THE BEAST AS SAINT: The Truth About "Martin Luther King, Jr."

by Kevin Alfred Strom

(a speech given by Mr. Strom on the nationwide radio program, AMERICAN DISSIDENT
VOICES, January 15th, 1994)

WHEN THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER a country, one of the first things thatthey did was to
confiscate all the privately-held weapons, to deny the people the physicalability to resist tyranny.
But even more insidious than the theft of the people's weapons was the theftof their history.
Official Communist "historians" rewrote history to fit the currentparty line. In many countries,
revered national heroes were excised from the history books, or their realdeeds were distorted
to fit Communist ideology, and Communist killers and criminals were convertedinto official
"saints." Holidays were declared in honor of the beasts who murderedcountless nations.

Did you know that much the same process has occurred right here in America?

Every January, the media go into a kind of almost spastic frenzy of adulationfor the so-called
"Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr." King has even had anational holiday declared in his
honor, an honor accorded to no other American, not Washington, not Jefferson,not Lincoln.
(Washington and Lincoln no longer have holidays -- they share the generic-sounding"President's
Day.") A liberal judge has sealed the FBI files on King until the year2027. What are they hiding?
Let's take a look at this modern-day plastic god.

Born in 1929, King was the son of a Black preacher known at the time onlyas "Daddy King."
"Daddy King" named his son Michael. In 1935, "Daddy King"had an inspiration to name himself
after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. He declared to his congregationthat henceforth they
were to refer to him as "Martin Luther King" and to his son as"Martin Luther King, Jr." None of
this name changing was ever legalized in court. "Daddy" King'sson's real name is to this day
Michael King.

King's Brazen Cheating

We read in Michael Hoffman's "Holiday for a Cheater":

The first public sermon that King ever gave, in 1947 at the Ebenezer BaptistChurch, was
plagiarized from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdickentitled "Life is What
You Make It," according to the testimony of King's best friend of thattime, Reverend Larry H.
Williams. The first book that King wrote, "Stride Toward Freedom, --wasplagiarized from
numerous sources, all unattributed, according to documentation recentlyassembled by
sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and David J.Garrow.
And no less an authoritative source than the four senior editors of "ThePapers of Martin Luther
King, Jr.-- (an official publication of the Martin Luther King Center forNonviolent Social
Change, Inc., whose staff includes King's widow Coretta), stated of King'swritings at both Boston
University and Crozer Theological Seminary: "Judged retroactively bythe standards of academic
scholarship, [his writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instancesof plagiarism....
Appropriated passages are particularly evident in his writings in his majorfield of graduate study,
systematic theology." King's essay, "The Place of Reason and Experiencein Finding God,"
written at Crozer, pirated passages from the work of theologian Edgar S.Brightman, author of
"The Finding of God--. Another of King's theses, "ContemporaryContinental Theology," written
shortly after he entered Boston University, was largely stolen from a bookby Walter Marshall
Horton. King's doctoral dissertation, "A Comparison of the Conceptionsof God in the Thinking of
Paul Tillich and Harry Nelson Wieman," for which he was awarded a PhDin theology, contains
more than fifty complete sentences plagiarized from the PhD dissertationof Dr. Jack Boozer,
"The Place of Reason in Paul Tillich's Concept of God."
According to "The Martin Luther King Papers", in King's dissertation"only 49 per cent of
sentences in the section on Tillich contain five or more words that wereKing's own...."!
In "The Journal of American History", June 1991, page 87, DavidJ. Garrow, a leftist academic
who is sympathetic to King, says that King's wife, Coretta Scott King, whoalso served as his
secretary, was an accomplice in his repeated cheating. Reading Garrow'sarticle, one is led to
the inescapable conclusion that King cheated because he had chosen for himselfa political role
in which a PhD would be useful, and, lacking the intellectual ability toobtain the title fairly, went
after it by any means necessary. Why, then, one might ask, did the professorsat Crozer
Theological Seminary and Boston University grant him passing grades anda PhD? Garrow
states on page 89: "King's academic compositions, especially at BostonUniversity, were almost
without exception little more than summary descriptions... and comparisonsof other's writings.
Nonetheless, the papers almost always received desirable letter grades,strongly suggesting that
King's professors did not expect more...."
The editors of "The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers" state that"...the failure of King's teachers to
notice his pattern of textual appropriation is somewhat remarkable...."

