WiLOCAr 0.1(. Pussycat. I don't keep petrol bombs. Beg pardon and grovelling apologies. Tell us where you keep d,e I keep Mydrogen Bombs. We mistook you for some ds11gerous (ooney. petrol bombs. FREE Vol. 1, No. 11 Anarchist Black Dragon' WASHINGTON STATE PENITENTIARY The other major change is our printer/distributor. We have recently become affiliated with a different group, the SURVIVAL NEIWORK, and they are now handling that end of the endeavor. This has taken some time to accomplish completely and this issue is the first time this group and we have worked jointly together on a DRAGON. We are hoping that this union will last for some time and that our efforts will expand to include other related actions. Well, it's about time we got into the real meat of the issues, isn't it? Feel free to communicate any feelings you may have, ideas that you've thought out, hate mail you've contemplated, news from your neck of the THE DRAGON SPEAKS woods, and/or anything else you feel like sending. We can't guarantee we will print your whatevers - thus making you a star overnight - but we can It's been some time, kiddies, since a DRAGON has come out. We guarantee that we enjoy hearing from you. We've got a Revolution to win wish to apologize for the delay and we hope that you've all waited and we can't do that unless we get into action. Communications are essen­ patiently for this issue. You might notice a few changes in the way tial to that action. Hey, if you got something to say, say it. This is a this one is put together. free country - or it will be by the time we're done. One of the more noticeable changes is the cover. We've decided - ABDC - to return to our original dragon for several reasons. The first of these reasons is that we feel our cover came to be recognized by the rugged good looks of this particular critter. The second reason is ow States' Prison Populations Compare! that there are two basic species of dragons in the world - the Euro­ pean dragon and the Oriental one. 37 The European dragon is known primarily by its wings, the main --....... appendage missing in the Oriental model. Additionally, the European dragon is a symbol of evil, the "monster" vanquished by the "heroic 113 actions" of the legendary 11 st. George" when this chivalrous indivi­ 97 dual felt in the mood to rescue fair maidens in distress. (It is COtO.- · .214 not known at this time how ol' George determined if these maidens 93 were actually in distress. Rumor is that George was little more than a psycho who enjoyed sticking his nose where it didn't belong since this created the excuse he needed to indulge himself in the usual orgy of killing.) On the other hand, the Oriental model is a symbol of good luck, fortune, and i s generally considered to be a good guy. It is a sign of strength. There is no mistaking the Oriental dragon when he gets down to business. When the ANARCHIST BI.A.CK DRAGON COLIECTIVE started the term "dragon" was taken from the famous quotation of Ho Chi Mihn. Ho referred to this wingless dragon in that quote. Washington, D.C., hos 461 prisoners for every 100,CX)() population - t e highest rote in the U.S. :rhe states with the highest proportion of prisoners are South Carolina and Nevada, each with 253 prisoners l),er 100,CX)() people. North Dakota hos the lowest at 37, according to the Justice Dept. Figures reflect prisoners serving one year or more in ff derol and state orisons a nd in some states orisons and local iails. Hits c;jlrtoon, editorial study of an explosive problem, not a simplistic one. There is nothing proffered Broacfled next to a silly cartoon - enti­ in the sentencing guidelines about rehabili­ tled '._'.Let the punishment fit the crime" - tation, or alternatives to prison. The guide­ we tfave an equally silly editorial entitled, lines only address ode issue l:lnd that is the Special ·' Approach deserves try." What a joke. If length of the sentence. The.commission has you believed it and justice was to be succeeded in creating one big chart that in­ 5erved, Richard Nixon would now be in the creases the punishment for crimes of vio­ penitentiary. There can be no justice in lence many, ·many years beyoncl the sen­ i nvestigatior America sensibly discussed with a (sen­ tences that presently exist, and broadens tencing guidelines) commission that is the use of mandatory sentences that de­ composed of two prosecutors; the superin­ prive th£> judges of any use of their judicial tendent