Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King 14
This was not a one-off for these guys. They were trained snipers. You remember a hundred cities burned in America in 1967. These guys were sent around the country, teams of them, into different cities. These particular fellows had been in Detroit, Newark and Tampa and possibly L.A. They were given mugbooks. Those mugbooks were the photographs of community leaders and people who were to be their targets. And they would be put in positions and they would take out community leaders who would somehow be killed in the course of the rioting that was going on in various cities.
The assassination of Martin King was a part of what amounted to an on-going covert program in which they tried to suppress dissent and disruption in America.
He was shot from the bushes behind Jim's Grill, not from the bathroom window. And he was shot as a result of a conspiracy that brought a man called Frank Liberto -- who was a [Carlos] Marcello operative in Memphis, he ran a wholesale food place -- in to see Loyd Jowers whom he knew. Jowers owed him a very big favor. And in addition to that he paid Jowers $100,000 and that was to take complete use of that Grill facility for planning and staging of the assassination and the room upstairs that Raul (who was controlling James Earl Ray) would have James rent and then keep out of most of the afternoon.
The final stages of the assassination logistically were planned in Jim's Grill itself and there were a number of Memphis Police Department officers -- some of them were senior officers -- who were there. One of them was a black officer called Marrell McCollough.
Marrell McCollough is still alive and well today in Memphis, Tennessee. He went from the Memphis Police Department to the Central Intelligence Agency where he worked for a number of years [in the 1970s]. Before he became an undercover Memphis Police Officer, he was brought back to active duty by the [Army] 111th Military Intelligence Group [MIG] on June 16 1967.
So he was seconded from military intelligence to become a policeman to go undercover with a black group called the Invaders, a local group. So McCollough was very much in the frame, in terms of all of these that were happening. He participated in the planning. And Jowers named the other people who were involved in the planning as well.
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And a Baptist.
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The Republicans before the 1960's weren't the same as the Republicans after the 1960's.
The Democrats ejected their racists from the party. BUT the Democrats were also responsible for the mess in Vietnam.
King was against the war because of the injustice of it, and therefore he could not be expected to have been a Democrat at that time. But neither should the Republicans claim that he would have had anything but scorn for the unjust policies conservatives inflicted on the nation since the 1980's.
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BUT the Democrats were also responsible for the mess in Vietnam.
It's true that our involvement in Vietnam started [olive-drab.com] under the Truman administration, but both parties were complicit in the mess; Eisenhower could have stopped it, but at the time it was agreed by both parties that we should not let VietNam become a communist country. [wikipedia.org]
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The height of irony is that the idealists pursuing some secular Kingdom of God fail to grasp that their task all along has been simply polishing Checkov's gun [wikipedia.org].
All of that collectivism is merely a predicate for tyranny.
But you know that, I'm sure.
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You're the guy who thinks fascism is a left wing ideology. Therefore, you're an idiot. Whatever fears you have are worth laughing at and mocking you for.
You're afraid. Good. That's funny to me.
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And what, exactly is to fear?
Propaganda mongers are the subject of laughter, not fear.
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Such elaborate conspiracies may exist, but I use Occam's Razor to dissect such claims, and choose to believe that the explanation of a single asshole better explains the facts than a secret enclave of assholes maintained over long periods of time without fail.
Even George Wallace, a past asshole, was shot by an asshole, yet was unable to maintain his assholosity for his whole life.
But, carry on.
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Occam's Razor is misapplied. It belongs in the realm of Natural Phenomena - and does not take into account human factors of economics, power politics and psychological aberration.
It is better to use the analytical approach to relationships and power/influence via the cui bono principle. Then to apply the forensic standards of motive, opportunity and willingness, guided by past, real behaviors and not by public declarations.
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yeah but still, while I agree with what you're saying about Occam above, I agree with JimmySlimmy that the odds of 100's or 1000's of people keeping their damned mouths shut, for decades, is a little silly. If there were 1000's of agents in the field, ya don't think someone else would've come forward like 20 years ago?
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People keep their mouths shut when they know for a fact the people they might betray are stone killers with a past track record of doing such deeds. And even then, even when there are little leaks here and there on this or that subject, when the shadow government controls the major media sources..game over, they can get away with crimes all the time, even quite large ones. And even when it becomes common knowledge, nothing happens to the perps if the crime is large enough, and done by high executives giving
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Occam's Razor is misapplied.
I hear you, but I respectfully disagree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor [wikipedia.org]
It belongs in the realm of Natural Phenomena - and does not take into account human factors of economics, power politics and psychological aberration.
Even if you believe I do not understand Occcam's razor, why do you believe that "human factors of economics, power politics and psychological aberration" are not "Natural Phenomena"?