But researcher Michael Hoffman tells us "...actually the malfeasanceof the professors is not at
all remarkable. King was politically correct, he was Black, and he had ambitions.The leftist
[professors were] happy to award a doctorate to such a candidate no matterhow much fraud was
involved. Nor is it any wonder that it has taken forty years for the truthabout King's record of
nearly constant intellectual piracy to be made public."

Supposed scholars, who in reality shared King's vision of a racially mixedand Marxist America,
purposely covered up his cheating for decades. The cover-up still continues.From the "New
York Times" of October 11, 1991, page 15, we learn that on October10th of that year, a
committee of researchers at Boston University admitted that, "Thereis no question but that Dr.
King plagiarized in the dissertation." However, despite its finding,the committee said that "No
thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree,"an action the panel said
"would serve no purpose."

No purpose, indeed! Justice demands that, in light of his willful fraudas a student, the "reverend"
and the "doctor" should be removed from King's name.

Communist Beliefs and Connections

Well friends, he is not a legitimate reverend, he is not a bona fide PhD,and his name isn't really
"Martin Luther King, Jr." What's left? Just a sexual degenerate,an America-hating Communist,
and a criminal betrayer of even the interests of his own people.

On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther Kingand four others at a
strange institution called the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee.The Highlander
Folk School was a Communist front, having been founded by Myles Horton (CommunistParty
organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for NorthCarolina). The
leaders of this meeting with King were the aforementioned Horton and West,along with Abner
Berry and James Dumbrowski, all open and acknowledged members of the CommunistParty,
USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states toinitiate
demonstrations and riots.

From 1955 to 1960, Martin Luther King's associate, advisor, and personalsecretary was one
Bayard Rustin. In 1936 Rustin joined the Young Communist League at New YorkCity College.
Convicted of draft-dodging, he went to prison for two years in 1944. OnJanuary 23, 1953 the
"Los Angeles Times" reported his conviction and sentencing tojail for 60 days for lewd vagrancy
and homosexual perversion. Rustin attended the 16th Convention of the CommunistParty, USA
in February, 1957. One month later, he and King founded the Southern ChristianLeadership
Conference, or SCLC for short. The president of the SCLC was Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr. The
vice-president of the SCLC was the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, who wasalso the president of
an identified Communist front known as the Southern Conference EducationalFund, an
organization whose field director, a Mr. Carl Braden, was simultaneouslya national sponsor of
the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, of which you may have heard. The programdirector of the
SCLC was the Reverend Andrew Young, in more recent years Jimmy Carter'sambassador to the
UN and mayor of Atlanta. Young, by the way, was trained at the HighlanderFolk School,
previously mentioned.

Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized thefirst of King's famous
marches on Washington. The official organ of the Communist Party, "TheWorker,-- openly
declared the march to be a Communist project. Although he left King's employas secretary in
1961, Rustin was called upon by King to be second in command of the muchlarger march on
Washington which took place on August 28, 1964.

Bayard Rustin's replacement in 1961 as secretary and advisor to King wasJack O'Dell, also
known as Hunter Pitts O'Dell. According to official records, in 1962 JackO'Dell was a member of
the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA. He had been listed asa Communist
Party member as early as 1956. O'Dell was also given the job of acting executivedirector for
SCLC activities for the entire Southeast, according to the St. Louis "Globe-Democrat--of
October 26, 1962. At that time, there were still some patriots in the presscorps, and word of
O'Dell's party membership became known.

What did King do? Shortly after the negative news reports, King fired O'Dellwith much fanfare.
And he then, without the fanfare, "immediately hired him again-- asdirector of the New York
office of the SCLC, as confirmed by the "Richmond News-Leader --ofSeptember 27, 1963.
In 1963 a Black man from Monroe, North Carolina named Robert Williams madea trip to Peking,
China. Exactly 20 days before King's 1964 march on Washington, Williamssuccessfully urged
Mao Tse-Tung to speak out on behalf of King's movement. Mr. Williams wasalso around this
time maintaining his primary residence in Cuba, from which he made regularbroadcasts to the
southern US, three times a week, from high-power AM transmitters in Havanaunder the title
"Radio Free Dixie." In these broadcasts, he urged violent attacksby Blacks against White
Americans.

During this period, Williams wrote a book entitled "Negroes With Guns."The writer of the
foreword for this book? None other than Martin Luther King, Jr. It is alsointeresting to note that
the editors and publishers of this book were to a man all supporters ofthe infamous Fair Play for
Cuba Committee.

