Recently U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said that activist judges were a threat to the national security of the United States of America. Most people who heard this let it fly right over the top of their heads. Some of us realized that it was a policy statement that should be understood as a warning to many.

When the executive branch of our government decides that someone is a threat to our national security that person is taken out. They can be killed or put away in some other less lethal fashion but they become useless to whatever agenda they had before.

I can recall how Judge Battle and Judge Miller died of 'heart attacks' after it was learned that they intended to give James Earl Ray the trial he had never had for his supposed assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Nobody can prove that they were killed but many know that a trial on the matter would have shook the very foundations of this country. Many believe that such a trial would have been a threat to our national security.

If these two judges were taken out because of such a threat then it would have been a covert operation. Such an operation is done in such a way that it can never be proven that it happened. If we in the United States kill our own so effectively, who apparently get out of line, then how successful do you think those enemies that plot against us today will be?

There is a sad part of this that I must reflect on. Many will die or be affected in some other very negative way because of their ignorance, not really because they are a threat. Those who truly care about others can help educate the population on how to stay clear of that line whereby they could become a casualty of our war against terror.

About the Author

Former Special Investigator of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Writer, Recording Artist, and publisher of the "HSCA Interviews with James Earl Ray".