[lbo-talk] "Left" Believers In Warren Report

[Shane Mage]

Michael Pugliese channels a certain Steve Mizrach:
>...James Earl Ray, MLK Jr.'s assassin, has recently tried (after 20 
>years!) to revive the theory that he, like Oswald, was a patsy...

This "authority" calls Ray "assassin."  His bona fides are adequately
described by his phrase "after 20 years!"  The fact is that Ray
never confessed to the crime.  He was tortured and coerced into
pleading guilty, but almost immediately withdrew the plea.  The
Tennessee court refused to allow him to withdraw the plea,
denied his every attempt to stand trial, and ultimately
murdered him by refusing necessary medical care--at the
moment when legal process (and the strong support of the
King family) was finally about to win him the right to a trial.
I really don't know the best term to describe this Mizrach,
that Philion, the other Berlet.  Black-baiters?

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all 
things."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64