MILITIA MARCHES ON HOUSTON
MAKING THE LEFT FEEL WARM AND FUZZY
http://etherzone.com/mors062700.html
By: Chuck Morse
Co-founder of the Black Panthers...
Bobby Seale
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 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. That 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 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.
Recent death penalty revisits were sparked by the DNA phenomenon, with the most dramatic reporting in the Chicago Tribune last year that caused the guv of Illinois to suspend executions pending "further review" of the statute and legal system. The Trib series showed a pattern of judicial abuses in capital cases, confirming suspicions that po' folk generally get bad justice from po' lawyers -- in contrast to rich folk with rich lawyers. 
. This isn't my Grandpa's Texas anymore 