On this day in history: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. M.E. & PhD. was slain

It was on this day in history, forty-eight years ago today, that; father, son, senior pastor and infamous civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Michael Luther King, aka Martin Luther King, Jr. M.E. & PhD. was reportedly put down by a lone assassin’s bullet while he stayed at the Lorraine Motel (now the site for The National Civil Rights Museum for the United States of America) in Memphis, TN. USA on the evening of Thursday, 04 April 1968.

Reporting by the Los Angeles Times in April of 1968 and the iconic photo from the assassination of Dr. King on 04 April 1968 (photo editing by Rhett E. Column, Say What News, 2016)

History records that Dr. King and representatives from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as the Poor People’s Campaign  had come to Memphis to stand in arm in arm solidarity  with the Memphis African-American (and some White and Hispanic) Sanitation Workers, who were on strike then for; better wages, safety standards and conditions. As well as fairer treatment  by City Officials, including then Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb, in terms of the sanitation workers wishing to join the Labor Union known as A.F.S.C.M.E.U or the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union.

A display in the famed National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN. USA depicting the striking sanitation workers for the City of Memphis in Shelby County, TN. USA, the strike lasted from February of 1968 to April of 1968 after Dr. King was assassinated (photo courtesy of The Boston Globe/Getty Images c. 1995)

 

During the last two weeks of his life Dr. King was under continued and constant threat, and his very words on the subject of his eventual demise were these:

“This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society.” – speaking to his wife, Dr. Coreta Scott-King, PhD. & Ed.U. about the assassination of then U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

“And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats… or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?” – excerpt from “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Speech, Masonic Temple at Church of God in Christ headquarters on 03 April 1968 (A Wikipedia Page on the Speech) 

And even though history records both truth and fiction, strangely intertwined, in ‘amongst them’ that knew him best. That such a monumental undertaking – the putting down of the American dream – was the work of one lone man and one lone man only, James Earl Ray.

That no one from the Mafia, much less some “two-man hit team on the rooftop of a firehouse just across the street from the motel where Dr. King stayed at in 1968,” did this.

That to believe in conspiracy and ‘bogeyman theory’ or  to make straw man arguments that it was any one or any thing other than James Earl Ray that did the deed on that fateful day forty-eight years ago,  is to do the world a disservice. And to just go on and accept the fact that a two-bit thief and drifter from Ewing, MO. USA by way of Alton, IL. USA, “killed the dream”.

And so it goes…

But here’s the thing:

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Family, March 17, 1963 (Left to Right: Martin Luther King, III, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dexter King, seated, Dr. Coreta Scott-King, and [Elder] Bernice King; photo courtesy of The King Center for Civil and Human Rights)

IF we accept this fact alone then we would be forgetting history, and disregarding the TRUTH, the WHOLE TRUTH and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

And the truth is, is that the Government of the United States of America conspired, plotted, and planned “the death of the Dream,” and that the Family of Dr. King proved it in open court and were able to bring suit (the only ones ever to do so by the way) against the government for his death, c. 1999.

And no [Chief Justice Earl] Warren Commission or  a United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations in the United States of America is going to tell me otherwise.

No! Only God Himself, History and the man for whom this posting is written about will be able to tell me otherwise.

Rest in Peace Dr. King, though [y]Our Dream is not yet fulfilled…

–Rhett.

 

A hoax or the truth of the matter???

TUCSON, Arizona – In a recent turn of events the Tucson mass shooter Jared Lee Loughner is allegedly bringing suit against former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in US Federal Court for the ’emotional stress and discomfort’ he suffered in the wake of the mass shooting that the committed more than five years ago.

The lawsuit, as well as the formal letter, allegedly written by Loughner himself to US Court petitioning the court to bring the suit is reportedly a hoax. But lets look at the broader context here for a few moments.

In the suit Loughner maintains that he was a ‘handpicked’ agent and sufferance of the infamous Central Intelligence Agency program known as “MKUltra” or:

“… MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency’s Technical Services Staff, followed by the word Ultra(which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence). Other related cryptonyms include Project MKNAOMI and Project MKDELTA. [..]” – MKUltra meanings (MKUltra Wiki[pedia] page)

The type of behavior that Mr. Loughner displayed on the day he committed such mass atrocity has been seen before. Recall the assassination of than US Senator and 1968 Democratic candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., by Mr. Sirhan Sirhan a Syrian Christian Nationalist in April of 1968.

