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<P><I>from my 6-part series: </I><A
href="http://www.examiner.com/nonpartisan-in-national/occupy-this-us-history-exposes-the-1-s-crimes-then-and-now-1-of-6"><B><I>Occupy
This: US History exposes the 1%’s crimes then and now</I></B></A></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>Anyone who wants the most important history of the Vietnam war,
and American history, must be briefed of this stunning and game-changing
“current event”: </BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Dr. Martin Luther King’s family and his personal friend and attorney, <A
href="http://www.williampepper.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>William F.
Pepper</A>, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_death_claim" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>wrongful death</A> of Martin Luther King. The 1999 trial, <A
href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown
Co-Conspirators</A><I>,</I> [70] is the only trial ever conducted on the
assassination of Dr. King.</P>
<P>The King family’s attempts for a criminal trial were denied, as suspect James
Ray’s recant of what he claimed was a false confession was denied. Mr. Ray said
that his government-appointed attorney told him to sign a confession in order to
receive a trial. When Mr. Ray discovered that his signature meant no trial, his
and the King family’s subsequent requests were denied.</P>
<P>The US government also denied the King family’s requests for independent
investigation of the assassination.</P>
<P>Therefore, and importantly, the US government has never presented any
evidence subject to challenge that substantiates their claim that Mr. Ray
assassinated Dr. King.</P>
<P>US corporate media did not cover the trial, interview the King family, and
textbooks omit this information. Journalist and author, James Douglass: [71]</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>“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 <I>Publico</I>
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 <I>is</I> the trial of
the century, and who’s here?" ”</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>For comparison, please consider the <A
href="http://law.jrank.org/pages/12147/Media-O-J-Simpson-Case.html" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>media coverage</A> of O.J. Simpson’s trials: [72]</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>“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.”</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The overwhelming evidence of government complicity introduced and agreed as
comprehensively valid by the jury includes the 111th Military Intelligence Group
were sent to Dr. King’s location, and that the usual police protection was
pulled away just before the assassination. Military Intelligence set-up
photographers on a roof of a fire station with a clear view to Dr. King’s
balcony. 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination
location on that day. 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 team. Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned
investigative procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the
shooting. </P>
<P>The King family believes the government’s motivation to murder Dr. King was
to prevent his imminent camp-in 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.</P>
<P>Please watch <A
href="http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/mlk-assassinated-by-us-government-martin-luther-king-civil-1999-decision">this
six-minute video</A> of the evidence from the trial, [73] and this <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k383kA7p7vs" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>eight-minute video</A> [74] on the FBI’s disclosures of covert
operations against Dr. King, including confirmation from his closest friends and
advisors.</P>
<P>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:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>“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.” — <A href="http://actofstate.org/book/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>Coretta Scott King</A>, <I>Dr. King's wife.</I></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The US Department of Justice issued <A
href="http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/crm/mlk/part1.php" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>a report in 2000</A> 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 <A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=4480" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>statement</A> [75] rebuking a “self-study” rather than the
independent investigation the King family assert the evidence demands:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>“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:</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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)</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>4. We stand by that verdict and have no doubt that the truth about this
terrible event has finally been revealed.</P>
<P>5. We urge all interested Americans to read the <A
href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>transcript of the trial</A> on the King Center
website and consider the evidence, so they can form their own unbiased
conclusions.</P>
<P>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.”</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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.</P>
<P>It is therefore a factual statement that under US Civil Law, the US
government assassinated Dr. King.</P>
<P>This is similar that under Criminal Law, both O.J. Simpson and the US
government are not legally guilty for murder, but both parties are guilty for
killing innocent victims under Civil Law.</P>
<P>Let’s apply some critical thinking skills to this history of Dr. King that is
probably new to you. 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. </P>
<P>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!”</P>
<P>Let’s consider that statement.</P>
<P>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 easily refuted.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.”</P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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.”
[76]</P>
<P>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 who opposed key policies of an apparent violent faction within
US government. The 1975 Senate Church Committee disclosed that the US government
initiated and helped assassination attempts on multiple foreign heads of state.
[77]</P>
<P>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.
</P>
<P>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:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><I>“Useful idiots.”</I></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Your choice of a current event to research and consider will provide you with
helpful evidence to answer that question for yourself.</P>
<P>endnotes:</P>
<P>69 Conversation with Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (20 November 1816),
<I>Mémorial de Sainte Hélène</I>, v. 4, <A
href="http://books.google.com/books?id=945jAAAAMAAJ&vq=%22fable%20agreed%20upon%22&pg=PA251"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>p. 251</A>.</P>
<P>70 The Martin Luther King Jr. Center. Civil Case: King Family versus Jowers.
Transcript of closing statement: <A
href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.thekingcenter.org/civil-case-king-family-versus-jowers/</A>
. </P>
<P>71 Probe Magazine. The Martin Luther King Conspiracy exposed in Memphis.
Douglass, J.: <A href="http://ctka.net/pr500-king.html" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://ctka.net/pr500-king.html</A> . Mr. Douglass took what he
learned from the MLK trial and wrote a book on the explanation and evidence that
similar covert US government factions assassinated President Kennedy: <I>JFK and
the unspeakable: why he died and why it matters. </I>Reviews for your
consideration <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1570757550"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>here</A> and <A
href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16273"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>here</A>. Because the evidence for JFK being murdered
by interests in our own government is so strong, AP US History teacher John
Hankey created this DVD: <A href="http://thedarklegacy.com/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>Dark Legacy</A><I>.</I></P>
<P>72 One of many analyses: law.jrank. Media - The O.j. Simpson Case: <A
href="http://law.jrank.org/pages/12147/Media-O-J-Simpson-Case.html" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://law.jrank.org/pages/12147/Media-O-J-Simpson-Case.html</A></P>
<P>73 Documentation from the King family, trial information, and video
resources: Examiner.com. Martin Luther King assassinated by US government: MLK
civil trial decision. Herman, C. Jan. 15, 2011: <A
href="http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/mlk-assassinated-by-us-government-martin-luther-king-civil-1999-decision">http://www.examiner.com/la-county-nonpartisan-in-los-angeles/mlk-assassinated-by-us-government-martin-luther-king-civil-1999-decision</A>
. For further documentation of evidence: What Really Happened: The Death of
Martin Luther King: <A
href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MLK/mlk.html" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MLK/mlk.html</A></P>
<P>74 RevolutionNewz. MSM blackout - the US govt executed Martin Luther
King...Proven in US court, 1999: <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k383kA7p7vs" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k383kA7p7vs</A></P>
<P>75 Global Research. Martin Luther King Day: King family statement on the
Justice Department’s “Limited Investigation” of the MLK assassination. Jan. 15,
2007</P>
<P>76 George Washington University. The National Security Archive. Rumsfeld’s
Roadmap to Propaganda. Jan. 26, 2006: <A
href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/</A> . BBC News
analysis: US plans to ‘fight the net’ revealed. Brookes, A. Jan. 27, 2006: <A
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm</A></P>
<P>77 History matters. Church Committee Interim report: Alleged assassination
plots involving foreign leaders: <A
href="http://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/church/contents_church_reports_ir.htm"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://www.history-matters.com/archive/contents/church/contents_church_reports_ir.htm</A></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>