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Show t f The Paper Thai Dares To Take A Stand WHO? Jo Hindman 1977 A court trial expected to run merchant marine engineer had a two weeks, might provide an capacity to convey strong feelings answer to a disturbing question: in his charges. The county officers Can government officials befoul a began running scared. man with the stigma of insanity and get away with it unpunished? The ruse isnt new; it has cropped up through the centuries. Thankless children have been Reese Paul Reese in Pennsylvania, RD2 Box 410, New Holland, Pa., is one of the first persons in the United States to be shanghaied to an insane asylum because he objects to zoning, planners, and other drawbacks of regional governance. The phrase mental health being seldom carefully defined in the laws that mention it, the plain word insanity is used here to leave no doubt concerning the gravity of the situation. Because, what will be done to Mr. Reese in one of this nation's federal courts will establish precedent that will affect the life, liberty and freedom of every American for better or for It may answer another worse. question: Are critics of metro's planned regionalism to be stigmatized as paranoids? Mr. Reese is not unlike other citizens who have taken a stand against regional metro, the notable non-issu- e which is being steadily ignored by public officials. Reese's intelligent letters filled with his pelted officials in grievances Pennsylvania's Lancaster county right up to the day he was routed from bed one early morning and clapped into a ward for the mentally disturbed. Held one week against his will, he was freed. That was in 1973. No civil or criminal charges were filed against him by the county (MetroNews 7536 Beginning of Thought Control by Jo Hindman). Well-edUcate- d, academic degrees. There commented. were various avenues the county could have used to take me to court in the 'interest of public safety', but not without giving me the opportunity to reveal my grievances. The lockup. Reese thinks, was to dispose of him and his grievances known to put their parents away in order to seize valuable property: corporate officers jealous of a rival can undermine his authority by permanently. Released. casting doubt on the soundness of his mind. But Reese noted against planning, zoning, collectivism. home rule charters", and such. In a recent letter he wrote, I was shocked that the judge approved a request from the defendants. that I submit to an examination at the hands of a psychiatrist and a psychologist designated and paid by the defendants. By virtue of the first illegal labeling. I was placed in an inferior position in the eyes of the court. ed Intelligencer-JournThe (Lancaster. Pa.) reported 42777 that Reeses suit stems from a series of incidents in June 1973 which culminated in his commitment to St. Josephs psychiatric ward on the grounds that he was an immediate threat to society. Those who have read Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, critical of communism, find an uncomfortable similarity between the foregoing phrase and the Soviet al interrogators' operational shorthand as applied to victims being held for torture and ques-tioni- ng SOE, Socially Dangerous Element, SVE, Socially Harmful Element, (page 284) The Reese case, set for trial June 13, 1977 in Philadelphia before federal Judge John B. Han-nu12th floor. Sixth and Market holding Streets, is based on deprivation of Reese a constitutional rights. m. IN GOD WE TRUST IS OUR REAL SECURITY How much farther must the U.S. dollar fall before we realize that the only thing sound and valuable about it is in the phrase: In God we trust.? OPPRESSION IN MOZAMBIQUE more than bothers me, even if our government's officials dont seem to be the least concerned, that now in Mozambique there are some 100,000 people being held in concentration camps. These are the typical type camps the not support imprisoning those who do in the army, who have enlist to government, who are unwilling failed to attend revolutionary classes, or otherwise show lack of enthusiasm for their Marxist rulers. We are told they are but in fact they are being given only being given cruel and unusual punishment and made to pertorm torced labor as slaves of the State. Mostly they are black and mixed race, with only about one in a hundred while. And to think our officials meet in Mozambique and criticize the suppression of blacks in other nations when the I suppression is far worse where they meet, and they don mention it. J. Kcsncr Kahn It Nazi-Commun- ist non-majori- ty White House Pro-Communis- by John F. McManus The biased media coverage of JimBelmont, Massachusetts ERA is so blatant that it imperils is dream Carter no my reporters the whole concept of a free press in come true. His speeches, press America. Everyone who is conferences, and interviews are concerned about freedom of the not loaded with the quotable one-linethat modern-da- y jourpress should be shocked at the love nalists to There on. pounce abuse of power displayed by large is, nevertheless, plenty of subsegments of the national media. stance in what the President There are, of course, a few parts of says. And even though fw take the media that have shown objecnote of it, the Carter words and in are here but tivity reporting, deeds betray the most blatant some recent examples of extreme posture ever to bias: emerge from the White House. rs pro-Commun- ist documenThe ABC-T- V tary aired in Jan. gave only 20 of a the hour to the cons and 80 to the lessening of his former status as a free American. The spore of his incarceration served as a repellant when he appeared at public meetings to carry on his crusade so-call- V A I 1 June 23, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 5 SCANDAL OF MEDIA COVERAGE ON ERA SOCIALLY DANGEROUS ., I i i 1. pros, and pieced the show together in a highly prejudicial way that permitted the pros to answer the con arguments, but did not allow the cons to answer the pro arguments. The 1WY Commission is now using this documentary in its campaign to ratify ERA. 2. W'hen the Nevada Senate passed ERA, network TV gave it prime-tim- e coverage, even though passage by one House has NO constitutional effect whatsoever. When the Nevada House defeated ERA 3 days later, it was a non-evein the news. (For weeks I received calls & letters saying, too bad we lost in Nev. The fact is, of course, we won. But it wasnt reported that way. 3. In Florida, the pros and the cons each scheduled a rally on the Capitol steps. The pros had 12 people, the cons had 2,500 people. TV news gave equal time to both events and showed NO pictures of our crowd. The newspaper printed NO pictures of our crowd, only a picture of a few discarded signs. 