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01-19-2009, 11:32 AM
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James Earl Ray never went to trial, at least not in the flesh. He confessed to the crime, after all. The legal system agreed to a trial in 1999, once he was safely in the grave. It was a real trial in a real court room with a real jury and a real judge, with real prosecutors and real defense lawyers, and in the end James Earl Ray was exonerated and the real killer and his accomplices were identified. The press coverage of the trial, however, was dismal. I remember when it hit the news, like a light breeze, and then was gone. I was left with the understanding that it was only an exercise in legal drama, a sham trial, not a real trial. But a real trial it was despite the media misdirection. However, the true culprits were never sentenced. Someone else had done their time and the state was not interested in calling attention to its complicity in the assassination.
"Half a day was occupied with the testimony of Attorney William Schapp, who we qualified as an expert on government use of the media for disinformation and propaganda purposes. . . . " - from An Act of State
So why did Ray confess? He had a brother in prison and the police told him that his brother would come to harm if he didn't. Ray was chosen as the patsy because he would be easy to railroad. From a poor family and without connections, he was a nobody and nobody would raise a fuss about his wrongful imprisonment - except, years later, the family of the victim.
"Seventy witnesses set out the details of the conspiracy in a plot to murder King that involved J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the local Memphis police, and organized crime figures from New Orleans and Memphis. The evidence was unimpeachable. The jury took an hour to find for the King family. But the silence following these shocking revelations was deafening. Like the pattern during all the investigations of the assassination throughout the years, no major media outlet would cover the story. It was effectively buried." - from An Act of State
And why was King killed? He had gone from being simply a civil rights activist to being a high profile leader in the anti-war movement and was beginning to identify the true perpetrators of the war, the corporate oligarchy, for whom waging war is a revenue enhancement activity.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. . . . We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate." --Martin Luther King, "Beyond Vietnam," Address delivered to the Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, at Riverside Church, NYC, 4/4/67
The lawyer hired by the King family has written a book about the trial, An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King. In it he reveals the details of who really killed King and the reasons why he had to die.
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Was An Act of State, 1/03 (https://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html)
James Earl Ray never went to trial, at least not in the flesh. He confessed to the crime, after all. The legal system agreed to a trial in 1999, once he was safely in the grave. It was a real trial in a real court room with a real jury and a real judge, with real prosecutors and real defense lawyers, and in the end James Earl Ray was exonerated and the real killer and his accomplices were identified. The press coverage of the trial, however, was dismal. I remember when it hit the news, like a light breeze, and then was gone. I was left with the understanding that it was only an exercise in legal drama, a sham trial, not a real trial. But a real trial it was despite the media misdirection. However, the true culprits were never sentenced. Someone else had done their time and the state was not interested in calling attention to its complicity in the assassination.
"Half a day was occupied with the testimony of Attorney William Schapp, who we qualified as an expert on government use of the media for disinformation and propaganda purposes. . . . " - from An Act of State
So why did Ray confess? He had a brother in prison and the police told him that his brother would come to harm if he didn't. Ray was chosen as the patsy because he would be easy to railroad. From a poor family and without connections, he was a nobody and nobody would raise a fuss about his wrongful imprisonment - except, years later, the family of the victim.
"Seventy witnesses set out the details of the conspiracy in a plot to murder King that involved J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the local Memphis police, and organized crime figures from New Orleans and Memphis. The evidence was unimpeachable. The jury took an hour to find for the King family. But the silence following these shocking revelations was deafening. Like the pattern during all the investigations of the assassination throughout the years, no major media outlet would cover the story. It was effectively buried." - from An Act of State
And why was King killed? He had gone from being simply a civil rights activist to being a high profile leader in the anti-war movement and was beginning to identify the true perpetrators of the war, the corporate oligarchy, for whom waging war is a revenue enhancement activity.
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. . . . We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate." --Martin Luther King, "Beyond Vietnam," Address delivered to the Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam, at Riverside Church, NYC, 4/4/67
The lawyer hired by the King family has written a book about the trial, An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King. In it he reveals the details of who really killed King and the reasons why he had to die.
The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Was An Act of State, 1/03 (https://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html)