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1983 Statement by New Afrikan Prisoner of War Kuwasi Balagoon Amilcar Shabazz University of Massachusetts Amherst, [email protected]
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Recommended Citation Shabazz, Amilcar, "Statement by New Afrikan Prisoner of War Kuwasi Balagoon" (1983). Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series. 97. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/afroam_faculty_pubs/97
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?1 cmpulsory tax" to carry cn r€volution. llo flEtber of the 8.L.A. Introductionlnt'odrcdon hds ever opened fire during an expropriation unless forted to by a fool. Actually r€'d prefer not to a shot, because the TheThc PrisonerPri'p.ner ofof WarWst (P.O.(P.O.W.) W.J slatementstatemlnt beforeblote youyou is aa master/ulm8aetut fire b purpose of an exproprJation is to get funds .nd rpt to execute presentationpt*ntation ojol lhe E central&ntnl aspectsrytrs ojol thethe historicalhittodcrl andand presentq6ent tillydiy political. Nliticol, b quards or police, as d retaliating rctim night be for, but also economicdlelatumiul andond sodoI*A conditions.gtditions ojof thethe NewNe Afrikan (Black)(Dlock) NationNotion in lhettv Altikot in because shots are signals. The idea'l epropriatim Js carrled context@tltd ojoI lhelhe globoldoful crisisctitb O/Iheof UE AmerikkanAmenkkan empire.empiE, ThisThb statementttotenEnt underscoresundetvot6 p out wittFut ayorE outside of the actlon being any the f,lser. lhe fundamentalfutdo,nantal contradictionconttdiction thaithat Welye thethe 40lO millionmilion descendantsd^cendants ofof AfrikanAftikan Uhen the 8.L.A. hds'assassindted police officers dl grpose and slavesfure5 onon thettE NorthNoflh AmerikanAmetikan continentcontincnl facetoe dayfut inin andand daydat outout -- U.S.U.S. @lorlidijfi. W design l€'!e issued ccrrun iques explainlng why, and leavlng no colonialism. 1JuItTtst isis toto say,&t, thetla rocistr,lcist oppressionoppr$ion andotd supersu,€t exploitationqloitation ojoJ ourour ql.€stions. nation,natian, itsiA peopleNple andand itsits land.laad. lly conrade Sekou odinga_has been reJected frm this case InIn December,D@mh., 198/19EI thetre bravebmve wturiorwanio. whopho wrote*rot thisthb statement,sta@menl, ComradeComrdc dd indicted in a federal cdse charged kete€ring justified Kuwas;Kuv,{/ Bologoon.fulag@n, wasw6 capturedcapnud byb! thethc enemyerrsny forces 0/ the u.s. military stote. xith R by loirn5 o! ttv U.S. military stale. the sane incidents that leaves ne HeHe hodhd beenban wantedvantd for severaltwml year.s for escapingelping from a maximumnatimum security charged wlth murder and lot Ws lot ftun *r].,firy robbery, so that tlE Ner Afrlk position cln be hopefully put prisonp.ien inin Tl'l!nton.ftaton, NewNaw J~terty where||l@a he wasv6 Ulegallyilbgallt col1fined.co4fnd. Kuwos;Kuteasi isis oneotg ojoJ a ,,uiminah', out of focus by the st6te, by having cne defendlng numberNmtu ojol P.O.P,O.W.s W.s lockedl6kd down and brandedbrundd "criminals" by thethe U.S. U.S. oo/oniolcotonial ih Afrik against tlE s'lE crioinal chcges rnti , autlt ond slsten, !s ho rhit! -imerl al ists C'OIU1$ and InjustiuU&tfua SYS/~. I an def$dlrE the revo'lution, the state's frdngsrEnts r.e of rc Thent JoUowinglouowing statementstaten e ep.w thehe U.S.II.S- government'sgovem enl's reactionaryEmtiontry ryg con:iequence. It do€s not natter rhlt tt€ legal outcone trill be. policyNicy ofof denyingd.nying lhe lhe warwt goinggoing on insideinside itsits imperialistimryiatil borden,bda' anda.d inin so doing our fates are not in the hands of the state, hrt ln ttB hands of clulracterWngcrarsbtizing ourou people'speoplc's resistancer''l''stancc os a domesticdom6tic ptod.mprobkm of terrorism,crrotisrn, criminalcdmhtzt tlE masses €r, Afrika people, In revolutidt, one conspincid and iotous outbursls, $0 govmmcnt of either tins COnspiracies and riotous outbursts. In doing $ thisthis government imprisollSim itu/,as ourow or dies. This crse ddjts bigger consciouscor'J/cious armedomd freedom frghters andond seekseeks to deprivedqniye them vn ofol theirthch rightsngh|l ! Jury, fdom f8ht.6 In regards to the death of the money co'urier and the tro accordingeoding toto interruztiona/intarn4lional hlltnllnitarionht nonitaian conventiOllScgnruntiatl4t ond lhette conduct@nAld of war·suchwor-flach poljce officers, i an insu'lted that itrs thought of rs slxh a (If6 theltv GenevaCcnaea AccorcbA.@tdt and lhetlE UniledUnited NationsNaaio'1t 1977l9n Protocols.hot6oh- horrendous act, by the media and a population thlt doesn't AttMAt ltv timetim. ofol hishis CllptUTectptue KuwasiKuvsti wartt'6 chargedchond with beingbcirg a pa.ticipn,participant in conclude that twenty-five murders of ller Afrikan dli]dren Jn tltea October&tohr 20th,mh, 1981Iql «lionactbn invDlvinginwbing a Brink'sEdnk's armoredormored car containing S1.6 .6 Atlanta since tlE incarc€r*lm of Iayie TilliilE cr the drorni ng ntiIliontiuion andond ao shootoutshntout at a rcadblockroadblock in upstate NewNew York.Yo*. AboAlso captutedcaptured aafew lew d croided boat of Haiti s under the eyes of tlle tlnlted States monthsmoatht before&lon werewcrc NewNev .lhikanAfrikan Ft@domFreedom FrghtetFighter Sekou&'kou Odinga and anti-anti· of Coast Guard, a b'ig deal. imperialistinFialisl whites,whita, Judy,Iud, ClarkCla* and David Ailben.Oilbert. Eventually, 9kouSekou was sewrcdsevered But the systen, llke Publjc Ld 831-81 Congress, Title from thelfu casew tolo be triedtdd in the E infamous RICO Conspiracy CorLy,taq Case,C@, which invobd,involved, that's tam Sectim 102, 103, 104, other$ise knosl ds the l,lcclrran Act, for the first timelime in history, lEthe ueuse of federal statutesttatut6 otitiluoriginally d.eeloddeveloped to ll, lot fist f.deml t which authorizes Concentration (Detention) Canps should the prwukprosecute organizedo4anized crimecdme syndicates againstogoi(st teyolutionaryrevolutionary political organiztaionsorganizations Endicatg