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January 15th 2006 at 9:47 am in Tomorrow, January 16th, 2006, it will be Martin Luther King Day. This is a United States holiday honouring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who actually was born on the 15th (that is today, 77 years ago).
When you look at the chaos in the world around us — this would be a good time for a man like MLK to stand up and kick the world into sobriety.
Because we’re heading for a dangerous, in-humane, future in which money and power seems the most important thing.
I was quite amazed to read the thing below, though, but of course in order to prevent other companies from making cash of the same speech, is quite logical for one to copyright the text:
King filed for copyright registration of his speech (as was then required by U.S. copyright law) one month later.
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Thus, King’s estate is able to require a license fee for redistribution of the speech, whether in a television program, a history book, a dramatic re-enactment, or otherwise.
The most important thing is that this man was shot. Shot because he wanted a better society to live in. Shot because he had a vision of men treating each-other equal.
Sad enough we’re in that situation already; only not the way MLK envisioned it: we distrust anybody just as much as anyone else. We are being led to believe that it is better to distrust anyone, and assume everybody is guilty, just for a tiny fake feeling of security.
In every country, civil liberties are being given up because some world government doesn’t want its existence threatened by self-thinking citizens, that organise.
We see whole countries being censored on the Internet and it’s just a matter of time for these technologies are to be used against us, the so-called ‘free’.
“I have a nightmare.”
The Civil Liberty Movement is being threatened as a whole — in a couple of decades time our children won’t even be aware of such a concept as ‘civil liberty’.
In the 21st century, it is more and more becoming apparent that we are all slaves. So people, please take some time out to remember MLK and his cause. Our cause…
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