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If you have questions, contact Scott Eatherly--office 438-7848, home 454-1787, or Jessica Binkley-- 438-2977, or call Newman Center at 452-5046. Page, 2o COPS PROWL IN LEXINGTON .- TOSS, SPLAT--BASH . � . . . .
Lexington police were full of tricks, Eventually, th'is Hallowee·n, Webb gave You can't hear that line on.the. tape , not treats, this Halloween--if you can Gerwick a ticket for- d_ri ving. without . · becau.i:re ·of the· general ·commetion, but late·r you. can hear Al.say, "That son of. a taillight and let him.go. ·. call a bash in the head a trick.- It's � . • • ' f ·' a certainly dirty. · bitch hit me on the head." Meanwhile back at the Frieamans' ...... Officer Michael Webb yanked Al Friedman ,/garage the other three· guys were still "You're lucky," Webb replied. - . from his car, threw him to the g�ound, lobbing an occasional :apple. ·or p,ear at swung at him once with his nightstick ·the people they knew were out prowling Later� the police got ·corifused. about · and missed before connecting with the around looking for trouble.· A former _exactly' what-happened and· charged 'Al back of Friedman's head on the second Lexington po'lice ·chief' h'ad once told· Frie�an with :res.fsting arrest for. try. All because Webp suspected .them tha.t the city council gave lists· supposedly trying to' hit Webb. Al. · did threaten to hlt Webb (when Webb Friedman and two .others-of throwing of names of people to harass to· new- · · . eggs and tomatoes (according to the police. was choking him) but he never actually . Pantagraph), or maybe it .was apples tried ii;. · · · and tomatoes. (according to the· charges), If the former chief's' story is true,
· Anyway, the Frledmans and G�rwick at hie. squadcar-. {According ...... to the Webb and Tulle did their best to follow were · r __ andcuff�d and taken to the . county jail. _ throwers, it was· apples .anq pears. ) orders. They drove up and down an lf in Blomr�ingto.n. On the way, · they had alley near �.the Friedmans' gar;;:i,ge- and. - · The Halloween incident was· the latest prowled around- the�'-Friedmans' ·y?-r.d , to endure . a number�o.f threats and in a long series of , poJice ·harassments. shining flashlights. taunts1 in Lexington. The police there are' 'fond of' threatening people with · The two Friedman· bpothers ·and Max shotguns and·harassi�g young people Gerwick retaliated by putting a block while they hang out in the parking of wood covered with.a black rug in the lot of a local fertilizer store. alley. The police ran into it--a collision that did little to improve their usual bad t.empers.
The three young men were also tossing apples and pears--not. eggs or tomatoes as the police later claimed--o·ver. houses at the police�
.By and by, the police. entered, the Friedman garage but didn't find
the:i,r three opponents, altJ1ough-· · all · th+ee were th(;:)re�
.Then--in what .must be a stroke of geni_us--the .Friedmans and Ge"rwick got a tape· recorder ready and got into. Al '_s car. The police, who· were hiding-in the alley, obligingly came up arid ordered them out. of the car. (Later, the-poliee claimed.that the Friedman's Halloween adventures began· tnree were trying to escape, but-all ,three young men deny the claim.) about 8 p.m. when he and his brother.· Todd and a friend, Max Gerwick, were tailed- through Lexington by what the , "Get out!"· said the. police. · � . .. trio saia:were ·a_ 'pair of CB.:...equipped -: W�bb's cohort in tricks..:or-treats Greg.� police helpers. Tulle of the world fa�ous Lexington P_�D. According to them, police recruit· helpful sympathizers to ride a:ound Lexington in cars ·equipped with CB radios to be on the lookout --"Have you 'three ever 'been" cornholedI " ' for "troublemakers" on Halloween. " asked Tulle. _ "You' re gonna get corplioled now. " . · The Friedmans and Gerwick entertained their trailing law-and-order nuts for · --"Gerwick, if -it's the last thing about a half hour before heading for r - do, I'll put you away for good," .the Friedmans' residence'', · threatened Tulle. " · · Then they and Marty Gerwick --Webb claimed that one ·Of the entertained themselves for a while by Friedmans' sist�rs-performed sexual tossing apples and pears over houses. acts with him.. Th'e sisters are 14· and ·in the general direction of patrol 16 years old. c'.3-rs. They apparently scored a ·few direct hits, but their-precautions - --Tulle threatened to arrest one of . (keeping houses between .themselves the sisters. and the law-and-order nuts)'made it impossrble for them to be caught or --The police ··also mentioned -that the.re even identified. were a lot of trick-or-treaters out who tore· up cars. ·Lat'er, Gerwick' s Later, Mar,ty Gerwick decided to split ?ar was found with all four doors open but he did�'t get far before Officer ·in the rain and its, lights on. We.bb, who was driving his personal car, pulled him over. Webb o+dered Lexington police officer Michael Webb Also on- the way to' j �il, on� qf- the· Gerwick out and threw him · up against in his Halloween m,ask and costume. 1 police wanted to throw the tape the back of.his car. By that time recording out the window but the·· other officer Greg Tulle pulled up in a one stopped him. Lexington squadcar. . . At the jail al·l three were cha:tg�d·Wi.th , "He d·on' t .think we can stuff him in "We're getting out, we're getting ·out." {You can hear the exchange quite disorderly conduct. a trashcan," Tulle said t.o Webb by way of a jovial greeting. The· comment clearly on the tape.) The Friedmans and.the Gerwicks'all, referred to an earlier threat by Tulle Even though Al Friedman was tryfng to agree th.at police harassment goes on -that Gerwick was going to get stuffed · cooperate, Webb grabbed the hoo d of al-1 the tim!;! in Lexington. (The Post in a trashcan if he didn't stop putting . IS will have another story involving-a · things out in. the middle ·of Lexington. . Al �weatshirt ·(tearing it) aiJ.d threw different group of peop'le. next month.) streets. Tulle had simply assumed him to the ground. It was th�n that Webb bashed Friedman in the back of the That's why they-resorted to throwing that Gerwick was guilty of this ·h�ad--even though he was already face things at the police-and 'the law-and misbehavior, just as he and Webb down on. the ground • .- . order troublemakers. Usually, however, always assume that certain people in . they just insult the police.· Le�ington are always guilty. . At this point there'�- quite. a bit of "There's :nothing•·'else you can do, ... they . . commotion on the tape. You can hear _say. .. .- . A year earlier on Halloween, Webb had Friedman telling Webb not to hit told Marty Gerwick that he was going Todd his brother: "If you: hit h'im, .1 · 1� bust But now they've got _wha.t may be a better to pull him out of hip car and "beat your··head-,'""· '·.·-�_,., idea:_ as the Post went to 'the pr·ess ·they .. . the s t out-of him." The officer _ were. planning to -'circulate a petition dldn'tcarry out his.. threat, but he Officer Webb hit Al,< against police harassment. They wanted int(> the county jail did haul Gerwick to put pressure.on the city concil· in Bloomington for questioning in to get ·the police under- contro'l'. co:r-mection with an arson. fire in a "There, I hit him," Webb said, acco.rding to Todd. . Lexipgton garage .. . Who knows? Maybe it'lI work. .:; Reporter quit when the Pantagraph suppressed this story: Pi� Revenue Dept. wanted Nelson
Before city councilperson Lawrence Spencer was ready to run in early of Revenue, including Mccaffery, October, but the story Nelson pleaded guilty Oct. 4 to a was never attorneys Wayne Golomb and John published. The closest the paper ever misdemeanor charge of violating an Briggs of the legal department, and Illinois tax law, he told the Daily came was one mention--in an editorial, Reg Ankrom, public information Pantagraph that he was guilty of "a not a news story--that the Department officer. Combining their statements technical violation" and that the case of Revenue had recommended "a more with information provided by State's was not "that big a deal." serious charge" against Nelson. Attorney Ron Dozier, here is the background behind Larry Nelson's "It was not a mere technicality," court troubles: State's Attorney Ron Dozier told the Post-Amerikan. "It was a deliberate the Porsche attempt to violate the use tax law." Nelson, who works as an attorney at Officials of the Illinois Department S�ate Farm, bought an $8600 Porsche of Revenue--including James Mccaffery, in St. Louis last.May. Illinois who supervised the investigation--said requires that people buying cars out the case was originally sent to the of state must pay a use tax--similar state' s attorney as a crimin al forgery to a sales tax--on the car. case--a felony. Though Nelson may not have known about Dozier confirmed that the revenue the use tax when he bought his A 6�-year veteran of the Pantagraph, department wanted Nelson prosecuted Porsche, he found out when he applied Spencer quit the paper in reaction to for a felony, but the state's attorney for title and plates in Bloomington. opted for the misdemeanor charge what he saw as an unjustified instead. suppression of his news story. . Employees at the driver's license Spencer's own statement is contained bureau asked Nelson to produce a bill The Post-Amerikan interviewed 10 in an adjoining story. of sale for the car, to determine people to piece together the story whether he needed to pay the use tax. printed here. It's basically the same The Post-Amerikan interviewed four (If Nelson had paid Missouri sales tax story that Pantagraph reporter Mark officials of the Illinois Department when he bought the car, the amount of
oµ¢ Jlj;° the p'Ut> ici!i,l.$, s�nator refer ·to 0Nelsori's attk>rney. ''. When the misdemeanor charge was ed in coul'.'t, Nelson had rtoattorney represented himself.
But then I wouldn't have thought Even State ' s Attorney Dozier, who has buying a Porsche, either. been open about most of this case, refused to name the attorney who --Mark Silverstein accompq,rtied Nelson to Doz ier ' s office Page 5.
prosecuted for felony forgery sales tax would be deducted from the must have swiped it when he bought the tax money, revenue department officials amount of use tax owed to Illinois. ) car. But neither the revenue investi say, Nelson could have been charged gators nor Dozier believe the car with forgery. Instead of producing a bill of sale salesman's story. Dozier says he does right away at the driver's license not extradite (bring out-of-state Caught bureau, Nelson left. defendants to Illinois) fQr misdemeanor charges, or else he would have In the Springfield office where use tax returns are processed, Nelson's Nelson hadn't paid any sales tax on prosecuted the salesman, too. phony bill of sale was caught pretty his Porsche in Missouri, so he owed the use tax--$260 worth--to Illinois. Regardless of the dispute of how Nelson easily--because Missouri does not got the blank bill of sale, Nelson did collect sales tax on cars purchased by Nelson called the salesman who had type in phony figures, according to out-of-state residents. sold him the car. Dozier and revenue department officials. According to these sources, Nelson received a bill for use tax the scheme the State Farm attorney reduced the owed to Illinois. purchase price, inflated the trade-in But instead of paying the tax when At that point, Ron Dozier told the value of his old car, showed that sales notified it was due, Nelson wrote to Post-Amerikan, "They came up with a tax was paid in Missouri, and signed the Department of Revenue--on his scheme to defraud the state." the salesman's name to the fraudulent document. attorney's stationery--saying that he did not owe any tax, because he had In relating the background of Nelson's paid sales tax on the car when he case, the state's attorney refers to a Forgery bought it in Missouri. Nelson's "confession" Nelson signed. Nelson then went back to the driver's letter, dated July 5, referred to the fraudulent bill of sale as proof that According to Dozier, Nelson's confes license examining station in Blooming he did not owe any use tax. State's sion says that the car salesman sent a ton. Producing the phony bill of sale, Attorney Dozier, as well as sources in blank bill of sale to Nelson, along Nelson applied for title and plates the revenue department, confirmed that with instructions on how to fill it for his Porsche. Nelson wrote this letter. out. Contacted by the Post-Amerikan, the car salesman denied sending Nelson Because he used the fraudulent At this point, revenue department the blank bill of sale. He says Nelson document to deprive the state of its sources say, Nelson's case was turned over to the investigation division.
On Aug. 2, state investigators talked to the salesman who sold Nelson his Porsche. Contacted by the Post Amerikan, the salesman confirmed that revenue department investigators showed him the phony bill of sale Nelson had sent in. Tippe d off
After the investigators left, the salesman admitted to the Post-Amerikan,
(Please turn the page.)
