Neale in the San Francisco arrived back here er 10th, Monday. And and to be said to the progres. es in America, about imperialism , and domestic imperialism (fas here at home. correct that many millions of 55-60% of the nation or more, up with this unjust aggressive war ust the Vietnamese people. It's rstood that the Vietnamese people e fighting for their right to self-determ nation, their right to determine thei own destiny in their own land, country, in their communities. It's good that progressive forces (organisations and people) can come forth and mass and demonstrate and redress their grievances against the government for waging such a war against people unjustly, not only in Vietclass circles that are infested inside une U.S. government, if there is a war going on that they perpetrate and put together there, it must be understood that they're right to self-det mination, the penetee people's waging that war for some inequality and unjustness against those people. And it's evident that it is being waged for this reason on their part because of the fact that there is no equality and there's no justice at home for people right here in America like Black ity and murder for 400 years right bere in America. It's evident and it's clear that if there is genocide in a country as n Germany during World War II, then anything that ruling class fascist governpent does outside is also unjust and is so aggression and is also out to deny and murder and kill people.
What we have to understand is that right here at home in America we have con pose ight perim The t you just fight imperialism, the acts of mperialism abroad, without understandng and recognising community imperial im here of Black people, Brown people Red people and even to the point of probesting students and radicals and progressive peoples here, in America.
Domestic imperialism here at home is in fact fascism. But what in essence is it? I think Black people if we go over the concrete experiences that we've had in America and what's going on now against us we can understand exactly what it is to be corralled in wretched ghettos in America and look up one day and see numerous policemen occupying our community, and brutalising us, killing Brother Linthcombe, murdering young Bobby Hutton. The fact that so much brutality goes on to the extent that all the fascist press and all the demagogic politicians say it and the only thing that the courts put out is that it's supposedly "justifiable homicide" on the part of policemen who occupy our community.
The police state that exists here in America right now is in fact fascism right before our eyes. There are numerous exposedly cashing a so-called fictitious check in a bank here in San Francisco and was walking out of the bank amongst a crowd of people and this police guard runs out of the bank and walking and the brother is shot dead in the mid-section of his back. He's dead and killed, Black brothers and Black people who have experienced and know these fascist tactics and know of wo many cases ana too many situanons where young brothers and Black people have been gunned down and murdered by these cops, and it's becoming more and more out of hand. It's becoming out of hand because in every major city, in every major metropolis where Black people live, police forces have been doubled, tripled and quadrupled.
Also, the racist courts of America are justifying the police brutality and murder sack people and any people. The brutalising, murdering and bashing skulls. And many Black people looked on and said, "Look at those White people getting beaten", because we knew we had been beaten and brutalised for many. years and still are.
They dragged me into this case. They put me as one of the defendants there. and they literally, overtly, fascisticly iggishly and racistly denied me my basic asic constitutional rights. Charles R. Garry, the most beautiful lawyer in the vorld, a revolutionary lawyer, was here at home going through an operation for his health and couldn't come to the court. Dr. Goodlett explained it to the court a month before the court even convened that Charles would be risking his life, and I made motion after motion, request after request, and argued those requests and those motions on my be half in my attempts to defend myself there and was literally denied (literally lenied) my constitutional rights to b ble to defend myself, after it was clea that my lawyer wouldn't be able to be there to assist me. For a man to stand up and demand his constitutional rights and in turn the court looks at him and denies fact we Black people, we people, ple, American people, know that to deny people their constitutional rights, their right to defend themselves, their right to council, or any constitutional right, is nothing more than to justify the brutal tactics, murderous fascist tactics of the police running rampant in the communities of America, and in particular the Black communities of America.
To the Peace Forces, the progressive forces in America, the protestors, those who know the war in Vietnam is unjust, those who are going to the streets and demonstrating, those who think they re really, really doing something -what the they're doing in trying to end the war i Vietnam is not meaningful at all, yet. It's not meaningful at all and will not become meaningful at all if you really want to stop the war in Vietnam, until you take some action here in America against the fascist brutal forces against Black people here in America. The very fact that the North Vietnamese government has announced that they are willing to release prisoners of war, for the release and dropping of all charges and trumped. up charges against the Minister of Deend police brutality and murder of Black people right here at home. Because the Black Panther Party itself has moved in this direction from its very inception to get rid of those fascist forces that corral us.
This is the kind of action that has to be taken on the part of the Peace Forces in America and the progressive forces in America. And until they begin to do that they will not begin at all to stop imperialism; they will not begin at all to stop domestic imperialism right here at home. You must move against domestic imperialism, growing rampant, FASCISM- right here in America, before you can end the war in Vietnam or all forms of aggressive wars like that against other people abroad. The very fact that Black, Brown, Red and other peoples in America, and poor people, even poor White people, are corralled in wretched ghettos, especially those people of colour and Black people whose communities are occupied in the fashion they are and murdered. No, we can't continue to allow ourselves to be duped with the notion that we're doing something good until we learn to smash imperialism right here at home. Because to smash imperialism right here at home is to smash imperialism abroad. Smashing imperialism means taking action, demanding that those prisoners of war be allowed he come home, bring you l home. And we can bring the prisoners of war home by demanding that the U.S. government release political prisoners here in America. Beginning with Huey and me, right now in America we will set a precedence of opposing fascism, abroad and at home. If that is what the Vietnamese people want, to release the political prisoners and people here in America, then I say that the progressive forces have to take some action in that direction; and they will be relating directly to smashing imperialism at home and recognising that this has to be done.
People move. Black brothers and sisters, American people, it's time that we moved against fascism at home because
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