The Truth of Martin Luther King.

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When the communists took over a country, one of the first things that they did was to confiscate all the privately-held weapons, to deny the people the physical ability to resist tyranny. But even more insidious than the theft of the people's weapons was the theft of their history. Official Communist "historians" rewrote history to fit the current party line. In many countries, revered national heroes were excised from the history books, or their real …

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…to think, my fellow Americans. You desperately need to wake up. Sources: 1. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.- - (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change). 2. "King's Plagiarism: Imitation, Insecurity and Transformation," The Journal of American History, June 1991, p. 87) David J. Garrow 3. New York Times" of October 11, 1991, page 15. 4. "The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.", David J. Garrow, (1981). 5. "And the walls came tumbling down," Rev. Ralph Abernathy (1989)