Why I Quit the Pantagraph r by Mark Spence seem obvious: Nelson hadn't come clean with the details POST-NOTE: Earlier this year, Pantagraph city editor Dick Streckfuss of the offense, and had used the newspaper, I felt, to quit because the managing editor killed a story Streckfuss wanted to run. pass the matter off as "no big deal. " Now, reporter Mark Spencer, after 6 years with the paper, has resigned because the new city editor wouldn't run a story Spencer thought was Without the other side--the fact that the revenue worthwhile. department considered his actions as considerably more grave than Nelson had represented them--the reading public stood to understand and remember the incident as The Post-Amerikan interviewed Sp encer about the affair, and some of his "a technical violation ... no big deal." statements appear in the adjoining stories. In addition, Sp encer addressed the following statement to the Post-Amerikan, to further explain why he .Why wasn't the other side also published? If I thou�ht quit the Pantagraph: I knew, I'd probably tell you. I was given a number of different reasons over a period of about three weeks. I quit the Pantagraph because I didn't think it was None of them made sense when I heard them, nor do they going to publish what I'll call the other side of the now. Larry Nelson story. When I quit, the city editor continued to maintain that The day after Nelson was charged, there was an article, he wanted-to use the story, but first wanted proof. under my byline, giving his version: that the evasion Proof of what was never clear. He also said he needed of the tax was "a technical violation. " new information to hang the story on, but I thought I' d reached a dead end and saw no avenues I thought might Nelson said he a�sumed sales taxes were automatically lead to anything significant. In effect, I was sure collected in Missouri, as they are in Illinois, and that the Pantagraph wasn't going to run the story. therefore he did not think a tax was owed here. He also said that as soon as he found out the tax was due, he The city editor told someone else that he considered the hurried to Springfield and paid it, thinking the payment later versions of the story full of innuendo as they would end tne revenue department's investigation. He concerned the Hall-Jacob-Whitler connections. I agree did say that he was "technically guilty," adding that he that I don't see those details as essential to the basic would probably enter a guilty plea the next week. story. I would have included them for their socio political interest--to show that people with power call You* tell me Nelson now claims he was misquoted or people with power when they have a problem--but I misrepresented. He wasn't misquoted, and I wrote the certainly wouldn't have quit if the boss had said, we article based on my understanding of what he had told could run the basic story without the connections. me. He had ample opportunity to tell me if I misspoke his version, but he had no complaints but one that I can Neither do I consider Nelson's offense a heihous crime. recall--he didn't think I should have called the charge While covering city council meetings, I'd come. to like a "tax evasion," but rather a violation of the Illinois the guy for his sense of humor. I suppose I'm also Use Tax Act, which is the formal wording. I told him I susceptible to the view that it was a white-collar had only tried to translate that wording into a phrase slip-up, and thus pardonable. readers would understand. Nelson had no complaint about my rendition of his version; in fact he told me I'd done How do I feel about the Pantagraph? Angry and bitter. a good job, and he promised to buy me a beer some day. Anger is a blind response which simplifies a complicated situation, something you feel when you can't understand. On the day Nelson pleaded guilty, I found out the revenue Bitter because I've spent 10 years developing a sense department investigator considered the case more serious of myself as a professional journalist--it's been real, than a technical violation, and had in fact prepared the you know--and the Pantagraph was a good paper to work case for the state's attorney as a felony forgery count. for, but I don't work there any longer. You�� seem to have those details. so I won It: repeat them. I'm also feeling self-righteous about quitting, if you I thought the Pantagraph had an obligation to publish haven't gathered. But it don't put no bread on the that "other side" of the story for reasons which still table. --Mark Spencer *POST-NOTE: Spencer is referring to the Post when he says "you." Page 6. Nelson's tax evasion was not 'a technical violation' (Continue d from preced ing pages) he telephoned Nelson and tipped him they have evaded it, the matter could ·Dozier nixes forgery case off. be dropped. "But if you don't pay the tax until you're caught," commented When Dozier received the case in mid Within a week, Nelson arranged to get revenue attorney John Briggs, "that's September, he decided not to prosecute the tax paid. not enough to prevent a charge." the felony forgery case. According to Dozier, the mairi crime was the evasion Before pleading guilty, Nelson told A few weeks after Nelson had Tom Jacob of the use tax, and therefore breaking the Daily Pantagraph that he learned pay the $260 tax, an investigator from the use tax law was the most he was under investigation, and that revenue visited Nelson. That's when "appropriate" charge. Dozier said he he .drove to Springfield the same day Nelson signed his confession, State's could have obtained a conviction for "and found the proper department and Attorney Dozier told the Post-Amerikan. forgery, but his research indicated a paid the thing." forgery conviction may have been "A dumb mistake" overturned on appeal. Mark Spencer says that he quoted Nelson accurately. Dozier said that if the salesman had authorized Nelson to sign the sales But Nelson now admits that he didn't man's name, th en the signature was not drive to Springfield and pay the tax forged. himself--Tom Jacob did. Nelson But Department of Revenue Attorney described Jacob as "a friend who John Briggs said that they have had happens to be an attorney." Jacob is chairperson of the McLean County cases where a county treasurer was convicted of forgery· for signing his Republican Central Committee. He own name--in a case where he wasn't acted as Nelson's attorney before the legally authorized to sign as case became public. After charges treasurer. were filed, Nelson acted as his own atto�ney. :>'>__">- "We examined the issue," said Revenue Case w_asn't cleared Nelson told the investigator that it Department Attorney Wayne Golomb, "and had been "a dumb mistake," according we feel there was ample legal and Before his guilty plea, Nelson told to the Sept. 30 Pantagraph. "I told factual support for the case as the Pantagraph that he had believed him tha� technically I was guilty," submitted." that paying the tax had cleared the the article quoted Nelson. Reporter case. Mark Spencer says he quoted Mark Spencer says he quoted Nelson �elson was placed under 18 months Nelson accurately. accurately. court supervision, and ordered to pay a $500 fine. When the 18 months is But Nelson's attorney who paid the "I suppose I would agree with Nelson over, Nelson's conviction will be tax, Tom Jacob, told the Post-Amerikan that it was 'a dumb mistake,'" one of erased from his record. that he realized that paying the tax the revenue department sources told was not necessarily the end of it., the Post-Amerikan. "But you certainly The statute under which Nelson was couldn't call the preparation of a charged provided for a penalty of up Attorneys at the department of revenue phony bill of sale an accident, nor is to six months in jail. point out that if someone comes in and it merely a technical violation of the pays a tax before the department knows law. " �-Mark Silverstei n
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By the time.that Pantagraph reporter Mark Spencer learned that the original case prepared against Lawrence Nelson Dozier was more serious than a misdemeanor tax evasion, Nelson had already entered his plea of guilty. The State gave Nelson Farm attorney and city councilperson declined to comment to the Pantagraph after that. advance But a Post-Amerikan reporter talked notice with Nelson for a few minutes before the councilperson asked that the interview be terminated. of charges
"You were quoted in the Pantagraph statement that the whole thing is over, saying tha t you didn't think the case Before filing a misdemeanor charge of and I don't want to rehash it again?" was 'that big a deal' and that it was a tax law violation against city just 'a technical violation,'" th� When the Post reporter relayed the councilperson Lawrence Nelson, State's Post-Amerikan reporter began. state's attorney's comment that Nelson Attorney Ron Dozier notified the was consciously engaged "in a scheme future defendant by phone. "That was a misquote," Nelson told the to defraud the state, " Nelson replied: "I don't regard it the Post reporter. ''R on said that? That's cute." Dozier says he called Nelson, told him way it sounded in the paper at all. charges were going to be filed, and It's cost me." ' Nelson also denied ever knowing that suggested that Nelson come in to the his misdemeanor tax evasion case was office for a conference. Dozier (In an adjoining article, Mark Spencer originally prepared by the Dep&rtment suggested Nelson bring an attorney, --now an ex-Pantagraph reporter, of Revenue as a felony forgery case. and Nelson came with Tom Jacob, an defends tne accuracy of his quotes.) attorney who is also Republican Party State's Attorney Dozier told the Post Central Committee chairperson. which The same Pantagraph story, Amerikan that Nelson was informed of appeared 9/30/77, also quoted Nelson the forgery possibility. Dozier refused to confirm the as saying that he was basically guilty attorney's identity. sales tax was not of not knowing that When asked about the false bill of That paid on his car in Missouri. sale sent to the state, Nelson said he Dozier said he told Nelson that he the quote was accurate, Nelson told did not want to discuss the case would settle for a guilty plea with a Post-Amerikan. anymore. $500 fine and 18 months court super vision. 'Nelson agreed. When asked whether it was true--as Mark Spencer quotes him--that he drove Nelson said he had made a mistake, and 'l'he charges were filed Sept. and to Springfield and paid the tax the had been held accountable for it. The 29, Nelson pleaded guilty at his first same day he found out he owed it, attorney said that his reputation has court hearing five days later. Nelson made a correction. A friend suffered, that he doe3n't know what paid the tax for him, Nelson said. his future at State Farm will be, and that he is "not candidate ma terial" as .Doz!.er said he had explained to Nelson and his attorney Asked if the Pantagraph had misquoted a result of his court case. that the case had originally been prepared him about who had paid the tax, Nelson as a felony forgery case by said, "Why don't you just take my --Mark Silverstein the Department of Revenue. "Oh yeah, they knew about it. I let them look at the whole file. I would have to let them examine the entire file sometime during the WINTE-IZE YOUR GUITAR procedings anyway, " Dozier told the Post-Amerikan.
STOP IN AT AX-IN-HAND Lawrence.Nelson denied knowing that a forgery case was ever a possibility.
And have your Tom Jacob, who was also present in Dozier's office, also denied knowing guitar checked for ,anything about the possibility of a • New Strings ' forgery charge.
• Cracks and _At other times, rather than answer yes other dryness or no to a question, Jacob said he couldn't answer at all because of his problems attorney-client relationship with Nelson. Check out the Dozier admitted Dampit Humidifier that he wouldn't notify the defendant prior to filing 105 Broadway • Normal charges in an ordinary case. But Dozier said he knew Nelson "was in a position where he would want to get the case over quickly." As a prosecutor, Dozier said he likes to get guilty pleas, and likes to get \. them quickly. Five days may be a record. r FALCON MOTEL
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AIR CONDITIONED MEG informers bust friends and lovers A pair of young women working as MEG A similar MEG case--75 of 268--was "special employees" were 1-esponsible once dismissed by a McLean County for a batch of drug delivery State's Attorney, when he became indictments leading to arrests of Both Getz and Mueller reportedly convinced that the informers' seven Morton residents early in used drugs themselves while working constant "hounding and hounding" of 1977. Now that the court cases a.re for MEG, a violation of both ILEC the defendant to sell drugs "smacked resolved, the Post-A.merikan has guidelines and the law. Getz even of entrapment." permission to report the conduct delivered marijuana to one of the and identities of the two informers. men she was setting up. Rein was going to Peoria to get some angel d.ust for himEelf, and. he Along with their supervising MEG Dave Rein was Cindy's boyfriend for agreed. to pick some up for Cindy and agents, the two informers--Cindy five yea.rs, and was engaged to her Jeralyn if they still wanted it. Getz and Jeralyn Mueller--followed for fouro She set him up for two MEG's time-honored. tradition of sales to agent Craig Salmon, sales Jeralyn wanted it, supposedly for violating a set of guidelines for which she and Jeralyn Mueller had her sister, but when the time came "special employee" cond.u?t• The repeatedly asked him to make in the to get the money, Jeralyn's guidelines were imposed on MEG units late spring and summer of 1976. "boyfriend" turned out to be the one by the Illinois Law Enforcement making the buy. Commission (ILEC), the· agency which Dave and Cindy8s· engagement had been off for a year by the time he was fund.ed. MEG d.uring the time Getz a.nd Jeralyn's "boyfriend" was MEG agent Mueller worked to set up their . set up, but the pair were just Craig Salmon, who bought again from friends in Morton. beginning to re-establish a Dave a couple of weeks later. Both friendship, or at least Dave thought times, Dave insists, he sold the Cindy Getz set up her ex-fiance; so. angel dust for the price he paid. Jeralyn Mueller set up her In the months just before he He thought he was doing a favor for roommate's husband. In addition, delivered the angel dust Cindy had. his long-term friend and. ex-fiance several others busted by Jeralyn asked for, he had. loaned her money Cindy Getz, and her friend Jeralyn and Cindy were close personal for doctor bills, d<1ted her, and Mueller. i friends, people Cindy Getz had partied. with her. partied with for yea.rs. t Dave Rein says the two MEG • "Cindy and Jeralyn kept bugging me informers--known in MEG files as Relying on personal friendships to t for about a month and a half before Confidential Sources #123 and #124- set up arrests is a violation of t I finally sold it to them," Dave cugged him about selling dope at ILEC guid.elihes for MEG units. t Rein recalled in a Post-Amerikan least a dozen times before he Craig Salmon and. Dean Bacon--the t · interview after he received a finally agreed to do it. Dave : supervising·MEG agents--were· aware probation sentence. "They kept admits that he0s dealt before, but :of the relationships between the saying, 'Can you get me this, and profit wasn't his motive. If he had : "special employees" and their can you get me that,'" Rein said. money, and found out about a : targets. These supervisors also "I kept putting them off and putting quantity of something available, : bear responsibility for violating them off. Finally I'd had enough, he'd buy it. He'd keep the amount 1 the guidelines. I and I said. OK. " he wanted for his own use then deal
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fig e the rest to acquainta~nc es at cost . ur s this is when Jeral;Yn became a That way , Rein pointed out , he and MEG informer, but she �oesn't know why Jeralyn his friends paid less for the did it . substanc es they were going to get anyway . By late summer, Meredith says , Jeralyn was doing a lot of drugs herself- MEG still hasn't learned that there 's during the time she was working for a lot of difference between a sharply MEG . dressed Peoria heroin pusher and a Meredith recalls one time in Augµst or person who 's in a little rec eati.onal : September, 1976 , that she came home and drug cooperative with his friends . found Jeralyn sitting alo'ne in the living room, "smoking joints like I While they were working for MEG in smoke cigarettes." the summer of 1976, Getz and Mueller both smoked pot with him several time� , Rein recalls. Once Cindy even gave him a nickel or dime bag of pot, at a ti.me wh en Dave didn't have any himself. Th e two women partied with Dave at the Press, a popular Morton han9-out , and at Dave 's apartment . One night ABOVE1 Cindy Getz , MEG Con that summer, Dave recalled, Cindy fidential Source #123, set up was so high she didn't go home. She her ex-fiance and several just slept on the living room floor. personal friends. Meredith Hangartner was Jeralyn BEIDW: J eralyn Mueller, MEG Mueller's roomate during the summer of Confidential Source #124, set 1976. But Meredith did not know.her her roommate's boyfriend, roommate was a MEG "special employee," up and that 's why Meredith 's husband, (Photos were taken in 1973.) Dal e Hangartner, is now doing time in Menard. Dale and Meredith weren't married yet during the time Jeralyn set up Dale Reached by telephone , Cindy Getz denied for several sales to MEG agent Dean ever working for MEG . She claims she Bacon, who pretended to be Cindy Getz ' s was busted along with everyone else. boyfriend . But Dale and Meredith were When asked why there was no record of definitely romantically involved, and any MEG case against her in Tazewell Jeralyn knew she was setting up her County Court , Getz claimed that roommate's boyfriend . "people.I know in important places" had got her out of the charges , and Meredith says Dale only agreed to get suppressed all:record of them. some cocaine from another person as Referring to the Post•Amerikan's story a favor to people he thought were about her working for MEG , Getz friends . He didn't make any money on threatened, "When people f--k with me , the deal . they 're as good as dead."
