shiva_lingam
22-06-2008, 08:13 AM
I was reading a thread about John Lennon (http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25167) and it struck me the fact that lots of famous people who died under suspicious circomstances were sending "subversive" ideas.
For example for the people mentioned in the thread:
John Lennon and Bob Marley: Their "subversive" music and use of drugs as a "bad" model
Bruce Lee: have you ever seen "Fist of Fury"? It's the film that gave fame to Lee, where he avenges his master killed by japanese rulers during the occupation of Shanghai. Pretty revolutionary.
also:
JFK/Abraham Lincoln for the reforms like the money reform and public loans without intrest that would have took off power from the banks.
If you have other people and/or reasons in mind, just feel free to add them.
john galt
05-07-2008, 11:25 PM
Martin Luther King is the most famous and relevant to this thread I'd say.
MLK being killed by the government just seems obvious to me. You don't really need evidence to give it a thought either. Young, charismatic black man, leading a revolution, gunned down at the height of his power. Then you look into the evidence and it seems even more obvious:
Two months after King's death, escaped convict James Earl Ray was captured at London Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the United Kingdom on a false Canadian passport in the name of Ramon George Sneyd. Ray was quickly extradited to Tennessee and charged with King's murder. He confessed to the assassination on March 10, 1969, though he recanted this confession three days later.
On the advice of his attorney Percy Foreman, Ray took a guilty plea to avoid a trial conviction and thus the possibility of receiving the death penalty.
He claimed that a man he met in Montreal, Quebec with the alias "Raoul" was involved and that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy. He spent the remainder of his life attempting (unsuccessfully) to withdraw his guilty plea and secure the trial he never had. On June 10, 1977, shortly after Ray had testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations that he did not shoot King, he and six other convicts escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. They were recaptured on June 13 and returned to prison.
Ray's lawyers maintained he was a "patsy" similar to the way that alleged John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was supposed to have been. One of the claims used to support this assertion is that Ray's confession was given under pressure, and he had been threatened with the death penalty. Ray was a thief and burglar, but he had no record of committing violent crimes with a weapon.
Those suspecting a conspiracy in the assassination point out the two separate ballistic tests conducted on the Remington Gamemaster recovered by police had neither conclusively proved Ray had been the killer nor that it had even been the murder weapon. Moreover, witnesses surrounding King at the moment of his death say the shot came from another location, from behind thick shrubbery near the rooming house - which had been inexplicably cut away in the days following the assassination, and not from the rooming house window.
The government would have been massively threatened by King, I read that they were bugging rooms he was in at one point. Couple that with shaky evidence and a conviction for a guy who said he didn't even do it, and only pleaded guilty to escape the death penalty, and you've got an obvious government job.