Vol. 5, No. 9

THE BLACK PANTHER 25 Black Community News Service rents? THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY [ee ee — 0 — 0 —o— 0 —o— ee ms ee me em OB OO 8 OO 8 8 8 OO A MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE HUEY P. NEWTON 72 YEAR OLD MAN MURDERED BY PIGS. IN INSIDE: TO THE REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH VIETNAM WINSTON = SALEM WRY 10 REACH VERDICT IN LONNIE Mc LUCAS TRIAL OPEN LETTER FROM THE SOLEDAD 12 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. 1970 PAGE 2 THE PEOPLE OF WINSTON SALEM DEMAND A CONSTITUTION THAT “‘The Pond’’ is one of the most di- lapidated areas in the City of Winston- Salem, North Cayolina, It has certain characteristics of a fish pond, in that the people of this area wonder around from day to day worrying about where their next meal is going to come from, and other basic necessities denied them by this greedy capitalistic system. Most of the people are unemployed and being welfare recipients have to worry a lot about where their next meal is going to come from when their food stamps run out, Alot ofthemdon’t even know how to apply for food stamps - PEOPLE STARVE HERE. This ts directly related to the system of exploitation that we now live under. It is related because it is typical of this system that a lot of people should go lacking, while a few have plenty of everything, with those in-between re- ceiving a tiny part of that, which is rightfully theirs, Education of the children of ‘‘The Pond’ is not much at all, With the school board’s new plan for desegre- gation it is probable that this year there will be no education at all pro- vided by the system, Education on how to deal with the society is supposed to be provided by the government to every man, woman and child in the society. Justice according to lawis not known here, and therefore peace isa stranger. TERRORISM OF THE AVARICIOUS BUSINESSMEN In the Happy Hills Garden sec- tion of Winston-Salem, N.C,, the N.C.C.F, has developed a very Strong relationship with the people. Everyday we straighten out contra- dictions through example. Some- times these contradictions are small others harder to deal with, all of them basically develop out of the terrorists, fascist tactics of the power structure, On August Sth a problem was brought to the artention of com- munity workers, concerning a pig avaricious businessman named Keith Lowery, andhow he was using terrorism to rob Black people in the community. The complaint ori- ginally came from a Sister Cal- well who lives on Willow Street. She proceeded to tell us how her bill at one time (for furniture) amounted to $395.00. Diligently she pald the debt, she thought she owed, to this bloodsucking pig until she had paid her bill down to $81.00. At thar time Sister Calwell found it difficult to pay $25.00 every month and informed this slop mouth pig of that fact. It was agreed that Sister Calwell would only have to pay $25.00 once every two receive the $50.00, off her property. later that Mrs, and GUARANTEES THE RIGHT TO LIVE months Instead of monthly. When the bi-monthly bill day rolled around, the month that Lo- wery had agreed to Jet Sister Cal- well pay $25.00, who did she see coming up her doorstep but this lying pig Lowery. Olinking about what he would do if he didn’t This pig vamped on Sister Cal- well like a nazi storm trooper. She reminded him of their agree- ment, he oinked some madness and still demanded $50 or he would send some of his lackey coons to take the furniture. Sister Calwell told this pig that he would get $25 and nothing more, And to get He then told Sister Calwell she had until the next Moaday to get the money or else, We found out Calwell was not the only victim of this foul pig. Lowery had terrorized four other sisters in the same block. Wethen made 4 move to talk to this pig, all that resulted was a lot of pig madness. So we atthe N.C,C,F, and the people in the community see the necessity to move to a higher level in order to deal with It was here and in the immediate area (the Boston area) that the people took to the streets in 1967 to repay pigs. Pigs who thought it their duty to keep niggers in their place by beating a blood to i,j — ~ _ Winston-Salem Constitutional Convention Information Center death on his own front porch, The whole community witnessed this act of aggression and responded by driving the pigs out of their community. Housing is another area in which the people are denied. Mrs. Louise Ames, a 104 year old resident of ‘‘The Pond’”’ has been struggling forall these years, She states that she pays $55.00 a month to a slumlord (W.F, Baldwin) for this house that doesn’t have a bathtub, hot water, sufficient heating or adequate wiring for proper lighting; she is tired but she continues to struggle, and she recognizes the need to change the con- Stitution that allows all these injustices to be perpetrated against her, her family and her people. The present system of government has failed to provide the basic ne- cessities for survival - land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace, It (the system) has denied these necessities to Black people throughout Babylon, And so we are now demanding a change in the system that allows these necessities to be denied. We are demanding that the constitution this pig. This is why itis necessary to form Self-Defense groups, to de- fend the community from any type of terrorism. Be it from s plg cop, or some avaricious business- On August 19, off into the East side of Winston-Salem the com- munity inflicted a political con- sequence upon outsiders, For too long we have let people from other communities come into our com- munity and take over. All we did was sit by idly and let them mess over us and our children, For too long especially inthe South, Whites have thought that they can do what- ever they wish to us, and nothing should be done; but this time the entire community on 16th and Lo- cust Street decided they were tired of that. They decided they were going to use some of those weapons that they used to us¢ on each other, on the outsiders who were coming off into the community acting a fool. sible, Mhis is a construction site in the community where urban develop- ment or one of those pacification programs are tearing down houses, The workers are mostly White and ever since they have been coming off in the community they have man, We must stop them ar the outer limits, of the Black com- munity. We must be armed, be- cause ‘“‘an unarmed people are slaves or subject to slave THE COMMUNITY OF WINSTON SALEM ACTS AGAINST OUTSIDERS been using it for a race track. There are no sidewalks in this section of town on the side of the strect, there are ditches beside the streets. These White racists would come down the streets as fast as pos- running children off the streets purposely. And when the children went to the fools to In- quire why they called them all kinds of names, they said they were going to get rid of all of them (niggers). The tirst day this happened the people sald nothing so 1 guess they thought they could do what they wanted on. But the next day they ran chil- dren off the streets, they got asur- prise, The children went offtelling everybody about what was happen- ing, This time older brothers and sisters came back with the chil- dren, They asked they were doing this. Now that they saw the whole community up- set they started lying saying they knew nothing about it, but thechil- dren were right there to repudiate be rewritten, because it allows the majority of the people to be neglected and without the basic necessities, We are calling for a Constitutional Con- vention, We recognize that we needa Constitution that guarantees us our most basic human right - the right to live, We are setting up Constitutional Convention Information Centers (like the one at Mrs. Amzs house) where people can come to register for par- ticipation in the Plenary Session September 5, 6 and 7*, and the acutal Convention in November, We are gathering together to bring about a change, to let the whole world know that we are determined to have the basic needs for survival + let it be known that we will have our basic human rights, by any means necessary! We pay to live in houses that are unfit, “We are from 25 to 30 million strong, and we are armed, And we are con- sctous of our situation. And we are determined to change it. And we are unafraid’’, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE TIME DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS *At Temple University Gymnasium Philadelphia, Pa. any given moment,”’ POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS Ronald/Daniel Winston-Salem, N.C.C.F. at every word they sald, The brothers and sisters let them know they weren’t going to be dolng what they wanted to in our community any- more by giving them a good Lith street beating. From now on they will know how to act when they comé to this side of town, Immediately the pigs came on the set they didn’c askany- body why the fools were beat, they wanted to know who beat the fools. This shows that they have no concern for our community but they care only about the White racists coming off in our com- munity running over us, They know that if niggers here start dealing with racists who come in thecom- munity acting Insane, that we will be dealing with them when they act insane. , the men why 7, ‘ $0 people walk from then OFF THE , N.C,C.F,, Winston-Salem “*** ERNEST aseeerer?"""* SCALES WAS CLUBBED VICIOUSLY FOR BEING BLACK On August 18, 1970, in the Black Colony, the pigs of Win- Ston Salem were up to their usual actions, intimidating and brutalizing the inmates therein. About 4:30p.m. on the corner of 8th and Patterson, a cor- ner where the lumpen come together like so many thousands of corners throughout Babylon, 4 group of bloods were stand- ing around, They were having an argument as most niggers will do while drinking wine. Everything was alright until the pigs came on the scene, The pigs moved on the brothers ERNEST SCALES with billy clubs and vamped on the most helpless blood they could find. They clubbed Ernest Scales, age 42, across the arm and head inflicting a wound that required 14 stitches to close, Ernest COMMUNITY tried to defend himself with a small knife, but when the pigs hit him across the arm a num- ber of times, he dropped the knife and then the pigs beat him in the head, Ernest Scales can't walk without the aid of two crutches. In fact, he has been on crutches for two years, due to a fall off the roof of his house. The result of his injury required surgery andfour pins had to be placed in his hip to hold the bones in place, Ernest Scales had spent 15 years of his life in maximum security, off in the prisons of North Carolina. He had been paroled to minimum security (the street) in 1968. Having been on work release,a so called rehabilitation problem of the pri- son system, Ernest had a Lt- tle money when he got out, af- ter the exploitative prison system of chattle slavery had gotten all they wanted out of him. With the little that Ernest Scales had, he decided to build a house, Ernest Scales got himself some land and began to build his house The pigs have been harassing Ernest for two years, ever since he came off the ‘Chain Gang,” Because the prisons couldn't have a complete victory of the brother the pigs are attempting to drive him back to prison, But what the pigs don‘t real- ize is that the “‘spirir of the people ts greater than the man's technology."* Nothing in the uni- verse can halt the surge of the people as they step forth in the quest for freedom. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE OFF THE PIG Nelson Malloy Pig. PRECINCT FIRE-BOMBED IN WINSTON, SALEM The Winston-Salem pig precinct left shattered after being fire- bombed. On Wednesday, August 18, the trailer housing a model city pig precinct station was fire-bombed and utterly destroyed by some rev- olutionary or revolutionaries from the Black community of Winston- Salem, Earlier during the week the sare trailer was shot up. At this time the Winston-Salem pig department has not arrested any- one for "job very well done, The pig department has no evidence Lawrence Harris, age 72, was said to have been a mentally disturbed person every since his childhood, The system has many Institutions set up through- out Babylon for people like Mr. Harris, They are called insane THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 3 WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA TUCKER'S RAIDERS SHOOT, BEAT AND MURDER LAWRENCE HARRIS A MENTALLY DISTURBED BLACK MAN allow him to return home, Some times the people thar knew Mr. Harris were able to talk him in- to going back home and putting his weapon up, Most of the time, pigs would take Mr. Harris’ gun and bring him back home, = pa Z tear gas, Finally the gun battle was over and the wounded were taken to the hospital. On the way to the hospiral, people from the community said thar racist ambulance attendants were beat- ing Mr. Harris in the head, > > ee , P 2 i\e hud & ¥ on “. tate nt Oe ‘ “ * They came - 35 carloads of them - but one shotgun blast was enough to make the pigs run for cover, until they could commit their cowardly murder of a 72-year old man, asylums. Mr, Harris had been admitted to one such hellhole called Cherry Hill, on a number of occasions . Because the type of society that we Live in Is de- signed to dehumanize Black people from the time they fall from their mothers’ womb, we can see the affliction that had weighed heavily upon the shoul- ders of Mr. Harris for so many years, The degradation of a human being in the form Lawrence Harris emerged as the product of this decadent society. On that morning, not fully realizing what hadhappened to him, Mr. Harris acted like 4& man possessedwith the never ending desire to protect him- self against an attacking enemy and free himself from his tor- mentors, On numerous occasions. Mr. Harris would walk the streets of the community in which he lived, brandishing a rifle or a shotgun, The people would call the pigs and they would take his weapon away from him and or leads whatsoever as to who com- mitted the revolutionary act, but we know that it is only a matter of time before these foul de- praved traducers Invent some so- called evidence and begin to run amuck and just start snatching niggers oif the street to make Someone be tic scapegoat for this revolutionary act. The pigs have already begun their frame-up by putting their bootlicking nigger lackeys into the Kimberly Park Community tell- ing people that they know that the local organizing bureau of the Black Panther Party did the fire- bombing and the shooting and that they are going to make us pay for it, Our position on this fs very clear and simple and that who- éver committed this revolutionary act did @ beautiful thing and ES- CAPED! So we say right on! We tn the N,C,.C.F, would lke to inform the pigs of the power Structure in Winston-Salem and also the Uncle Tom bootlicking lackeys from the Model" Pig’’ City Poverty Program that we know that you can very easily put up another trailer or office building in the Black commiinity to house They were probably hoping the brother would kill a nigger in the community during one of his moments of rage, On August 20, 1970, Lawrence Harris defended his home against fascist pigs. Between 7:30am and 9:00am, Thursday morning Mr, Harris and Mrs. Douglass another occupant of the house at 2309 Booker St,, were wound- ed along with two pigs, LA, Stoakely and R.U. Lioyd. Pig Stoakely bit the dust and oinked his last oink, lying in the street bleeding from his head and chest, He oinked to the people . '' Please call me an ambulance ."' The people ignored him because they couldn't interpret the oink or relate to it. On the fareful morning 35 cars of pigs con- verged upon the home of Mr. Harris and tried to arrest him after receiving a complaint. Immediately two pigs were shot as they approached the house. The pigs fired a barrage of shots into the house along with the so-called Community Police Precinct but remember that it will most definitely meet the same fate but only the next time some pigs and nigger lackeys will be destroyed with the trailers. Be- cause we are sure that there are enough “‘together’’ brothers and sisters around who are prepared to struggle to the bitter sweet end to see to it that the racist dog Shortly after Mr. Harris arrived at the hospital he died, The peo- ple believe that the attendants killed him, as they carried him to a hospital 9-10 miles away from the incident, instead of to the hospital right in the Black Colony, which is only about a mile away. They called him mentally dis- turbed, Insane, crazy nigger; but we can only see him in the true light of reality- a madman who never forgot who the real enemy is and finally decided to end his misery and kill his tormentor. Unfortunately, only one pig was killed and the brother is dead, But everyone should take the example set by Mr. Harris, who had nothing more than a single- shot 12 guage. He dealt right- eously using what he had to get what he needed, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCST PIGS Nelson Malloy Winston-Salem N,C,C.F. policemen withdraw immediately from our Black community and that our stand for the complete emancipation of our Black people is not compromised one {otal DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE N,C.C.F,, Winston-Salem Larry DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! 