______________________________ ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN News * Analysis * Research * Action ______________________________ - AFIB No. 256, June 25, 2000 - PART 2 ***** GERMANY ALERT `The Free Flow Of Uncensored Facts' E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.germanyalert.com - Thursday, 22 June 2000 - ----- ____________________________________________________________________ DENYING DANGER ____________________________________________________________________ BERLIN (22 June 2000) -- Alarms should have been sounding throughout Germany long before Nazi apologist Ernst Nolte was given the Konrad Adenauer Prize, one of the country's highest honors. Thick file folders and burgeoning computer databases have for years been accumulating piles of facts that demonstrate the German extreme right's increasing control over the former political "center." When the "center" reacted to murderous attacks on foreign workers by German young people bearing swastikas, it was by deporting increasing numbers of immigrants and changing the constitution to weaken the right of asylum. When tiny extreme right parties increased their share of the vote, the "center" reacted by adopting anti-foreigner slogans and passing still more laws against asylum seekers. When voices both at home and abroad reacted to this coming out of German extremism, the "center" including mainline media hissed with indignation. And when it was revealed that the Bundeswehr was being used as a forum for National Socialist apologists, the significance of this disastrous development within the German armed forces was horrendously played down. So when Ernst Nolte was awarded the Adenauer Prize following his bizarre analysis concluding that Nazi anti-Semitism had a "rational core" and that Hitler served as a necessary opposition to "bolshevism," words of warning came from some but, once again, no alarms were sounded. Germany's once-praiseworthy weekly Die Zeit went to extraordinary lengths in playing down the outrageous award by the christian democrat Deutschland Foundation, asserting even that Nolte's winning of the prize is evidence that Nolte is being pushed "a further step into the background." Does Zeit mean that if Nolte had not won the Adenauer Prize he would be even more center stage than he is now? Copyright 2000 Germany Alert. All rights reserved. ***** ____________________________________________________________________ HITLER APOLOGIST WINS GERMAN HONOR, AND A STORM BREAKS OUT ____________________________________________________________________ THE NEW YORK TIMES International News Wednesday, June 21, 2000 http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/062100nolte-prize.html By ROGER COHEN BERLIN, June 20 -- The award of one of Germany's most prestigious literary prizes to a historian who has sought to justify the Holocaust has ignited a fierce dispute here at a time of conservative and reactionary intellectual stirrings in Europe. The historian, Ernst Nolte, has argued that Hitler's anti-Semitism had a "rational core" and that Nazism was in essence a riposte to Bolshevism. He received the Konrad Adenauer Prize for literature this month, causing an uproar that has filled newspapers with invective and divided one of the country's leading historical institutes. The prize, whose past recipients include former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, is given for works that "contribute to a better future" by the Munich-based Deutschland Foundation. The organization is conservative and close to the right wing of the Christian Democratic Party but had not been considered reactionary or revisionist. Accepting the prize, Mr. Nolte said, "We should leave behind the view that the opposite of National Socialist goals is always good and right." He added that because Nazism was the "strongest of all counter forces" to Bolshevism, a movement with wide Jewish support, Hitler may have had "rational" reasons for attacking the Jews. The timing of the prize was particularly delicate because this is a period of some intellectual ferment in Europe. The success of the Austrian rightist J�rg Haider in steering his Freedom Party into government has emboldened the right. In Germany and France, a conservative reaction is evident against what the French call "the angelic left," which is accused of imposing a stifling political correctness on debate and of backing a multicultural tide that will sweep away the European nation state. In this context, Mr. Nolte has emerged as an iconoclast with apparently growing conservative appeal. A few days after receiving the prize, he was widely applauded at a conference in Paris where he again explored his thesis aboutHitler and the Jews. "The award of the prize to Nolte was a clear political statement intended to promote the view that there is no particular stigma to Nazism in the light of what some Germans now call the 'Red Holocaust' in the Soviet Union," said Charles Maier, a Harvard historian. "It's exculpatory in the German context. It's also really scandalous." The unease and anger in Germany over the prize has been accentuated by the fact that another prominent historian, Horst M�ller, the director of the disinguished Institute for Contemporary History, chose to make the speech honoring Mr. Nolte. The institute was established after the war in Munich with a clear educational mission directed largely toward researching Nazism. In his speech, Mr. M�ller said he did not agree with all of Mr. Nolte's views, but went on to praise a "life's work of high rank" and to make a vigorous attack on the "hate-filled and defamatory" attempts to stop open debate in Germany. The reaction was overwhelming. Newspapers have been filled with letters from other historians at the institute calling on Mr. M�ller to resign. In an open letter to Die Zeit, Heinrich A. Winkler, a professor of history at Berlin's