How Would Dr. King React to NSA Spying on Americans?

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. electrified the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech in August 1963, and the FBI was watching.

How Would Dr. King React to NSA Spying on Americans?
by Robert McCaw
Published on Friday, January 10, 2014 by Common Dreams

How would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., have reacted to recent revelations that the U.S. government is collecting and storing nearly every citizen's phone records and gathering their electronic data?

From 1958 until his 1968 assassination, the FBI conducted extensive surveillance on Dr. King, amassing over 17,000 pages of material on his day-to-day activities.

Today King's legacy as a civil rights leader is celebrated; there is even a federal holiday named after him. But during his lifetime, the government tracked his movements, tapped his phones, bugged his offices and hotel rooms, and planted informants to spy on him. In addition, the FBI anonymously sent him a letter threatening to destroy his credibility and suggesting that he commit suicide to avoid this.

King was also separately targeted by an NSA domestic spying program called "Minaret." With others, including Muhammad Ali, Dr. King was labeled and watch-listed as a possible "domestic terrorist and foreign radical" suspect.

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1. He could of taught classes on how to deal with 24/365 surveillance

Another reason that Evil Imp hated him so much .