Dershowitz: Yes, like Pamela Gellar, MLK "provoked" the Birmingham church bombing of 1963.
The three-story 16th Street Baptist Church had become a rallying point for civil rights activities through the spring of 1963, and would become the location where students who were arrested during the 1963 Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade had been organized and trained by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Director of Direct Action, James Bevel. The church was also used as a meeting-place for other civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and Fred Shuttlesworth. Tensions would be further escalated when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Congress on Racial Equality became involved in a campaign to register African-Americans to vote in Birmingham.On May 2, more than 1,000 students, some reportedly as young as eight, opted to truant from school and gather at the 16th Street Baptist Church. Demonstrators present were given instructions to march to downtown Birmingham and discuss with the mayor their concerns about racial segregation in Birmingham, then to integrate buildings and businesses currently segregated. Although this march was met with fierce resistance and criticism, and saw up to 600 arrests on the first day alone, the Birmingham campaign and its Children's Crusade were successful and continued until May 5. These demonstrations led to an agreement, on May 8, between the city's business leaders and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to integrate public facilities, including schools, in the city within 90 days.
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The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church. [1]
Described by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as "one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity," [2] the explosion at the church killed four girls and injured 22 others.
[ Note: One of the girls killed was a childhood friend of Condaleeza Rice. ]
notherbob2 Says:
May 8th, 2015 at 11:25 am
Here is the perfect spear to use to stab a liberal who is whining about Ms. Geller:
“[You]… should realize that … she shares something in common with civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.”
… says Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz:
“I don’t want to make any comparisons morally or legally, but from a constitutional law point of view, there’s no difference,” Dershowitz said Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File.”
“King purposely picked some of the cities he led protests in precisely in order to bring out the racists and show what kind of violent people they are…It’s part of the American tradition to provoke so that the world can see…”
http://neoneocon.com/2015/05/08/heres-a-challenge-id-like-to-see-the-ny-times-take-up/ |
