(Did you hear what that FUCKER said dedicating the MLK Memorial?  Shameful!  This rant is dedicated to JUNIOR, who told me about what the FUCKER said.)

“Yes, if the Reverend Dr. King were alive today, I know he would tell us that, although people may think Wall Street is evil, it is also evil to HATE evil.  Because Hate begets more evil, and evil begets more evil, and, in the end, we have only ourselves to blame.  That the righteous way is for Americans to go forward and say:  ‘I know that the only true way to change things is to follow the teachings of the Reverend Dr. King, as defined by President Obama, who is also Black and therefore must know what the Reverend Dr. King really meant when he said whatever he said about not HATING the people who work on Wall Street.’  

Yes, my fellow Americans, the Reverend Dr. King, a true Christian, would have in his heart a message for all of us.  He would say, and take my word for this, I know he would say it…he would say:  ‘Do not HATE people who wish to make money off the suffering of others, or HATE those who oppress the poor, or HATE those who would expunge from our nation’s history all social and economic reforms and all social and economic rights Americans have fought and bled for.’  Because the Reverend Dr. King knew about HATE.  He had dreams about it.  HATE pissed him off.

So, I would say to all Americans that, as a fitting Memorial to the Reverend Dr. King, we consider, as the Reverend Dr. King would, LOVE as a way forward in these difficult times.  That LOVE is more powerful than HATE.  If we LOVE the people who work on Wall Street, if we give them a hug, if we reach out with a neighborly casserole dish to the rich man up in his mansion who runs our town and country, if we try, every day, to see that LOVING is more important than money, than war, than anything that we may think of as evil–then, through this LOVE and LOVING we will erase all evil from our lives, and live in the true spirit of the Reverend Dr. King.

I therefore call to all those out there, the protesters, the union organizers, the single working mothers, the students and teachers, the elderly and disabled whose benefits have been cut, the parents and loved ones of our troops now dying and killing in Afghanistan, the gay hispanic migrant workers, and all those who live in FEAR and HATE–You must now turn to LOVE.  March in the footsteps of the Reverend Dr. King.  Make LOVE not HATE.  The survival of our nation depends on you making this change of attitude.  That was the CHANGE I meant back in 2008.  The CHANGE that the Reverend Dr. King would have suggested to me himself, I can say with absolute certainty.  The CHANGE that says LOVE is the only social, economic, and human right we need.  Because with LOVE, bad jobs turn into good jobs, bad wages into good wages, bad wars into good wars, bad times into good times, and a bad Wall Street into a GOOD, LOVING, KINDER AND GENTLER Wall Street.  A Wall Street and a nation under God, moving forward with the blessings of the Reverend Dr. King, who looks down upon us today and says:  ‘LOVE Capitalism, and it will LOVE you’ as only the Reverend Dr. King could say it, knowing that I today would say it for him.

Thank you”

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

(And remember, as PolitenessMan would say:  “Sometimes, some people, deserve to be demonized–thus my Steel Hankies.”