Race to Judgement

 I was last night years old when I learned that former FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, was African American. This wasn't breaking news as there was quite a bit of it on the google. I had been watching an interview with Judge Joe Brown about the MLK assassination, and the Judge threw it out there, I guess in the context of what a dick Hoover was to King and isn't it ironic. Hoover was hard on pretty much everybody from King's to Klan's to Kennedy's. Everybody but the mafia. The story there was the mob had intimate audio of Hoover and his boyfriend, as well as possible film of an encounter they had in a mob night club. I believe it was the Copacabana- the hottest spot north of Havana. That I had heard of for years. Judge Joe's mention was about Hoover passing for white, fooling most everyone but the Klan as they ran his family out of Louisiana when he was a boy. He was pretty hard on the Klan as a result of that. Secretly black and secretly gay explains a lot about Hoover. 

I have a longtime friend in Louisiana whose father passed for white all his life. Cindy's story is not my story to tell, so I won't. I'll just say she's a stunningly beautiful woman and it's a pretty damn good story. It almost got told on Oprah Winfrey years ago, but dad refusing to participate put the kibosh on that. I had an affair with one of her sister's before the news broke. I had heard the rumors at the club we worked at, but still found it rumor-y after dating the sister and meeting the whole family, a family that looked as white as my own family. To me it all highlights how there is only one race. That would be the human one. People and countries make it hard though. Try and tell a republican that Jesus was black. I mean- come on- white people hadn't been invented yet. Well, at least in that part of the world. 

Anyways, Judge Joe Brown is adamant that James Earl Ray had nothing to do with Dr. King's murder. I promise you he has done his due diligence on this. As a Memphian of the time, he knows more about the people and particulars of the case than most anyone, and as a very serious judge he knows that justice is not served if the wrong man goes to jail. Justice is not a ledger where an entry is made, the line is balanced, and the book is closed. Not for serious people in a democratic society.

What brought me to the Judge Joe clip on YouTube was a search for more info on the Kirk assassination. The death of any famous person is always going to be subject to outright lies, innuendo, obfuscation and fabrication no matter what, but if you think about it, Charlie Kirk just wasn't that famous. Why does he get what might be the most suspect murder investigation of them all? In legal terms, it's a fucking circus. What I saw last night was very eye-opening. Well, just interesting at least. I recalled rival blogger and longtime gal pal and coconspirator to me, Maggie (@onethingyonly.blogspot.com) noticed early on that people around Kirk seemed to be signaling right before he was shot. I dismissed it at the time as probably them being coaches giving the take or steal sign to the crowd. Something hilarious like that. I can be a real Mr. Man sometimes! But in this video, the creator noted that there did indeed seem to be some signaling between at least two of Kirk's security guys, though they were maybe 6-8 feet apart. A lot of looking at watches too, like they were expecting something to happen at a certain time. And something did, but are we sure what happened? Will we ever be? 

I'm convinced that Tyler Robinson did not shoot Kirk. It's hard not to wonder if anyone did. The video points out (as others have) that there was little- if any- blood at the scene. How could that be if he were shot with a 30.06 round in the neck? Well, I don't think he was. But the men who attended to him didn't get any blood on them. I've never been in combat or seen anyone shot on the street, but blood tends to go anywhere it wants to go. It's messy and frightening, I'm sure. But this incident seemed as sanitary as a 1950's western. I just don't get that. 

The video also pointed out the very sketchy behavior of another man, thought to be part of Kirk's security team, who immediately scampered away from the scene and was next seen with his phone filming Kirk being hauled away to a vehicle to be taken to the hospital. Then, he came back to the crime scene and stood on the chair Kirk had been sitting in when he was shot(!) to take down the camera that was behind Kirk. What the fuck was the impetus for removing that, then? This video wasn't the first to note that, of all the high-dollar camera hardware filming the event, the only video available is some crappy low-resolution 20th century video. All the sim cards were removed by Kirk's people, not the Feds or locals. Your guy has just been shot, and your focus is cameras? Why? Can't help but think somebody is hiding something and it was planned to go down that way. Who did this? Why did they do it? 

Charlie Kirk is more famous in death than he was in life. Politically he was just a gadfly podcaster who debated college kids for fun and profit. He simply wasn't all that in the political spectrum outside of maga faithful, and people like me who saw clips on social media of his controversial takes on politics that weren't any better or worse than dozens of other men and women, only thought he was an oddball with a small head and really big gums.. Famous for being murdered. I have to wonder who ordered the hit. Similar to a mob hit, who pulled the trigger isn't as important as who wanted it done and why. That, we may never know. But I think we know who did not pull the trigger and that is very important towards finding out who did, and why. We don't need Kirk to be a martyr. They do. Nor do we need this kid to be railroaded through their system for their own purposes. We don't need any more J. Edgar Hoover's obfuscating justice for their own self-aggrandizement, or for that of others. We need more Joe Brown's.