F,olitical president proc laim an Internal Security Bnergency. Security ls and movements. The U.S. Army has 350 record centers contalning . Kuwari,Kuwlti, Judy otdand fuvADavid were essentwlly€g,ntially tid,tried, conictedconvicted and ynlenedsentenced the nord. substantirl infonnation on civilian po'litical activists. The without their presence in court. It war, (If they said, a rihllllirial. The times they pentagon has 25 ntillion cards on individuals and 760'000 m qwdappewed ini, court twere eE onltonly to raiserui'€ ttethe talff!Q1 issuesi5s,./f5 of lhe the c@case ondand to go on t6otdrecord cganizrtlons held by tlE defeflse Centrat Index of Investigltions ,elnot (If crimilulJs,('imiwb, 6(If the statetta'z vot@would htvh4ve it, but taolutioiutrevolutionary anedarmed freedom a fradom alone, rnd this inforoatioo lncludes political, sociologlcal I'd fighl6$. KtKuwasi lrf5i nadetrUlde kno||nknown thethefact that hche itis a toldiatsoldier in the nnksranks oJof theth. BLA fghlqx. lact psphological profiles of 25 mitlicll people in the U.S. dtdand howlrov ilsits gdsgoals and strategiestlmtegi,s concomplement pLnenl tluthe justjt/.rt struggle of \tethe New A/n"kan tttlggle ol Altikon There rre special prisons in the U.S. Amy Reserves Soth nation. l4ititary Police P.0.I. co nlnd at K'ivonia, t'llchlgln. other fumBorn in Lokeland,Lakeland, MarylsndMaryland onon DecembtDecember 22,22, 1946,1916 Kuwasi'sKuwati's eultetUly liJelife detention centers" lre at Al lenhood, P!.; El Reno, -operfences iereWere lhethe snesame as thdtthat ofof thathe avtugeaverage NewNev AiikanA/rilcan nan-ehildman-child -• witd,wild, "emergency @tqt6 6 (xllhona; Florence, Arizona; Tule Lake, Californir; I'lill Point, @1,coOl, otd~ nbLtioldicmaterialistic· - tlpthe ntdc-in-AnwikkkafflIlIle..in·Amerikklul @lonialcolonial ldcmotktrademark thattMt onltonly gets Kls l{est Virglnid; I\h)(l€l I Air Force Brse, l'lontgqrEry, AlabttE; Avqr pledpeeled of!off lhtuughthrough Ebnlbrelentless rcyolulionaryrevolutionary struggle.stn/ggh. InIn thbthis slatanentstatement wewe hcthear Plrk, F'loridt; .nd Elnendorf !t Elelso.r Air Force Base in Allskr. from the m@..,ltemon ... the indomilableindomitabk NewNev Ajriluln wsniot,warrior, andand theftiendthefriend o!of oppt& oppressed tmm Aftikan The Air Force hds one of the l4gest police depdrtients in the people. FotFor all hbhis adult liJelife hehe hathas been thethe scourge ofof lhe the AmerikksnAmerikkan Ewite.Empire. Npb. aI adull ben xoutge so-cdl led free rorld. 1 26. these ex-slaves becarne llaroons and continued to fidhf- Whilelnih aa l10IdiB*i.. in ia 1M "wrong""wmng" tmny hehe uni/f!d wilhwith Evldence of at least ftfty such connuniiies . dmr uritd otherott6 bkJodstfu 10to f"hlapinstfight aSd.d lor ia.ori.ii thethc racism.@i!,n andand bigotftlbitod hostil;/~hostititiI5 heap«lhea@ uponupn NewN.v Afrikans.Atikar6, automaticallyiro^oiaqty rn varrous ptaces and at va"ious times. from 1672 to 1864 ~jectingrelecting IhRtle while-tHigh!whne-is-tight doubledoubte siandardssrandtrds andand throughttt r,t{.h lhetlc influenceinluace has been folnd. Today from the backllnds New ofof of Jeriei MalcolmMolcohn X.X. RapRap Brown,8rc||n, RobertRobc Willitlmswitlrtns andond MaoMao (attd through Appalachia, southward into Texas ana e"en Tse-Tungtse-Tung fondo/hers).ottetg, li"oii KUWQSiKu$ati moden& aa decisionde eon thai waswat 10 guide the th€ ilexican border, the descendants of nany of ifrjii rhd to guide lheC'OUt'Seofhis@ure of hb life:lile: laroons tho chose to cast tirir tots rttl-tte fltivi herlcans still be found, larg€ly forgotten ana oiten "When"Wen II lcard thdt 6eparately-cin poor. heard Ihot HwyHuy Newlonl,tct+,ton hadM been,€en inllOlvedinvolvd inin ao shooloul shootou with*irh ex Afrikans fouqht alonoside the two.va pigs andan! oneorre.had hod 'l,5OO died,.li.d, Ilhoughlf *oqht I'dId ch«kct*k thisrta brotherbrotler OUI,out, asa lie S€nlnoles, aqainst the Americans, ;hite soliiers and JJI!IttfVdrys i srrd 10.o befu Qn sho-mif/shaqlf letzder.lds- AndArd whenvIEn lhettc PanthersfutttY,ts aunestc 10io N.Y.N.i 20 nillion dollars. U.S. history doesn't reco"O oui toii Il ch«k«/litemtten point life. In Septenber, 1850, Ykd our,ou, andfoundondtourd thethe TenTen Point Programprctmn unquestionable,unpsbnabb,; and of ihree hundred FloriJi the/DCt.,let that;tit Mmrommwniry-bas«iw commualy.bacd goodgood l|ar-oons :hat aa Ihing.thing. Digging Wi^e thilt,iiii'"e, rhe codn! took flight from their abode in present oklahoma believedtt tprEd thot politicalpctliticat powerpow. sIems .trat sten& fromIron Ihethe barrelbanel ojof ao gun made de me /t!el to.ilexico. This nas accornpt ished after driving off Creei instanti^stant kinship.ki&hip. So joind fd -October So /I joined andand extendedstended myry energiesercqis andand skills toa'ii the nationals sent to oppose their exodus. In 30, BlackDl,i.k communityconmunfu! and pqiu.'Siac' "*tllr and monkindnunkind throughthmueh thethe Party. Since thenrfun I'vel,ve beenful 1851, flfteen hundred forrrrcr American slaves rrere aidin; capturedcapturd byby tE pies, the pigs, bulbut havelsw studiedsrudi.d andand actedo.td toto becomefuerr!4 aa betterhtler mannuh the Conanche Indlans of llexico in their fiqhtinq. and.P:.b:*:-t!i.-?. II beller president,; revoiutioruuy. II longto4g 10ro betu on lherhe streetss.djns withwi.h myny people,peopte, andatd In 'The conclusion of the Co;miss.ion on einYztezEtuk thRtrc stnqgledntgh to - 10 aa higherhhl,a level.lewl, andand dodo wholeve*,latcva isis 1I«f!l.'fIlry&ty'to to bringbriag CJvil Disorders," Dr. Kenneth B. Ctarl conneniea, 1,f thb-dbe.,{j?.l'ul this disgracejul periodxnod too anon end.md. (Looki',oo\ fortor mem hih dieft Wldlllwiad:S4fitrd: 'DIeli tl€ report of the l9t9 riot in Chicago, and is'as ""iJ C , II.. .int€stigatinglt ii-i :eE ~""ra!t*s4tv ofd Ibe6€ New!{.* Yorklort _ld.r %1,2t. ViIIIopvbtc .....fr'.