According to King's biographer and sympathizer David J. Garrow, "Kingprivately described
himself as a Marxist." In his 1981 book, "The FBI and Martin LutherKing, Jr.", Garrow quotes
King as saying in SCLC staff meetings, "...we have moved into a newera, which must be an era
of revolution.... The whole structure of American life must be changed....We are engaged in the
class struggle."

Jewish Communist Stanley Levison can best be described as King's behind-the-scenes
"handler." Levison, who had for years been in charge of the secretfunnelling of Soviet funds to
the Communist Party, USA, was King's mentor and was actually the brainsbehind many of
King's more successful ploys. It was Levison who edited King's book, "StrideToward Freedom."
It was Levison who arranged for a publisher. Levison even prepared King'sincome tax returns! It
was Levison who really controlled the fund-raising and agitation activitiesof the SCLC. Levison
wrote many of King's speeches. King described Levison as one of his "closestfriends."

FBI: King Bought Sex With SCLC Money

The Federal Bureau of Investigation had for many years been aware of StanleyLevison's
Communist activities. It was Levison's close association with King thatbrought about the initial
FBI interest in King.

Lest you be tempted to believe the controlled media's lie about "racists"in the FBI being out to
"get" King, you should be aware that the man most responsiblefor the FBI's probe of King was
Assistant Director William C. Sullivan. Sullivan describes himself as aliberal, and says that
initially "I was one hundred per cent for King...because I saw himas an effective and badly
needed leader for the Black people in their desire for civil rights."The probe of King not only
confirmed their suspicions about King's Communist beliefs and associations,but it also revealed
King to be a despicable hypocrite, an immoral degenerate, and a worthlesscharlatan.

According to Assistant Director Sullivan, who had direct access to the surveillancefiles on King
which are denied the American people, King had embezzled or misapplied substantialamounts
of money contributed to the "civil rights" movement. King usedSCLC funds to pay for liquor, and
numerous prostitutes both Black and White, who were brought to his hotelrooms, often two at a
time, for drunken sex parties which sometimes lasted for several days. Thesetypes of activities
were the norm for King's speaking and organizing tours.

In fact, an outfit called The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee,which is
putting on display the two bedrooms from the Lorraine Motel where King stayedthe night before
he was shot, has declined to depict in any way the "occupants --ofthose rooms. That"according
to exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold"would be "close to blasphemy."The reason? Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two womenat the motel and
physically beating and abusing a third.

Sullivan also stated that King had alienated the affections of numerousmarried women.
According to Sullivan, who in 30 years with the Bureau hadáseen everythingthere was to be
seen of the seamy side of life, King was one of only seven people he hadever encountered who
was such a total degenerate.

Noting the violence that almost invariably attended King's supposedly "non-violent"marches,
Sullivan's probe revealed a very different King from the carefully craftedpublic image. King
welcomed members of many different Black groups as members of his SCLC,many of them
advocates and practitioners of violence. King's only admonition on the subjectwas that they
should embrace "tactical nonviolence."

Sullivan also relates an incident in which King met in a financial conferencewith Communist
Party representatives, not knowing that one of the participants was an infiltratoractually working
for the FBI.

J. Edgar Hoover personally saw to it that documented information on King'sCommunist
connections was provided to the President and to Congress. And conclusiveinformation from
FBI files was also provided to major newspapers and news wire services.But were the American
people informed of King's real nature? No, for even in the 1960s, the fixwas in"the controlled
media and the bought politicians were bound and determined to push theirracial mixing program
on America. King was their man and nothing was going to get in their way.With a few minor
exceptions, these facts have been kept from the American people. The pro-Kingpropaganda
machine grinds on, and it is even reported that a serious proposal has beenmade to add some
of King's writings as a new book in the Bible.

Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of this radio program is far greater thanto prove to you the
immorality and subversion of this man called King. I want you to start tothink for yourselves. I
want you to consider this: What are the forces and motivation behind thecontrolled media's
active promotion of King? What does it tell you about our politicians whenyou see them, almost
without exception, falling all over themselves to honor King as a nationalhero? What does it tell
you about our society when any public criticism of this moral leper andCommunist functionary is
considered grounds for dismissal? What does it tell you about the controlledmedia when you see
how they have successfully suppressed the truth and held out a picture ofKing that can only be
described as a colossal lie? You need to think, my fellow Americans. Youdesperately need to
wake up.


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