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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Stand A March 6, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 11 Control Means People Control What is behind this drive to disarm Police should not be police, but social workers who treat those social ills. not surprising, therefore, that according to Alan Stang in the citizens ? aforementioned article, applicants to the Dallas Police Department Following are some of the were accepted een though they recommendations of Ford Foundatiofailed tests. Personnel n-controlled Dyson: who officials rejected them were To begin to correct the overruled. Training officers were situation, , the management staff forbidden to reject certain trainees. believes that the mold of Then Stang revealed: traditionalism in police service-mus- t Among the people hired, be broken. even though investigators So longer should this recommended rejection, were two Department's administration, in thieves, a Communist, a couple of particular, and American police marijuana smokers, a prostitute, administrators in general, respond and a lesbian. in increased crime and social unrest (mod police officers were bv demanding more and more leaving. The people they were acsophisticated customed to arresting were taking policemen, over in the streets." Fortunately, however, with weaponry, or the latest gadget designed by industries who are in the assistance of an educational many cases exploiting the fears of campaign by the Dallas County the American people. Support Your Local Police ComRather, we must depart mittee. Ford Foundation-supporte- d Chief Dyson was forced to dramatically from these ways and a style of police service which is resign. His successor. Chief Don generally reactive. That is, a style Byrd has scrapped Dyson's Five where the police wait for things to Year Plan. occur, and only then do they act. FOUNDATION The new style of policing FORD N A N C ES LA E A K ER S FI in nature, so must be that rather than merely reading to And so it is seen that the Ford after-the-fasituations, the police is actually financing will seek to prevent crime and Foundation efforts to destroy the morale and disorder. " effectiveness of our local police forces. In commenting on Dysons But what is not revealed to the Five Year Plan". Alan Stang in his CFR-con- -t article entitled Plans for a American people by rolled newspapers Alan Stang disNational Police Force" in the closed in his article: February 1974 issue of "There are few revolutionary AMERICAN OPINION, asked: What would the police have activities the Ford Foundation is to act even unwilling to finance. to do to pre-aIt gave money to the Combefore the crime is committed? The munist Black Panther Party in Los answer of course, is that the would have to operate not as police Angeles: to the )oung Lords of but as keepers. In order to pre- - Chicago, a revolutionary act" they would have to keep the It is law-abidin- g lie-dect- or A NATIONAL POLICE FORCE? by Phoebe Courtney Copyright 1974 FORD FOUNDATION SEEKS TO INFLUENCE POLICE Shortly after its inception, the Police Foundation announced that part of its program would include large-scal- e assistance to as many as five cities with promising plans and demonstrated capacity for major institutional changes in their police departments. In the previous chapter mention is made of the tie-i- n between the Ford Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations. While the CFR mainly concerns itself with fashioning a the Ford Foundation super-statis involved in giving an assist within the United States. Here is an example of the thinking of the Ford Foundations Police Foundation: In the fall of 1972. Chief Frank Dyson issued his Five Year for the Dallas Police Plan Department. Dyson is a member of the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals, which, as previously stated, advocates confiscation of privately-owne- d guns and extreme leniency for convicted criminals. Dyson's Five Year Plan was financed by the Police one-wor- ld e, Foundation. plan. Chief Dyson explained that the citizens of this and many other communities feel that the police are unaware of their needs; and. further, that the police are unwilling to listen and learn from citizens what they believe the police should do to respond to their needs.... In his W-B- R pre-acti- ve ct ct continuous under people surveilance. And this, if memory serves, is what the police do in a dictatorship. The police pre ad" even before anything happens, to " prevent the people from rebelling. Summing up his recommendations Dyson stated: The future Dallas Police Department can be visualized as an efficiently organized, elite team of pracgeneral diagnosticians. titioners. and specialists who treat social ills within the city of Dallas...." In other words, according to Dyson, crime is caused not by criminals but bv social ills. ORDER BLANK THE INDEPENDENT AMERICAN P.O. Box 636 Littleton, Colorado 80120 NOTE DISCOUNTS FOR QUANTITY ORDERS 1 5 10 copy.. .$1.75 copies.. 5.00 copies.. 9. 50 25 100 copies.. .$21. 00 copies... 