4E BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 4 TO MUCH VILLIFICATION MEANS PIG CONSPIRACY Our party has been struggling - since 1966, and many of us long- er than that, and one of the most essential things we have learned from our many historical experi- ences, is to be alert, and pay close attention to the many meth- ods of villification against us and our struggle by the pigs. We un- derstand veryclearly thar the pow- er thatdetermines what will be rests in the expressions of the people. Understanding this we Know that whenever the pigs of the Power structure prepare to move against the people's libera- tion forces, they go to extreme measures to villify those forces to make the liberation struggle look criminal, and to possibly receive a pat on the back from the people after they attack the Uberatio forces In the Black colony of Chi- cago, Ul. Territory of Babylon, the pigs via their fascist lying new media have released count- Jess news articles and random information about alleged plots and plans of conspiracy to murd- er, kidnap, and destroy by the Illinois chapter of the Black Pan- ther Party. First of al! we were Suppose to kill a pig every week’ Secondly, we were suppose to re- taliate in a reactionary manner for the death of our Deputy Chair- man Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark, Thirdly, among this reac- tionary retaliation was a plot to blow up railroad tracks. A plot which was further personified when the pig forces murdered and mutilated our comrade Babatunde X. Omawall and then placed his body on some railroad cracks (undamaged railroad tracks); fourthly, the most recent plot, is for us to kidnap a federal judge. From reading the pig news releases one would think that the pigs are aware of all the Party’s Plans, in fact it appears that pigs have even stepped forward and created these erroneous, stupid and villifying plans, Essestially we in the party say damn whar- ever the pigs write or say, but we must mike the masses of op- pressed people whom we serve aware of what the pigs are doing and planning, By villifying us (ly- ing and making us look bad), the Pigs hope to isolate us from the people, and then to eliminate us period, However the Black Panther Party through our work will con- tinue to expose our enemy for ex- actly what they are--pigs, The pigs understand that our purpose as revolutionaries Is to make revolution and that with the structure of this society run they, the pigs are our enemies, We endorse and support people attacking the fascist pigs of ba- bylon, because it Is a fact that the pigs represent a special elite body of armed men, and their Specific job is to protect the lives-property and other interest for the capitalist ruling class oppressors, The pigs setting our general line which is calling for their death, which is calling for people’s revolution to overthrow oppressive instututlons of capi- talism, have attempted to consture our genera] line as part of our specific plan of action, By em- ploying bootlicking traitors and opportunist liars, they develop wild Imaginary plans which show through the ignorance of the plans that the Black Panther Parry had nothing to do with it. It is a fact that we could as a people ag- gress against the pigs and bring 4) hell down on fascist bhaby- lon, however this will happen as soon as the oppressed people decide to do It and not before. \ look around the country, the world, and we see oppressed people whom many thought had *tno"’ political ideology or con- cern, taking up the gun and kill- ing pigs. The reasons they are doing this, is because they have ho other choice, And right now in Babylon the fascist pigs in thelr attempts to stop rhe free- dom struggle of oppressed people is envincing a design by which the only method left for the peo- ple to obtain liberation is to kill the pigs. This will happen, and ft will happen soon, However Ir is necessary still for us to com- bat the wild Hes of villification which appear in the pigs news media, so that the pigs won'’r confuse people, isolate us and ell- minate us. WE ENDORSE DEATH TO THE PIGS, LET IT COME SWIFTLY WITH THE LIBERATION Monk Teba ONCE AGAIN THE GUN, THE TOOL OF LIBERATION SPOKE ALOUD FROM AMIDST Once again the gun, the tool of liberation, spoke aloud from a- midst the oppressed masses of Chicago, and once again a fascist pig caught occupying our commu- nity fell, This time a pig named Alfano whewas known to most as a brutal bull, and a member of the fascist Chicago Gang Intelli- ence Unit, which has sworn to eliminate the so-called gang pro- blem, even if it means eliminat- ing Black people. The Gang In- telligence Unit has a history of brutalizing and murdering Black People, they are responsible for Supplying the state with (false witnesses), phony information and other types of Internal pig conspi- racies by which they help rail- road the Black youth into jail. Pig Alfano was shot in a neigh- borhood which the Black P. Stone Nation is located, Immediately af- ter, the pigs beganto arrest mem- bers of the Stones In mass, Over 20 people were arrested and charged with various minor char- ges, initially a5 a smokescreen to cover up the mass detention, harassment and the subsequent trials of the arrested victims. This particular neighborhood Is known most for its internal reaction- ary violence, however, with the proper political Ideology directed at the oppressor, people are start- ing to revert from internal reac- tionary violence to revolutionary violence, by picking up the gun. Revolutionary violence is a type of Phenomenon which the pigs are trying to stop, and substitute it with reactionary violence. The Gang Intelligence Unit has been known to start reactionary vio- Jence by spreading rumors from one gang to another, by picking up members of a rival gang and disposing of them at the head- quarters of another gang, shooting people and blaming it on the gang. Whenever a violent internal situ- ation developed in the Black colony, the oppressor had full control, and would exercise his control to remove Black people from the street, by charging them with whatever crime committed. However, when the youth resorts to revolutionary violence directed ar the oppressor, the oppressor is no longer his controller, be- cause he is now the controlled. The pigs have clearly declared war on the revolutionary Black youth and the Black community in general, It's time for Black people, the attacked and oppressed members of the lumpen commu- nity, to turn our guns on the op- pressor and begin to kill more of them, TAKING UP GUNS AND FIGHT- ING BACK IS THE ONLY THING THAT WE CAN DO, The pigs charge thar a conspiracy was de- Signed by the Stones in which they allegedly planned to kill some pigs to outdo the revolutionary act car- ried out by Jonathan Jackson, Wil- liam Christmas, James McClain, and Ruchell Magee, We know through observation that the pigs are clearly lunatics, because what those revolutionary brothers did, was commit revolutionary acts, based on the principle of lib- erty or death. So we say that this ts ideal courage, and we sup- port this type of action against the oppressor, We endorse it and we know it will continue because this Is the only way we can ob- tain our freedom, The pigs of the power structure claim they will attack the Black community in retaliation, but this doesn't upset the people, because we have been under constant attack ever Since we have been in Babylon. However, if the pigs are stupid enough to think thar our com- munity is passive and meek and will allow them to simply slaiigh- ter us, without our fighting back, without killing them, then we must serve this warning, WE ARE OVER 30,000 STRONG, UNA- FRAID OF DEATH AND WITH THE COURAGE TO KILL, If the pigs attack the Black community, we the Black kamikazi, in the spirit of Liberation and the cou- rage of revolutionary suicide will send mighty Babylon (America) Sinking into the sea, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BRING MORE AND MORE DEATH TO THE PIGS, AND SPIRIT OF LIBERATION! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Chicago Chapter Monk Teba 7 WE DO NOT REQUIRE THEM TO J DIE HAPPY, AS. LONG AS THEY REALLY DIE DEAD ) Sey Re ee WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE ? These 7 Policemen have given their lives since January, 1970 protecting your lives and your property. Who were these Men? They were the men dedicated to pro- tecting your lives and your property. These men were your friends and assisted you in any emergency, under any condition. They enforced only those laws you made, through the authority you gave them. Pil. Kenneth G. KANER Wh Distriet Star 2062 Killed — Jame 18, 1978 Lt. JAMES E, O'CONNOR Killed — Joa. 28, 1978 Pt. Anthony ! 2 Tost Fores Area t Stee 12145 Killed — ter, 2, 1078 JAMES A, Pt. MELVIN ALFARO, Jr. Ster 12380 Killed — Jone 3, 1078 Took Force Ares & Kitled—Aag. 12, Ster 12487 1970 Killed — dety 17, 1978 WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE? GONE TO GRAVEYARDS EVERYONE. WHEN WILL IT EVER END? WHEN WILL IT EVER END? We need public support of our laws. We need public support in our courts. The Police can only make the arrests. You the people make the y laws. Help us enforce and make these laws by speaking out NOW! WONT YOU HELP? RAISE YOUR VOICE NOW FOR 1 Strict gun contro! laws on federal, state and local levels. Mandatory consecutive sentences for crimes committed while free on bond. (If both offenses result in convictions.) Strict standards for release on bond where epplicant has criminal record, The electric chalr Ts RUSTY. IF you the people mode that \\ low—enforce it. This od w for by the # Chicago and spomered by the Chicago Pehclnen's Avscations 203 N. Wabash, Cheapo, Mk 6001 RA 64045 =F a 7 + JOSEPH P. PECORARO PRESIDENT THIS AD WAS CARRIED BY THE REACTIO IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS We all know from our historical} experience that this government has never given Black people any- thing out of the kindness of his heart. We know thar anytime they, (the power structure) approves something we had better, for our own safety, oppose ifr, This historical truth holds true with the school desegregation in the South. We find that for some Strange reason the Nixon Admin- istration in the Southern parts of racist America, that part of Baby- Jon that has exploited Black peo- ple not just because it is econ- omically good for them to do 80, but simply because we are who we are, Black descendants of slaves. In the midst of the most overt racism ever imple- mented in this country, where | Blacks have been and still are | being lynched, where Black peo- | ple still work In chattel slavery | (share cropping) this man has said let niggers go to school with crac- kers—let integration come. That's wiat it amounts too, now to really see why the low down deceitful fools are coming out the way they are, as | pointed out from the start, he is doing us no favor like some of the boot- licking belleve. Some fools Like the ones who belong to the N.A.A.C_P, (Na- tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Caucasian People) so-called liberals and all these . mad dogs will say this Is a good thing that the power structure is doing. They are crying to make us see where this is the best thing that has ever happened to us here In the South. They want us to believe this game that the administration is running on us. But they don’t fool us for a minute, Although it seems thar this isthe best thing because we have local all White racist buffons school boards who oppose these desegre- gation plans put forth by the higher buffoons in Washington, Let us not be fooled again. It is true that these two different sets of buffoons are at each others throats but neither means us any good. The local fools doa’t want these plans implemented because they are simply racist (and we here in the South know all about that), and they are still going offonego trips about that superiority jive. The fools in Washington got a whole new maneuver in mind for us, They have a national perspec- tive on things and these conniving fools will want us to. PROT ee ee hee LUSTRE, eeeses TION IN THE SOUTH IE “US NOT BE FOOLED INTO BELIEVING THAT THIS MAN IS DEALING IN OUR FAVOR” dogs of the earth see that niggers are getting themselves together all over the country, They see the danger in having an all Black school in the middle of an all Black neighborhood. We just might decide to take it over and give our people an education that exposes the truth of this deca- dent American society, So these masters of tricknology and de- ceit, seeing this danger, have de- cided all of a sudden, after years and years of court suits to let niggers go to school with White folks in the South. Now we will be split up and we will no longer have the strorg hold that we would have In our own community. That's one angle of the napes in Wash- ington, Tre other is this: These nuts In Washington also have an international concern that the local nuts don't have because of their Southern localized mentality. This trick started with the traducer Kennedy. Realizing that the world now has its eyes on them the fools in Washington see a neces- Sity to throw up 4 camouflage. So just like Kennedy did with the Civil Rights Movement, because the eyes of the world were on him, they think that they can use that same trick; © not just to pacify some of the bootlicking fools but also to make it seem as if they are dealing with the domestic problems, They try to cover up the fact that they are perpetrating systematic genocide on us. Let us not be fooled into believ- ing that this man Is dealing in our favor. He NEVER has. He NEVER will. We have nothing