CACC NEWSLETTER

The Black Panthers are truly victims of their false doctrines and of such white advisers as attorney William Kunstler. It appears that the Black Panthers have heeded the advice that he gave during his speech at the Conference for the United Front Against Fascism on Saturday, July 19, 1969. During this speech he told them they had a political right to shoot white policemen who entered the territory of the ghettos since these policemen were armed foreign invaders. Since he made that speech, there have been numerous cases of Black Panthers shooting at policemen when they were called to duty in the ghetto. This has resulted in the death of a number of policemen and Black Panthers.

The doctrines of the Black Panthers are expressed by Eldridge Cleaver, their Minister of Information. He delivered a speech to the International Conference on Tasks of Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight Against U.S. Imperialist Aggression on September 22, 1969, in North Korea. His full speech was published in the Black Panther of October 25, 1969. Here are extracts from that speech:

“To the International Conference on Tasks of Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight Against U.S. Imperialist Aggression.

“In our era of class war and revolution against capitalism, racism, imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism, we are able to zero in on the very geographical location of the hiding places of the enemy. Standing dead-center on the bulls eye, we find the United States of America—U.S. Fascism and imperialism—to be the No. 1 enemy of all humanity, the arsenal and banker of exploitation and oppression, and chief purveyor of death and destruction all over the planet earth.

“The United States of America is not a democratic country. It is a cruel fascist country. It is a democracy for the bloodsucking capitalist vultures and the bloodletting warmongers who control the U.S. government and benefit from its barbaric policies. It is a prison for everyone else and president Nixon is nothing but the Warden of the prison. Indeed, U.S. imperialism seeks to turn the entire world into a huge prison under its bloody thumb and under the boots of its troops and puppets.

“The American flag and the American Eagle are the true symbols of fascism, and they should elicit from the people the same outraged repugnance elicited by the swastika of nazi Germany and the flag of the rising sun of the Japanese imperialists.

“The truth is that there is a sound revolutionary movement inside the United States that has already tasted the blood of the hated class enemy and is delivering deathblows to its system and is locked irretrievably in a battle to the death against the U.S. fascist imperialist regime.

“The revolutionary forces inside the United States must be supported by the revolutionary peoples of the whole world, because whereas the peoples outside of the United States will slice off the tentacles of the hideous octopus of U.S. oppression, the revolutionaries inside the United States will cut its wicked heart and given the decisive death blow to U.S. fascism and imperialism.

“We fully agree with the theme of this conference, that the task before us is the total annihilation of imperialism, particularly U.S. imperialism, because for us this will mean the victory of socialism and the end to the fascist state under which we not suffer.

“It is time for the revolution to explode inside the imperialist nations themselves.

“The U.S. imperialist aggressors must cease their role of merchants of death and destruction who are guilty of financing and arming and protecting the arrogant, nazi-like, Zionist landgrabbers who have usurped and plundered the Fatherland of the Palestinian people.

“The so-called President of the United States, Richard PIG Nixon, is the spokesman and frontman for U.S. fascism and the archenemy of oppressed black people, poor white people, Mexican-American people, Indians, Puerto Ricans, and Eskimos inside the United States. We want the people around the world to throw rocks, and bottles, and spit, and hand-grenades, and bullets, and bombs, and curses at Nixon if he dares to visit their country.

“Let us lift up our pens, our voices, and our guns, with all our revolutionary fervor to defeat the freaks of mankind who hatch such dismal schemes and strive diligently to put an end, once and forever, to the monster of U.S. imperialism.

“We need articles, essays, poem, and books that will make men pick up guns and enter onto the field of battle against the enemy; we need words that will make the soldiers, sailors, marines and special forces of the U.S. imperialists turn their guns against their commanding officers. . . We need words that will return the U.S. troops to the United States with their guns still in hand, there to put before firing squads President Nixon, ex-President Johnson, all the generals of the U.S. Armed Forces, all warmongers and exploiters.

“We need articles by journalists that will inflame the masses, that will spur on the revolutionary temptation to kidnap American ambassadors, hijack American airplanes, blow up American pipelines and buildings, and to shoot anyone who uses guns or weapons or causes others, directly or indirectly to use guns and other weapons in the blood-stained service of imperialism against the people.”

The police merits all our understanding and support. Try to imagine facing the task of arresting a group of fanatics who believe this philosophy and who are heavily armed and located in a fortified building.

They call themselves “The Conspiracy.” This choice of name is an application of the theory that attack is the best form of defense. Originally the group consisted of 8 radicals, but this number has now been reduced to 7 since the chairman of the Black Panthers, Bobby Seale, has been separated from the group and is in jail for contempt of court.

They are charged with conspiracy to promote violence during the demonstrations that accompanied the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The trial is taking place before Judge Hoffman in the Federal Building in Chicago. The defendants are trying to transform it into “Trial by Television.” This strategy is outlines by one of the defendants, Tom Hayden, in an article in the Guardian, November 29, 1969.

In this “trial by television” the roles of the prosecution and defense are reversed. The defendants become the accusers while the judge, prosecuting attorneys, and prosecution witnesses are subject to daily accusations.

