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_‘ MISSING FREEDOM We regret that owing to the NGA dispute FREEDOM could not be printed and distrib- fortnrghtly . _ 1 Y uted last week. We hope to be able to‘ O VOLUME 37 NO. 18 ll SEPTEMBER 1976 TWELVE PENCE I maintain a regular schedule again from now on - Freedom Collective. T 4| -' Seli Help "GHOSTING" OF PRlSONERS "A thing which is not commonly known and needs to be spelt out - the vast majority of men the only answer that are in prison if they have wives and child- PERMISSION TO WRITE TO M.P. ren - they are on supplementary benefit. " So THE RECENT DEMONSTRATION by the pri- the way that the bastards get back at them is soners of what was "Hull top security prison" The prisoner must now seek permission to wr- that without any warning whatsoever the pri- was reported in the national media as simply a ite to his local MP. He does this by seeing his son authorities "ghost" the prisoners (i.e. the protest ogaimt the beating-up of a prisoner by landing officer, who will then contact the PO, prisoner is taken down to reception at any time prison guards. Ted Ward of PROP in London put his complaint in writing , and so on right of the day or night and transfened to an unkn- pointed out to us that the "development at Hull the way through the same procedure. He must own destination) . The prisoner will already has shown that people have learned from past again petition the Home Secretary for permiss- have a visiting order out for his wife and chil- experience. That the only way in which people ion to write to his MP, and the petition must dren but the authorities will then make it very in these institutions can get anything done ,after contain virtually everything he is going to say difficult for the wives and relatives to find out they have exhausted all the legal processes they to his MP. before permission is eventually gi- where the prisoner has been sent lo. Eventua- can go through, is to do it thermelves. " ven. Petitions are never sent off direct by the lly after much toing and froing between the lf a prisoner has a complaint to make, the prisoner, but are to be handed to the landing Home Office and the prison governor, and the impossible bureaucratic tangle into which every officer from whom it travels through the same houble which the prisoner's relatives invariably man, woman or child (let's not forget that pri- bureaucratic procedure. The result is that the have to cause, they will be informed where the soners also include women and children) has to authorities at all levels will know what the pri- prisoner has been transferred to. soner is complaining about to his MP. get themselves involved in virtually ensures th- HULL AND OTHERS at all the odds are against the prisoner. Ted CATCH 22 Ward outlined the grossly unfair legal procedu- "Eventually they do tell you where they are, re: "On paper the Home Office will show you and invariably over the last few years its been BUREAUCRATIC TANGLE a procedure which is laid down, which, quite Hull - Hull or Albany. ln the main its been frankly, looks very democratic - if I can use Hull, Albany or Wandsworth they transfer peo- "ln the morning when the cell is unlocked that word - you can't have anything more dem- ple to. " the prisoner will see the landing officer and ocratic. But of course, it's like the suppleme- apply to see the Wing PO. The Wing PO will ntary benefits commission and so on. it iust Tony Ward gave as an example of the autho- decide whether the matter raised in the coma- ¢ba'nt bloody work - everything's discretion- rities' going against the Home Office's establ- laint needs to be dealt with and whether he <=rr- ished rules the case of Peter Chappel . Peter himself is cqadale of dealing with it, or the "A lot of people that were at Hull were the Chappel is London-bom and bred, lived in govemor, or whatever. However, if the PO same people that had been doing that for a per- london all his life, helped to organise the cam- finds that the complaint is against a member of iod of years, and then, when they found that paign in London , and then the bastards sent his stdf he will do everything in his power to they had exhausted all those avenues they got him down to Liverpool. stop the complaint getting any further. " their relatives and friends outside to start pro- (continued on p. 2) The prisoner then has to put his complaint in testing fQrthem."