to gain by leaving our community and going to his racist school each day for the sake of intergration, Let us say here in the South now that we know our Strength and we are going to use it, Let us vow that this school year when they bus us to their neighborhood to schools that are miles and miles from the safety of our neighborhoods thar those of us who remain in the community will righteously deal with the racism that will be coming to our neighborhoods, Letus move to take" our schools back and when the pigs come to our community, NIGGERS pick up your guns. PUT THE PIGS ON THE RUN AND OUR PATH TO FREEDOM WILL HAVE BEGUN. N.C,C.F,, Winston-Salem, N.C, Hazel DENVER, COLORADO THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUSUST 29, 1970 PAGE 5 TERRORIST PIGS BRUTALIZE AND JAIL BLACK COUPLE On Saturday. August 1,1970 at about 2:00 p.m. , Peggy Futrell age 22 and Marvin Fitrell, 27 (a Black brother who had been on parole from Canon City State Pig Pen for about 6 weeks) were hav- ing a family dispute at theirhome at 1614 E, 32nd Avenue, when 2 killer pigs cops arrived at their home and without delay, ran tn- to the backyard, immediately grabbed Peggy and started drag- ging her throug! the alley. One of the pigs pushed her against the apartment building and when she slid down on the ground the pig kicked her in the breast and side, Marvin could not stand by and witness his wife being cruelly brutalized by this pig any longer, therefore, he picked her up and took her in their apartment. After Marvin and Peggy were in their bedroom along with their 2 year old twins, Marvin and Mar- vetta, approximately 12 greasy pigs immediately rushed in with- out 4 search warrant,tear gassed their home, started beating and clubbing Marvin, while pulling his hair out acting lke animals. They handcuffed Peggy and Mar- vin and drug Peggy outside bare- footed, after tearing her clothes, They also pulled Marvin outside by his hair, and pur him and his wife into two different plz mo- biles, At least 14 pig cars were in the ares and about 4 hundred Black people were shouting names and witnessing the pigs inhumane treatment and the unjust kidnap- ping of Marvin and Peggy from their home, The pigs showed that they had no regard whatsoever for human life when they left the two year old twins, Marvin and Mar- vetta, alone in the tear gas in- fested apartment with no one to take care of then. Marvin was brutally beaten and clubbed onhis neck, face and ribs enroute to the local pig statioa on Colorado Blvd. After they took Marvin to the local pig station they pulled him out of the car threw him up against the bullding and 5S pigs be- gan to sacistically beat him again, One pig was allegedly off duty and had changed clothes but he jumped in like it was a free ‘‘Kill the nigger", game, Marvin and Peg- gy were jailed at a newly built pig substation, Precinct #2974, District 3 on Colorado Boulevard in the middle of the Black com- munity. Peggy was thrown in the same dungeos with her husband after a pig guard had slammed the cell door on her foot and chained her arms and feet, just as Black people have been shack- led as slaves, brutalized, Jailed and murdered for over 400 years by racist dog oppressors who pro- fess that a "Black man has no rights thar a white man is bound to respect...” Some neighbors, friends and other concerned people came down to the pig station where Mar- vin and Peggy were belng held, The people asked_a pig sergeant if the couple were being held at the station: The pig Hed and said they were downtown at the city jail. Art this time Marvin was heard kicking on the cell door and mumbling In his attempts to tell them about his badly injured His wife was also transferred to the city jail, Marvin while In the city Jail asked a pig guard to see a doctor because he thought he was losing his sight, bur the pig refused to get him a doctor and told him that he would be alright. The pig matrons refused to give Peggy any clothes while in the city Jail and oinked that she couldn't see a doctor until Mon- day morning, August ard. Peggy and Marvin were both charged with the same trumped up charges: 1. Resisting arrest; 2, Interfer- rence with the duties of a law en- forcement officer; 3. Destruction of public property; 4, Destruc- tion of private property; 5. Un- der the influence of alcoholic be- verages; 6. Filthy language; and 7. Disturbance of the peace, The fascist pigs who savagely violated the human rights of Peg- gy and Marvin Futrell have no rights to unjustly charge op- pressed people of anything be- cause the racist oppressor has no rights that Black people andother oppressed people are boundtore- spect. Black people should notrespect laws and rules that do not serve us} Therefore, the ‘‘no knock" laws, Including the constitution should be rewritten or abolished Marvin and Peggy Futrell and their twins Marvin and Marvetta, eye. When the people asked the pig sergeant why it was neces- sary for the police to brutalize Peggy and Marvin the way they did, the pig twisted his snort and oinked "‘what were the of- ficers supposed to do, they had to defend themselves.’’The peo- ple clearly realized thar a plg is truly a low natured beast thar has no regard for law, justice, or the rights of people; a foul de- praved traducer, usually mas- querading as the victim of an un- provoked attack,” The pig sergeant blatantly lied again when he told the peo- ple that Peggy had refused to see a doctor and later oinked to the people that Peggy woulda'r be allowed to see a doctor until Monday, August 3rd, While transferring Marvin to the city jail, Denver's finest blue shirt sadists brutalized him again in thelr usual zestapo fashion, SOUTH BALTIMORE SLUMLORDS From the very beginning of our people’s forced bondage into this racist hell hole, properly called “'Babylon’’, our people wave been herdet tse cattle Into yarlous dwelilags from caves, to teats, log cabins on dows © sod ad chap aoacld aus, Alchough given dif- ferent oames tiny all added up to the same grand total, ladecem housing. For more than 40 years our peo- ple huve been victims of the pig- gish slumlords of South Baltimore which have disregarded the right who have disresarded the right to a high standard lof living, A good example of this avaricious action is, Mrs, Redd of 1019 Leadenhall Strect, who has complained about the holes in the roof, and her seven room louse thut has only one plug -- # wall socket that is located in the living room, Because of this she has to run a long line of extension cords through her three story house. The light sockets in two rooms of the house are not In use oecause of shortayes in the wiring. The clectrician from the Gas and Electric Com- pany said thar she would have to call her slumlord and have him send an electrician of his choice to fix the wiring because if he did it he'd have to charge her more than normal service charge for just investigating, She had made numerous com- plilas (o her slumlord, Sam Be- lowlrz and his lap dog son, who handles all his business, This ra- cist slumlord said he couldn't un- through the blood of the oppressor. Whenever anyone inthe uniform of a pig policemen or anyone for that matter enters our homes ina violent manner doing bodilyharm to our family, friends, and loved ones, we should relate to thefirst law of humanity ‘'survival"’, and therefore draw the line of demar- cation at the threshold of our doors with arms and force. The injus- tice and brutality of Black people — by pig policemen can only be Stopped by Black people armed for self-defense who refuse to allow fascist pigs to deny us our long overdue unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE] DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! N.C,C.F.-Deuver, Colorado Information Cadre Cr ———————-woyuu---oeq——K——————qeqeqamqew“ derstand her because he claims to be slightly deaf, She was told to talk to his low lifed son, when she did, all she got out of him was loud oinking rhetoric, He said he couldn't do anything about it because this is his father's house, even though he handles the busixess, After many years of exploiting our people and robbing them of their pennies, these pigs have closed their ears to the loud cry of the masses, Babylon is per- petrated by these racist slumlords, We must put an end to die robbery by capitalists of our community, We must put an end to Indecent housing unfit for the shelter ¢ human belags, ; BLACK PANTHER PARTY Baltimore Ciapter ; ] Patty THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. 1970 PAGE 6 HUEY NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT PRESS CONFERENCE, August 22, 1970 BIG MAN: This press conference is to announce a mass demonstration, rally that we are going to hold on the New Haven Green, starting Tuesday, August 25, This is in relationship to the ending of the trial of Lonnie Mc- Lucas. The trial will end Tuesday, August 25, and we'll hold a mass rally and demonstration and a vigil until the jury comes to a verdict, You can ask your questions then, We have the Minister of Defese, Supreme Commander, the leader of our Party here. He'll respond to your questions. HUEY: First, I'd like to say it is very important that the community comes out and support the rally, be- cause only with the power of the peo- ple, are we able to achieve justice or to receive justice, The only reason that the courts made a concession in my case, reversed my case, and let me out on bail is because of the power of the people. It’s not because of the justice of the court. So, we’re calling for the community to support all political prisoners and prisoners of war, At this time, the vacist, reac- tionary government is about to commit a legal lynching on Lonnie McLucas and the New Haven 9, and we are asking the community to come and issue a mandate against this, We were informed by McLucas that he was of- fered a deal by the District Attorney. Whenever there is a serious case a- gainst a person, where there’s really substantial evidence, no dealis offered. McLucas was offered a sentence of 15-20 years with a guarantee he would be out in 8 They offered him this only if he would testify against every- one else, including our Chairman Bobby Seale, Landon Williams and Ericka Huggins because these are the people they really want--Evicka Huggins, Lan- don Williams, and the Chairman Bobby Seale, So, they’re willing to make any sort of deal because they know that they don’t have any evidence on any- one because everyone is innocent, But if they could use that old tactic of divide and conquer, then they would simply try to divide our Party mem- bers against each other, and pay them off, and have a legal lynching based upon some testimony coming from one of our comrades, But, of course, none of the Party members will go for this. The only ones who are agents will go for it, such as Sams who is the only murderer and who's already ac- cepted the deal. But we think that what has happened is that the F.B.I. used Sams as an agent and then dumped him. They have a history of doing this and they will do it_again, it seems. The rally will be at 10:00 a.m, on Tuesday, August 25, and we're asking everyone to stay until the verdict comes in, the jury goes out Tuesday even- ing or Wednesday morning, We’re ask- C y a, Minister of Defense Black Panther Party ing everyone to stay until the end and to mobilize the community against this legal lynching. We’re very concerned about what’s happening now in America as far as the persecution of prisoners of war, The revolutionary movement is reach- ing a very decisive level. We’re de- manding that the powers that be in this country follow the Geneva agree- ment relating to prisoners of war, They have no right to inflict any punish- ment on a prisoner of war, They are required to keep him until we nego- tiate for his release, and they have no right to brutalize him and they surely have no right to murder him, If they try to do this, the people can only take appropriate actions and we’re convinced that we will only get justice when the people start acting in a rev- olutionary manner, I think it’s unneces- sary to go into exactly what the tactics should be, I think our actions should speak for themselves, If we’re really going to take some real revolutionary actions we don’t have to talk about them, The Panthers have a maxim and it says: ‘‘To say what I want to say, I can’t do what I want to do and to do what I want to do,, I can’t say what I want to say.”’ So, just observe my actions and you'll know what I want to say. So, we’ll observe this maxim and, in the very near future, you'll see some very revolutionary action, But this will happen only if we can mobilize the community behind us. So I emphasize this, not to be redundant, but just to impress upon you the ab- solute necessity to educate the com- munity, In spite of the revolutionary action we, the vanguard group, take, it is still necessary to educate the community by any means necessary. This includes using tactics which may appear reformist but which in fact are not, I say they're not reformist because any action taken in the com- munity, that won't impede the future revolutionary goal ts appropriate ac- tion--whether it is a Medical Pro- gram or a Child Care Center, or what- ever, Whatever the community needs, we should be there to serve them. Serve the people! PRESS: What's going to happen if Mc- Lucas is found guilty? Do you have any plans? HUEY: First thing, we want the people who are there to issue the mandate against this conviction, We don’t think he is going to be convicted because there’s no evidence against him, If in- justice is done, we will take measures to correct this and institute justice, re- volutionary justice, As I said before, I} don’t think that it’s necessary to discuss | tactics, especially if these tactics might | be military tactics. If we have to en- | gage in military tactics, it won’t be| for political reasons because we're not playing any games, We want our comrades free and we want all polit- ical prisoners set free as well as prisoners of war, PRESS: Would you answer a question I think a lot of White people have had? They say that somebody, Alex Rackley, has been shot and they feel| — that there should have been an arrest} — of at least someone incommectionwith | the killing; and a trial, How do you feel about that? HUEY; In the first place I don’t en- dorse the reactionary racist courts. I don’t think they should deal with any of the people, because they haven't} earned that right, I think that the com- munity should make rules to revolu- | tionize its judicial system and handle | its own problem. The community’s pro- | blem is the judicial system. It is the judicial system that is the problem, | not the people, just as the prison pro- | blem is not the prisoner. The real problem is the prison authorities. The | pris 2 administration needs to be sep- arated and isolated for their racism | and their reactionary attitudes. We con- tend that the prisons are not rehabili- tation centers; they are concentration camps where racism is practiced and encouraged by the prison administra- tion, they use the lack of social con- sciousness of the prisoners to insti- tute this racism so you have race wars inside the prisons, I think this kind of thing is ending now because prisoners are more and more taking action against the real enemy, As far as this particular case, where Rackley was killed, he certainly should not have been killed. He was a member of the Black Panther Party in good standing. George Sams is guilty of murder, I think George Sams should be dealt with; he should have to