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A po pular gynecologist/obstetrician in "No ," she replied, still runnin g on Don't bully--support town has recently been accused of the "good-pa tient" advice to talk In my opinion , if an obstetrician is exceptionally bizarre an d un profes fr eely to your obstetrician about worried about a wo man 's we ight, he sional behavior (as well as the anything that 's happening to your should be looking at her lists of wha t us ual ). body, "I feel a tightness and a she 's eating in a week, analyzing pr essure un der my navel when I have them, poi nting ou t changes she needs Our source, Mary James (not her real �rgasms . I read that this feeling can to make , explaining why , an d name) called last month wi th a story Just be due to the movement of the supporting the changes she makes. Not about her six months as a pr egnant abdominal muscles, but I wan ted to bullying her. Not ignoring the patient of Barry Slotky 's. tell you about it." reasons why she may be overeating . But that would require kn owing the She switched doctors after Sl otky "It is pr obably just muscles. Just meaning of support. advised her in her sixth month of don 't have an orgasm again un til after pr egnancy not to have orgasms un til you have the baby." Sl otky 's "hips an d thighs" remark after her baby came , or she would risk makes me think of the old days when pr emature delivery. "I 'm getting mixed messages. First they put us on 1000-calorie-a -day you say it's pr obably something diets dur ing pr egnancy, much more to Her new doctor has told her, "I see no perfec tly normal ; then you tell me not pl ease our mates than to pr otec t our reason why you couldn 't enjoy a to have orgasms ." selves and our babies. healthy sex life while pr egnant." "Well , it 's up to you. Orgasms can Mary is much happier wi th her new Sl otky, who is renowned for putting �ause pr emature labor at an y time . I doc tor , who takes time wi th her an d all his pr egnant patients on strict Just delivered a five-pound baby las t talks to her at each visit "eye to weight limitations (though Mary says we�k ·" (Our Bodies , Ourselv es reports eye , after I sit up an d get straight he never once asked her an ything about this as "one of four unproven beliefs" ened ar ound." She wants to encourage her nutrition habits), reportedly told about sex and pr egnancy . Women who other women not to "do what I did, go her that only 5% of her nutri tion are very close to term have begun through a lot of in timi dation an d would go to the baby, "and the rest labor after orgasm , but not fr�stration , telling yourself, well , will go to your hips an d thighs ." pr ematurely. ) he s the doctor , he 's busy, I'm afraid to chan ge ." That 's what keeps those Mary says also that when she reported doctors in business . to Slo tky during her pr egnancy that she was having mari tal pr oblems and --Phoebe Caulfield they were really on her mind (as the "good-patienting" books she 'd been Author 's note : Mary 's purpose is to reading advised her to do) , he just encourage other women to shop ar ound stared at her , then said, "I gotta --not to get stuck with a bummer . go, you done?" She 's right , but she was also very lucky on her secon d try. A rea l winner Shop around? Well , I've been working These three quali ties , Slo tky's fast t�e ob/gyn beat on this rag for about and loose sta temen t of medical nine years now •. an d I say lots of luck . "fi:cts ," his rabid preoccupation wi th w igh� control, and his seeming . � _ I love my gynecologis t. Some women disdain for oatients' emotional needs love Slo tky. Mary finally go t an ob/ are the theme of Mary's stories. gyn who likes her , respects her ' and Other Slotky patients she's talked to whose style fi ts wi th hers . since agree with her . The first and most shocking account I've hear d a horror story about just happened after Mary got frustra ted about every ob/gyn in town·' most of with Slotky's routine, which didn't them , I believe , are true . Jus t include much question-and-answer time bec�use one guy is holding your hand (and wha t there was took place with during labor today doesn 't mean he Mary still lying on the table , wi th a�n't shoving a pold speculum up your her pan ts off- -hardly an atmosphere sister tomorrow .• for an adult-to-adult conversation ). Mary says he went on to tell her of She asked the nurse to schedule a --P.C. conference time for the next cases where doctors deliberately appointment. in duced orgasm to cause labor to begin . Here 's Mary 's account of the conference : A weight maniac In spite of Slotky 's evident reluc Mary began the conference by saying lf wi th "the that she completely tr usted Slotky 's tance to concern himse whole wo man" in any other wa y, he is medical skill (he 's been her gynecol be man iacally conc erned five years or so before the reported to ogis t for wi th their weight gain. Though we all pr egnancy) , an d that she kn ew he was weight gain puts a good in a crisis. kn ow that too much stress on the heart an d circulation during pregnancy, Our Bodies, But, she said, she felt like she 'd Ours elves says that pr oper nutrition �ike him. to talk to her , to give her an d the regularity of the gain ar e information about things like breast the things to monitor . Also , a really feeding, and to give her more suppor t. healthy diet doesn 't pr oduc e obesity. She says he replied, "What do you mean mean , suppor t?" Sl otky did not moni tor Mary 's nu tr i She was worried tion at all , she says. She adds , "I could. ' ve been eating three Sn ickers bars a day an d come in un der my we ight She replied, slightly taken aback, limit, an d he 'd be delighted," that, well, she worked in social serv ices an d saw a lot of people that Sl otky 's routine (as both Mary an d were not born "normal ," and kn ew more an other woman saw it) is designed to about what can go wrong than most be frightening. After the nurse people would, an d she worried, an d she felt that he could give her more weighs you in , she wr ites your weight reassurance. on the chart an d says , "Uh oh. " She cl ips it to the exam room door. He said she was hyper . Slotky comes through the door with your ?hart, an d stan ds staring at the "Not hyper ," she said, "intelligent red-circled weight notation , while and mature ." cold sil�nce reigns . Mary says that othe: fri ends have described their "Is that all ?" he asked. feelings toward a visit as "scare d." Page 4 Reality check at the unemployment office
I applied for Extended Benefits (EB) more about being unemployed. They of unemployment insurance the other also threaten to cut you off if you day. I expected some bureaucratic don't meet these additional demands paper-shuffling, maybe even a little and to fine and/ or imprison you if you lie by app.lying for non-existent hassle, but I wasn't ready to enter Cloud-Cuckooland. jobs. (They're out there, dammit! You've just got to find them!) With 14% unemployment in Illinois- more like 20% if you count The EB information sheet reads: "You "discouraged workers" and those on must conduct an active 'systematic reduced time--the government is still and sustained' search for work pretending there are whole bunches of search designed to obtain a job unfilled jobs around. The basic during each week." As soon as assumption of the EB requirements is someone tells me what a "search for that people who need more benefits work search" is, I '11 begin. Maybe haven't looked hard enough or in the I can get a job editing governmental right places for those jobs. The regulations. government doesn't want to hear that there aren't enough jobs to go around. To get EB, you have to fill out a separate form every two weeks (in The EB program, I was told, is addition to the regular unemploy designed to get people off unemploy ment claim). At the top of this ment. That's typical government extra report you see the words doubletalk, like making more missiles "Bureau of Employment Security" in to prevent war. But of course they bold type. The "claimant ques Stuggle/cpf aren't going to say they're helping tionnaire• asks 22 questions about people because people can't find jobs "ability and availability" and and need help. That would be an ad demands at least J job contacts per That's why I haven't found a job. mission that the system isn't working week. I've been concentrating on $40,000-a and the government can't do much year positions that are within 5 blocks of my apartment. ·Guess I about the high unemployment problem. Look elsewhere Better to blame the victims, as should look elsewhere, like Peoria usual. You're also expected to "relax your or Decatur, where there are tons of restrictions" about the type of work jobs. More pressure you'll accept, how much pay you'll take, the hours you'll work, and The sad reality is that I have The way the EB program does this is how much time you're willing to applied for jobs that pay by increasing the pressure: make more travel to get to work. Of course! considerably less than I used to job contacts per week, fill out more earn--and the employers treated me forms, widen your job search, worry like I was crazy. All sorts of people are out of rmrk; "relaxing your restrictions" isn't going to make you more employable. Not when more than 200 people apply for a waiter's job at Perkins restaurant.
The "EB requirements also say that if you don't have a definite job lined up in 4 weeks, you'll get a job prospect classification of "not good." I don't think this means you'll have to wear a scarlet NG on ijour clothes, but I'm not sure. What it does mean is "any work that is within your physical and mental capabilities that you have the back ground to perform is suitable." Translation: you may have to take a shit job at minimum wage.
I' II take it Fine by me. If they can convince the employer to hire me over the 325 other applicants, I'll take the job. I like to eat.
If you don't conduct an active work search or refuse to take "suitable" (shit) work, "you will be held ineligible for Extended Benefits for the week in which such failure occurred and for each week thereafter until you have worked in at least 4 weeks with earnings in each week, Peoples College of Law which when totaled , equals at leas t Founded by la Raza Law Students Association, Asian Law Collective, 4 times your we ekly benefit amount." National Lawyers Guild and National Conference of Black Lawyers. Shoot, if I could ge t a job that paid 4 times my wee kly benefit amount, Now accepting applications for Fall 1983. I wouldn' t need to apply for unem Deadline for application : July 1, 1983. ploymen t insurance .
PCL's goals are: Admission based All this threatening and bullying is to train peoples' primarily on the absurd. More than 11 million Amer lawyers and be a demonstrated commitment icans are out of work. We don' t Third World/ to the struggle for social need more forms to fill out or more Working Class school. change. Two years of college pressure to look for work . What or equivalent also required. we need is more jobs! Its unaccredited four-year evening 660 SOUTH BONNIE BRAE ST. If the government can't do anything program leads-to LOS ANGELES, CA 90057 about the lack of jobs, I suggest a J.D. and the 213/483-0083 they relax the ir restrictions , take California Bar Exam. their systematic and sustained work searches , and put 'em where the EBs don't extend .• Peoples College of Law -- Ferdydurke Post-Arnerikan Vo l. 11, No. 8 December 1982-January l98l Page 5
Fortification award
• ISU more 1n the dark than ever
Teachers and students at Illinois ;� State University returned to school ::...- <=@y after fall break, entered their Stevenson Hall classrooms, and reached for the light switches .. . which weren't there.
The University had installed one-hour timers, black plastic knobs, where the switches used to be. After one hour of noisy, distracting ticking, these timers automatically shut all the lights in the classroom off, They must be reset by hand for another hour.
Physical Plant's Bob Monn�g�r. (formerly the supt. of utili�ies; now a part-time worker there) said that the timers cost $7-$10 each. For a 52-classroom building like Stevenson, that means a $)64-$520 cost.
"They were good," said Monniger. . "They got the lights shut off, which is what we wanted 'em for."
