An Act of State by William F Pepper Esq

Author:William F Pepper,Esq
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0000000000001
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2008-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Through our scientific genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood; now through our moral and spiritual development, we must make of it a brotherhood. In a real sense, we must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We must come to see that no individual can live alone. We must all live together; we must all be concerned about each other.

He would often take to quoting John Donne, the English poet who, railing against the natural impulses of materialism and the elevation of things over people, warned his contemporaries that “No man is an island, no man stands alone … Each man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind …”61

Coming face to face with native American poverty in 1961 also had a profoundly depressing impact upon King. Even then, six years before he opposed the war in Vietnam, which he saw as a young materialistic civilization fighting an ancient culture, he felt a kinship and involvement with the starving indigenous people of his own land.

In twentieth-century America he saw a materially advanced technological civilization running away from, and behaving contrary to, its underlying Judaic–Christian heritage and culture. He said we had put guided missiles in the hands of misguided men and, like Thoreau, he believed we had developed improved means to reach an unimproved end.

He was right, of course. In the post-Second World War world, real-politik, the political brother of materialism, ruled the day. The entire German intelligence apparatus under Hitler was assimilated into the American intelligence establishment and set the tone for much of the United State’s Cold War anti-Soviet policies. War criminal Nobusuke Kishi, the former minister of munitions in Tojo’s war cabinet, was put in as Japan’s prime minister in 1957, and the CIA financed and firmly planted one-party rule in Japan which legitimated Japan’s role as a satellite of the United States. Rather than liberating colonized peoples around the world, as promised, in national mass movements of liberation in Indochina, Malaya, and Indonesia against the French, British, and Dutch, the Americans turned up on the side of European imperialism.

In South Korea, a brutal dictatorial government was set up and defended by the US government. From 1961 to 1993, the Americans supported the regimes of three army generals. During the 1980s, two senior CIA officials were sent as successive ambassadors. Only the actions of the Korean people themselves through demonstrations and street confrontations in 1987 finally brought democracy to the fore. The eventual prosecution and conviction on grounds of sedition, state terrorism, and corruption of two surviving dictators received only minimal coverage in the United States media. The post-war legacy that caused Martin King to accuse his government of cultural betrayal included the following legacy of American dictatorial support:

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