Humboldt University, said, "Mr. M�ller allowed himself to become party to an intellectual political offensive aimed at integrating rightist and revisionist positions in the conservative mainstream." Mr. M�ller's secretary said he was traveling and not available for comment. With Haiderism thriving in neighboring Austria, the ground has become fertile in Germany for a nationalist and right-wing intellectual awakening. It is fed by weariness, even anger, at what is seen as Germany's eternal victimization for the Holocaust, and irritation at the multicultural message from a Red-Green government. Mr. Nolte took up these themes in his speech. He attacked those who argue for "an unstoppable transition toward world civilization." He bitterly denounced the "collective accusation" continuously leveled at Germany since 1945. The historian, the author of books including "Three Faces of Fascism" and "The European Civil War," has been well known for his argument about Hitler and Stalin since the 1980's. But never before has a center-right institution like the Deutschland Foundation moved to embrace him in such a formal way, intimating that at least the right of the Christian Democratic Party may be ready to countenance the view that the crimes of the Nazis were not unique and have been unfairly singled out. Mr. Haider has made a lot of headway in Austria precisely by questioning the "intellectual tyranny" of the left. Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company ***** ____________________________________________________________________ BERLIN SOUNDS ALARM AS NEO-NAZIS HOARD ARMS ____________________________________________________________________ THE TIMES World News: Europe Thursday, 22 June 2000 http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/06/22/x-timfgneur01003.htm l FROM ROGER BOYES IN BERLIN BERLIN issued a warning yesterday that neo-Nazi groups in Germany were stepping up their campaign and resorting to terrorist tactics for the first time since the end of the Second World War. Fears of intensifying right-wing extremism came after police seized pipe bombs and explosives in raids on the cellars of far-right extremists. Eckart Werthebach, the Interior Minister, said the police had also thwarted an attack the offices used by left-wingers. Until now neo-Nazi groups concentrated, especially in eastern Germany, on harassing foreigners. The latest victim was Alberto Adriano, 39, a Mozambican who has lived in Germany for 20 years. In Dessau he was hounded by three far-right skinheads and kicked to death. Adriano was the latest of more than 100 people who have been killed by neo-Nazis since German unification. Arson attacks against refugee hostels, the most common target of the early 1990s, have given way to drunken beatings of black people. Organised right-wing terrorism against the political left is something new. There is a long European tradition of far right terror - in Italy during the 1970s, in Austria where neo-Nazis sent letter bombs to prominent personalities - but Germany has not seen outright left-right political violence since the 1930s. Ten days ago police discovered pipe bombs in the cellar of a neo-Nazi. The arrested man said the bombs were supposed to be used against left- wingers who had set fire to cars owned by right-wingers in a town outside Berlin. The raid came after the discovery of a sniper rifle and explosives in a house occupied by neo-Nazis. Other right wing extremists were stopped by police before they could set fire to a Berlin pub, called the Plague Dog, frequented by left-wing sympathisers. Neo-Nazi literature intercepted by the police is calling for a crusade against the Left, "the beginning of the arms struggle for the capital of the Reich". The Berlin neo-Nazis seem to be in touch with militant far-right theoreticians in Hamburg who are in contact with Sweden and Britain's Combat 18. "We are talking about violent individuals and small cells who are now trying to get in touch with each other," Herr Werthebach said. Despite the small numbers involved, he said, they posed a great danger. Sweden seems to be the model for the new German terror tactics. Last year a Swedish journalist was seriously injured when his car was blown up. Two policemen were killed when neo-Nazis raided a Swedish bank. Last October Bjoern Soederberg, a unionist, was shot dead after he had "outed" a neo-Nazi in the union leadership. The neo-Nazis of northern Germany appear to be moving in a similar direction. In April the Far Right held demonstrations in north German towns in favour of "freedom of expression" and against a Rock Against the Right concert organised the IG Metall engineering union. The mayor of one town found a bullet hole in her kitchen window. A picture of a trade unionist was printed on a huge banner strung up on motorway bridges. It carried the caption: "Reward DM10,000 - dead or alive." The unionist now wears a bullet-proof vest. The driving force behind the move towards organised rather than random terror seems to be an umbrella organisation called the White Aryan Resistance. Its publications talk of German "martyrs" such as the jailed murderer of a policeman. Last week the neo-Nazis gained a new "martyr". Michael Berger, a far-right sympathiser, killed three police officers before shooting himself. Police found machine guns, pistols and hand grenades in his flat. Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd. ***** _________________________________________________________________________ US 'SUPPORTED ANTI-LEFT TERROR IN ITALY' Report claims Washington used a strategy of tension in the cold war to stabilise the centre-right _________________________________________________________________________ THE GUARDIAN International News Saturday, 24 June 2000 http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,335764,00.html Philip Willan in Rome The United States was accused of playing a large part in the campaign of anti-communist terrorism in Italy during the cold war, in a report released yesterday by the Left Democrat party. The explicit accusation is contained in a draft report to a parliamentary commission on terrorism. The formerly communist LDP is the biggest party in Giuliano Amato's centre-left government, and the report could sour relations between Italy and the United States and unleash a storm of domestic political controversy. The 300-page report says that the United States was responsible for inspiring a "strategy of tension" in which indiscriminate bombing of the public and the threat of a rightwing coup were used to stabilise centre-right political control of the country. Those who carried out the attacks were rarely caught, it said, because "those massacres, those bombs, those military actions had been organised or promoted or supported by men inside Italian state institutions and, as has been discovered more recently, by men linked to the structures of United States intelligence". Valter Bielli, a Left Democrat member of parliament and one of the authors of the report, said his party's conclusions were based on recent judicial discoveries and a re-elaboration of information that had been available for many years but had not been adequately understood. "I am convinced that the intervention of the Americans in Italy is now a historically proven fact," he said. "They interfered to prevent the Communist party from achieving power by democratic means. The communist threat no longer exists and it would be appropriate if the Americans themselves helped us to clarify what happened in the past." Mr Bielli said he was worried about the possible implications of the report for relations between Italy and the US, but he hoped it would contribute to the creation of a new Nato in which all countries enjoyed equal weight and dignity. "During the cold war the east was under communist domination, but the west too had become, in a certain sense, an American colony," he said. The report claims that US intelligence agents were informed in advance about several rightwing terrorist bombings, including the December 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan and the Piazza della Loggia bombing in Brescia five years later, but did nothing to alert the Italian authorities or to prevent the attacks from taking place. It also alleges that Pino Rauti, a journalist and founder of the far-right Ordine Nuovo (new order) subversive organisation, received regular funding from a press officer at the US embassy in Rome. "So even before the 'stabilising' plans that Atlantic circles had prepared for Italy became operational through the bombings, one of the leading members of the subversive right was literally in the pay of the American embassy in Rome," the report says. Mr Rauti now heads the small rightwing MSI Fiamma-Tricolore party, and suggestions that he and other rightwing politicians still actively involved in parliamentary politics had failed to cut their links to terrorist extremists have drawn furious rebuttals from the centre-right opposition. The National Alliance leader, Gianfranco Fini, described the document as a "miserable report" and the centrist Republican party said it was worthy of a 1970s Maoist group. "These are allegations that have come up over the last 20 years and there is absolutely nothing to them," a source at the US embassy in Rome said. To Aldo Giannuli, a historian who works as a consultant to the parliamentary terrorism commission, the release of the Left Democrats' report is a manoeuvre dictated primarily by domestic political considerations. "Since they have been in power the Left Democrats have given us very little help in gaining access to security service archives," he said. "This is a falsely courageous report. The real issue today is gaining access to Nato's archives. There has been no impulse on this front from the government." Copyright Guardian Media Group plc. 2000 AFIB Editor's Note: for background on US-NATO operational links to international fascist terror networks see: John Dinges and Saul Landau, Assassination on Embassy Row [New York, Pantheon Books, 1980]; Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism [Boston, South End Press, 1980]; Stuart Christie, Stefano delle Chiaie: Portrait of a Black Terrorist [London, Anarchy Magazine/Refract Publications, 1984]; Jon Anderson and Scott Lee Anderson, Inside the League [New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1986]; Edward Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, The "Terrorism" Industry [New York, Pantheon Books, 1989]; Martin Edwin Andersen, Dossier Secreto [Boulder, Westview Press, 1993]; Arthur E. Rowse, "Gladio: The Secret U.S. War to Subvert Italian Democracy," Covert Action Quarterly, Washington, D.C., Summer 1994, Number 49; Stella Calloni, "The Horror Archives of Operation Condor," Washington, D.C., Covert Action Quarterly, Fall 1994, Number 50; Ertugrul Kurkcu, "Turkey: Trapped in a Web of Covert Killers," Covert Action Quarterly, Washington, D.C., Summer 1997, Number 61; Martin A. Lee, The Beast Reawakens [New York, Routledge, 2000]. ***** ____________________________________________________________________ HAIDER 'BEHIND NEW LAWS' TO SPY ON AUSTRIANS ____________________________________________________________________ THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH International News Sunday, 25 June 2000 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ By Michael Leidig in Vienna OPPONENTS of the Right-wing Austrian politician J�rg Haider claim that his influence is behind new laws to control television and radio networks and to allow snooping on private citizens by the security services and the military. Although Mr Haider has stepped down as the leader of the People's Party, Peter Pilz, the Green Party's security spokesman who is heading the