Right in the middle
They sure do. Right in the middle of class, most of the time. In Steven son, many Monday-Wednesday and most ISU decided on a high-technology solution to th eir energy Tuesday-Thursday courses are 75 problem (on left) ; faculty and students discover d a low minutes long--meaning the lights are 7 technology solution to the problems of the solution (on cut off during class, consistently right) . interrupting lecture, discussion, or writing. And most impatient, disgruntled faculty then only tur� the ISU teachers are not out to timers partway back, unevenly, which consciously use as much energy in Plastification award of course throws any schedule off. their classroom lighting as possible. This unevenness means that not only They probably believe in energy do the timers go off at unexpected conservation as much as anyone. moments, but the front bank of lights and the back bank of lights go off at A single memo o different times. ·n"as\ t\ Which means that a simple memo, Now, the timers may teach us something explaining how much it costs to leave e important about mortality--the steady the lights on in an empty room and "tb ' tick-tick reminding us always of the e encouraging people to be sure and turn ' \b ' precious seconds of our lives the lights off when they leave, would o flickering by as we listen to a probably result in a good deal of lecture on the semicolon; the t-.\lf e cooperation. The reminder would cost g t· uncertainty of when the room will be about $10. The $500 solution, in \ plunged into darkness reminding us contrast, results in many classrooms ,\31\ � that our own short light will someday standing empty and lit for an hour "A Whopper of a story!" be unexpectedly snuffed out--but their after they're used. g --Rex purpose was to conserve energy. A lot of junk has been said about The $490 saved by sending a memo Subversion Illinois State University's instead of installing technology could installation of a McDonald's in the finance a work-study job for some However, many faculty members, Bone Student Center. irritated with the noise and interrup student, patrolling Stevenson and turning off unnecessary lights. Thus, tion, and indignant that they were not And that's what it is. Junk. consulted (Monniger says that when a student would benefit instead of being left in the dark. they insta lled the first timers 1� The milk shakes have no milk in them. years ago, they "checked with the That's why they're called Thick faculty," but these new ones were But I know 'things don't work that way. Shakes. Don't you ever wonder what quite a surprise), have simply they have to do to a bunch of subverted that purpose. * * * * * * * * * * chemicals to make them puff up into sticky froth like that? Some clever soul figured out that a The Post-Amerikan Fortification Award, blackboard eraser was just the right a cousin of the Plastification Award, The bread has no wheat germ or bran width to stick between the two timer was inspired by our frequent laughs in it. That's why it's so soft, knobs and prop them open, eliminating over the way some institution or tasteless, and insipid. That's why both clicking and startling blackouts. bureaucracy has solved a problem by McDonald's never has to worry about The message spread quickly, both overkill--like using high technology shipping their buns all over the teachers and students passing the electronic grids to keep people from place--devoid of nutrition, their trick along. stealing tacks off bulletin boards. shelf life is amazing. If you have any suggestions, call or Someone remembers, leaving the class send them in .• And how about the yogurt? The fresh room, to remove the eraser and set the fruit? The rye bread? Oh, you can timer free. --Phoebe Caulfield get those at the Crock 'n Roll. Sorry, though--the Crock 'n Roll has been closing early, now that Mac's here. Home loans diverted to parking lot But griping about McDonald's food is like saying how are you. I think more about McDonald's in the student center But Vail recommende-0. approval of the Money targeted for fixing up older as a sign of standardization in how we loan to the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church homes will be used instead to tear live our lives, sensory flatness in at Oakland and Lee. The church down houses and build a parking lot, what we think is good enough to eat, intends to use the subsidized low under a plan approved by Bloomington's lack of imagination in what we think interest loan to knock down houses at urban renewal department. is good enough to believe. 506 w. Oakland and 703 S. Lee. parking "Normally, a loan to build a I remember 15 years ago, the ISU Since the land's zoning does not even lot would not be considered to fall Union Cage's strong, thick, greasy permit a parking lot, the church first within our administrative guidelines homemade chili. 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Baldwin CJ) �- Godfrey plays politics with nuke freeze issue Q, If you're looking to fill your spare in the news media a few days earlier time,try performing a public service a substitute resolution he wanted the by writing the perfect prescription council to adopt instead. The. for the "safe" local politician--a "Godfrey version" (remembera steal how-to guide, if you will. the initiative ••• ) was a ridiculous watered-down, do-nothing statement You might title it: A Fence-Sitteris that was insultingly vague in its Guide to Gauging Which Way the Wind call for nuke nations to "explore the Blows ..•or something like that. creation of treaties •••" You get the idea. A bold stance indeed. Some might Any such pro ject should not be under wonder where this man was hiding taken without soliciti ng one of the during all these years since the US foremost practitioners of the craft to dropped the first big one on Japan. write a foreword. For this task, a Can we really believe he never heard most worthy candidate is Normal's of the SALT talks? squeaky clean mayor. and public relations flak for ISU, Richard "Dick" No, he is better informed than.that; Godfrey. there must be something else at work here. "Dick" has been working at the fence sitter's craft for years qui�e success You guessed ita giving any appearance fully. of siding too closely with the peace Several of us were treated to such a mongers would anger the war-mol'.l,€;ers Dick is slick, all right, but every raw display recently at a Normal among the formidable Red Scare/Reader's once in a while, a11 issue comes up City Council session, when the topic Digest segment of the local population. that strips the mask off politicians at hand was a resolution calling for like him and allows the rest of us an immediate halt to the nuclear arms But, straddling that fence comfortably, fools to see the true motivations at race. the calculated Godfrey started to come work. When· that ·occurs, the question unglued in front of all to see. Losing that carefully honed composure, he that begs to be asked is: If he's so The mayor moved fast to head off the created an incredible spectacle by sl ick, why is he so obvious? freeze coalition's drive, publicizing arguing heatedly with our coalition spokesperson over how much time the council was going to allow for the presentation. BEA STAR The scene was nothing short of embar rassing, especially after Gerlof Homan stressed repeatedly that Godfrey had promised him over the phone that the coalition's view would be heard in its entirety. So embarrassing, in �act, that counci� members quickly interceded and said that the issue was Turn heads important enough that the time should be allowed and let's get on with it. as you walk After the long discussion in the packed down the street! council chambers, which revealed over whelming support from both citizens and council members for the freeze r-----c LIP-N -SEND• -----· resolution, it was clear the the "Godfrey version" was a hapless YES , I crave the fame and glory I failure. a Post-Amerikan T- shirt will I I I bring me! I can't live without Undaunted, its author attempted to save I it. In fact I'll just die i£ I I face by harping on some irrelevant, I can't have a Post T-shirt! I nit-ptcky questions about the language I "!nclosed is my check for $6. 00, I of the resolution--the Pantagraph called it "hair-splitting." I Thank you. You ' ve made my life I worth living again. I I Growing tired of this senseless I Circle Size S M L XL I filibuster, or perhaps out· of pityp I I one coalition member rose to suggest a Name minor wording change to placate the I I mayor. The only result of the change I Address I was to insure that a copy of the I I resolution would be sent to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, which had little City, State, Zip I I to do with the people's compelling urge I Clip-n-send to Post-Amerikan, P.O. I to tell their .Q1fil government to wake I BoK 3452, Bloomington, IL 61701. I up and see the insanity of its poli ------· cies. The council also added that other nuke nations besides the two ma jor powers be given the same responsibility. \kt\OW have 'oatho� Kristenlemsl :The important thing was that the call for an immediate freeze on all testing, c\bums: Oh Mama/ e, 'production and deployment of nuclear weapons remained intact, and that the rt the Out Door voice of the people. however faint, ALSO' GAY CITY N E'WS I was heard. -pl"s- q, GAY CATALOG Not one to admit defeat, mind you, WHOLE her Godfrey then pulled a beauty that ERA si�� all would-be politicians will want to study as they learn how to make some - also- thing they vehemently oppose look like it was their idea. After all his misguided efforts to stonewall the 25-certt whole thing, he then said that the wording changes "address my major used books, concerns" and that the resolution now read like he wanted it to all along. k i d s' bod q O'dA N. Main €2.9-62.2.3 Come on Dick, you ain't that slick.e n fS 1!il!!lllll!lllll!!ll!!ll!lll!lBR!!ll!!lll!llll!lll!!ll!!lll!!l!lll!!i1111!!11!!11!11!!11!!1l!!ll!!ii!J3loo W\i 9itnil!M!l f.Of\llll!ll!!R!i1!1Rl!l1!!il!!ll!!il�!lllill!ll!1il!iillll!lll!ll!!ll!!il!l!iil!il!!ll!l!ill!!l!llllll!l.ii hou postedwee� h - Murray Poppins ini!Bi!ruiil!Dl!!IUll!l11!11!!11!!11!!111!ll!Ol!!ll!iil!il!!ll!!ll!!l!!ll!l1111!!11mil - Post-Amerikan Vol . 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 9 agent confesses MEG to delivery MEG undercover drug agent Scott serve as a go-between in a purchase LSD , Van allegedly asked if he could Kedzior committed a felony March LSD12 , of mari j uana. Kedzior and Van drove have one of the hits for himself. when he delivered LSD to Dan Van , a to a location on West Jefferson St. That's when the MEG agent became a young man Kedzior was setting up for While Agent Kedzior waited in the car , felon himself, il. legally de livering a bust. Van went into the house , with LSD . Kedzior 's money , to buy some pot for Van was arrested several months Kedzior . When giving testimony before the grand months later for de livery of LSD to jury which indicted Dan Van for the Kedzior. According to Kedzior , Van returned to delivery of LSD, Agent Kedzior neg the car , saying the occupants of the lected to mention his own little In a memo to his boss , Jerry LaGrow , house had no pot , but did have LSD. breach of the law. Agent Kedzior said he delivered the Kedzior wanted 10 hits of LSD. LSD "in order to preserve my identity The inci9ent illustrates MEG's as an undercover agent ." Kedzior 's According to Kedzior, Van returned to screwed-up priorities . If anyone confession can be found in Dan Van's the car and turned over 10 hits of was making any money from the LSD sale , court file , McLean County case· 82cf230. LSD he had purchased inside the house. it was the people who lived in the Van was busted for allegedly deliver house. But MEG never went after According to Agent Kedzior, here 's how ing the 10 hits of LSD to Kedzior. them . MEG oniy busted the inter the incident occurred: The people in the house were not mediary , the young man who was simply busted. doing a favor for the MEG agent . While working undercover, Kedzior says , he persuaded 19-year-old Dan Van to After turning over the 10 hits of MEG supposedly exists in order to stop drugs like LSD from reaching young people . Narc s turn new trick But in this case , according to MEG 's The narcotics agents in the Illinois The new twist: In a mi d-November own story , a 19-year-old got a hit Division of Criminal Investigation bust , DCI arrested two central of LSD only because of MEG' s misguided (DCI ) have added a new routine to Illinois men for conspiring to buy drug investigation. And he got the their bag of tricks . mari juana--from DCI agents themselves! LSD directly from a MEG agent . The narcs used to limit their U.S. Attorney Larry Ma ckey told the Needless to say, Agent Scott Kedzior activities to buying drugs, or trying Pantagraph that such "reverse sting" has not yet been charged for the to buy drugs from suspected dealers . operations have recently been upheld crime . He 's still out there protect in court decisions .