Martin Luther King, Jr: A False Idol

Today and tomorrow, children all over America, will likely spend 
some portion of the day eulogizing a modern-day saint, who has 
been canonized by the media.  Assemblies will be called, guest 
speakers will be brought in, and even others will be “mobilized” 
in memory of this supposedly greater-than-life hero.  Likewise, 
on this day (an honor not even accorded the founder of the 
United States) the media, on this day, will whip themselves up 
into a frenzy of praise for the so-called “Reverend Doctor 
Martin Luther King, Jr.”

But like all icons of modernity, who are held to lofty heights 
by the sycophantic politicians and spineless media, let’s take a 
closer look. Who was Martin Luther King, and is there more to 
this man than meets the eye?

Let’s start with his titles, “Doctor” and “Reverend”.  According 
to many sources, King, was a habitual plagiarist.  For instance, 
in 1947, he delivered his first public sermon.

It is widely acknowledged today that this sermon was plagiarized 
from a homily by Protestant clergyman Harry Emerson Fosdick 
entitled “Life is What You Make It”. King’s first book, “Stride 
Toward Freedom,” was plagiarized from numerous sources, all 
unattributed, according to documentation recently assembled by 
sympathetic King scholars Keith D. Miller, Ira G. Zepp, Jr., and 
David J. Garrow.

As if that weren’t enough, the four senior editors of “The 
Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr” (available here from the 
University of California Press) admit that: “Judged 
retroactively by the standards of academic scholarship, [his 
writings] are tragically flawed by numerous instances of 
plagiarism.”

Even King’s doctoral dissertation, “A Comparison of the 
Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Harry 
Nelson Wieman,” for which he was awarded a doctorate in 
theology, contains more than fifty complete sentences 
plagiarized from the PhD dissertation of Dr. Jack Boozer, “The 
Place of Reason in Paul Tillich’s Concept of God”.

So it appears that the “Doctor Reverend King” was neither truly 
a doctor, nor a reverend, but neither was his real name “Martin 
Luther”.  Born Michael King, his name was changed by his father 
to “Martin Luther,” after the Protestant reformer.  He never 
legally changed his name. To this day, he lived and died as 
Michael King.  This, however, is a relatively small detail in 
comparison to other, more shocking details of King’s life.

The late Samuel T. Francis, an iconoclastic columnist of the 
late 20th century, quotes Charles D. Brennan, the former 
Assistant Director of the FBI, as saying regarding King’s more 
intimate life was characterized by “orgiastic and adulterous 
escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in 
his sexual abuse of women.”

Because King was suspected of links with communist agents (most 
notably Stanley Levinson), under the order of U. S. Attorney 
General Bobby Kennedy, the FBI wired King’s offices and hotel 
rooms from 1963 to 1968.  The tapes showed that in Las Vegas, 
King’s aids paid $100 each to prostitutes to join him in orgies; 
they also show that in New York City, an intoxicated King 
threatened a young White girl working for civil rights to submit 
to his strange sexual tastes or he would jump from the 13th 
floor window.

Despite the fact that this was common knowledge at the time, a 
federal judge ordered that this damning evidence be sealed until 
2027.  It should be noted that this kind of cover-up is not 
insignificant.  At a time when the media posthumously maligned 
Osama bin Laden and Colonel Mummar Gaddafi as borderline sexual 
deviants, even without much evidence, the very same media goes 
to the utmost lengths to disguise Michael King’s awful conduct.

Today, criticism of King’s lifestyle, even if they are mutually 
exclusive of his worldview, are met with disdain.  At a time 
when almost any living or historical figure can be cast as a 
villain, Michael King still occupies a prominent place in the 
pantheon of secular religion.

In America, any time a justification for any act is needed, 
King’s name is invoked, much as the devoutly faithful might 
invoke a saint’s intercession.  Perhaps we could only expect so 
much from a society in which the only article of faith is 
absolute egalitarianism.

As Francis pointed out: “In the new nation and the new creed of 
which the King holiday serves as symbol, all institutions, 
values, heroes, and symbols that violate the dogma of equality 
are dethroned and must be eradicated. Those associated with the 
South and the Confederacy are merely the most obvious violations 
of the egalitarian dogma and thereform must be the first to go, 
but they will by no means be the last.”

However, the iconclasts are finally speaking out, and with their 
bold new introspection, the myths are finally coming tumbling 
down.

http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2012/01/16/martin-luther-king-jr-a-
false-idol/
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