Wednesday 10 December 2014

Slouching Towards Rex-84 : LBJ and the Battle Against Martial Law

Watts, August 1965

Berkley, December 2014

"I'm not going to send anyone out there [to California] that [the] State doesn't ask for - I don't want to completely admit that City government, State Government, County government is impotent in this country and 'I'm a Dictator'... And if the Governor of the State asks me, as Wallace did, 'I'm financially unable,' or 'I have no power to do this', then I'll move in two minutes..." - Lyndon Baines Johnson, August 14th 1965



"The Secretary of the Army was Cyrus Vance... His military attaché was Al Haig, and his chief legal counsel was Joe Califano.

Not one book on the Kennedy Assassination, or the the King Assassination appropriately brings up the relationship of Haig, Vance and Califano..."
- Bro. Steve Cokely







"I give a shout out to the living dead
 Who stood out on Watts as the feds cold centralized...
  
 The sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
 And muthaf*ckas lost their minds!"



Insurrection Act, 1807
§ 333. Interference with State and Federal law
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.


Califano, Haig and Vance want LBJ to go to (Federal) Martial Law without talking to Governor Pat Brown.

They try to go through the Adjutant-General of the California National Guard.

LBJ says "No".

"The Secretary of the Army [by this stage, Acting Secretary of Defense] was Cyrus Vance... His military attaché was Al Haig, and his chief legal counsel was Joe Califano.

Not one book on the Kennedy Assassination, or the the King Assassination appropriately brings up the relationship of Haig, Vance and Califano..."

- Bro. Steve Cokely


"The previous year [1967], over a hundred cities had burned in the United States..."

- William F. Pepper explains the perceived military necessity for the King Assassination within the Pentagon and the JCS.


--Yes, it hurts-- especially this one! / Baldy, [1965 Aug. 21]

1965 Aug. 21

The Clifford Baldowski cartoon depicts a man showing Martin Luther King, Jr. labeled "Non-Violence," a Los Angeles newspaper. King has been stabbed by knives labeled "Mayor Yorty," "White House," and "Gov. Brown." King is pointing to the switchblade labeled "The Mob" in his back.



Operation Garden Plot - September 1968 Version








Brothers and sisters there is a place for you in America
Places are being prepared and readied night and day, night and day
The white boy's plan is being readied night and day, night and day
Listen close to what rap say bout traps like Allenwood P.A.
Already in D.C. to preventatively detain you and me
How long you think it's going to be before even our dreams ain't free
You think I exaggerate check out Allenwood P.A.
And night and day, night and day - the white boy's plotting night and day, night and day
The Jews and Hitler come to mind
The thought of slavery far behind
But white paranoia is here to stay
The white boy's scheming night and day, night and day
What you think bout the King Alfred Plan
You ain't heard; where you been man

If I may paraphrase the government notice reads:



"Should there at anytime become a clear and present danger initiated by any radical element threatening the operation of the government of the United States of America, members of this radical element shall be tranported to dentention centers until such time as their threat has been eliminated - code KING ALFRED"

Bullshit I bet you say there ain't no Allenwood P.A.
And people ain't waiting night and day, night and day, night and day
There will be without the Motown sound and thunderbird
Wollowing in the echoes of Mlcolm's words
There must be black unity, there must be black unity
For in the end unity will be thrust upon us and we upon it and each other
Lock in cages penned, hemmed in shoulder to shoulder - arms out-stretched
For just a crust of bread,watermelon, mirages and oasis that does not exist
Cuntured up by the bubbling stinch of unwash bodies and unsanitary quarters
Concrete and bobbed-wire, babies screaming
Stumbling around in a mental circle because you never cared enough to be black
In the end unity will be thrust upon us - lanketed, stipled
A salty taste in your mouth from blood oozing from cracks and wooly heads
Red pools becoming thicker than syrup slow down your face
Spurs matte from the life force sprung loose from wells
Welled deep by the enforcers of mock justice of the red, white and blue
In the end unity will be thrust upon us
Let us unite because of love and not hate
Let us unite on our own and not because of bobbed-wired death
You dare not ignore the things I say
Whitey's waiting night and day, night and day, night and day, night and day





The MLK Civil Trial Opening Arguments by Dr. William F Pepper, Attorney at Law.

In November 1999, trial commenced in King v. Jowers, a wrongful death civil action filed by Dr. Pepper on behalf of Dr. King's wife and children. Jowers was the only defendant and thus the only other party to the lawsuit. At the conclusion of the nearly four week trial, the jury adopted a verdict offered by the parties finding that Jowers and "others, including government agencies" participated in a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King. 

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