A Time to Break the Silence

Tomorrow is another MLK Day, when the very government that gave our greatest prophet a holiday pretends that it wasn't found likely guilty by a jury of his assassination in 1999.

"For one bright moment back in the late 1960s, we actually believed that we could change our country. We had identified the enemy. We saw it up close, we had its measure, and we were very hopeful that we would prevail. The enemy was hollow where we had substance. All of that substance was destroyed by an assassin’s bullet."

– William Pepper (page 15, The Plot to Kill King)

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”

- Martin Luther King, "Beyond Vietnam", April 4, 1967

“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 Publico 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 is the trial of the century, and who’s here?’”

James Douglass, from the May-June 2000 issue (Vol. 7 No. 4) of Probe

A lot has been uncovered both before and since the 1999 Memphis civil trial by Dr. Martin Luther King's friend, Dr. William F. Pepper, the attorney who won the case, proving posthumously, the innocence of patsy, James Earl Ray. Ray did live to be vindicated on live TV in an HBO mock trial in 1993, where he was also represented by Pepper, but this was for real.

Dr. Pepper's life's work has been to uncover this truth and reveal it to the world. It's important for a thousand reasons to understand how the same government that killed MLK, with signed approval all the way up to the White House, gave him a holiday.

The same forces that assassinated JFK put him on the half dollar coin.

We are a nation of willfully blind, injecting ourselves with any poison our overlords tell us to, whenever they tell us to. We even offer our children to their alter of sacrifice. The level of corruption we live under has been obvious for decades, yet we trust authority more than ever, thanks in part to complicit media and academia.

We are a corrupt empire built on genocide and slavery, and the killing for the power and profits of a few has never stopped. And whenever those same forces are turned on us, we turn a blind eye every time. I think internalizing the reality of the MLK assassination by more of our citizens would go a long way toward breaking this blind trust in American exceptionalism, which is becoming more dangerous every day.

Pepper has written three books on King, and he sums up his findings brilliantly in this shocking video interview. I think we should share this every year on this holiday. Not only was a great man murdered by his own government then given a holiday, another spent his life in prison for a crime he had nothing to do with, and humanity lost its greatest leader at a time when it needed him the most.