stand before a revolutionary court, I don’t even wish the reactionary racist courts upon George Sams, It hasn't improved him, He’s been in and out of peniten- tiaries all his life. He has spent most of his life between going to mental institutions and prisons, As far as I’m concerned, George Sams is amad- man and true revolutionary justice in his case would be putting himin thera- peutic environment, The only problem. . is that we don’t have atherapeutic en- ‘ vironment in the world today because 7 of United States imperialism--bureau- cratic capitalism at home and im- perialism abroad, So what we have to do is move in such a fashion that we’ll transform this society andthere- | fore transform the world, and then we’ll have a society where we can help madmen and where we could really develop all human beings to their high- est level, / <a ee I eet PRESS: Do you have a revolutionary continued on next page eet a ne EULOGY 10 THREE MURDERED THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 7 for justice. Do not be fooled by The attempr at freedom was an this attempted trick, They have attempt for all Black men, their made it a point to blow out of murder is the murder of all op- proportion a falsecriminalnature pressed people trying to throwoff of thesebrothers and notexposing the bonds of imperialism andtheir what is really behind thetraction blood running in the streets of Even associal warden Parks ex- Marin county fs our blood flowing posed his facist hand by slandering through the streets of every city the brothers,calling them"'viclous"’ and county of imperialist Ameri- than to re-enter the Black ; community and take up cour rightfel role as Black mon and warriors, helping to establish freedom for ovr people." August 5, 1970 ‘There was @ big clamor over the **Tiger Cages"’ of Con Son not too far back,Congressmen had in- spected the prison camp on the island off the coast of South Viet- mam and declared it a dungeon with human conditions, There was a big furor which followed, the American press and citizens weeped and cried for correction of the situation, The great human- frarian public brought about a change almost over night. Well my fellow humanirarians there are ‘Tiger Cages" right in your own back yard, If you travel across the Golden Gate Bridge north to San Rafael and take the San Quentin cutoff, you will see one of America's oldest _ symbols of oppression, The entire prison ts a glaring example of medieval torture in the familiar style of the Bathgate and the Bastille. Though the whole prison is funky, filthy and nasty, one particular area completely outdoes anything imaginable by the most warped mind. The southwest housing unit contains ‘‘A"' and‘'B"’ section, These are the two places a man fs sent if he has committed a minor infraction of the many and diverse, petty rules or breaks one of the guards personal regu- lations promulgated usually on the bapot at his whim or fancy and de- Dending of whatever mood he hap- pens to be in, **A* Section is a semi-isolation unit where Inmates are only al- lowed four and one half hours on the yard a week with no chance of exercise, In that time one must take care of whatever business he wishes to conduct; canteen, Mbrary, household, receiving edu- cation dept.,inmate activity coun- cil, etc. since the only means of communication is by talking, or if the distance is too far, shouting, from cell to cell and telr to teir. This results in twenty-four hour, non-stop screeching, screaming and shouting, the noise is deafen- ing. It is as if your head were placed in a bell inside an echo chamber and the bell was beaten continuously. One conversation would not be bad, but each teir contains fifty, two man cells and there are five teirs. Rapid cal- culation will give an idea of the noise, There is a constant assault -of the eardrums the whole time a man ts incaged here. There are homo~sexuals and psy- chopaths on the fifth teir and they discuss their various perversions and sexual fantasies constantly. Many of these men should be in one of the many mental institutions the California taxpayer supports, but instead they are placed in pri- son, probably purposely by prison officials to add to the psycholog- fcal torture that is part of San Quentin’s rehabilitation program, One of these men had anepilep tic seizure the other day; the rest of the inmates tried for one solid hour by banging the bars, throwing burning paper and anything they could, to try and summon the sa~ distic guards, to come to his ald, he finally came out the seizure himself still with no word or from the apathetic guards. of the biggest fears 4 man these bars has is, the death from the need of ge 3 “emergency medical attention. But to keep one’s sanity the thought ts ¥ tite back In your mind. REVOLUTIONARIES Headline--"'Three Cons Make Fatal Attempt to Escape,."’ This headline and that thinking has flashed across the San Fracisco Bay area andthe world, Once again the cause of the Blackman has been misconstrued by the White racist and monopoly owned news media. The American people have een led to most effectively by a dis- reputable press and Black revo- lutionaries have been degraded. We brothers of San Quentin and freedom fightersaround the world however, know the truth about what happened, After years of ana- lizing news accounts and actual conditions we have learned that the F.B.L and C,1,A, controlled news does not let anything become public which is detrimental to the long existing fascist regime here in the U.S.A, Those three brothers the other day were making a strike for freedom, They realized that it Is impossible to recieve justice at the hands of a racist court. They knew after serving many years in the confines of California prisons that fc was hopeless for a Black man to remain a man and still expect any consideration from a fascist and racist adult authority. Black people and all clear thinking individuals must not be fooled by newspaper and radio renditions of those brothers and their action. They were in prison because, like so many others before and since, knew that one must in this The inmates in ‘'A"’ section are allowed to shower twice a week-- five minutes per man--and no mat- ter what the weather we musi leave our cell dressed only in whites, (tee shirt and shorts) the reason supposedly is so that we can change after the shower, 4 laugh, ninety-fiver percent of the time there is no clean whites so after taking the five minute shower we must put on the same dirty clothes worn all week, There is no hot water in the cells, hot water is delivered by the teir tender only when he feels like It and tf we have something to put the water in, If we used to care anything about our person- al hygiene, cold water is the only out, After months and months of this however one chooses toremain funky rather than risk penumonia, if we had any good health habits on the street, they are soon smo- thered fn here. "8" section or the ‘‘hole”’ is a step down from ‘‘A’ , no soap, no toothpaste, showers rarely, andthe guards are recruited especially for their sadistic tendencies. They do all they can to fan racial flareups so it will give them a chance to prove their manhood by firing into a mass of confined people. A few weeks ago there was a fight be- tween Whites and Blacks which had been brewing out of small incidents all week, then escalated into a full fledged riot. The guard emptied his winchester into the yard, then his revolver and finally it was broken up. Luckily only one person was wounded in the leg. When a directive came from the warden to cut down on the number of shots fired into groups of prisoners, to show the brutal nature of the pigs they were talk- ing of striking because they could not use their weapons at will, The inmates of “'B"’ section is virtually cut off from all types of communication therefore vul- nerable to any type of physical attack by the inhumane and fas- cist pigs. The guards know that there will be no retaliation be- cause the man is a ‘convict’ therefore he has no human rights. The Blacks are treated partic- society of dog eat dog take hold and sieze their own destinies with force if necessary. ‘Those beloved and courageous brothers picked up the gun In order tuo liverate themselves and others from ahell hole worst than death. San Quentin, like prisons through out capilistist America, exist to enhance the power structure; they function to fatten the pockets of politicians and greedy prison offi- cials and as a blanket intimida- tion to stifle the brave thrust of revolutionaries in trying to over~ throw a corrupt super-rich ruling class. Black and revolutionary Inclined men, women and children shoud cheer those brothers for their attempt at freedom They shouldbe * held as revolutionary martyrs and heroes because they have given up their lives so that others could see the foul conditions which Black men have to live under, The propagandized press have taken it upon themselves to put that dog judge Haley up as the hero, to extol his accomplish- ments, at the expense of our revo- lutionary brothers. If we were to examine his record we would probably find that he is respon- sible for thousands of broken homes and hundreds of fatherless children because of his position as municiple and superior court judge, hovering over the freedom of poor and oppressed people who have come before his court looking ularly bad and any brother who has come into 4 new awareness of himself as a Black man Is prone to be attacked by the White racist guards, There is 4 lot said about prison reform; it has been the subject of conversation of senators, judges and numerous commissions. Sole- dad stands out particularly as a focal point because of the recent happening there. The brothershere at San Quentin are asking that something be done about condi- tions here.The authorities cannot do with us as they wish if our Black people stand up and say that we are still members of the Black community, The fascist authori- ties from Reagan down to the low- Hest person on the staff cannot ill treat your Black brothers if you mothers, sisters, and fellow Black men unify {into a political force and demand that we be treated as human beings. Huey Newton said that all Black men are political prisoners and this is an accurate evaluation, Every man that I have talked to in the penitentiary is in here because he has been con- victed of committing some act a- gainst the established ruling order trying to change his economic sta- tus. We have all been tried by racist courts, convicted by racist and uncle tom filled juries and now are relegated to an existence of servitude, even slavery at the hands of a racist, fascist, state. We wish nothing more than to re-enter the Black community and take up our rightful role as Black men and warriors, helping to establish freedom for our people. We are not afraid of the so-called authorities who hold us prisoners and we will not be afraid to fight in here or out there, until every Black man, women and child is free from this oppression that has been stifling our existence and con- tolling our destiny for the last four hundred years, We will not let you down, do not turn your backs on us now PEACE TO THE BROTHERS, DEATH TO THE PIGS! B-00000 San Quentin and ‘‘hate filled’', He has tried to deny the revloutionary ideals from a question put to him by a news- ca where men have stood up to fight this avaricious beast who has been sucking the blood of im- man concerning the brothers state- poverished and economically ex- ment of being revolutionaries. This ploited people all over the globe. shows how warped the mind of a facist pig thinks. This brings to light the racist nature of prison authorities who will stoop to Three slaughtered Black bro- thers we have heard your cry for freedom. Revolutionary Black men we have felt your pain of gunshot character assassination in order to wounds inflicted by the cannabalis- prolong their own rule over aem- pire of legalized slavery andcor- ruption, Any man who tries to gain his tic gestapo. You have not died in vain because by your death our eyes have been opened, Your last breath in a racist atmosphere freedom from San Quentin by what- has been another breath for free- ever means available to him should dom. The destruction of your beau- be considered nothing else but a brave man and a lover of freedom, for he has taken steps which other are scared to make, It is foul conditions that those three brave Black brothers lived under, they ° have been misused, mislead, and tortured at the hands of racist pri- son authorities and taunted by the facist representatives of Reagan, the adult authority. Their move was justified by his- toric precedents of men before them who have tried to gain their freedom from oppressive forces. = tiful Black bodies have become the creation of hundred of revo- lutionist who will step in your place and carry on the struggle until every fascist swine is wiped ” from the face of the earth. Rest easy Black brothers the fight is ours now, it will continue and inten- sify either until we are all mur- dered or victory is won. PEACE TO THE BROTHERS DEATH TO THE PIGS B-00000 San Quentin WE WILL FIGHT WITHIN THE PRISON WALLS UNTIL WE ARE MURDERED OR VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE GS WON! NEW HAVEN CONN. HUEY’S PRESS CONFERANCE court system now, other than the Cen- tral Committee, that would handle this sort of situation? HUEY: At this point, we can’t really talk about any revolutionary institu- tions. We can talk about a process that is in the making. We have a pro- visional revolutionary judicial system which we realize can’t function to its greatest capacity. because you can’t have isolated pockets of human treat- ment when, all around you, reaction is pressing in, So, we don’t claim to have developed any utopia in our com- mune system in which we live, or in the Party itself. We have problems because we exist in a backwards so- ciety. So we know our chief task at this point is to transform the society, It?s not simply to erect justy institu- tions because it’s impossible to dothat either in this country or in the world as a whole today until reaction, and that consists of the 76 companies that as a whole today until reaction, and that consists of the 76 companies that — control the world, is killed onceand for all, 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 8 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY’S POSITION ON THE MURDER OF ALEX RACKLEY - Alex Rackley murdered by fascist pigs The position that the Black Panther Party takes is that the pigs murdered Alex Rackley. It must be understood that the murder of Alex Rackley and the frame up of Bobby Seale and the entire Connecticut State Chapter of the Black Panther Party as well as Landon Wil- liams and Rory Hithe is a very care- fully constructed plot put into action by the F.B.J., C.I.A. and various Jus- tice Department task forces, George Sams and the pigs are responsible for the murder of Alex Rackley. In rela- tionship to this fact, questions arise such as: Why did Judge Mulvey squash the subpoena to get the F.BJ. arrest records so that the defense could pro- duce evidence as to the police role in the murder of our party member Alex Rackley? Why did Mulvey squash the subpoena for the F.BI surveil- lance records of the New Haven Pan- ther Party office, thus hiding the pigs role in this whole frame - up? The people must see and understand this, The people must also ask why did the big state’s attorney Markle vigorous- ly object to Warren Kimbro testifying to the fact that George Sams was ac- tually a ‘‘bodyguard - henchman for Stokely Carmichael,’’ Sams, and Sams alone, gave the or- ders to shoot Alex Rackley. Sams ter- rorized almost everyone in the New Haven Chapter who were young and im- pressionable so they believed George Sams was correct in the things he did and said because he constantly stated that he was sent out by National Head- quarters. The Black Panther Party stated that Alex Rackley was amember in good standing with the Party and we maintain that position, The only per- sons to assume thathe was aninformer are George Sams and Warren Kimbro. In the tape recording of Sams’ and Kim- bros’ interrogation of Alex, itis ob- vious that the man was in pain from the brutalizing treatment Sams had put him through, He would have said anything to put an end to his pain, Alex Rackley was a rank and file Panther so he was not in any party confidential information. Alex Rackley went to New Havenofhis own free will and because he wanted to. He was not kidnapped and brought there, The practice of the Black Panther Party is to expel and to expose through our national newspaper agents, provo- cateurs, pigs, and counter-revolution- ary fools, We are wellaware ofthe fact ~ that the pig police move on people that the Party expels and denounces in an effort to get them to inform on thePar- ty. The members of the New Haven Chapter were young and they were im-— mature, so they cannot and must not be blamed for what George Sams did or made them do under the threat of death - at his hands. These people made f signed statements out of fear and with- out knowing what these statements — meant, The pigs implanted fear in these people by telling them that they were going to get the death penalty, but by making statements they would be let off or get a lesser sentence, It must be clearly understood that ihe ultimate — goal of the pigs is to murder Bobby Seale in the electric chair, Lonnie McLucas did not engineer this frame- up nor did he give the orders to mur- der Alex Rackley; George Sams did, As always, our Partyis responsible to the masses of poor and oppressed people, The Black Panther Party has to stand in the judgment of the people, be- cause in that period of our Farty’sde-— velopment, we allowed a maniac such — as George Sams to come into our Party Sams is a Black tool of a vicious rac- ist pig power structure in theirattempt — to murder the Chairman of the Party, Bobby Seale. Black people need only to look at history to see how their leaders — and organizations are destroyed, Mal- colm X stated before his death that he had the best organization for Black people in the Western hemisphere and niggers destroyed it, We will not al- low our Party to be destroyed by the pigs! SEIZE THE TIME! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! National Headquarters Black Panther Party TWO BROTHERS RIPPED OFF THE STREETS AND JAILED FOR MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS tt is a fact well known that countless black people are rip- ped off the streets of the colo- ny everyday. In most cases they are britalized and charged, Many times the only crime committed by our brothers and sisters is the crime of iniadtlng a2"? oy: >usiness, Joe X Gee and Sammy Bruu- ten two lumpen brothers, becainc the victims of this racist law and capitalist order, Ir is the same “‘law and order” the imp- eralist rulers of babylon use to daily. oppress people around the world, It is becoming increasingly clear to the residents of South Baltimore that the pigs are us- ing laws against us that are in violation of our human rights. The right of mankind to simply live peacefully and mind one’s own business. Walking near Charles andHam- burg Sts. on the 4th of july, Joe X Gee and Sammy Brouten were illegally kidnapped off the streets of So. Baltimore. They were not charged with anything, yet they were held in jail overnight. Dur- ing this time they repeatedly asked why they were being hold and what they were charged with, They received no answer, The morning after thelr arrest, they were brought in front of the racist pig magistrate ar southern police district and charged with burglary, There were no witnesses to sub Stantiate this charge pres. in court, knowing this, the judge and lackey pigs tried to get the brothers to plead guilty to the charge of rouge and vagabond, a lesser charge, this the brothers did not do. The pigs failing In this attempt to railroad the brothers should have dropped the charges, but the owner of the store demanded that something be done to keep him from going out of business, He stated thar be always is harassed by dope addicts and peo- ple who stick him up He demanded that the judge make an example of the two bloods. The pig who made the initial arrest wa9 not in court, in his place, were two rookies wlio ak- ed the judge for 4 postponement So they couldget smokehounds (winos and drunks) the judge told the pigs to get 4 warrant for the smokehounds and arrest them as material witnesses. The trial was postponed until July 10, bail win sec at 3,000, Sammy was able to make his bail, Joe was aot. The next six days were a liy- ing nightmare for Joe Gee, For six days of his life he half liv- ed and half died, in a hellhole that is reminiscent of ancient castle dungeons, Upon entering the ‘'N"’ section of the Baltimore City Jail he was cold he was on lockup. Having done nothing to br- eak the rules of the jail, he asked ‘“‘why lockup’’ He was told that several months ago, there was a food smrike on the section and as a resuk the entire section was placed on lockup by the warden, He was given two paper cups one for food, one for coffee. These had to beuseo until they fell apart. Meat was served in the palm of his hand on a Slice of bread. Countless other dehu- maniziag acts were inflicted up- ou Shim , acts the pigs call re- habilirarion. On Friday, July 10, 1970, when he was broughr to trial, the Judge called for the owner of the Store . Pigs wio were in the court tried hard to pass 4 wino off as the owner of the store, When this failed, the pigs twisted their sto- ry and sald the trembling shak- ing wino was their witness, A witness {ft turns out who did nor witness anything. At this point the raflroad attempt should have been discoatinued, burt it was not. Since the owner was not incourt the judse tried to get the pigs to get a warrant for the owner so he could testify against Joe and Sammy. This the pigs ref- used to do, showing clearly the relationship between the pigs and the avoricious businessman, Seeing that the tracks were bent and the engine to the train was out of steam, the judge decided to stop playing rallroad baron, He rejuctantly dismissed the charges. This Incident further proves why we believe all black men should BOSS be released from federal, state, city prisons and jails We know that our black people when taken into the racist courts of this country do not receive fair and impartial trials by their peers. We also know that black people are daily problemized and ar- rested the same as Joe and Sammy for no more of a crim- inal act than minding their own business, This problem has all the characteristics of a colon- izing sickness, a sickness used to “‘keep the natives in their place’’, with the use of mace, biliyfclubs, and legal lynching. if ~ This colonial sickness can be cured here in babylon the same as it has been cured in North Korea, Cuba, Algeria and any other places that the carriers of the sickness were forcibly kick- ed out of. Black people must eradicate our communities of this sickness. The very ones who perpetuate this Sickness in our communitles must be annihilated, Death to the fascist pigs. Not only is that all they deserve, bur it is all that we need to be free, ALL POWER TO Tia PEOPLE “WITHOUT FREEDOM LIFE MEANS NOTHING" 4 October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want Minister of Defense Black Panther Party Black Community. mine our destiny. 2. We want full employment for our people. _ all of its people and give a high standard of living What We Believe 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- | We'believe that the federal government is responsible and obligatedto | give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American businessmen will not give full employment, then the Means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- ‘THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 17 OEE LE! SS OE SL ff OE SS Lf OE fF ff OS LES ES ff FE LL EE Sf f 1 2 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community. We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people, We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore. we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance.to relate to anything else. 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people.should not be forced to fight in the mifi- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning nian" of the black community. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and naturg's God entitle them,a decent respect to the opinions’of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall scem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. ‘ ” LF 1 EEE! | PP LEE ff ff ET os tN LEE EEE LE EES LE ETT OE ft tT ES ft t tammy ~_ N) | N | N 5 | N | ‘ | S | S | N | ‘ | N | N | . | N N | N | N | N N ) 2 — ad ~~ ~ ~ + a THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 18 BOBBY'S APPEAL PART VI B, THE COURT ERRED IN PRO- CEEDING AGAINST APPELLANT ON SERIOUS CRIMINAL CON- “*TEMPT CHARGES WITHOUT AC- CORDING HIM A JURY TRIAL. In Bloom v, UlMnois, supra, the Supreme Court found serious cri- minal contempt charges Indisting- ulshable from other serious cri- minal charges in determining the right to trial by jury. Wholly apart from the aggregate term im- posed, discussed in Il A, supra, there can be no question that the contempt charges in the instant case were serious, and therefore that a jury trial was mandated, The right to jury trial has tra- ditionally turned on the serious- ness of the charges; and serious- ness has been defined in terms of the nature of the crime and the consequences of conviction, in- volving such factors as the stigma attached to conviction and the type —— of punishment involved, (70) Cer- tainly the actual or potential sent- ence has always been considered one indication of the seriousness of the crime and can In itself de- fine the crime as sufficiently seri- ous to mandate jury trial, (71) But ft is also clear that sentence has been traditionally considered only one indication of seriousness, (72) and thar a crime may be Serious and require jury trialeven where the potential or actual sent- ence is petty. (73) While the Su- preme Court found in Cheff and Bloom that criminal conternpt was not necessarily a serious crime, apart from the sentence imposed, ft would appear that certain con- ‘tempts can and should be treated as serious even where sentences under six months are imposed, _. (70) See generally Frankfurter & —_~ Corcoran, Petty Federal Offenses and the Constitutional Guarantee of Trial by Jury, 39 HARV, L. REV, 917, 980-81 (1926): Broadly speaking, acts were dealt with summarily which did not offend too deeply the moral purposes of the community, which were not too close to so- clety's danger and were stig- matized by punishment rela- ‘tively light. “(71) See Bloom and Cheff, supra; Dunean v. Louisiana, 391 U.S, 145 (1968). (72) See, ¢.g., Duncan v. Louisi- ana, 391 U,S, at 159; "Crimes carrying possible pen- alties up to six moaths do nor require a jury trial if theyother- wise qualify as petty of- fenses....”" “(The penalty authorized) ts of major relevance in determin- ing whether it is serious or not and may in itself, if severe e- nough, subject the trial to the mandates of the Sixth Amend- ment,’’ (emphasis added) See also, District of Columbia v. Clawans, 300 U.S, 617 (1937). Other traditional tests for seri- ousness have been whether it was an offense indictable at common law (District of Columbia v. Colts, 282 U.S, 63, 73 (1930); Callan v, Wilson, 127 U,S, 540, 554-57 (1888)), or an offense that is ma- lum is se (District of Columbia v. Colts, supra; Cheff, supra, 384 U.S, at 387-90 (dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Douglas); Frank- furter and Corcoran, Petry Fed- eral Offenses and the Consrtitu- tional Guaranty of Trial by Jury, 39 HARV. L. REV, 917, 980 (1926)), See also Baldwin v. New York, 38 U.S,L,Wk. 4554, 4555 n.6, 4556 (1970), decided by the Supreme Court June 22, two days before this Brief was filed, (73) See District of Columbia v, Coles, supra, 282 U.S, at 73, hold- ing a jury trial required where the offense--reckless driving -- in- volved a maximum penalty of $100 and 30 days; Whether 4 given offense {s to be classed as a crime, So as tore- quire @ jury trial, or as a petty offense, rrlable summarily with- out a jury, depends primarily upon the nature of the offense. The offense here charged ts not merely malum prohibitum, but in its very nature is malum in se, (END OF FOOTNOTES) In the instant case there can be no question that appellant was charged with serious crimes. Six- teen different contemptuous acts were charged, each of which al- Jegedly *‘constituted a deliberate and willful attack upon the ad- ministration of justice in an at- tempt to sabotage the functioning of the federal judicial system." He was accused of misconduct “of so grave a character a5 to continually disrupt the orderly ad- ministration of justice."’ (TRS411, 5410) It fs clear from the rial judge's reaction throughout trial, from his charges and from the extraordinary four-year term ul- timately imposed that he appellant was guilty not merely of disobedience or breaches of decorum but of a virtual assault upon the entire administration of justice, Under traditional tests, this charge cannot be classified as a petry offense. (74) (4) > ¥. Wilton, 127 U5, fel. 540, SSS (1888), holding that a man v, United States, 317 U.S, 49 conspiracy cannot be considered.) (1942)); transporting goods across petty. The common law ‘petty of- fenses"’ were of a nuisance nature and did not involve ‘‘serious im- morality. Classic instances were disorderliness, drunkenness, V4- grancy and violations of health, safety, trade, fish and game regu- lations, See IV BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES 279, 281; 3STE- PHEN, A HISTORY OF THE CRI- MINAL LAW OF ENGLAND 264- 6S; Frankfurter and Corcoran, su- pra n. 70, 39 HARV, L. REV, at 983-1019. In every case in which the Supreme Court has held an offense to be triable without a jury in a federal court, it has empha- sized the lack of serfous immor- ality associated with the offense. E.g., District of Columbia y, Cla- wans, 300U,S,617,525 (1937) (sell- ing usused railway tickets with- out @ license; ‘‘its mora] quality is relatively Inoffensive’’); Schick v. United States, 195 U,S, 65 (1904) (sale of unstamped oleomargarine: an offense “not necessarily in- volving any moral delinauency ). (END OF FOOTNOTE) C, APPELLANT'S CONDUCT CONSTITUTED AT MOST ASING- LE CONTEMPT AND THE COURT BELOW THUS ERRED IN IMPOS- ING A SENTENCE IN EXCESS OF SIX MONTHS WITHOUT ACCORD- ING APPELLANT A JURY TRIAL, The vitality of Bloom can be preserved and the constitutional issues discussed above avoided if this Court determines that appel- lant's conduct constituted at most a single contempt,. since there would then be no question but thar appellant was entitled to a jury trial, Whether appellant's conduct, assuming tt was all contemptuous, constituted sixteen crimes or only a single offense is a question of Statutory construction, Ladner y, United States, 358 U.S, 169, 173 (1958), and a trial court cannot alter the substance of a contem- nor’s action by merely describing ft as one or several contempts. (75) In order to decide how many different contempts, if any, ap- pellant committed, this Court must determine what is the ‘‘allowable unit of prosecution’’ under 18 US,C, * 401(1), Bell v, United States, 349 U.S, 81 (1955)—the facts which, if proven, constitute a single crime. When a series of acts constitute but a single unit of prosecution, even though each one of those acts occurring by it- self would have constituted acom- plete unit of prosecution, that series of acts is denoted a ''con- tinuing offense."’ (76) A statute may define a continuing offense although words such as *‘course of conduct”’ do not appear in the provision. (77) Such a single contiauing of- fense may be involved even though the various component acts were charged as separate counts and were subject to proof by different facts. (78) (7S) Thus the federal courts have repeatedly reversed multiple penalties imposed for an act or Serles of acts which constituted but a single offense. See, e.g., Heflin v. United States, 358 U.S, 415 (1959, Bell vy. United States, 349 US. 81 (1955). (76) There are many such con- tinuing offenses in federal law; assaulting two federal officers with a single shot (18 U.S.C, © 254, Ladner v, United States. supra); willfully remaining in the United States after one's alien permit expires, (18 U.S.C, *1282(c), Uni- ted States v, Cores, 356 U,S, 405 (1958) transporting several wo- men across state line in a single car for immoral purposes (8 U.S.C, ©2421, Belly. UnitedStates, supra); violating a provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act with re- gard to half dozen different em- ployees (29 U.S.C. 9215, 216 (a), United States v. Universal C.LT, Credit Corp,, 344 U.S, 218 (1952) one conspiracy to commit several crimes (18 U,S.C, * 46, Braver- several state lines at an illegally low rate, (49 U.S.C, * 411, United States y, Midstate Horticultural Company, Inc,, 306 US, 161 (1939); several fraudulent entries in a bank book to conceal a single embezzlement (12 U.S.C, * 592, United States v. Adams, 281 U.S, 202 (1930)); illegally cohabiting with more than one woman over a three year period (22 Stat. 3, Ex parte Snow, 120 U,S, 274 (1887)), See also United States y, Johnson, 323 U.S, 273, 281-82 (L944) (use of the mails for a particular illegal purpose} Dunn vy. United States, 284 U.S, 390, 397 (1932) maintaining a nuisance), Where a defendant guilty of only one continuing crime has been mis- takenly convicted of several of- fenses, all but the first convic- tion must be reversed, See, ¢.g., Yates v. United States, 355 US, 66 (1957), (77) See United States v. Universal CLT. Credit Corp., supra, 344 U,S, at 277, (78) United States v, Empsak, % F, Supp. 1012 (D, Del. 1951), (END OF FOOTNOTES) Appellant maintains that the ap- propriate unit of prosecution for a direct contempt under * 401 (I) is the entire course of & con- temnor’s conduct during a trial. This interpretation of * 401(1) is supported by (a) the statutory lang- uage, () the legislative history and the purpose of the statute, (c) the need to prohibic improper multiplication of offenses by the prosecution or the trial court, (d) the policy of Iénity applied in {n- terpreting criminal statutes, (c) the incongruous results which would follow from any other unit of prosecution, and () the pre- vious applications of * 401(1). These various considerations are discussed separately; their effect, of course, is cumulative. (a) Statutory Language. Section 401 (1) penalizes “*(mjisbehavior of any person in (a court's) pre- senceor so near thereto as fo obstruct the administration of jus- tice."’ The term ‘‘misbehavior”’ is a “‘collective noun", and has no plural. (79)"'Misbehavior"’ depicts a course of misconduct or aseries of incidents, rather than an indi- vidual contemptuous act, (79) See Webster's New Interna- thonal Dictionary, 2d ed. p, 525. (END OF FOOTNOTE) Had Congress desired to make each contemptuous act a separate and complete crime, it would pre- sumably have done So clearly and explicitly (60) by making punish- able, for example, ‘‘every act in- terrupting or tending to interrupt”’ a court proceeding, (61) or by mak- lag punishable a number of speci- fic actions, such as interrupting the judge, refusing to stand when the Judge enters and leaves the court- room, or assaulting any person in the courtroom. (@2) @0) Bell v, United States, supra, 349 U.S, at 83; Ladner v, United States, supra, 358 U.S. at 178. (61) See La, Rev. Stat. * 15:11 (emphasis added), (62) Compare Blockburger vy. Uni- ted States, 284 U,S, 299, 302, (1932) (successive sales of morphine two crimes because the statute prohi- bits any sale in the absence of certain requirements, rather than forbidding engaging inthe business of selling iNegal drugs); Clark v. District Court, 125 N,W, 2d 264 (lowa 1963) (@even violations of an {njuntion seven different offenses because the injunction prohibited Specific acts such as the fitting of dentures, rather than barring in general terms the practice of dentistry), (END OF FOOTNOTES) (>) Legistative History and Pur- pose. k is clear that when * 40] was first enacted in 1831, it was intended to work 4 “{drastic cur- tailment of the contempt power as it had theretofore existed.’’ Bloom v. Ulinois, supra, 361 U,S, at 203. A construction wiich fixes the en- tire course of trial seers as the unit of prosecution clear effectuates this policy. Secondly, the contempt power as defined in * 401(1) was not intended to pro- tect the sensibilities of judges ur parties from every harsh or un- kind remark, nor to Impose ven- geance for insults (Brown v. Uni- ted States, 356 U.S, 148, 153, 161 (1958)), but rather to punish seri- ous obstructions, Thus the concern of * 401(1) is with the adverse impact of misbehavior on the trial as a whole. (83) (83) Compare Ladner v. United States, supra, 358 U,S, at 175-— 76; Bell v. United States, supra, 349 US, at 83, 84. In Ladner the court concluded that the pur- pose of the statute barring assaults on federal officers was to assure the carrying out of official tasks, rather than the protection of fed- eral officials, and thus held thar only one crime was committed when two officials were wounded with a single shot. In Bell the court reasoned that the concern of the Mann Act was the use of inter- state commerce for immoral pur- poses, not safeguarding the virtue of individual women, and thus con- cluded the defendant had committed only one offense when hetrans- Ported two women across 4 State line at the same time, (END OF FOOTNOTE) Section 401, moreover, fixes no specific penalty, and provides no standard for assessing punishment other then the magnitude of the adverse impact of thé misconduct on the trial. The relevance of any particular contemptuous incident can only be evaluated In the con- text of the entire trial. And to try to assign to each contemptuous act, with the precision needed fn allo- cating jail terms, a portion of the total disruption or prejudice caused by a contemnor would be an Impossible task, (c) Improper Multiplication of Offenses, Unless the entire trial is the appropriate unit of prose- cution under * 401(1), the vaguely worded statute will give no guid- ance whatsoever in determining how many contempts have been committed in an extended course of misconduct. A givencourt might punish as distinct offenses each disruptive action separated from another by a warning from the bench, or by a short or lengthy period of calm, or each incident unless it is somehow related in purpose, style or effect to other incidents, or each sentence, word, paragraph or movement which dis- rupted the administration of justice. (64) Without a precise definition of the appropriate unit of prose- cution, the number of offenses committed will turn solely on the “ingenuity and whim" of the pro- secutor and the trial court, am entirely impermissible result, particularly in an area where jud- ges are likely to become emotion- ally involved, People vy, Riela, 200 N.Y,S, 2d 43, 46, 7. N.Y, 24571, 166 N,E, 2d 840 (1960), cert. de- nied, 364 U.S, 474 (1960); Yates v. United States, 355 U.S. 66 (1957); Ex parte Snow, 120 U.S, 274, 282 (1887). @5) (84) The absence of a clear unit of prosecution has wrought utter confusion in the state courts with ard to the use of contempt to pe violations of injunctions, E.g., compare State v. King, 47 La, Ann, 701, 17 So, 288, (1895) with Hickinbotham y. Williams, 228 Ark, 46, 305 SW, 2d 841 (1557); compare State y, (Frontier Airlines, Inc. 174 - 172, 216 NW, 2d 281, (1962); with Solano Acquatic Club ¥, Superior Court, \ 131 P, 874 (Cal. 1913 x : (8S) The unit of pro~ secution fixed for * 401(1) seul continued on next bage “ PEN LETTER TO THE PRESS FROM THE SOLEDAD 12 continued from page 14 more Blacks were brought in. No rea- son was given for such an arrest " until several days later. They were taken one at a time for interroga- tion. The questions implied was about the killing of officer Schull. Looking _at the actions which took place here, it may seem to some harsh, but ex- pected under the circumstances, This is only a surface observation, If re- viewed from beneath the surface you will see the beginning of another con- spiracy to falsely prosecute Black pri- soners wantonly. Along with this it should be easy to imagine some of the torment we, the victims, are ex- periencing, knowing that some of us will be sacrificed. We have now de- cided to fight with allthat we have left, ‘‘life and dignity’’. With one defending the other, power to those who are willing to struggle, 12 will struggle here together. We will not be forced or bribed to separate. We will retain our dignity. We will not lie or turn against our brother, or sacrifice him to save ourselves from the threat of a trial of defeat. From this point on, we will not eat, expecting that the power and will of the people is stronger than the offi- cials of this prison, Our strike will last as long as the oppressors prac- tice these injustices against us. Our THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 1% strike will continue as long as this co- ercion continues. We have no other means of defense. Therefore we will undergo this added hardship, hoping you who believe in humanity will add your support and show your concern be- fore other lives are destroyed, The only thing these fascists will yield to is the will of the people. Do not let themmisuse the power you have vested in them, We are human, and no longer the society-made criminals, We’re a part and extension of the struggling. Humanity, and love for the people. We openly oppose the elements with- in society which produce the so-called criminal. We oppose the elements with-— in the prison which attempts to keep the prisoner a slave to his condition, Because of these things we are being persecuted, The officials here are opposed to what we are, so much so that their rational reasoning has been destroyed. The original objective of the investigation has now become ob- scured in their racist sickness. No longer do they seek the personrespon- sible for the officer’s death, It makes little or no difference that we know nothing about the officer’s death, They have decided to sacrifice some or all of us, The proposition is, ‘‘either lie and help them prosecute, or be pro- secuted’’, We are bribed with free- dom, and threatened with death or ex- tended stay in prison. We have chosen our human dignity. We will not be a part of murder or unjust prosecution, Possibly our dig- nity will cost some of us our lives. But without one the other is meaning- to jury trial established by Bloom less, For ten days we have been held incommunicado. No formal charges have been made because first they have to set the stage for conspiracy. If they are unable to use one of us against the other their conspiracy might fail; that is, they might not take us to court on trumped-up charges. But even if that be the case we will still be pro- secuted in the follow manner: We will be transferred to a maxi- mum security prison (San Quentin or” Folsom) probably to spend more time in the hole and once we are there we will always be the victims of s harassment, But the worst of all the evils is that when we appear before the parole board any consideration for pa- role will be judged on the bases of our being falsely accused of killing a prison guard, Our situation is des- perate. We ask the people for support in the following demands because if any are denied, 12 Black people will experience another atrocity at the hands of racism, 1) We want to be returned to the main line population from which we were taken with a court restriction to remain there...or be charged properly so that we may have everything out in the open. 2) We want any mention of the accu- sation removed from our record, We will also support the Chicanos hunger strike here in ‘‘O"’ wing, We will remain hungry. Liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness is what we desire, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE merous” contempts); UnitedStates but were part of a single course worded provisions dealing with di- , rect contempe of military tri- bunals, 10 U.S.C. * 848, 22 U.S.C, e . lf the unit of prosecution is not fixed as the entire trial, the maximum penalties established by those two provisions will be liy meaningless. See United v. Empsak, supra; State v, » King, 47 La. Ann. 701, 17 So. 288 (1895; Maxwell v. Rives, 11 Nev. 213, 221 (1876). __ (END OF FOOTNOTES) @) The Policy of Lenity. Even were the appropriate unit of pro- Section not: apparent on the face of * 401(1), this Court would none- theless be compelled to conclude that the appropriate unit for direct contempt is the entire course of trial conduct. When a penal statute ‘- allows of several possible inter- _ ‘Pretations, the federal courts tra- ditionally apply what is known as “the rule of lenity'’ and adopt the __ Jeast harsh construction, (66) This (pd is particularly applicable ~ in deciding whether a defendant “may be charged with and con- -victed of multiple violations of the "Same statute, (67) 6) See e.g., Heflin v. United States, supra, 358 U,S. at 419, “where the court held that a bank Obber could not be prosecuted for Os: on of stolen money as well as for theft itself, explaining: “Wye resolve an ambiguity (in uh statutes) in favor of lenity when _ required to determine the intent 0 eemerene in punishing multiple pects of the same criminal : * See also Prince vy. United s, 352 U.S, 322 (1957). Gore v. United States, 357 386, 391 (1968). In Ladner, she Supreme Court held BOBBY’S APPEAL continued from last page tat the court will not interpret a federal criminal statute so as to increase the penalty that it places on any individdal when such an interpretation can be based on no more than a guess as to what Con- gress intended,"’ 358 U.S, at 179, In United States vy. Universal C.1,T, Credit Corp., supra, 344 U.S, at 222, the Court held that an em- ployer who pays less than the min- imum wage is guilty of but a single crime although he may underpay many employees, explaining ‘"(Wyhen choice has to be made between two readings of what con- duct Congress has made a crime, it is appropriate, before we choose the harsher alternative, torequire that Congress have spoken in lang - uage that is clear and definite." See also Bell v. United States, supra, For applications of similar State policies of lenity to contempt cases, see People exrel. Amarante v. McDonnell, 100 N,Y,S, 2d 463, 467 (1950); Maxwell