of institutions; the chairman of the common sense. needed to do parole board; the director of the office of This is not a study. but a cru~l hoax, and finances; the police chief of Kirkland, it. will only lead to more and more prison Nash.; two defense attorneys and three riots and rebellions and it will sustain the orivate citizens. It is obviously weighted in racial prejudice and intolerance in the ex­ sensitive, 'avor of those who believe in stricter pun­ isting system. To require individual judges .shment. to act in name only is a farce. The guidelines commission's job was to You cannot experitnent around with the fotermine a better approach, and alterna­ constitutional rights of citizens. Every secret work jves to our present system, which is not dime we put into a penal system comes .vorkmg. from a school or a Social Security recipient If prisons are the answer, why does the or a man or woman who can't find a job, ~rime keep rising as it has from 1975-81, and ups the taxes in an already tax-bur­ .vhile the rate at which people were being dened state. I would have hoped for better •ocked up rose by over one-third? And why from you. loes the U.S. have the highest rates of se­ -ious, violent crime in the industrialized .vorld while imprisoning more people for Spokane . onger periods than any industrialized sod­ ~ty save the Soviet Union and South Afri­ :a? (July 13, Spokesman-Review, Tom Nicker). MOTHER OF THE YEAR Why is the commission all white. when ·acial and ethnic minorities account for ap­ xoximately 11 percent of Washington's Those o£ you familiar with our format might be a bit )Opulation? They comprise 30 percent of surprised to see us running a nominee for MOTHER OF THE he population in adult correctional facili­ IEAR, but sometimes we can't contain ourselves when we see ies, and that excludes poor whites who nake up the rest of the population in the someone actually getting involved in activities that show nain. a great deal of initiative and courage. We just have to The deepest article of American faith i.s applaude it. he right to have justice meted out accord­ ng to the individual circumstances of a ·ase by an individual judge and by individ- On the other hand, those of you familiar with our 1al jurors. What the present SentPncing format might not be a bit surprised to see us running a }uidelines Commission is attempting to do s to put blocks of people in jail for longer nominee for MOTHER OF THE YEAR simply because you 're 1eriods of time. As of yet, thPy do not even familiar with our format. Hey, we're Anarchists, this is ,ddress the two most popular categories of ·rime in the guidelines. One is drugs and an Anarchist paper, and so we'll print what we feel like he other is second-degree burglary. printing. In the face of ~II the carnage that the "ta,te· of Washington ··wen~ Hll'ough,-H<1--•H<1e• .;;;..- ""~"f!y.,;;..~i~e,...J:eli-:t~e~....... ~.--.__-..,. rison rebellion of 1979, and the imposed iandates. by United States District Court COE. udge Jack Tanner, the place is still so rowded that on two occasions in the last Mrs. Coe, from the information we've been able to ear officials have just arbitrarily released eople. They are still overcrowded and the gather, isn't your average run-of-the-mill troublemaker. tmosphere is still charged with tension For many years her most daring activities appear to be nd the best input we get from thP Review some efforts to reform the Washington State prison sys­ . that "these guidelines are an experiment t best." tem. Aside from that she's been working primarily as a If you recognize or acknowledge that the Wife. and Mother. 'ntencing theory "involves punishment, rotection of society, rehabilitation and de­ !rrence," you should insist on a thorough All that started tp change, however, when her son was arrested as the Southbj_ll Rapist, a figure that plaguing the Spokane area for several months. After a trial, notable chiefly for questionable legal practices on the part of the State, Fred was convicted and sentenced to enough time to make Methuselah flinch. Never let it be said that Ruth Coe took this lightly. Satisfied that her son had been treated unfairly by the local authorities, she got going on a solution to the problem. It was obvious that something had to be done to show the law the error of its ways. This led to a bit of difficulty. It appears that her solution was to make sure that these people never again attacked her family.