• ing our young people from profiteer ing drug dealers • • --M.S. More sni tches reve aled Steven R. Shurtz, formerly of El Paso , worked for the Illino is Division of THE PRICE Criminal Investigation as Confidential Source BOJ2385 . According to infor- OF FREEDOM mation in a McLean County Court file, Shur tz became a snitch after he got poems by caught selling drugs in Woodford County . He set up at least one Bloom DAVID LEE BURDETTE ington resident for a small pot bust . pub lished by Ray Baize also has worked as an in COMMUNITY FOR SOCIAL ACTION former for the Illino is DCI, according avai lable free of charge at to testimony which emerged in a re cent McLean County trial . e SMALL CHANGES ROOKSTORE David Birchie, pictured here, worked as 409A N. Main Bloom ington MEG Confidential Source #328. CUSTOM LUTHIER 114" NORTH STREET NORMAL, ILLINOIS e Mike Judd , Authorized Dealer 507 W. Locust St. Bloomington 309-828-8249 The NewesT in Over 300 unusual •• e e e Solar. . The Inexhaustible ADULT ENTE RTAINMENT source of free energy . gag gifts ihai can be played on your television set with your Ato.ri or compatible VCS game system. Many priced under $5.00 TbeDISAllllAMlll! OALBllDAB for 198& Three selections or video gan:ies. 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A small Dear Post : Its primary purpose will be to exp lain Here is my check for a "My Sister the to fellow students and community members Punk Rocker" t-shirt plus a $4 con that continued US support of Israeli but m ighty tribution. settler-colonialism is contrary to the best interests of the American people . I also include entries in your concert biblical abridgement contest: Our second meeting will be held in mid On November 1st and 2nd , Bloomington Normal was treated to a rare delight. 1. Delilah was an overexuberant, January . For more information about Feminist, singer , songwriter , Carolyn conservative barber. SFP, call Ruth at 452-3174 or Ro se Mary McDade was in town on a nationwide at 452-6180 .o tour promoting ideas of peace and jus 2. Joshua was a fantastic trumpet tice through songs and storytelling . player. The little-pub licized event drew a small but mighty audience. Carolyn 3. Pharoah released the Jewish slave s as party proved equally adept playing piano , because God made his Mazda break down . ,Christm dulcimer , and autoharp . 4. Saul was blinded on the road to for children Many of her songs dealt with women 's Damascus by a pair of 45¢ Christmas struggles , especially third world lights . of ·unemployed women. She sang some very moving songs in Spanish, and even though I am 5. Saul changed his name. to Paul for Clowns , cartoons , gymnastics , and a not very well versed in the language , professional reasons. visit from Santa are all on the pro the content came across loud and gram on Saturday , December 18, at clear. Bob Porter Bloomington High School, for a Christ mas Party open to all children whose After the concert she told me that she parents are out-of-work . was doing the tour strictly on a non contractual basis , depending on the The program is jointly sponsored by generosity of the people who attend the Bloomington and Normal Trades her concerts to finance the tour . and Labor Assembly (AFL-CIO) and the She also stated, "When you •ve given Association of Commerce and Industry. up hope , do what I'm doing." The program is open to any family , What she is doing is inviting people whether one or both parents are un to share bas ic human experiences. In employed. Every ch ild attending one song , You Have Touched a Rock , she will receive a "grab-bag" of goodies invites the-audience to repeat the on the way out , all donated by a title after naming women very influ variety of local organizations , unions ential in the Women 's Movement , such and businesses. as Theresa Kane or Barbara Jordan . There were songs with touches of hu To receive tickets , all you need to mor in them and songs for the spirit do is write "Children 's Christmas ual side of our natures . Party ," P. o. 3248, Bloomington IL 61701, and include your return address A true delight! The only problem was and how many children you have . that more people did not know about Your tickets will be sent to you in the event.e the mail, naming a time for you to attend the program .• --Marita FOOCI Drinkl=Un I I I £. BEAUt:'ORT NOON� lA/I\llAl LY 4S"I/- �RS" - - E. Lincoln 0 0 ,:!; l--1t--l�.iEli._S_te�w-a�rt:..,_.Iel A Morris Tick Co. 0 0 LC - �ll -6-t: 8-L/ �a t B-/J:JO Post-Amerikan Vo l. 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 11 • Hush! This IS a porno store Dear Post: The rather conserva t ive adult emporium attendant was looking straight at us. I've put off this letter to the ed itor (He was also looking directly at us . for two months now. The· situation which made his straight looks all the happened some time ago, now, but I was more impo sing. ) wise enough to take the time to make notes on it at the time it happened. "If you 're just talking , wo uld you mind Enough with the excuses, you say? I taking it outside?" feel it's important to explain that just reread ing the incident a month Why do they always have to ask later reminded me of the anger I felt questions rather than state policy? I the night I was practically asked to wa s aquiver with apologies as I fumbled leave an adult bookstore. to leave the place . When asked questions. I always behave like a grown So. I've decided to share something up has just scold"ed me. I behave like with my brothers and sisters that I am five. really raised my copsciousness. This bothers me now that I think about Brows ing among the new titles of gay it. I pop qu arters into their dirty men 's literature at a rather movie slots. I've paid their ·conservative adult empo rium near the ridiculous prices for little bo ttles of "room deodori?ers" that cost half as Letters· heart of Bloomington 's sinful and Radical therapist/cpf shameful downtown . I happened to much in the big city . And though I recogn i?e two frien js entering. Not have no use for maga?ines of two-dimen having seen either man in several weeks sional idols, I have purchased newspap (even with the abundance of gay-related ers from them, only because I live in soc ial events in the twin cities, I a society that not only treats us like Reader still find myself living a hermit 's children to be disc iplined , but also as existence), I quickly returned the copy a group so subversive that our of Whit� .!_>unko_ _!! gkers on Do� to the political communications need to be defends paperback rack and greeted the two men . categori?ed with pornography . Bible The next ten minutes or so were like It was a funny situation. I laugh anyone else 's experience when catching about the circums tances. about Lebanon To the authors of "Cut down the Bible" : up with a friend in a public being the topic as he asks "what 's the marketplace. Eventually the matter? ", and about how qu ick I was to I see from this column that some of the conversation led to talk of religion .. behave like a good little "lesser" in Post staff have no sma ll amount of both politics, and finally zeroed in on the his society. disrespect and disdain for a book wh ich Lebanon situation (this was middle they �bviously consider foolish--the September or so) . It's all very funny . Bible . Le t me pos.e a problem to the ·staff: "Something the matter, Gentlemen?" Steve Kleiser Suppose there are three groups We all. three froze. None of us had traveling in a forest. None of the ever heard anyone use full voice in groups knows the way out. One group, an adult bookstore. however. has reali?ed it is lost and in Prisoner wants searching through the wilderness comes across a second group , who, in response 'real' letters to the other 's earnest search. laugh at, ridicule and make the lost ones the Dear Post Amerikan : butt of many jokes . Indeed , the lost group is made to look foolish. Then I am very happy to be getting yo ur the lost group comes upon a third group . paper. You get down and unma sk the The last group is not exactly sure how real criminals in Wa shington--the war to get out of the wilderness, but they pigs that make the Specks and Gaceys sincerely wish the lost group luck. look like rank amateurs and the They do not ridicule them for be ing pinheads that call themselves the moral lost, nor do they poke fun at them . majority that think life should be like the Waltons . We ll, I'm glad to see What I wo uld like to know from your that there are more people that refuse staff i� : Wh ich of these three groups to buy the bull that they are trying to is really playing the fool? unload on the sheep that are called the If you have been raped, masses. Marjorie Kinsella. Na turopath Bloomington I my self fell victim to the pirates *********************** sexually attacked, or that call themselves MEG agents . I could not come up with the ransom they One of the authors of "Cut down the demanded . so I went to prison . As you Bible" replies : assaulted, call us for know, money talks in the land of the free . Marjorie Kinsella 's parable contains so many unexplained assump tions that it 's I would like to write someone that 's impo ssible to take it as a serious legal, medical and criticism of real-life conflicts . For sincere and real. ·I'm 30 years old . I like mus ic , all kinds of books , one thing, she assumes that the "lost , mov ies, some sports, good food . I group " is accurate in its presump tion psychologicalassi stance, have brown hair, ha:>el eyes . I'm of be ing "lost"--and that 's what it always seems to come down to : we 're Italian, 5' 7" . Like the song by the right and you 're wrong . Stones says, "Waiting on a Friend ." It 's been my expe referrals and alternatives Have a year left to do . rienc e that the "lost group" are usually quite sure they 're not lost at Yours truly , all and instead of "earnestly" searching James DiGiacoma , A-71417 for an answer (way, path, solution) , as Ca ll PA TH P.O. Box 711 Ms. Kinsella presents them, they 're usuall Menard, IL 6/?59 y spend ing mo st of the ir time trying to get (force) the rest of us to 827-4005 admit that w� 're the "lost" ones and should accept their ans.wer (way . path .. and ask fo; the solution). and be "saved ." RA PE CRISIS CENTER As for ridic ule and joke making : when the �ible-�uoters and bible-taters quit heaping scorn and condemnation on mv life- style, then I probably won 't b� mo tiva ted to defend myself with satire . Post-Arnerikan Vo l. 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 12 Post-Arnerikan Vo l. 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 13 Sanders brea ks hand on suspect's head Officer Sanders should be fired During his 5� years on the B°loomington Motel in August, 1980. After reading In some of these incidents , Sanders was very drunk , belligerent, and police force, Tom Sanders has literally a 200-page report on the shooting , may have been provoked in some way . Bloomington patrolman Tom Sanders broke verbally abused the officers . Chief TRl/1•G TD •·UT M'I left his mark on too many peop le . State 's Attorney Ron Dozier said he had In some cases , the defendants may have his hand Oct . 31, when he slugged 18- Story said Dietrich was challenging "misgivings" about Sanders ' judgment , been "mouthing off ." Certainly some year-old Brian Dietrich in the head . FIST WITH YE� FRCE the cops to take off their belts and Police reports and court files document but no charges would be filed. of the defendants were drinking . Some . • fight one on one . EH? TNAT'� �G&1U�V- the treatment Sanders has been dishing of them may not be nice people . Maybe Dietrich , who was knocked unconscious A�E]) out over the years , from verbal abuse eTom Sanders used excessive force some of th.em "deserved it. " on the police station 's floor , spent None of the cops seemed to take and minor roughness to head bashings , whi le arresting tuella Winston on May four days in the hospital with head WATTER'/, Dietrich 's challenges seriously enough , beatings and even a shooting . 26, 1980 , according to a written ruling But that 's not the point . No one injuries . 