-, rere_- r€-ading the report.of the co,mitee on J971).Fn). the Harlen riot of 135, the report ,43,of tie irivestioJino-ot cot|nittee on the Harlem riot of ttre report ttri-in Before you now isit KuWQS;'sKuwi's llcCone Comnission on the tatts riot: t must aqain &lforc fqt.Nw SlIltmlerllthotlhesta,? Elt that ,lt judgejrdee inin theatt Brink~kink,s trialfii ~tdt d toto leiA himfmish.h n.trrirt. It isis IlIIdt QI;t;USt1tory,(tl/F'/toot cendor,say to you nenbers of this Comtission -_" it i, a s/Qtementstotenar, ojo! thethe lockta* ofot@n/tr!!t!dom anda justaj*i inA Amerikka.AmelikLa. It-It judgerrstaat llnd of Alice in llonderland -- rith the sar" ,onlnJ It isis ao j~/QI statemtntstata4ht ofo! thettc repressiverqtaiw conditions*iifurs inn plcture Amerikim.Ametiktu. IIIt isb an exhortativeafiodative re-sho[n over and over again, the sa* oniivrli] statementstokment toto allalt ojoJ usus notnoj tob relinquishrctinquish thethc fightight thatthat has16 been $0 vatbn the s* recqrmendations and the sotp inaction &n N Wllilmtlyy wtZged bybj comrodescomrtu who'vewho,w givengiwa theirit t livestt*i andia peop'le comrodt:s@mt& IocIu!dlekd awaya*sy in the "wd . .Elrck have rttenpted to b€ recognized as human h the dungeonsdu4@ns of Amerikka. Anedkka- UstLa wexe JOt"g«-thelop_Ae str'lIUIe belngs ln this country despite its histoiy of murder- ''rl{rik through non-violent mdrches, sit-ins. etc: aooealino to -. ftErlca's morol conscience and only gol moie bipress"ion They couldn,t i9r !!r-i-s. spelk the ii6trt tonguogii tell ,e SUPPORT USUSIN IN Of...'ROL'RCALL CALL TOTO ALL FREEDOM-LOVINGFREDOM_LOVTNC th€ dJfference ln tile ftrtes -fin"g,'e PEOPLES of llartin Lutner t ta5j OFOFTHE THE We?WC?LDTODEI{AND LD TO DE-HAND PRISONERPRISONERAF OF WAR STATUS f.€iik Shrbezz dnd iiark Essex? FOF.FOR OURAUR CrJTUREDFREEDo.UC;FTURED FREEDO)T FIGHTERS!FIGHTERS! Expropriction is 6n !ci of war cdrried out bv everv :!'!ll.riat1' .i':l'in t,:sicry. heve-nots -ust :l€ iake from tr6 :'.O;\-C:.( \ C. :..;~'E i I'}:.'\. .\EU··AFRflCA E* A FRIIU.\ ...... FREEDOMFREEDS hclcs to :uDpori M FIGHTERS!FIGITTE Ps! thei- wdr. Hashington, eyen though he hcd QRGA!It'lZEARCANEE FOR NEW AFRlKANIFNKA PEOPLE'S WAR!*'AR! sllrrs 6rd ns aided by the Fr€flch, crossed tne lklawar6 to rajd ^" ttP Brltlsh. Stalin r€s e@roDrirtinq frsn bdnks at the *rc nf 15. Cal6 Marighell! expropriated lrom the north Amei?an Impeiidist bcnks in erdzii, as the Tuparnaros did I ik€r{.ise ln ljiugu€y. D..ring the Sranish resistenc€ to fascism. the brnks Eere necess.rily t6r!€:s of 'licsot--os' ano ios pisioleros, and othe: que"'-.as. Anyc-e not {,lnded by .n .uiside power must enqaqe in acts of €xproDriation or colleci ',revo l ut i onar_y 25 ? governnent knoxs it has not been anything but hideous.
t This "criminal" trial will not settle the question, there will be a viar until Justice js served. Some l{ew Afrikans feel that once America se?s that it cofies out cheaper to leave us alone re will achieve independence. i feel that independence wil'l come after total revolution, when the government no longer exists or simply hasn't the porrer to extend its authoritt ove. us. That ',here iS something in the psychology of Anericans that permits the -continuatlon of tilarines in Guantanaoo Bay in Cuba, even AddressAddress correspondencecorrespondence toto Bro.Bro. KuwasiKuwas i to:to: though it ls clear that neither the Cuban governmnt nor the Cuban people want thsn there. KuwaKwasi si Ba lagoon-lagoon I don't knoe ho, fiany generations of migrant ynrkers 83-A-621683-A-6216 lrill pick through the sinp groves year after year, or hor Attica C.C. F. many children will grof, hungry or barst, cynica'|, packed Attica,Atti ca, Newl{e}, York 14011'l40ll up ln subhuman dwellings. i don't knox hor long people will speak of officers like o'Grady and Brorn aa if they were saints, and accept photos of yarriors llke l4tayari laylng dead under the caption nDeath to Terrorists. in Pap€rs like the oailv il€rs. Hof, can peoFTE-T;fF of survivors, the wives and children of cops, and thei.rrgrief as if revolutionaries cone from ilars and don't have fanilies, rhen our fanilles and loved ones are harassed and attacked? Sundlata's rlfe was literally driven insane, and f$lice rent to the mntal hospital to obtain a statcnent nevertheless. lhe anster must be the same as why Amerlcans can say right off the bat that 57 thousand "Americans" died in the Vietnan tlar !{ithout caring as to how nany Southeast Asians rrere killed. This kind of disregard cones 'rith the territory of being a freedom fighter in a racist, illperiatlst, fascist empire, but it comes, for the most part, rith beinq 8lack. Throughout slavery there were nunerous rebel'lions and conspiracies to rebel, and lats enacted aqainst it, defining rebelllon as criminal. llat Turner, Cinque, Dennark Vesey and Gabfiel Prosser led revolts and conspiracies, there lrere over tro hundred and flfty slaye revolts during these three hundred years of slavery, and c0untless cases of arson and poisonings, Just as there were slaves and jerks lite Crispus Attucls rho fought ,lth the Americans agdinst the Erjtlsh, there were ex-slaves who fought lrith the British and after the Sritlsh gave up, 3 21 The Republic of t{er Afrika present-ed .the U.S. State D€partmcnt xith a petltlon for land for the ilew Afrikan nation and have been hounded by the federal and state police ever sioce. lhe federa'l and state police attacked FreeFree thetheLand! Land! ilery Bethel EaDtist Church while a public neeting ras in progress, attended by 142 men, women and children .in The ller Afrikan Detrolt. Provislonal Covernnent ras Mytly """'"n rc isis KuwaslKuwrsl 8a1agoon.Salagoon. TheThe namenrne Ists ofof Yorubayoruba origin.rtoin- haying a rl€etlng and although they tere surrounded and YorubaIgrub-q isis aa naJtl!:n t-. ofof aa tribetribe inin Western[estem AfricaAfrica inin whatwhat waswai callediat'tea surprised, th€se particlpants, including tayari Shabaka the Slar'_e gave the Slave Coast,Coast, andand nowno{ calledcall€d Nigeda. igeria. Manytihny Ifif notmt thetG bulkUrlf ofoi Sundlata and l,lutulu Shakur, a good account of slavesslaves broughtbrought toto thethe Western|estern HemisphereHeflisphere were Yoruba,yoruba. anci themselves and the police got were anrj one of their own killed and throughoutthrougholt slavery andand U.S.lJ-S. colonialismcolmialirn the religion, custans and another wounded for their This -sjavery tie r€ligion, custdE and effo!"ts. .ras a ciear case eVelevEl part'part ofo'f thethe 1cnguaQeI dEuac werewere maintainednaintdined inin the United States ci :€::-ciefense art :io j:iiians irnp!