You Just Can't Believe What the Media Tells You These Days

In terms of this whole new conspiracy theory about Martin Luther King’s assassination - - unlike 9 – 11 and the Warren Comissions, I just don’t see any evidence or motive to support this scenario by George Washington’s blog.  We can’t apparently trust ANYTHING the media says, and Washington’s Blog on some issues to be in a parrellel universe.  And since I don’t trust other sources, how can I be confident that anybody will trust me when I do a posting?  There was this one Pepper guy who functioned as James Earl Ray’s defense attorney.  Of course Ray initially pled guilty but then withdrew his guilty plea but they wouldn’t let him.  He said stuff about this whole firing squad station around the Laverne Motel - - - and how King was moved to a different room - - one in which the security was not nearly as good.   Even if they get someone from this mystery military government hit squad to tell a story, how are we to know he isn’t just some crazy publicity hound?   According to this Pepper guy “As people approach death they are more inclined to confess to old crimes”.   It’s a nice theory but I’m not sure if it holds.  The thing is Johnson and King worked together on the Civil Rights bill so there is no way in hell that LBJ would hire a military hit squad to eliminate King.  And the thing is - - if you’re proven wrong on one theory you have, then all your detractors will doubt you on EVERYTHING you say.  Judy sent me a profile of pros and cons for sixteen Republican presidential candidates.  Mitt Romney has been in the news of course as the latest retread to go around the track a third time.

This is one of the strangest entries yet from Washington’s blog claiming that a civil “wrongful death” trial was led by Coretta Scott King that was held in December of 1999 in Memphis, Tennessee, Shelby County.  I don’t know what to make of it.  Last night I was reading commentary from people who claimed that Washington’s blog had lost touch with reality.  I hope this whole allegation today by Washington’s Blog just isn’t some well planned, elaborate rouse just to see who gets suckered in by it.  But anyhow here is a few important points to think about- - if you believe this report at all.

§  US 111th Military Intelligence Group were at Dr. King’s location during the assassination.

§  20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day.

§  Usual Memphis Police special body guards were advised they “weren’t needed” on the day of the assassination.

§  Regular and constant police protection for Dr. King was removed from protecting Dr. King an hour before the assassination.

§  Military Intelligence set-up photographers on the roof of a fire station with clear view to Dr. King’s balcony.

§  Dr. King’s room was changed from a secure 1st-floor room to an exposed balcony room.

§  Memphis police ordered the scene where multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting cut down of their bushes that would have hid a sniper.

§  Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting.

§  The rifle Mr. Ray delivered was not matched to the bullet that killed Dr. King, and was not sighted to accurately shoot.

This is Monday January 12, 2015.  Free Speech does not necessarily extend to the former Secretary of State under Bush being allowed to give a commencement speech.  Likewise if you put an objectionable post on my facebook page, I have every right to delete it.  Many people point out that this French Charlie guy was totally disgusting in so many of his posts- - and there were racial slurs against all manner of foreigners and immigrents.  This is the true test of how pure of a free speech guy you are is whether you will defend speech you can’t stand.   I listened to mostly Sean Hannity blubbering endlessly about why Obama didn’t show up at the Paris rally on Sunday.  The thing wasn’t planned till Friday afternoon and to organize secret service clearance in that time over a vast area of four million people is a little too much to ask.  If the secret service says “Don’t do it” it seems prudent to listen to them, rather than get shot and then Sean Hannity would be saying ‘I know the secret service was incompetent and here is your proof”.   That Norms bike riding little kid ad is pretty funny.   Norman Goldman said some of this stuff about “How come Obama didn’t attend” is reminiscent to teenagers at a Junior High dance gossiping about who Sally was dancing with.  The media will highlight whatever story they wish no matter how petty.  The point is that the United States is in solidarity with France, and the fact that the vast majority of Muslim organizations and leaders have condemned these attacks in Paris, and that's a good thing.  So why should a good thing be eclipsed by the media on something so petty as to find something else to blame President Obama for?  If the economy is bad, it's Obama's fault.  If there is a bombing, it's Obama's fault.  If there are a couple Ebola cases in the United States, it's Obama's fault.  This blaming and finger wagging seems endless.

OTHER MAJOR NEWS OF THE DAY

 Terry wanted me to get all the addresses of Republican governors.  This is easier said than done, because most don’t seem to give out their snail mail address and to post on Facebook you need to sign up for Facebook, which I haven’t done.   Ecampaign@gop.com is the web address for the Republican Governor’s association, and usually when you do that it doesn’t create a live link but that one did.   They had grouped photographs of all the Republican governors.  I looked up Gov Synder and listened to a speech, and there was politi-fact on Scott Walker where he tells flat out lies the majority of the time.  I looked in on Rick Scott.  Mike Papentonio in December 14^th show talked about now the NRA fans the fires of panic after a major shooting incident to prompt firearms purchase.  There is the whole thing with the “big box” stores such as Wall Mart and Home Depot and these major “out the door” kickbacks which are “payment in advance” for how you’re going to cast your vote when you get on some commission or dept head.  And of course the quickest way to influence legal decisions is just to buy a judge to begin with.   Nebraska’s Supreme Court coverage last week has already yielded a decision.  The good guys won their case 7 to 4 but still lost because since it was a “constitutional issue” of eminent domain that was at stake - - they could not say that eminent domain didn’t apply in this case because a two thirds vote is required for “constitutional issues” in Nebraska.  The consequence of this Supreme Court decision is that now the state department can approve the Trans-Canada pipeline.  But now there are problems in South Dakota because their five year old permit has expired.  There was a site called pipeline lies dot org that I watched a lot of the video on.  Most of that material I was already painfully familiar with it.  If you’re a poor Black in Port Arthur Texas you’re too poor to move out, and therefore your kids are subject to either breathing problems or else cancer.  At least one in five children are adversely impacted by health issues in Port Arthur.  In Arkansas they showed the oil sludge “fountain” in that housing tract.  Then there are these coke “mountains” in urban areas by the river near Detroit, or is that “Koch” mountains?  And of course there are native “Canadians” over the border whose land is affected.  The whole open pit mining operation there is in an area the size of the state of Florida.   There is news the congressional Republicans are attacking the disabled fund of Social Security because THAT fund is low, and they want to disallow a fund transfer from the regular fund- - on a technicality.  There aren’t that many disabled people so these Republicans think there won’t be that much blow-back.   Thom Hartman’s show had a lady substitute for today.