At the time Republicans claimed that the law and order invocation had nothing to do with race. Their perpetual invocation in the south was just one of many Republican coincidences.
Returning to the present, Glenn Beck loves to denounce the words "social justice" and tells his audiences that they have also been used by Communists and Nazis. Hence they represent evil code words and Americans need to carefully observe those who use them.
Here is yet another presumed coincidence. Those were words that King invoked regularly.
Sarah Palin will be one of the main speakers at Beck's rally. He promises that it will having nothing to do with politics, making the decidedly apolitical Palin a perfect choice.
At the same time that Beck also proclaims that Martin Luther King was one of his heroes he has as his most notable guest at his rally someone who recently defended Laura Schlessinger's frequent invocation of the N-word during one of her programs.
When a huge negative response resulted Palin defended Schlessinger and told her to continue speaking out. She slammed critics for not being respectful of the First Amendment.
The First Amendment does not involve citizen protests unless they are used to forcibly prohibit speech and worship. It is a protective restriction of government action in those realms.
In this case citizens were invoking their own First Amendment liberties to criticize and denounce conduct with which they disagreed. No thought police of the Obama Administration ever surfaced.
Meanwhile, rest assured that the former Alaska governor will respect Beck's wishes and exhibit apolitical behavior at his rally, the one that by coincidence takes place at the same spot where King's rally was held and on the same date of August 28.
Again, Republicans are the party of coincidence.
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