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Show 1 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand J March 27, 1975 The Utah Independent Gun Control Cleans People Control What is behind this drive to disarm a law-abidin- 1 g citizens? ri n Supreme Court decisions. Gary Allen in an article in the December 13 issue of OPINION stated: .1 AMEICAN 1970 " The Court has contrived new (i Constitutional rights for the accused which have gravely altered evidentiary rules and (1 procedures. Many of the changes have served to make the job of our police officers not only more dangerous but increasingly difficult." On May 13, 1974 the Supreme Court threw out wiretap-evidenc- e A NATIONAL POLICE FORCE? in cases where federal judges approved the wiretaps on recommenPhoebe by Courtney dation of a Justice Department executive assistant and not the AtCopyright 1974 torney General himself. The ruling COURTS is expected to invalidate as many as LENIENCY OF TRIGGERS CRIME RISE 626 wiretap convictions against Phoebe Courtney federal offenders. Copyright 1974 & ;? this ruling. Discussing Congressman John R. Rarick a The promoters of claim that if the guns of citizens are consifcated it will reduce crime. At the same time these Liberals support a policy of go soft on the criminal. And it is because criminals and potential criminals no longer fear the authority of the law that crime continues to rise regardless of the laws presently on the books. In the Mallory rape case of 1957 the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the use of confessions obtained before arraignment. On June 13, 1966 in the Miranda case the U.S. Supreme Court, by a 4 decision, held that before any criminal suspect in police custody can be questioned by the police, he must first be advised (I) that he has the right to remain silent, (2) that anything he says may be used against him, (3) that he is entitled to have a lawyer present with him during questioning, and (4) that if he cannot afford a lawyer, one will be furnished him free of charge. The Supreme Court further ruled that unless all of the foregoing conditions are met, no confession or evidence obtained during the interrogation can be used against the suspect. gun-contr- ol law-abidi- ng gun-contr- ol 5-- ft y - 5 r on these i i i ; u u court-appoint- ed stated on May 17: Law enforcement officials across the country were in a state of shock following the unanimous Supreme Court decision to throw order." An editorial in the CHATout evidence collected against hunTANOOGA NEWS FREE dreds of defendants because it was in 1973 a discussed June of PRESS use the obtained through of wiretaps. The high court ruled last case then before the State parole week that because former Attorney board. The facts of the case were: Four blacks seized a white 1 General John Mitchell had girl and her boyfriend in neglected to personally sign federal -wiretap authorization orders and his car in the Alton Park St. Elmo relegated it to an assistant, the area on August 4, 1960. All four of evidence had been obtained the blacks raped the girl. Two of illegally and could not be used in them held her while the others made their attacks and then they court. It is now becoming lamenexchanged roles. The four defendants were tably clear that because of Supreme Court rulings lower arrested, were tried in criminal federal judges are becoming more court and found guilty. They were concerned about the individual sentenced to be electrocuted. But they were not elecrights of criminals than the rights of their victims to be safe from at- trocuted. The death sentences for all tack. On March 2, 1974 four were reduced to 99 years in Congressman John B. Conlan prison. But, according to the revealed: Our criminal-justic- e system, editorial, Three of the defendants weakened by Liberal attitudes already are out, free under five-yeThe parole supervision. often favoring the rights of fourth defendant, after having criminals over the rights of is served 13 years, is up for parole. victims of crime, currenThe editorial concluded: tly jailing only three criminals for The story of how this every 100 major crimes committed sentence was watered down is part throughout the United States. Criminals and potential criminals of the story of why criminals do not are very aware of that low batting believe the law really means business, whv they think they can average." ar law-abidi- ng ORDER BLANK i i! ? Commenting Congressman John R. Rarick on May 7 related how a District of Columbia Superior Court judge, Charles W. Halleck, had dismissed charges against two men arrested for burglary, claiming that suitable lawyers could not be found to represent them. Both defendants had prior conviction records and one was on parole for robbery at the time of his arrest in the burglary case. Attorneys for both men had been appointed by the public defender, since they were declared indigent. But Judge Halleck said that one of the lawyers was overworked with too high a caseload and that the other was incompetent to handle the case. So, as Congressman Rarick put it: He promptly turned two criminals loose on the streets of Washington rather than postpone the cases and arrange bond as the government prosecutor suggested. And then the Congressman continued: Such a decision reflects a widespread tendency on the part of federal judges to disregard the question of guilt or innocence of the individual charged. Rather, technicalities and judicial fiat are used to circumvent law as written by elected officials, and to defeat the peoples demand for law and 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 Please send me .copies of Gun Control Means People Control" by Phoebe Courtney (192 pages, paperback, indexed) Payment of .is enclosed. (Please send check or money order) $ Mrs. Mr Miss Street City and State Zip Code CUTOUT AND MAIL commit serious crimes and get away with them, why they believe if they are caught, the penally will be less than it ought to be. When juries are required to give terms that do not mean what they say, and when later considerations wipe out any resemblance between the original sentence and punishment meted out, the system falls down." In a speech in the House of Representatives on August 9. 