“We have done what we can to reveal the truth, and we now
urge you as members of the media, and we call upon elected officials,
and other persons of influence to do what they can to share the
revelation of this case to the widest possible audience.” – Coretta
Scott King, married to Martin for 15 years, worked to communicate the
facts of his assassination by the US government for 31 years: King Family Press Conference, Dec. 9, 1999.
Today’s US government and media “leaders” are criminally complicit
among Martin’s killers because they ongoingly cover-up the assassination
year-after-year with known lies.
The following summary of documentation from the King Family 1999
civil trial’s verdict of US government guilt for Martin’s execution
prove that ongoing lies from government and corporate media “leaders”
were
obviously required and planned in their conspiracy to
assassinate Martin. Without ongoing cover-up, the damning facts the King
family brought to trial would expose US government and corporate media
oligarchs conspired to murder one of the most powerful, loving, and
virtuous Americans in history.
Justice requires Americans to demand arrests of today’s
leaders as not merely accessories after-the-fact, but ongoing principal
actors required to assassinate Dr. Kingby lying about the
evidence, and also directly involved today for the reason to assassinate
Martin in 1968: to stop the occupation of Washington DC until the
unlawful Wars of Aggression of his day were ended, and full resources
committed to economic prosperity and ending poverty.
Martin’s
speech to end a US unlawful War of Aggression, the Vietnam War, speaks to us today with our inclusion of the legal argument that these
US wars are not even close to lawful, based on
lies known to be false as they were told, and with
criminal conspiracy of corporate media to both lie and hide these fundamental facts from US military and public.
Martin would be thrilled to know of
economic answers to fully fund economic prosperity in America and around our beautiful but dominated planet: monetary reform, public banking and credit, and CAFR reform.
Today’s leaders’ lies extend to psychopathically “praising” Martin on
the national holiday created after killing him. In these presidents’
hypocrisy, we can find truths to empower the 2014 Worldwide Wave of
Action (in fairness to Reagan, I conclude he was largely unaware how he
was being used):
- “During his lifelong struggle for justice and equality, the
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave mighty voice to the quiet
hopes of millions, offered a redemptive path for oppressed and
oppressors alike, and led a Nation to the mountaintop. Behind the bars
of a Birmingham jail cell, he reminded us that ‘injustice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere.’… I encourage all Americans to…
appropriate civic, community, and service projects in honor of Dr.
King.” – Obama (2014)
- “Those who advocate a course that I have called ‘cutting
and running’ have not studied the wisdom of the Rev. King. Peace, he
understood, cannot come as the fruit of cowardice or the failure of
will.” –Bush (2007)
- “… we are still far from achieving the world for which Dr. King
struggled, toiled, and bled. He did not live and die to create a world
in which people kill each other with reckless abandon… If we are to be
faithful to Dr. King’s vision, we must each seize responsibility for
realizing the goals he worked so tirelessly to fulfill.” - Clinton (1995)
- “In his words and deeds, Martin Luther King, Jr., reminded all
Americans of the stern admonition issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1858,
when he warned the people of Edwardsville, Illinois, of the tragic
consequences that continued tolerance of slavery could hold for the
United States. President Lincoln, like great Americans of all
generations, knew that our Nation’s strength lies in the conviction that
every human being is of inestimable worth and that the only legitimate
end of government is to protect the God-given rights of each individual.
‘Destroy this spirit,’ Lincoln warned, ‘and you have planted the seeds
of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains
of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to
trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own
independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who
rises among you.’ – Bush Senior (1990)
- “Let all Americans continue to carry forward the banner that 18
years ago fell from Dr. King’s hands… Today we honor him with speeches
and monuments. But let us do more. Let all Americans of every race and
creed and color work together to build in this blessed land a shining
city of brotherhood, justice, and harmony. This is the monument Dr. King
would have wanted most of all. – Reagan (1986)
The
2014 Worldwide Wave of Action (and
here) begins on the April 4 anniversary of
Martin King’s assassination by the US government (civil court trial verdict), with this operation completing ~July 4 (
Martin’ 2-minute plea to you).
Purpose of this operation:
Dr. Martin Luther King’s family and personal friend/attorney,
William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the
wrongful death of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial,
King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King.
The King Center fully documents the case, with
full trial transcript.
The King family’s attempts for a criminal trial were denied, as
suspect James Ray’s recant of a guilty plea were denied. Mr. Ray said
that his government-appointed attorney told him to sign a guilty plea to
prevent the death penalty for his part in delivering the murder weapon
for Dr. King’s assassination, and to prevent arrests of his father and
brother as probable co-conspirators.
