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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT (Continued from page 5) bombs, splattered police with plastic bags of urine and excrement. They threw rocks, bottles, cans, and balls spiked with nails and razor blades. Time and again they tried to march on the convention center. They filled the air with vulgar obscenities and spit at police, calling them fascist pigs. Above their heads the rioters waved the Vietcong flag, the black flag of anarcy and the red flag of the International Communist revolutionary forces. A friend of the writer who is a reporter tabulated the names of dozens of trained Communist riot leaders who were in the forefront of the melee the same ones whom he had seen leading riots in other parts of the country during the previous three years. After all the fracas had subsided and the convention had adjourned, there had been extensive damage to both private and city property. A survey of all city hospitals showed that 54 police officers and 60 civilians had required emergency treatment. Other injuries had occurred but were treated privately. Altogether 198 policemen were injured. A total of 641 persons were arrested. Seven of the leaders were eventually convicted in Federal court and given maximum sentences for crossing state boundaries to incite a riot. WHOSE CIVIL RIGHTS WERE VIOLATED? Even before the convention, the leaders of the demonstrations had brought suit to get an injunction against the city of Chicago. They claimed their civil rights would be violated by the restrictions which the city was going to impose on them. They said they were not being allowed to assemble where they wished nor take their demonstrations to the convention hall. They said it was a violation of their right of free speech, to peacefully assemble, and to exercise their freedom of dissent. Judge W. J. Lynch of the U.S. District Court ruled against them. In declining to give them an injunction against the city the judge stated: The Supreme Court has consistently recognized the strong interest of state and local governments in regulating the use of their streets and other public places. Cox v. New Hampshire , 312 U.S. 569; Kovacs v. Cooper , 336 U.S. 77; Poulos v. New Hampshire , 345 U.S. 395; Adderly v. Florida , 385 U.S. 39; and Walker v. City of Birmingham , 388 U.S. 307. The prevention of public disorder and violence are important objects of legitimate state concern when protest takes the form of mass demonstrations and parades. Walker v. ity of Birmingham , supra. In Cox o. Louisiana, 397 U.S. 536, the United States Supreme Court stated: We emphatically reject the notion . . . that the First and Fourteenth Amendments afford the same kind of freedom to those who would communicate ideas by conduct such as patrolling, marching and picketing on streets and highways, as these amendments afford to those who communicate ideas by pure speech And in Cox v. New Hampshire, supra, a unanimous Supreme Court stated: Civil liberties, as guaranteed by the Constitution, imply the existence of an organized society maintaining public order without which liberty itself would be lost in the excesses of unrestrained abuses. The authority of a municipality to impose regulations in order to assure the safety and convenience of the people in the use of the public highways has never been regarded as inconsistent with civil liberties but rather as one of the the good order upon which means of nouncement, the leaders of the demonstrators went right ahead and brazenly ignored all instructions and prior commitments. They mobilized their massive strength to deliberately violate the civil rigths of the thousands of delegates who were trying to exercise their constitutional right of freedom of assembly in a city to which they had been invited; The civil rights of other thousands of local people were also violated by the refusal of the demonstrators to comply with instructions and previous promises concerning the clearing of parks, streets, and hotels where they had taken up illegal occupation. June 11, 1970 USA Anarchy (Continued from page 4) These are the tools of Communism, which produce a dialectical materialism, aimed at the complete subversion of a great people. The campus demonstrations, the defiance of law and order, the destruction of property, both public and private, are manifestations of this sickness now sweeping Ameria. It is this sickness that is bring"Poor People's ing the March" on Washington, headed by Ralph Abernathy and his cabal of troublemakers. They intend to blackmail and blackjack the Congress into complete submission. Regretfully, too many featherlegged politicians are caving in on every side. People are too willing to believe that property rights should be taken without due process of law or just compensation, as provided in the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. so-call- ed BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE All things considered, however, the outcome of what was carefully designed by the demonstrators to be a planned disaster, actually turned out to be a compliment to the Chicago police, the National Guard, state and Federal security officers and the city of Chicago. In the first place, the leaders of the demonstrations were only able to bring to Chicago approximately 10.000 (according to the FBI) instead of the 100,000 they had boasted they were going to bring. Secondly, they never did get the ghetto minorities to join them in a spree of burning, bomPHONY "NONbing, shooting and looting as they had done in some VIOLENCE" other cities. We in Washington are facThirdly, though the mobsters did everything they ing an invasion intended to could to provoke, insult and agitate the police (and overthrow the government by other security forces), only a scattered handful of the force and violence. The docis as thousands of men who participated were found by trine of r as a bill, d and to have used phony the grand jury to have falls dialof the in and category more force than was considered reasonably necessary. ectical materialism. The inThis was a high compliment to the remarkable degree structions of Lenin were to proof restraint exhibited by those who had the tough and ceed in a manner, in such a way as to provoke sometimes ugly, miserable job of keeping the peace. extreme violence, which would Finally, and most remarkable of all, was the fact disrupt government that although the police were armed and severely completely and society. of Ralph The provoked, not one shot was fired (so far as the press writings of and week of the Natthe entire could discover) during Bunche, founder rioting ional Negro Congress, a Commob action. munist front in Science and All of this adds up to a very positive plus for the Society, a Communist magaforces of law and order. But at the same time it zine, of which he was acontrib-utm- g carries serious implications concerning the future. editor, laid out the comThere certainly will be other confrontations with plete blueprint for what is happening in America today. He these revolutionary firebrands. contributed to this publication What happens, for example, if they DO eventually and added his name and presshow up with 100,000? What happens if they are tige as a professor of Howard successful in combining their imported revolutionary University even after the Communists in thdr publication, militants in army of protestors with the Hie Communist, openly stacertain districts of the city who complicate the police ted that Science and Society of with a bombing, looting rampage burning, problem magazine had as its function "to help Marxward moving and shooting? students and intellectuals to What happens if the demonstrators include a pla" come doser to toon of militants who have spent months developing and "to bring Communthemselves into sharpshooters in order to carry out ist thought into academic cirwhom cles. Any American who does their threat to launch a massive attack on those (Continued on page 6) they bitterly refer to as the fascist pigs? In a future article we will quote directly from the leaders of the revolutionary cadre who recently told 4.000 of their delegates representing over 300 militant organizations that the complete overthrow of the United States government is their ultimate objective. This means that if the revolutionists have their way, there will be frequent and continuous attacks on the civil rights of the American people during the Savage Seventies. But the police are not the only ones who have the legal responsibility of holding the civil rights of the Wftaat is 'tor the valuable renutrients lost through othor milling have also a leaders Civic inviolate. major people methods. 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