1,l'kNOW1• though , to restrain him . Story agreed by Judge Jame s Knecht . Finding Ms . claims that Sanders barges into church that police are expected to be capable eTom Sanders broke his own hand when Winston not guilty of aggravated services looking for someone to beat According to police reports , Dietrich of enduring a lot of verbal abuse , he punched 18-year-old Brian Dietrich battery , Knecht said her use of force up . had been arrested (not by Sanders) for especially from an intoxicated person , in the head Oct. 31, 19 82. Dietrich to defend herself against Sanders was illegal consumption of alcohol and without los ing control or resorting to spent four days hospitaiized for head "reasonable and justifiable " under the A cop is expected to take an intense driving wh ile intoxicated . Sanders excess force. injuries. circumstances . amount of verbal abuse without losing was one of several cops in the booking his temper . On those occasions when a room . At one point , reports said, With three cops in the booking room , eTom Sanders whapped Alan Mann in the esanders ' arrest of John Trice for cop is authorized to use force , he is Dietrich shoved Sanders , who responded why did Dietrich choose to shove head with a flashlight and in the face intimidation and disorderly conduc t was supposed to apply only the minimal by punching . Sanders? I s there a pattern in with his fist July 15, 19 82, according unlawful , a judge ruled after an Aug . amount of force necessary to protect Sanders' behavior that invites physical to Sanders ' own report. Mann , who got 19 80 bench trial. But Trice was found himself and subdue his suspect--whether David Butler , Dietrich 's attorney , told confrontation? a broken nose , was being arrested for guilty of resisting the illegal arrest. the suspect '' des erved" an ass-whipping the Post-Amerikan tha t he intends to drinking a beer in the parkway in front Testimony in the trial transcript or not . According to his internal investiga file a civil suit ag ainst Officer of his home . suggests that Sanders ' behavior tion, Story said , Sanders did not say Sanders. But the suit will wai t until (including us ing racial slurs) helped Tom Sanders goes out into the same anything to provoke Brian Dietrich into the disposition of the criminal charges eTom Sanders and the City of Bloom provoke an incident. (See next issue scary , complicated tangled mess of agains t Dietrich . Besides the alcohol shoving him. ington were named as defendants in a for the full story of this incident. ) highly emotional situations that other raps , Dietrich also faces a battery other hand , there are other ways to $9� million suit fi led last July on cops go into . charge for allegedly shoving Sanders . Dietrich 's attorney , David Butler, subdue someone ." behalf of Charles Vasquez, the innocent eMichael Keathley was found not guilty seemed surprised that Story had no man shot by Sande.rs at the Rega l 8 of resisting arrest after a 1980 bench But other cops don 't seem to leave so "Dietrich 's attorney admi ts that his evidence of Sanders ' verbal "As I'm sure Sanders knows now , hitting trial where he testified that officers obvious a trail of bruised bodies and provocation . But he said he did not client shoved Sanders ," Bloomington someone in the head is not the best Joe Rusk and Tom Sanders held him down broken bone s. want to comment until after he files a Police Chief Donald Story told the way to restrain them," the chief and hit him numerous times with a sap . civil suit against Sanders and the City Got more info? Post-Amerikan , "but he apparently feels concluded . A compan ion charge that Keathley It' s time for that trail to end •• of Bloomington . that Sanders overreacted ." If you have more information about committed aggravated battery against According to Chief Story , there were Patrolman Tom Sanders , call the Tom Sanders was dismissed for no three cops in the booking room , but "I don 't think Sanders was out of line "I'm not sure I concur with that Post-Amerikan at 828-7232 and probable cause. opinion ," the chief continued . "My only Sanders g·ot into a phy sical con on th is one," Chief Story told the ieave a message on our answering Articles about Patrolman Sanders men don't have to put up wi th getting frontation with Dietrich . Story says Post-Arnerikan , "but I do think he used machine . You can also reach some * * * * * were written by Mark Silverstein . shoved around the booking room . On the the three cops reported that Dietrich some bad judgment."• Post-Amerikan folks at 828- 6885. Sanders shoots innocent man; city faces $9.5 million lawsuit Pekin attorney Charles Thomas is suing who conducted a major investigation of on another crew for the same company . told that Debra Smith had been kid "About this time ," Thomas said , "Ken "He saw the license , and he knew there the City of Bloomington for $9� million the shooting . napped by armed men. Heistand comes around the corner , armed 'were more squad cars coming from all on behalf of Charles Vasquez, the While in Bloomington , Heistand with a MacDonald 's hamburger," over. He didn't have to shoot to stop innocent man shot by patrolman Torn Whi tew ash developed an affair with Debra Smith . Hamburgers that vehicle . " Sanders on Aug . 23, 1980 . She stayed with Heistand at the motel. Heistand was on probation in Missouri. That investigation was a "whitewash, " She planned to travel on to Texas Vasquez returned with the hamburgers Being in Illinois was a'probation No weapon according to Vasquez 's attorney , Vasquez is suffering permanent brain with him. and sat in the car. Heistand was lean violation . Charles Thomas . "They never inter damage from the shooting , which took ing on the driver 's side of the car , Sanders ' second shotgun blast hit viewed two key witnesses , both of whom place at the Regal 8 Motel in Bloom But Heistand and Smith had an argument eating his hamburger and talking with Heistand turned around and ran as soon Charles Vasquez in the head . The car have told my investigator that Sanders ington . Friday night , and she tried to leave . Vasquez. The keys to Debra Smith 's car as he saw the cop . we nt out of control and crashed . had no reason to fire his weapon ," Heistand hid her car keys , forcing her were hanging out of Heistand 's pocket. Thomas said . Sanders apparently thought he was to stay unti l the next day , the day Vasques, meanwhile , didn't see any of No weapon was ever found in the car , shooting at men fleeing from an .armed of the shooting . Smith came out of the motel room , this , according to Thomas . nor was a weapon found among the pos Sanders is legally in the clear , kidnapping . As it turned out , no grabbed her keys from Heistand , and sessions of Vasquez or Heistand . according to State 's Attorney Dozier , kidnapping had taken place. No felony On Saturday afternoon , Vasquez went took off around a corner of the Heistand jumped in the car and told because the officer believed he was had even occurred. And the men were out to get hamburgers for him and .building . Vasquez to take off . He did. No charges were ever filed against firing at people flee ing from a not armed. Heistand . Vasquez. forcible felony . E.ven though no such "That 's how things stood as Shotgun "Then Shotgun Sanders come s racing felony (kidnapping) took place, The police department took no action Meanwhile , Debra Smith called a friend Sanders arrived on the scene," accord around the corner," Thomas continued . Debra Smith said she did not want to Sanders ' belief that it did was enough against Sanders. Lewis Devault , Acting on the telephone . The friend called ing to attorney Thomas. "He yells 'Halt ' and then boom--he file charges against Ken Heis tand . But to make the shooting legal. Chief at the time , told the Pantagraph police. shoots. That's how quick he shot, State 's Attorney Ron Dozier charged he "was not uncomfortable with the Sanders emerged from his squad car , according to -a maid and the desk cler him anyway , with illegal restraint and incident." He later characterized the The report became distorted by the time clerk." battery (for allegedly striking Smith Wha t happene d shotgun in hand . Debra Smith saw shooting as "totally justified." it reached the police . Police were Sanders , told him she was all right, during their quarrel. ) Dozier sub and that she had her car keys back. "Sanders saw the car," Thomas said. sequently had to drop the charges for State 's Attorney Ron Dozier said in Here 's how attorney Charles Thomas lack of evidence .• 8: 1980 that there was no evidence that recounted the incident at the Regal Sanders had violated any laws in the shooting. "But I do have some mis Charles Vasquez was working for a com givings about the judgment Sanders used pany which moves crews from town to like in the shooting ," Doz ier. told the town , painting large structures s. ng victi tn per1nanently Pantagraph. water towers, TV antennas, and bridge Sanders shooti disabled Vasquez was staying at the Regal 8, medical report says "Somehow he manages Dozier based his opinion on a 200-page where he met Ken Heistand , who worked When Bloomington patrolman Tom Sanders "He only weighed 107 pounds when he The medical report says Vasquez will own on public transportation." report compiled by state police agents shot the wrong man on Aug . 23, 19 80 , he got out of the hospital," Connie Leyba not be able to earn his living got off without even a reprimand. told the Post-Arnerikan . "He had ag ain. terrible nightmares. H� woke up so "The patient 's severe cognitive and ially dependent But 26-year-old Charles Vasquez will be frightened." Vasquez has been financ reasoning problems and. severe memory slightly above living with the consequences of on his sister , who earns deficits preclude any vocational cashier. Time to be movin' on Sanders• nervous trigger finger for "He would think he was in Vietnam , even minimum wage as a retail potential in the future ," the medical In spite of Tom Sanders ' record of con of the jobs, he worked as a security the re st of his life. though he 'd never been in the service ," report says , "and this necessitates he frontatory and sometime s violent guard at Mennonite Hosp ital. she said. "That's where he thought he "He's also got a little welfare from live in some type of supervised the state ," Connie Leyba explained , setting. " ep isodes, his 5� years on the Blooming Vasquez has permanent brain damage from was shot." the wounds inflicted by Sanders ' "but not really that much . It just ton police force represents , in one Sanders lasted two years as a Pontiac impulsive shotgun blasts. "It was so hard for my brother to start covers the bare essentials ." ·"His thinking is messed up ," Connie sense, a period of relative stab ility cop. But he only lasted four months talking to people aga,in ," she con Leyba explained. "And sometimes he in the 30-year-old cop's spotted with the McLean County Sheriff 's Dept. Vasquez is "severely , totally and tinued , "which is so unusual for my "He used to be able to work and spend hallucinates ." law enforcement career . He was a Clinton cop only two weeks . permanently disabled ," according to a brother , because he 's so happy-go his own money however he wanted. Now medical report obtained by the lucky . Everybody likes my brother . he has to hope that I can give him A Denver court declared Vasquez It 's the longest stretch of time that We don 't know why Sanders left some of Post-Amerikan . He 's very easy to get along with." some," Ms . Leyba said . incompetent to manage his affairs last spring ; his sister Connie Leyba was he 's ever held down the same cop job. those police jobs . Maybe it was just "He used to be such an independent The shooting severely damaged Vasquez 's appointed as guardian and conservator . time to be movin ' on . After the shooting , Vasquez spent several months in a Peoria hospital , person , but now he has to depend on sight , leaving him only a 10-degree By the time Sanders signed up with racking up a bill over $60,000 . At someone all the time ," she said. "It's angle of vision in his right eye. •I don' t understand how a person like Bloomington in 1977, he 'd already Maybe it 's that time again . How the end of 1980, Vasquez was released like having a chi ld of my own , but He 'll never be able to drive , though a Sanders can sleep at night ," Ms . Leyba worked as a cop for three different law about it, Tom? • to the care ·of his. sister, Connie after all he is my brother� " Ms. Leyba said. "Someone has to take thi s enforcement ·agencies. In between some . . · person off the streets ." • · · · · . - .. in Denver, ado . explained. ·· -· ··· · ·· · · · ······· ·· ···· . . ... · ...·•·•· .. · .. · ••· .. - . . ... · . ,· · · ·· · · · · ..-"' .••• ,. - •.• • , ...... , ...... ··.i...... '.' ....' ...... • ... • * " .. ,., . ,.. .. - - ,.. .., " : Color · . ....�YPa. r l:>��� .�c;>m�, ••.••• " 1,...... fr ...... 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Since the remains The major event: Tom Sanders beating of his beer were too hot , Mann decided the man with flashlight and fists, Ho t SU MM•r night to pitch the can. It was garbage calling him "nigger," breaking his night, and the garbage cans -were nose , and hauling him off to jail in July 15 was a hot summer evening in already on the curb , only a few feet front of a growing gathering of Bloomington . After playing cards for from Mann 's porch. Mann walked up to outraged eyewitnesses . a while at his next door neighbor 's the curb to drop his beer can into house on Oak St. , Alan Mann stepped the garbage. Sanders ' July 15 arrest of Alan Mann outside to cool off. He was carrying at 304 N. Oak received a little what was left of the beer he 'd been "U P against the car" �ublicity last summer as the subject of drinking. a short-lived investigation by the According to Mann, Sanders (who 'd been Illinois Attorney General 's office . A couple of friends drove by and waiting at the corner) backed his car But that probe--based on a complaint stopped in the street. Mann walked out up the street and jumped out. Sanders that Sanders had used excessive force, and talked to them for a minute or two , snatched the can out of Mann 's hand , racial slurs and violated Mann 's civil standing in the street. ordering him to "get up against the rights--never went anywhere. The car. " Attorney General said his office had As he was walking back to his yard, no jurisdiction to pursue the Mann says that Tom Sanders pulled up Mann says he asked what he 'd done ..:01:1p laint. in his squad car. Sanders told Mann it Sanders being watched closely, chief says In an interview with the Post-Ameri kan , Bloomington Police Chief Donald Dozier said he would pass his opinion Story said he was "de finitely aware" on to Lewis Devault, who was acting that there may be a pattern of police chief at the time . aggressive behavior in the conduct of patrolman Tom Sanders . State 's Attorney Dozier's criticisms didn't make it into Patrolman Sanders ' The chief said he is conducting an file , according to Chief Story . internal investigation