MLK and Wall Street

It is fitting that while the Martin Luther King memorial is dedicated Wall Street is facing a classic confrontation between nonviolence and violence. King taught and advocated nonviolent resistance against the authoritarian violence of police with dogs and water-hoses. Today the police are doing what they always do - protect and serve the establishment, even when they are patently unjust. Can we wonder why German soldiers served Hitler? can we wonder why police served the South African apartheid government? Can we wonder why police in America set dogs on innocent civilians? Can we wonder why police are pepper spraying nonviolent protesters in New York in 2011? Weren't the US authorities vocally defending the right of nonviolent protesters in Egypt and even violent dissidents in Libya? Why are US authorities meting out the same medicine to it's civilian population? As the world population of civilian protests expand to Europe and Japan so will the pressure on all authorities who are using violence against nonviolence. Of course, the authorities are bankrupt with ideas to solve problems. Their only solution is violence. While MLK provides us with a taste of Gandhi's nonviolence. It is a pity Barack Obama never learned that lesson.