If Pres. Lula Quoted Martin Luther King "Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World is My Own Government,"
If, On Martin Luther King's Birthday and U.S. National Holiday, President Luiz Ina'cio Lula da Silva of Brazil could have quoted from King's mainstream media covered up 1967 New York sermon 'Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence,' which condemned his government's atrocity wars to protect predatory investments, he might have started by quoting what King said about Latin America.
King bitterly lamented:
The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit" we will find ourselves organizing Clergy and Laymen Concerned committees concerned about Guatemala and Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia" During the past ten years we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression which now has justified the presence of U.S. military "advisors" in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counter- revolutionary action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and why American napalm and green beret forces have already been active against rebels in Peru.[1])
Lula would have shocked listeners in Brazil and abroad who only think of Rev. King as a great black civil rights leader. Rev. Martin Luther King, today the only American celebrity with the distinction of a national weekend holiday to honour his birthday, in 1967, made bold print headlines in newspapers across the world of King loudly denouncing his very own U.S. government.
KING CALLS U.S."GREATEST PURVEYOR OF VIOLENCE IN WORLD"[1]
"So far we may have killed a million of them-- mostly children" children, degraded by our soldiers as they beg for food. They see the children selling their sisters to our soldiers, soliciting for their mothers."[1]
In his sermon (which was vilified in the U.S. press), King did not speak to his government, but to all Americans, and agonised over his not having spoken up sooner.
Martin Luther King had cried out
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