GR.256

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

What struck me, is that the story of King's conviction, his
brother's commitment to an insane asylum and the tragedy of
family are not what we have been told, by film and press. 
Why did it happen at all? Why did it take so long to
correct? Why did President Clinton pardon him at this late
date? Did this have anything to do with Dollar Bill's elbows
at the Apollo theatre? Why didn't the NY Times put the story
on the front page? If this had been a story from some other
"backward" nation I suspect the story would have run on the
front page. But I suspect, I suspect...I suspect.     

Slothrop is hiding out, "MPs, open up." 

American voices, country voices, high pitched and without
mercy...For possibly the first time he is hearing America as
it must sound to a non-American. Later he will recall that
what surprised him most was the fanaticism, the reliance not
just on flat force but on the RIGHTNESS of what they planned
to do...he'd been told long ago to expect this sort of thing
from Nazis, and especially from Japs--we were the ones who
always played fair--but this pair outside the door now are
as demoralizing as a close up of John Wayne (the angle
emphasizing how slanted his eyes are, funny you never
noticed it before) screaming "BANZAI!" 

"Wait a minute Ray, there he goes--"
Hopper! You asshole, come back here--'
"You'll never get me in a strait jacket agaaaaaain..." 

David Morris wrote:
> 
> --- Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/00/02/22/news/washpol/pardon-clinton.html
> >
> 
> Thank you, Terrance.  History so poignant and so lost,
> until now.  A-and to THINK, it's an election year!
> But this sad reality can't devalue this one man's act.
>  I am proud of him.  He is our hero!
> 
> David Morris
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