___ g _ l 1 Whatever it may be, and however good or writing and that must be done through the land- ing officer , which invariably means that the bod the film, the combined forces of Church and State are assembling to ensure that we staff concemed will see a copy of the complai- will not be able to find out for ourselves. nt. Jesus Ghrist! JENS Jorgen Thorsen's pornographic film Personally, though l think bisexuality to "ln my experience I've found that once the which will apparently stow Jesus making love have been quite possible in someone who made complaint is in writing the prisoner will be able to Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist and a up his own mind which laws to follow and to see the appropriate person, such as the pri- Palestinian girl, will probably not be which to ignore, though l believe it to be quite son governor. But the prisoner is warned that ma-de in Britain after all. The full weight of natural in any case , the idea of a speculative if the corrplaint is found to be groundless disc- the British state in the distinctly unerotic form sex life of Jesus leaves me cold - and incid- iplinary proceedings will take place. " of James Callaghan has now been added to entally, has Thorsen not got the wrong John "JUST A TROUBLEMAKER" the shrill chorus of protest from archbishops, for the part? But, of course, that is hardly So, if that person gets to see the governor sikhs (believe it or not), festival of light mil- the point any longer. Very clumsily, the and the governor says, " there are no grounds itants and other spiritual terrorists, threaten- issue has become one of civil liberties. 'llG- for your complaint - you're iust a troublemaker" ing to make Thorsenls life and that of his -’._'.‘_ IIIIJALLY ocnuvae " "' ‘Ac: u.A1l_IQ gun supporters "intolerable" if he is allowed into -._,_>_~-- -. _-rue resrrvnr. or ,..-eeigoi the prisoner can apply to see the visiting mag- ;<-s>- r none; rn - - istrate or appeal to the board of visitors. But, Britain. ORGY AHIIICAI ITYLI IIIUQIY IX XI CAIIAI. IIIILIIGI before he can do that he must first go back to The film exists as yet only in his mind and his cell , see the landing officer in the morning no doubt in a script, yet already these above- 4-\ -- I who will then see the Wing PO, put his compl- -. mentioned . hope to use both the Blasph- -‘ 1 aint in writing, and so on. emy Act (last applied in I922 to someone aptly PETITION TO HOME SECRETARY enough called Gott) and Treaty of Rome After the prisoner has seen the board of visi- clause on undesirable aliens disrupting "public tors and they then find his complaint to be gr- order" to prevent him setting foot on the oundless the prisoner can petition the Home chaste soil of England. Secretary. B-ut first, he has to go back to his What do their overheated brains imagine? cell, see the landing officer in the morning, The streets filling with murderous Christians put his complaint in writing to the Wing PO, in hot pursuit of the hirsute Dane; pious Christ- apply to the governor, qsply to the board of ians suddenly reverting, from shock, to multi- 7‘ visitors. Now the prisoner‘: complaint will be sexual orgies and revolution a la Roszak; a put into the procedure book and the petition last invasion of the ragged remnants of Christ- sent off ( theoretically to the Home Secretary endom by the barbarian hordes of Scandinavia; but in reality to the Home OFfice.). a spiritual depression that will cause the film- I I .\.1'.i~'d'-..s-i. .-_. Several months later, he or she will receive g'oing electorate to daandon the polls; a new Fllk-rulutk I‘/lo\¢5¢__-. a letter from the Home Office saying that the theological schism that will make Lefebvre's complaint has been investigated and found to tridentine mass rebellion look like a seminar- "DlD I HEAR THAT SOMEONE WANTS be groundless. ist's prank? it TO MAKE A PORN FILM?" I 2) The Communications Workers of America, AFSCMEI and other unions (including the N°‘"$P°P°F Guild) accepted large arnounrs of O CIA funding and direction in their overseas P"°9l‘°mmes. Both the CWA and the Guild DOCUMENTATION of extensive ties bet- In l95l Victor Reuther was released from accepted "subcontracts" from the AIF LD, ween the CIA and the leadership of the AF L- his UAW duties in the US and was sent on a CIO has been confirmed by one of the found- long tour through Europe to assess the state 3) The AF L-CIO's African-American Labour ers of the CIO and a veteran of 40 years in of European trade unionism.

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