{"id":46235,"date":"2019-05-19T07:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T12:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46235"},"modified":"2019-05-19T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T12:43:14","slug":"julian-assange-is-todays-martin-luther-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46235","title":{"rendered":"Julian Assange Is Today\u2019s Martin Luther King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Julian Assange Is Today\u2019s Martin Luther King<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Caravaggio\u00a0The seven works of mercy (Sette opere di Misericordia)<\/strong>\u00a01607<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t know what will happen now. We\u2019ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn\u2019t matter with me now, because I\u2019ve been to the mountaintop\u2026 And I\u2019ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land.\u201d<\/p>

\u2013 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, one day before he was murdered<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

What Martin Luther King King won through many hard-fought battles, and in the end through sacrificing his own life, has to be won all over again: freedom, truth, justice. And this time it\u2019s Julian Assange who stands in the frontline. With Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden by his side. But I know you\u2019re not very likely to agree with that assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one thing, I picked the kind of headline that will probably make many people not read an essay. But I\u2019m not kidding, and I\u2019m not saying this for effect. Julian Assange is like Martin Luther King in many ways, and he deserves for people to recognize that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assange and Dr. King were born in different times, the former 3 years after the latter was murdered. But when anyone wants to talk King\u2019s legacy, then Assange very much IS that legacy. It would be nice if people like Dr. King\u2019s youngest daughter Bernice, who is very vocal on her father\u2019s legacy, would acknowledge this. Her father certainly would have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Julian Assange and Martin Luther King have in common is a superior intelligence, combined with unwavering courage and an unrelenting drive for justice and truth. Both men were born so brave they realized that they might have to give their lives for their causes. And then brought that realization into practice. Both in their own way gave their lives for our sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julian Assange Is Today\u2019s Martin Luther King \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know what will happen now. We\u2019ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn\u2019t matter with me now, because I\u2019ve been to the mountaintop\u2026 And I\u2019ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14976,17133,9847,15290,17698,3455,25903,1383,1094,16768,13924,10476,15198,25904,3007,5177,1250],"class_list":["post-46235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-assange","tag-bobby-kennedy","tag-chelsea-manning","tag-comey","tag-courage","tag-gandhi","tag-jesus","tag-justice","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-mueller","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-reagan","tag-sacrifice","tag-sex-smears","tag-snowden","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46236,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46235\/revisions\/46236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}