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Date: 28 Jul 2000 00:24:41 -0400
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Brandishing machine guns, militia marches on Houston

By Charles A. Morse
web posted June 26, 2000

An organized, trained, uniformed, and heavily armed Militia marched through 
the streets of Houston, Fri. June 16, reports the Houston Chronicle, and yet, 
there has been little national media coverage, no discussion from the usual 
commentators and savants, and no comment from the White House. The gun 
control lobby, the anti-militia crowd, and their assorted left-wing camp 
followers have been silent. Even though this private army was reported to be 
carrying AK-47s, which have been, according to the Chronicle article, illegal 
in the U.S. since the 1930's, the Houston DA's office doesn't expect to file 
charges. Far less evidence of illegal weaponry resulted in the Waco home 
invasion and subsequent holocaust in April 1993. Why the double standard?

This militia was part of the "New" Black Panther Party. Along with the 
National Black United Front and the New Black Muslim Movement, the Panthers 
were "protesting" outside the George R. Brown Convention Center while the 
State GOP was being addressed by Laura Bush, wife of the presumptive 
Republican Presidential nominee. The issue, which prompted the Panthers to 
don their jack-boots and black uniforms, was the death penalty, particularly 
as it pertains to the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Gary Graham. T
hat the Black Panthers would advocate against the death penalty, given their 
own well-documented history of executions against "traitors", is in and of 
itself the epitome of hypocrisy.

Panther leader Quanell X was quoted by the Chronicle as saying "We believe we 
have a divine duty and a divine obligation to stand up for any Black man on 
Death Row about to be executed…for a crime he didn't commit". We all have an 
obligation to stand up for any innocent man on death row, however, Quanell X 
doesn't elaborate on why he thinks Graham, convicted of murder by a jury of 
his peers, is innocent. The question of guilt or innocence, particularly in 
capitol offences demands high levels of proof in all cases. Such standards 
would end the implied charges of racism. As head of the Black Panthers, 
Quanell X inherits the mantle of a group whose opposition to the death 
penalty is entirely dialectical rather than fundamental. There was other 
non-militia groups protesting outside the convention.

The Black Panthers, under the leadership of Marxist revolutionaries Eldridge 
Cleaver, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, was a violent anti-American gang of 
thugs that regularly engaged in shootings, bombings, extortion, racketeering, 
crime and subversion. The only difference between them and the Mafia, or the 
crips and bloods, is that they assumed a Marxist posture thus winning the 
adulation of much of the self-hating liberal establishment. Their public 
utterances and actions present a record of advocating the replacement of the 
U.S.Government with a "peoples" republic. Their method was to instigate race 
war. David Horowitz, author of Radical Son, worked with the Black Panthers in 
the 1970's and provides excellent research on their background.

Unlike the demonized "right wing" militias, which, for the most part, have 
maintained a record of law abidance and support for the Constitution, the 
Black Panthers, violent criminals, make the left feel all warm and fuzzy. 
Since they mouth Marxist "ideals" they have received large foundation grants 
and get invited to dinner parties at the penthouses of such "radical chic" 
figures as the late composer Leonard Bernstein. The Black Panthers have been 
celebrated in books and movies and have been held up as Black Leaders by our 
establishment press. The introduction of violence, and in the case of 
Cleaver, rape, as a legitimate means of effecting social change has been 
their contribution to our American way of life. 

Abolition of the death penalty is emerging as the main weapon in the 
desperate presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore. Never mind that 
then Governor and Presidential candidate Bill Clinton refused to grant 
clemency to death row inmate Rickey Ray Rector, a mentally impaired man who 
was unable to comprehend his imminent demise. Rector, as he was being led to 
his execution, left the pecan pie from his last dinner under the bed to be 
eaten later. Never mind that Bush's predecessor, liberal Governor Ann 
Richards presided over several executions.

The death penalty serves several functions for Gore's left-wing core 
constituency. The big lie is that Bush is "mean-spirited" by signing on to it 
and that he's "racist" because of the fact that a high percentage of death 
row inmates are Black. The death penalty is a sensitive and highly complex 
issue that deserves careful study by respective State governments. Advances 
in criminal science and the development of techniques such as DNA evidence 
will hopefully lead to a higher level of proof in capital offences. In the 
mean time, lets not let the hypocritical left demagogue the issue. 

Chuck Morse is a syndicated talk show host on the American Freedom Network 
and a contributing writer to Enter Stage Right and Ether Zone.


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