Page Eight The Conspiracy: From left to right are air tomey Leonard Weinglass, defendants Ren- nie Davis, Abbie Hoffman, Lee Weiner, Dave Dellinger, John Froines, Jerry Rubin (sans Grinnell ton/LNS) SCARLET AND BLACK hair), Tom Hayden, and attorney William Kunstler. Froines is scheduled to speak in tomorrow. (Photo by David Fen- Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale Give Views On Trial (John Froines, a member of the “Conspiracy 8" pres- ently on trial in Chicago, will be on the Grinnell campus tomorrow. Earlier this week, two other members of the Conspiracy, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale, released statements on the current progress of the trial. Por- tions of those statements are printed below.) Hayden: We came to Chi- cago last year because we were living under a system that did not represent us, that was culturally and politically meaningless, and l think that we have now been vindicated as prophets. The war in Vietnam still goes on. President Nixon has carried on the policies of President Johnson. President Nixon in fact has used John- son’s very words in condemn- ing and ignoring the anti-war sentiment. This is what we were pro- testing last year when We said that we have no role in this, that this had no meaning to us — there is no real choice for the American people. And when Hubert Humphrey at the time of the Moratorium be— came the man to endorse Rich» ard Nixon’s policy, it all came through in the clearest and simplest way: for here were the same men who we said represented no choice last year. now endorsing each other and trying to carry on policies of last year. The people who came to the streets of Chicago last year were prophetic about which way this country was going — how long it was going to con- tinue the war, how it was go ing to treat black people, how it was going to treat young people — and now i think we see the same process recur- ring in the courtroom that oc- curred last year around the Convention. The government attack on Bobby Scale, on myself and omer people in the courtroom follows the same line that their attack followed last year around the Convention. There was a vivid demonstration of the way the government deals with facts, deals with evi— dence. yesterday when Mr. Schultz summarized in his own selective way what Bobby Seale had said in the morning. Bobby Seale came into the courtroom, said that he was standing on his constitutional rights, said several times that he wanted people in the audi- ence to keep cool no matter what happened, they said they would, and then later, when Bobby was thrown back in his seat Schultz got up, told the judge that Bobby Seale had earlier told people in the audi- ence to be ready to make an “attack." it was only after our in» sistence — we almost had to scream our insistence — that that was not the case. that Schultz, since he was before a stenographer, had to back down and acknowledge that there was something else that Bobby said. Life Magazine was very pro» phetic when it said that this was not so much a trial as an act of vengeance because men go mad when they know they have lost. and Judge Hoffman knows that he has lost. the social order that he represents is finished. The so» cial order that President Nix- on and Vice President Agnew represent is finished. That's what is going on and I think it's going to get worse. i think now, the quieter we are , . . the more that we are respectiul. the more that we simply sit there in the room, the more outraged and frus- trated and boiling they will become. The process is now simply underway. Whether we scream or whether we are si- lent, it will go from one step to the next until the entire trial disintegrates, This is a prediction, it is not a threat. Seale: Why am I handcuiled, shackled to a chair, and gagged in Judge Hoiiman’s United States District of Illi- ndis courtroom? i am sure the masses of Americans, es- pecially the Black People, are intelligent enough to see the injustice irom the very begin- ning of this trial as a railroad- ing operation of US. imperial- ism abroad and domestic im» perialism — fascism — here at home. We should know that racism plus capitalism breeds fascism; but, we see how the newspapers and especially the TV and radio news media try to say or imply that the rea son I was shackled and gagged was because ol what this pig Judge calls outbursts or “in- terrupting the court proceed- ings.” The masses oi working people (the employed and un— employed Black and poor op- pressed people) can see fur ther than that. And those who cannot and/or those who are coniused about it all can now see the real reasons fascism is showing its hand more open- ly; because a man stands up and speaks in behalf of his constitutional rights to be