-:scrred th; ij;iied Statea 'der€ {ii.!r c'ld.'1C thr'O!;q~Olltthlcjqtout ~'!E:'e Ci..:--;:cean,C,::':lean_ CentraiCe'tra I anddnd SouthSouth Arne~~cas"ftlE-:cas. dl€"'i.:h€. il'j: snootcut :js€c as'{ee- a end cf course icne :rs;li:cation ~~E:-e ceocle:eoD,€ of ·~~gE~~a :hrew:irew ~heihe 3rit1sh:rit:sn out: they se~: ,_e ieder6l and 'ce t4t1o ::io f cu!- !hev !er: 3i s!are:o .it-€! cvF:400 ~~E.s~esE!1';:ctive5''c:.-e:€:rtaiives to:d Gr~em:e0'ien:e ProvinceoroviniJ inin-Cuta Cuba to relearn tne~r rnro churcr charoed .oim 1-o- il.. si,ct: il]e '.€r€ s'iih anjthing. c;.:1tL.'l"€cijltr'r€ 2.~a:'* theile ....'cr$a cruba \'e.'~Qioo which was kept ~ntact"";;;; throughout 'l8, !971 - {hidl fept lriact irtrouotrJ,rt 6: ;ugusi in iaikson. Hi!sis;ippi. ihe s!o.'vE:ry,:'av€ry. S;:anishS;ani:n onaand ;:.mericaninerican coionialism.coioniati$r."as i: was-ii renamedL""*i-i"-i" by m.y 1'llssissippi 5ta!e Police and the FBI attacked the peers in ttE Yo.uba yorula headquarters peers in the Yoruba tetl>leterple andand wasrlas marriednarried inin aa Yoruba cerenonycedonv of the Provisional Governnent of the likelike thousandsthousdlds ofof otherother peoplepeople beforebefor€ andand sinces.ince., •. R€pub'licof ilew Afrika and got a fer holes ln their hid€s TheTtG englishenglish translationtranslaticn ofof Kuwasi(msi isis "born$orn on Sunday,' and the for thelr efforts. In fact, the head Jaclson orl Sundav.. ad thF of the translationtranslation ofof BalagoonBa tagon isis ·twarlord,1I'tlar'tq.d,' andat asas.it ·it suits TJIE! toto havefrive Pollce Intellig€nc€ Squad Lou'is was suit;h Skinner kllled and tm aa.n natE 19 that reflectsrefl€cts whatrhat i am about andard my origins,oriaini. i accepticceoi other Euro-Arnericans in that lily rhite death squad reie that rane.name. DonaldDonatd Weems,tea6, the namenarc that theUi prosecutorprostiftor" likesfii*'ti to tounded. use, js rr ali€r! years use, is ill aliBl europeillewopetl neme.narc. Donald is a ChristianCtrrtstian nantenare -__ Elghty before that Thomas Fortune and the andano i am not a Christian;Ctristi and WeI!msIeAl6 is a Scottish name, and ; am Afro-American League -i ; naE. ad i ,,n ational championed th€ cause of a not Scottish.sclttish. It'sIt,s a namendE that soresqlE slaverslave. decided to b;adbrand what separate t{ew Afrikan years rhat nation for People. A hundred he constderedconsidered his property with and it is if,"the name ir,ethe jiii"state before, l{ew Afritan people in I'lississippi and Louisiana likesrKes to use to propagat€propagate a co'lonialcolonial r€lationshiD.relationship. "i,e The English petitioned ncave The Eno.lish Congress for a separate territory. Ihe first translation of l,{eemsWeems ls1s "cave dv{e'ller.',dweller.1I i1 rej€ctreject all t6tthat itit permanent inhabitants after the l{ative Anericans in what means. is no{ the United States Fre slaves that rebelled against an a prisoner _ -ii am a prisoner of }6rwar and i r€jectreject thethe craDcrap about rEIre beinobeing a Spanish enslavers and colonizers and joined the ative detendant,defendant, ard.am i-doi 00 notnat r€cogni2erecognize thethe legitinacylegitimacy of this court. ftrcricans in what is no{ South Carolina, in the year '1526. of this couit. Thelhe termterm ofof deferldantdefendant applies toto sonrorcsomeone i;rvoivedii1volved inin a crininalcriminal So understand this demand is not a fad, that this natter,matter, inin anan internalinternal searchsee-reh forfor quiltguilt or innocence. It is strug-a1e fci lanc and independence leci;.imate or innocenc;. ii is is a clearclear tiatthat i,vei've b€enbeen aa paripart cfof th€the dtactBlack fliberation itrat-lon-tive,reni Movement ai]ell aspiration i-.ai h.s been withi'1 the ner'onal ew wili of ofof nVmy adultadult lifelife andand havehave beenbeen involvedinvolved inin aa warwar aoainitaqainst tirethe Afril(an people sirce ke firsi stepped .n these l"l€ shcres- A:.ericanAF,LErican --0e",'.st,=mper~2~ist, irin crdercraer tcto fr€€free NeNew f,:rifanAfrikan people f~ are a colonized people, who have a common language, ieople f*o- itsits yoke.yoke. ii am2m notnct treatedtreated likelike ea criminal,criminal, urnam never in thE culture and history of oppression. neue.'in ti,e companycompany otof prisonersprisoners withwith non-politicalnon-political cnarges.charges. Neue.Never tra"ihaVE: :.; If the United States tere a denocracy it would a set hadhad aa bail.orbail or paroleparole onceonce captured,captured, andand out-ofout of tenten yearsyears .r~rt date for a U.t{. plebiscite, hold elections with no County Jails andand prisonsprisons sevenseven yearsyears were spent in isolatioo, int€!-ference, and abide :ir_1t.y-.J1] ]t wer€ spent in iaolatim, by ihe outcon€. If the tlnited aclnlnrstrativeadministrative seg!