The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, on the 4th April 1968, was an extremely sad and tragic crime, which lead to many very violent criminal reactions on April 5th and the following few days. In the King assassination riots, there were 43 deaths, over 3,000 injuries and over 20,000 people arrested.
President Lindon Johnson said of that extreme reaction: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
King can be said to have predicted the riots with these words: “……. in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones. Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”
Lord Please Bless Our Freedoms With The Good Sense To Keep The Peace And Not Kill Out Of Hate
Geoff Fox, 5th April, 2023, Terra Nullius
FREEDOM, DEMOKRASI AND CIVILISED HUMANITY 