Meredith and Dale were married in Getz was reached at (309) 265-9251 , December, 1976--after the sales to MEG , 632 Glen St . in Morton. but before the arrests. Jeralyn Mueller was not available for Cindy Getz and Jeralyn Mueller attended comment , as her Morton phone has a the wedding , like the loyal friends non-published number. they pretended to be. They gave the newlyweds a vase, with a card signed --Mark Silverstein "Love , Cindy and Jeralyn ." Dale was arrested within a couple months after the wedding.
Meredith says that Jeralyn Mueller asked her to move into her apartment in the early spring of 1976. Jeralyn probably was not yet a narc at the time , and , ironically, this was the time when Jeralyn appeared to have the least interest in doing any illegal· drugs herself.
Other people busted by Cindy Getz and Jeralyn Mueller confirm that Getz had partied with them and used drugs herself for years , but that Jeralyn Mueller was a relative newcomer to their group of friends. "I 'd always thought Jeralyn was straight , until she started coming around with Cindy all the time ," one defendant , who wished to remain unnamed, said. Meredith Hangartner had the same perception when she first moved in with Jeralyn Mueller. Meredith says she 'd only seen Jeralyn stoned a couple times in the first few months they lived together.
Meredith thought she and Jeralyn were pretty tight friends , and that 's why Meredith says "I can't understand why she did this to me."
"I felt like I was about the only friend Jeralyn.had except for her grandfather. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere , Cindy Getz appears on the scene," Meredith said. Meredith Page 10, Anita Bryant: Will Anita Bryant is a child of poverty and of parents who were divorced, and depressing. But I had to plough remarried, and divorced again before "Save Our Children (SOC)," the anti-gay she was twelve. Well into her adult organization that Bryant works with through them all to write this life she has said that her father, who in Florida, puts out a press kit article, and I recovered, so it's including a paper titled, "Why Certain · left the family when she was 11 , didn't probably safe to read on.) love her. Sexual Deviations Are Punishable by Death," The paper uses the Bible to "prove" that only one of two things More sick & tired Bryant once told an interviewer that, Bryant frequently quotes fro.m the Book can stop gayness: salvation through "It has come out that I just can't of Leviticus in the Bible that gayness Christ, or the death penalty. trust men. But I trust Bob (her is an "abomination." Leviticus also husband, Bob Green). I know he has no forbids wearing red dresses, eating Most national press and local ulterior motive and he really loves me. snails, and shaving. The day Bryant established media didn't see fit to That may be why my faith meant so much. turns up to speak with hairy legs and print the sick quotes about gays from Christ was the only man I could truly pits is the day I'll pay to listen. trust and give my love to." papers like "Why Certain Sexual Deviations Are Punishable by Death." This is part of the reason I find it But I found some quotations from it An:.ta Bryant is a born-�gain child hard to believe that Bryant is acting in Ms.magazinea of poverty. Some magazines report against gay people purely because that she now earns $500,000 a year. "God drew a circle" for her to step Others report that she and her husband. inside. It seems obvious that people manager Bob Green together earn who associate certain sexual acts $350 ,000 a year. She owns a $JOO,OOO with vampires, no less, are terrified mansion in Miami Beach, complete with by the sexual unknown. yacht, heart-shaped sunken bathtub, prayer altar, swimming pool, and Save Our Children literature turns the in-house telephone system. unknown into as scary and disgusting a monster as "possible. Anita Bryant calls herself a born again Christian. She is in the front It repeats over and over that "there's lines of a struggle to deny gay people nothing gay about homosexuality," gay legal protection of our rights. She people "are extremely vicious with one "As barnyard animals become restless, says she is doing it because God wants another" and are victims of drug confused, and panicky just before a her to: "God drew a circle, and I addiction, alcoholism, venereal hurricane, tornado, or earthquake, so stepped inside, where He put fire in Qisease, terrible loneliness, too these vile beastly creatures my heart." suicide, frigidity, impotence, etc.- evidently sense the coming judgment. you get the idea. Their frantic efforts to obtain Vicious circle acceptance and public approval and A SOC spokesman (the advisory board What kind of circle did Bryant step their worldwide shameless marches ••• which officially makes up SOC is all into? are evidence of this as it was in male) told reporters that gayness "is ancient Sodom and Gomorrah." so abhorrent that common animals don't Well, it's a little like a three-ring do it." Which is both stupid and plain circus. The paper also condemns "racial mixing old untrue. of human seed" and a variety of sexual It's a little like the pioneers in acts, cunnilingus among them. This is their covered wagon circles defending what the SOC press kit paper says abo�t themselves from the "savage" Indians. cunnilingus (oral sex for a woman):
And it's a vicious circle. "Cunnilingus. Oral sex where the tongue is used to stimulate the female At the beginning of the Bryant versus clitoris producing an orgasm and the gay people battle, I thought Bryant discharge eaten. Also a form of was probably doing it for publicity varnpirism or eating of blood. Such and the money that publicity usually degeneracy produces a taste and craving brings a celebrity. Now I think that for the effects as does liquor and I was dead wrong. narcotics. The depravity of the individual became so perverted and I believe, after reading three of degenerate in the scriptural record Bryant's own books and a dozen articles that finally through judgment God about her, that Bryant, who has called allowed them to eat their own gay people "human garbage," is a · children." genuine religious fanatic. Bryant also claims that the California And I think that Bryant turned to God drought proved that God was displeased for the same reasons that many· of us with San Francisco's gay community. make the decisions we do: scarcity It seems, according to these folks' mentality. Bryant has told one interviewer that view of God, that he has to go a God doesn't like male gayness because mile out of His way to punish the "the male homosexual eats another man's people He really wants to get. sperm. Sperm is the most concentrated The Miami ordinance which so provoked form of blood. The homosexual is ·, eating life." . God and Bryant's wrath protected gay " . " people from discrimination in housing, . .. With a quote like that, you hardly know & jobs, and public accommodations. . �x: what to make snotty cracks about first. ' .. Bryant said that the ordinance would protect "prostitutes, pimps, and their ilk" and people whose "sexual I wonder what Bryant eats for supper if preference was, say, a German she doesn't eat life? Plastic steak? Scarcity mentality is a state of mind shepherd." Vinyl rutabaga? I also wonder where that happens when we grow up fearing she picked up her strange ideas about that there's not enough to go around- I wonder what kind of books Bryant's biology and anatomy. not enough love, not enough money, not been reading on the plane? enough food. All of us have been And I wonder, again, what books she's affected by it in some way or another. been reading. Who told her that all The first Bryant newspaper ad stated: gay men eat sperm? " •..recruitment of our children is God was the only secure thing in Anita absolutely necessary for the survival Bryant's childhood, the only thing and growth of homosexuality, for since Most of all I wonder if there's any there was enough of to go around. Her hope that she can be cured. homosexuals cannot reproduce, they family moved from one tiny Oklahoma must recruit, must freshen their ranks," town to another, following the oil strikes. They lived in a two-room Miracle shoes It sounds like Bryant wants us all to Bryant's ideas about gayness are not trailer with no toilet facilities. quit teaching school and star in the only ones prompted by religious vampire movies instead. fanaticism with no concern for truth. Bryant managed to rise from poverty The following quote is from her own and feeling unloved, at least by her Of course the reasoning (if you can book, Fishers of Men: fa ther, to wealth and fame. Yet she call it that) in this ad is as queer a is committed to making sure that as a three-dollar bill. "Some records produced these days are millions of gay people keep leading fine, played at air (regular) speed, narrowly restricted lives. First of all, it assumes gay people but the kids know you can play the want to recruit. Second, it ignores record at another speed and the Maybe she's still not sure there's the fact that lots of gay people are obscenities come out--so these records enough to go around. bi-sexual or already have children sell millions of copies .... Here we from a heterosexual past. Third, it are, in the United States of America, Sick & tired assumes that no one would choose supposedly a Christian country, and Whatever the reasons for Bryant's holy gayness, but must be actively recruited nobody's attacking this problem.'' crusade against gay people, it has because it's so creepy and evil. . depressingly increased twisted, Christian country? The Europeans who perverted literature and public state (Speaking of creepy and evil, I came to this continent to find ments about gay people. realize that these quotes are nasty religious freedom of choice must be Page 11. the Circle Be Unbroken? Ro semary Thom�son, an Illinois organizer against ERA and abortion, turning over in their graves. I details of your life . In just an presented Bryant with flowers at don't imagine Jews , Buddhists, and hour , we had done it all!" Bryant 's recent "sacred concert" in American Indians with their own forms Pekin (see following pages) where she of worship would happily agree either. The gay threat was introduced as one of the most courageous Christian ladies in America In Fishers of Men, B�yant also tells I mentioned at the beginning of this today. a story about being invited te sing at article that the circl e that "God Lyndon Johnson's funeral and drew" for Bryant to step into was a Anita Bryant is linked in both her discovering she didn't have anything li�tl e like the pioneers arranging philosophies and her organizing "appropriate" to wear (although she their �ered wagons in circles to relationships to all those right-wing owns dozens of pairs of shoes ): pro tect thems-eLves against folks who are anti-abortion, anti-ERA, "bloodthirsty InJuna." "Trouble is, there was no time for shopping. Usually it takes me a whole Who else is in Bryant 's circla� What day to find one thing. And I never, are they trying desperately to protect? never find shoes without a big search. One of Bryant 's "prayer buddies" is My feet are very hard to fit. I prayed about it and asked God to lead us. Marabel Morgan , the Total Woman. Bryant has taken Morgan 's Total "This was an important occasion and I Woman Course, which preaches sexy wanted to look just right. Charlotte Christian submissiveness as the way didn't have a suitable dress so we for women (or "gals") to have a happy went shopping . Imagine my elation when marriage ,_and thus , of course , a we found the perfect dress, one I knew �appy life, The Bryant/Green family was just right--black , with a pale and the Morgan family have a 24-hour turquoise collar . Definitely it was prayer hotline : if Anita or Bob needs dress. to call Charl ie or Marabel , or vice � versa, for some quickie prayer "'Charlotte, the dress is perfect. But sharing, they can do so any time , night wh ere will we find some shoes?' I was or day. (Just like Alcoholics anti-feminism , anti-communism (and beginning to feel panicky. Anonymous , says everybody I tell the things that vaguely resemble it), anti story to. ) Panama Canal treaty , anti-gun control , "'We've got to trust the Lord for anti-ga�ess. and anti-recreational drugs. Th ey are all for two things: them, ' Charlotte said, as she led me • ��OT· ONE· JlN acro ss the street to a shoe store. \JHETHrR OR· the nucl ear family and capitalism. �JITF1. Pi4)510N}... "It would take a lot of trust, llilE_. ONES. Bryant has stated that "we don't want because the dress needed just the \VHrTrlE�· O�NOT·fY\JE · G4N our children to have a �ole model right shoes--and I had nothing flaunted before them advocating an appropriate at home. The first pair �CCCPT • THEl�· ll1\J1 alternative to marriage and the family the man brought out proved to be unit. " perfect in every way , including fit, WHICM· ·1r1L·Hl:rl�T and I walked out saying , 'I can't l)·TO·&JR.N In one sense, gay people might be a believe it, I can't believe it, I TnE(· )(MUlfilNEQU)lf.rxmr .. threat to the security of the nuclear can't believe it!' family. A lot of the gay folks I know Tnnr- wnol· rej ect a culture in which "all mothers "'Oh, ye of little faith! ' Charlotte 1)-THE- Ql!E)TIGN. are instilled with a sense of sacrifice said. wh en they bear children" (Bryant 's tt�ERJ·O"MU) words ) for many reasons. But then, "Once again I realized how God wants so do a lot of other folks I know. Al so, the same Christian publishing you to turn over to Him the little company in New Jersey, Fleming H. In another sense, though , gay people Revell , publishes Morgan's book The are not a threat to the security of Total Woman and some of Bryant 's books. the nucl ear family. You can 't threaten something that doesn't exist. Anita Bryant creamed Richard A. Viguerie, who has aided the Bryant anti-gay campaign, is a fund The "traditional" non-divorced, wife raiser who 's also helped out George at-home family is statistically a Wallace ($6 million, in fact) and minority. And for victims of Phyllis Schlafly , Illinois' rabid anti inflation, unemployment , and racist communist and anti-ERA'er. (Bryant and sexist hiring practices , the and Schafly marched together against nucl ear family 's never provided all ERA, and their supporters cooperated that much security anyway. to help defeat ERA in Florida. ) With her dirt-poor background , Anita Mike Thompson, Bryant 's former public Bryant ought to know that. relations person, is now working on a massive ad compaign to defeat the Maybe it-'s time God got his act together Panama treaty. and told her. --Al ice Wonder SUN sent anti·gay f Iyer PostNote : Th e Prairie SUN , a free weekly music newspaper distributed through Co-op Tapes & Records , was sent an anonymous anti-gay leafl et Yes--in a similar manner--a community titled "Save Our Children" in July , should have the right to discriminate after printing an editorial supporting against Chicano s, though , again , that human rights. The SUN, in response, hardly seems in the offing . re-stated its pro-gay rights position and reprinted the following parts of Yes--a community should be abl e to the "Save Our Children" leafl et "to discriminate against atheists or Jews , demonstrate the low level of citizen but how many of us think this would ship, of compassion and understanding really happen? and humanity many of those supporting Al)ita Bryant show. " Our vote in Florida must not be over turned. We have the right to deny ************************************** homo sexuals the chance to teach in our schools, to work in our places of "Yes we won in Florida , but the battle employment- , and to live in our has only begun. The homosexuals have neighborhoods. We have the right to now announced that they are taking expose them by voting to make polygraph their case to the federal court. tests mandatory in the schools and places of employment in our community, Their logic--if , by popular vote , a We have th� right to vote for police community can discriminate against surveillance of their gathering places homosexual·s , the same process could to identify those who cannot be be used to discriminate against blacks detected bv other means. We have a Anita Bryant , half-baked Christian, and other minority groups which the right to silence by popular vote any pieous singer, and the symbol of community as a wh ole does not want sympathetic depiction of these homophobia in the U. S., got it right in its midst. deviates in newspapers and magazines in the paycheck with a banana cream and on national television. We have pie in Des Moines , on October 15 . Yes--if a community wants to discrimin the right to boycott homosexual Bryant 's convulsive hatred of gay ate against blacks , it should have celebrities and to remove homosexual pieple made her pieticuJarly worthy that right , although that is not likely .literature from our schools, libraries, of creaming. to happen. and bookstores. " Page 12. Lively protesters greet On Saturday, Oct. 29 about 50 people, including groups and individuals from Springfield, Peoria, Champaign, and Bloomington-Normal, gathered in protest outside Pekin's Frontier Music Hall, where self-appointed crusader Anita Bryant ap peared.in "sacred concert." The group united to protest Bryant's campaign to deny equal rights to gay people.
