When the state can categorize you as being part of a group it considers a threat, real or imagined, that’s all the justification the government needs to ignore your constitutional rights.@jackhunter74 for BASEDPolitics:https://t.co/eJj8TYs3z9

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) February 7, 2022

Government officials once said that National Security Agency surveillance in no way collected the private data of American citizens. Thanks to Edward Snowden, in 2013 we learned that the U.S. government was collecting everyone’s information en masse. Government promised that the 2001 Patriot Act (passed after 9/11) would only be used to target Islamic terrorists. Today, it is used more to fight the war on drugs and other criminal activities that have little to no connection to terrorism.

In 2018, the FBI finally admitted it had spied on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Just this week, a new report showed that the NSA was still spying on all of us with few to no restrictions.

This kind of abuse is nothing new. In the mid-20th century, the NSA and FBI would spy without a warrant on suspected “domestic enemies” of the U.S.

Among those ‘enemies?’ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yes, as we celebrate Black History Month, there was a time when the most cherished hero of the 1960s civil rights struggle was viewed by our government not as a champion of racial equality but the ‘most dangerous Negro of the future of this nation,’ as the FBI called him.”

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Based Politics’ Hannah Cox writes, “Martin Luther King Jr. once said, ‘True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.’ And in order for this country to truly find its way back to the ‘domestic tranquility’ promised in the US Constitution, there is much injustice to be reckoned with…

In honor of #MLKDay, familiarize yourself with his 6 Principles of Non-violence, and commit to them.

There is still much work to do and injustice to overthrow.

By me:https://t.co/n80OGMXyG8

— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) January 17, 2022

When citizens employ violence to fight wrongdoing, they often amplify the original problem, create new victims in their wake, empower government forces to enact draconian responses, and lose the sympathy of those they need to persuade in order to effect change…

So what should be done about injustice? We cannot merely accept it. How can we effectively fight back? The answers can be found by examining those who have successfully challenged injustice before us, and won. In honor of one such man and the day set aside to remember him, let’s study Martin Luther King Jr.’s theory of change.”

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