-egation,seg~egation, nanagementmanagement control, Incorrigibie Siat€s had :€en in its deal'ings {:th us it control, Jncorriqibl€ "fc::hriEhi" urrisUnits oror sofiesome oiherotf-Jer seDaraie,separate, punitivepunitive arrengenentarrangement oror iri:o-prison wculd be doubtf!l r: thirt-v nillions of people l{ould v,,jthinwithin aa Orison.prison. cecic€ io ricv€ anc ielin .nek raiher than choose (hat they knG{ and have exper:€nced, bui you know and the Anerican 2? • Before becomingbecorfng a clandestine ~~volutionary-evolutionary i was a ten~~ttena.i The U,S. inperjalists have lost Sofloza's 9r'ip on organizer).ganizer and waswas arrested forfor 77lenacing---.nacin9 a 270 lb.lb. colonialcolon,el Nicaraqua and LJ.S. Duppets in El Salvador and Guatemala )uilding superintendentsuperintendert with a mach':!te,mach:te, who physically stopoedstopoeC stand on shaky qround. Imperialisn must expand or die; :he delivery of oil to a building ii didn'tdidn,t live in,jn, but ~adbed the recession is due to a lack of expansion and nee, l~lpedrelp€d toio orgMize.orgaflize. BeingAeing an€n organizerorganiztr forfcr the CCIl1TlJnityCqmlnity CouncilCouncjl supplies of rav materials, in an econony rhose growth is )11rn Housingilousing ij took Dartoart inin not only organizingorganizjng rent strikes.strikes, but in video ganes for diversion, colputers for taking people "J"~55ureo:!r::s:ural slumlordssljifilorls totc maker,take repai-s and mahtainnairiain heat and "othoi out of rork and storing information against them' ..laier, Her, \(iiledkilled rats.raLs, represented tenantstenanis inin court.court, stopped illeQ3.1illeqal "security" to guard the rjch and iniinjdate ihe poor and ~victions.:viciionj, facedfacd offgfr Cityijiy >'1arshals,)larshals, '~eiped1-.lDed -CUt;'!ru.i ,ents.erts ir.toi,:io rep;;",reo?i. f,crnoqiaDhy 1c orcpagate violera: agaitsi ,omen and ~esources^esourc3s and collectivecgll?ctive awne!"'"shiocvfie!.shio 'tJy by tenants and d'3OOT1st:-atedd"rDnst.ated .hildren, 's th? .ause of this crisis, heneve""t:Jenevs. :!-.eilE needs of tenants wererere at.i stake. Inln 1967 thelhe U.S.U.S- :ongresslcngress killedtilled the rat bill wilichyhich wouldhDuid have provided funding fori-or killing rats.rats, At that tirretinE it wasdas estimatedestinated that there wasyiaa In 1968 the ?epublic of Ne$ Afrika petitioned ihe u'S' at least one rat for every person inin N.ll.Y.C. Y.C. SoSo'€ we decided to in pursuit of secession; the Nation of Islam under the denonstratedaonstrate at the U.S. House of Reoresentatives.ReDresentdtives. Onceonce weHe got leadership of Elijah Muhamned had demanded land for a thereihere ~v€ decided that insteadinstead of walkingwalkinq aroundd.dtnd withNith signs inin the Black nation since i940. ln the 1930s t'larcus Garvey and sunsl,l waitinglraiting forfo'reporters, reporters, wel,e would just go inin and tell those ltegro Improvement Association organized flve tell those the universal 'in creeps howhovi we're fe1t.felt. Onceonce we began to practice our first nillion people of-African descent an effort to return (lTlellm.entdl€r$Efit rightsridlts and refusedrsfused to leave,leave, ~akerSpeaker of the House Tip to Afri;a. The U.S. governflent charged this man, who-had O'Neillo'lleill instructedjnstructed the Capitol Police to "Get those niggers out bouoht a shiD ti're and land in Africa and nobi lized five of here," at whichlrhich time the Boy and GirlGir'l Scouts and other mitiion peopte into industrious self-sufficiency ajld one other to spectatorssp€ctators werer€re ushered outort andd wev€ anddd thetlle Capitol Police had a purpose and one ain, tith mail fraud anA deported.-him free-far-all,free.for-a injn tn. halls of Congress, down the front steps and ihe hands of the tjritish llho kept him in jail uitil death ll, tlE halls of CdEress, do'l the front steps and plantation aall 11 over the lawn.lawn, Five of us, includingirEluding myself and my sister, (after confiscation of the ship line and rubber Goodrich' were|le'ru arrestedarr€std for "disorderly"disadtrly conduct,conduct,' n whichrftidr myny FBI filesfi les advise in Liberia and selling thef to Firestone, 8-F. me.ne.uas was lodgedlodged because of resulting publicity that court The llation of Islan yras dubbed by the press-as of resulting that court etc.) . people' pr • t ThisThis "criminal""criminal" trialtrial willwill notnot settlesettle thethe question,question, therethere willwill bebe aa warviar untiluntil JusticeJustice isjs served.served. SomeSome Newl{ew AfrikansAfrikans feelfeel thatthat onceonce AmericaAmerica se~Sse?s thatthat itit comescofies outout cheapercheaper toto leaveleave usus alonealone were willwill achieveachieve independence.independence. ii feelfeel thatthat independenceindependence willwil'l comecome afterafter totaltotal revolution, when thethe governmentgovernment no longerlonger existsexists oror simplysimply hasn't tttethe powerporrer toto extendextend itsits author"{ty-authoritt overove. us. ThatThat there',here isiS somethingsomething inin thethe psychology ofof AmericansAnericans thatthat permits thethe "continuation-continuatlon ofof Marinestilarines inin GuantanamoGuantanaoo BayBay inin Cuba,Cuba, eveneven Address correspondence to Bro. Kuwas i to: thoughthough itit isls clearclear thatthat neither thethe CubanCuban governmentgovernmnt nor thethe CubanCuban people want themthsn there.there. Kwasi Ba lagoon II don'tdon't knowknoe howho, manyfiany generationsgenerations ofof migrant workersynrkers 83-A-6216 wilrill 11 pick throughthrough thethe samesinp grovesgroves year afterafter year, oror howhor Attica C. F. many chchildren iT dren wiwill 11 growgrof, hungry oror worst,barst, cynical,cynica'|, packed Atti ca, l{e}, York 'l40ll up inln subhumansubhuman dwellings.dwellings. ii don'tdon't knowknox howhor longlong people will speak of officers like O'Gradyo'Grady and BrownBrorn asaa ifif they were saints, and accept photos of warriorsyarriors likellke Mtayaril4tayari layinglaylng dead under the caption "DeathnDeath to Terrorists·Terrorists. in papersPap€rs like the Dailyoailv News.il€rs. HowHof, can peoplepeoFTE-T;fF talk of survivors, the wives and children of cops, and thei.rlgri"efthei.rrgrief as if revolutionaries comecone from Marsilars and don't have familfanilies, ies, whenrhen our familiesfanilles and loved ones are harassed and attacked? Sundiata'Sundlata's 5 wiferlfe was literally driven insane, and policef$lice wentrent to the mentalmntal hospital to obtain a statementstatcnent nevertheless. Thelhe answeranster must be the same as why AmericansAmerlcans can say right off the bat that 57 thousand "Americans" died in the VietnamVietnan Wartlar without!