of Sanders "to see if this is a guy who winds up in "I'm not sure I would have reacted the the right place at the wrong time , or same way Tom did in that motel whether we have an overly aggressive incident," Story said. "But since this police officer." occurred just before I became police chief, I wanted to consider the issue Story has investigated only two a closed book." incidents involving Sanders: the violent July 15 arrest of Alan Mann , Fla shlight beating and the Oct. 31 punching of Brian Dietrich (see adjoining stories}. Story said he remembered the 1980 shooting incident when he first became Both investigations have been hampered concerned about Sanders , which was in somewhat because attorneys have not the summer of 1982. That was when permitted their clients to give state Story learned that the Attorney General ments while charges are still pending. had received a complaint from Alan Mann 's mother, Sarah Spicer . Even so, Story 's investigation of both incidents provides evidence that Ms . Spicer charged that Sanders used Sanders is indeed overly aggressive . racial slurs , excessive force and But the chief 's conclusions so far seem violated her son's civil rights when to let the officer off the hook . arresting .him for drinking in the ABOVE: Police Chief Donald Story parkway in front of his home July 15. The punching Story ordered an internal investiga "I thought the latest incident would be out of line on this one . But I do tion. But Alan Mann wouldn 't talk to the straw that broke the camel's think he used some bad judgment. " police until his attorney OK 'd it. back ," Chief Story said , referring to Sanders ' Oct. 31 right hook that Shooting is "closed bo ok" Sanders ' own report admits that he knocked 18-year-old Brian Dietrich to struck Alan Mann with flashlight and . the booking room floor . Sanders broke Story 's evaluation sounds remarl-::ab ly fists in front of a crowd of witnesses . his own hand; Dietrich was hospitalized similar to State 's Attorney Ron four days with head injuries . Dozier's comnients on Sanders in 1980 , That report itself should be enough to after Sanders shot the wrong man at raise serious questions about Sanders ' But after reviewing reports from his the Regal 8 Motel. Dozier told the conduct and judgment. But Chief Story internal investigators , Story said Pantagraph he "had some misgivings told the Pantagraph that his investiga "I'm not inclined to think Sanders was about the judgment Sanders used." tion turned up no evidence for taking action against Sanders . Probe con tinuing Suspect beaten with sap When I mentioned other incidents in Sanders ' history , Chief Story said he In his 1980 bench trial for resisting "Defendant contends he did not struggle was not aware of them. But he made no arrest, Michael Keathley testified or resist after the officers entered effort to write down names of former that officers Tom Sanders and Joe Rusk the room , because the rush of officers defendants who could contribute infor held him down and beat him with a sap. through the door when entry was forced mation to an investigation of Sanders ' knocked him to the floor . record. Keathley was acquitted. A companion charge that Keathley committed aggra "De fendant contends he was unable to Nevertheless , Chief Story insists vated battery against Officer Sanders struggle or resist, and was in fact that such an investigation is going on . was dismissed for no probable cause . struck numerous times on the head with a sap by one uf the officers . "Tom' s work is going to be watched The Post-Amerikan was unable to locate closely ," Chief Story said . · "Tom and Keathley . But the limited informati.on "The officers contend the defendant his supervisor both know he is the (there 's no trial transcript} in struggled and resisted their efforts to subject of an internal investigation Keathley 's court file suggests that subdue him after they gained entry . right now. " the incident bears further investiga tion . "Our disapproval of the defendant 's "I don't want to overreact and hurt attitude and conduct (prior to the the guy's career ," the chief explained. Here are some quotations from Judge ·struggle--P-A) however , does not make "On the other hand, I don't want the James Knecht 's ruling : '.him guilty of the offense charged. "• guy to go out and hurt someone else4 'e Post-Amerikan Vol. 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 15 wiwrong and thsays he never flashlig got an him three times. ht,The blows gave fishim a ts answer to the question . broken nose. RIGHT: Dan Van was watching from only a• few Mann emphasized that he never moved Alan Mann feet away . He says Sanders started .against Sanders, even after being pulling on Mann , twisting his arm. struck . "When the flashlight flew out "Alan kept asking 'What did. I do? of his hands , I knew I could take Talk to me . Tell me what I did, ' and advantage of it and hit him , but I Sanders jus� kept pulling , saying didn't because I knew I'd get another 'Get in. Get in� '" charg� ," Mann said. sympathetic. As one of the two back Mann says he was never told he was But Sanders threw the extra charges on up patrolmen sent to the scene , ·· Rusk under arrest. He denies trying to pull anyway . Mann is charged with resisting had undoubtedly observed the genuinely away from Sanders--he thinks Sanders arrest, battery and aggravated battery . outraged mood of the eyewitnesses . hadn't even touched him by this point . "I never resisted arrest," Mann said. Cops know As more neighbors came out to watch the Mann says he was never told he wa s hullabaloo , Sanders got back in his under arrest until the two back-up "Everybody down here knows Sanders has squad car and called in for reinforce- po licemen arrived. At that time , he a tendency to go off on people ," Rusk 1 ments. Then he emerged from the squad went along wi llingly . said , according to Mann . "If I were carrying a long flashlight . you I'd plead not guilty," Rusk "Even if he did resist arrest, " one of reportedly advised , "because everybody Mann 's friends said, "it sure wasn 't · Flashlight knows how Sanders is ." aggravated battery . And he didn' t "He came out with the flashlight and deserve to get hit. " Mann said Rusk encouraged him to talk snatched Alan by the neck again ," Dan to the police chief and file a Van told the ·Post-Amerikan. "Then I Nigger complaint against Sanders. Mann says saw Sanders' arm. It looked like Rusk even offered to provide testimony Sanders was looking for the right blow. On the way to the police station , Mann about the scene in the booking room if I've been in boxing so I can see that. says he told Sanders something like , it became necessary . I know what it looks like when they 're "you know , you 're wrong for what you .looking for the right blow . I yelled did_; I didn ' t do anything . " When contacted by the Post-Amerikan , 'Watch out , he 's going to hit you . '" Bill Rusk denied making these state "Just shut up , you nigger , you bitch , ments to Alan Mann . Mann remembers Sanders grabbing him by you bitch," Sanders yelled back , the collar , ripping his shirt and according to Mann. Mann said his attorney advised against breaking a gold chain he wore around signing a complaint against Sanders his neck . Mann says that Sanders got hot with until the other charges are settled . him again in the booking room , as they As soon as Mann heard his friend 's argued about what had happened. He What started as an overzealous warning , Sanders swung the flashlight. says that Sanders angrily started to enforcement of the public drinking It crashed into the left side of Mann 's come at him across a desk , but was .ordinance developed into a beating , a head, then flew out of Sanders' grip. restrained by other cops . At one broken nose , and a pack of additional The flashlight landed 10-15 feet away . point, Mann said, another officer bogus charges. asked Sanders to leave . "Then Sanders hit me with his fist," If it hadn' t been Tom Sanders , it Mann said. He thinks Sanders punched Mann said Officer Bill- Rusk was probably wouldn 't have happened •• Cop'S report admits ques tionable conduct Patrolman Tom Sanders ' own version of Without waiting for the back-up to his arrest of Alan Mann contains enough Tft"llMG TO MIT arrive , Sanders got back out and tried evidence to raise serious questions MY again to arrest Mann . Mann slapped about the police officer 's judgment f"L"SM\.t,MT Sanders ' arms and elbowed him, the and use of excessive force. WlTM YER report says . Here 's how Sanders reported the arrest: HE�U>, E\.4'? ·"As other people attempted to interfere AGGA-"'1qTE:P with the arrest, the officer pulled the Whi le on "routine patrol ," Sanders saw suspect away , and as he tried to break a black male (Alan Mann} in the middle BATTE1t"i'!? free he was struck by the officer 's of Oak St. with a beer . Sanders told . -tl · flashlight ," the report siys . the man it was illegal to drink in . the street. � "The suspect was then struck with the officer 's fist and was subdued and Mann replied "OK, man , move on ." cuffed as assistance arrived ," the report concludes. Sanders drove on, but watched Mann con tinue to drink as he walked to the * * * * * * parkway . Sanders backed up and said "I said you can't drink in the street." Police Chief Donald Story hasn't heard "I'm on my own property ," Mann said, Alan Mann 's side of the incident yet . according to Sanders ' report. But even reading just Tom Sanders ' report, the police chief should be When Sanders said the parkway was city asking some of these questions : property , Mann continued to drink "in front of the officer ," the report says . If Alan Mann was in his own front yard or even in the parkway in front of his Since a crowd of 10-15 people was Sanders took the beer and attempted to gathering , Sanders said he went back house, should Sanders have made an arrest for such a technical ordinance arrest Mann , but he resisted by pulling into his squad car and called for violation? away , the report says . assistance . If Sanders felt the gathering crowd made it necessary to call tor assis tance , why didn't he wait for the back-up to arrive before making his Sanders used excessive force second attempt to arrest Mann? Tom Sanders used excessive force in The woman had fallen down while hand arresting Luella Winston , Judge James cuffed, but Sanders dragged her along Are blows from fists and flashlights Knecht ruled after a bench trial in by pulling on the chain between the an appropriate amount of force in Oct . 19 80 . two cuffs. this situation? In finding Ms . Winston not gui+ty of According to Judge Knecht , Winston 's In light of Tom Sanders ' entire aggravated battery and resisting a biting Sanders was "reasonable and record , here's the most significant police officer, Knecht ruled that she justifiable" under the circumstances. que stion Chief Story should ask : if "was entitled to use force to defend the officer on the scene had not been herself and cause the officer to cease Ms . Winston suffered from bruises Tom Sanders , would the public drinking his conduct. " and cuts on her wrists , according to que stion have erupted into a major a Pantagraph story .e confrontation?• •. THERE L \lv"A S', F'A CIN& 7"H E M'j �15"f£R DDI:.S NOT TH E P� Ev1ov5 IN AS.SOC/1'11" E iv1-r '-I Al>PA M.5 FA M11...y· MY OWN w£€kS WITH H ou5 £ I k /'Jt'v./1"H £Y wERf: l S;fy THE... LtASTI HEtiRT,, I WA IVTEP TH eM TO Bllr wH E N • TA- KE H £I? /3AC/\, 8EC•lUSE 51-1£ WA5. .. HER Fl /o u'RE RIG HT. <;o Yo v wtft? AK£ HE R J SHE'S ALL CA"' R0tN Yo l)R.S . 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Holzman also said that an ordinance Eliminating tompany from Downers Grove was passed two years ago regarding the asking him and his neighbors for trapping of pigeons in Bloomington permission to put a pigeon trap on Normal. I talked to a woman at the their ho uses. Mayor 's office who told me that as far as she knew no such ordinance was ever George saw that the pigeon in the cage passed . was being used as bait to trap other pigeons . The pigeon was left with some Chapter 8, Article I, sec . 5 of th� corn to munch on , b�t the trap was Bloomington City Code Book states that checked only once per week and George "It shall be unlawful for any person to thought that that may be in violation be cruel to any animal or bird." of animal anti-cruelty laws . He talked Chapter 18, Division 1, sec . 18 . 