Conscience at the CORE

From the "credit where credit is due" department, not all of the "civil rights community" was down with degenerating Coretta Scott King's funeral into the Democrat Party's latest episode of Weekend at Bernie's:

The head of one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations is blasting former President Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery for politicizing the funeral of Coretta Scott King.

In a press release Thursday, Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, called comments by Carter and Lowery attacking President Bush "crass" and "disrespectful."

"It was an outrage for such behavior to be exhibited in the presence of the President of the United States, and it was particularly outrageous for it to occur at a funeral for a dignified lady, the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.," the CORE chief complained - after attending the service in person.

It's reassuring to see that there is at least one leader of the "African-American community" that hasn't sold out the moral center of his cause for thirty shekels of partisan silver.

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We didn't touch much on Mr. Peanut's disgusting attacks on the President during his eulogy in our post on this funereal debacle the other day. But Lee Harris did over at TCS, and devastatingly:

Suppose al-Qaeda had decided to air its grievances against the United States by holding a massive peaceful "sit in" at the Twin Towers on 9/11. Suppose Islamic terrorists, instead of blowing up innocent human beings, had vowed only to use civil disobedience. Suppose Osama bin Laden, like Dr. King, had struggled with all his might to keep his organization from turning to bloodshed and violence. Would Bush have felt the need to launch a domestic surveillance program on such a pacifistic movement?

Harris equivocates on this hypothetical, so let me leave no lingering doubts: Hell, no, Bush would not have done that. 9/11 has been the catalyst for everything that has ensued in the GWOT. With a "massive peaceful sit-in" in place of the Islamikaze attacks, there still wouldn't be any GWOT, the Gorelick Wall would still be in place, and the NSA would be tuning in to Airbus board meetings, not the al-Qaeda high command.

Resuming....

[T]he fact that al-Qaeda embraces violence and celebrates terrorism - doesn't this small detail destroy the basis of Carter's analogy? If you can equate bin Laden with Martin Luther King, and al-Qaeda to King's non-violent movement, then, by all means, go ahead and draw the same analogy that Mr. Carter drew about Bush's domestic surveillance program. If, on the other hand, you cannot equate the two, then Carter's analogy becomes at best ridiculous and at worst obscene.

You know, I'm amazed I didn't pick up on that. Such was my indignant ire at both the ballshots thrown at Dubya and the defilement they administered to Mrs. King's memory that I never thought this thing through to the extent that Mr. Harris did. In trying to land the stock fever swamp attack on the Administration's terrorist surveillance program, Jimmy Carter did equate Martin Luther King and Osama bin Laden. And that is obscene, and should have been recognized as such by Mrs. King's mourners first and foremost. And yet there they sat, so obliviously whooping and cheering Carter's and Joe Lowry's despicable attempts to embarrass and humiliate the President of the United States that the risable implication of Carter's attack sailed right over their heads.

So; the angry Left thinks that Coretta Scott King would have wanted her funeral transmogrified into a partisan show trial, and thinks nothing of drawing moral equivalance between her martyred husband, the patron saint of non-violent equality, and a theofascist mass murderer in the process.

Yep, it was a very educational week indeed.