Rev. Martin Luther King was murdered by the U.S. government

[DerekG]

In 1999, a Circuit Court trial in Memphis, Tennessee took place wherein lawyer-investigator William Pepper--friend of the King family--charged that Rev. King was murdered by government agencies and that James Earl Ray was indeed a patsy. The jury was convinced. Unsurprisingly, this story was virtually ignored by the press.

The link below offers references to the trial (just scroll down to the bottom of the page):

http://www.ratical.com/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html



Beyond this revelation, I feel that it's important to discuss King's true legacy.

I used to wonder how different Christianity would be had the Resurrection not been so elemental to the mythos. Reflecting on the deaths of the four major liberal to radical leaders of the 60s, however, I have come to understand how vital the Easter celebration is in preserving the spirit of the faith that means the world to me.

This leads me to Dr. King.

When that empty icon is presented to us every January, and I'm forced to see our greatest humanitarian stripped of all urgency and relevance, I recoil in disgust and buckle in sorrow. The legacy of the blessed radical has been plundered and replaced with an image that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy. The truth is, King was not merely a civil rights leader. Rather, he was an American prophet who came to abandon the idea of reform when he saw the heart of darkness in our system. In the months leading up to his death, King escalated his attempts to stop a genocidal war and planned to lead a non-violent army of the impoverished into the belly of that beast, Washington D.C.. He saw evil, and tried to counter it; he saw the future, and tried to change it. And like so many of his peers, King was taken from us for these very reasons.

Politicians love to whore King's name. But would the good reverend have supported Nixon's decimation of Cambodia? Would he have supported Reagan's ungodly crusades in Latin America? And might I ask DUers whether King would have been an ally to Clinton, who left countless numbers of corpses in Iraq, Yugoslavia and Columbia?

Like I said: all Good Friday, no Easter Sunday.

[CaTeacher]

1. this makes a lot of sense.

I think that if Dr. King had of lived, this country would have gone much further to the left. Many of us who supported his movement also were very idealistic and dreamed of creating a socialist society--something along the lines of what Cuba is now.

Sadly, his death derailed the dreams of many. It makes me physically ill to think of how far to the right this country has swung. Getting rid of Dr. King may have been step 1 in this march to fascism. And now we live with the boot of the Nazis on our necks. Dr. King would weep if he knew.

[Octafish]

2. The ENTIRE Liberal Leadership was murdered: MLK, RFK, JFK.

I don't know who did it, but it seems some were in government.

You want suspicions?

Check out how George Herbert Walker Bush ratted on a fellow conservative
WITHIN MINUTES OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S MURDER!

MINUTES!



Then, a week after the assassination, a "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" shows up in a memo to J Edgar Hoover, reporting the anti-Castro Cubans were clean and "regretted the assassination."



SOURCE:

http://www.internetpirate.com/bush.htm

[smirkymonkey]

9. Nice Alibi, Poppy!

You sniveling, morally bankrupt, little asshat!

[goclark]

10. Yep, Poppy in the Middle Again!

My list continues to grow every day.

Think about it, Poppy has been In The Middle of Everything Wrong with this country for more than 40 years.

Poppy is dangerous folks, wake up.

[olddem43]

3. If some govt. agencies killed King, they forgot to

coordinate with the most right-wing agency of them all (at the time)
the FBI. It was the FBI that tracked James Earl Ray down in England and had him arrested. Ray eventually admitted to the crime but didn't name any conspirators. I personally believe that Ray did it but may have had some assistance.

[Beausoleil]

8. IIRC, his first lawyer convinced him

to plead guilty. Otherwise, he was told, he'd fry. Not so much a confession as a "I'll tell you what you want to hear, just don't kill me" kind of admission.

[tom_paine]

14. Well, if the FBI's job was to frame a Bushevik Patsy

then once again, they performed THIS JOB to perfection.

[Must_B_Free]

4. But John Lennon was killed by... a lone nut?

Bob Marley shot by a lone nut?

Progressive leaders are not always politicians, that can be anyone who influences peoples thinking. Why else did the FBI track Lennon so extensively?

[tkmorris]

5. Bob Marley wasn't shot

He died of a brain tumor.

[tkmorris]

6. Oh wait

I just realized you didn't claim he died from the gunshot. Are you referring to the shooting he survived I assume?

[Must_B_Free]

7. Of course

He was "chosen", he survived.

[DrWeird]

11. The FBI did keep big files on him, right?

Like Lennon and King.

[ParisFrance]

13. Just to throw names out there

John Foster and Allen Dulles would try to wipe out communism governments which leads me to believe the Kennedys who were not advocates of force might have made their hit list.

[mopaul]

12. unless you can prove it, no one wants to hear it, like with nine eleven

of course the u.s. govt. killed king, and the two kennedys and many many other, not to mention the millions of native people's and slaves and invaded and conquered nations.

but unless you can jump down and prove it to whomever you're trying to convince, which you can't, then you're ridiculed and dismissed.

but i believe you