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tee ats te RA OT og ae yn? ye NY 100-161445 The following excerps of the subject's speech were taken from this tape recording: "Conspiracy trial in Wash--, Chicago, this ain't in Washington ‘cause really it's a Federal trial, Federal law. It's all 1984 double talk fascism. They put it in like avery complicated way. Ah they got a reason for doing that. They do it in the courts rather than out in the streets, it's neater. Fascism ah always prides itself on its neatness, its decorum, as the judge would put it. Its gotta be neat, and its gotta be legal, and above all, its gotta be fair, a fair trial. April tenth ah 1968, Congress ah in menory of Martin Luther King decided to pass a Civil Rignts Act, and in that act was a statute called the Anti-Riot law. That was ah put forth by that great civil rights advocate, Strom Thurmond (laughter). It's about this long--makes everything that we're doing now iliegali. Conspiracy with intent, no, conspiracy to cross state lines with intent to incite a riot. It ain't for like kicking cops in the shins, spitting on the sidewalk, ain't even for dumping a pig in a civic center in Chicago, making movies without a permit, and none of that. Conspiracy to cross state lines with the intention of inciting a riot; it's alla question of intent, and intent happens to be a state of mind. First time the Federal Government in 200 years of its history has ever decided to legislate against a state of mind. We're not charged with like crossing state lines, you know, with little girls like under the Mann Act or little boys under the Strom Thurmond Act or, or ah carrying guns across state lines but doing any act of violence or in fact, even inciting @riot. We're being charged for intention to incite riot, The eight of us had never met conspiracy, overt conspiracy. before Chicago, we didn't meet until we were arraigned last April in Chicago. Some of us hed met each other. We had heard about each other. And it was good when we met up ‘cause we decided before we gotin there for that arraig::ment that we were gonna call ourselves the Conspiracy ‘cause we were right proud of what we had done in Chicago ...think it ougntta happen a whole lot more (applause). And we weren't é —