v. Rives, su- pra, 11 Ney, ar 221, (END OF FOOTNOTES) This policy of lenity is best effectuated under * 401 (1) by treat- ing several contemptuous incidents during one trial as a single con- tempt, since this interpretation of * 401(1) materially increases the likelihood that contemnors will re- ceive the protection of a jury trial, by preventing trial courts from splitting lengthy jail terms into a number of short consecutive sent- ences, The policy thus preserved is particularly appropriate here because 4 right of constitutional proportion is involved, (€) Incongruous Applications. If the course of trial] conduct is not accepted as the unit of prosecu- tion, incongruous results are bound to occur in the application of di- rect contempt statutes. The right is to be afforded in the more serious cases of contempt. But if the unit of prosecution {s not the whole trial, an excended course of contempt may not be subject to a jury trial requirement, while a single outburst, less disruptive in its total effect, may require such a jury tial, The opposite sort of incongruity ts possible with regard to sentencing. The more legally distinct crimes cornmitted, the greater the total sentence a trial court is likely to impose in a * 401(1) case Yates v, United States, supra, Yet the fact thar the contemptuous conduct oc- curred in a single outburst is not a guarantee that it was less dis- ruptive than a number of incidents spread throughout the course of a lengthy trial. (0) Previous Practice, While the courts have not heretofore expli- citly considered what the appro- priate unit of persecution is under * 401(1), the interpretation of that provision advanced by appellant is supported by the general prac- tice of the federal courts in deal- ing with contempts. Multiple inci- dents of contempt at a single trial have generally been treated as but a single crime, (88) In the few cases where the conduct has been divided into counts, this has been done to facilitate appellate review and the penalties imposed were usually concurrent. (89) Moreover, in applying the rule that a single contempt cannot be penalized by both fine and imprisonment (90) the federal courts appear to have assumed that a single trial cangive rise to but one direct contempt, (91) Both federal and state courts have consistently held that multi- ple refusals tc answer questions at a trial or before a grand jury constitute but a single offense. (92) (88) See, ¢.g., In re Osborne, 344 F.2d 611 (Sth Cir. 1965) (‘nu- v. Schiffer, 351 F.2d 91 (6th Cir. 1965) (seventeen contemptuous acts); Tauber v. Gordon, 350 F.2d 843 Gd Cir, 1965) (continuous con- temptuous comments}; Shibley v. United States, 236 F.2d 238 (9th Cir. 1956) (‘many"’ contemptuous acts); Offurt v. United States, 145 F. Supp. 111 (D. D.C, 1956) (44 contemptuous incidents), 9) See, supra p. 59, n. 64. A number of decisions applying sim- ilar state conternpt statutes have stressed that only one trial was involved in holding that a series of contemptuous acts constituted but one contempt. See e.g., State v. Grey, 225 La, 38, 72 So. 2d 3, 6, (1954); ‘Gautreaux: y, Gau- treaux, 220 La, 564, 57 So. 2d 188, 191, (1952). (90) Carter v. United States, 135 F.2d 858 Gth Cir. 1943), (91) See, e.g., In re Osborne, su- pra (fine and jail term improper although the defendant was guilty of three types of contempt in- volving at least 10 incidents); Shoemaker v, K. Mart, 2% F, Supp. 260 (E.D. Tenn, 1968) (only jail or fine will be proper in forthcoming contempt hearing, although court order that witness not discuss case with plaintiff may have been violated several times), See also International Bro, of Teamsters, etc. v, United States, 275 F.2d 610 (4th Cir. 1960); McNeill v. United States, 236 F.2d 149 (ise Cir. 1956), (92) Yates v, United Stats, supra; United States vy. Empsak, supra; United States v. Abe, 95 F. Supp. 991 (D, Hawall 1950); People ex rel, Amarante v, McDonnell, 100 N,Y.S.2d 463 (. Cr. Kings Cry. 1950); Maxwell y. Rives, supra, (END OF FOOTNOTES) Fixing the entire course of trial conduct ag the unit of prosecu- tfon is particularly appropriate in this case, The sixteen alleged con- tempts were not related incidents, of conduct that arose over asingle issue—the continuing dispute be- tween appellant and the court re- garding appellant’s right either to represent himself or to be repre- sented by attorney Garry. Half of the sixteen Incidents were concen- trated in a four day period from” October 27 until October 30, 1968, (93) and another three occurred on a single day, (94) Four of the incidents arose when appellant asked to be allowed to cross-exam- ine a witness, (95) and four others arose when appellant sought to argue motions on his own behalf. (%) (93) Incidents § through 15. (94) Incidents 5, 6 and 7. (9) Incidents 10, 12, 15, 16. (96) Incidents 1, 2,5, 13, Theclose interconnection between the al- legedly contemptuous incidents in this case is typical of direct con- tempt cases, See, e.g., Yates v. United States, supra; Wood v. Georgia, 370 U.S. 375 (1%2); United States v. Sacher, supra; Gautreaux vy. Gautreaux, supra; State v. Mouser, 208 La, 1093, 24 So.2d 151 (1945), Where mul- uple violations of a single statute typically or necessarily involve a single motive or impulse, the Su- preme Court has consistently favored treating those violations as constituting a single continuing crime, Blockburger yv. United States, supra, 284 U.S, at 302, In United States vy. Universal C.1T, Credit Corp., the court held that several violations of the minimum wage law constituted but a single crime where they resulted from a single manggement policy deci- sion, Supra, 344°U,S. at 244, And in United States vy. Midstate Horti- cultural Company, Inc,, the court held that interstate tr ation of goods at an Illegally | was only one crime, elthough it continued on next page —_ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 20 TO ALL PROGRESSIVE ARTIST WHO ARE STRUGGLING AGAINST THE RACIST U.S. GOVERNMENT ...WORLD ENEMY NUMBER ONE TO MY COMRADES , THE PROGRES- SIVE ARTISTS IN RACIST AMERICA, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO ARE FIGHT_ ING IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST POLITICAL DOMINATION, ECONO- MIC EXPLOITATION AND SOCIAL DE- HUMANIZATION AT THE HANDS OF THE FASCIST U.S. GOVERNMENT The Black Panther Party calls upon you to unite with the revolutionary for- ces of the world so that the final blow can be struck in the heart of the fas- cist U.S. Government. The time has come when all artists must take a stand against the reac- tionary forces in racist America or bite the dust, along with all other reac- tionarvies. Therefore, the Black Panther Party says, ‘‘a thing is only good when it brings real benefit to the people’’. The real benefit at this time would be for all progressive artists to take up their paints, and brushes in one hand and their gun in the other, attacking the foul depraved U.S. Government, The American people and the strug- gling people of the world will be vic- torious! The fascist U.S. Government will surely bite the dust! This being our major theme we won’l leave any stones unturned. This theme should surely inspire you, the progressive continued from last page BOBBY’S APPEAL involved a series of ucts over artists of racist America, to project in your art the essence of the people's struggle, which is uncompromising. For example, our pictures must show fascist judges, lawyers, generals, pig policemen, firemen, senators, con- gressmen, governors, presidents, etc. being punished for their criminal act against the American people and the struggling people of the world. Their bridges, buildings, electric plants, pipe- lines, all of the fascist American em- pire must be blown up in our pictures, Our art must show the youth who will make the revolution, the mothers who have suffered so much in raising their family. We must condemn the genocidal war that the fascist U.S. Government is carrying on in Asia, and praise the NLF of Vietnam, the revolutionaries of South America and Africa. We must surely expose how the Yan- kees ave exploiting the peoples land in Africa, Asia and South America, we must praise our revolutionary com- vades here in America, those who stand in the vanguard, the Black Panther Party, the Weathermen, and all the political prisoners of war across the country. The progressive Black artist, in ra- cist America, must expose the traitors in the colony, dope dealers, bootlicking Black politicians, thieving business- men, all the corrupt elements of the Black community, as well as project means for dealing with these elements. On the other hand, we should give strength and guidance in our art to the many Black people who are the vic- tims of thievery and lies, The progressive White artist in the oppressor country should inflame the progressive elements in the White com- munity to taking the lives ofthe corrupt government officials, As well as pro- jecting a means to an end for the re- lease of political prisoners of war, So comrades, these were just a few suggestions I project to you. lam more than confident that you progressive artist will be able to come up. with a means to the end of exploita- tion and the racist practice of the fascist U.S. Government, There can only be true love of hu- manity when class distinctions have been done away with, all over the world. IN PREPARATION FOR A Classes have split society into many antagonistic groupings, therefore, there will be love of humanity when class distinctions have been done away with, but not until then, We cannot love the fascist U.S. Government that is based on social evils, our aim is to destroy social evils, To me this is prac- tical thinking, but some of our artists still don’t understand this. If their thinking doesn’t change, they are sure- ly to bite the dust, along with all other reactionaries. Remember our major theme--the American people and the struggling people of the world will be victorious! The fascist U.S. Gov- ernment will surely bite the dust! INSTRUCTIONS: This is the first part of a continuous yevolutionary art class. 1) All art work should be no larger thar. 20 inches in size. 2) Use any media (ink, chalk, paints) you please as long as it is black and white. 3) All art work should project social realism (i.e. human figures) instead of the pig cartoon image. 4) ‘The first part of the class starts September 1, 1970 and ends October 15, 1970, 5) All art work will be criticised or praised, which ever it deserves--all such criticism or praises will be for- warded back to the artist, The praised work we will keep, the criticized work we will send back to you for correc- tion, 6) The best art work will be accumu- lated for a people’s revolutionary art book (Titled: The American people and the struggling people of the world will be victorious! The fascist U.S. Gov- ernment will surely bite the dust). Plus many of the art works will be reproduced in poster form--under the revolutionary people’s banner, the New Worle Liberation front, 7) Please send return address along with the art work plus postage. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS Emory Douglas Minister of Culture BLACK PANTHER PARTY REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION an extended period of time and the crossing of several state lines, be- cause the crime was ‘'set on foot by a single impulse and operared by an unintermittent force."’ Su- pra, 306 U.S. at 166, See also Justice White dissenting in Tous- sie vy. United States, 25 L, Ed. 2d 156, 166 (1970). (END OF FOOTNOTES) Should this Court conclude that the appropriate unit of prosecu- tion under * 40)(1) is the entire course offrrial conduct, this would not impair the power of 4 trial ecurt to cite a party or spectator for criminal contempt without waiting for the end of the tria}, Nor would it necessarily mean that a coatemnor could not be adjudged and punished in separate contempt proceedings for con- temptucus conduct during the course of a trial, since such an adjudication and sentence might be held to break up the continuing offense into two or more distinct crimes, (97) (97) Compare, ¢.g., Bullock v. United States, 265 F.2d 683 (Oth Cir. 1959); Tobin v. Plelet, 186 F.2d 886 (7th Cir, 1951) (END OF FOOTNOTE) continued from pagee 15, Drugs Submited by the Agenda Com- inittes Informatio; centers set up for revolutionary constitutional con- vention SET UP BY: Sally & Richard Garvel - 777 Hunrington Ave, Bostoa, Mass, (437-5956 CENTERS: Mass, Boston - Cambridge Museum School Artists Collective Panther Defense STORRS SDS Old Mole Free Press Ecology Action Ecology Food Store Nortieastern University Juche - Northeastern and Juche and two Collectives are mobile Centers NCCE SPRINGFIELD Collective NORTHAMPTON Collective CONNECTICUT New Haven Liberation School Four Mobile Collectives NCCF BRIDGEPORT Collective NCCF VERMONT Surlington Fram Collective Newspaper RHODE ISLAND Néwrort Potemkin Book Store & Collective New Hampshire OM Mole Phoenix = Bontoa Northeastern News Free Vermott - Vermont PUTNEY Peoples Collective and NEW HAMPSHIRE University of NEWS MEDIA DOING ARTICLES: <9 a4 by the mass media, Black to the product present the facts, oppressor, but ALL POWER We found we as citizens of this country were being kept duped by the govern- ment and kept misinformed The Black Panther Party Black Community News reliable | Service was created present factual, information to the people, The Black Panther Party Community News Service is the alternative ‘government ap- proved’ stories presented in the mass media and the of an effort to stories as dictated by the as seen from the other end ofagun, TO THE PEOPLE! SEIZE THE TIME! Huey would say, “a newspaper is the voice of 4 party, the voice of the Panther must be heard throughout the land.” to pet July formation B,P,P, 3 MONTHS, (13 ISSUES) ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUFS) not (please print) NAME ___ ADDRESS 19%7--Minister of Defense, Huey P, Chairman, Bobby Seale (left), reading an early edition of B.P.P. Newspaper at the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- Enter my subscription for (check box): 6 MONTHS; (26 ISSUES)... . Newton (right) and = STATE/ZIP # _ PLEASE MAIL CHECK MONEY ORDER TO; MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, * Box 2967. Custom Mouse, San Francisco, CA 94126 ____. COUNTRY ___ Mr, McDougall aoe Commissioner ~ * Correctional Department State of Connecticut Dear Mr. McDougall: This letter is to formally notify you of the atrocious sub- ‘human conditions which exist in the Bridgeport Correctional Center. As you and I both know, there have been many pre- vious complaints about these con- ditions, whether they were formal or informal, many of which came from the inmates themselves. If the inmates have not formally or directly notified you, I am sure you can understand why since | this would mean that they would . be labeled as a troublemaker in the institution and wouldbe dealr with accordingly. i has been brought to my attention and the attention of the people in general that the following conditions ex- : 1) The unsentenced inmates pre- ‘sently are not allowed to eat in the dining hall, These inmates ; Teceive the food in their cells. ‘The plates are stacked up on top of each other with the bottom of the plates on top of the food. _ When the food does arrive, ir ds usually cold, insufficient, and CONCERNING THE SUB-HUMAN CONDITIONS OF BRIDGEPORT CORRECTIONAL CENTER hard to digest. The serving of the food in the cells has caused the presence and breeding of rats, mice, flies, waterbugs, and roaches of