"Never since his assassination in 1968 have I felt the absence of Martin Luther King more acutely. Where are today's voices of moral outrage? Where is the leadership willing to stand up and say: Enough! We've sullied ourselves enough."-Bob Herbert

I HAVE A DREAM
By Martin Luther King Jr

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

                In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

                It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

                But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

                We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

                It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.

                There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

                But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.

                Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

                The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

                And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.

                We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.

                No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

                I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecutions and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

                Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

                Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

                I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed--we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.

                I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

                I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

                I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

                I have a dream today!

                I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

                I have a dream today!

                I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain and the crooked places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

                This is our hope. This is the faith that I will go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

                This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning, "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!" And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

                And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

                Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

                Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

                Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

                Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

                But not only that.

                Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

                Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

                Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!

                And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last."

Dear Rat Bastards:
(I use this as a term of endearment towards our readers since we're all bastards from the same dying mother, aka. Earth.)

Let's take a trip down repetitive lane. These are mementos the left remembered before happening which the right wants to rewind. The Bush ratministration finally admitted their failure in locating WMD's. But we all knew that from jump street. The FREE elections in Iratq will make Ohio and Florida polls look like the immaculate conception. Again, foresight, we had it. The corporate army forced the economically forced volunteer army to abuse prisoners. Bend over, take it, rinse, do it again.
So let us, the reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaallll left, inform you on future fibs which the Wack House will spit across the Rose garden for your hateful pleasures.

WE MUST INVADE CUBA! FIDEL IS LIKE VEREY BAD. DID YOU KNOW HE LED A REVOLUTION AGAINST A FRIENDLY NATION? This willl be the battle cry, of course. But the unreported, pardon, the withheld truth is this: a Canadian drilling company working with the Cuban government has found oil in the Gulf of Mexico. In case you went to the same schools I did let me explain further - there's a part of the gulf which belongs to Cuba. It is reported that 100,000 barrels of pure crude are stashed in them there dephts. Which literally translates to 100,00 dead Cubans as soon as the casons roll in (BTW: What the hell is a cason?)
At this time I advise everyone to: invest on any airlines with routes to Cuba, rent a speedboat or a yacht, thrown on a Ricky Martin record, and dust off your Guayavera cause we's gonna kill us some cigar rollers. Yee ha!

FREDO: "How do you say Banana Dakiris in spanish?"
MICHAEL: "Banana Dakiris."
Brush up on your spanish like Michael Corleone and get your hookers lined up. We're getting the pearl of the caribbean back and turning into the whorehouse it once was. Sure Fidel is oppresive and counter progressive, but he never slept with a twelve year old virgin neither. Shit, life is cheap in that part of the world any way (BTW: if I hear one cocksucker use that word again to describe indigenous people I will personally perform an inverted trachotomy with my foot.)

You heard it here first folks. We're going to roll up on Cuba like a Cript on some unsuspecting Bloods busting out a 40. Someone teach the Buena Vista Social Club the "America the Beautiful" cause they betta play it duting the 7th inning stretch.

"This need to discredit all information, save for that generated by Republican sources is perhaps the most dangerous Republican agenda, which is intentionally and willfully propagated by Fox News. People living under democratic rule and principles, can make sound political decisions that are only as good as the information they are given. That Republicans and Fox News intentionally attack all information sources, except for those they want people to believe, immediately cripples the ability of citizens to make decisions based in fact, and not propaganda and misrepresentation.

As the above examples from one mornings broadcast highlight, Fox News and it's presentation of information is less about delivering news, and more about supporting a political agenda. Fox uses the term News, as camouflage for their real purpose, which is to distort, confuse and manipulate facts in such a manner that is most beneficial, for the Republican agenda. Fox News is indeed, nothing more than propaganda. A propaganda that is inherently dangerous to the long-term health and well-being of democratic processes in the United States."-The Liberal Daily Beacon

Let the record show that the Bush Cult LIED to the American people when they said Saddam had WMD: