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Show 9 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand i Page 8 The UTAH Independent. May 10, 1973 ha Fishing oft th. cow nay roads into Wounded Knee. Get ahold of De Sersa A.I.M.s publicity man. Tell him to get Jeff Williams in here. Within hours, Wiliams and his television crew from CBS were in Soon scores of Wounded Knee other reporters and photographers from ail over the country plus Japan, Canada, Sweden, France, and Russia were hiking through the lulls or, once the government's restrictions were eased, driving into Wounded Knee. The newsmen were insurance of a sort, because any move by federal forces against the Indian activists would be filmed in living color. More importantly. Banks maintained that they needed the news media to spread the message. They flayed white society and they said repeatedly and loudly that Wounded Knee was a good place to die. . yMY WM (R.-Sou- th Moscow sent a reporter to Wounded Knee, and the leaders of A.I.M. sent fraternal greetings back to their fellow revolutionaries in Moscow. Sew Tima of d when Banks, Means, and their caravan of thug? descended upon Wounded Knee. Of course, Wounded Knee is very inaccessible; the chances of a wandering troupe of propagandists turning up at just the right time, accidentally, are extraordinarily slim. fifty-carloa- Anti-whit- When contacted by my office, Congressman Abdnor continued, KUTV officials freely admitted to being in South Dakota at the exact time of the incident to do a documentary on A.I.M. Mr. Abdnor observed that KUTV cameras also just happened to be at Custer when the action started. He draws the obvious conclusion: The station was notified in advance of the events and provided a nationwide audience for the violent performances. The Indians of A.I.M. know very well how to handle the press. Aaron De Sersa, A.I.M.s publicity man, simply tells newsmen that they will need A.I.M. press cards. These will get you into all the A.I.M. demonstrations this year. No one who doesnt have one will be allowed in, De Sersa told them. Buy your season tickets from us or miss the show. We approve only our friends! Occasionally, individual members of the press get fed up with their role. James Parsons once wrote this account from Wounded Knee: city-bre- d was a knee-jer- reaction to a k problem. Get the press in here," yelled Dennis Banks when he learned that federal officers were sealing off the Attention Utah County Residents! ALADDIN LAMPS (Kerosene) PORTA-GEAUTO-POWE- R 4 v'jy W LTD 373-609- 5 One youth selected a large cow and fired two bullets into the animals head The cow blinked twice. A newsman took the gun, shot the animal between the eyes and watched it fall to the ground. The young Indians drew their knives to skin the animal, but they didnt know where to begin. A newsman took one of the . ,me h . Uue joal "rlris wo IT.. of ,he Buirall of dage cross-legge- Continued On Page 9 Fullerton The says that with just a little more help from the government, theres a fortune to be made in Philosopher Keep your lamp burning, and let God place it where He will. poverty. -- Harvey (N.D.) Herald 163 South Main Bountiful, Utah Phone See The Elegance in Our Tricot Drapery Department 2nd Floor 295-381- 4 Vi Our Special Service Drapery Cutting and Sewing By the Panel Drape a 6 ft. Window for approx. $ 30 00 Come See Come Sew Dealer for Trouble Free WHITE and ELNA Sewing Machines WE ARE AND GOLD SECURITY Silver Bars Silver Coins Silver Constitutional Medallions Gold Dust Gold Nuggets FACING THE DEMAND FOR OUR GRADUATES IN HIGHEST 10 YEARS! ii ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, & SEPT. 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This of flying procesr says nothing of the cost Justice Department officials sions of top from forth Washington, so that back and in A.l.M.s d sit they can week. after week phony tepee, Meanwhile, Gil Pompa of C.R.S. is blandly telling reporter Beeder that our Justice Department road- runners are ready to move to the next AIM demonstration. Theyve said the next confrontations will occur in Pawnee, Oklahoma, and EXCELLENT SCHOLARSHIPS FOR QUALIFIED APPLICANTS. VISIT THE SCHOOL NEAREST YOU OR SILVER xS21194 city-bre- d i SALT LAKE (DOWNTOWN, ROSE PARK, 33rd So.) COTTONWOOD MALL, OGDEN, PROVO, OREM MURRAY, GRANGER, KEARNS, LOGAN, CLEARFIELD, IDAHO FALLS, BILLINGS. PORTA PURE (Water Purifier) SHEEP HERDER STOVES 235 South 500 East, Suite 6 Salt Lake City 84102 Phone lie sain interest passenger on a plane, conflict of fike BEAUTY COLLEGE MEDICAL KITS SURVIVAL d . . feow - HOLLYWOOD (Portable Generators) (AC-D- C Converter) PERMA-PA- K N FOODLAND - knives and showed the Indians how. j; World-Heral- "i