of God."

In 1967, King offered a strategic approach to confront communism by promoting democracy and pursuing just policies that alleviate evils in the world...

"America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values. There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war. There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.  This kind of positive revolution of values is our best defense against communism. [applause] War is not the answer. Communism will never be defeated by the use of atomic bombs or nuclear weapons. Let us not join those who shout war and, through their misguided passions, urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the United Nations. These are days which demand wise restraint and calm reasonableness. We must not engage in a negative anticommunism, but rather in a positive thrust for democracy [applause], realizing that our greatest defense against communism is to take offensive action in behalf of justice. We must with positive action seek to remove those conditions of poverty, insecurity, and injustice, which are the fertile soil in which the seed of communism grows and develops."

Taylor Branch, in the third book of his trilogy on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, At Canaan's Edge wrote about the Reverend's views on the militant call to armed struggle in the streets of the United States in January of 1968.

“Riots just don’t pay off,” said King. He pronounced them an objective failure beyond morals or faith. “For if we say that power is the ability to effect change, or the ability to achieve purpose,” he said, “then it is not powerful to engage in an act that does not do that–no matter how loud you are, and no matter how much you burn.” Likewise, he exhorted the staff to combat the “romantic illusion” of guerrilla warfare in the style of Che Guevara. ... “We must not be intimidated by those who are laughing at nonviolence now.”

Reverend King remained true to his non-violent convictions, rejected communism, and took unpopular positions to do so. These are the reasons why the KGB wanted him out of the way. This should not be surprising. What is surprising is that the FBI also wanted him out of the way.

Soviet KGB engaged in campaigns against Martin Luther King Jr.

...University of Cambridge professor Christopher Andrew, who coauthored The Sword and the Shield with Vasili Mitrokhin was interviewed by Charlie Rose on PBS on September 28, 1999 about the book and towards the end of the interview discussed how the Soviets celebrated when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray. Other Soviet archives documented efforts by the Soviet Union to stimulate and activate the Black Panthers in their struggle against the United States government.

Fifty years later and the Russians are still seeking to stoke racial divisions in the United States in order to provoke and promote violence. Half a century ago, they viewed Martin Luther King Jr., as an obstacle and celebrated in Moscow when the civil rights leader was assassinated.".......

The FBI wiretapped and tried to frame both Martin Luther King and Donald J. Trump--and for the same reason; to stop certain Americans from being free.

And the vitriol aimed at King by the FBI Establishment then matches the hate spewed by the Deep State at President Trump today.

Rev. King was too radical for Hoover and not radical enough for the Kremlin. President Trump, too radically patriotic for a Globo-Fascist Obama. King sought to bring minority citizens into the mainstream of American life, praise God, whereas Trump's crime is bringing Mainstream America back to her citizens, returning power to her People. It's just not done, you see.

Rev. King thought Communism was fueled by poverty. Perhaps at the margins--but Communism isn't caused by poverty any more than terrorism. Indeed, as we see in Cuba and Venezuela, the reverse is true: poverty doesn't cause Communism, Communism causes poverty.

As Gov. Reagan said of the Soviet Union, "Let’s have no more theorizing when actual comparison is possible. There is in the world a great nation, larger than ours in territory and populated with 250 million capable people. It is rich in resources and has had more than 50 uninterrupted years to practice socialism without opposition. We could match them, but it would take a little doing on our part. We’d have to cut our paychecks back by 75 percent; move 60 million workers back to the farm; abandon two-thirds of our steel-making capacity; destroy 40 million television sets; tear up 14 of every 15 miles of highway; junk 19 of every 20 automobiles; tear up two-thirds of our railroad track; knock down 70 percent of our houses; and rip out nine out of every 10 telephones. Then, all we have to do is find a capitalist country to sell us wheat on credit to keep us from starving!"

That's an excellent summation of the Green New Deal.

King's pacifism was effective with fellow Southerners whose consciences could be pricked by shared Christian and American values. Had it been tried against violent aggressors in, say, South Korea or Grenada, they would still be Communist prisons today. That is why the American Eagle carries an olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other.

As we see from both Cuba and from FISA-Gate, Communism is about control, raw power--and keeping it. Obama was not the culmination of King's Dream, but its antithesis.

There is no playbook for this Deep State Cockroach Coup Attempt in America's history. Watergate doesn't even come close. 

Nor do Bush v. Gore, Kennedy/Nixon or the Jackson/Quincy Adams Corrupt Bargain of 1824. Even Burr's insurrection and Arnold's treason don't compare to the Deep State Coup against President George Washington's peaceful transfer of executive power.

The only historical event that does compare to the entire NATSEC Apparatus being weaponized to thwart America's choice of a duly-elected president is the Slave Power Rebellion and Copperhead Coup Attempt called the Civil War. And even that analogy has its limits. We're charting a new course we've never seen before.

But we never had a President Donald J. Trump before, either.