Regarding Jim Rice’s column “Fairness for Whom? [6]” (June 2012): One of Martin Luther King Jr.’s prophecies fits the effects of today’s right-wing political agenda with uncanny accuracy: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
Larry Boudreau
San Antonio, Texas
Links:
[1] http://sojo.net/magazine/2012/09
[2] http://sojo.net/biography/larry-boudreau
[3] http://sojo.net/magazine/2012/09/deadly-defense#comment-covenant
[4] http://sojo.net/letter-to-the-editor?post=Deadly%20%27Defense%27
[5] http://sojo.net/donate
[6] http://sojo.net/magazine/2012/06/fairness-whom