On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall and gave the iconic speech of the civil rights era. An estimated 250,000 people were in attendance as part of the March for Jobs and Freedom.
The March was peaceful.
Does anyone doubt that, had Dr. King led a riot that attacked the Capitol buildings as an act of insurrection designed to thwart constitutional processes, that he would have been arrested, tried for sedition, convicted, and then either sent to jail for the rest of his life or hanged from the neck until he was dead?
That would have been the right thing to do.