campaign against the new measures, said: "These policies have Haider's fingerprints all over them." The coalition government, whose inclusion of members of the People's Party has led to a European Union boycott of Austria, has set up a regulatory body to monitor the "objectivity" of the country's national television and radio broadcaster ORF. Next month it will pass laws allowing the security services and the army to check on anyone who, they feel, may have something to hide. The government's parliamentary majority ensures that the laws will be passed unhindered. Mr Pilz said: "Such measures have not been seen since the state monitoring under the Fascism of the Thirties." Mr Haider has already made it clear that he understands the power of the press. In a personal manifesto, The Freedom I Mean, written in 1995, he said: "The threat to freedom in totalitarian systems is easy to detect. The threat to freedom in Western liberal democracies is more subtle . . . using political and social ostracism by the media." He said: "For 64 per cent of the electorate, television is the most important source of political information. Whoever controls this medium is in possession of an effective instrument of manipulation." Inge Jaeger, the Social Democrat spokesman and MP, said: "It's as if Austria has been taken over by an enemy state. The mistrust by the coalition of its own people is a sign of a government that is trying to crack down on its country on the inside - and isolate it from the outside. The democratic pledges of this government have slipped by the wayside, and they are now planning legislation that will allow wholesale spying, eavesdropping and denouncing of respectable citizens." Two Bills - the Military Authority Law and the Police and Security Law - are being presented by the coalition as a way of protecting the population against organised crime and of maintaining surveillance of enemies of the country's armed forces. Both laws allow unrestricted access by members of the military police and state police to all information whether it is political, financial, social or medical. Opponents say such measures are dangerously open to abuse. Paul Kiss, the government's security spokesman, said the laws were "not about creating a general state of suspicion, but rather of enabling the state police to be better informed. The fact that the law has been proposed to protect the people has not been grasped by those who are complaining. It should be the job of every member of parliament to protect the people". Mr Pilz said he was deeply concerned about the uses that information gained under the new laws will be put to. He said: "I have compiled dossiers of cases where the powers they already have were abused - for example in exposing people's homosexuality. Requests for telephone taps in courts are now routinely approved." The government, he said, wanted to establish data files on every person in the republic. "Journalists, editors and the media will be prevented from respecting impartial opinion." Mr Kiss said: "Only those with something to be scared about will not agree to this law. Anyone with a clear conscience will say yes straight away." The new Independent Media Monitoring bureau has been asked to judge whether the Austrian political news programme Panorama is objective. Josef Cap, the Social Democrats' media spokesman, said: "The aim is to intimidate journalists and brand anything the government does not like as 'unobjective'. The fact that the government wants to test the objectivity of this programme that is respected across Europe for 'objectivity and diversity of opinion' speaks for itself." Copyright of Telegraph Group Limited 2000. ***** GREEN LEFT WEEKLY E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.greenleft.org.au - Number 410, 28 June 2000 - ----- ____________________________________________________________________ Austria: GOVERNMENT ON AN ANTI-WORKER OFFENSIVE ____________________________________________________________________ BY MARGARITA WINDISCH http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/410p25.htm VIENNA -- Austria's government -- a coalition of the conservative People's Party (VP) and the extreme right-wing, racist Freedom Party (FP) -- is showing its true colours. The FP managed to overtake the VP at last October's federal election by a small margin, to become the second strongest party in parliament after the social-democratic Socialist Party (SP). After three months of deliberations, the VP agreed to form government with the FP to stay in power and implement its neo-liberal program, appease big business and fulfill European Union regulations that require a reduced budget deficit and cuts to government spending. The FP's connections with fascist groups are well-known and its leader, Jorg Haider, is on record making apologetic remarks about the Nazis. While the FP's electoral performance and its invitation to participate in government shocked many, its success can partly be attributed to the 13-year coalition government between SP and the VP. Successive SP-VP governments failed to address social problems, introduced cuts to welfare spending and paved the way for the FP's racist and populist rhetoric by introducing some of the most inhuman and harshest immigration policies in Europe. Austria's trade union peak body, the GB -- a bureaucratic institution with a symbiotic link to the SP and removed from the interests of the rank and file members -- aided the SP-VP government's ability to unleash creeping but painful attacks on the working class. The trade unions' lack of fight and opposition to strikes left the working class unprepared to defend itself against the major government-business offensive being prepared by the VP-FP government. Anti-social austerity The VP-FP coalition government signals a clear break with post-war Austrian politics. For the first time, Austria is ruled by a