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Wiretap Goes To U.s. Supreme Court

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
November
Year
1971
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WIRETAP GOES TO U.S. SUPREME COURT

John Sinclair, Pun Plamondon, and Jack Forrest, defendants ridiculously accused of bombing conspiracy in the infamous political railroading known as the CIA Conspiracy Case, are about to do battle in the IL S. Supreme Court against the Nixon/Mitchell criminal gang over the question of whether these two creeps and their cohorts will be able to continue to trample on the rights of the Amerikan citizenry with impunity by tapping phones without the prior consent of the government's judicial branch.

Groundwork for the Supreme Court action goes back to Federal Judge Damon Keith's ruling during pre-trial litigation in the CIA case. After learning that the government had tapped defendant Plamondon's phone without knowledge or consent of the Federal judiciary (which is like the police ripping your home apart without an authorized search warrant), Keith ruled that the government would have to pay for its illegal intrusion by turning the tapes of the tapped conversations over to the defendants or by dropping the absurd charges against them. The government lost its appeal of this monumental ruling in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and is now taking its evil argument before the Supreme Court.

Nixon and Mitchell have issued statements in connection with this case which argue, in essence, that the executive branch of the government as it's presently constituted should be able to nullify the system of checks and balances between the executive, judicial, and legislative branches which is mandated by the U.S. Constitution and which is, indeed, the Constitution's central idea. Citizens all across the country are amazed and alarmed at the arrogance of these men and the odor of Nazi Germany that exudes from their whole approach to this question.

John, Pun, and Jack are honored that they have the opportunity to represent the interests of the people of the U.S. in this case. Arguments in their case represent the highest level of legal struggle against creeping Big Brotherism now going on in this country, and defense attorneys Buck Davis, Bill Kunstler and Lenny Weinglass have had the concrete support of virtually all progressive forces in the legal area in their struggle against Mitchell's crooked legal maneuverings.

Nixon's recent appointments to the Supreme Court, most notably that of Mitchell's assistant Rehnquist, who has declared himself in public as an ardent privacy invader, gives an indication of the importance of this case in the government's long-range program for the suppression and eventual elimination of dissent in the "land of the free."

On November 26, the official filing date for briefs in the wiretap argument, John, Pun, Jack and the Amerikan people will begin to take on Nixon and Mitchell before the stacked Court. Freedom-loving people who wish to resist the wholesale erosion of their "inalienable rights" by the government can help concretely towards the enormous legal expenses to:

Center for Constitutional Rights
588 Ninth Avenue
New York, New York

Please indicate that you wish your contribution to go toward the wiretap arguments in the case known officially as "United States vs. Sinclair, et al."

Dave Sinclair
Chief-of-Staff
Rainbow Peoples Party