Why Was Martin Luther King Murdered?

Why Was Martin Luther King Murdered?

By Press TV
January 18, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by the US Deep State because
he had planned to lead half a million people to a permanent
occupation of Washington, D.C. and demand an end to funding
to the American military empire, according to Kevin Barrett,
an American academic and political analyst.

Dr. Barrett, a founding member of the Scientific Panel for the
Investigation of 9/11, made the remarks in an interview with
Press TV on Tuesday while commenting on a statement by U.S.
congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, who said on
Monday that the Deep State murdered the American civil rights
leader because of his heroic opposition to the Vietnam War.

“Ron Paul is one of the most interesting American politicians
and political thinkers. And he recently made a very provocative
statement on Martin Luther King Day stating that he thinks that
the CIA killed Dr. King, or rather the Deep State, he said,”
according to Dr. Barrett.

“Now the Deep State of course is the overlap of between
organized crime and alphabet agencies starting with the
CIA and FBI,” he added.

“And indeed Ron Paul is right. The Deep State did murder
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and that fact is detailed in great
detail in William Pepper’s book, The Plot to Kill King[: The
Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther].”

“William Pepper was the attorney for the Martin Luther King family,
and he won two jury trials including one legal trial here in the
United States proving that the US government murdered Dr. King,”
the scholar stated.

“Now Ron Paul believes that this was done primarily because
Martin Luther King was leading opposition to the war in Vietnam,
but William Pepper who was in a position to know says that that
was actually secondary,” he noted.

“The real reason that they killed King or they felt they had to do
it was that at that point Dr. King was about to lead half a million
people to a permanent occupation of Washington, D.C., demanding
an end to a funding to the military empire, and a transfer of that
funding to taking care of Americans, especially the poor and
dispossessed, and they weren’t going to leave Washington, D.C.
until that happened,” the analyst said.

“At that time dozens of cities around the United States were
burning as riots spread and the military had done focus group
time interviews in the cities of rioters, a lot of psychological
examination of what was going on and they determined that
the people rioting were actually doing so in part because they
felt empowered by Dr. King, which is ironic of course because
Dr. King was a strong supporter of non-violence,” he stated.

“So they felt they had a violent revolution on their hands and the
Deep State in this case was led by the US military which stationed
snipers and a whole psychological operation of battalion of
photographers and others recording the entire assassination
from the neighboring rooftops in Memphis.”

Martin Luther King, a clergyman and leader in the African-American
Civil Rights Movement was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis,
Tennessee.

He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights
in the 1950s and 60s.

American protesters on Monday staged nationwide demonstrations
to mark Martin Luther King's Day and protest against racial and
economic injustice in the United States.

At demonstrations, activists, residents and teachers honored the
late civil rights leader on what would have been his 89th birthday.

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