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January 17, 2005

Martin Luther King Day

Bob Harris beat me to just about everything I was going to say about Martin Luther King.

It's no accident that everyone talks about King's "I Have A Dream" speech, while throwing "Beyond Vietnam" (also known as "A Time to Break Silence") down the memory hole. I don't expect George Bush will mark the holiday by telling us, "As Dr. King said, the greatest purveyor of violence on earth today is the American government."

UPDATE: NTodd at Dohiyi Mir has links to Democracy Now!'s audio of "A Time to Break Silence."

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