4. When the Florida Senate defeated ERA, network TV interviewed the proponents, who lost, and did not air a single interview with the opponents, who won. It is time to start collecting documentation on the scandal of the biased media coverage of ERA and tell the American people how they have been misled and misinformed. This is a project on which YOU can help. Send me your documentation on media bias. If newspaper or nt enclose clipping magazine, showing date & name of publication. If TV or radio, give name of station, date, time, name of persons involved, and all the specific information you can. Your examples can cover any media bias about ERA. no matter when it took place, even back to 1972. Mail to Eagle Forum in an envelope marked " MEDIA Box REPORT', Illinois 62002. 618. Alton. Do NOT include other questions or orders in the same envelope, because envelopes marked Media Report will not be opened until ire are ready to Your write a national report. will he in this project cooperation much appreciated. Phyllis Schlafly The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works. Korea and the General Only a few wreeks ago, Major General John K. Singlaub was ordered to Washington from his post in Korea. After thirty-fou- r years of distinguished service, the General was brought before the President like a third-gradwho had just broken a window. His crime: He had voiced concern lest a planned withdrawal of 32,000 U.S. troops from South Korea invite attack by the North Koreans. The President quickly reassigned him after a public reprimand, saying that the Generals opinion was inconsistent with announced national security policy. But Congressional leaders were quick to point out that the troop withdrawal was news to them, and that the obvious change in U.S.- - policy had not been announced. Then, on May 29, U.S. News and World Report released an interview with Mr. Carter where-in he defended the troop withdrawal and added that South Korea would be protected by Americas nuclear might. Yet, only four months earlier, President Carter in his inaugural address had named as his one specific goal the elimination of all nuclear weapons from the earth. Thus, he must be preparing to abandon South Korea to the Reds. er : Carter at Notre Dame The Singlaub incident is not the only reason why we are vinced that the President is leaning the wrong way. Consider the following excerpts from his Miguel De Cervantes May 22 commencement address at Notre Dame University: Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that ; inordinate fear of Communism which onoe led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in our fear. I believe in detente with the Soviet Union. It is important that we make progress toward normalizing re- lations with the Peoples Republic of China. Colonialism has nearly gone. Is the United States truly free of the fear of Communism? Why then do we( spend $100 billion for defense?1 Is our fear of Communism inordinate? Perhaps we should ask the Cambodians, Laotians, and South Vietnamese, who are presently being given lethal doses of Communist peace. If it was ever wrong to em- dicbrace an tator (Chiang? Franco? Salazar?), how can it now be right to embrace Communist dictators? Of detente, one prominent Red dictator, Leonid Brezhnev, said in 1973: . . . we are achieving with detente what our predecessors have been unable to achieve . Come using the mailed fist 1985, we will be able to exert our will wherever we need to. And what is to be gained by relations with normalizing Red China? Are we about to starting building up the Chinese Reds as we have built up the Soviet Communists? And how can Jimmy Carter say that colonialism is nearly gone? Only last year he was vilifying his opponent in the election for overlooking the Soviet troops stationed all over Eastern Europe. Perhaps when the Communists occupy a nation, it is not colonialism? The Carter utterances bear close watching. At Notre Dame, our President told us of the existence of new historical circumstances. Could it be that one of those is the Presidents willingness to go along with Commuanti-Commun- ist ... -- nisms designs? It surely looks that way to us. 1977 The John Birch Society Features THEY HAVE THE PROBLEMS, NOT THE SOLUTIONS The people who brought us Vietnam, the energy crisis, inflation, the looming crisis in social security, unemployment and taxflation are the same people who run the federal government before and after elections; and we still seem to expect them to bring us the solutions to the problems they created for us? The only solution for us is to put them back under The Constitution's limitations and get them out of our personal and private lives and our once-fre- e private enterprises. THEY WHO WOULD GIVE PANAMA CANAL TO COMMUNISTS The Panamanian people dont want our canal so much as they want their Panama back. It is the Soviet --serving and d military dictatorship under Omar Torrijos that overthrew the freely-electe- d Panamanian government and took over Panama from the people that now wants our canal too. is bad Giving the Panama Canal to a enough, but far worse is the fact that we have people in the U.S. government who want to do just that. Castro-supporte- Marxist-Communi- st OUR FAILURES GIVING THEM VICTORIES The Christian West has always been for racial peace, at least that part of it that was really Christian; while the Communist has always been promoting East, all of it really and provoking racial war to give them victories over nations. That the Communists have been winning suggests theyve d been practicing Communism better than weve been g practicing Christianity. anti-Christia- non-Commun- ist anti-Go- God-fearin- -- con- m n, |