MLK and the Unspeakable

The notion of the "Unspeakable" was developed by author and philosopher James Douglass in his groundbreaking work on the political and historical context of the Kennedy assassination, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters. In essence, the Unspeakable is the near-supernatural force that gathers to oppose those who promote peace, truth, and justice in the world. Throughout time, the Unspeakable has been comprised of many separate groups and actors (military, political, and otherwise), who coalesce around a single target in order to destroy it. Conspiracy, yes. But that label does not do justice to the evil and malice inherent in the Unspeakable and those it bands together. The Unspeakable is the spectre who dare not be named. The unacknowledged monster in the room of America's past and present. The beast who devoured the American dream.

Douglass' book chronicles John Kennedy's journey from an avid proponent of the Cold War to a "peace at any price" President. Kennedy had clashed with his generals and a commie-hunting CIA throughout his term in office. The Agency's manipulation of him during the Bay of Pigs fiasco prompted Kennedy to vow that he would bust the CIA into a thousand pieces and "scatter them to the winds". He fired director Allen Dulles, a longtime Washington insider and power player who, along with his brother, had ridden roughshod over both the presidency and congress throughout the 1950s, staging coups and funding insurgencies, all in the name of blood-soaked "democracy".

By the autumn of 1963, Kennedy had brokered a nuclear test ban treaty and had taken great strides in pulling the U.S. out of Vietnam. Yet, the CIA and warmongering elements in the Pentagon continued to undermine his agenda. Douglass documents Kennedy's horror and depression over the assassination of the Nhu brothers, an outcome he had worked hard to prevent, and which spurred the United States towards an escalation in Vietnam. The President was also being fed false intelligence about the on-the-ground situation in Vietnam. Author Douglas paints a picture of a commander-in-chief increasingly isolated and maneuvered against. It was in this climate that November 22, 1963 arrived.

Kennedy the moment he received word of
the assassination of the Nhu brothers.

One of the more stunning aspects of Douglass' work is its profile of Lee Harvey Oswald, one of the most demonized men in American history. There is now little doubt on the part of any honest scholar, that Oswald was an asset of the CIA, and part of the Agency's false defector program, designed to elicit secrets from Soviet players. What Douglass reveals is that, despite the so called "judgement of history," Oswald was anything but a rabid communist out to gain fame by murdering a president. In point of fact, Oswald was actually pro-Kennedy, as evidenced by a speech he gave at a college in Alabama in 1963. Among other things, Lee warned in the speech that clandestine coups were not restricted to third-world nations, but could very well occur in the United States. Astoundingly, it becomes apparent through Douglass' scholarship that Oswald was a conscientious young man being manipulated and maneuvered into position as the patsy in the plot to kill JFK.

He was a pawn of the Unspeakable.

And now onto Martin Luther King Jr. and accused assassin, James Earl Ray.

One of the greatest cons ever perpetrated by the Unspeakable was the notion that all of the assassinations of the 1960's were undertaken by crazed lone nuts, motivated by delusions of glory and desires to kick back against the system. Conveniently excised from this narrative is how each of these assassinations aided the establishment in the furtherance of its goals: most namely the perpetuation of war for profit.

Last Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of King's assassination. King was shot by a sniper on the balcony of the Loraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. A man named James Earl Ray would later be arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime. The official narrative holds that Ray shot King from a bathroom window in a nearby boarding house. The motivation? Hate and racism. Ray was painted as an unapologetic and rabid bigot, a portrait that went on to become embedded in the curriculum of the U.S. education system and the general public consciousness.

But Ray wasn't a racist, and there is compelling evidence he never shot MLK.

Indeed, like Lee Harvey Oswald, it seems Ray was yet another pawn in the hands of the Unspeakable.

In 1999, a civil trial concluded that James Earl Ray was innocent in the murder of Dr. King, and that King's death was the result of a large scale conspiracy on the part of the U.S. government*. The verdict was fully supported by the King family who, to this day, maintain Ray's innocence. Both the outcome of the trial and position of the King family has largely been suppressed by the mainstream media. 

Two of James Ray's brothers have written books declaring their brother to be innocent of the crime attributed to him by "history". While the Ray brothers were heavily involved in bank robbery and various petty crimes, they grew up in St. Louis, Missouri near black neighborhoods and had black friends. Both brothers insist that racism was not present in the family household, and certainly never espoused by James. 

The best evidence used to place Ray at the scene was the "eyewitness" testimony of a passed-out drunk and a rifle with a highly questionable chain of custody--the latter will be resoundingly familiar to anyone familiar with the minutia of the Kennedy assassination.

James Earl Ray taken into custody.

Like Oswald, Ray was shuffled around and funneled money by a mysterious source in the months leading up to the assassination. His secret benefactor was known only as "Raoul," again a telling call back to the JFK assassination and the plethora of anti-Castro Cubans orbiting around it and around Oswald.

In the climate surrounding the 50th anniversary of the MLK assassination, the mainstream media has again trumpeted the narrative of Ray's guilt, and more pointedly, his racism. Fueling the fires of racial angst has long been a tactic of the establishment and the psych war of its Intelligence agencies, intent as they are upon keeping the populace divided and distracted from the machinations of the war machine and corporate slavery, among other evils.

There is simply no question that MLK posed a grave threat to power players in the United States. It is accepted in the mainstream that J. Edgar Hoover's FBI did everything in its power to slander and destroy King. But the negative attitude towards MLK did not stop there, it ascended higher...to the level of the Unspeakable.

Had MLK joined forces with then presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, the damage to the status quo would have been irreparable. King's message had been shifting steadily from race relations to a broader stance that embraced the anti-war movement. If elected, Bobby Kennedy vowed to end the war in Vietnam, and privately swore to reopen the investigation into his brother's murder.

The Unspeakable, the great beast, could never allow these two men to unite. So it did what it always does.

It swallowed them whole.

*for an excellent series of articles regarding the truth behind the murder of Dr. King, follow this link.