Mr. Ray produced a letter from
his attorney stating the promise that Mr. Ray would receive a trial.
When Mr. Ray discovered that he was solely blamed for Dr. King’s
assassination and would never receive a trial, the King family’s and Mr.
Ray’s subsequent requests for a trial were denied.
The US government also denied the King family’s requests for independent investigation of the assassination.
Therefore, and importantly,
the US government has never presented any evidence subject to challenge that substantiates their claim that Mr. Ray assassinated Dr. King.
US corporate media did not cover the trial, interview the King
family, and textbooks omit this information. Journalist and author,
James Douglass:
“I can hardly believe the fact that, apart from the courtroom
participants, only Memphis TV reporter Wendell Stacy and I attended from
beginning to end this historic three-and-one-half week trial. Because
of journalistic neglect scarcely anyone else in this land of ours even
knows what went on in it. After critical testimony was given in the
trial’s second week before an almost empty gallery, Barbara Reis, U.S.
correspondent for the Lisbon daily
Publico who was there
several days, turned to me and said, “Everything in the U.S. is the
trial of the century. O.J. Simpson’s trial was the trial of the century.
Clinton’s trial was the trial of the century. But this
is the trial of the century, and who’s here?” ”
For comparison, please consider the
media coverage of O.J. Simpson’s trials:
“Media coverage of the Simpson trial, which began in January 1995,
was unlike any other. Over two thousand reporters covered the trial, and
80 miles of cable was required to allow nineteen television stations to
cover the trial live to 91 percent of the American viewing audience.
When the verdict was finally read on October 3, 1995, some 142 million
people listened or watched. It seemed the nation stood still, divided
along racial lines as to the defendant’s guilt or innocence. During and
after the trial, over eighty books were published about the event by
most everyone involved in the Simpson case.”
The overwhelming evidence of government complicity introduced and agreed as comprehensively valid by the jury includes:
- US 111th Military Intelligence Group were at Dr. King’s location during the assassination.
- 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day.
- Usual Memphis Police special body guards were advised they “weren’t needed” on the day of the assassination.
- Regular and constant police protection for Dr. King was removed from protecting Dr. King an hour before the assassination.
- Military Intelligence set-up photographers on a roof of a fire station with a clear view to Dr. King’s balcony.
- Dr. King’s room was changed from a secure 1st-floor room to an exposed balcony room.
- Memphis police ordered the scene where multiple witnesses reported
as the source of shooting cut down of their bushes that would have hid a
sniper.
- Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative
procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting.
- The rifle Mr. Ray delivered was not matched to the bullet that killed Dr. King, and was not sighted to accurately shoot
The King family believes the government’s motivation to murder Dr. King was
to prevent his imminent camp-in/Occupy at Washington, D.C. until the
Vietnam War was ended and those resources directed to end poverty and
invest in US hard and soft infrastructure.
This conclusion is
consistent with US history, past and recent, for US “leaders” to lie and kill for wars of choice. These lies are then
“covered” by corporate media in news and history texts.
Please watch
this six-minute video of the evidence from the trial, and this
eight-minute video on the FBI’s disclosures of covert operations against Dr. King, including confirmation from his closest friends and advisors.
Coretta Scott King, Dr. King’s wife, is certain of the evidence after
30 years of consideration from the 1968 assassination to the 1999
trial:
“For a quarter of a century, Bill Pepper conducted an independent
investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He opened
his files to our family, encouraged us to speak with the witnesses, and
represented our family in the civil trial against the conspirators. The
jury affirmed his findings, providing our family with a long-sought
sense of closure and peace, which had been denied by official
disinformation and cover-ups. Now the findings of his exhaustive
investigation and additional revelations from the trial are presented in
the pages of this important book. We recommend it highly to everyone
who seeks the truth about Dr. King’s assassination.” —
Coretta Scott King.
The US Department of Justice issued
a report in 2000 that
explains their investigation into their own possible guilt in the
assassination found no evidence to warrant further investigation. Dr.
King’s son issued the following
statement rebuking a “self-study” rather than the independent investigation the King family assert the evidence demands:
“We learned only hours before the Justice Department press conference
that they were releasing the report of their results of their “limited
investigation,” which covered only two areas of new evidence concerning
the assassination of Dr. King. We had requested that we be given a copy
of the report a few days in advance so that we might have had the
opportunity to review it in detail. Since that courtesy was not extended
to us, we are only able at this time to state the following:
1. We initially requested that a comprehensive investigation be
conducted by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, independent of the
government, because we do not believe that, in such a
politically-sensitive matter, the government is capable of investigating
itself.