enormous size, 2) The cells themselves are “filthy and there is no ventilation. The linen fs dirty and not changed very regularly, 3) The unsentenced inmates do not receive any recreation. The television is cut off from 5 o'clock to 7:30 so that inmates cannot watch the news, 4) Only the immediate family of inmates are allowed visitation rights. Many of the inmates have no relatives locally but do have close friends who might be able to help them in their subsequent cases. These people are not allowed to see the prisoners. Prisoners are locked up in max- imum security for not shaving although officials have never stated that there was a regulation against the wearing of beards or mus- taches, 5) Perhaps the most fascist and repressive tactic used in the Bridgeport Correctional Center is the convening of Kangeroo Courts which are conducted under the jurisprudence of his honorable George H. Conway, Warden, (1 did not realize that George Con- “When the peaceful means of politics are ex- hausted and the people do not get what they want politics are continued. way was also a judge.) Top guards, usually sargents, act as jurors. ‘The Kangeroo Court {fs usually convened when officials feel that it {1s necessary to discipline an inmate for some violation of rules. The jurors also execute the punishment which is usually a sadistic beating or Placement in the hole and other undue harassment, Further | wish to bring to your attention that many of these unsentenced inmates have been in jail now for long periods of time; this is not detracted from a sentence that they may receive when they finally come to trial, I find this, as you should find it, contrary to the {innocent until proven guilty theme thar our judicial system so proudly espouses, Now, Mr. McDougall, since you have been FORMALLY made aware of these intolerable conditions, What Do You Plan To Do About Them? We are asking that an immediate in- vestigation of these conditions be started and that private citizens such as myself also take part in this Investigation, Lawrence Townsend cc; George H, Conway Gov. George Usually it ends up in a physical conflict which is called war which is also political? THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 21 RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1048 PERALTA STREET OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this Party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE mem- bers, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, iccluding all captains subordinate to elther national, state, nad local leader- ship of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules, Length of suspension or other disciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national, state or state area, and local commitrees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED, Every member of the Party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily, Each member must report any violation of these rules to their Jeadership or they are counter- revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1, No Party member can have narcotics or weed tn his pos- session while doling Party work. 2. Any Party member found shooting narcotics will be ex- pelled from this Party, 3. No Party member can be DRUNK while doing daily Party work, 4. No Party member will violare rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE, 5. No Party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE & weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone, 6. No Party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY, 7. No Party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed, 8. No Party member w!!! commit any crime against other Party members or Slack people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread, 9, When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. 10, The Ten Point Platform and Program of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member, 11, Party Communications must be National and Local. 12, The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13. All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance, 14, Each person will submit a report of daily work. 15, Each Sub-Section Leader, Section Leader, Lieutenant, and Cuptain must submit Daily reports of work. 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly, 17, All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all Chapters and Branches. 18, Political Education Classes are mandatory for general membership, 19, Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, etc. 20, COMMUNICATIONS--all Chapters must submit reports in writing to the National Headquarters, 21. All Branches must implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres, 22. All Chapters, Branches, and components of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must submit a monthly Financial Report to the Ministry of Finance, and also the Central Committee. 23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no Jess than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing politica) situation, 24. No Chapter or Branch shall accept grants, poverty funds, money or any other aid from any government agency without contacting the National Headquarters, 25. All Chapters must adhere to the policy afd the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the BLACK. PANTHER PARTY, 26, All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their respective Chapters, weekly eX a -_ —_ MIS- INFORMATION A REALITY IN NEW HAVEN For as long as we Black people have been forced to live inthis ra- cist nation, we have been the vic- tims of a well planned program of mass misinformation, This misin- formation has been one of the very causes of the great division that has existed among our people Since we were first forced into slavery. This division hes never helped Black people. It has only helped those people who benefit from our subhuman existance In this country. In order to reach as many people as possible and to Saturate our Black peoplethe pigs who control our destiny finditnec- essary to use methods that will spread lies, falsehoods, and de- ceit, The most available methods are T.V., radio and newspapers, All of the means of communica- tion now are held in the hands of the enemy. Even when we look at most so called Black or ne- gro newspapers and so called Black radio stations, we find they are guilty also of spreading the same brand of mistaformation. This is precisely because even - these so called Blacks are con- trolled by the most oppressive dictators the world will ever see Nixon and his mouth piece, Agnew. In thelr ever increasing at- tempts to destroy the Black Pan- ther Party, these fascist dictators with their faithful lapdog J. Edgar Hog use the tactic of misinforming Black people so skillfully that one must ask the question, ‘Did they invent misinformation?"’ At this time, in New Haven, Connecticut, the dictators of the world dafly push one sided stor- fes in front of the masses of Black people with the vain hope of once again misinforming and di- viding Black people. This divi- sion they hope will drive Black people away from the one party that has won the trust and faith of the people. In New Haven the pigs push dal- ly in their unconstitutiona) ar- tempts to railroad Lonnie McLu- cas. Lonnie is one of the 9 Pan- thers being illegally held in New Haven in connection with the ab- Surd charge of murder of ano- ther Panther. The Chairman of the Black Panther Party is also illegally held in connection with this case, The pigs have started Lonnie’s trial first and separate- ly in hope of a fast conviction. This would set the stage for the fast railroading of our Chairman Bobby Seale. Pigs of the world know Bobby Seale stands in de- fense of all oppressed people. For this very reason, they feel he must be destroyed, They also rea- lize that Black people at all eco- nomic levels will not tolerate the murder of Bobby Seale and be- cause of this fact all levels of Black people are united behind Chairman Bobby. Unity at lastfor Black people, This type of unity the dictators cannot tolerate, The dictators fee] that a wedge mustbe driven between the people and Bobby Seale between the people and the Panthers, It is at this point that mass misinformation plays a key role, It is skillful- ly concealed as the truth and THE BLACK, PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 22 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, 4 P.M. REGISTRATION FORM FOR REPRESENTATIVES or INDIVIDUALS FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S PLENARY SESSION Temple University Gymnasium Broad & Montgomery Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 5-7, 1970 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTIFIED OF CHANGE CHECK-IN CENTER IS, CHURCH OF THE ADVOCATE, 19TH, & DIAMOND ST. CHECK-IN TIME STARTS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th AT 12 NOON THRU PLENARY SESSION STARTS SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5th AT 7 P.M. WE SUGGEST TO ALL PEOPLE, REPRESENTATIVES AND PARTIES OF ORGANIZATIONS TO ARRIVE EARLY AS POSSIBLE STARTING FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th,12NOON SO THAT EVERYONE CAN BE PROPERLY ASSISTED IN GETTING HOUSING AND OTHER NECESSARY INFORMATION THAT MANY THOUSANDS WILL NEED TO KNOW FOR THE DURATION OF THE PLENARY SESSION Cut along this line and Mail this section of the Registration Please check all appropriate squares I AM COMING TO THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S PLENARY SESSION. [CJ I WILL NOT NEED HOUSING ARRANGEMENTS. Oo I WILL NEED HOUSING ARRANGEMENTS. I WILL NOT NEED TRANSPORTATION. I WILL NEED TRANSPORTATION. OTHER MEMBERS OF MY ORGANIZATION WILL ALSO ATTEND, HOW MANY? I WOULD LIKE TO ESTABLISH A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION INFORMATION CENTER IN MY AREA. (IF THIS IS FOR AN ORGANIZATION, PLEASE SEND NAME, ADDRESS AND OTHER PERTINENT PARTICULARS) PLEASE SEND REGISTRATION BLANKS, INFORMATION ETC. SO THAT I MAY AID THE PLENARY SESSION BY DUPLICATING AND DISTRIBUTING MATERIALS, LEAFLETS, POSTERS, BUMPER STICKERS,ETC. I WILL ENCLOSE $ TO HELP WITH THE COST OF THE PLENARY SESSION. NAME... scccecccccccessecssess STREET ADDRESS.....+--+++++ CITY. 000000 STATE. cccccccscccccesllbecesceces HOME PHONE..............-ORGANIZATION..........NON-ORGANIZATION......0005 PHONE (FOR ORG.)......22-2e+ee0> sisipioiseisie CITY.....+- STATE......- THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IS PROJECTED TO November 4,1970, ELECTION DAY. LOCATION and PLANS WILL BE DEVELOPED at the PLENARY SESSION MAIL THIS REG. FORM TO: BLACK PANTHER PARTY National Headquarters Ministry of Information 1048 Peralta St. W. Oakland, California (415) 465-5047-48-49 passed on to the people. The pigs have gone to the ex- treme in the case of the New Ha- ven Panthers. We must not for- get that in New York, Panthers await the verdict of a surely ra- cist court. In Baltimore 18 Pan- thers, ex-Panthers, friends and sympathizers must shortly come to trial. Alsoin Baltimore 3 more Panther Including Jolin Clark, area Defense Captain await ver- dicts as a result of gun charges that stem from seriously exer- ing the so called guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. Because of this the pigs must go to the extreme to convince the people they are justified in pro- secuting Panthers. Connecticut plays as the key to all Panther trials on the East coast as well as the entire coun- try. I the pigs aresuccessful tn thelr attempts to legally lynch the Wash., 2327 18th Street, N W Washington, D.C, 20009 (202) 265-4418-19 Connecticut Panthers it is a cer- tainty that other Panthers will be . legally lynched. Connecticut 1s the first room ina raicst tenament which has beenpreplannedto house pig hearted cold blooded fascism, stands as a contradiction to miaz.'s basic drive to be free, Misinfor- mation stands as a contradiction opposed to man’s ability to seek the truth, These two contredic- tions are necessary ingredients in the conspiracy of Babylon's ru- lers to enslave and rape the world, These two contradictions can only be solved through armed revolutionary struggle. kt ts armed resistance that will bring an end ro the dictatorship of the pigs, It is armed resistance that will establish and secure the dic- tatorship of the people. In an all out effort to destroy the Conn- ecticut Panthers, the New York Panthers and the Baltimore Pan- D.C., Ministry of Infor, East Coast, Ministry of Infor. 1370 Boston Road Bronx, N.Y 11212 (212) 328-9911-9009 Chicage Ministry ef Infermation 2350 W. Madison Chicage, Ill. (312)243-8276 thers, they have created a situ- ation that has offended the con- scious mind of every freedom loving person In the world, The dictators have set concealed as well as blatant examples that Hitler would smile approvingly . on. Those who appreciate freedom and its values can never be sa- tisfied living the life of citizen slaves. This is a universal law of oppressed people, The dicta- tors, the courts continue lying and misinforming the masses of Black people. In order to constantly keep Black people in 4 position of subhuman slavery, the sadistic madness of this racist nation malstain tight control over any and all information that we as citizen slaves are allowed to come into contact with, Eldridge Clea- ver Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party has pre- viously stated the information is - the raw material for new ideas. If ideas can be controlled the minds, and actions of oppressed people can be coatrolled, . The truth is the light in this dark bour of our enslavement Black people demand the light to see by, By standing together de- manding the truth nothing but the truth, Block colonies are re- sisting the attempts to misinform therm, We ask the people to check out and analyze this gross mis- information that the court is push- ing, And while this is belng done remember where this Information is coming from. k 4s information of the pigs by/ the pig and. for ” the pig. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Baltimore Chapter / Coates . THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1970 PAGE 23 “ Where is Freedom when a peoples right to ‘‘Freedom of Speech”’ is denied to the point of murder? When attempts at ‘‘Freedom of the Press’’ brings bombings and lynchings? Where is Freedom when the right to ‘‘peacefully assemble’”’ brings on massacres? Where is our right to ‘‘keep and bear arms’’ when Black People are attacked by the Racist Gestapo of America? Where is “‘religious freedom’’ when places of worship become the scene of shoot-ins and bomb-ins? Where is the right to vote ‘‘regardless of race or color’’ when murder takes place at the voting polls? Are we free when we are not even secure from being savagely murdered in our sleep by police- men who stand blatantly before the world but yet go unpunished? Is that ‘‘,,.equal protection of the laws’’? The empty promise of the Constitution to ‘‘establish Justice’’ lies exposed to the world by the reality of Black Peoples’ existence, For 400 years now, Black People have suffered an unbroken chain of abuse at the hands of White America, For 400 years we have been treated as America’s foot-stool, This fact is so clear that it requires no argumentation, REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S ONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PLENARY SESSION TEMPLE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM SEPTEMBER 9—/ PHILADELPHIA,P.A. DON'T NEED | 7 ij i 7 = = - —~ = 7 oa o “ o nw a o x= 7 — = ——j ~< = — pa ~<! o ce aa bade r JLe 7 MY ul wt D