rep- resented by legal counsel of his choosing and if not that, then the constitutional right to defend himself by being his own lawyer until his ill law. yer, who is most effective in proving his innocence, can come to defend him. I have sat for hours and lis- rened to testimony, most of which is lies, directed against the other seven defendants. The only times We stood up and demanded my right to le- gal defense are when a wit» ness says my name. Then I stand up and say “I object on the grounds that my lawyer. Charles R. Garry, is not here, I've been denied his services and l have been denied the right to defend myself, so I object to this witness testify- ing against me.” Everyone knows this trial should not be going on. Every- one knows that constitutional rights are being attacked by this rotten power structure in America. The right to free speech and freedom to assemble and peacefully protest even in court. This fascist court put chains, handculis, and gags on a person. What are they really doing? WHY? what is this? Simple: the constitutional laws are supposed to protect me or any citizen in America, Chicago—Eights Froines Friday. November 7 To Speak Here Tomorrow Despite the refusal of the Program in Practical Political Education (PPPE) to give 5100 for his appearance, John Frames, one of Chicago’s “Conspiracy 8,” will appear at Grinnell tomorrow. Froines will speak in Roberts Theatre from 3 p m. to 5 pm, Froines is currently on trial in Chicago with seven other persons (or conspiracy charges resulting from his participation in the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Cons vention. He is a chemistry pro- fessor at the Universrty oi oregon, and has participated in radical pclitical activities for many years. During the trial, he can only leave Chicago on weekends. and he uses this time to raise money lor the trial and appeals, by speaking throughout the country. According to Jim Lew, SGA president, PPPE earlier im- pile-fl it wculd help pay for Froinc's appearance. However. when instructor l-ienry Klein (Art) proposed that PPPE pay $100, the Suggestion was defeat- cd by a 5-2 vote oi the PPPE Advisory Committee. The Stu dent senate had already agreed to pay $150 to bring Froines here, and the additional $100 will new have to be raised through donations. in a note to Assoc. Prof. K i e i n, Edwin Gilmour, (PDlitlcal Science) PPPE Dir- ector, said, “The Committee wanted you to know that this action was not disapproval of Froines’ appearance at Grin- nell; rather, it was the judg- ment of the Committee that this action was not within the pro gram jurisdiction of the PP FE.” Klein said that he be- lieved they thought the issues involved were not of broad enough importance to justiiy the grant. Klein expressed ”amazement” at this cons clusicn. ln a separate action the senate passed the following resolution at its Tuesday meet- ing: “Since the central question involved in the trial of the “Chicago 8 Conspirators” is the use Cl the American judicial process as a political weapon: a question which involves us all—and since John R. Froines, a member of the “Chicago 8" will be on campus Sat. Nov. 8. the senate urges the college community to give generously to the campus fund drive to support the “Chicago 8.“ Tomorrow morning, Froines will meet with chemistry majors due to his professional interest. Other scheduled ac- tivities include a lunch with stu- dents. as well as the afternoon speech. Bobby o. Seale, national chairman of the Black Panther Party, was held in contempt of court Wednesday and sen- tenced to four years in jail by Judge Julius J. Hartman. Hoff- man also declared a mistrial for Seale, separating him from the other seven conspirators and setting a new trial for April 23. (Photo by David Goldstein/Dock of the Bay/LNS.) but the administration, Nixon et. al., and the courts do not intend to enforce or recognize the rights of the people, es- pecially a Black man's. We have to defend ourselves .against the repression in the courtrooms. Only we the eople can, as a unified prole- tariat. do this. if they attempt to take the first amendment away (rpm the American people overtly, and that’s what the Hugs are doing. then we the masses of the people, especially the Black, Brown, and poor White people, we must exercise the second amendment and do what the first two paragraphs of the U.S. Declaration of Indepen— dence say. What do they say? “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." “When a long train of abuses and usurpations. pursu- ing invariably the same ob- ject evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despot» ism, it is their right, it is their duty. to throw off such a gov- ernment, and to provide new guards for their future secur- ity." All Power To The People.