The defendants are experts at exploiting the news media. They understand well what those directing the media consider news. They know that actions and statements that are sensational, bizarre, and evil are considered newsworthy. Their conduct in the courtroom is designed to produce such newsworthy events. They use every stratagem to reduce the proceedings to a farce.

As might be expected, the news media are cooperating wholeheartedly and the Federal Government is also giving its help. The trial is taking place in the Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois. A special room in this building is set aside for the news media. Representatives of the television and radio networks, the wire services, and local newspapers are in regular attendance. On most days as soon as the trial recesses, some of the defendants and their attorneys adjourn to this room for a national news conference. They use the facilities provided by the news media to attack the procedures of the court and to appeal to the people.

On November the 12^th and 13^th, I attended these news conferences in Chicago. Abby Hoffman was granted full use of the facilities to blackmail and threaten the Federal Government. He demanded a permit for their supporters to march to the Justice Department following the moratorium rally planned for Washington, D. C. on November 15. The interview went something like this:

Hoffman: If the Federal Government will not grant us a permit to march to the Justice Department, we will issue new orders to our members and instruct them to go there by all means necessary.

Interviewer: Does that mean wearing helmets and carrying nightsticks?

Hoffman: I would not rule that out.

Interviewer: Does that mean violence?

Hoffman: That is a possibility.

One defendant, Renie Davis, produced what he claimed was a statutory declaration in an effort to discredit one of the prosecution witnesses.

The wife of Jerry Rubin made a plaintive plea for his release from prison claiming he was being punished for a simple misunderstanding on his part.

The impact of such a one-sided presentation being given on a daily basis can well be imagined. The precise statement in which Tom Hayden outlines the plans, is as follows:

“Our defense is modeled more after that of Huey P. Newton and the Oakland 7. We are attempting to create a political trial, this time with wide international repercussions. In those earlier cases, the defendants utilized every legal procedure available to them while still basing their ultimate defense on the power of the people. This strategy means that speaking and writing, political education and demonstrations are primary considerations.

“The government is faced with further loss of its own authority whether it continues its persecution or sets The Conspiracy free. Reliance on the people does not neglect the jury but invites them to join the struggle by, in effect, committing civil disobedience against the judge’s instructions. Nor does the strategy ignore any niceties of the law but makes fine legal points as a basis for reversal if the government later decides to let the defendants go.

“The true story of Chicago never has been told. Conservatives reduced it to an outside agitator fantasy and liberals to a ‘police riot.’ Did the Democratic Party decide to prove that it was the ‘party of law and order?’ Did the FBI, the police and ultra-reactionary groups conspire to push the country rightward during the elections? Or was a ‘bi-partisan’ decision made that maintenance of the American empire now required a domestic police state?

“We hope to suggest that these are the hidden issues behind our persecution. We also will demonstrate that our life style and politics are incomprehensible—except as a threat—to those who are persecuting us, that the terms of the social conflict are irreconcilable. We are not a pressure group which went beyond the permissible limits of dissent in liberal society and we are not interested in having this trial redefine those limits. We came to Chicago as participants in the creation of a new society in the streets and parks, a society which continues its growth with its own natural laws, structures, language and symbols. We will argue that Chicago revealed the necessity for a new American revolution against the dinosaurs controlling an obsolete and unrepresentative system.

“The trial will be concluding during the end of the 1960s. From the government’s point of view, the trial is an attack on all the rising insurgencies of the pact decade. For most of us, the 1960s have come to represent a ‘fair trial’ for the American system. We wanted to believe in reform, in changing the government from within rather than in overthrowing it. The government’s response to our playing by the rules for 10 years is written in blood: Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, Nashoba County, Dallas, Watts, Newark, Detroit, Memphis, Berkeley, Chicago, Santo Domingo, Saigon, ‘Pinkville.’ Even while the blood was flowing, many of us clung to the idea that these were isolated tragedies.

“Over the last 10 years few white radicals (and not that many black revolutionaries) have spent long periods in jail and most of the whites are draft resisters who intentionally tested the law. Miraculously it seemed we were back out on the streets after each confrontation. How could America be a police state and also let us go free? In our confusion we entertained theories of a manipulative corporate liberalism which used free speech as a means to achieve stability. Looking back, it now seems the system could be flexible only when we were weak, when our numbers were fewer and our goals were to make marginal adjustments that might modernize the system. It is difficult to believe that only six years ago John F. Kennedy was urging us to forsake the streets for the courts as a better avenue to our goals.

“Today the courts are no longer cooptive and tantalizing but are more nearly the assembly points on the road to detention camps. The difference in the use of the courts by Kennedy and Nixon is not a difference in personality but a difference in the times.

“When their jury goes out so must ours. Knowing that ‘the decade of protest’ is over and our rulers have had their fail trial, can we do anything less than find the government guilty and sentence it to death and go on with the building of a society of our own?” Guardian, Nov. 29, 1969, p. 5.

This illustrates the problem about which Vice President Agnew spoke when he criticized the news media, particularly television. A handful of people can determine what millions of American citizens see and hear. No man’s judgment is any better than his information. Those who control the flow of information, control the judgments of the recipients. A presentation of selected facts accompanied by an omission of other relevant information will lead the logical and honest to false conclusions.

