Special interests rule in world upside down
Heroes too radical for our electoral system
by Ed Garvey, The Capital Times

Think about it. Today, Martin Luther King could not be elected governor, senator or president because the likes of those who created the Swift Boat commercials would destroy him. He had a "record." He went to jail in Birmingham, led young people to do the same, and urged people to break the law by sitting-in at restaurants. He would be condemned for not moving with "all deliberate speed" within the system. We would hear about a radical man unfit to occupy the governor's mansion. Today, to run for office, Martin Luther King would have to place a tin cup in his left hand while lining up at the world headquarters of utilities, drug manufacturers, insurance companies and arms manufacturers for money. Imagine his reception at Halliburton when he would talk about the moral bankruptcy of a country spending more on armaments than on programs of social uplift.

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