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Audio 821A
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Introduction
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00:45
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Preliminary Remarks
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01:25
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Time to Speak Truth About Repression
: Trend toward repression today irresistible.
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02:50
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Everyone Participates in Repression
: All are “malefactors”, but with different motives.
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03:40
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Meaning of First Amendment
: First amendment aims to protect right of dissent even at risk of turning speech into action. Jefferson's concept of first amendment: every twenty years established structure of government should be replaced.
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05:00
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H. Rap Brown Is Best Example That Advocates of Change Are Persecuted Today
: Biographical background on Brown, Chairman of SNCC. Became publicly known for flamboyance, not for his program.
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06:40
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Brown's Legal Troubles Started in Cambridge, Maryland, July 24, 1967
: Indicted for “counselling arson” when elementary school set afire after Brown's speech. Brown shot by deputy sheriff that day and left Cambridge.
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09:30
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Brown Arrested by FBI in Washington, D.C., July 26, 1967
: FBI broke agreement to allow Kunstler to deliver Brown to them. Charges dropped when Kunstler arranged for writ of habeas corpus.
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11:50
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Subsequent Arrests and Prosecutions of H. Rap Brown
: Immediately re-arrested by Alexandria, Virginia, police. Thereafter “rain of prosecutions” designed to silence Brown.
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13:30
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Recent Trial in New Orleans
: Charged with carrying rifle across state boundaries while under indictment. Indictment timed to make firearms offense unavoidable.
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15:55
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Remarks About National Firearms Act
: Unique and obsolete law. Invoked only to silence Brown. Brown generates more fear than others who violate same law repeatedly but are not charged.
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18:05
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First Amendment Repeatedly Violated in U.S. History
: One may speak openly only if no one fears he may succeed. Brown incited fear.
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19:40
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Brown Said Only What Kerner Report Had Already Said
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20:25
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Tragedy of the H. Rap Brown Case
: Success in prosecuting Brown will have “chilling effect” on free speech. In 1965 U.S. Supreme Court warned such an effect could occur. Now even Supreme Court becoming fearful.
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22:25
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Violence Is “Only Political Weapon the Black Man Has”
: Whites becoming increasingly afraid of black violence, but negotiated progress in race relations no longer possible.
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23:45
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Same Kinds of Repression Are Being Used Against Vietnam War Dissenters
: Indictments against Benjamin Spock and William Sloane Coffin signal new wave of repression.
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24:55
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Student Protest Against Racism and War
: Serious revolutionary thinking. All levels of government now in action against students. Prejudicial remarks of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas.
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26:50
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Columbia University Protests
: Comparisons of students' methods with those of the suffragettes and of Walter Reuther and the UAW. Sit-ins necessary and successful.
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28:05
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A Fundamental Problem of Our Age
: What does mankind do when protests go unheard? People have right to change system in any way, by any means.
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29:00
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End of Tape 1, Side 1
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Introduction
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[Continuation of Remarks Begun at 28:05, Side 1]
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00:55
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Columbia University Protests
: Summary of events. Protest over displacing local residents to build new gymnasium. Students Imitated Walter Reuther's methods. Black students wanted their protest to be separate. White students agreed. Police reaction created dramatic confrontation: Martin Luther King's formula. Thereafter student strike had wide support. Survival of university not necessary.
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05:20
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First Amendment Originated in Revolt
: Summary of revolutionary events in colonial America. Institutional violence was necessary. Protests will be heard one way or another. Civil War: violence was last but necessary resort.
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08:10
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Revolutionaries Are Born out of Blocked Protest
: Violence has been selective so far but many become general. Repression will become comprehensive. Government will tolerate only “pleasant protest.”
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10:45
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Current Failure to Stand Up for Basic Principles
: Comparison with Nazi Germany: if Americans do not fight for principles they have no right to criticize Germans for not overthrowing Hitler. Comparison of H. Rap Brown to Patrick Henry: everyone has right to speak out as they did. Today's revolutions just as natural as those past.
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16:40
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Americans Losing Right of Dissent
: Current period worse than Joseph McCarthy years. Ramsey Clark today's enemy.
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17:55
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Closing: Two Literary Illustrations of His Points
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18:55
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Robert Browning's Poem “The Ring and The Book”
: Every man fights inner battle. Will he be able to do the just thing if it will ruin him and if no one will know if he chooses not to do it?
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23:50
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Melville's Idealization of Good and Evil
: Man must always rise up against evil, even if winning is not possible.
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26:35
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Browning and Melville Exemplify Kunstler's Message
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28:40
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End of Tape 1, Side 2
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00:00
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Introduction
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00:35
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[Answer to Question from Floor, Begun in Progress.] Demerits of U.S. Senate Bill Now Under Consideration
: Bill has effect of repealing important Supreme Court decisions affecting civil rights and liberties. Recently signed “Crime Bill” includes some of current Senate bill's provisions. Crime Bill is racist.
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01:55
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[Answer Continues.] Senate Bill Designed to Incite Fear
: Refers to “world-wide Communist conspiracy.” Has effect of reinstating McCarren Act. List of bill's sponsors.
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05:30
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Question: What Is the Bill's Number?
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05:30
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Answer: Senate Bill 2988
: Introduced in February.
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05:55
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Question: Doesn't the Bill Also Attempt to Repeal Decisions of Supreme Court Striking Down Laws Against Subversive Teachers?
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06:15
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Answer: Yes, and Many Other Supreme Court Decisions
: Crime Bill, now passed, even denies right of judicial review of Crime Bill itself.
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06:50
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Question: [Inaudible.]
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06:55
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Answer: Supreme Court Can Ignore That Provision of Crime Bill
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07:10
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Question: Doesn't Supreme Court Have Constitutional Privilege of Judicial Review?
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07:15
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Answer: No; Supreme Court “Usurped” That Privilege
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08:00
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Comment from Audience: Constitutional Amendment Necessary to Deny Judicial Review
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08:15
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Reply: “There Is Another Way”
: President may choose to ignore Court ruling. Congress could limit Court's jurisdiction.
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10:00
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[Reply Continues.] Marbury vs. Madison
: Description of case that established judicial review.
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13:25
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Question: [Missed by Recorder Operator]
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13:30
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Answer: “What Is Constitutional and Unconstitutional Is...What The Judges Say...”
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14:30
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Question: [Missed by Recorder Operator]
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14:30
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Answer: A Current Trend Among Black People Is Strong Urge to Separate
: Not Elijah Muhammad's kind of separatism. Blacks want to resist feelings of dehumanization and inferiority. Growing evidence blacks want to be separate but equal.
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19:10
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Question: [Inaudible]
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19:15
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Answer: Black Separatism Is Meant to Last for Generations
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20:45
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Question: [Missed by Recorder Operator]
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20:45
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Answer: Separatism Threatens White Americans
: Separatism shows dissatisfaction with established values and with idea of America as land of “one people.” Working within system puts blacks at mercy of whites.
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22:45
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End of Presentation and Responses to Questions
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