The communists are mining the Angela Davis lode for every last grain of ore. She is rushing from place to place addressing large crowds, frequently receiving a hero’s welcome. Above all, she is seeking to use the fact that she is a black to win the sympathy and support of black people and to transform support for her into support for communism.

The People’s World of Saturday, November 29, 1969, reports on the activities of Miss Davis as follows:

“Kendra Alexander, who has been handling press relations for the UCLA philosophy professor said, ‘The most impressive response has been from the black community.’

“The fight around Miss Davis’ case, ‘has done quite a bit to break down the anti-communism among many people,’ Mrs. Alexander said. ‘The so-called faceless “enemy” of communism has, for many people, been replaced by Angela Davis who talks about community problems.’

“Miss Davis’ appearance on Oct. 19 before Black Women United at the Immanuel Church immediately to the north of Watts, reflected the kind of grass roots support she has been getting among the black people.

“Later that evening she addressed a Black Students Union sponsored rally at Compton Junior College where 80% of the student body is black. She was given a standing ovation by the packed crowd in the auditorium.

“Berkeley, the scene of many militant student struggles, welcomed Miss Davis with a rally of more than 8,000 and the members of the BSU on that campus held a separate session with her.

“On Nov. 3, Miss Davis joined with speakers from the Black Panther Party in a protest rally against the inhuman treatment given Bobby Seale in Chicago.

“A special meeting by Miss Davis with black and Chicago students at the University of California at Santa Barbara on Nov. 4 was preceded by a large rally of about 3,000 there.

“And on Nov. 9 more than 1,500 persons attended the Daily World dinner meeting where black actor and activist Ossie Davis shared the platform with Miss Davis.” Page 10

The communists are aware that there is a possibility that the lode may be exhausted. The regents have not given up their fight to have the right of the people to decide on the standards for those who teach their children sustained in a higher court. The present status of the legal fight is reported by the People’s World:

“Another piece of the Regents’ ammunition was used when the State Court of Appeals agreed to hear the Regent’ argument as to whether the ruling of Judge Jerry Pacht barring a transfer of the case from Los Angeles to Alameda county, home of the Regents, was legally proper.

“Presiding Judge John J. Ford of Division Three of the state Court of Appeals gave the Superior Court one of two options in his ruling, either to grant the Regents request for a transference of the case to Alameda county or to show cause at a Dec. 12 hearing why the Court of Appeals should not order the change of venue.” Page 10.

The newspaper, The Evanston Review, of December 4, 1969, reported my request for the use of the facilities of the Methodist Churches of Evanston and Garrett Theological Seminary to conduct an antisubversive seminar as follows:

“Anti-Communism Crusade Requests Use of Local Churches for Seminar

“The president of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade recently sent letters to the presidents of the Evanston United Methodist Parish and Garrett Theological Seminary asking if his group could use their facilities for an Anti-Subversive Seminar.

“Fred Schwarz, president of the crusade, stated in his organization’s November newsletter that his request will test the intellectual honesty of the seminary and the parish. He said their response will show whether their reasons for housing members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) two months ago were honest and sincere or merely attempts to rationalize encouragement of criminal activity.

“The Rev. Charles Peterson, parish president, said he is considering Mr. Schwarz’s request and will make a recommendation to the parish council.

“Garrett’s president, Dr. Orville H. McKay, has sent a letter to Mr. Schwarz asking what type of facilities he would need and how many people he thinks would attend the seminar. Dr. McKay is awaiting a reply before he makes a decision on the seminar.

“Mr. Schwarz’s letter to the Rev. Mr. Peterson and Dr. McKay said, in part, that even if Garrett and the parish do not agree with the crusade’s philosophy, they could act as a communication link between sectors of society which are alienated from each other.

“The letter said that by approving the request, Garrett and the churches would be ‘fulfilling your duty to bring to us some ministry marked by redemption and reconciliation.’

“The parish and the seminary had given similar reasons for opening their doors to members of the SDS.

“In the November newsletter, Mr. Schwarz, who is editor of the paper, gave a four-page description of the SDS incident including excerpts from an SDS paper and statements issued by Dr. McKay, the Methodist Parish, and the administrative board of the Chicago Temple First United Methodist Church.”

The following letter has been received from Edward P. Blair, Chairman of the Special Lectures Committee of Garrett Theological Seminary:

“Dear Dr. Schwarz,

“In response to your letters of November 11 and 24 to _President Orville H McKay, we may say that Dr. McKay forwarded both of your letters to the Garrett Special Lectures Committee (consisting of students and faculty members) for consideration and action. At our last meeting due attention was given to your request for use of Garrett facilities.

“It was the unanimous decision of the Committee, and subsequently of the faculty, to invite you and your associates to come to our campus. We would like to work out with you a seminar to be participated in by the whole Garrett community. A small number of off-campus visitors might be included as observers, but the number would have to be strictly limited by prior agreement between us.

“It is simply not possible, due to our limited facilities, to offer you a base for the kind of seminar with high school and college students you have suggested. Furthermore, it is the sincere desire of both students and faculty to experience the benefits of this seminar; hence, we wish it to be directed toward the Garrett community.