1-1 of to Al Hol ?man , the Director of the Mun icipal Code for the Town of Bloomington Unlimited , who hired the Normal states that "No person shall Pigeon Eliminating Company to trap the of the pigeons used for bait, and who cruelly treat any animal in the Town in pigeons in Norma l, and to Dennis Smith, knows what they do with the pigeons any way." I found no mention in either the Sales Director of the Pigeon Elim they 've trapped? Somehow I doubt that of these books regarding the trapping inating Company . George told them that · they are taken out to the country and of pigeons, but neither do they define he felt it was cruel to keep a pigeon set free . cruelty to animals . locked in a small cage for at least a week at a time . I contacted Al Hol 7man , attempting to I contacted the library, po lice discover why a Bloomington organi?ation department and Animal Shelter at tempting After five days the trap was removed hired a comp any from Downers Grove to to discover what the exact laws becaus� of George 's protests . Dennis trap a few pigeons in No rmal . Mr . regard ing cruelty to animals are ; no Smith told George that if he hadn 't Hol?man seemed very de fens ive and a bit one seemed to know . Perhaps it 's time complained , all the pigeons in the area ho stile regarding the pigeon trapp ing . the animal an ti-cruelty laws were more would have been trapped within six Apparently he "heard" about this pigeon clearly defined so as to prevent weeks . But it wo uld be at the expense problem and dec ided to take action, further inj ustices to the animal kingdom . • --db Voices of the steam era to. be preserved The history of working and everyday As the "Age of Steam" ended , so did people always gets lost in the shuffle . the era of vast rail shops , as diesel locomotives from GM all came with We remember the rich and the famous , standardized parts , replacing the the Carnegies and the Vanderbilts , need for the me ticulous , custom care the movie stars and the presidents . that the steam era had demanded. But no one pays too much attention to the everyday folks who do the work The oral his tory proj ect will seek out and actually build the country--while retired rail emp loyees , recording the rich and famous take credit for their memories of working and social it. life ; these wi ll then be tra nscribed and put on permanent record in the But part of Bloomington 's everyday Historical Society arch ives. Later, history is going to be preserved , a videotaped television program will through a unique program beginning in be produced, using the "voices" as January . background , matching them with photo graphs from the period . The Illinois Humanities Council has recently awarded a grant to the Bloom Students from Illinois State Univer ington and Normal Trades and Labor sity and Illinois Wesleyan University Assembly (AFL-CIO) , the McLean County will be doing the recording and inter Historical Soc iety , and the YWCA Sen viewing . In a unique angle , each ior Services to comp lete an oral his student will be "paired" with a re tory project on working life in tired person , who will become the Bloomington , particularly of railroad student 's guide to the community. workers . Oral history serves a unique purpose , Railroads have change d, but in Bloom and is increasingly used by historians. ington before the 1950s1 the railroad Many groups of people don't write was the principal employer , in a day their stories down , and "story tel ling• when ISU was a tiny campus and State is a good way to preserve human exper Farm was just beginning . iences for future generations . Starting in 1854 , the Chicago and The "Age of Stearn" in Bloomington's Alton Railroad built large repair vast locomotive and car shops , and shops in Bloomington . Freignt ana the thousands employed there 1 won't passenger cars were built here , along be for�otten in the community 's mem !FINEST GAY ENTERTAINMENT with locomotive rebuilding and repairs . ory . This project will add to the IN CENTRALJLLINOIS The first Pullman car was constructed existing collections of photographs here in 1859 . and docu ments , by saving the human voices and stories of another era. The large facilities , which covered the west sid e between Locust and Semi If you , or anyone you know , is a nary streets along the tracks , drew veteran of the steam era and worked immigrants from Europe , first the in the Chicago and Alton shops , please Irish and the Germans , later Austro contact the McLean County Historical Hungarians. At its peak , the facil Society at 827-0428 or the Trades and ity employed over 3000 workers . Labor Assembly at 828-8813 •• Skilled craft workers brought elegance to the era' s trave l, with their fine --MgM woodwork in passenger cars and their care of locomotives . December 1982-January 1983 Page 18 Post-Amerikan Vol. 11, No . 8 Hospital birth and your baby Birth is no t a sickness, so hospitals tions and ca ll a nurse if needed. As a result, hospitals become places are not good places for babies to be where tearful mothers are warned no t born . About 90-95% of births Equipment can be made portable--not to breastfeed "too long : they are �equire no or little outside inter that normal (90-95%) babies need such "relieved of the burden " of having ference if birth is just allowed to things as warming lights (a mother's to watch over their beloved newborn proceed na turally. body heat and some covering have by a centralized nursery full of warmed babies and kept them alive crying babies; and they are not The above statements are ones most down through the ages ). told of the real dangers and pain of women in B-N probably will disagree circumcision--and their option no t with because doctors have convinced Distressed babies do , however , need to have it done .• them that just the opposite is true. equipment (usually to correct damage As a result, their newborns are mis from medical interference with the --S. F. treated . What typically happens? normal process of birth , it is appalling to note ). Still, under Recommended reading : The worst abuse--and there is no no circumstances should the mother 1. Circumcision. Mothering Pub. other word for it--is separation of and/or family (especially if the 2. Magical Child. Pierce. J. the baby from the mo ther and/or mo ther is unconscious or asleep ) no t Five Stana:arcfs for Safe Child family. Undisturbed bonding is be with the baby at all times bearing. Stewart. �- -�- abso lutely essential to the whole throughout its ordea l. Medical ness of a person (read Ashley Mon people can do their work while the CORRECTION : tagu 's books or Magical Child for a baby will be compassionately go od explana tion of thisr:---we are surrounded by its family. Prema ture The last article's section on alt raising generations of "walking babies could have double beds for erna tives to pain relief should have wounded "--psycho logically, spirit- their parents attached right next to read "meditation or acupressure, " ually , and physica lly af'!ected by their incubators. And the family, not "medication or acupressure ," being only partly bonded to the no t nurses , would do as much of the mo ther at birth. ba thing , feeding , and handling of the baby as possible. (Babies are Are there really any valid excuses no t meant to bond to nurses , after for interfering with this incredibly all. ) important pro cess of bonding? Med ical professionals say "yes. " They Second on the list of evils medical say they need to take the baby away ized birth offers is drugs and to clean it up, measure it, put devices. They are not really proven drops in its eyes, put it under safe for babies . Our babies are warming lights, pu t it in a nursery essentially used as guinea pigs. so the mother can rest, keep it Yet the one thing that will make you where they can pro fessionally outraged as you read local doctors' "monitor" it for jaundice (yellow routine OB orders is their ordering ing ), and sc· on. of drugs and devices before, during , _and after delivery. (And all these Childbirth reformers, a lot of just to catch a baby tha t will mo thers, and others say "no " to all essentially come out on its own, these excuses. Any procedures can anyway. ) be done in the same room the mother is in . (And why can 't family mem A third objection is to medical bers "process " the baby anyway as professionals' taking over for the part of their touching, talking , and parent (s). Doctors and nurses are welcoming ri tu8 l that thev do in taught to take away "burdens "; they bond1ng? Better a baby be weighed, are taught to apply their own stan cleanea, ne1a by tnose who love it- dards to everyone; and they are no t strangers .) Family members can taught to do things for "people's keep the baby there in the room and own good. " let the mo ther sleep. They can also ��tch for jaundice or other condi - * * * * * * * * * * * * * * � Brokaw mangles employee t********** Brokaw Hospital not only lacks res call from her supervisor informing While at Brokaw, Shirley had also been pect for local trade and labor unions her that she was fired. She had re required to work on the "mangle"--an (Post Arnerikan , v. 11 , no . 5) , it fused to go against the orders of industrial bedsheet iron--while she treats its own employees unfairly , her doctors , Paul Nord, M.D. , and was on medication . She wrote a letter according to Shirley Willan, who Lawrence Nord , M.D. She had refused to the Occupational Safety and Health worked at Brokaw for three and a half to push the heavy laundry carts and Administration. Shirley Willan sug years. was consequently being dismissed. gested to the Post Ame rikan that her supervisor may have found out about Shirley Willan of Bloomington called Out of a job, out of a trailer and a this letter, and it may have been a the Post recently and told us her car , and still suffering from a work factor in her (illegal) dismissal •• storY:--Shirley worked as a laundry related injury , Shirley has unsuc aide at Brokaw and contrary to re cessfully filed for unemployment and --G.S. strictions recommended by her doctor has appealed the decision with no luck . was required to push and pull heavy laundry carts. On November 4, 1981, Shirley suffered severe -injury to her back and arm as a result of pushing a heavy cart. Shirley was in severe pain from the injury . She had to spend $100 a month for medication and missed 109 days off and on with no worker 's compensation . Shirley had always gone to Brokaw for treatment and had given birth to both her chi ldren there . But when she was admitted for treat ment in February 1982, she received poor care and had visiting relatives �------...... run out of her. room . f> hirley has since had her trailer and W elccme in fal I I her car repossessed to pay for her medical costs and other bills. 105 Broadway • Normal Despite her injury , Shirley kept try ing to return to work , until August . 27, 1982, when she received a phone ·we teach you to play, @UITAR then sell you the right guitar. C!!_ORLD ------Exclusive report Page 19 Post-Amerikan December 1982-January 1983 Vo l. 11, No . 8 Hets to polled be lJ . If you choose to nurture Post note : Now that the Gallup people 10 . If heterosexuality is normal, children, would you wa nt them t0 be have finished their surveys about why are so many mental pa tients he terosexual , knowing the problems gays (see Pantagraph, Nov . 7, 8, 9), heterosexual? they would fa ce ? they 're aiming their sights at straights, according to Po st sources 11 . Since the great ma jority of child 14 . There seem to be very few happy in San Francisco and New Town (Chi mo le sters are heterosexuals , do you heterosexuals . Te chniq ues have been cago ). The Post has also learned really consider it safe to expose developed wi th which you might be that this special poll wi ll use your children to heterosexual able to change if you really want questions that require more than the teachers? to . Have you considered trying usual "agree ," "disagree," and "don't aversion therapy ?• know"--in order to explore the much 12. Since so many criminals , we lfare misunderstood heterosexual lifestyle . recipients , and other irresponsible --Ferdydurke Here are some of the possible ques or antisocial types are tions that were leaked to us : heterosexuals, why would any employ Thanx to Mar tin Ro chlin and Gentle er want to hire a heterosexual? Men for Gender Justice . 1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality ? 2. When and how did you first decide you were a hetero sexual ? Public TV funds gay film J. Is it possible your The Corpo�ation for Public Although the filmmakers have also heterosexuality is just a phase you Broadcasting has awarded a received financial assistance may grow out of? $1JO ,OOO grant for a do cumentary from the National Community Funds film on the history of the gay and a few indivi dual contributors , 4. Is it possible yo ur hetero sexual rights movement before 1969, to the terms of the public broad ity stems from a neurotic fear of be entitled Before Stonewall . casting grant require them to rai se others of the same sex ? The grant marks the first time an additional $90 ,000 before the public television has financially grant funds can be released. A 5, Isn't it possible that all you supported a ma jor pro ject concern fund-raising drive is already in ne ed is a good gay lover ? ing lesbian and gay issues. progress, and shooting may begin 1982 6. Why do hetero s exuals place so in late wi th a pro jected Filmmakers Robbie Ro senberg and fall of 1983 completion date . much emphasis on sex? Greta Schiller, the re cipients of the grant , are working wi th numer Before Stonewall can be 7. Why do you insist on being so ous historians ana scno�ars on the sent to obvious and making a public spec Middlemarch Films , 1619 Broadway , pro ject , including John D'Emilio, 9th floor, New York , NY 10019 tacle of your he terosexuality? author of a forthcoming study on .• the early homosexual rights move 8. With all the societal support ment ; Jonathan Katz, author of --Th�� Advocate , marriage re ceives, the divorce ra te Gay American History; Joan Nestle Oct . 