President Eisenhower
Warns Us of Military
Industrial Complex

Today a friend of mine at the local Catholic Worker House of Hospitality organized a protest outside of a gun store nearby that is one of the biggest sellers of guns used in violent countries in the USA. I wanted to go but could not make it but was glad to see the story on the news tonight.
See Marking MLK with protest outside of gun store.

Listening to public radio as I was driving today I heard some interesting stories from persons who knew Martin Luther King Jr, whose birth we celebrate today. One of his companions told us how much he suffered after his 1967: Beyond After Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. He said and did what he, in conscience, had to say and do, but was rejected and marginalized for it. His friend said how he could not get out of bed some days, something I can relate to, and his premonition that he would die.

Also from the media I heard today was the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower farewell speech and his warning of the growing power of the Military Industrial Complex. Sadly we did not listen to him and have a Military Industrial Educational and some would say Media complex.

I am writing this listening to classical music on Pandora Radio.

There are gems in the media we face each day if we have ears to hear and eyes to see.

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