The Question – v2

Trying to change the discussion, to force him to agree

to admit that torture, any torture, was justified

that the ends justify the means, any means

That sometimes our enemies lose their humanity

that our laws could be broken, for any reason

to save lives, that a just law could be ignored

Happily, he did not take the bait,

did not agree that torture was ever just;

Our enemies, ourselves ever changed

when hate calls us, and we answer in kind

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January 21, 2013

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

and his final speech before his assassination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oehry1JC9Rk&feature=youtu.be

and Inauguration of the President

Barack Hussein Obama

Invocation

by Myrlie Evers-Williams

http://bcove.me/ugv9l9qy

Inaugural Address

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/president-barack-obamas-2013-inaugural-address-full-text-86497.html

&

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2009/01/not-just-dream-reality.html

&

several poems written in 2009

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Luther%20King

on the juxtaposition of the

80^th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

and the inauguration of Barack Obama

as President of the United States of America

January 18, 2009

the message, “It’s not just a dream but a reality”

on the sign in front of church,

the story of Moses and Joshua,

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Joshua 1:1-9

along with

Micah 4:1-4

Matthew 5:43-48

the sermon, “Love Your Who???”,

by Reverend Huntley Halvorson,

http://www.suncookumc.org

Suncook United Methodist Church, Suncook, NH,

and the hypothetical put to Eric Holder, nominee for Attorney General,

by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) on the use of waterboarding,

January 15, 2009, during his Senate Confirmation Hearings,

see http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/15/cornyn-holder-waterboard/

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