William F. Pepper - An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King

[Peter Lemkin]

VERY GOOD new interview with William Pepper on MLK, RFK and other interesting things on KPFA's Guns and Butter show Oct. 24, 2017 - LISTEN and download! King was not killed by the bullet - he was finished off in the hospital and that had all be pre-arranged should he survive the shots....and a lot more interesting things on this audio!
https://kpfa.org/?s=guns+and+butter

Very moving interview. And very sad. They spit on him and then suffocated him with a pillow. That mindset is now ruling this country.

MLK's assassination was directly run out of the FBI and Hoover's office, with backup by the US Military Intelligence units. There even were a few alumni from Dallas they played minor roles. What a sick nation that the 'Federal Police' Agency does 'rub outs' gangland style...did then and does now. We are a lawless society where might makes right not right makes right - and it has been getting much worse in the post-WW2 era, but it was never good and what little progress was made was hard fought by the People on a grassroots basis. A large portion of the population always have been and still are immoral, racist, misogynist, haters of the 'other', not in opposition to murder of innocent people, violent and warlike, haters, believing in the mythology of the USA, not believing in the Bill of Rights or Declaration of Human Rights etc. Certainly most that have been in power in all sections of governance have also been. On the other hand there have always been those who fight for what is right, decent, humane, just, for equality, for peace, for justice, to make the World and the USA a better place - but they have been systematically killed, marginalized, had dirty tricks done to them, reviled by those in power and those of the masses without any ethics. They killed so many of the people I respected from my life. Yes, that mindset is very much ruling the Nation now and has been for a long time. They got rid of most of those who held the opposite views. The big joke is that so many of these hate filled people consider themselves to be 'good Christians'. Sick Nation.

"America never was America to me" - Langston Hughes

O, let America be America again
The land that never has been yet
And yet must bethe land where every man is free.
The land that's minethe poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain
All, all the stretch of these great green states
And make America again!

(the last part of Langston Hughes 1936 poem 'Let America Be America Again')