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Jock AndersonBlack Panthers laugh at white liberalsB JACK ANDERSONWASHINGTON — Those revolutionary rogues, the Black Panthers, have magnificently finessed some of the nation’s most high-browed intellectuals.The tug thinkers - anguished liberals with a sense of guilt over ghetto conditions - have raised their voices and opened their purses to the Panthers The money has gaie to undermine the judicial processes, to promote racism, to spread sedition and to purchase weapons — hardly causes that good liberals espouse All the while the Panthers have accepted this liberal largesse they have shown a grand contempt for their benefactors. In the privacy of their hangouts, according to the confidential reports of government informers, the Panthers use scornful obscenities to describe the white liberals who raise mcmey for them They have joked roguishly. for example, that they will use the cwitn'butions of such eminent Jews as I eonard Berstein to do the work of Al Fatah in this cwintry.And when Arthur Goldberg put ho enormous jrestige behind an investigation into alleged police persecution erf the Panthers, they ungratfully called him every kind of a Jewish fascist pig.CIA reports, meanwhile, claim that Panther leaders not only have met with Arab guerrilla commanders but havecidentally, Panther rhetoric hi increasingly anti-Semitic. A favorite Panther slogan: Off i meaning lull • theImperial Black Pck Panthers squabbleAmong themselves, say informers, the’ Panthers have quarreled over whether to pursue a racist, all-black revolution Chairman Bobby Seale, for instance, wanted a pure revolution uncontaminated by white radicals. But propagandist•icantime. the Panthers atterd white fund-raising parties and titillate the drawing-roan gatherings with the Panther strut and ghetto slang They tait the white liberals mildly by calling them ‘honkies” to their faces But behind their backs, the Panthers preach raw racism.They happily accept liberal money to feed hungry ghetto children an) indeed, they serve free breadfasts to an estimated 10,000 youngsters each month But the free food is merely an enticement to attract the children to revolutionary kindergartens where they are taught to hate whites, to commit cranes and to fight llie police.Killing policeThe Panthers publish a children's coloring book, for example, which features drawings of policemen being killed The pictures were drawn by Jack Arthur StOvers whoallededly has put his art work into practice He was one erf six blacks arrested ui connection with the sniper shooting of Sacramento. Calif., patrolman Bernard Bennett on May 9.It is worth adding that, in Philadelphia, the breakfast-for-chiidren program used to be run by Rolando Hearn, Jr.. until he was sentenced up to 10 years for aggravated robbery last January Indeed, robbery apparently is a favorite form of fund-raising for the Panthers whose collective criminal record makes them look more like black mafioso than black revolutionaries A survey erf 16 areas, where the Panthers have been most active, shows 400 convictions against known Panthers since they gained national riety in 1967 Another 310 are awaitingThey have been jailed for just about every variety of theft, larceny, burglary They have held up gasThey allegedly specialize in robbing banks There may be less risk collecting from liberals at one of Jessica Mitford’sloney in banksillThe Panthers’Seattle. Willie Brazier, Jr.. was sentenced to 20 years last November for robbing the Fidelity Mutual Savings Bank A fellow Panther. Thomas Jackson. received a 2S-year sentence for bank robbery about the same tune And last December. Panther Donald Gregory Weems was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in Newark. NJ, fee bank robbery and assault with intent to kill He held up a bank with a companion who shot at the bank president Police persecution?The Panther cry of police persecution isn't entirely without foundation This column fcund no evidence that the federal government is directing a nationwide policy conspiracy against the Panthers Rather, tie re is loosely coordinated cooperation between police departments, which are understandably alarmed over the Panthers’ guerrilla warfare against them Eight policemen are known to have been killed, another 48 wounded as a result of Panther smpmgs. ambushmgs and shoot-outs The police undeniably have overreacted Ex-Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who took over the Panther per-secution investigation from Arthur Goldberg, acknowledged to this column that Panthers have been ’arrested and convicted for a wide range ofHeagandist and robberyknt that wtftttMt* rfiJa.But he said “In the a group seeking to developth pnde and power. He described the
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Auburn Citizen Advertiser
Auburn, New York, US
Thu, Sep 10, 1970
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