The demonstrators assembled in an open field across the street from the Music Hall. We were prohibited (by threat of arrest) from marching on the Frontier's private property.
We were also not allowed to approach (harass) the concert-going Christians and straights, who su .red in disgust and disbelief at the crowd of bouncing, smiling marchers whose chants includ ect"2-4-6-8: Anita Bryant's full of ha'te.!"
Not one reached out in Christian personhood to save us from ourselves!
The Bloomington-Normal people had prepared a short position paper explaining the philosophy behind the demonstration, to be distributed to both the media and concert-goers. However, we Gay rig hts are human rig hts were not permitted to get close enough to leaflet the crowd. This is the text of the leaflet prepared by narrow, suspicious mold-- a mold in which no one demonstrators for the Pekin protest: is free or happy, a mold in which we have only the smug security of sameness to comfort us for the Our peaceful demonstration tonight signifies our loss of our spirit. affirmation of love and affection between people and our rejection of Anita Bryant's hatred of gay This non-violent protest is supported by several people. We feel that her desire to limit the ways organizations that are committed to human we can express affection is also a desire to limit �beration in general and celebrations of love in the infinite variety of human joy. Ultimately, such particular: Gay People's Alliance, the Bloomington limitations ,ee"rve to cast an people into a gray, Normal Men's Group, Gay Awareness/Action Union of McLean County, the Post-Amerikan newspaper, the Utopian Feminists, and others.
Consequently, only the media people were informed of the demonstrators' loftier goals. (See rap.) The main targets of the protest, Bryant's suppor ters, were left to draw their own conclusions from what they saw. So we got more dumb stares.
And the demonstration was quite a display.
Protesters arrived one and a half hours before Bryant's concert. Gas lanterns lit up the dark ness, helped out by camera flashes and the bright lights of television film crews from several local stations.
Demonstrators marched, many arm in arm, in an oval in front of a 15-foot banner, held aloft, that proclaimed in huge, orange day-glo letters, "GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS."
With undiminished enthusiasm, we sang and chan ted and hooped and hollered for over an hour, until the concert began. Ironically, one of the most·often repeated songs was a gay rendition of Bryant's theme, "The Battle Hymn of the Repub lic, " with the refrain:
"Move on over or we'll move on over you Proud For gay folks' time has come. " At the pro-gay rights gathering in Pekin, demonstrators in the background hold a banner which reads "Gay rights are human rights." . --Amanda Ziller
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Spirited When Anita Bryant's "sacred concert" began, protesters ended the demonstration with a last spontaneous burst of gay clapping and cheering. Your arrogance I am not gay I am not straight-- maybe I am hip, will be known but mostly I'm myself. I look like a lot of people••• Angry '" kinda freaky-- ya know. One of the many signs carried by demonstrators A"tP carries a sobering message, comparing Bryant's .� I smoke reefer. I like the feeling ant1· -rights crus ade to those of the pas t. � of being high. I like to party. cpf ...... • • • . . . • • • • • • • • • ... • • • ..• • • • • • • ...... L� I love music-- how it feels, how it sounds. Ozark Mountain, Bryant sparks Pekin protest_ Marshal Tucker-- Willy Berry. gards to the human body and all the sin you get PostNote: We reprinted the following article by can I like to make love-- I love pleasure. Daniel Reedy from the Prairie SUN because it says from it, by it or both. Yet, she has found her own such n�ce things about the demonstration we were participation in beauty pageants of past years jus I live with a woman but I ain't married, part of. (It also happens to include stuff about the tified with the claim that is was God's desire she demonstration not in our adjoining article.) parade her body in front of a panel of judges and I love being in the Rockies/Ozarks/ Catskills-- camping out. ************************************* wiggle her ass.
(PEKIN)--Anita Bryant, the biggest human blun I ain't into clothes, blue The protest was a success in that it showed the der since the days of "tailgunner Joe" McCarthy. jeans will do for me. tenacity of a winning ideal. And, the people pos carried her circus act into Pekin's Frontier Aud sessed the element necessary for the continuation I work like most people, itorium last Saturday night, and if you're lookin' of that ideal of human rights. They had love. but I ain't gonna ever be a boss. for a review of her performance, you'll have to
look elsewhere. because I could not see paying to I don't beat up on people or rip anyone off. hear the ravings of a mad lady that's squeezed one Maybe I'm kinda radical cause I don't trust we are too many oranges. I went instead in search of the what "they say" and mostly believe what I truth. alive think.
ancl So here's my question1 What I found was a well-organized, peaceful Why do these Anita Bryant gathering of protestors representing Americ:an well religious types say I am human rights at a time when human rights appears going to hell? to have gotten lost somewhere between campaign Qf1ol pledges and reality. It's still out there waitin' to �ivin' They say I have a sinful lifestyle! get a foot in the door. '" Who are these people? The demonstrators numbered 100 and re- every presented people from Bloomington, Normal, These people who flock to ( the Calvary Baptist) church Champaign, the Uof I at Urbana, Pekin, Peoria. each Sunday. Among the various groups taking part in the pro counny test was the Urban Human Relations Committee Are they so afraid of their Olm minds- from Champaign. A spokeswoman for the group their Olm thoughts explained that Miss Bryant has continued to ignore the facts with. regards to gay people, and the myths Are they so afraid of freedom that have been fostered concerning gay people in How can they be so straight and narrow? this country are untrue. The pressure against the gay people.has become so intense in recent cpf And so now "they" are on the offensive, months that in Texas the Klan has a recorded death message for gays you can dial on your own phone. ranting against homosexuals in front Who's free? of the media. Yet within the.church Across the street from the auditorium, the protes Controversial singer Anita Bryant was each Sunday their ministers rail against ters were holding up a ban:i.er that read "gay rights on hand at Lynchburg (Va.) church "hippies," rock and roll, drugs-- wave Sunday morning to hear its the flag-- urge the flock are human rights" and the demonstrators pledged fundamentalist preacher call for a on in their quest continue their nationwide boycott of the citrus return to the "McCarthy era where we for success. industry until Bryant is removed from her position register all Communists." within the industry. According to another spokes All the while keeping their eyes person for the protesters, it now appears doubt The singer, who led a fight against to heaven while the earth burns. a homosexual rights movement in Dade ful that Bryant's contract will be renewed. County, Fla., sat on the podium behind Phonies, hypocrites: Dr. Jerry Falwell, pastor of the Someday will meet, Also represented were groups from the U. of I. we Thomas Road' Baptist Church, as he said, your arrogance will be known. chapter of the Gay People's Alliance, a national "Not only should'we register them, but For like all people who fear organization, the Student Association of Women we should stamp it on their foreheads freedom, (from I.S. U.). and the Bloomington/Normal Men's and send them back to Russia. you try to kill within others Group. that which you fear "This is a Free country," he said. within yourself, It was further noted at the rally that Miss Bryant -�Thanks to the Lynchburg News --Chuck Eastwind has made some ridiculous statements with re- Page 14-. School board smokes out
A couple of the other Post-Amerikan staff mem bers claim that you-all might stop reading my While five articles before you ever get to the main topic, Bloomington since it takes me so long to get around to it. students were being expelled for Well, shame on you. I still prefer to approach suspicion of my subjects artfully rather than blurting out Who smoking WhatWhenWhere in the first sentence. But I will maxijuana, tell you that this article is about fiye students the real who've been expelled in the last couple months thing was from Bloomington Junior High School and Bloom peacefully ington High School for the crime of being suspec growing in a GenTel ted of or caught smoking marijuana on school planter in grounds. Now let me get on with my artful mus downtown ings. Bloomington. We wonder
When I was in high school, in the city, there were what GenTel 1 s police in the halls all the time. They were there pet politician, for a simple, clearcut, innocent purpose: to keep Donn Pierce , would have us from knifing and shooting each other. And we said if he knew who the cops were, because they had on un were still mistakable blue uniforms and carried big guns. on the school board. In those days, I never suspected that I would someday present that situation as desirable. But now I see that those knifings, riots, and shootings
served a purpose: they gave our school admini state's attorney said would never hold up in rites of passage just don't impress someone who's strators and school board a sense of proportion. court; another expelled student didn't even have plea'santly stoned out. No one seriously tried to prevent us from straying enough marijuana on her to conduct tests to see off to downtown hangouts during lunch period; no if it was indeed marijuana. Again, without those On the other hand, from the students' point of view, one expected us to drag ourselves to every single tests, she would never be convicted in court. ) being pleasantly stoned is a sensible way to survive one of our deadly classes every single day; no one the school day without getting in much trouble My brother, who taught junior high school, once raised a ruckus if we burned our lungs out with (usually), just as many adults have found that being cigarettes on the school steps; and no one made a developed a theory that junior high and high school stoned at their factory jobs makes the day much fuss, although they all suspected, that during years are really our culture's substitute for prim more tolerable. Being stoned really does set your patriotic all-school assemblies a large proportion itive :rites of passage. He thought that since our mind free while your body is imprisoned. Not of the white kids were over at the Joytime Cafe so-called civilized culture has done away with being stoned might really get you in big trouble, and a large proportion of the black kids were in those one-to-seven day rituals at puberty where because you'd just think about your imprisonment Joe's Blast Furnace, blacks and whites both the elders beat you with sticks or starve you half. until you'd end up screaming or punching someone minding their own business and getting stoned on to death or let tigers jump on you or whatever or having a bad attitude or organizing against your the evil weed. (all this to impress you with the rigors of now jailers. Spacing out on a sunbeam for hours at a being an adult woman or an adult man), instead time is .really much safer. Kids in Bloomington should have it so good. we drag the kids through years of training just to
They've got police counselors, who play I'm impress upon them the same rigors--like punctu I know that this is true because I was a student your-buddy and get everything all confused about ality, obedience to authority, suppression of de� teacher at an overcrowded high school in northern who's on whose side until it comes to the crunch. sire--that they need to survive the demands of Illinois that had to go on split shifts: the juniors They've got people dressed up as school admini everyday adult life in our culture. and seniors came from seven to twelve in the strators and deans who take the law into their morning, and the sophomores and freshman came own hands and act as undercover police agents. In the light of my brother's theory, the explusion from noon until five p. m. I was young and naive, And the students have the double bind of the law of dope-smoking students makes a certain amount and I thought this system was unfortunate because requiring them to spend time in a school where of sense, from the board's point of view. Those it gave the freshmen and sophomores all morning there's stricter and more arbitrary laws than to get stoned before they came to school, which those enforced on the streets. (One student was they did quite efficiently, and they really weren't expelled for simply admitting that he .had smoked very lively in the afternoon. dope on school grounds, which even an assistant
One day I mentioned at lunch in the faculty lounge that I thought it was too bad that younger kids were so lethargic all afternoon. Imagine my surprise �ef your licks from herbal -tricks when the other teachers rallied from their bologna and Rainbow to assure me that this system was much better, that the kids were much quieter and nicer than they used to be when they came to school
Rash of expulsions concerns ACLU
With Bloomington school authorities ex pelling six students in six weeks for being caught with pot or other illegal substances, a Post-Amerikan reporter called up the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to see what that organi zation thought about new law 'n' order campaign. ACLU Chariperson Robert Sutherland confirmed that the organization is watching the developing situation in the Bloomington schools.
