What don't you understand about "Peace"???

(music Video included)

King accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10,1964. This picture should tell you a lot. King is not holdling on to a rifle magnum gun magazine, whatever, like a mentally deranged maniac.

King said, at his award ceremony ..:"I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind." King also said.."I refuse to acccept the idea that ...man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him."

We all make "choices" some good some not so good, but the choice to be about "violence" and promote violence is wrong headed and only leads to more problems.

King: "I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam (a lot of sam in this, okay to smile) in the river of of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him...

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in realilty.

This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

Now, let's think about all of this in terms of 2010 and 2011. In the summer, August 2010 folks gathered at the Lincoln Memoral laid claim to MLK's legacy. They said MLK doesn't belong to African American's. That means,that they, the folks talking were not African American's. The problem is not that they were not African American's.

The problems is they were not and don't represent or are not represevatives of King's philosophy of Non-violence.

Here are some quotes given to me in a flier by our local PeaceVigil. Quotes from the Folks,

Expressing their confusion:

I want people"Armed and Dangerous" rep. Michelle Bachmann. "Knockoff Obama" Liz Trotta foxnews. "Get what Kennedy got" fox nation. "We came unarmed This Time." T party sign

"Second American Revolution" Rush Limbaugh. "Kill Michael Moore" Glenn Beck

"Time to Reload" "Fire a Salvo"-Sarah Palin.

It's pretty clear that these "folks" are confused and incompatible with MLK's legacy of Non-Violence.

But I want to offer a little bit of hope for them too. Change. It can happen. It might be noted that Alford Nobel was in his past, I am told an Arms dealer. Can you believe it? Yes, Sarah, there is hope for all of US.

Watch this vidoe and think about it:

Happiness is nonviolence

It's a New Year, 2011, are you already ready? I have been remembering how in the past I would see folks run out to the back yard with their "pistol" and blast off. This was there way of being loud and clear in the New Year.

Violence is not the right way. I am sorry but those people advocating violence as a "soulution" are more than just confessed they are mentally deranged. Think about it.

We need to face the facts that reality has to be about relationships, negotiation, and concessions for the sake of "peace" if we are going to have a human way of life.

Try to understand each other even if you don't want to. Try talking to each other even if you don't want to.

Those people that are advertising "violence" or advocating violence are unconscionable and wrong headed and should not be though of as "leaders".

An obession with violence says a lot about a person. Bullying others, aggresses behavior, interferring and meddling in others personal affairs are all acts of violence.

Some of these people that bully and harass others are mentally distrubed but most of them are I believe childish and hateful. They want attention by starting and keep up a "stink".
They are distrubed so they want to distrube everyone else.

What is really happening is they confuse violence with what they really want "Happiness".

Violence is not a substitue for "Happiness".

So, I am remembering the Dream. I am remembing the true "King".
When we want happiness for each other like we do for our ownself them we are making real
"Progress"

The key is respecting each other enough to talking to them, one on one.
Find out what you need to understand of the sake of "Peace".