1972 Congressman Robert I.. Sikes stated: I feel strongly that the problem which confronts America is one of enforcement of the law and the punishment of criminals, not the passage of additional laws. This applies in the field ofgun control as well as elsewhere. In 1901 President William McKinley was shot and died a week later. Forty-fiv- e days later his assassin died in the electric chair. In 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Now, 4 years later, his assassin's sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment and he is seeking a parole." According to THE REVIEW OF THE NEWS of May 22, 974 a recent Justice Department survey indicated that one of every three federal offenders commits a new crime within two years of his 1 release from prison. The kidnapping of Patricia Hearst might never have taken place if it had not been for the leniency of the courts. Page 11 Donald 1.. DeFreeze, as follows: When DeFreeze was sixteen he was picked up by police for stealing from a parking meter. The charge was dropped. A month later auto larceny sent DeFreeze to Elmira Reformatory, but he was treated as juvenile offender without a permanent record. In 1965 he was arrested for The illegally firing a weapon. charge was dropped. That same year in California DeFreeze was charged with robbery, burglary, and possession of dangerous weapons including a sawed-of- f shotgun. This time the sentence consisted of no more than the time he spent in jail awaiting a decision by a court. A short time later, riding a bicycle through a traffic light. DeFreeze was stopped by California police who found a bomb in his pocket and a pistol and a bomb in his bike basket. This, too resulted in a suspended sentence and probation. Scant weeks later he was again arrested this time for carrying a concealed weapon which happened to be stolen and freed on probation. Early in 1969 DeFreeze became involved in a shootout with police and was finally sent to jail. At Soledad Prison he was assigned to a minimum security section and easily escaped to become the leader of the terrorist SLA. Such leniency toward habitual criminals is prevalent all over the country and it has been planned a that way! Miss Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment on February 4, 1974 by two black men and a white woman, members of a terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The self-stylfield marshal of the SLA was Donald L. DeFreeze, who with 5 members of the SLA died in a wild shootout with Los Angeles police which ended when the house occupied by the SLA members was destroyed by fire. Shortly after the kidnapping ed It will be recalled that in the previous chapter. Timothy Heinan stated that the plan was to finance and encourage permissiveness, then to use the popular outrage to justify further federal control and eventually a national police force controlled by Washington. Meanwhile, as Liberal courts continue to turn criminals loose to prey on Americans, terrorist gangs the SAN FRANCISCO are. through theft, building an reviewed the arsenal of weapons as will be seen CHRONICLE criminal record of SLA leader. in the next chapter. THE BUREAUCRATIC ARMY Continued from page 2 drastically reduced. Other Federal Departments are equally bloated and equally deserving of retrenchment. There is nothing unjust about this policy. The Federal savings in wages and salaries. A monstrous bureaucracy like ours has a vested interest in keeping government spending high. Government spending is a bureaucrat's livelihood. The larger government is not obliged to the appropriations for his provide any individual with a job. Department or Agency, the greater his power and influence. As a It is obliged to cut back the mammoth Federal budget, which has result, the Federal officials who opmore than tripled in a little over a pose increased government expendecade. Surely one of the best ditures are few and far between. places to start is the $35 billion that Those who favor reducing expennonare practically goes annually to support the ditures existent. bureaucracy. Gearly, government Neither will this policy mean a spending can never be cut unless necessary decline in the quality of the government itself is cut back government service. Far from that, first. a reduction in manpower is likely There are now almost three to produce a corresponding inmillion members of our civilian crease in efficiency. This is what army, serving in eleven Executive has happened in our Armed Departments, the Executive Office is Services, whose personnel now at of the President, and 80 the lowest level since the Korean Independent Agencies. A nation of War. The Defense Department has free men and women does not need proven that, properly equipped, it that much supervision. What is can do the same job just as well more, the Country cannot afford with fewer people. The civilian that much supervision. A sharp Departments can and must follow cutback in the Federal bureaucracy will serve the interests of economy, its example. There is a further benefit to of efficiency, and ultimately of manpower reductions beyond the freedom itself. |