Here's what Sutherland said : Na.f-ural Food Store .0 .d "ACLU hopes that in these expulsions for alleged drug-related causes , that ..c112'1 E. & straight, that it was wonderful that they just fell be removed from the board as bad BHS & asleep when they were bored instead of getting examples. all fidgety and troublesome. I meekly retreated, since I obviously did not have the experience of And then we have board member Norman Jones BJHS students! life necessary to judge these things. telling the Pantagraph '(11/1) that "the school was involved in an 'educational process' of discouraging If school officials have caught you or I've been thinking about why the school board is students from using drugs and alcohol. 'If that ed any of your friends with marijuana or so agitated about kids smoking pot. One board ucational process does not happen, then we remove other illegal substances, we would member claimed that marijuana was "dangerous. " those who are caught, ' he said. " like to find out what happened. Call The question is, dangerous to whom? He may us up at 828-7232 or 828-6885. be right about it being dangerous to him, as far Jones didn't suggest that when the educational pro as he represents the status quo, if you believe the cess "does not happen" in other areas, say when a rites of passage theory--those potsmokers may student flunks a geography test, the student will be grow up to be unpunctual, disobedient to authority, expelled from school and spontaneous--but I doubt it. Everything else One more possible, though laughable, reason the in the culture works against those qualities. In Dade County, Florida, schools have decided to school board might bring up for their explusions give out frisbees and T-shirts and stuff like that is that the expulsions prevent kids from smoking Or the school board could still believe that pot is as rewards for coming to school. In one sense, pot. That's pretty thick. Nothing can keep kids dangerous to their students' health. (You wouldn't I'm filled with glee that anyone has to admit so from smoking dope; school board members think that reasonable people would hold such a openly that school is a real drag and only Frisbees couldn't even keep their own kids from smoking can entice people to spend their days there, in dope (although you bet your sweet ass they could spite of compulsory attendance laws. In another keep their own kids from getting expelled for it, sense, I think it's about the most grotesque thing if they had to). TAKE THAT, I've ever heard. Whatever happened to gold stars? 'IOU STUPID And why can't they just give it up as a bad job and Yes, one of the things we can depend on in life is SCHOOL!! let the kids stay home? that people are going to get high. I've smoked marijuana regulary for 13 years, with no ill There is much to be said for staying home and effects (unless you count my unwillingness to � getting stoned. While dope may desensitize you to write traditional leads for my stories, or my learning while sitting quietly in rows listening to general uppityness). And I learned how to read \ your teacher read your textbook to you, it doesn't and write, too; a lot of our high school kids necessarily harm your thought processes in other haven't. Now there's a crime. intellectual situations. In fact, I was stoned on my ass when I finally understood a particularly com --Phoebe Caulfield plex image in a Yeats poem, an image I'd been stupid belief, but some of them do.) But everyone trying to figure out for two weeks. And if I rem knows that junk food has been proven. harmful to ember correctly, my brother was quite stoned people's health (marijuana hasn't), yet the school when he came up with the rites of passage theory. �hrle. space board allows that junk to be recklessly dealt on school grounds. 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At this point, we're not even sure EJl/ �R(,.'I' STVDY> �f;C.o llEltA llt E f3VIL.T, :r.T Wi l..L 6-EN E�ATE enough coal No. It's one reason why nuclear that can be made available for its CoA-L �es61/VES '$:/V TH E "· "· TR VC ll: LO.AO A poweris preferable. the power ONE ws< e K �F safest uses because of federal and state legislation .J:'AI TI A1ES AS MIA.CH If all U.S. capacity C.o#TA � were nuclear. the total amount f-/X (,.H- t.EVEl RADIOACTIVE and regulation. {ftHt!li!VES. of nuclear waste . €:JVE.if�r -'IS Oo "1il?AAlt""" per person p�ryear would be the size WA $TE s of one bouil rHAT INIU PRo8Af$l'f J:Trs WtfAJll' tlo 0 o'.• YEAH/ HE'LL �. (3E R I6'Hi O V6f(I /"\.r'\-- @ Do we place a burden on our descendants by Keeping watch.on the wastes ac leaving buried nuclear wastes for themto guard? cumulated over 1,000 years of all-nuclear electric \/ll f;L.lj Fo L- k51 TH AT'.S RoUN'D TWo/ FI,,VA L SCo/?E : Does u wl-IA'r power ihthe u:s. would pro-i'ide job only one ,.,,.rreR ! HA VE. a for rl"Ip ER :z:A L 6-�owTH -"10N6-El'e. Pt. IA.TON //AM /3U SHE� 5: person at a time. Compare_ thatwith SL/ , TH EY E:VE� OoNE FoR. w 5 the burden !' we will leave behind ifwe consume all the coal,· re.A L fR EAlcS : O, oiland gas. This will deprive our descendants not RA D only of fuels, but also of feedstocks for making fL IATOltlt U."'1 plastics, organic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and pot?. otheruseful produc ts. This burden is infinite!y /?OU.AID heavier than any conceivable burden resulting from the appropriate burial of nuclear wastes. COM PA RE rHA T WITH 6-0IA/ 6- AN'D L.EAv.r,v(;: N..,Q 13 U R. D E Al./ page 18. Ring in Clinton to Wring Out the Nukes! nuclear industry. We opponents of nuclear large areas of Illinois. Choices: flee, fight , energy need our own defense in depth that is or cross that bridge when the time comes. Ask The Sun Spot well though out, so the big disaster won't your local officials about evacuation plans. wipe us out, too. The elements of it seem to be shaping up as follows: by B.C. P .O. Box 463 Bl oomington, Ill . 61701 1. Get city councils in every major city or town around Clinton to ban the transport of nuclear fuels and radioactive wastes. 2. If we can't "ring in Clinton to wring out the nukes," we should at least ban the transport of On Saturday, Nov. 19, the Champaign-Urbana rad wa:ites through Bloomington for self-defense chapter of the Prairie Alliance gathered signatures and gene�al consciousness-raising. in support of an ordinance that would ban the trans port of radioactive nuclear wastes through Urbana . 3. Develop a defensible and well-documented Twenty-five petitioners gathered 800 signatures non-nuclear plan for using the $1 billion-plus in five hours. (An average of one signature per that hasn't yet been spent on the Clintonukes petitioner every ten minutes. Not bad. ) in such a way that more energy is saved or Workbook/cpf produced for less money, more people are On Oct. 24, the Bloomington-Normal chapter employed longer, and the energy produced is of the Prairie Alliance targeted the Bloomington safer, cleaner, and sustainable. This is Significant progress on points 1 and 2 has been City Council for a petition drive. The council clearly possible. made, but we need your help with petitions. A will be asked to ban the transport through Bloom meeting, in Urbana Nov. 5 will began with point 3. ington of radioactive nuclear wastes and radioac Points 4 and 5 have not yet been started. tive nuclear fuel bundles to or from the two nu clear power plants under construction 30 miles THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH : If wars were south of Bloomington in Clinton. Every year the fought with sunbeams , we would hav e had solar plant is expected to generate 137, 000 pounds of energy years ago. high-level radioactive wastes (spent fuel) and 262, 000 gallons of low-level radioactive wastes. Included in the high-level waste will be 1100 pounds of PLUTONIUM. One-millionth of a gram of Plutonium has caused cancer in test animals. The most likely route for this waste is from Clinton to Morris, or Sheffield, Ill. , along the More on where Illinois Central-Gulf Railroad that cuts through Bloomington nine blocks east of Main Street. i'm co ming from-- My family and I live within a block of that line. How far away are you, and do you think it There's a difference between being biased and will make a difference when it matters? having made judgment after considering the 4. Work with the Illinois Commerce Commission a facts. After completing a doctorate in energy On Nov. 7, the B-N chapter met to decide upon until it allows Illinois Power to spend its computer simulation modeling and having spent a specific strategy and schedule for its petition remaining money more responsibly at comparable two years with the Committee on Nuclear and drive to ban the transport. rates of return. Alternative Energy Systems of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D. C. , Contact Mark Chaddon at 662-5716 for details on 5. Start a public pressure campaign to encourage it is my judgment that nuclear power is an how you can convert your concern into action. Illinois Power Company (IPC) to reallocate its abomination. The Clinton plant is a serious (Apathy is fine for people who don't mind having remaining money. Example: set up a legal threat to my home and to my lov ed ones who their children irradiated. ) escrow fund into which rate payees may pay live here in Bloomington. I purposely gave up their electric bills until IPC decides to replace several prestigious, high-paying jobs elsewherE On Oct. 30, the Champaign-Urbana chapter of the Clintonukes by more socially responsible in order to return to Bloomington where I was the P. A. held a community teach-in on the sources of energy, or buys insurance for raised. I intend to do all I can to defend my nuclear power issue. O,ver 100 people came to Clinton. home against the spread of nuclear poisons. see mime, hear music, watch fi lms, and It is not yet too late, Bloomington is your participate in discussions about nuclear power. 6. If we fail on points 1-5, we must plan to deal home too. Please join me at the next The Nuclear Engineering Department of the with possible radioactive contamination of Prairie Alliance meeting. U of I sent some big fish to forcefeed technical arguments to unsuspecting lay people. I encountered one. It was like trying to convince a deep-sea fish that dry land exists. He won't believe it until he's flopping on the beach after ATTENTION the tide has run out. CUSTOMERS OF Energy Calendar Ill. Power Co. or NI Gas The Bloomington-Normal Chapter of the Prairie Alliance meets every other Monday at 7 p. m. at the Newman Center, 501 S. Main, Normal. We ILLINOIS PUBLIC ACTION COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY FOR SOCIAL ACTION are just plain folks like you. Come 1 want to end the unfair business practices of IPC and NI Gas. We are collecting information for hearings to be conducted 11/29 by the Illinois Coiiimerce · Nov. 7-12, WC�, Channel 3, ChamJ>llip, lQ p. m. Commission (ICC) which could result in important changes in customer service News. A series on solar energy and its alter regulations for gas and electricity customers. natives, mainly nuclear. Interviews with ISU solar•authority Ed Francis, Bloomington solar architect Ted Meyer, Clintonuke officials, and IF YOU HAVE HAD A PROBLEM WITH: good ol- BC. Debbie Johnson, moderator. Nov. 8, 7 p. m. Champaign-Urbana chapter of SECURITY DEPOSITS SHUT OFF OF GAS OR ELECTRICITY Prairie Alliance Meeting at the Unitarian Univer salist Church, 309 W. Green St. , Urbana. LATE CHARGES RUDE TREATMENT BY UTILITY COMPANY OR ICC INCORRECT BILLS ESTIMATED BILLING OR BUDGET ACCOUNTS "Defense in Depth" is a phrase the nuclear industry uses to describe their many-sided but OR WRITE1 often poorly thought out plans to fend off for as Illinois Public Action Council CALL 452-3441 long as possible the big disaster which, when it 207 S. U>cust occurs, will wipe out what remains of the Champaign, Ill. 61801 her down enough to get an accurate account of what has happened . Cop Sides With Wife-beaters I asked if McGuire felt the screening In an article about wife-beating, printed reporter , believing that the person process would scare a person out of interviewing him was doing a study. in the Sunday , Oct . JO , Daily Pantagraph , pressing charges. (Under the current mis a Normal police officer (whose name was demeanor screening policy, people can't withheld) was quoted as saying , "I look at McGuire also stated that the officer said sign charges at the police station against it from the husband 's point of view. He in his statement to the Pantagi:-aph that someone else unless there is an immediate works and he 's had a hard day. Maybe she's he was only relating +'.-. e common explanation danger to someone 's life , limb , or property. been picking at him and he hauls off and wife-beaters give to police and that it is See P-A Vol . vi , no .?, page 12.). The hits her . Whose fault is it? How much can not necessarily his viewpoint on the issue . chief didn't feel this was true at all . one · person take ?" Well , Mr . Officer, you should be more careful in choosing your word s! I think McGuire admitted there were a lot of things Thi s statement disturbed many people , some folks are going to have a hard time wrong with the screening process, which causing them to question attitudes about swallowing your excuse for such a requires people to "cool off" for 3-10 days wife-beating of our local "peacemakers ." sexist and violent statement . before signing charge s, but he feels it is It also prompted a visit by the Post needed for weeding out the less serious Amerikan to Normal Police Chief McGuire . When asked how a battered woman is dealt complaints. (Many people don't follow with when she comes to the station, Chief through with procedures once they' ve Chief McGuire told me that he had received McGuire replied that first police try to filed a complaint .) many calls about the statement and had comfort the woman and make her feel she is The chief agreed that there is a lot of talked with the officer in queetion (whbse no longer in danger . Sometimes the police unreported wife-beating. McGuire feels the name was still witheld). 't_he chief have another _woman_ (usually a .secretary- reason for this is that women feel eA-plained that the officer had made the there are no women on the force) come and embarrassment about reporting batterings comment unaware that he was speaking to a console the vi ctim , in an effort to settle and would r�ther work problems out at home . He also said that most people want the rest of the world to think they're happy and their lives are going just fine . -Gertie Yah- Ta Council Hey hands Authentic Indian profi ts to Jewelry Bloomington Mexican Imports Fed 114 Main ot. Bloomington council members have decided to use the city's power to issue tax-free bonds in a way that will provide Bloomington Downtown r>loominqton Federal Savings and Loan Assn. with an extra profit of about $1.4 million. (next to ohield's) By approving the slick $6.6 million OPl;N 10:30-5:30 financing deal , the council also provided 828-1142 the future residents of the Westminster ounday G. Monday retirement village with about $25 a month lower rents. But that wasn't really an issue in the council 's decision. Nor was the extra profit for Bloomington Fed debated . It was mentioned only in New Merchandise! passing in a memo from City Manager William Vail to council members . Selection of Hand-crafted Indian: The only debate in the council was over whether the deal might hurt the city's credit rating if the owner of Westminster Silver & Turquoise Jewelry Village , Presbyterian Housing Program Inc, , went broke , Presbyterian, not the city, must pay back the bonds, ' TU:RQUOISE. RED CORAL, MOTHER o' PEARL BRACELETS, RINGS, AND PENDANTS KEY RINGS, MONEYCLIPS, BEAUTIFUL WATCH TIPS, AND MORE-- No matter what the city council did , the retirement village was going to be built , and Bloomington Federal was going to loan Presbyterian Housing the money to build it , For Weekly Specials Watch If the city hadn 't issued the bonds, Bloomington Federal would have made about - $"6 million in profit on the 25-year loan , and the federal government would have got about $4 million in taxes. Now Bloomington Fed will get a $7.4 million profit , and the residents of Westminster Village will pay about $2.5 Hun dred of unique gift million less in rent over the next 25 years. But the government will get nothing. items imported direct from Mexico In effect , that means $4 million in tax money will be divided between Bloomington Federal and the future residents of **HAND-PAINTED CERAMIC POTTERY AND FIGURINES Westminster. **ONYX CHESS SETS **ONYX BACKGAMMON **WOODEN CHESS SETS **WOODEN BACKGAMMON (In last month's Post , we said Bloomington **VARIOUS STYLES WROUGHT IRON FURNITURE & PLANT STANDS Fed might get as much as $3 million in extra profits because we thought the loan **HANDCRAFTED WOOD FURNITURE AND LAMPS would be for 40 ye ars , which wo uld have **PALM & WICKER BASKETS & HAMPERS meant more interest.) **CARVED ONYX BOOKENDS & FIGURES We see nothing wrong with people getting • lower rents. Everybody shnuld get lower 1n & chec k our low, rents. But why should Bloomington Federal also benefit? Just what is it doing that low prices make s it deserve an extra $1'.4 million in profits? � 20 .