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To: E. Charters who wrote (89705)	9/17/2002 10:28:06 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 116791

LOL. I trust you so no need to research that bit of info. :o)

To: E. Charters who wrote (89705)	9/17/2002 11:16:35 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116791

Research into topics like that is only non life threatening as long as you don't get too close to the truth. Anybody who believes Ray actually acted of his own volition, deserves The_Pollyanna_Asleep_at_the_Wheel award for: Truly Naive and Apathetic Political Worldview that Best Ignores a Mountain of Evidence. The first clue is that Ray would have to have had good information in the community that MLK was coming to town, and when, that he would stay at that particular hotel, and that he would rent that particular room, with a rentable room just opposite with a protected rifle vantage point. This was either known in advance after tracking him for a while, and/or arranged, by a group, it would seem. Ray's movements, acquisitions and subsequent flight, were activities all beyond his normal, MO, budget and capabilities. (Phony passports, international travel, cash on hand etc..) MLK was tipped off that some group was gunning for him, as his speeches indicated. He could not know the time or place they would attempt, as he was aware, so he had to be fatalistic about the outcome. Lone nuts with guns probably do exist. But so do organizations who have political objectives and are ruthless to the extreme. Ray, as a petty criminal and wanderer, did not fit the pattern of a person seeking bigtime trouble, having a lot of issues with black leaders, or going on the lam as an internationally wanted man. He did fit the pattern of an opportunist who wanted money. The only question in MLK's case is which group? And why did they risk leaving Ray alive? How did they identify Ray so quickly? The tracking, hunting down and quick federal prosecution of Ray is rather suspicious, (It was a state crime despite his flight across State borders. All the feds had on him was flight across state lines to avoid prosecution.) It points to people who had a secure feeling about controlling Ray still further after capture, or knowing that he could not identify his controllers. Perhaps Hoover would have interesting information to provide if he were alive and inclined to talk. He was not known to be MLK's best friend. Come to think about it, the myriad of civil rights violation rules and statutes which the feds use to prosecute criminals through the FBI when many of the crimes are clearly state jurisdiction, is a bit of a question mark. The purpose of these jurisdictional overlaps may be that the feds feel that crimes are not being prosecuted by the states, but it also put the wedge in of federal control of cases for political purposes. EC<:-}