{ithout caring as to how manynany Southeast Asians wererrere killed. This kind of disregard comescones with'rith the territory of being a freedom fighter in a racist, imperialist,illperiatlst, fascist empire, but it comes, for the most part, withrith beinqbeing Black.8lack. Throughout slavery there were numerousnunerous rebellionsrebel'lions and conspiracies to rebel, and lawslats enacted againstaqainst it, defining rebellionrebelllon as criminal. llatNat Turner, Cinque, DennarkDenmark Vesey and GabfielGabriel Prosser led revolts and conspiracies, there lrerewere over trotwo hundred and flftyfifty slayeslave revolts during these three hundred years of slavery, and c0untlesscountless cases of arson and poisonings,poisonings. Just as there were slaves and jerksjerks litelike Crispus AttuclsAttucks rhowho fought ,lthwith the Americans agdinstaga'inst the Erjtlsh,British, there were ex-slaves who foughtfouqht lrithwith the British and after the SritlshBritish gave up,uP. 2124 thesethese ex-slavesex-slaves becamebecarne Maroonsllaroons andand continued to fight. continued to fidhf- lnih a *i.. ia "wmng" he with EvidenceEvldence ofof atat leastleast fiftyftfty suchsuch communitiesconnuniiies (of Maroons) . dmr uritd ott6 tfu to fight aSd.d lor ia.ori.ii thc .@i!,n and bitod hostititiI5 hea@ upn N.v Atikar6, iro^oiaqty inrn variousvarrous placesptaces andand atat variousva"ious times,times. fromfrom 16721672 to to 1864,1864 relecting tle whne-is-tight doubte srandtrds and ttt r,t{.h tlc inluace hashas beenbeen found.folnd. TodayToday fromfrom thethe back1andsbackllnds of NewNew Jersey of of Jeriei Molcohn X. Rap 8rc||n, Robc witlrtns ond Mao (attd throughthrough Appalachia,Appalachia, southwardsouthward intointo TexasTexas andana evene"en across tse-Tung ottetg, li"oii Ku$ati n& a de eon wat guide the theth€ Mexicanilexican border,border, thethe descendantsdescendants ofof manynany ofof theseifrjii rhd to @ure of hb lile: "aroonslaroons whotho chosechose toto castcast theirtirir lotstots withrttl-tte the Nativefltivi Aooericansherlcans can stillstill bebe found,found, largelylarg€ly forgottenforgotten andana oftenoiten "Wen lcard -cin I thdt Huy l,tct+,ton M ,€en involvd in o shootou *irh deparate1y6eparately poor.poor. Newex AfrikansAfrikans foughtfouqht alongsidealonoside thethe .va 'l,5OO an! orre.had .li.d, f *oqht Id ct*k rta brotler Se.1noles,S€nlnoles, a~ainstaqainst thethe Americans,Americans, 1,500 white;hite soldierssoliiers andand rys out, a i srrd .o fu n shaqlf lds- Ard vIEn ttc futttY,ts stc io N.i 2020 millionnillion dollars.dollars. U.S.U.S. historyhistory doesn'tdoesn't recordreco"O ouroui losstoii l tten point Ykd ou, ondtourd the Ten prctmn unpsbnabb,; ofof life.life. InIn September,Septenber, 1850,1850, threeihree hundredhundred FloridaFloriJi .,let it commualy.bacd :hat w a good thing. Wi^e ,iiii'"e, Maroonsl|ar-oons tooktook flightflight fromfrom theirtheir abodeabode inin presentpresent Oklahomaoklahoma tt tprEd pctliticat pow. .trat sten& Iron the banel of o gun de me fd toto.ilexico. Mexico. ThisThis wasnas accomplishedaccornpt ished afterafter drivingdriving offoff CreekCreei i^stant ki&hip. So I joind nationals sent oppose -October and stended ry ercqis and a'ii nationals sent toto oppose theirtheir exodus.exodus. InIn October 30,30, Dl,i.k conmunfu! and nunkind thmueh pqiu.'Siac' "*tllr 1851, hundred the rfun l,ve ful 1851, fifteenflfteen hundred formerforrrrcr AmericanAmerican slavesslaves wererrere aidingaidin; capturd by tE pies, but lsw the Conanche Indlans srudi.d and o.td to fuerr!4 a htler nuh the Comanche Indians ofof Mexicollexico inin theirtheir fighting.fiqhtinq. .P:.b:*:-t!i.-?. I to4g InIn MThe'The conclusionconclusion ofof thethe President'spresident,; Commission on ro tu on rhe s.djns wi.h ny peopte, atd - Co;miss.ion on zEtuk trc dntgh to a hhl,a lewl, and do *,latcva CivilCJvil Disorders,ltDisorders," Dr.Dr. KennethKenneth B.B. Clark comnented, 1,f"I read is &ty'to briag Ctarl conneniea, thb-dbe.,{j?.l'ul xnod o on md. i',oo\ tor m h thetl€ reportreport ofof thethe 1919l9t9 riot inin Chicago,Chicago, andand it is as if""iJ I ft S4fitrd: li .int€stigatinglt is'as ii-i :eE a!t*s4tv d 6€ !{.* lort ld.r 2t. vbtc fr'.-, wererere_- readingr€-ading thethe report.report.of of thethe investigating conrniteeco,mitee onon Fn). thethe HarlemHarlen riot ofof 135,135, thethe report of the investigating ,43,of tie irivestioJino-ot committeecot|nittee on the Harlem riot of '43, thettre report of thettri-in McConellcCone CommissionComnission on the Wattstatts rioLriot: It must againaqain in &lforc fqt.Nw it Kuwi's sta,? Elt that ,lt jrdee in att kink,s fii tdt d to cendor,say you A h n.trrirt. is dt ,(tl/F'/toot candor say to you membersnenbers of this CommissionComtission ---_" it isi, a -It stotenar, o! the ta* ot@n a j*i A Hndllnd of Alice in Wonderlandllonderland -- withrith the samesar" moving,onlnJ AmelikLa. It is o judgerrstaat stata4ht o! ttc rqtaiw *iifurs n plcture Ametiktu. It b an afiodative pfcture re-shownre-sho[n over and over again, the samesa* analysis,oniivrli] stokment to alt oJ us noj b rctinquish thc ight the SaMes* recommendationsrecqrmendations and the samesotp inaction.1tinaction that 16 &n N vatbn y bj comrtu who,w giwa it t tt*i ia peop'le @mt& lekd a*sy the "wd . .ElrckBlack people have attemptedrttenpted to beb€ recognized as human h du4@ns of Anedkka- La xe lop_Ae belngsbefngs lnin this country despite its histoiyhistory of murder-murder, ''rl{rik through non-violent mdrches, sit-ins,sit-ins. etc:etc. aooealinoappedling to ftErlca'sAMerica's morolmoral conscience and only golgot moiemore bipress"ionoppression They couldn,t i9rfor !!r-i-s.this. They couldn1t spelkspeak thethe ii6trtright tonguogiilangudge; tell ,eme SUPPORT USIN OL'RCALL TO ALL FREDOM_LOVTNC th€ dJfference ln tile ftrtes -fin"g,'e PEOPLES the difference in the fates of llartinMartin LutnerLuther King, E1t ta5jHajj OFTHE WC?LDTODEI{AND PRISONERAF WAR f.€iik Shrbezz dnd iiark STATUS Jt;a 111::. Sht..bc.zz c:nd ~~t.rk Essex? FOR AUR C;FTURED FREEDO)T FIGHTERS! ExproprictionE~proprietion isis 6nfin !ciact of war cdrriedc~rried out bvby evervevery :!'