First the U.S. Government Kills MLK,
Then They Have a Holiday For Him
Jeff Berwick

I awoke this morning eager to see the gains we’d make on our TDV newsletter calls as Middle Eastern markets absolutely cratered on Monday.  The Saudi Arabian stock market is down a stupendous 33% in the first few weeks of January, alone!

But then I noticed the US markets were closed today.  A quick Google search told me it was Martin Luther King day.  Certainly an excellent person (although not perfect, of course) to honor… much better than “President’s Day” where you honor your slave-owner.

You have to hand it to the United State, they have quite some gall, though.  First they kill the man… and then years later they name a day after him.

In 1999, MLK’s family won a civil court case against a man named Loyd Jowers, who claimed to have taken part in a conspiracy to murder King.  The jury ruled in favor of the plaintiff, holding that Loyd Jowers had indeed been part of a  governmental plot to kill King.

The US “Justice” department still maintains that the verdict is an incorrect one… but what else would you expect them to say.

The subtext of the just celebrated Martin Luther King holiday – one of the US’s biggest holidays – is that black people had to fight for their freedom and then the government freed them.

But this is just one of many misunderstandings that confuse the legacy of Martin Luther King and the history of US slavery itself.

Another one is that he was murdered by a “lone gunman,” James Earl Ray. Of course Ray later recanted and claimed he was a victim of a much larger conspiracy to murder MLK. That conspiracy could certainly have been organized by the US government and the FBI in particular as then-head J. Edgar Hoover despised and feared MLK. Hoover even had a letter written to MLK advising him to commit suicide before his extramarital affairs were publicized (aka. extortion).

The state cannot be impartial in such circumstances because supporters of the state operate under the imperative that the state, in all its permutations and opinions, must be correct. When it comes to African-Americans, the basic misunderstanding propagated vociferously in public schools (government indoctrination camps),  is that  the state is the bulwark of human rights for black people and that the Civil War was waged to emancipate  them.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Lincoln was perfectly willing to keep slavery intact if the Southern states declined to secede.

“I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.” – Lincoln’s March 4, 1861 inaugural address

The main goal of Lincoln wasn’t to free slaves.  It was to make everyone a slave under a centralized, fascist government.  To this day, Lincoln’s hands rest on fasces to flaunt this.

Contrast this sordid history with the man whose life was just celebrated on Monday. MLK’s legacy may be best expressed in his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

In this letter, MLK expounds on “just laws” and “unjust laws.” Often oppression is promulgated under the guise of “just laws” when laws justifying such authoritarianism are actually “unjust” ones.

This argument is uncannily like the ones that current libertarians make for “natural law” – laws that hew to the basic moral and biological sense of humanity. Almost all other laws are destined to fail and the justification for such additional laws is predictably specious and downright dishonest.

Certainly, there are aspects to MLK’s life that are controversial and less-than-admirable, but he was human, as all of us are. Unlike most of us, he stood for something significant and one could even say that –courageously – he died for his beliefs.

We want to stand for something too in order to leave the world a better place for our children and all people oppressed by the 21st century’s regnant state.  Anarchapulco and its one-day sister summit on February 18^th,, the TDV Internationalization and Investment Summit, are a celebration of “human action” at a time when so many are paralyzed by an unraveling economy and increased US and Western authoritarianism.

At Anarchapulco, we will greet the “best and brightest” of our current generation, individuals who are not afraid of speaking out and challenging the status quo… in the footstep’s of MLK. We are honored to be part of such an inspirational legacy.

Anarcho-Capitalist.  Libertarian.  Freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks.  Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, CEO of TDV Media & Services and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast.  Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the world’s freedom, investment and gold conferences including his own, Anarchapulco, as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, CNN and Fox Business.

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