"Honor Dr. King For The Content of His Character"

It will take awhile until this blog gets around to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday is celebrated today, but please bear with me.  I promise you we WILL get there if you read to the end!

Okay, here we go.  President Trump is going to have a rally in Wildwood, NJ...about an hour-and-a-half from me...on the 28th of this month.  As you can see from the photo above, I already have two General Admission tickets for us (my wife and me) to hopefully see him.  If it happens, Trump will be the FIFTH American President I'll have seen "Live" (Kennedy, Newark NJ in 1960, Reagan, Bloomfield NJ in 1985, Bush 41 in Bloomfield, 1989, and Bush 43*, in Madison, NJ in 2000 were the other four.)

But, on top of SCHEDULING problems (work) and potential WEATHER problems (January weather), there's now ANOTHER problem which may hinder us.

Our Democrat Governor, Phil Murphy, is deliberately, spitefully having work done on THE MAIN ROAD LEADING INTO THE SHORE TOWN WHERE THE RALLY IS BEING HELD.  That work starts TODAY, and it will be a huge inconvenience to the 20,000 expected at Trump's rally.  It's a LITERAL "roadblock," Lol!! Click this photo to enlarge it and read about it...

I really, really want to see the President and SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR HIM during his Impeachment Trial (which begins tomorrow, in the Senate.) However, this sudden, childish ploy by the Governor makes it much, much harder to get to the site of the rally. "WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY" and I believe most Trump supporters will STILL show up, en masse, to support the President at this event.

However, what concerns me is the actions of GOVERNOR MURPHY, who was upset with our PREVIOUS Governor, Chris Christie, for something called "Bridge-gate." Christie, a Republican, misused HIS power to create traffic problems for HIS political opponents.  I condemned this at the time and so did MURPHY, but now he's doing the very same thing CHRISTIE did. 

"TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT."  When you REPLICATE the sin of another you VALIDATE it and you lose your moral authority, your credibility, your integrity as you do. And that brings me around, finally, to Dr. King (by the way, my son ROB did the amazing artwork below.)

King preached non-violence and did NOT believe in retaliation. He believed in JUSTICE, yes, but to do to others as they've done to you is not Justice, it's REVENGE, pure and simple.  Jesus, let it be remembered, said do unto others AS you'd have done to you, and King followed that principle. And today, Democrats like the vindictive Gov. Murphy will be lining up to honor Dr. King NOT for "the content of his character," which is what he famously desired...but for "the color of his skin," which is what he DETESTED. For that matter, many vengeful REPUBLICANS will be hypocritically honoring King today, ALSO.  It has to stop. Honor him honestly, not hypocritically.

Some will disagree with me, but Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man** and we all, MYSELF INCLUDED, need to follow his example of non-retaliation in matters great and small.  For Governor Murphy, there is still time to delay that road work till AFTER the Trump rally.  I believe that's what KING would do, and that's why we honor his memory today.

* We saw Bush 3 days before the 2000 election and Bush wasn't declared PRESIDENT until that DECEMBER, but I still count him in this group.

** Dr. King was a GREAT man but not a PERFECT man...he was guilty of adultery. There is a CONTEXT to my admiration for his "Content of Character" speech, it refers strictly to his non-retaliation emphases. I certainly do not think that cheating on one's wife shows good Character.