!ll.riat1'~1Lrtirocy .i':l'inr::r;;'I)' t,:sicry. He heve-nots -ust in h-istory. :l€ have-nets :rust iaketlike from tr6the :.( \ C. i I'}:.'\. E* A FRIIU.\ FREEDS M FIGITTE Ps! hclcs to :uDporisup~ert Washington~ nlxes to thei-the;:-- wdr.war. Hashington, eyeneven though hehe hcdhc.d ARCANEE FOR NEW IFNKA PEOPLE'S *'AR! sllrrssleves 6rdam nswas aidedlIidB:I byby thethe Fr€flch,French, crossedcrossed tnethe lklawar6Delaware toto rajdraid ^" ttPthe Brltlsh.British. StalinStalin r€swas e@roDrirtinqexpropriating frsnfrom bdnksbonks atat thethe *rcoge nfof 15.15. Cal6Carlos Marighell!Marighella expropriatedexpropriated lromfrom thethe northNorth Amei?anAmerican ImpeiidistImperidist bcnksbdllks inin erdzii,Srdzil, asc.S thethe TuparnarosTupdmdros diddid Ilikewise ik€r{.ise lnin ljiugu€y.Uilr.!ocy. D..ringD...:.ring thethe SranishS!:'c.nish resistenc€resistence toto fascism.fascism, thethe brnksbanks Eere1<'ere necess.rilynecessc:ri1y t6r!€:stargets ofof 'licsot--os''Nosotros' anoand' ioslos pisioleros,pistoleros' andand othe:oth~ que"'-.as.guer~i-:c:.s. Anyc-eAnyo'lE notnot {,lndedfunded byby .nen .uisideoutside powerpower mustmust enqaqeeng2.ge inin actsacts ofof €xproDriationExpropriation oror collecicollect ',revo"revolutionary l ut i onar_y 2525 cmpulsorycOOJpulsory tax"taxI! to carry cn(J1 r€volution.revolution. lloNo flEtberrremer of the 8.L.A.B.LA. lnt'odrcdon hdshas ever opened fire during an expropriation unless fortedforced to by a fool. Actually r€'dwe'd prefer not to fire a shot, because the Thc Pri'p.ner of Wst (P.O.W.) statemlnt blote you a m8aetut fire b purpose of an exproprJationexpropriation is to get funds .ndand rptnot to execute pt*ntation ol E &ntnl rytrs ol the hittodcrl and q6ent diy Nliticol, b quardsQutlrds or police, as da retaliating rctimactim nightmi~t be for, but also elatumiul ond *A .gtditions of the Ne (Dlock) Notion ttv Altikot in becausebecau'se shots are signals. The idea'lideal epropriatimexpropriation Jsis carrledcarried @tltd oI lhe doful ctitb of UE Amenkkan empiE, Thb ttotenEnt undetvot6 p out wittFutwithout ayorEtrlyore outside of the actlonaction being any the f,lser.wiser. futdo,nantal conttdiction that lye the lO milion d^cendants of Aftikan UhenWhen the 8.L.A.B.L.A. hds'assassindtedhos 'assassinoted police officers dlon grposepurpose and fure5 on ttE Noflh Ametikan contincnl toe fut in and dat out - U.S. @lorlidijfi. byW desi!J1design we'vel€'!e issued ccmooniquesccrrun iques explainingexplainlng why, and leavingleavlng no Ttst is to &t, tla r,lcist oppr$ion otd su,€t qloitation oJ our questions.ql.€stions. natian, iA Nple and its laad. Mylly comradeconrade Sekou Odingaodinga_has .has been rejectedreJected franfrm this case and In D@mh., 19EI tre bmve wanio. pho *rot thb sta@menl, Comrdc dd indicted in a federal casecdse charged with Racketeeringkete€ring justified by Kuv,{/ fulag@n, w6 capnud b! thc errsny xith R by loirn5 o! ttv U.S. military stale. the samesane incidents that leaves mene chKrged with murder and He hd ban vantd twml elping a natimum charged wlth murder and lot Ws lot ftun *r].,firy robbery, so that thetlE NerNew AfrikanAfrlk position cancln be hopefully put p.ien in ftaton, Naw terty ||l@a he v6 ilbgallt co4fnd. Kuteasi is otg oJ a ,,uiminah', out of focus by the state,st6te, by having onecne New Afrikan defendingdefendlng Nmtu ol P,O.W.s l6kd down and brundd by the U.S. cotonial ih Afrik against thetlE smmes'lE criminalcrioinal chargeschcges as!s twoho white anti-imperialists.rnti al ists , autlt ond U&tfua slsten, rhit! -imerl iI aman defendingdef$dlrE the revolution,revo'lution, the state's arr.mgerentsfrdngsrEnts arer.e of 00rc nt louowing staten e he II.S- govem enl's Emtiontry ryg consequence.con:iequence. It doesdo€s not matternatter whatrhlt thett€ legal outcomeoutcone willtrill be. Nicy of d.nying lhe wt going on inside its imryiatil bda' a.d in so doing Ourour fates are not in the hands of the state, hrtbut inln thettB hands of crarsbtizing ou peoplc's r''l''stancc os a dom6tic ptod.m of crrotisrn, cdmhtzt thetlE masses of New€r, Afrikil'l people.people, In revolution, one either wins conspincid and iotous outbursls, govmmcnt of Afrika In revolutidt, one either tins In doing $ this im itu/,as ow or dies. This casecrse BWditsddjts a bigger jury. cor'J/cious omd ond eeks to dqniye vn ol thch ngh|l ! Jury, fdom f8ht.6 In regards to the death of the money courierco'urier and the twotro eoding to intarn4lional ht nonitaian cgnruntiatl4t d tte @nAld of wor-flach policepoljce officers, i aman insultedinsu'lted that it'sitrs thought of asrs suchslxh a 6 ltv Ccnaea A.@tdt and tlE United Naaio'1t l9n hot6oh- i horrendous act, by the media and a population thatthlt doesn't At ltv tim. ol his ctptue Kuvsti tt'6 chond with bcirg a pa.ticipn, in conclude that twenty-five murd~rsmurders of Newller Afrikan childrendli]dren inJn a &tohr mh, Iql actbn inwbing a Ednk's ormored car containing .6 Atlanta since thetlE incarcerationincarc€r*lm of WayneIayie Willi_TilliilE orcr the droomingdrorni ng tiuion ond o shntout at a rcadblock in upstate New Yo*. Abo captuted a lew of ad crowdedcroided boat of HaitiansHaiti s under the eyes of thetlle Unitedtlnlted States moatht &lon wcrc Nev .lhikan Ft@dom Frghtet &'kou Odinga and anti- of Coast Guard, a bigb'ig deal. inFialisl whita, ,Iud, Cla* and David Ailben. Eventually, 9kou was sewrcd But that's the system,systen, likellke PublicPubljc L""Ld 831-81 Congress, Title lfu w lo be tdd in E infamous RICO CorLy,taq C@, which invobd, that's tam II, SecticnSectim 102,102, 103,103, 104,104, otherwiseother$ise kna.