Jury rules King assassination a conspiracy

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Jury rules King assassination a conspiracy

"An Act Of State - The Execution of MLK"
by William Pepper,
(ISBN: 1859846955, Verso January 1, 2003)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1859846955/104-1291585-3918336?v=glance&n=283155

William Pepper is former attorney for James Earl Ray, and attorney for the King family.
He represents Pakistan as council for asset search and recovery work, trying to get back money that was stolen by prime ministers Buto and Sharif.

Excerpts from a lecture by William Pepper:

The King family had a long debate about whether or not to go through with this trial. Finally Coretta King stopped the debate. She said that in controversial situations she always asked herself what would Martin have done, what would he have wanted me to do, what would he have wanted this family to do. She said, without any doubt at all he would have said go and do it. And everybody else fell in line, because she makes those decisions for the family.

The trial was held in Memphis in 1999.
One year after filing we got the judge we wanted.
He was retiring. This was to be his last case.
It was a perfect situation for all of us.
This time it didn't take the jury seven hours,
it took them 59 minutes.
After 30 hours of testimony, 70 witnesses,
they came back with a verdict for the King family
which effectively exonerated James Earl Ray,
and ruled that there was a conspiracy to kill MLK,
involving agents of the government of the United States,
the State of Tennessee and the City of Memphis.
End of story, and you probably never heard of that verdict.
After the first 12 hours the trial didn't receive any publicity at all.

excerpts from q&a:

Government officials are just foot soldiers for the real wealth and the power of transnational corporations.

The details and the control over public policy that these huge corporate entities now exert, means that elections in elected democracy is farcical in many parts of the world.

There is an interfacing with the military and with intelligence, because those are the ultimate protectors of the wealth of the rulers of the world.

Amnesty International has accused the Venezuelan commercial media of committing human rights violations because of their constant anti-government propaganda.

There are 2 major independent papers in the world: Le Monde and The Guardian.

"...if you ever get to read the Patriot Act, you know the end is there."
The senate vote on the Patriot Act was 99 to 1 (the one was Russ Feingold).

recommended books:
John Pilger, "the new rulers of the world"
David Corton, "when corporations rule the world"
Carl Bernstein, Rolling Stone article

video of the lecture
2 hrs, 700MB
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/Torrents.php
(search for "mlk")

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also see

Democracy Now
Jury Rules King Assassination a Conspiracy
December 13th, 1999
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0414233&mode=thread&tid=5

CNN
Ray's death won't end assassination controversy
Interview with William Pepper
April 23, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/US/9804/23/james.earl.ray.reax/