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ItAUidoscopE mi Iwaukee, Wisconsin member: underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) liberation news service (l.n.s.) JUNE 20 - JULY 3, 1969 VOL. 11, NO. 16 (f40, 25c JERRIS LEONARD REVISITED P.2 MILW. PANTHERS VANGUARD P.3 O'NEILL NOTEBOOK P.6 PAGE 2 June 20 - July 3, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE I anthem they say i was born in the land of the free, • but the home of the briefcase is all I can see, • with fine houses and highways we covered the land, • but freedom's a fable if the conscience is banned. so i'm going to prison • for what i believe. O i'm going to prison • so i can be free. • i've got something i'll die for; D what else can they do? • i've got something to live for; • what about you? from the bureau of justice directives have come, • send out the g-men, round up everyone • who is worshiping god instead of the state, • who's teaching that love is better than hate. some say i'm a liar, some say i'm a fool; • the neighbors will claim i'm a communist tool. Q but my master's not sleeping; some will understand. • if i can't live with him i can't be a man. ened to, and their successes in parallels a little further. about it here?" Leonard said he placed with apathy, shady deal organizing were smoothly inter The Atty. Gen. this year is was "under a mandate from the ing and a pre*-occupation with Jerris preted as conspiratorial plots. likewise named Mitchell, he ar Attorney General right now to sex." (1-21-65) Not only could the actual pro gues that campus turmoil is clear develop specifically the type of Blatant sex is not his only con cess of striking be prohibited, evidence of a conspiracy and he program you are talking about. " cern, however, for Leonard is in Leonard - therefore, but also simple and es sums up his attitude with refresh Thus, with a little bit of se several ways a forerunner of the sential organizing: court injunc ing brevity. "The time has come mantical alteration, manya con latter-day reactionaries now on tions were used to obtain what for an end to patience," he de servative southern democrat and the scene. Active as head of A Record due process could not as union clared on Law Day, '69. One of northern republican could be the citizens committee for Gold- meetings were banned, use of his assistants is the former Gold- transformed into a "civil rights water-Miller in '65, Leonard union funds for picketing and water aide, Richard Kieindienst activist." And from a look at chose justice in now familiar terms By Art Heitzer even the writing, telephoning or whose attitude on campus mili- Leonard's record, that bit of rhe by attacking "disregard for law In the last year of Woodrow speaking of strikers to other work tance is hardly more moderate: torical transformation should have and order... part of a loose na- Wilson's presidency and the first ers were listed as proscribed ac "Ifpeople demonstrated in a man- been very predictable. tional policy towards justice." year of the 1920's the Arty. Gen tivities, (see Sydney Lens, Ra- her to interfere with others, they A brief check with the public Interpreting Goldwater, Leonard eral of the US, A. Mitchell Pal dicalism in America, pp. 259- should be rounded up and put in library's news clipping service displayedan apparent hidden lust, mer enacted a sweeping series of 60! The injunction became a a detention camp." (as quoted reveals Leonard's interests quite "we need a return to some old- "red scare" raids which still hold favorite and much used tool. in the May Atlantic Monthly). clearly. Covering the period of fashioned ideas of virtue, sin and his name. In most major cities, The greatest of the ironies, There is also another assistant At 1965 through the end of 1968 punishment." (Journal 9-25-64). suspected subversives were seized however, was probably not the torney General concerned with (Leonard was appointed in Jan., Not only was Leonard against in the night while the-major news use of anti-trust legislation to the problem and he is somewhat '69) far areas that might be even crime, and not only did he be closer to home. papers stressed the red threat. protect the interests of the con remotely related to law enforce lieve it to be a figment of de These raids, were neither original glomerates; it was the combina For Milwaukee's Jerris Leonard ment, we find that most of Leo mocratic rule (Journal 9-6-68), nor final ploys of American re tion of this with the civil rights head of the US Legal Departments nard's efforts have dealt with but he proposed some approach pression; this month, the radical amendments of the reconstruction. Civil Rights Division, last Friday schools and leftist i nf I uenees for it in last fall's campaign press has been predicting a re What was meant originally to pro the 13th was quite a day. As there (12 articles), then comes against Senator Nelson. Af/ter h i s objections to smut, and his currence of the same. Mike tect the poorest and the most the banner headline in the Jour declaring crime a state and lo- agitation against it (6 articles), Klonsky, the major SDS national discriminated persons was soon nal read "US to Throw Legal cal problem in May (Sentinel, followed by vituperations about spokesman recently predicted a utilized to protect new "persons," Force Against Campus Plotters." 5-22-68), Leonard by August is rising crime and failing defense series of co-ordinated busts of the legal personages called cor Making the announcement was sued a position paper on the in (4 articles apiece), and finally SDS leaders on network TV. The porations," which were endowed Leonard, because, he said, fed creased federal role in combat civil rights, with 3 articles re "following day,telephoned rumors b y God with rights no less than eral prosecution of campus rebels ing crime, including a "new mp- lating his interest in this gen o f a shooting and of a fire (so those of man, black or white.\ would be based on the Civil rality" among officials, and a eral field prior to this year. There similar to Marquette's mysterious No state could deprive these per- Rights Act of 1968. So the Nix "correction" of court decisions were also several articles about bomb scare in April) led Chicago of property without due process on administration does really care; which "hamper law enforcement. " his alleged conflicts of interests police to raid the national SDS of law; therefore, not only was it has looked long and hard for (Journal, 9-16-68) during his career in the Wiscon- office. Recurrent and widespread state regulation illegal but so was US citizens suffering from dis But Leonard's clear civil rights any attempt to deprive corpora sin Legislature, and his general busts of Black Panthers have am crimination and it has finally record can only be found in his tions of profits without the due speeches against things like high ply filled the movement press as found some — the college students strong stand on campus questions. process of jury trials, etc. Thus taxes, and a few articles that evidence of that organization's who are oppressed by the new Graduated in Business Administra the courts initiated one of the were hard to classify, such, as the threat to the American powers left. tion from Marquette in 1952 and that exist. crudest conspiracies of all: the one centered around his equation l The Journal (Jan. 15) story in- from MU law in 55 Leonard has reconstruction amendments were of the democratic party as poli f The Palmer raids and the big terpreting Leonard's initial ap been an outspoken foe of the cam combined with the anti-trust le tical counterparts of the "hippies." red scare o f the twenties, how pointment as head of the civil pus left, especially in the UW gislation as enforced by the in But so much for generalizations. ever, were part of a large scale rights division said the selection system. Again, proceeding the junction. The result was to pro and long term repression of a pre was quite surprising for Leonard Leonard has a definite hangup reaction of UW regents by sev tect for years large corporations vious left movement. That repres was "not well known in the field with sex and its depiction as he eral years, Leonard attacked in from either state control, union sion was based on continuous iro of civil rights." But Friday's tes claims that America is rushing 1965 the UW Cardirial as "full threats, or even federal legisla nies, ironies which are being re timony took all the surprise and headlong down the road to become of left-oriented journalism," tion (e.g., the unconstitution vived today. For the conspiracy wonderment away; there are sim one of the most sex-ridden nations ality of child labor prohibitions). something he defined as "jour of the American judiciary had ply two different ways to look at i n history. " (Sentinel 2-23-65) And while corporations required nalism which is in fact an apolo turned the nation's previous anti civil rights. Leonard said en Hepushedan anti-smut measure in due process before they could be gy of the Communist party or trust laws into the prime defense forcement would now be direc the legislature in 1965 which the denied their funds, the court in Communist front organizations." for large interstate trusts.

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