Mr. Sirhan Sirhan, victim of the CIA’s MKUltra program with the killing of then New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, CA. USA

“Despite Sirhan’s admission of guilt, recorded in a confession made while in police custody on June 9, a lengthy trial followed. The court judge did not accept his confession and denied his request to withdraw his not guilty plea so that he could plead guilty. Years later, Sirhan recanted his confession, claiming not to remember making it. [..]” – Sirhan Sirhan Wiki[pedia] page section titled “Prosecution”…

“Years later, Sirhan recanted his confession, claiming not to remember making it.” –Something that he continues to maintain to this day…

Often times this is typically displayed behavior of those under control via hypnosis as Mr. Sirhan was.

Known as “Subliminal Hypno-Programming” or simply “hypno-programming”. It is the:

“Breaking into people’s mind from a distance without them noticing it, to insert with surgical precision specific new thought-implants into their deeper unconscious, for them to alter dramatically their former usual behavior according to a particular plan or strategy.” – “SUBLIMINAL HYPNO-PROGRAMMING (SHP): A NEW SCIENCE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY” By Dr. Philip Sauvage, a 1988 study and position paper on the subject

Since the Tucson massacre it to has been intimated that Jared Lee Loughner was such a victim of this type of mind-controlling behavior, both by Loughner himself and behavioral studies scientist psychologist who have studied this type of mass attack as well as many others throughout the United States and around the World..

“Loughner had been posting material online for some time via his MySpace account and on YouTube under the name “Classitup10”. He gave his views on terrorism, federal laws, and his belief that the government was brainwashing the citizenry with language.” —Tucson shooting Wiki[pedia] page section titled “Perpetrator”…

“Breaking into people’s mind from a distance without them noticing it-implants into their deeper unconscious …Years later, Sirhan recanted his confession, claiming not to remember making it. Loughner had been posting …  his belief that the government was brainwashing the citizenry with language.” — Taken proportionally from various quotations here for this blog posting

The fact that such things are being done to a totally unwitting, unwilling and unsuspecting public should be enough to make one leap for their nearest Congressional representative in Washington and call for another Church Committee in the modern-day to investigate these egregious violations against the people.

The Honorable Frank F. Church, Senior US Senator for the State of Idaho, Democrat and Chairman for the famed Church Committee investigating the spying on and killing of innocent people both at home and abroad by the US Government (1924-1984) – photo courtesy of Wikipedia, 2016

Worse yet a modern-day Otis G. Pike Committee to formally investigate why it is that organizations like the Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI continue programs that were ordered by the US Congress and former President Gerald R. Ford to be decommissioned in 1973?

2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz calls for Muslim neighborhoods, schools and mosques to be ‘spied upon and patrolled regularly’in a kind of Marshal law on American soil – something that only a setting US President can declare in a ‘state of national emergency’ not unlike the state of emergency that we endured on 9/11 – but what he and others like him deliberately fail to recognize is that it is he and his ilk that needs to be spied upon, patrolled on, on a regular basis for their systemic failure to preserve, protect and defend the rights of all Americans to be secure in ‘our houses and effects’ as well as our ‘personages’.

But because men like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump lack the will, resolve, courage and intestinal fortitude to stand up to a tyrannical police-state government, like that of the one here in the United States of America, under Barack Obama, that deliberately affects, and adversely places the American people as well as free and equal citizens of this world in mortal danger everyday we will have more Jared Lee Loughner’s and Sirhan Sirhan’s to come.

Mass killings by altered state will continue across this country and around this world. Perfectly innocent men, women and children will meet a fate which they aren’t even suppose to endure from someone who may well be totally unaware of what they are doing when that fate is met.

Happy Easter 2016, stay safe out their fellow citizen…

–Rhett.

 

#Blog: “Two Things: White House Press Room & I Thought It Might Come To This..” By Rhett E. Column, #AXJ, #SWN

I thought it might come to THIS but … I just didn’t expect it so soon. Former White House Press Secretary James Brady, technically, isn’t even room temperature and already the homicide charges are starting to fly!

