Now that January is again upon us, we will be literally inundated with glowing tributes to Michael King Jr. "Who's he" you might ask? Well, thanks to his daddy, his stage name is Martin Luther King Jr.

Author and columnist Alan Stang has commented on the MLK holiday, (which seems to last almost the whole month, after which we are then transported into black history month, which doesn't seem to end until mid-April), saying that: "...George Washington has been demoted. Look at your calendar. His birthday has been submerged in 'Presidents Day' with the result that the only American honored with a holiday all his own is Mike King." So we have managed to slide down the slippery cultural slope from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr., whose best friends seem to have been Marxists.

Let me say here that if King were a man of the stature and integrity of Booker T. Washington, I would have no problem with a holiday for him. Unfortunately, such is not the case.

Alan Stang, in an article written back in 2004, noted that wherever King went violence ensued shortly thereafter. And he noted that King, himself, explained it in an article he wrote for Saturday Review back in 1965. King said " 1. Nonviolent demonstrators go into the streets to exercise their constitutional rights, 2. Racists resist by unleashing violence against them. 3. Americans of conscience, in the name of decency demand federal intervention and legislation. 4. The administration, under heavy pressure, initiates measures of immediate intervention and remedial legislation." Although most will not realise it, this is nothing more than the old Communist game of "pressure from above and pressure from below" with average Americans caught in the middle. Since I don't have the space to explain that in detail here, if enough folks show some interest in this technique, I will attempt to explain it in a future article, provided there is sufficient interest.

Writer Kevin Alfred Strom has written that: "On Labor Day, 1957, a special meeting was attended by Martin Luther King and 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 (Communist Party organizer for Tennessee) and Don West (Communist Party organizer for North Carolina). 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 Communist Party, USA. The agenda of the meeting was a plan to tour the Southern states to initiate demonstrations and riots." So much for King's "non-violent" demonstrations!

In the years from 1955-60, King's associate advisor and personal secretary was Bayard Rustin, who had been a member of the Young Communist League at New York City College. Not only was Rustin convicted of draft dodging, but the Los Angeles Times reported, in 1953, that Mr. Rustin had been sentenced to 60 days in jail for "lewd vagrancy and homosexual perversion." Just the man you would want for your personal secretary, right? All this, Communist connections and perversion combined, didn't seem to bother MLK one iota. In fact, Rustin and King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) together. In all honesty, the terms "Southern", "Christian", and "Leadership" should never have been applied to this group, but then, those people know how to give themselves the noble-sounding titles which fool the mostly uninitiated and naive in the streets and in the Christian community.

Mr. Strom further informed us that: "Soon after returning from a trip to Moscow in 1958, Rustin organized the first of King's famous marches on Washington. The official organ of the Communist Party, The Worker, openly declared the march to be a Communist project." Also working for King in the early 1960s was Hunter Pitts O'Dell, identified as a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party, USA. O'Dell had the job of acting executive director for SCLC projects in the southeastern part of the country. Somehow, O'Dell's Communist Party membership became known publicly and so King was forced to make a show of "firing" him. He went through the charade, but then, unbeknownst to most, King hired him back on the sly and sent him north to work in New York City.

According to David J. Garrow, author of The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr., "King privately described himself as a Marxist." Then Mr. Strom tells us: "Garrow quotes King as saying in SCLC staff meetings...'we have moved into a new era, which must be an era of revolution...The whole structure of American life must be changed...We are engaged in the class struggle." Interestingly enough, this was the same basic line of reasoning taken by Marx, Thaddeus Stevens, and the radical "reconstructionists" and abolitionists in this country in the previous century. How little changes. Truly, there is "nothing new under the sun."

So America celebrates a holiday for the man whose best friends were Communists, and apparently most people love to have it so.