"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Response to Letter From Birmingham Jail - MLK

Dear Dr. King,
First of all, we would like to thank you for your response to our comments on the issues in Birmingham, we k now it must have been hard to schedule time in during that busy stay in the Birmingham Jail. I regret to inform you, that although your letter was strongly worded, we will not be retracting our statements, nor will we be speaking out for the "Negro sit inners."
You see, our position here is a tough one. Although your claims of abuse in the jail make a very fine argument, we have seen no proof of such things, and even if you are abused, how are we to know you did not actually earn it? We do not know what goes on behind closed doors, we cannot know, and we do not want to know. It is our place in this world to offer penance from sin, and a route to God, not to take a side in a political debate with which we are not connected.
Our previous comments have only been made to thank the police for peacefully ending the protests, and to urge those considering something similar to rethink their actions, and to stand down.
Although the laws of man are not the laws of God, they are still laws, and just or not, we will not suggest breaking them. As we have done previously, we insist that you take your battles to the courtroom, and not the streets.

Thank you for your time, Dr. King,
We hope that some day, you will see that there is a better path to obtain your goals, if your goals are what God desires.

Sincerely,
* C. C. J. Carpenter, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Alabama
* Joseph Durick, D.D. Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Mobile, Birmingham
* Milton L. Grafman, Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, Birmingham, Alabama
* Paul Hardin, Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Conference
* Nolan Bailey Harmon, Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the Methodist Church
* George M. Murray , D.D., LL.D., Bishop Coadjutor, Episcopal Diocese of Alabama
* Edward V. Ramage, Moderator, Synod of the Alabama Presbyterian Church in the United States
* Earl Stallings, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
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