p, large-scal- It - Parsons, who works for the Liberal Minneapolis Tribune, knows very well that the news media are willingly exploited only to spread certain kinds of e propaganda is one messages. of them. With respect to Wounded Knee being a good place to die, it is probable that Mr. Parsons was unaware that a Jjj certain film company is prepared to pay A.I.M. handsomely for fresh, genuine bodies to be used in its propaganda film. Not that C.B.S. has any objection to the manufacture of fresh, genuine bodies for that purpose, either. So flock to A.I.M., all you aspiring bit players! You may crash TV and the movies yet. And this show has been a regular complete with cattle rusA.I.M. When leaders, Russell Means tling. the world press to invited among them, Wounded Knee, cameramen were pere theft and mitted to film the cattle beof botched slaughter badly the area. in ranchers Sioux to longing news the Naturally, media did not confuse world opinion by pointing out that these were animals stolen from fellow Indians. Reporters did not bother to interview one man who lost sixty head to these marauders, or another Indian whose $2,000 bull went into A.I.M.s stewpot, or others, before and since, whose property has been strewn with crudely butchered carcasses with the hindquarters missing. No, in fact, the gentlemen of the press even helped with the slaughter at Wound-eKnee! The radicals of A.I.M. couldnt tell bulls from steers from cows in calf. They couldn't manage a clean job of killing, and they hadnt the least idea what to do afterwards. Reporter Jim Wilson wrote: shoot-em-u- but ihowing what to do n at petent young rustle,, constitutes voluntary participation in the criminals crime. Incidentally, the A.I.M. to astonished vho did this thing were an discover that the cow was in calf, off gnunh inf they eventually trudged 65 pounds of abou about getting "only meat out of their ignorant butchery. As for Russell Rustler Means, pubvoters is ai licly stealing cattle from the fitness ones demonstrate to unusual way But Council. Tribal the for office on does Means and these are strange times, not expect to be voted into office. He expects to take over the Oglala Sioux by by a combina- revolutionary methods the at grassroots and tion of terrorism from the federal pressure top Consider the role of the Justice De- Service partments Community Relations to is help supposed (C.R.S.), which communities resolve disputes based on it race, color, and national origin. Just why they are involved is hard to say, since the dispute over the Tribal Council is among Indians, and only the racist rhetoric qualifies this show as a dispute based on race. Reporter Dave Beeder of the Omahi did a feature story on the d federal roadrunners, as the C.R.S. boys are called, which contains some illuminating points. Beeder calls it an ironic twist that the Justice Department has 'set up a blockade and returned the militants' gunfire while at the same time allowing food and other essential supplies to be shipped into the Indian strongAssociate C.R.S. Director Gil hold. mercy-killin-g, .... have The AJ.M.sters burned one Indian church and desecrated two others. They beat the Reverend Ray McHugh until he was unconscious and broke his ribs. The Reverend Orville Lans berry and his wife Emma were driven from their church by gunfire and A.I .M.sters with dubs, and forced to hide in a ditch until driven out by bitter cold. Their church has been desecrated and their home has been looted. The A.I.M.-ster- s have also stolen cattle from the Sioux and shot and mutilated them even cows in calf, one man's $2,000 bull, and sixty head of cattle belonging to a single owner. If not stopped, A.I.M. plans to carry its terrorism to Indian reservations nationwide where it will continue its looting and butchery and arson and kidnapping, and money, as Banks does, you can see why leading A.I.M. is much more rewarding than burglary. Billy Jack is in the propaganda racket, and expects to make many millions from fools who pay to see his propaganda. That is how the game has been played for a long time now. On April fifth, Billy Jack" was still waiting at Rapid City for the scheduled end of negotiations at Wounded Knee, so that he could talk to A.I.M. leaden about more propaganda films. Meanwhile, Representative James Abd-no- r Dakota) reported to hi s District about the collaboration of the and was immediately atnews media tacked, although the attack hardly refuted what the Congressman had to say. A Salt Lake City television team from KUTV was the major offender among the media, Abdnor wrote, noting that KUTV teams just happened to be along been Like City, Utah 84111 Nationally Accredited hv the COSM ilTOLOUY COMMISSION ACCiDHSU |