“The seminar could be held on any one Wednesday in May, from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. Our main chapel and several classrooms would be available for this purpose. We feel that in view if the size of our community (about 350 students and faculty) a leadership team of not more than six persons from your organization would be appropriate. We covet your personal presence as one of the team and wish to extend to you full opportunity to express your own particular concerns.

“Our policy, as stated some time ago by President McKay, is to help build bridges of dialogue that might lead to mutual reconciliation and redemption. We are particularly glad to note that this too is a concern of yours. Therefore, we wish to make the best of a day together.

“We strongly urge that the program be so structured that full opportunity for open exchange of ideas between our faculty and students and you and your associates, in line with traditional academic practice, will result.

“This might be done in several ways; such as, a panel or panels with you and your associates comprising half and Garrett students and faculty making half; and opportunities for small groups of Garrett faculty and students to meet with you in dialogue. Certainly a part of a program of this length should consist of a question and answer period on the floor of a general session. In such a setting, the chance for truth to emerge in the exchange of ideas is greatly heightened and such truth can be the bond of the reconciliation which we both so desperately seek.

“It is the desire of our committee, seeing that many of our students have never heard of you and that many more have only vague notions of your particular ideas within the general framework of the conservative wing of American thought, that you make contact with Mr. John Batsel, the Garrett librarian, and make arrangements considerably before your coming for your writings and those of your associates to be available to the student body and faculty.

“We hope you will give serious consideration to this invitation and that we may have the privilege of having you on our campus some Wednesday in May.

“Yours most sincerely,

Edward P. Blair, Chairman

Special Lectures Committee”

I will certainly accept the invitation to participate in a seminar directed to the students and faculty of Garrett Theological Seminary. Honesty, however, required that I point out that there is little similarity between the treatment given to us and that granted to the Weatherman SDS terrorists. Consequently the question of the sincerity of the justification of granting the use of facilities to a terrorist organization as a base for criminal acts is not answered by the present action.

I have written the following letter to Edward P. Blair:

“Dear Mr. Blair: I gladly accept your invitation to participate in a seminar with the whole Garrett Community on a selected Wednesday in May, 1970. I suggest that my associate, Rev. James Colbert, confers with Mr. John Batsel, the Garrett Librarian, to arrange the details of the program. Yours very sincerely, Fred Schwarz, President.”

Further information will be supplied as it is available. I would appreciate receiving the comments of those who are interested in this important issue.

The Orange County Antisubversive Seminar will be held in the Inn of Tomorrow from Friday, February the 20^th through Monday, February the 23^rd. The Inn of Tomorrow is adjacent to Disneyland. Many coming to the school may wish to stay an extra day or two to visit Disneyland.

Walter Knott and O.W. Richard are honorary co-chairmen of the seminar. A fine faculty includes Dr. Walter Judd; Dr. Joseph Dunner, Chairman of the Political Science Department of Yeshiva University; Dr. Charles Rice of Notre Dame Law School; Dr. John Drakeford of Southwest Baptist Seminary; Dr. J. D. Bales of Harding College; and Dr. Fred Schwarz.

Scholarships are available for students, teachers, and ministers. The scholarships will cover the cost of tuition, food and lodging. The value of a full scholarship is $60.

Support is needed. This can be provided by attendance, recruiting and sponsoring students, and financial donations.

A brochure providing full details will be supplied on request.

“On Veteran’s Day, I attended a gathering at the State House called by our Governor, the Honorable Deave C. Davis, to not only honor the veterans, but to show our support for our President. At the close of these ceremonies, on my way out of the State House, I was handed copies of your newsletter and your brochure “What is the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade?” by two young men. It was such a crush I was unable to speak to them, but I assume they were local high school students.

“I had never heard of the CACC, but having now read the material the boys gave me, I am very favorably impressed with your program.” Barre, Vermont.

“There is an SDS group at the Portsmouth High School, Portsmouth, New Hamshire. A few that are now in it were my former friends. SDS succeeded in capturing their minds. I have been showing them your publication and it seems to have a great effect on them. They now realize that what they have been led to believe is a bunch of lies. They are now helping me fight the others that may fall in the trap.

“I am a 16-year-old girl who unfortunately cannot help you financially, but spiritually I am on your side fighting with all my might.” South Berwick, Maine.

“I have been reading everything I can put my hands on regarding communism ever since I read your book, and I have been spending hours working and talking with a teenage boy who had no respect for his parents, his church, or his future and who had been taking dope, supporting anti-war protests, hating Negroes, etc. I gave him my copy of your book, copies of everything else I have read, and have continued my discussions with him. He is now studying on his own and passing on what he learns to his friends at school. He even has his teacher helping him. I thank God that I have been able to help even just this one boy, especially since he happens to be my baby brother.” Arcadia, California.

