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...Another Panther woman, Frances Carter, is presently free. After serving several months in jail, Frances Carter was ordered freed on bail by a Federal court which declared there was not enough evidence against her to justify her detention. When she refused to testify, she was again jailed, for contempt of court. After having served a total time of five and a half months, she was granted a satisfactory immunity, agreed to testify, and was freed...
...official statement of the Panther Party concerning Alex Rackley's murder, released at a press conference held by Huey P. Newton in New Haven, says that the members of the New haven chapter who allowed this incident to occur were young and immature, and that the Party must stand criticized for allowing a man like George Sams to ever become a member. I agree...
...Black Panther Party is an organization which exists in opposition to the government of the United States. It exists because the government of the United States offers not justice but systematic oppression to the community the Panther Party attempts to serve. It is an incidental but illuminating fact that the routine of jury selection in New Haven County tends to automatically disallow the poor (those who would receive no pay while serving as jury members) and the young (students are considered unacceptable...
...Panther Party must be strongly criticized for its failures that allowed the murder of Alex Rackley to occur. The State of Connecticut must be strongly criticized for its administration of legal matters following the murder, for organizing trials and testimony not in an attempt to serve justice but to damage the Panther Party as severely as possible. And the government of the United States must be opposed for creating and maintaining a situation in which resistance such as the Panthers practice is one of the only ways the Panthers could survive with some degree of control over their own lives...
...outraged or surprised anymore-and I suspect neither are you-to discover further evidence of the need for opposition to that government. I am more outraged and surprised that Panthers killed a man and made themselves and their Party even more vulnerable to the state with no good reason. I may feel that outrage because in so far as the Panther Party is the vanguard of our revolution the pressures they face are pressures we will eventually face: an opposition force with infinitely greater material resources, that can tap our phones, break down our doors, suborn our comrades, and shoot...