• If you want to read about someone who tri�d to ·..Howto pet tlte prease get their files, check out the story at right. If they write back withholding documents, If you'd like to find out what the FBI here's the proper form for your appeal or CIA has on you, here's the proper letter: .form for your request letter: -y a e our ddr ss nate { ignature) s If your appeal is denied, you can take the agency to court, and the agency must prove why the records should be withheld. However, even the ACLU's pamphlet on "How to Use the FOIA" admits, "If an agency is reluctant to release information you feel you are entitled to, you will almost certainly find the THZ government bureaucracy too complex to fight alone. See a lawYer ." So if you don't have the money to hire a lawYer, all you can do is become cynical and embittered, lose faith in The System, and go home and sulk. -- Phoebe Caulfield P. S. 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Main FRI.,S AT. , SUN . : ,•• Student Specials. Downtown Blooming ton l•�r+1 Page 21� [j][1] [k][t] to you, too, CIA! Have you ever tried to get a bagel in Now, "inc ident " used to mean something Nebraska? That 's what it's like trying that happened--and something did to find out what the FBI and CIA have happen at the rally , of course. What on you: it's possible, but it takes the 'FBI meant was that "nothing that a long time and unreasonable effort , we should get really nervous about and the result is not likely to be occurred." Such mindless redefinitions satisfactory--it's likely to be of words like "inc ident" always tickle overprocessed, sanitized version of me . what you really wanted in the first place. Silverstein's first letter back from the CIA requested a notarized Now, the big difference between statement of identification before bakeries in Nebraska and agencies they would look anything up . (Both in Washington is that there 's no agencies requested such statements, law saying that the state of Nebr�ska so you might as well have your first should provide you with kinky kinds letter notarized, to save time.) of bread, but there is a law that says Anyway , this CIA letter gave the CIA and FBI should serve up the Silverstein his first taste of CIA grease they have on you, at your writing style, exemplified by phrasing request. It 's called the Freedom of like, "establ ished requirements and Information Act (FOIA) ; it started procedures for access by individuals in 1967 and was broadened in 1975 for information pertaining to them. " (altho Ford tried to veto the All the letters were worded like that broadening in 1974) ; it 's the tool --luckily Silverstein was born in 11I just all those journalists used to find Philadelphia. out all those fishy things about those agencies in the past couple In the summer of 1976, the CIA admitted years . that it had found one document Chicago during the 1969 Democratic pertaining to Silverstein, but they Convention, must continue to be Fishy things like : the CIA, which refused to release it because of-- denied." Isn't it comforting to know was never supposed to spy on people get ready--exemption provisions (j)(l) that the folks who can push the button within the U.S., probably had 5 years ' and {K) (l). Oh , of course! Why can't get the year of that momento�s worth of tapes of you and your Aunt didn't we think of that? Democratic convention straight? (And Sally 's phone conversations because what about the fact that elections one time in 1969 they caught you Exemption {j){l) bo ils down to they occur every 4 years . Don't they know don't want to release tbe document that? ) Oh well , a year gained here , because if they did it would reveal an address lost there , an A-bomb set intelligence sources and methods (like off somewhere else . Everybody 's how they placed informers or something ) human , eh? Exemption (k)(l) boils down to they don't want to release the document The letter also reassured Silverstein because it 's "secret in the interest that "the document merely lists a of national defense or fc reign policy. " Mark D. Silverstein of Bloomington, Wh ich , like Nixon's pl eas cf "national Illino is , as being a student security ," bo ils down to they don't associated with the Students for a want to release the document because Democratic Society." Silverstein using the words "underground" and they don't want to . points out that at the time of the "weather" in the same sentence when 1968 Democratic convention (which he you were talking about how your Silverstein app ealed the CIA decision did no t go to ), he was not a student spring trip to Mammoth Caves got to withhold this fascinating document , and did not know anyone in Students rained out. and the CIA acknowledged his app eal in for a Democratic Society. But he did August 1976. Thirteen months later, have long hair, wh ich could persuade Wh en everyone found out how amus ing he got the results of his appeal . even the cleverest CIA spy that he and informative it could be to request was a student SDSer. files from the FBI and CIA under the Within thirteen months , the men who FO IA, it became quite the thing to decide what little country to bomb So much for the Central Intelligenc e do . Underground papers and the next had managed to get Silverstein 's Agency . American Civil Liberties Union street address wrong . (The mail published instructions for writing carrier delivered it correctly anyway .) It seems that what W8 need here is a to · the agencies requesting their drastic redefinition of "intelligence." files that mention your name . The misaddressed letter .1aid that "the document , a report on the riots in --Phoebe Caulfield In fall of 1975, Post-Amerikan reporter Mark Silverstein followed these instructions , asking the CIA and FBI for documents about him or mentioning him. On Nov. 12, 1976, the FBI sent Silverstein a heavily-edited document about a March 8, 1973 rally to show solidarity with American Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, at Illinois State University. The report named Silverstein as attending the rally (which he did) and specifically named four other people there as "formerly active or associated with revolutionary groups on ISU campus ." The names of those four other people and the names of the FBI informers who attended the rally were blanked out of the document . So were some entire sentences and parts of sentences, making the thing read rather strangely . It's interesting to find out that the FBI was so uptight about public response to their attack on Wounded Knee that they 'd pay attention to a 75-person, JO-minute rally in Normal . It's also scary--there were lots of protests and rallies here between 1968 and 1974. Was there an FBI informer at all .of them scribbling names? My favorite part of the Wounded Knee rally document is the last sentence, wh ich says that "no inc ident occurred." "This is a Anti-Riot Oath First it was the "loyalty oath," Now '' students at nine university college recording • • • campuses in California and elsewhere in the U.S. are being asked to sign It 's 6:15 a. m. You want to know where to what are called "anti-riot" oaths. catch the Eureka special . so you can get to Students receiving Federal Aid under work on time. You see the sign advertising under several programs are haing bus route information on the side of the asifed to state in writing--on a pink form-� shelter you're waiting in so you find a pay tn at they have never been in campus phone and dial the . nlJ,IDhex. What do you "disruptions ". get( According to the Financial Aid Office at the Berkeley Campus , "directly "THE BLOOMINGTON BUS OFFICE IS NOW participating and extremely aggressive CLOSED. PLEASE CALL BETWEEN 8 A. M. behavior at a campus demonstration AND 12 NOON AND 1 P. M. AND 5 P. M. " would probably be rul ed as being involved in campus demonstrations as defined in the Federal rule. " This is the response bus riders will receive --Zodiac News Service before 8 a. m. or after 5 p. m. if they try to find out where to catch a specific bus or how • late the buses run. Unfortunately, not all bus riders use the bus only during office hours. Enjoy the 1960's But , the recording has spoken I Old Town atmos- phere AMA Opposes Nutrition of The American Medical Association has scathingly denounced a nutrition report recently prepared by the Senate The Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs which suggests that we Galery! should eat less sugar and fats. The AMA said these goals should not be adopted because there is no proof that diet is related to disease, If' you would like your service or organization's number listed, call adding that changing Americans ' eating the �-Amerikan at 828-7232. habits might lead to what the AMA . ' calls "economic dislocation." Alcoholics Anonymous 828-.5049 American Civil Liberties Union 452-4831 The Senate report was also denounced Community for Social Action 452-4867 by sugar companies and the National Dept . of Children and Family Serv. 829-5326 Dairy Council , but was enthusiastical Dept . of Health, Ed, & Welfare (Social ly supported by medical journals in Security Admin .) 829-9436 Europe . (ZNS ) Dept . of Mental Health 828-4311 Gay Action/Awareness Union (community) 828-6935 Rubber Decoy 111 E. Ill . Lawyer Referral Service 800-252-891 6 Former CIA agent David A. 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Wed. , Nov. 23 -- Shawn Cullinane -, Thur . , Nov. 24 -- HAPPY THANKSGIVING z 0 GALERY II z ---- Wed, Nov, 9--Chuck Schwarz Thur, Nov, 10--Jim Vasilou Fri. Nov, 11--Flatland Flyers Sat. Nov. 12--Flatland Flyers Books, Health Care, Sun, Nov, 13--JAYDE Mon, Nov, 14--Shawn Cullinane Non-sexist Children 's Tues. Nov. 15--Jill Watson Literat ure, 25-cent Used Books Wed, Nov. 16--Little Grass Thus , Nov. 17--John Briggs and MORE Fri . Nov 18--Suzy Bogguss .. Sat. Nov. 19--Chuck Schwarz Sun, Nov. 20--Bluegrass Crackerjack Mon. Nov 21--Jeff Ichihashi Jazz Barui Tues. Nov, 22-- " " II " Wed , Nov, 23--Kevin Sterns Thur . Nov. 24--HAPPY THANKSGIVING page 23. Psychiatric Inmate Sho ws Well , now I am in Michael Reese , one of the "Rage Symptoms" best institutions in the world , and coming along fine , thank you, I can leave any time I feel like it , if I feel like job hunting Dear Post , If you feel moved to write us a letter, go for the rest of my life . Whereas for the I am responding to your article on "John" , right ahead, and we'll probably put it in. majority of my time in Tinley Park I didn't the psychiatric patient , which appeared in If you don't want it published, please say even know who my doctor was , I now see one your September issue . half an hour each weekday, I am provided so in the letter. with three square meals a day , a private room For the last nine months I have been deprived all the conviences a hospital can pro vide ; of my freedom through no crime of my own . in short everything but my freedom, F�rst I was sent to Tinley Park for 6 days , signing out against medical advice . After dying to get out! Any friends can 2 days of freedom, I was captured by the I am still me at : police and driven in a paddy wagon to write to Praise For Patrick McCarthy Chicago 's Reed Hospital . After roughly Hallucinatory Haven three weeks there , I was transferred to Small Changes c/o Michael Reese Hospital Tinley Park once more , where I languished P&Pi 2959 S. Ellis for roughly 6 weeks until being transferred Chicago , Il . Dear Post : as a "voluntary patient" to Michael Reese Hospital , where I have stayed for the last I wish to bring to Post-Amerikan readers ' seven months , attention seven wonderful ladies of the Small School Board Says, Changes Bookstore on Main St . in Bloomington, My original diagnosis was "paranoid schizo phren�c with rage symptoms and diagnosis Tie Yer Leg s Upon reading their ad in the Oct. Post , I delusions of working with people on the Together! ordered some books from them which I couidn't atom bomb." A "lack of concern about money" afford . But I explained my story to them , and was ano ther was another symptom of my "sick Hi ! they sent me the books I asked for free , ness" . All this because I mentioned a friendship with a certain astrophysicist at The books were The Dialectic of Sex by You've probably heard about this the University of Illinois (John Kneetrowler) Shulamith Firestone , Alexandra-Kollontai 's already, but I thought I'd drop a line. According who is quite oppo sed to working on a govern Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle and ment grant for an improved hydrogen bomb. to a local radio station here (WCOLfm) 5000 Love and the New Morality, and Female and school newspapers from George Washington Male by Clarice , St�sz, and Sto� -.� When I was released from Tinley Park the High School in Philadelphia were confiscated first time , I was ordered to take a mild recently by the school principal in accordance I think all men should read these books . They tranquilizer called Mellaril. I refused to with the wishes of the local school board. tell the true story behind the women' s take these , on the grounds that I was not movement . They changed my whole outlook on The high school journalists had dared to print a paranoid schizophrenic. it . an article about birth control. This refusal proved to be my downfall . The seven ladies are trying to help the The case is going to (federal) court sometime Bloomington-Normal area by starting their own At Chicago Reed , I was subjected to a commit this coming week. The students are claiming bookstore : a bookstore that tells it like it ment trial . Th is I lost solely on the that their 1st amendment rights have been is, where you can go and buy books that will grounds of poverty--and refusing my "medica- violated. The school board has admitted that open your eyes to reality , and take you out . tion".