| Show Burton Suggests Prophetically That Resurrection City Will End NOW THAT THE BIG Washington Washington Washington Wash- Wash ington of the Poor Peoples People's Campaign is over now that the marchers have made their point that the poor have a problem in this land of wealth they should quietly and orderly pack up and return to the various parts of the country from whence they came To stay any longer will almost surely Invite disaster which in Ih my Judgement Judgement judgement Judge Judge- ment has 0 only n 1 y been m miraculously miraculously mir mir- I r- r avoided thus far Up to this point the peace at Resurrection City the Poor Peoples People's encampment near the Lincoln Memorial h has a s only been k kept e p t because official Washington has closed its eyes to repeated instances of law violation The police pollee have been lenient and suffering long-suffering willing willing willing wil wil- wil- wil ling to take a relatively small amount of abuse in the hope that an u uglier g l i e r situation could be avoided But this off hands-off policy cant can't continue Unless these people go home confrontations between be between between be- be tween them and law enforcement officers are bound to become more frequent And there wont won't be any more looking the other way way way- or excuse The law will be jailed Nothing else is possible It isn't necessary to take Laurence Burtons Burton's word for it The following quotes which appeared ap appeared appeared ap- ap in a Washington Post story this week are by Alvin Ivin Jackson who was chief security officer at Resurrection City until he resigned in despair three days ago The reason the population population population tion of this city is going down is not mud poor food rain or lousy hom homes s The reason they leave is that men are getting tired of coming home from a aday's aday's aday's days day's picketing to find their belongings stolen or their wife raped If the leaders dont don't do something soon this is going to be known as blood city instead of Resurrection City I doubt that the leaders are going to do anything because I dont don't really believe they can They dont don't control the situation n in the city rather the situation controls them Some outside force will be required to set things straight there That outside outside outside out out- side force should be the govern govern- ment of the United States And there is precious little time to waste |