CACC NEWSLETTER

January 1, 1970

ARE THE BLACK PANTHERS BEING PERSECUTED? TRIAL BY TELEVISION THE COMMUNIST USE OF ANGELA DAVIS PROJECTED PROGRAM AT GARRETT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ORANGE COUNTY ANTISUBVERSIVE SEMINAR GOOD EXAMPLE DEPARTMENT	ARE THE BLACK PANTHERS BEING PERSECUTED? Gun battles between the Black Panthers and the police are not almost commonplace. Most of the known leader of the Black Panthers are in prison or in exile. Their chairman, Bobby Seale, received national publicity and considerable public sympathy when he was chained and gagged in the courtroom presided over by Judge Hoffman in Chicago. They are reported to torture and kill defectors from their own ranks and to terrorize the black community. The Black Panthers are claiming that they are the victims of a conspiracy to destroy them. This claim has the support of the radical press and community throughout the country. These united in proclaiming that the Panthers are the vanguard of the revolution and that they are black patriots, not criminals. Those in jail are called political prisoners, and police frameup is charged.
The Black Panthers are truly victims of their false doctrines and of such white advisers as attorney William Kunstler. It appears that the Black Panthers have heeded the advice that he gave during his speech at the Conference for the United Front Against Fascism on Saturday, July 19, 1969. During this speech he told them they had a political right to shoot white policemen who entered the territory of the ghettos since these policemen were armed foreign invaders. Since he made that speech, there have been numerous cases of Black Panthers shooting at policemen when they were called to duty in the ghetto. This has resulted in the death of a number of policemen and Black Panthers. The doctrines of the Black Panthers are expressed by Eldridge Cleaver, their Minister of Information. He delivered a speech to the International Conference on Tasks of Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight Against U.S. Imperialist Aggression on September 22, 1969, in North Korea. His full speech was published in the Black Panther of October 25, 1969. Here are extracts from that speech: “To the International Conference on Tasks of Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight Against U.S. Imperialist Aggression. “In our era of class war and revolution against capitalism, racism, imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism, we are able to zero in on the very geographical location of the hiding places of the enemy. Standing dead-center on the bulls eye, we find the United States of America—U.S. Fascism and imperialism—to be the No. 1 enemy of all humanity, the arsenal and banker of exploitation and oppression, and chief purveyor of death and destruction all over the planet earth. “The United States of America is not a democratic country. It is a cruel fascist country. It is a democracy for the bloodsucking capitalist vultures and the bloodletting warmongers who control the U.S. government and benefit from its barbaric policies. It is a prison for everyone else and president Nixon is nothing but the Warden of the prison. Indeed, U.S. imperialism seeks to turn the entire world into a huge prison under its bloody thumb and under the boots of its troops and puppets. “The American flag and the American Eagle are the true symbols of fascism, and they should elicit from the people the same outraged repugnance elicited by the swastika of nazi Germany and the flag of the rising sun of the Japanese imperialists. “The truth is that there is a sound revolutionary movement inside the United States that has already tasted the blood of the hated class enemy and is delivering deathblows to its system and is locked irretrievably in a battle to the death against the U.S. fascist imperialist regime. “The revolutionary forces inside the United States must be supported by the revolutionary peoples of the whole world, because whereas the peoples outside of the United States will slice off the tentacles of the hideous octopus of U.S. oppression, the revolutionaries inside the United States will cut its wicked heart and given the decisive death blow to U.S. fascism and imperialism. “We fully agree with the theme of this conference, that the task before us is the total annihilation of imperialism, particularly U.S. imperialism, because for us this will mean the victory of socialism and the end to the fascist state under which we not suffer. “It is time for the revolution to explode inside the imperialist nations themselves. “The U.S. imperialist aggressors must cease their role of merchants of death and destruction who are guilty of financing and arming and protecting the arrogant, nazi-like, Zionist landgrabbers who have usurped and plundered the Fatherland of the Palestinian people. “The so-called President of the United States, Richard PIG Nixon, is the spokesman and frontman for U.S. fascism and the archenemy of oppressed black people, poor white people, Mexican-American people, Indians, Puerto Ricans, and Eskimos inside the United States. We want the people around the world to throw rocks, and bottles, and spit, and hand-grenades, and bullets, and bombs, and curses at Nixon if he dares to visit their country. “Let us lift up our pens, our voices, and our guns, with all our revolutionary fervor to defeat the freaks of mankind who hatch such dismal schemes and strive diligently to put an end, once and forever, to the monster of U.S. imperialism. “We need articles, essays, poem, and books that will make men pick up guns and enter onto the field of battle against the enemy; we need words that will make the soldiers, sailors, marines and special forces of the U.S. imperialists turn their guns against their commanding officers. . . We need words that will return the U.S. troops to the United States with their guns still in hand, there to put before firing squads President Nixon, ex-President Johnson, all the generals of the U.S. Armed Forces, all warmongers and exploiters. “We need articles by journalists that will inflame the masses, that will spur on the revolutionary temptation to kidnap American ambassadors, hijack American airplanes, blow up American pipelines and buildings, and to shoot anyone who uses guns or weapons or causes others, directly or indirectly to use guns and other weapons in the blood-stained service of imperialism against the people.” The police merits all our understanding and support. Try to imagine facing the task of arresting a group of fanatics who believe this philosophy and who are heavily armed and located in a fortified building. TRIAL BY TELEVISION They call themselves “The Conspiracy.” This choice of name is an application of the theory that attack is the