• Whf.ln I asked the judge if it was true of dreamland . that I was being committed for being poor, "this may be true" but that certain issues are he answered "yes". My response was that too sensitive to be included in the school paper. If we had more ladies like those at Small this action seemed to be coincidental with Changes, it would be a lot better world to Marxist thought . When I said this, the court The board also mentioned that the newspaper live in . officer said very plainly, "he's crazy" . article only offered 2 alternatives to teenage pregnancy, birth control or abortion. They Again, I wish to thank the seven ladies at But the real funny part was that the psychi felt abstinance should have been included as a the Small Changes Bookstore . atrist had said I did not belong in a hospi 3rd alternative. tal at all, and was well enough to go home . Yours , He said in court that I was manicky , but Sue (&Walt) Steve Bergeron euphoric ratner than paranoid . But looking back , I have plenty of "rage symptoms" after being committed for being too· poor , penniless in fact . To make a long story short , I signed a "voluntary" paper on "my own free will" and thought I would stay another couple of days at Chicago Reed . Which. isn't really a bad place if you don't mind nurses threatening to beat the crap out of you or aides threatening to jam a hot poker up your ass , as happened to me , Or, for that matter , being strapped down by a bunch of cops and shot up with Thorazine , getting your only pants ripped in the pro ce ss , for eating your dinner in the television room! But luck was not with me . I got sent right back to Tinley Park . Now Tinley Park is like World War III. There are patients �asturbating in the halls there . Why not? The only other thing to do , besides killing off each other in f.ights over chairs (more people than chairs), is to wat ch the Mickey Mouse show all day or to lie on the floor as I did •. Once I was submitted to utter hell when I was strapped down and given a huge dose of Haldol , for complaining about my vision blurring. I am extremely allergic to Haldol, which is an extremely powerful drug , used for treating cases of "demonic possession" , among other things , The side effects can be just as frightening (to the patient , at least) as "possession," I was wracked by these side effects until I lost count of the hours before they gave me the antidote , cogentin , Once I was forced to pull down my pants before a woman cop , who served no purpo se (there were two other cops present) but humiliation. The male nurse said "I don't give a crap what you think. " The cop said "I think Hitler had a lot of good ideas," To add to the humiliation of all this, I was there "voluntarily," Page 24. Someday soon, you too will be shoppi ng at Man·Ding·Go's. •Jewelry _•Clothing •Music •Paraphernalia � - �\ A\� 1• I[)II � fl31• fl3f()4� ' \+\(!> � Celecfe Hochhalter Jan Rimbey Ace' t M_gr. Michael Thomae, Owner S. Mana_ger ;§. 'j;:..-•·' ' jl- <�\l\':r Cail Caekin9 Veda Brown Man·Ding·Go's great Christmas offer!! Sale ends December 24. Bring this coupon in for a fantastic 253 reduction on our rapidly growing selection of bongs. A deal you can't refuse! 'The Store for Body and Soul ' Manda,g - Cafarda,g 10-9 !12 t. lee tt. Canda,g 12-6 Bloomin_gfon 4 blocks south of Washington Square IGA 828-2114 Page 25 Billy Joel: The Stranger in Ourselves Peop e who have been following Billy James, his childhood friend going We meet the first "strangers" at Joel from his beginning (anybod.y off to college, "living up to the beginning of the album with remember The Hassles?) might be expectations," and asks, "James•• • disappointed in his new album "The do you like your life, can you find "Movin' Out. (Anthony's Song)." We Stranger." There is only one release, and. will you ever change." meet Anthony who. is "saving his pennies for someday" so he can move BILLY JOEL PIANO LICK! on the He told us that we can "only go· so album, and it's not very long. So faroooon caviar and Cabernet," out to Hackensack (a suburb). We if you liked Billy for his music before having to change "our jaded �lso meet Officer O'Leary who moon lights as a bartender so he can alone this album will not match up ways." Different lifestyles. buy a cadillac. "And if he can't to "Piano Man" or "Streetlife drive with a broken back, at least Serenadeo !' he· can polish the fenders." The music on this album is mostly catch pop phrases. The opening Billy also lambasts the hypocrisy of theme of the title cut is the only organized. religion on "Only the example of a well constructed. Good Die Young." musical phrase (with the exception of the one PIANO LICK!). That You got a nice white dress and theme is repeated at the end, and a party on your confirmation ties the album together nicely. You got a brand new soul and. a cross of gold "Why should I waste my money on an album that has one good theme and You say your mother told you all one PIANO LICK!," you ask? Because that I could give you was a reputation the piano man has turned. poet. "The Stranger" follows this theme. She never cared for me "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" But did. she ever say a prayer for me Not that his lyrics haven°t been tells· us about Brenda and Eddie, high school sweethearts who decide important in the past. It seems (Only the Good Die Young, c1977 that Billy is content to put his to get married, and they eventually Joelsongs) (BMI). music in the background for the divorce. "Then the King and the Queen went back to the green (village . • moment and have you concentrate on Enough said the lyrics. As on all of his green in Hicksville) but you can albums; Billy is Writing about never go back there again." Granted, the music on this album experiences, inviting us to look might start to grate on your mind afte at ourselves from a suburban point But the album really_is about "the some wee.ks 01· J.istening, but the of view (Hicksville, New York). stranger in yourself," the face lyrics � the important aspect and. "Turnstiles" (his last)· and. "The "we hide away forever" and only that is why the music takes the back Stranger" brings this out in a "take them out and show ourselves seat on this album. Hopefully, Billy concept form, the latter being an when everyone has gone." Billy Joel will be able to progress to extension of the former. shows us his "stranger" on the some higher form of music while back of the lyric sheet. There's keeping his fine suburban lyrics. a pair of boxing gloves around "Turnstiles" was about different lifestyles. Billy talked about his neck. • • Exper'i¢n«t -l-he. my�-te.riou� PYRAMII> Modern experimenters have built pyramid models varying in size from a few inches to a number of feet and have found that their elusive force stimulates � deeper meditation 6 constructive thought 6 improved physical health .Adehydration of meat, vegetables, fruit l::l.mellowing of wine and tobacco 6 increased plant growth These models are available at 4". {HAT OTHER PLAcE, 901 E.AoMs, l>EoR1A -ATa& rl�' CPMO'tAkip'MIL �� Pantagraph The Pantagraph is reforming. The Pantagraph is gonna be a friend of all the people. (This story is a fantasy.) Now and again, usually about once a month, some poor soul here at the Post-Amerikan gets to write a story about The Daily Pantagraph. Usually, we don't say nice things about Dave Merwin's gold mine, but the smell of change is in the air. Please don't stop reading yet. Fantasy writers are allowed a lot of liberty with the truth--sort of like the Pantagraph editorial writers. So, we can say weird things like the Pan�agraph is gonna be a friend of th� people, and it doesn't mean we've flipped out. Not yet. (This part is no fantasy. sigh.) The Pantagraph recently patted itself on the back in a news story for The year.is 1212· The Pantagraph has just refused an .•• its refusal to use ''offensive pictures and words in advertisement of ad that says "Need gay or liberal roommate " The Pantagraph says the ad violates "good taste." Which X-rated films." It also boasted that it "was among the first in the probably means it doesn't want to "offend" readers by violent 1969. country to act on suggestive and art in advertising" in admitting that gay people also live in Pantagraph-land. I Well here it is 1977 and look at the offensive pictures and suggestive i 0art" in a few recent Pantagraphs. The Pantagraph is willing to Some troublemakers might call this censorship. But *'. lose the ti�y1 inexpensive :Rltz and Del-Van. theater ads i( they are the Pantagraph assures us that it has nothing to do � �00 °suggestive." But it w.on't risk losing two-page Mer.it' cigarette with the fact that the Pantagraph (a monopoly which ads, which are tnUch more offensive in suggesting that it's desirable also controls the major radio stations) can edit its ads and.news to fit its version of the truth. . " and hip to get addicted to an expensive, poisonous substance that . surely gives you cancer. suggesting the loss of cigarette ads might The year is .J:.21.§. . The Pantagraph has just refused to I amount to of suggesting the loss a lot of profits, and that's a little print a letter from a Post worker who wanted to too suggestive for the Pantagraph. complain about the Pantagraph's policy of printing "For Rent" ads that say "no children.'' Some trouble makers probably. imagined that the Pantagraph was I wanted to write a short memorial for the members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd, who died in the fatal plane crash of Oct, 20, but it would probably get too bird you'll never long and too boring, All I can say is I felt worse change, --R . Van Zant about these deaths than I felt about you-know-who's, Billy Joel-See p. 25 The "Free Bird" will still fl • --Dynsdale crashes THIS FALL� Page 27. in Fantasy-Land encouraging landlords to break the law by refusing to rent to families. A few days later, the Pantagraph accepted a similar letter from a non-Post-worker, but a reference to the Post in this second letter was removed before publication, Which probably means that the Pantagraph didn't want to "offend" its readers by admitting that a competing newspaper like the Post also lives in Pantagraph-land. Too bad it's not State Farm that doesn't exist, say the troublemakers, taking ads from utility companies on the grounds that monopolies do not need to advertise. The The year is 1211 (April). After more than three years Pantagraph also notes that public utilities spend of refusing to do so, the Pantagraph has just agreed everybody's moftey and therefore should not be allowed to stop printing "Help Wanted" ads under the headings to participate in political campaigns like those to of "Male and Female." promote the use of nuclear power. Some troublemakers might say the Pantagraph changed its This is a drastic change from the Pantagraph's old policy (and started listing the ads all together with stand that utilities like telephone companies have a out sex labels) because the Human Relations Commission right to compete--against all the other sellers of had decided five days earlier to ask the city council telephones. Formerly, the Pantagraph argued that to pass a law against the male/female classifieds. . people who ob jected to such advertising could take The Pantagraph probably just wanted to stop encouraging their complaints to the Illinois Commerce Commission, bosses to break the law by discriminating in hiring on Now the Pantagraph says that the ICC "appears to be the basis of sex-,� �- influenced by the power companies." Pantagraph Advertising Director Woodrow G. Shadid has a heart attack. The troublemakers visit him at Brokaw Hospital. The year is 1982 . The Pantagraph has just decided that democracy will be better served if there are two newspapers in Bloomington-Normal, so it will allow the Post-Amerikan to use its printing equipment. "However ·much we detest the Post-Amerikan's opinions, free people need good information, " a Pantagraph spokes person says. "The people need to hear all sides of an issue, not just ours." Pantagraph Editor Harold Liston is banished to police beat, The troublemakers have no comment. The year is 1984, The Pantagraph has just called for legalization of mari juana since it is far less harmful physically than alcohol and tobacco. (The present is a gray area where hardly anybody knows This is a reversal of its 1977 stand for sure what's going on,) that mari juana is a far more dangerous thing than liquor abuse. The year is 1211 (Sept. 14). The Pantagraph has just printed a story about a father who complained to the The Pantagraph also argues that "under city council because his 11-year-old son had seen a cover police -smack of Nazi Germany, and nude woman on the big drive-in screen while the father their political spying will certainly was driving with the lad along U.S. 66. destroy what remains of American democracy." To dramatize his paper's The city council praised the Pantagraph "for not new stand, Publisher Merwin lights a offensive pictures and words in advertisement of joint in the lobby of what he calls X-rated films, " according to the Pantagraph. "The "the Law and In justice Center." Pantagraph," the Pantagraph continued, "has had a policy of limiting ads for X-rated films since Dec, 9, The troublemakers are amazed. 1969. The newspaper (the Pantagraph) was among the first in the country to act on suggestive and violent art in advertising." The year is 1.2§.2 , The Pantagraph has just banned Some troublemakers might want the Pantagraph to act cigarette and alcohol ads from its pages on the grounds on other offensively suggestive ads--like those that that such ads "encourage people to destroy themselves suggest that people poison themselves with cigarettes, instead of working to build a better future." or those that suggest that people don't look right naturally and ought to spend their $2-an-hour wages Merwin says "our decision to refuse these ads is in on cosmetics and plastic clothes. the long-standing Pantagraph tradition of taking forceful stands against drugs dangerous to mind and But it's probably more to the point that the body," Pantagraph has always wanted to protect children--like the lad who saw a nude woman on the movie screen. In This decision, unlike the one to limit the ccntent of a March 1977 editorial the Pantagraph argued that X-rated movie ads, will cost the Pantagraph millions "contro'lling the use of children in obscenity in lost ad revenue. But Merwin stoically says: is clearly possible, �he law restricts "What's money next to the good of the whole community?" practices involving minors, from child labur to liquor purchase and consumption." The troublemakers applaud. Not even troublemakers would suggest that children don't live in Pantagraph-land. The year is 1.2§.2 . The Pantagraph has just proclaimed a campaign against sexism, racism and discrimination of all kinds. "We want to be among the first news papers in the country to act on offensively suggestive and violent appeals in all advertising, " Merwin says. "There won't be anymore herbicide ads either," Merwin is quoted as saying in a front-page story. "They encourage us to destroy our land through over-produc tion and to pollute our waters . I live at Lake Bloomington, and I know about dead fish. "No more pictures of half-naked women as come-ons for crummy stuff that nobody needs either. Anyone who puts a picture of a half-naked person on the news pages just to titillate our more puritan readers is going to be fired. And those free pictures of the new cars that we've always pretended were news are right out ••," (Everybody knows how the future's gonna be: either very-very bad or very good. We've chosen to be --One of the troublemakers optimistic,) The year is 1.22§_, The Pantagraph has just stopped Page 28. NEWS Curli11Kqrori Reg. $18 Oops, Sorry A tractor-trailer carrying 50 steel - $12 drums of uranium oxide overturned in Sale 3/4" Southeastern Colorado in October, spilling at least 15,000 pounds of the 1/2" - $13 radioactive substance. According to federal officials it was the largest spill of this type ever recorded. The material, known as "yellowcake," is a fine powder used in the processing of nuclear fuel. Paul B. Smith, the Environmental Protection Agency's Denver radiation expert, said that if the spill had occurred in a ma jor urban area it could have posed a ma jor health hazard. Tiny amounts of yellowcake dust will cause lesions of the kidneys and liver when inhaled. --Lancaster Independent Press Pollution Retribution Judge Robert Merhige, saying he wanted to deliver a warning to every corporation in the country, fined Allied Chemical $13.2 million-- the maximum fine allowed by law-- for willfully polluting the James River in Virginia with the pesticide Kepone. "No commercial products are as important as our environment, " Merhige said when he announced the sentence. Play It Again A reporteF who has just returned from Puerto Rico states that there is a big immunization program on the island. Guess what for-- swine flu. --Lancaster Independent Press McDonalds Marches On (ZNS) The magazine