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Fred Hampton — Part 3
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Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370
primary in which HANRAHAN was a candidate,
directed verdicts for all the Defendants except those
seven raiders who admitted to firing their weapons
at the apartment. ... Plaintiffs appeal, but they
seek not only reversal of these grossly unfair and il-
legal verdicts, but sanctions and fees against the -
parties and their attorneys who knowingly
obstructed justice in the Court below, and ap-
propriate orders to assist them to finally obtain the
discovery to which they are entitled, and strong
rebuke to the trial Court who completely abused his
power, trammelled the Constitution and nullified
the Civil Rights Act.
Thus it seems although they are not charged as unin-
dicted co-conspirators that the entire officialdom of
government from the President to the federal district
judge were intent upon bringing about the elimination
of a small group of people who simply desired to achieve
the desirable and constitutionally required status of
racial equality.
The Introduction and Statement of the Case of the
Anderson plaintiffs’ brief set the tone which was follow-
ed through their 247 pages of overstated
characterizations. Thus, initially,.supposedly by way of
background they move on the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation in an endeavor to demonstrate that the FBI’s
counterintelligence program insofar as it was directed
toward the Black Panther Party was a basis for a
reasonable inference that FBI officials in reality were
conspiring to implement the program by resorting to
homicide of the local Black Panther leader. Conspicuous-
ly absent in the development is any reference to the fact
that the program was directed toward an organization
which had announced it would achieve its objectives by
violent means.
The intemperance of the Anderson plaintiffs’ approach
is particularly demonstrated in the some 75 or more
pages devoted to denigrating the district court judge.
Thus, typically:
... the Court, ignoring the merits of Plaintiffs’
claim, denied the Motion “as not well taken.” . . . The
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