best form of defense. Originally the group consisted of 8 radicals, but this number has now been reduced to 7 since the chairman of the Black Panthers, Bobby Seale, has been separated from the group and is in jail for contempt of court. They are charged with conspiracy to promote violence during the demonstrations that accompanied the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The trial is taking place before Judge Hoffman in the Federal Building in Chicago. The defendants are trying to transform it into “Trial by Television.” This strategy is outlines by one of the defendants, Tom Hayden, in an article in the Guardian, November 29, 1969. In this “trial by television” the roles of the prosecution and defense are reversed. The defendants become the accusers while the judge, prosecuting attorneys, and prosecution witnesses are subject to daily accusations. The defendants are experts at exploiting the news media. They understand well what those directing the media consider news. They know that actions and statements that are sensational, bizarre, and evil are considered newsworthy. Their conduct in the courtroom is designed to produce such newsworthy events. They use every stratagem to reduce the proceedings to a farce. As might be expected, the news media are cooperating wholeheartedly and the Federal Government is also giving its help. The trial is taking place in the Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois. A special room in this building is set aside for the news media. Representatives of the television and radio networks, the wire services, and local newspapers are in regular attendance. On most days as soon as the trial recesses, some of the defendants and their attorneys adjourn to this room for a national news conference. They use the facilities provided by the news media to attack the procedures of the court and to appeal to the people. On November the 12^th and 13^th, I attended these news conferences in Chicago. Abby Hoffman was granted full use of the facilities to blackmail and threaten the Federal Government. He demanded a permit for their supporters to march to the Justice Department following the moratorium rally planned for Washington, D. C. on November 15. The interview went something like this: Hoffman: If the Federal Government will not grant us a permit to march to the Justice Department, we will issue new orders to our members and instruct them to go there by all means necessary. Interviewer: Does that mean wearing helmets and carrying nightsticks? Hoffman: I would not rule that out. Interviewer: Does that mean violence? Hoffman: That is a possibility. One defendant, Renie Davis, produced what he claimed was a statutory declaration in an effort to discredit one of the prosecution witnesses. The wife of Jerry Rubin made a plaintive plea for his release from prison claiming he was being punished for a simple misunderstanding on his part. The impact of such a one-sided presentation being given on a daily basis can well be imagined. The precise statement in which Tom Hayden outlines the plans, is as follows: “Our defense is modeled more after that of Huey P. Newton and the Oakland 7. We are attempting to create a political trial, this time with wide international repercussions. In those earlier cases, the defendants utilized every legal procedure available to them while still basing their ultimate defense on the power of the people. This strategy means that speaking and writing, political education and demonstrations are primary considerations. “The government is faced with further loss of its own authority whether it continues its persecution or sets The Conspiracy free. Reliance on the people does not neglect the jury but invites them to join the struggle by, in effect, committing civil disobedience against the judge’s instructions. Nor does the strategy ignore any niceties of the law but makes fine legal points as a basis for reversal if the government later decides to let the defendants go. “The true story of Chicago never has been told. Conservatives reduced it to an outside agitator fantasy and liberals to a ‘police riot.’ Did the Democratic Party decide to prove that it was the ‘party of law and order?’ Did the FBI, the police and ultra-reactionary groups conspire to push the country rightward during the elections? Or was a ‘bi-partisan’ decision made that maintenance of the American empire now required a domestic police state? “We hope to suggest that these are the hidden issues behind our persecution. We also will demonstrate that our life style and politics are incomprehensible—except as a threat—to those who are persecuting us, that the terms of the social conflict are irreconcilable. We are not a pressure group which went beyond the permissible limits of dissent in liberal society and we are not interested in having this trial redefine those limits. We came to Chicago as participants in the creation of a new society in the streets and parks, a society which continues its growth with its own natural laws, structures, language and symbols. We will argue that Chicago revealed the necessity for a new American revolution against the dinosaurs controlling an obsolete and unrepresentative system. “The trial will be concluding during the end of the 1960s. From the government’s point of view, the trial is an attack on all the rising insurgencies of the pact decade. For most of us, the 1960s have come to represent a ‘fair trial’ for the American system. We wanted to believe in reform, in changing the government from within rather than in overthrowing it. The government’s response to our playing by the rules for 10 years is written in blood: Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, Nashoba County, Dallas, Watts, Newark, Detroit, Memphis, Berkeley, Chicago, Santo Domingo, Saigon, ‘Pinkville.’ Even while the blood was flowing, many of us clung to the idea that these were isolated tragedies. “Over the last 10 years few white radicals (and not that many black revolutionaries) have spent long periods in jail and most of the whites are draft resisters who intentionally tested the law. Miraculously it seemed we were back out on the streets after each confrontation. How could America be a police state and also let us go free? In our confusion we entertained theories of a manipulative corporate liberalism which used free speech as a means to achieve stability. Looking back, it now seems the system could be flexible only when we were weak, when our numbers were fewer and our goals were to make marginal adjustments that might modernize the system. It is difficult to believe that only six years ago John F. Kennedy was urging us to forsake the streets for the courts as a better avenue to our goals. “Today the courts are no longer cooptive and tantalizing but are more nearly the assembly points on the road to detention camps. The difference in the use of the courts by Kennedy and Nixon is not a difference in personality but a difference in the times. “When their jury goes out so must ours. Knowing that ‘the decade of protest’ is over and our rulers have had their fail trial, can we do anything less than find the government guilty and sentence it to death and go on with the building of a society of our own?” Guardian, Nov. 29, 1969, p. 5. This illustrates the problem about which Vice President Agnew spoke when he criticized the news media, particularly television. A handful of people can determine what millions of American citizens see and hear. No man’s judgment is any better than his information. Those who control the flow of information, control the judgments of the recipients. A presentation of selected facts accompanied by an omission of other relevant information will lead the logical and honest to false conclusions. THE COMMUNIST USE OF ANGELA DAVIS The communists are mining the Angela Davis lode for every last grain of ore. She is rushing from place to place addressing large crowds, frequently receiving a hero’s welcome. Above all, she is seeking to use the fact that she is a black to win the sympathy and support of black people and to transform support for her into support for communism. The People’s World of Saturday, November 29, 1969, reports on the activities of Miss Davis as follows: “Kendra Alexander, who has been handling press relations for the UCLA philosophy professor said, ‘The most impressive response has been from the black community.’ “The fight around Miss Davis’ case, ‘has done quite a bit to break down the anti-communism among many people,’ Mrs. Alexander said. ‘The so-called faceless “enemy” of communism has, for many people, been replaced by Angela Davis who talks about community problems.’ “Miss Davis’ appearance on Oct. 19 before Black Women United at the Immanuel Church immediately to the north of Watts, reflected the kind of grass roots support she has been getting among the black people. “Later that evening she addressed a Black Students Union sponsored rally at Compton Junior College where 80% of the student body is black. She was given a standing ovation by the packed crowd in the auditorium. “Berkeley, the scene of many militant student struggles, welcomed Miss Davis with a rally of more than 8,000 and the members of the BSU on that campus held a separate session with her. “On Nov. 3, Miss Davis joined with speakers from the Black Panther Party in a protest rally against the inhuman treatment given Bobby Seale in Chicago. “A special meeting by Miss Davis with black and Chicago students at the University of California at Santa Barbara on Nov. 4 was preceded by a large rally of about 3,000 there. “And on Nov. 9 more than 1,500 persons attended the Daily World dinner meeting where black actor and activist Ossie Davis shared the platform with Miss Davis.” Page 10 The communists are aware that there is a possibility that the lode may be exhausted. The regents have not given up their fight to have the right of the people to decide on the standards for those who teach their children sustained in a higher court. The present status of the legal fight is reported by the People’s World: “Another piece of the Regents’ ammunition was used when the State Court of Appeals agreed to hear the Regent’ argument as to whether the ruling of Judge Jerry Pacht barring a transfer of the case from Los Angeles to Alameda county, home of the Regents, was legally proper. “Presiding Judge John J. Ford of Division Three of the state Court of Appeals gave the Superior Court one of two options in his ruling, either to grant the Regents request for a transference of the case to Alameda county or to show cause at a Dec. 12 hearing why the Court of Appeals should not order the change of venue.” Page 10. PROJECTED PROGRAM AT GARRETT THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The newspaper, The Evanston Review, of December 4, 1969, reported my request for the use of the facilities of the Methodist Churches of Evanston and Garrett Theological Seminary to conduct an antisubversive seminar as follows: “Anti-Communism Crusade Requests Use of Local Churches for Seminar “The president of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade recently sent letters to the presidents of the Evanston United Methodist Parish and Garrett Theological Seminary asking if his group could use their facilities for an Anti-Subversive Seminar. “Fred Schwarz, president of the crusade, stated in his organization’s November newsletter that his request will test the intellectual honesty of the seminary and the parish. He said their response will show whether their reasons for housing members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) two months ago were honest and sincere or merely attempts to rationalize encouragement of criminal activity. “The Rev. Charles Peterson, parish president, said he is considering Mr. Schwarz’s request and will make a recommendation to the parish council. “Garrett’s president, Dr. Orville H. McKay, has sent a letter to Mr. Schwarz asking what type of facilities he would need and how many people he thinks would attend the seminar. Dr. McKay is awaiting a reply before he makes a decision on the seminar. “Mr. Schwarz’s letter to the Rev. Mr. Peterson and Dr. McKay said, in part, that even if Garrett and the parish do not agree with the crusade’s philosophy, they could act as a communication link between sectors of society which are alienated from each other. “The letter said that by approving the request, Garrett and the churches would be ‘fulfilling your duty to bring to us some ministry marked by redemption and reconciliation.’ “The parish and the seminary had given similar reasons for opening their doors to members of the SDS. “In the November newsletter, Mr. Schwarz, who is editor of the paper, gave a four-page description of the SDS incident including excerpts from an SDS paper and statements issued by Dr. McKay, the Methodist Parish, and the administrative board of the Chicago Temple First United Methodist Church.” The following letter has been received from Edward P. Blair, Chairman of the Special Lectures Committee of Garrett Theological Seminary: “Dear Dr. Schwarz, “In response to your letters of November 11 and 24 to _President Orville H McKay, we may say that Dr. McKay forwarded both of your letters to the Garrett Special Lectures Committee (consisting of students and faculty members) for consideration and action. At our last meeting due attention was given to your request for use of Garrett facilities. “It was the unanimous decision of the Committee, and subsequently of the faculty, to invite you and your associates to come to our campus. We would like to work out with you a seminar to be participated in by the whole Garrett community. A small number of off-campus visitors might be included as observers, but the number would have to be strictly limited by prior agreement between us. “It is simply not possible, due to our limited facilities, to offer you a base for the kind of seminar with high school and college students you have suggested. Furthermore, it is the sincere desire of both students and faculty to experience the benefits of this seminar; hence, we wish it to be directed toward the Garrett community. “The seminar could be held on any one Wednesday in May, from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. Our main chapel and several classrooms would be available for this purpose. We feel that in view if the size of our community (about 350 students and faculty) a leadership team of not more than six persons from your organization would be appropriate. We covet your personal presence as one of the team and wish to extend to you full opportunity to express your own particular concerns. “Our policy, as stated some time ago by President McKay, is to help build bridges of dialogue that might lead to mutual reconciliation and redemption. We are particularly glad to note that this too is a concern of yours. Therefore, we wish to make the best of a day together. “We strongly urge that the program be so structured that full opportunity for open exchange of ideas between our faculty and students and you and your associates, in line with traditional academic practice, will result. “This might be done in several ways; such as, a panel or panels with you and your associates comprising half and Garrett students and faculty making half; and opportunities for small groups of Garrett faculty and students to meet with you in dialogue. Certainly a part of a program of this length should consist of a question and answer period on the floor of a general session. In such a setting, the chance for truth to emerge in the exchange of ideas is greatly heightened and such truth can be the bond of the reconciliation which we both so desperately seek. “It is the desire of our committee, seeing that many of our students have never heard of you and that many more have only vague notions of your particular ideas within the general framework of the conservative wing of American thought, that you make contact with Mr. John Batsel, the Garrett librarian, and make arrangements considerably before your coming for your writings and those of your associates to be available to the student body and faculty. “We hope you will give serious consideration to this invitation and that we may have the privilege of having you on our campus some Wednesday in May. “Yours most sincerely, Edward P. Blair, Chairman Special Lectures Committee” I will certainly accept the invitation to participate in a seminar directed to the students and faculty of Garrett Theological Seminary. Honesty, however, required that I point out that there is little similarity between the treatment given to us and that granted to the Weatherman SDS terrorists. Consequently the question of the sincerity of the justification of granting the use of facilities to a terrorist organization as a base for criminal acts is not answered by the present action. I have written the following letter to Edward P. Blair: “Dear Mr. Blair: I gladly accept your invitation to participate in a seminar with the whole Garrett Community on a selected Wednesday in May, 1970. I suggest that my associate, Rev. James Colbert, confers with Mr. John Batsel, the Garrett Librarian, to arrange the details of the program. Yours very sincerely, Fred Schwarz, President.” Further information will be supplied as it is available. I would appreciate receiving the comments of those who are interested in this important issue. ORANGE COUNTY ANTISUBVERSIVE SEMINAR The Orange County Antisubversive Seminar will be held in the Inn of Tomorrow from Friday, February the 20^th through Monday, February the 23^rd. The Inn of Tomorrow is adjacent to Disneyland. Many coming to the school may wish to stay an extra day or two to visit Disneyland. Walter Knott and O.W. Richard are honorary co-chairmen of the seminar. A fine faculty includes Dr. Walter Judd; Dr. Joseph Dunner, Chairman of the Political Science Department of Yeshiva University; Dr. Charles Rice of Notre Dame Law School; Dr. John Drakeford of Southwest Baptist Seminary; Dr. J. D. Bales of Harding College; and Dr. Fred Schwarz. Scholarships are available for students, teachers, and ministers. The scholarships will cover the cost of tuition, food and lodging. The value of a full scholarship is $60. Support is needed. This can be provided by attendance, recruiting and sponsoring students, and financial donations. A brochure providing full details will be supplied on request. GOOD EXAMPLE DEPARTMENT “On Veteran’s Day, I attended a gathering at the State House called by our Governor, the Honorable Deave C. Davis, to not only honor the veterans, but to show our support for our President. At the close of these ceremonies, on my way out of the State House, I was handed copies of your newsletter and your brochure “What is the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade?” by two young men. It was such a crush I was unable to speak to them, but I assume they were local high school students. “I had never heard of the CACC, but having now read the material the boys gave me, I am very favorably impressed with your program.” Barre, Vermont. “There is an SDS group at the Portsmouth High School, Portsmouth, New Hamshire. A few that are now in it were my former friends. SDS succeeded in capturing their minds. I have been showing them your publication and it seems to have a great effect on them. They now realize that what they have been led to believe is a bunch of lies. They are now helping me fight the others that may fall in the trap. “I am a 16-year-old girl who unfortunately cannot help you financially, but spiritually I am on your side fighting with all my might.” South Berwick, Maine. “I have been reading everything I can put my hands on regarding communism ever since I read your book, and I have been spending hours working and talking with a teenage boy who had no respect for his parents, his church, or his future and who had been taking dope, supporting anti-war protests, hating Negroes, etc. I gave him my copy of your book, copies of everything else I have read, and have continued my discussions with him. He is now studying on his own and passing on what he learns to his friends at school. He even has his teacher helping him. I thank God that I have been able to help even just this one boy, especially since he happens to be my baby brother.” Arcadia, California.