More Problems For Lawmaker Accused Of Plagiarism

A lying Christian? What a shocker. Since Christianity, and indeed all religions, are based upon lies, why should this “Bible Believer” be held accountable for the truth?

There’s only one way to straighten a crooked river,…Dam it.

I note that Rep. Rivers is a negro.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/member.php?code=1564488449

A much more famous negro, Martin Luther King Jr., was guilty of wholesale plagiarism throughout his life, first noted in his Ph.D dissertation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues

I’m sure white people don’t overtly cheat, steal or plagiarize, however. They’re more subtle, like giving themselves high-paid state jobs when they retire. Like, say, McConnell, Ryberg, Passailaigue.

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When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”

— John 8:7 (NIV)

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s papers were donated by his wife Coretta Scott King to Stanford University’s King Papers Project. During the late 1980s, as the papers were being organized and catalogued, the staff of the project discovered that King’s doctoral dissertation at Boston University, titled A Comparison of the Conception of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman, included large sections from a dissertation written by another student (Jack Boozer) three years earlier at Boston University.[1][2]

As Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project at Stanford University, has written, “instances of textual appropriation can be seen in his earliest extant writings as well as his dissertation. The pattern is also noticeable in his speeches and sermons throughout his career.”[3]

Boston University, where King received his Ph.D. in systematic theology, conducted an investigation that found he plagiarized major portions of his doctoral thesis from various other authors who wrote about the topic.[4][5]

According to civil rights historian Ralph E. Luker, who worked on the King Papers Project directing the research on King’s early life, King’s paper The Chief Characteristics and Doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism[6] was taken almost entirely from secondary sources.[7] He writes:

Moreover, the farther King went in his academic career, the more deeply ingrained the patterns of borrowing language without clear attribution became. Thus, the plagiarism in his dissertation seemed to be, by then, the product of his long-established practice.[7]

The incident was first reported in the December 3, 1989, edition of the Sunday Telegraph by Frank Johnson, titled “Martin Luther King — Was He a Plagiarist?” The incident was then reported in U.S. in the November 9, 1990, edition of the Wall Street Journal, under the title of “To Their Dismay, King Scholars Find a Troubling Pattern”. Several other newspapers then followed with stories, including the Boston Globe and The New York Times.

Boston University decided not to revoke his doctorate, saying that although King acted improperly, his dissertation still “makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship.” However, a letter is now attached to King’s dissertation in the university library, noting that numerous passages were included without the appropriate quotations and citations of sources.[1][8][9]