Nutrition Action reports that since McDonald's restaurants have nearly saturated American cities, McDonald's is eyeing high schools. In Benton, Arkansas, John Kosin has already moved his McDonald's inside the Benton High School cafeteria. Kosin reportedly took a school lunch operation that was attracting only ten percent of the student body and turned it into a profit-making success by removing fruits, vegetables, and other 707 S. MAIN - NORMAL "unpopular" foods and replacing them with McDonald's "food." OPEN 1 DAYS A WEEK Page 29. Blood Baths You may have wondered whether there was any point in rubbing the new BRIEFS ":;1rotein-rich" shampoos into the dead cells that make up your hair, but did y�u ever wonder just where this miracle protein comes from? Human blood plasma, in part. Sa wdust Sandwiches The Right Schools Yup--it seems that plasma is getting cheaper and cheaper, as extraction cent rs have moved out of skid rows Feeling a little "pulpy" after eating (CPS) U.S. Treasury Secretary William ? E. Simon has recommended that corpor and into college towns, where they ITT's new high fiber bread Fresh ate gifts go to colleges that are supply ready cash to students and Horizons? Well, don't be concerned ••• favorable to the free-enterprise hangers-on at the rate of about $6 you should. � system in their teaching policies, the a shot. (That's for the right to Chronicle of Higher Education has draw a pint of blood, remove the The bread's advertised 400% more fiber, reported. plasma, and give the rest back.) it turns out, is derived from its third largest ingredient "Alpha.Cel In a speech given to the New York The plasma is then broken down by lulose" or micro cystallene cellulose laboratories into products which --a fancy scientific name for Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, Simon, the range from the useful to the useless pulverized wood pulp. ' government's top economic advisor, but are always profitable. One of said that unless business steers gifts the hottest items right now is the Canada's Health Ministry has banned to colleges that are helping to main rotein used in cosmetics. Revlon, the bread; but the FDA has just begun � . tain the free-enterprise system-- and in pa ticular, has been using tests to determine if wood pulp is : away from those that are working proteins from plasma; it's also dangerous to our health. against it-- "the largesse of the recently bought up a pl�sma processing free-enterprise system will continue lab. So, until the FDA's study is concluded to finance its own destruction. " -- Takeover, Madison, Wis. Fresh Horizon consumers can look at the brighter side. Wood pulp may not be good for the stomach, but it's been proven terrific for the teeth! --Food Monitor Murderer Gets His Just Desserts 1-'It's a hear fact, Mass murderer and former CIA director W �lliam �olby was the victim of Yippie wake-up Pieromaniacs Oct. 10, when he was "1-f-.-t:- rather abruptly served a chocolate Winter .and cold weather Bavarian and a blueberry cream pie. 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Linden, Normal 452-0222 1 0 3 B R�O AD WAY MAL L NORMAL, ILLINOIS 61761 Qllltj Hf/IR -(/.111.(S Of/le .81/5/A/E5S f Spe.cral1z1n9 In Prc.ctsron Cu�+rnq +or Women and mt.n. rtlf({Jlfj/Uq {l+E.. t,;__tc rf?.OIUIC Sc!U.SoR. -PER..111 7JEV£LCJP[J:J BY /cX4S /IVSIRUtnclf.F(.S /.f!tfO �EVLO/J/RcALISTIC ..SE_;._[cTED :;rl{1Rm11.C1< I V!DflL. S/lsootJ -Pl{Ot>L1crs AltfE11SoAJltBt.£-P,f_1CE.S - Page JO . Filipino Farmers Being Driven From Their Land Mindanao, s. Philippines--The grass and bamboo "Our homes were burnt by the soldiers. At one work. Moving to the Phillippines, they acquired hut leaks as the rain pours. In the corner, a time over 250 families lived here, now only 29 9, 000 hectares (1 hectare = 2 acres) with govern red fireplace glows, lighting the room with remain." ment help, driving out small farmers. In a similar warmth. Children mingle, playing beneath fashion, Del Monte Foods claims 18, 000 hectares. adult feet. "I owned four caribou (water buffalo) for plowing and transport. Two weeks ago, the sheriff came The Soldiers' guns are M-16's--paid for by Amer A group of farmers gather, the. and took 3 of my animals, including a pregnant ican taxpayers--part of the hundreds of millions of wet wind leaving rice paddies a sea of mud. one. I was charged with theft. How am I going dollars in military aid that the Filipino martial to plant my crops?" law regime enjoys. Tonight, the land is their concern. The land from which their food comes, the land which ''We hired a lawyer to dispute the landowners. This aid is supposedly given to fight communist provides home and nourishes the family. The While our cases were in court, we could remain insurgents. When it is used against the small land whose ownership means dignity. on the land. But three months ago, our lawyer was farmers, however, it only serves to make the brutally murdered, his body disfigured with acid. people sympathetic to the Maoists. The farmers are thankful for rain tonight--not Now, no one will take our case." just because it will help the crops--but because One farmer pointed to the distant mountains, no troops will patrol in the mud. The roof might home of the guerillas: "The government calls me leak, but there is a feeling of security. NPA (New People's Army) because I fight for my land and my rights. All right. If this keeps up, Twenty to 30 years ago, these farmers brought I will have no choice but to really become NPA." their young families to Mindanao, southern Philippines, migrating from overcrowded More immediately appealing to the peasantry is provinces. Promised free land, they cleared the Catholic Church, traditionally a bastion of the jungles, building a simple prosperity. the ruling classes but increasingly responsive to the people's needs. With the help of the Meanwhile in Manila, the far-removed capital, church,' farmers are organizing and are able lawyers and big landowners negotiated. Working to get some legal protection. Many church with maps and paper, thousands of acres were workers and priests have been jailed, their sold, disregarding the settlers. homes are under surveillance and some have recently met with unfortunate "accidents." The poor farmers, uninformed of the legal The poor farmers are determined to fight for process (conducted in a foreign language- their rights. They don't want to join the hundreds English ), were unaware their livelihood was flocking to Manila slums. They don't want a being sold from beneath them. life of sharecropping, tenancy, or migrant farm Perhaps 10-20 years passed, until roads and work. modern communication infiltrated. Instead, they look for dignity in a simple, self Lawyers representing big landowners filed sufficient existence on their small 6-8 hectare "I am just a poor farmer, determined to retain my eviction suits. Soon the sheriff appeared, telling farms, growing their own food and caring for land. But since I have refused to leave, the sher the poor farmers they were trespassers. their friends and family. iff put a price on my head. Who will feed my children if I am killed?" The farmers sent a message to the American Confused, the local farmers organized. They people: "Tell the American people to quit hired lawyers. They visited governors and made If this was a mistaken singular instance, the case sending guns to the government. They are expensive trips to distant Manila. might be passed off as sad. But throughout the only used to keep the poor down. " Philippines, a nation 95% rural, thousands of poor But in September 1972, President Ferdinand farmers are being evicted through legal intrigue Every year, Congress votes millions in military Marcos declared martial law. Troops poured into and military operation. aid to foreign dictators. Too often these guns the area, followed by local sheriffs and goons. oppress the poor, disrupt basic human rights Legal cases were lost or ensnared in meaningless Not all landowners are native. American comp and only protect American corporate interests tangles. anies like Castle & Cook (Dole Piiieapple) have abroad. closed their Hawaiian operations since martial The poor farmers had many sad tales to tell: law, throwing hundreds of Americans out of New at Small Changes Our first birthday at Small Changes Bookstore is Dec. 1J. As a Now with Raleigh combination birthday/Christmas present to ourselves and to the folks who come in, we've ordered an sales and service extra $600 worth of stock, which was just starting to come in as this Post went to press. Small Changes has also just started to carry non-local magazines, So far we've got five: Edcentric, a "journal of educational change" put out in Eugene, Oregon; The Second · �. a "magazine of thene_w__ feminism" published in Boston, Mass,J � � Forum, an anti-imperial College • Linden ist magazine from Montreal, Quebec, that analyzes current international Cycle Shop Normal Illinois events; Communities, a "journal of cooperative living" from Louisa, Virginia; and Off Our Backs, a Washington, D, C:-women'i"Si1'ews journal, Also new at Small Changes is our RAJ,E/t::;H lending library, Right now it's small, so if you have some good books that you probably won't re-read, we'd be glad to have them SEKAI to lend, BICYCLES A Prisoner at Menard wrote to us and asked us if we could send him � three books free, and we dido If you would. like to contribute some money for those books, we'd Telephone appreciate it. For those of you who haven't stopped by yet, we're at 4-09A 454-1541 N, Main St, in Bloomington, 829-6223. Advertisement Page 31. FORT LAUDERDALE NEWS lfEi=.,j!ij�O:::=:J:::fl!SM.� Drug Billed As Aphrodisiac Taken In Book Store Raid By OIT CEFKIN Sun-Sentinel Writer agqnts with instructions to inhale its vapors during the sex act. .. FORT LAUDERDALE-"Rush" · -described as a drug-is being sold in The fancy package, also featuring some area adult book stores as an expensive inhaling devices, is apparent aphrodisiac, sheriff's agents said yes ly geared to the swinging sel known to terday following a. series of raids on use Amyl Nitrate as a sex aide. eight alleged porno shops. Amyl Nitrate was sold openly-like Meanwhile, a disagreement has de aspirin-until 1969 when the FDA veloped over what "Rush" is. determined that it �as frequently being u�d for sexual stimulation. It is des Sheriff's agents say it's Amyl Ni cribed as dangerous for persons with trate, a prescription drug. glaucoma, head traumas, and cerebral Officials of a San Francisco firm hemorrhage. that has been distributing "Rush" Instructions printed on the "Rush" nationwide say it is not Amyl Nitrate, I bottle caution the user against inhaling but another chemical that does not the contents. require prescriptions. "It's pretty obvious how. it's being Eight adult book store employees sold," the spokesman said. "Our peo say ''Rush'' is what they got when ple were sold the inhaling devices as its agents hustled them off to county jail only means of use." on charges of dispensing the substance. The inhaling devices, each with a "As far as we're concerned "Rush" wick that is dipped into a liquid, come and Amyl Nitrate are the same sub in different styles and sell for $6 to $30, stance," a spokesman for the Broward agents said. County Sheriff's Department's Or ganized Cr:ime Division said. "Our "Rush," they said, sells for $6. chemists reported an analysis of both Single ampuls, believed to be "Rush" chemicals showed them to be the or straight Amyl Nitrate, sell for $1.25 same." each. Agents said "Rush" sold in a small At the eight book stores, including bottl� marked "caution," made its one in Hollywood, agents confiscated appearance in Broward County about quantities of "Rush" in open view. a month ago and was promoted as a . "We didn't have search warrants, so "new high." we couldn't look in store rooms," one •mmllilall Agents said adult book store oper agent said. "There's no telling how ators sold ''Rush'' to undercover much stuff we had to leave behind." Reprinted from SUN-SENTINEL, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1977 Sorry-Wrong Number! FT. LAUDERDALE The Miami, disclosed that RUSH LIQ A spokesman for the manufac� Broward County Sheriff's Depart UID INCENSE was not amyl ni turer, Pacific Western Distribut ment today was forced to return trite, but contained a similar non ing Corp. in San Francisco stated: all stocks of RUSH LIQUID IN prescription chemical. Since the "The product is definitely not be CENSE seized in a raid last Tues actual formula does not contain ing sold for its aphrodesiac effect, day night. Eight store owners any prescription drug, the Brow it is offered only as a Liquid In were charged with selling pre ard County State's Attorney's of cense - a room odorizer." The scription drugs without a license. fice have indicated that they will spokesman further stated, "All Clerks reportedly offered RUSH dismiss all charges. There has vendors have been cautioned not been a large upsurge in recent to offer RUSH as an aphrodesiac. saying: "One snort during sex years in the non-medicinal use of To offer RUSH for direct inhala will give you the greatest trip you amyl nitrite for its alleged aphro tion would be a clear violation of ever had!" All the raided stores· desiac effect. Store owners report the Federal Drug laws. This were in the Ft. Lauderdale-Holly ed that, as a result of the large company will absolutely refuse to wood area. amount of publicity surrounding ship RUSH to anyone who is es A more careful examination by the raid, demand for the product tablished to be promoting misuse the Federal Drug facility in has been extremely heavy. of the product." RUSH and similar products available at rJ£DUS0:5 BOOK lJOP.LO 109 W. ·FRONT 828--2932 ijotJmu.rt be. 19 yr& or o�der • County must stop discrimination The law moves slowly but the county a married woman may maintain her He suggested that the new form letter clerk will no longer be able to auto maid.en name and need not re-register read: "This is to notify you that if matically cancel a woman°s voter reg to vote under her husband0s surnameo you adopted your husband's surname istration when she marries. That, at least, is the opinion of the upon being married, it will be Illinois Attorney General. " " " necessary for you to re-register to The Post-Amerikan reported last June vote under requirements of Illinois that Mclean county Clerk Jeannette Dozier also noted that an old Illinois law. If, on the other hand, you Barrett was routinely removing newly legal case had. required married women retained. the use of your maiden name, married women from the voter registra to adopt their husband's names but you are not required to register tiort rolls. The clerk's action meant, that "the logic of that case has been again." basically, that a woman who married significantly overruled by recent UoSo could not vote until she re-registered" Supreme Court c1ecisionso11 That's exactly the policy that the Post-Amerikan suggested the county State law allows county clerks to use The state's attorney suggested that clerk adopt last Juneo public records to find people who have the county clerk change her form moved or died, for instance, and .. the letter to newly married women so that therefore are no longer validly regi it would be in "accordance with stered to vote. present law." Although men usually move when they marry, the county clerk was not auto matically remo.ving newly married men from the voting rolls. She was dis A t>ECE'lt>E f!Cio, 1.vl4€tJ I FE.Lr SO I Tll1eO Pl.SRE&ARDIA.l(i. IH P\ N t: G-00 Fo ll criminating against newly married LIK"�ASS» FELT LllrlO I . 1ifE ,..,RI N t..INE, Y'' Barrett claimed that the law required her to cancel a woman's registration- and thus her right to vote--when she ONLI/ I married. · C.O\ILO, Y''f\NOIN, FOOL, AND I G'RE�1c ou•"l \.iAI> NO fkL Ttt!:- SOC1'1l Barrett was wrong" OvT� It>£ PR�s�vREs, FORCES To O'll'ER. ft) LlrS' 9LAMc!� In a letter dated Nov. 1, State's l E�1>1?t•�TIOJIS.' Attorney Ron Dozier saids "A research of the applicable law indicates that A.free Pres I want a