28 , 1982 . is still s�iraling . Why are there of the. Lesbian Herstory Archives; so few stable heterosexual rela and gay historian Allan Berube . tionships ? "Before Stonewall will help 9. Considering the menace of over people of,. all kinds better under population, how could the human ra ce stand the recent emergence of survive if everyone were heterosexual homo sexual rights as an issue o{ .like you? public debate ," commented Katz . LIVE MUSIC t 1' -) DANCING I t q II s 1-/0 V,R G. POOL c Lj,- 100 N0 /3DlJ'/ '.5 t roo L SANDWICHES L /Y?ONDA Y t t /� NlrE 13 18 PIZZA <5 rO OT84lL 71/ E SONG- ? t .JJAfrz J)JJ.JC£ s SPEC/11 1..S t PINBALL /� pnies -;,1 t /IE !Nt!"XEN E ,.V1T E t CARRY OUT Spt o'a l ;:mte.s no co ve.r t t COLD BEER r1-1 c lJifoAJZ.: z S µ,l?T1AJ r,.. � t Gcr 80226D t Post-Amerikan Vo l. 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 20 Fasting •• a look at motivation In the last issue of the Post, we talked about addictions (cigarettes , motivations and needs . meat , candy , milk , coffee , salt--any thing one has to have ) and the re The faster gains emotional calm , men lationship of these addictions to tal insight , spiritual growth and health problems . One method men physical strength and health . The tioned for breaking the addiction was faster is also the one to experience fasting . Whether one is in health or the sick feelings which more often in sickness , fasting can play a ma jor than not accompany fasting . This role in one's overall well-being . "sickness" is the result of the with drawal one is going through by re- For example , one can be basically f raining from indulging in some healthy and yet decide to fast as a addiction , from food or from some means of releasing tension and drink. It is common knowledge that emotional stress. Fasting in order when .some people give up drinking . to identify with the poor and hungry coffee , they experience migraine of the world is practiced by the headaches . This is part of with Mo slems . Fasting is promoted by many drawal. In fasting , symptoms vary Chr istian groups in response to the from person to person , but they do Sermon on the Mount--to pray and fast. they will readily fast for the benefit exist. The sickness is in the body , We have heard of fasting as a means of others . Identification with the and the fasting is simply allowing of social protest. world 's hungry is such a motivational it to come to the fore . aid. Some writers have suggested fasting For example , there was a case of one prior to making any maj or changes in Since addictions themselves reflect woman who as a youth had had hepa one 's life as a new job, marriage , or a lack of will power , and since fast titis which had been treated with moving , and fasting has been used to ing , no matter what the motive , · drugs . Forty years later , during her develop phys ical and mental prowess , strengthens one's will power , the fast, the signs and symptoms of the agility , and strength . And , of original de sired end--to give up some hepatitis returned. As she continued course , fasting is promoted for re addiction--will soon fall into place . the fast, the signs and symptoms gaining physical health. cleared out of her system . Many books on fasting contain the It is important to be aware of the statement that under no condition The purpose of a cleansing diet many motives for fasting . If one's should one fast for more than two prior to a fast , of colonic therapy motive is strong (or sincere) , the (or three , or ten ) days without a and/or enemas and drinking lots of ab ility to begin and to maintain a doctor 's supervision. Since doctors water , is to assist the body in this fast will be reinforced. The fact do not advocate fasting , this seems cleansing process , thus minimi zing is , without the right motive at the a strange admonition . It appears the signs and symptoms of sickness. right time , the fast may never get prompted by the authors' fear that In the naturopathic literature , what they advise about fasting will off the ground . Sometimes th is these "sicknesses" are called healing end up caus ing harm to someone . They motive is called one's mind set. crises. The extent that one exper want to avoid being held legally re iences a healing crisis cannot be Here is an example of how th is moti sponsible. predicted. One can learn , however, vational factor works . If one is how to minimi ze them and to control Another belief, however, is that if having troub le breaking an addiction to the intensity of a crisis once it cigarettes , and also having trouble permission is needed from a doctor to has occurred. getting motivated to fast for the pur do a fast, then the person should not pose of breaking the addiction , it is be fasting to begin with. Fasting is The next issue will discuss the possible that by shifting the motive an art . It cannot be "prescribed ." physical symptoms one can expect one can open the doors for the desired Fasting is usually done for short during the fasting--the healing cri results . One such shifting of motives periods at a time until the person sis--as well as methods to use both could be to fast for a day as an act gets the hang of it. It is not some before and during the fast in order of prayer for some special intention . thing one does lightly; and whether to minimize the difficulties .• For this one day , one could either it is done for one day or 20 , whether fast from all food , or just from the it is done for one's religious Marjorie Kinsella, Naturopath cigarettes . beliefs or for one 's health , it is 1923 E. Jackson St. the individual faster who is respond Bloomington IL The motive for going without cigar ing to his or her own inspirations , 662-59 37 ettes for a day is no longer that of wanting to get off the cigarettes but rather to use the abstinence from smok ing as a means of joining prayer and fasting for the purpose of gaining strength and/or insight for solving a problem . Sometimes people fail to be motivated to fast for their own intentions or health , yet k***************************** Your urine or NATURAL. FOODS Come visit our newly remodeled store . 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Simply save your receipts until you have a total of $50 , at which time we will and army bases, factories and private present you with a FREE 10% discount card good for one year. companies are admin istering the EMIT Cannabinoid Assay, which we believe Once you have your discount card, simply present it at the constitutes an incredib le invasion of checkout counter for a 10% discount on every purchase. privacy .• . � --High Times dut���w-icie aa leat�ion of -wholefom&--===� 1lfooOS �b8�I::a� I Post-Amerikan Vol. 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 21 NAACP · protests Yo ung plea bargain Around fifty people attended a demonstration outside the murder for shooting Godfrey Miller in the back of the head McLean County Law and Justice Center December 4. at point-blank range Ap ril 28 at the Salt and Pepper Lounge . Young had argued with Miller earlier in the The loc al chapter of the National Association for the evening, then gone home for his shotgun and returned to Advancement of Colored People (NAACP ) organized the the bar . gathering, wh ich protested a plea bargain that dropped murder charges against a white man indicted for killing a When the State 's Attorney 's office dropped murder charges black man . in re turn for Young 's g�ilty plea to manslaughter, the black commun ity (and some of the white community, too ) David Young, who is white, had been fac ing two counts of was outraged . God moves in mysterious w�ys During the last days before thE Local citizens have heard of Rev . Ates (i.e. abuse) and disintegration of the election , Bloomington-Normal was given before , sirice he is known for burn fami ly . a little treat . Instead of hearing ing rock and roll records in vio lation insincere politicians , the listeners of city ordinances on fires within So when Jefferson Starship came to of WJBC radio got three opportunities city limits . town , he threatened to picket the to hear an impromptu debate between concer't and challenged Grace Slick and Rev . D. Wesley Ates of the 1st Penta Rev . Ates be lieves that rock and roll Jefferson Starship to a public debate . costal Church and Paul Kantner of mus ic is the chief cause of drug use Amazingly, Paul Kantner of Jefferson Jefferson Starship , a popular rock Starship accepted the challenge and a mus ic group . live debate on WJBC resulted . This debate is reported to have increased · ticket sales to the Jefferson Starship concert by perhaps 2,000 and caused problems for other ministers in the Bloomington-Normal community . STARTS During the debate , Rev . Ates quoted POWER from Cavalier magazine as we ll as those other "men 's magazines" like Time . Paul Kantner surprisingly , endorsed the sincerity of Rev . Ates, saying that "he didn't look like he was in it for the money ." Some of us local yokels may have a more skeptical attitude toward Rev . Ates , however. A visit to the 1st Pentacostal Church is like � visit to an economically depressed community . A visit to Towanda Avenue , though , finds Rev . Ates ' mansion across the street from the Country Club . A look in the list of delinquent real estate taxes (Oct . 12, 1982, Panta graph) reveals that both the l� Pentacostal Church and Rev . D. Wesley Ates had not paid their real estate taxes to the County and were in danger of being sold for taxes . But a check with the County Clerk after the WJBC debate rev eals that the taxes were finally paid, saving the properties Anywhere in Bloomington-Nor mal fTom auction . Perhaps Rev� Ates should thank Paul Fast, friendly service Kantner for causing his church 's and his own real estate ta xes to be fi- Paul Kantner thanked Rev . CALL nanced. J!_ tes for the 2;000 extra ticket sales • • DAVID ZIRKEL THE AUTO E>OCTOR --R. D. 829-4213 FREE ESTIMATES 404 w. GROVE • BLOOMINGTON God's Bullies . By Perry Deane Young . The FP A's extremi ty , Young says , has 356 pp . Po already opened a rift betwe en the , we Winston r Rinehart politi Holt , cs & and religious politicians and traditional Patriotism may be the las t refuge of conservatives . He quotes ultra a scoundrel, but in politics the conserva tive columnist James L. first refuge is often religion . You Ki lpatri ck on the FPA : "the bill say your plans are too arrogant and violates just about every precept of mean to present ope nly? Cloak them a conservative political philosophy . in divini ty . You 'll no t only hide ..it is so much junk . " them from public view, you 'll also The FPA also illustrates the new invest your cause with the curious taking hypo crisy of draft dodgers i power of religion. advocating winnable wars , divorced right s blatant hypocrisy : the ori men exto lling the sanctity of ginal signers of the bill included a The rise of the religious right in marriage , gay men working with congressman who regularly pa tronized Amerika is no longer news . The first vicious homophobe s, celibate priests male hustlers and ano ther who was reaction was panic: liberal condemning a woman 's right to abo r involved in extramarital sex play wi th politicians were doomed and the Con tion, and ra cists and anti-semites lobbyist Paula Parkinson. The man who gress wo uld soon resemble the Old preaching brotherhood and God's love . introduced the FPA , Paul Laxalt , is Time Gospe l Hour . Then came the dis a former gambling casino owner and missals : the power and influence of Although Young has a knack for was involved in a bitter divorce some the new right was all media hype . discovering the unguarded com ment and years ago . the revealing remark that wasn 't God's Bullies strikes a time ly meant to be so candid, he 's no t Another source of division, in Young 's balance . Author Young recognizes the merely making a record of hypo crisies .. opinion, is the new right 's essential danger of the born-again po litics , The author also examines how these ======contradi ctions and inconsistencies "The churc h is the last "Preachers are not called affect the structure of the new place where a fool can to be po liticians ." right movement and how (we can all stand up and talk for a --Jerry Falwell hope ) they wi ll lead to its even- tual undoing . half hour without having ======anybody tell him to shut but he also knows its limits and weak Young contends that what the new up and sit down ." rightists fear is freedom itself . spots . The key is Young 's personal ======Their ma jor "social" issues all have ======ized approach . He begins with the racism and anti-semitism. One of story of his own "redneck " evangel to do with control--of children's minds , of adults ' behavior, and of their most embarrassing moments came ical Christian origins and moves on in 1980 when Bailey Smith, president to fa scinating interv iews wi th and everybo dy 's private sex lives . This fear is clearly shown in the Family of the Southern Baptist Convention, reflecti ons on the leaders and issues told a gathering of religious poli of the rampant religious right . Prote ction Act (FPA), the religious right 's garbage pile of measures ticians in Dallas , "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew. " The ma jor theme of Young 's book is designed to "cure " all of (what hypo crisy--the stunning , even breath- they perceive as) society 's ills . The furor that followed had new right Be cause Perry De·ane Young is gay, Majori ty , Robert Billings , addressing vative movement or that any would be some of the jui ciest parts of an organi zational meeting in Penn allowed to . But Yo ung says : "I know God 's Bullies are about the new sylvania : "I know wha t you and I feel Qf at least ten pr ominent leaders of right 's peculiar affair wi th homo about these queers , these fairies . the Republi can right who have either sexuality and homosexuals . We wi sh we could get in our cars and had sex with friends of mine or gone run them down while they march .... to gay parties with them . According Young makes two po ints about the gay / We need an emo tionally charged issue to people I trust, there are at least right wing conne ction : 1) Homosexual to stir up pe ople and get them mad twenty members of Congress right now ity is primarily a political football who are homo sexual ; not all of them enough to get up from watching T·v for the religious po liticians to kick and do something . I believe that the are conservative Republicans , but around , and 2) There are a surprising homo s exual issue is the issue we mo st of them are ....In her book about number of homosexuals holding leader should use ." Washington , Rita Jenrette speaks of ship and staff po sitions in new two senators from the same state who right groups . After reading a vicious statement are 'big in the Moral Majority ' and like that , you may find it hard to make a point of being seen with the On the first po int , Young quo tes the believe tha t any gay person wo uld town's best-looking womeri, but are first ex ecutive director of Moral asso ciate wi th the re ligious -censer- known to be homo sexual ." The mo st striki� closet case that Young de scribes (at some length) is John Terry Dolan, head of the notor ious National Conservative Political Action Committee. Says Young : "Long before Dolan 's homosexuality became a news story in mid-1982, I had known several people who had been to gay parties with him; I knew one man who had had sex with him. " Yet the right-wingers Dolan associates with and helps to elect take an anti gay position right down the line . 