MLK Assassination Anniversary Unnoticed
By Jay Janson
06 April, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Our project to stimulate the use of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.' condemnation of U.S. murderous foreign policy during the last year of his life could include the marking of the anniversary of his assassination, for it is widely believed that it was King's opposition to imperialist war madness and the capitalist insanity of putting profit above humanity that cost him his life and cost us the loss of his much too effective leadership.Progressives expect commercial media to ignore this anniversary, but we needn't. Our turn comes stronger the day after we witness media silence. Just as entertainment/news media ignore the Iraqi and Afghan deaths of even women and children, as do our senators while deploring American 'mistaken' invaders deaths, so must we all the more emphatically raise our voices in protest against the loss of Iraqi life in Iraq, of Afghan life in Afghanistan and the taking of Rev. King Jr.' life exactly so intentionally ignored. This is what King Jr. would have wanted us do.
After one's moment of silence in observance of the events of April fourth, 1968, on that balcony of that motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, sugest clicking on
http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/
mar-apr_00/thekingtrial.htmland read how the King family won a verdict from the jury in its court case of conspiracy in Memphis Circuit Court in 1999, which included damning testimony from former UN Ambassador Andrew Young.
Then, just at least, take a glance of the transcript of the trial on the King Center web site, just so you know it is there for anyone to read and remember. Though the trial was mostly ignored by mainstream corporate media, just note what an extensive reality reminder it is, still today, click on:
http://www.thekingcenter.org/news/trial.html
Want to read the mass media damange control after the trial?:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/18/
mlk.investigation/index.htmlor the enormously long official Justice Departments final judgements regarding the trial, also on line, or look at it as reported by CNN?
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/06/09/
king.investigation.01/index.htmlIf we wish to stop the present U.S. wars, best not get into trying to uncover what has been well covered up in the past, but to be aware of some of this might protect us from being misled now into debating controversial, but, by calculated intention, confusing information meant to divert our attention from the main inhumanity and falsehoods.
Write progressive editors, progressive congressmen, ask that we focus on public education and keep progressive journalism away from establishment news agendas.
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