2. The type of independent investigation we sought was denied by the
federal government. But in our view, it was carried out, in a Memphis
courtroom, during a month-long trial by a jury of 12 American citizens
who had no interest other than ascertaining the truth. (Kings v. Jowers)
3. After hearing and reviewing the extensive testimony and evidence,
which had never before been tested under oath in a court of law, it took
the Memphis jury only one (1) hour to find that a conspiracy to kill
Dr. King did exist. Most significantly, this conspiracy involved agents
of the governments of the City of Memphis, the state of Tennessee and
the United States of America. The overwhelming weight of the evidence
also indicated that James Earl Ray was not the triggerman and, in fact,
was an unknowing patsy.
4. We stand by that verdict and have no doubt that the truth about this terrible event has finally been revealed.
5. We urge all interested Americans to read the
transcript of the trial on the King Center website and consider the evidence, so they can form their own unbiased conclusions.
Although we cooperated fully with this limited investigation, we
never really expected that the government report would be any more
objective than that which has resulted from any previous official
investigation.”
Let’s summarize: Under US Civil Law, covert US
government agencies were found guilty of the assassination of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was the leading figure of the Civil Rights
Movement, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and widely recognized as one of
the world’s greatest speakers for what it means to be human. The
family’s conclusion as to motive was to prevent Dr. King from ending the
Vietnam War because the government wanted to continue its ongoing
covert and overt military operations to control foreign governments and
their resources.
It is therefore a factual statement that under US Civil Law, the US government assassinated Dr. King.
People of sufficient intellectual integrity and moral courage to
apply critical thinking skills will embrace the trial evidence and
testimony, jury conclusion, and King family analysis as appropriate and
helpful information in seeking the facts.
People who at least temporarily reject challenging information out of
fear might say something like, “The government killed Dr. King? That’s a
crazy conspiracy theory!”
Let’s consider that statement.
When someone says that a body of evidence is “crazy,” or a
“conspiracy theory” (meaning an irrational claim easily refuted by the
evidence) that’s a claim. With a claim comes a burden of proof. In this
case, the person would have to demonstrate command of the facts to
explain and prove why the evidence from the civil trial is somehow
“crazy” and refute the evidence.
If the person can do this, it would be tremendously helpful in
understanding the facts. However, we know from our experience that such
statements almost always have zero factual support, and that the person
making such a claim literally doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
We also know from our experience, a person making such a statement is
really voicing an emotional reaction something closer to the spirit of,
“The government killed Dr. King? Ok, I read and understood the
paragraphs about the trial and evidence. I read Mrs. King’s and her
son’s statement. I haven’t invested the time to verify how valid that
information is. I’m not stupid, but because the implications of what
that means is so disturbing, I’m going to deny anything about it could
possibly be true as my first response. If I’m going to continue being in
denial and refuse to discuss the evidence, I’ll attack the messenger.”
We also need to consider the lack of coverage by US corporate media
of this compelling evidence, trial verdict, and King family testimony
from over 30 years’ analysis of the facts. Recall the
evidence of US corporate media reporting being infiltrated by CIA agents to propagandize Americans’ access to information.
This included the Director of the CIA’s admission to Congress that they
have over 400 agents working in corporate media to make the US public
believe what the CIA wants them to believe.
In 2006, George Washington University used a Freedom of Information
Act request to obtain the US military’s “Information Operations
Roadmap.” This formerly secret and approved document details present US
government strategies to generate propaganda, and then attack Internet
alternative media that provides dangerous facts and discussion. The
military promoted the term, “
Fight the net.”
Although I won’t enter the burden of proof here, you may know that
there are similar and related bodies of evidence that the US government
assassinated other American leaders. The 1975
Senate Church Committee disclosed that the US government initiated and helped assassination attempts on multiple foreign heads of state.
If we were discussing how the population of
some other nation could
employ critical thinking skills to understand current events from
anytime in history, we would certainly understand the importance to
anticipate disinformation from government, danger of controlled media,
and assassination as a political weapon.
Failure to do so would appropriately elicit the label attributed to
the first dictator of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin. Such people who
believe what their government tells them when the history and present
have overwhelming objective evidence to explain, document, and prove
that the government is typical of so many other historical self-serving
oligarchies are:
“Useful idiots.”
To the extent the United States today is any different from all other
nations and all other times is up to your exercise of critical thinking
skills. And that said, think and choose carefully: choices have
consequences, especially our most important ones.
Consider the
power of your choices during the April 4 to July 4 initial window of the 2014 Worldwide Wave of Action.