«!knosl asds thethe McCarranl,lcclrran Act, the lime in history, lE ue of ttatut6 otitilu d.eelod to ll, lot fist f.deml t Whichwhich authorizesauthorizes ConcentrationConcentration (Detention)(Detention) CampsCanps shouldshould thethe prwuk o4anized cdme ogoi(st teyolutionary organiztaions Endicatg F,olitical presidentpresident proclatnproc laim anan InternalInternal SecuritySecurity Emergency.Bnergency. SecuritySecurity isls the word. TheThe U.S. Army has 350350 recordrecord centers centers containing'contalning . Kuwlti, Judy otd fuvA were €g,ntially tid, conicted and ynlened the nord. substantialsubstantirl infonnationinfonnation onon civiliancivilian politicalpo'litical activists.activists. TheThe pentagonpentagon hashas 2525 millionntillion cardscards onon individualsindividuals andand 760,000760'000 onm qwd i, court t eE onlt to rui'€ tte tal i5s,./f5 of lhe c@ ond to go on t6otd organizationscganizrtlons held by thetlE defensedefeflse CentralCentrat IndexIndex ofof InvestigationsInvestigltions ,el ('imiwb, 6 the tta'z vot@ htv it, but taolutioiut aned a fradom alone,alone, andrnd thisthis infonnationinforoatioo includeslncludes political,political, sociologicalsociologlcal andI'd Kt lrf5i nade kno||n the that hc it a toldiat in the nnks oJ th. BLA fghlqx. lact psychologicalpsphological profiles ofof 2525 millionmitlicll people inin thethe U.S. dtd lrov its gds and tlmtegi,s con pLnenl tlu jt/.rt \te New tttlggle ol Altikon ThereThere arerre specialspecial prisonsprisons inin thethe U.S.U.S. ArmyAmy ReservesReserves 300thSoth Militaryl4ititary PolicePolice P.O.W.P.0.I. Conmandco nlnd atat Kivonia,K'ivonia, Mich1.gan.t'llchlgln. Otherother fum in Lokeland, Marylsnd on Decembt 22, 1916 Kuwati's eult liJe "emergency detentiondetention centers"centers" arelre atat Allenwood,Al lenhood, Pa.;P!.; ElEl Reno,Reno, iere lhe sne thdt of tha avtuge Nev Aiikan nan-ehild - witd, "emergency @tqt6 6 Ckhlhane.;(xllhona; Florence,Florence, Arizona;Arizona; TuleTule lake,Lake, California;Californir; MillI'lill Point,Point, @1, otd nbLtioldic - tlp ntdc-in-Anwikkka @lonial ldcmotk that onlt Kls Westl{est Virginia;Virglnid; MaxwellI\h)(l€l I AirAir ForceForce Bnse,Brse, Montganery,l'lontgqrEry, AlabM'la;AlabttE; AvonAvqr pled of! lhtuugh Ebnlb rcyolulionary stn/ggh. In thb slatanent we hct Park,Plrk, Florida;F'loridt; and.nd ElmendorfElnendorf at!t EielsonElelso.r AirAir ForceForce BoseBase inin Alaska.Allskr. the m@..,lte indomilable Nev wsniot, and theftiend o! oppt& tmm Aftikan TheThe AirAir ForceForce hdshds oneone ofof thethe ldl"gestl4gest policepolice dePdf'tmentsdepdrtients inin thethe Fot hb liJe he hat the of lhe Amerikksn Ewite. Npb. aI adull ben xoutge so-calledso-cdl led freefree world.rorld. 26.26. Tt,eThe introductionlntroduction to the King Alfred Phn,Plrn, ad plan to be utilized by the U.S. Defense and Justice DepartmentsDeparunents in the event of rebellion, reads: "Even before 1954, when trhen the SupremeSuprs|e Court of the Unitedthlted States of PmericaArc.ica declareddecl lred unconstitutional separdte educationaleducltional and recreational facilities, racial unrest and discorddlscord hadhd becomebecone very nearly ad partplrt of the AmericanAmerlcln waywdy of life.life, But8ut that wayray of life wastras repugnant to most Americans.Al€rlcans, Since 1954, however,hmver', that unrest and discord have broken into widespread violence which increasinglyincrersingly hashls placedp'laced the peacepelce andmd Statement stability of this nation in dire jeopardy. This violence has resultedr€sulted in loss of life and limb Mdad property,prop€rty, and has cost theth€ by taxpayerstaxpqyers of this country billions of dollars. And the end is not inln sight. ThisThls same violence has raised the tremendouslytr€mrdously grave questirnquestim as6 to whetherrhethr the t\rtOtrp racesrrces canc'l ever liveli\€ inin peace withrlth eachemh other.·other.' The U.U.S. S. doesndoesn't It intend to makennke fundamentafundrmentrl 1 changes,chrnges, it intendsinteids to bully Newtl6r AfrikansAfrikrns foreverforevr and maintain thisthls colonial NewAfrikan relationshipre'lltlonship based on coercion,coerclon, or worse,Norse, a! Ilfinal"flnll solution.1Isolution." This meansmatls that somesorE New fl AfrikMAfrlkd soldiers like'like myself mustrrust makemlke Prironer of Wr our standstlnd clearclelr and encourageencourlge Newtb Afriklll'lAfrik peoplep€ople to preparepr€pare to defenddeferd themselvesthellselves fromfrcn genocidegernci& by the AmericanAneric nazis -- study our mistakes;nistakes; build ar politicalpolltical programprogrrn basedbrsed on land'land.and and independence;lndependence; ad counterintelligencecounterintel'ligence programprogran to ferret out traitorstraltors the likesllkes of Tyrone Rison, SsnS BrownBrfln andrd Peter Middleton iddleton anddd be readyr€ady totr fight and fightfigm .ndlnd organizergmize our peoplep€ople to resistreslst gCeoon on seryevery level. MyiV dutydlty asn •t revo1utionoryrevolutiondry inln this matterm*ter is to Knwcl telltel'l the truth, disrespectdlsresp€ct this court and makenake it clearc'lear that the greatestgr€ltest consequencecqrseqrxnce wouldlnr'ld be failingfalllnq to step forward.forvrrd. - i havehale throwlthrom my lot in with the revolutionrevolutlon and only regret that due to personalpersonr'l shortcomingsslDrtcqrings onm mYmy part,pa.t, failurefallure toio accept collective responsibility, responsiblllty, andrnd bureaucratic, hierarchical tendenCiestendencies withinrlthin the B.L.A.,LL.A,, i havenlthaven't been ableSle to contribute nnldl an InOodnfon by thr as rruchnrdr as i should orcr buildtuild a betterbettr defensedefeme againstagrinst myny c8ptureclpture due to denialdeni.l of fuse. i 511rn confident that myD. corrraclescutrddea still at large'large will correct their thinking andrnd practiceprrctice through criticism/self-criticismcrltlcisn/self-crltlcicr anddd begin to strikestrlke consistent blowsblqs;t at tldonal Conrmlttn to Detcnd the U.S.u.S, Imperialist.Imperiallst. i wishrJsh i could inspireinsplre more people, espeCiallyespeclllly Newtler AfrikanAfriktn people, to take the roadroad toto liberation,liberrtion, tlew Afilean Fncdom Flghrbrr andard adequatelyadequit€'ly express l1l)IrU contemptcontcnpt forfcr the U.S. rulingrullng class andlnd its government.govermcnt. Otherfther than that, i have nothing else to say. I 27?1