There can be little doubt that the events of 30 March 1981 greatly contributed to the demise of James S. Brady, over a very long period of time. But to charge a man, John W. Hinckley, Jr., for the contribution nearly 40 years after the fact is a bit of a stretch to say the least but, and like they say down south, “If you’re feel in’ froggy, jump!”

It has been said of Hinckley that he was a ‘Manchurian Candidate’ not unlike that of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan.

That both he and Hinckley were programmed to do it. Frankly I can believe it and here’s why.

A simple definition of the term can be found here.  Here to!

When you say the word Manchurian Candidate MOST PEOPLE either think about the 2004 remake of the 1962 film starring Denzel Washington

 

BUT, real film buffs always remember that epic movie starring Frank Sinatra and Janet Leigh.

But this is ROOTED in something far deeper. Something far more sinister and its starts with the C.I.A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And The so-called MKULTRA Program.

 

I said all that to say THIS: It is awfully convenient the way in which the events of 30 March 1981 and 23 May 1969 were very similar in nature. Neither Hinckley or Sirhan can attest to what they were doing before, during or after their assassination efforts or attempts. They can neither tell you or show you what they were doing. Where they were at when the assassination took place. What type of firearm they were using. Etc..

All the candidates ever used for this program were totally UNAWARE participants.

Because of this and other more mitigating circumstance don’t you think it prudent to investigate such an absence of both malice and mind?

To get to the root cause of WHY people, unwitting, unsuspecting individuals all, do the kinds and sorts of things that they do without ANY prior personal knowledge or consent?

And so it goes…

James S. Brady spent his life speaking for people who could not speak for themselves, at least on a daily basis any ways.

Some would say rightfully so based on this picture just above. But Ronald Wilson Reagan needed no HELP, no EXTRA UMPH to make his points. After all he wasn’t called the Great Communicator for nothing.

If anything though James Brady helped him convey his message. Hone his words, deeds as well as actions in an expressed form that was both understandable, relatable, and nearly routine, some would say mundane, to the everyday American. Those Americans who did not have time in an otherwise busy day to get Iran-Contra, the Sandinistas, etc..

James Brady connected on a level and a way not seen before or since any modern-day press secretary for the White House.

Nicknamed The Bear Jim Brady stood head and shoulders above those who otherwise spent a majority of their time bumping their gums instead of working.

You see its easy to hire and firer a press secretary in the White House. Many’s the time press secretaries never ever lasted more than six months, even that was a record. It is a position that has FREQUENT TURN OVER.

But Brady had staying power. He had a way with the White House Press Corps who often times needs their egos stroked because, w-e-l-l-its the White House Press Corps.

Brady could have you seriously engaged one minute and laughing your blessed ASSurance off the next! He was that good, and I should know.

As a child I spent more time in the White House under then President Reagan than I did any other U.S. President before or since. I knew Mr. James S. Brady well. Quite well. I saw and spoke to him nearly every day before that fateful day in 1981 and even in the days there after when President Reagan named him as his special adviser.

Always the same. Never different. Jim Brady was a giant amongst men.

That’s why I thought it fitting to have the White House Press Room named in his honor although I tried to get it named the Brady-Snow White House Press Briefing Room after the late Tony Snow, former journalist and long time George W. Bush Administration Press Secretary.

Snow like Brady could have you thoroughly engaged one minute and cracking jokes about your hair the next! A giant in his own right. I thought it fitting to have the briefing room bear his name to but and alas that was not meant to be.

Instead the White House made me choose. I chose Jim because I knew no matter what that Press Room would always have a lasting legacy. White House Press Secretaries come and go for sure but the name James Brady is synonymous a staying power well past the expiration date. Well past the time for the Press Sec to exit stage left. For whatever the reason.

No doubt the Commonwealth of Virginia will try to push the homicide issue. And they should. But lets push it in such a way that we finally have the answers to the questions that we have all had for years. “Did John Hinckley and the like really do it without cause or malice?”

Somewhere in that big press room in the sky I’m almost sure that Jim Brady would love to give the answer to that question, and with a smile on his face. #RIPPapaBear

Peace.

–Rhett.