YSK: The US Government Assassinated MLK

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>In 1993, Loyd Jowers was interviewed on the ABC News program PrimeTime Live. He said he had been paid $100,000 by the alleged Memphis mobster Frank Liberto to help organize the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. > Jowers owned a restaurant, Jim’s Grill, very near the Lorraine Motel, where King often stayed while in Memphis and where the assassination took place. >Jowers claimed that besides Liberto, a man named “Raoul” and several Memphis Police Department officers were also involved in the assassination planning and execution. Jowers identified Memphis Police Lieutenant Earl Clark as the shooter. Martin Luther King Jr’s wife and children saw the interview, and sued Loyd Jowers… for $100. The trial occurred in late 1999. > William Pepper represented the King family. The three-and-one-half-week trial, referred to in U.S. government records as simply King v. Jowers, was conducted in Memphis in Shelby County Circuit Court with presiding Judge James E. Swearengen. Thousands of documents were presented; over 70 witnesses took the stand or were cited by deposition, audiotape, videotape, or by other witnesses. >Some observers commented on what they perceived as a surprising lack of American media interest in the trial. Bárbara Reis was a correspondent for the Lisbon daily Público who attended several days of the proceedings. She was quoted as saying, “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?” > The jury required only one hour of deliberations to reach a unanimous verdict that King was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. They found Jowers responsible, and also found that “government agencies” were among the co-conspirators. > >The King family was granted the $100 they requested in damages, and they saw the verdict as vindication. You should know this because those who do not learn from their history are doomed to repeat it. You may have reason to be suspicious of high profile assassinations.

History will continue to repeat itself until all of the Billionaires have been assassinated. Until this happens, don’t get your hopes up
Simply killing billionares without changing the underlying systems that create them will just result in a power vacuum. We need to go beyond simple violence, we need to build a true social revolution.
Section J - What do anarchists do?

They won’t let that happen. Kill them and then have a social revolution. Double win

They won’t let that happen.

They won’t get a choice. I’m sure by the time the ruling class perceive the threat, they’ll try to use violence to destroy us, but that will just harden our resolve and stir the hearts of those not yet on our side. There are so many more of us than them, and a civillian population just trying to make a better world is a very difficult target, both in practical terms and moral terms.

On the other hand, if you kill a billionaire, their children will inherit the wealth, and more billionaires are created, with a specific, very personal reason to use their wealth directly against the movement, either to hire private security, strikebreakers, propaganda, and so on.

I’m sorry, but your plan is very, very weak. It isn’t a plan at all. It’s just thoughtless revenge.

You sound like a government simp
I’m the furthest possible guy from that. I want to dismantle the government entirely. I just have an actual viable plan for doing that, rather than an epic revenge fantasy.