111 ·roo ({4fH Stf. l\Jo({mAL Do lan claims to talk with Jerry � Falwell several times a week; Falwell has made a "declaration of war " IS J'A 1J TO . REPORT against homosexuality. Do lan implies that he is also close to evangelist James Robison; Robison has suggested THA T AFTER DEC. 3/, ,, that "like cancer" homosexuals should be removed from society. How do any of these people re concile THERE WILL BE any of this? Do lan denies his homosexuality and wa ffles on his gay rights stand , NO MORE BONGS sometimes saying there "ought to be ·a law" to pro tect gays from discrim ination by the government , sometimes saying "I do no t, nor have I ever 3U7 WE WIL L HA VE 70 l3ACCOS endorsed gay rights ." £ PIP ES t PA PERS t! �OCK/NEW'WAVE Everybody else definitely belongs to the Ostrich School of Morality--on STUFF J LOTS OF NEA T GIFTJ.'! this one . Schizophrenia, anyone ?e --Ferdydurke ======* BU *SELL *TRAD£ * {)JED - RECORDS Post-Amerikan Vol . 11, No . 8 Y December 1982-January 1983 Page 22 Road Baptist Church (they hawk Liberty leaders , especially Je rry Falwell , ======� nny�Co llege ties and the Moral Majority religdo ing more flipflo psious and turnarounds tyra than a dis�o dancer on poppers . The SCOREBOARD: Report in the foyer). Bu t his real fallout, as Young records it, included Number of times bible interest was the folks of Lynchburg , who gave him hope that Jerry Falwell denunciations by J�wish leaders who mentions U.S. Constitution 0 is fooling fewer and fewer people all blamed the rise of right-wing funda Number of times U.S. Con- mentalism for a serious outbreak of the time. stitution mentions God 0 anti-semitism in Amerika, and dis God's Bullies is a readable and claimers by Southern Baptists in ======Virginia and the District of Columbia passionate indictment of the new about the selective dysfunction of Falwell ser�on and colle ct ev ery right and its distortions of both God 's ears. thing printed or mailed out by his poli tics and religion. I hope you organizations--and make it availa ble read i t.e It's no t po ssible to go into all the to visiting reporters and writers areas Young touches on--everything free of charge. They've also --Ferdydurke from a behind-the-scenes look at a published a paperback caiied' Jerry ======·== Moral .Majority trai�ing session _Falwell, an Unauthorized Biography. ==== (where trainees are exhorted, above They give Falwell fits. all , not to wear white socks ) to a historical survey of religion and Yes, Young visited Liberty Baptist politics in this country. But I must College (10 prefabricated metal t:l� you about Young'� a?c?unt of h� s buildings and no grass, of any kind ) v1s1t to Lynchburg, /1rg1n1a , the · and attended a service at Thomas hometown of Jerry Falwell. It's worth the price of the book alone. Young didn't go to Lynchburg to inter view Falwell (the Reverend wouldn't Falwell' s flipflops grant an interview to anyone who did streets and back into the pulpits and didn't sign a "decency pledge " In the appendix of God's Bulli es , the into the prayer rooms. " beforehand ). But Young did talk to author includes the texts of four the good folks of Lynchburg. And speeches which he feels "approach the All right , class, le t 's review what what a delightful lo t they turned same sub ject as this book but with we hav e learned about the Rev . Fal perspectives uniquely their own. " out to be ! well : One of the speeches is a sermon 1965 You see , the ordinary ci tizens of delivered ·Jy Jerry Falwell on March 1. In he delivered a sermon Lynchburg don't like Jerry Falwell. 21, 1965 . Entitled "Ministers and which said "Preachers are no t called They know he 's a bully and a hypo Marches, " it is Falwell 's attack on to be politicians. " crite , and they don't take kindly to the civil rights demonstrations le d 1979 his money-grabbing tactics. Young by Martin Luther King , Jr . 2. In he helped to found Moral Ma jo rity , Inc., a political lo bbying ======In this sermon Falwell said that the organi zation, and he presently parti demonstrations and marches "have done cipates in four other na tional poli more to damage race relations and to tical action groups . gender (sic) hate than to help! " He 3. "vou'LL also made the se astounding asser He believes thaT there are absol NE.VE.R tions : ute , unchanging value s of right and GET HE.RPES wro ng . IF YOU --"Believing the Bible as I do ; I 4. He has dismissed his 1965 sermon AV O\D SEX would find it impossible to stop as "false prophecy ." · N pr eaching the pure saving gospel of RELATIO S. Jesus Christ , and begin doing any 5. REMAI N thing else--including fighting He claims that "the Bible is A VIRGIN, communism , or participating in civil absolutely infalli ble , without error AVOID rights reforms ...Preachers are not in all matters pertaining to fa ith calle d to be politicians but to be and practice ... " PLANNED soul winners ." PA RENTHOOD. 6. He cited 19 different biblical SEX EDUCATION •··-�.... --"I believe that if we spent enough passages in support of hi s views in 1965 Bl RTH CONTROL ... effo rt trying to clean up our the sermon. churches, rather than trying to clean SllPPORT .... ANO up state and na tional governments, we Are there any questions?• T/.1 £ NUCL£AR would do well. " BlJIL.O-llP.'/ --Ferdydurke -- "I feel that we need to get ()_ ff the ======met a "cowboy" at a local bar who tells of going to one of Falwell' s church services and walking out when the collection plate was pa ssed for the third time. Young talked to a ci ty attorney who eagerly tells 523 N. Main Bloomington the reporter about a tax case the ci ty is pursuing against Falwell, even though the attorney has been Sunday Football ordered. no t to discuss the ca se any more. Special· Our au thor describes a number of en ··HAPPY HOUR·· lightening encounter·s with Lynchburg ci tizens : the female reporter on the $1. 75 pitchers local paper who endured harassment Monday thru Friday ======Food noon to six "The world don't need no 3 pm ·6 pm Moral Majority!" ======15 oz. Busch Drafts and threats when she expo sed ano ther Falwell lie about finance s; the soft spoken Presbyterian minister who se sermo ns have titles like "Could Jesus 50¢ Belo ng to the Moral Ma jority? " (answer : he pro bably wouldn 't want to ); the black Methodist preacher who proclaimed, "The world don 't ne ed no Moral Ma jority! " My favorites are the two theology MEET teachers at Lynchburg College (not Fa �wC:��·�c::rit°Jci� ); tkilm�3cf�=�very YOUR Post-Amerikan Vo l. 11, No . 8 FRIENDS December 1982-January 1983 Page 23 Post-Amerikan Vol . 11, No . 8 December 1982-January 1983 Page 24 Socialized football threatens Ame rika According to CD , "When Garvey was For the past two months I have been . active in NSA , it urged the uspension threatening to wr ite a story on the NFL � of nuc lear testing , lauded Fidel strike . This idea has been met with Castro 's 'university reform ' in less than enthusiastic responses from communist Cuba and expressed support the rest of the Post staff , most of for Japanese st udents who rioted against whom disavow any knowledge of the exis President Eisenhower in 19 60 ." That 's tence of professional sports in general right . 1960. So 20 years ago an org (with the possible exception of tennis) anization to which Garvey belonged sup and of football in particular . So ported a nuclear freeze . That 's reason since no one was real excited about ar the man. the idea of covering the strike and enough to fe since I really had nothing new to add And just in case it isn't, CD gi es to the coverage in the straight press, � you a few more. It goes o ·n to list I backed off . the NSA' s sins (such as not supporting the Viet Nam war and supporting the Things :1ave changed. Whi le leafing repeal of marijuana laws ) which through the Conservative Digest (a occurred in the late 60s, by which. regular pastime of mine--got to keep time Garvey was already out of school up on the enemy , you know) , I dis and playing pro football . But the covered a very .strange thing . Guess real zinger in the article to make he who is the new number one enemy of � would make the union a partner in the reader hate and mistrust Ed Garvey is America , the new right , and very mana9ement of the NFL (Check . That 's that "Paul Potter , the NSA' • national po513.ibly, the entire free world? the idea) . The proposal , according to affairs vice president in 1961, later Norman Lear? Ted Kennedy? Tip owners and CD alike , "could lead to became president of the ultra-radical O,.Neal? Bob Avakian? Guess again. union control of professional Students for a Democratic Society According to CD the new threat to II football." And wouldn 't that be a (SDS) . truth , justice; and the Arnerikan way terrible state of affairs? .is mild-mannered Ed Garvey. If I read that right , and I think I This "socialism" in pro football, do Ed Garvey is a nati.onal threat Who? · you ask, bewildered . Ed Garvey , which the right is so vehemently be ause Paul Potter got involved in executive director of the National � opposed to , is apparently only a matter the SDS . If that makes absolutely Footbali League 's Players Association of degree. They do not seem to be no sense to you , join the club . (NFLPA) . In a five page article by opposed to the current practice of its assistant editor , CD recently sharing the gate receipts between the The fact that the union withdrew its posed the question: I��arvey home team and the visitors. This sys demand for 55% of the gross before SOCIALIZING Arnerika's ·football? It tem was set up specifically to take the strike even started seems to be of must have been meant .as a rhetorical the monetary advantage away from cities little interest to the Conservative question , for there is lit tle opportun with large capacity stadiums (like Digest. That Garvey wanted it seems ity for the ·r eader to answer "no." Los Angeles) and give it to teams with enough . Garvey also wanted (and sub small stadiums (like Green Bay) . This , uently got) a demand of severance The article starts out with these seq Garvey has correctly pointed out , is pay for players cut by teams and a. frightening words : "Socialism, res "socialism. " wage scale based on seniority (both ponsiple for economic stagnation in firsts for any professional spprt, but Britain, the flignt of business from But according to CD , " •••the NFL 's that does not seem to bother the new France, alcoholism in Sweden and food brand of socialisrrtis mild compared to ·right. shortages througnaut the third world, what Garvey has· in mind." Perhaps it now threatens America's national only seems mild to the new right and · But rest as sured, pro football, the pastime , pro football." the owners because it is socialism to NFLPA, and Ed Garvey will all survive benefit the owners, not the players. both the strike and the harsh attacks Now , I had no idea that socialism was of the nee-conservatives. responsible for all of the world 's If it is true that the new right has ills, particularly alcoholism, but · no real problem with just a tiny bit And as a sports fan , even I am · glad apparently I was wrong . of "socialism" within the. ranks of pro Garvey 's brand of so cialism has football , why does the CD seem so The NFLPA, as you probably know , failed to penetrate t�e NFL� Pro outraged with Garvey 's 55% solution? wanted 55% of the gross that pro foot has enough problems with Because, sports fans , Ed Garvey is a football ball takes in. That, my friends, doesn 't need alcoholism, radical. cocaine. 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