78.00 copies of Gun Control Means People Control by Phoebe Courtney (192 pages, paperback, indexed) Please send me . Payment of .is enclosed. (Please send check or money order) $ Mrs. Mr Miss Street Zip Code City and State CUTOUT AND MAIL C'KI CIAI. L.E.A.A. SIIP ID IIRSI NATIONAL A ailiele in AMERICAN OPINION of lehiiiuix 1974 as liaxing told-him- : POLIO FORCE Reacting to the crime i ale in the United States. Congress passed the Omnibus Clime Control and Safe Streets Act of 196S which became law on June 19. I9(X. Under this Act. the Law Enexei-in-crcasi- forcement Assistance (l.FAA) was Ad- esministration tablished within the Department of Justice under authority of the General. I lie purpose ol IF. A A is to funnel federal funds to local and State At-lorn- cx agencies. Of course, the States have the power to raise their own rexvnues for police purposes. As a matter of fact, local spending on laxx enforcement has multiplied more than 7 times up from less than SI billion in 1964 to more than S7 billion in 1973. Why. then, the need lor federal funds? Because its all part of the plan. U.S. NEWS Si WORLD REPORT for June 10. 1974 revealed that: The U.S. Government, through its htw Enforcement Ashas Administration. sistance poured S3. 5 billion in the last five years to help Slate and local crime-fightin- g agencies. " On August 6. 1973 President Nixon signed legislation extending the life of LEA A through fiscal 1976 and appropriating$3.2 billion for federal aid to local and State agencies. When signing the measure, Nixon said. This is a program we're proud of and its done the LEA A has Of course. The the guidelines for money. it thehieght think would taxpayers of irresponsibility for us to throw money out the witnow. How can without you control nnmey A LEA guidelines? required the States hi a me up with a plan, and requires the States to audit. .Xobmly fi trees a pt dice department to take the money. But if it does, it must abide." I he oxerull plan is to use 1A A to proxide luige amounts of federal tax nionex to loeal poliee until tliex are completely dependent upon sueli aid for operation ol their departments. hen. as this happens, increasingly detailed federal guidelines are applied until the federal l.FAA is able to establish xirtual control of all loeal police departments. Ilnis it is seen that the real pm pose of the l axx Fnlorcement Assisianee Administration is not to stop erime but to lay the for creation of a groundxxork national police force. I he In the feature. Right Answers, xxliich appeared in the September 19. 1973 issue of THE REVIEW OF THE NEWS the question xvas asked: How many local police departments can he controlled by the l.FAA? The answer was: 1 1 Some 40.000 dep a rim en I s , police correct in n a I institutions, and courts receive financial aid from the potential Gestapo now called the I jaw En- forcement Assistance Ad- ministration. Many local police departments rely on this federal money and thus find themselves job." Has it? bending to every edict issued by the Scripps-Howar- d writer masters of this incipient national staff Richard Starnes on July 15, 1974 police force in order to stay on the list. " pay-of- f divulged the following: Offenses listed in the FBIs My people are destroyed Uniform Crime Reports increased 17 percent in the first three months for lack of knowledge. of this year compared with the same period in 1973. " Hosea 4:6 However, the crime picture is even worse than that because a GOVERNMENT REFUSES FUNDS study by l.FAA admitted that less than half the crimes committed are It being reported to the police. The American Party of Utah appears that in some cities the number of crimes may run as high refused today to accept state as five times the number reported! government funds for the purpose Under the bill Nixon signed of paying for their State Convenon August 6. 1973 the Stales xx ill tion. The Utah State Legislature have to put up only 10 percent mathas appropriated SI 5.000 for that for to federal qualify ching money specific purpose. funds for laxx enforcement, comWhile the Democratic and pared to the old rate of 25 percent, Republican parties wish to act as flow of federal thus stepping up the parasites and drain off the citizen's aid to States. hard earned tax money, the In a House speech on June 10. American Party of Utah xvill not 1970 opposing the concept of accept government funds for any l.FAA funding of State and local purposes stated Stale Chariman R. He continued. Bob Trepanier. police. Congressman John Rarick declared: Government funds ultimately With federal funds neceslead to goxernment control. The is It control. comes federal sarily Utah State Legislature, by apridiculous for rationally utterly any propriating SI 5.000 to pay for the informed person to believe that we political party conventions, is can buy personal safety or freedom forcing the public to pay for these crime. from conxentions. regardless of what the It is equally ridiculous to public wants. The American Party believe that ur can hand out xv elcomes c o n -p r i v ate federal money and not endup with trihutions not goxernment finanfederal control and domination cing. By accepting money for their local over our police." state conxentions the Democratic Indeed, the U.S. Supreme and Republican parties have Court has ruled that it is hardly show n that they have absolutely no lack of due process for the conecrn for the oppressed and oxer-taxe- d government to regulate that which citizen." it subsidizes. (Supreme Court. For more information conWickard vs. I'ilburn, 1942.) tact: Robert F. Trepanier or John Dean St. Dennis. Director of l.eaxitt. American Party of Utah Public Information of the I.F.AA. Stale Headquarters, 169 South is quoted by Alan Slang in an State. Salt Lake Citv. Utah 84101. |