coalition of two openly bourgeois parties whose aim is the destruction of Austria's institutionalised Sozialpartnerschaft -- the "social partnership" between government, business and trade unions. The end of the "welfare state" and attacks on the main gains of the working class are necessary for the government to push through its austerity program anti-social policies. Riess-Passer, FP vice-chancellor, has announced plans to "reform" the "blown-out" public sector to curb government spending. Estimates are that 30,000 public sector workers will be sacked and a further 9000 jobs will disappear through redundancy and retirement. The proposed budget cuts also imply reduced powers for the major "social partnership" institutions -- an effort to weaken the position of workers and speed up privatisation of a plethora of industries. The government is also planning to change industrial relations laws, replacing federal industry-based awards with a workplace-based enterprise bargaining system. The VP-FP coalition has already changed legislation to raise the age for retirement and retrospectively done away with workers' rights to early retirement if they suffer from major illness. There is also discussion about the introduction of "work for the dole". Public health facility fees have been increased to reduce state subsidisation of patients' stays in hospitals. Charges will apply for visits to hospital emergency departments and medication fees have also been raised. Carrot and stick The VP-FP is using "carrot and stick" tactics to make changes to maternity leave entitlements palatable to the population. The government is willing to invest millions of schillings to replace the current system of paid maternity leave based on income for a flat-rate payment scheme. At the same time, funds to projects for women to reenter the work force are being reduced and improvements to the chronic shortage of childcare facilities have been rejected. Clearly, the government wants families to absorb the costs. Cuts to higher education sector will amount to around A$100 million and are coupled with less visible attacks such as reduced access to student scholarships, reduced staff and courses and post graduate projects. The government has also given public universities the right to "self-manage", reduced the powers of the education department, facilitates the introduction of student fees and is preparing for the privatisation of the sector. The government has also shown that it will not hesitate to curb civil liberties. It has attacked freedom of speech and the press. Haider, former head of the FP and premier of the Austrian state of Karinthia, is urging the introduction of legislation to charge any Austrian politician with criminal conduct if he/she makes "anti-government and un-Austrian" statements. At recent demonstrations, protesters have been harassed, beaten and arrested for unsubstantiated reasons. One protester faces charges for having made a pun out of the Austrian national anthem. Since the coalition government came to office, the police have become increasingly repressive and authoritarian. Three people have been shot by police in separate incidents. Fourteen of the 15 EU member states, the United States and some other countries have decided to isolate Austria diplomatically over the FP's participation in government because the politics of the FP "contradict EU policies and endangers European integration processes". The sanctions are largely symbolic. They did not prevent Austria's participation in discussions on a united EU policy on asylum seekers based on further restricting refugees' access to "Fortress Europe". The EU stance against the FP is contradictory, since EU member states have not previously condemned the participation of extreme right-wing parties in governments (for example, the National Alliance as part of the Italian government in 1994). The EU's main concerns may be the FP and Haider's unpredictability and populist anti-EU rhetoric. The benefits of the EU currency, the Euro, have not lived up to expectations and any questioning by the FP of the currency could lead to a domino effect across Europe. Some member states also fear destabilisation from a rise of extreme right-wing parties in their countries -- in Belgium and France the far right is particularly strong. However, despite EU governments' misgivings, it is becoming more evident that the VP-FP coalition is implementing policies in line with the EU's anti-worker guidelines. Since the new government was formed, massive protests and demonstrations of up to 300,000 people have opposed the coalition. Currently, there are regular protests and demonstrations, particularly in Vienna, which attract around 3000-5000 people. The trade unions have only participated haphazardly in the protests and no united mass actions or strikes have taken place or are planned. The GB has neither endorsed the protests nor distanced itself from them but left it to individual members to take part. A large demonstration is planned for the beginning of July. All rights reserved, Green Left Weekly. Redistribution permitted with this notice attached. Redistribution for profit prohibited. ***** ____________________________________________________________________ FATHER'S LOVE: FATHER'S LOSS ____________________________________________________________________ By Mumia Abu-Jamal Column Written 6/4/2000 Source: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Monday, 19 June 2000 - ...You can't explain how a cop can lock up a person on suspicion when it is the cops that are suspicous and not the person, just because a person look suspicious to a cop don't mean that the person is suspect of somethin', it only means the cop is suspect of that person... -- John Africa, The Judges Letter It began, as do most family tragedies these days, with a phone call. Another Black father learned that his son was dead, after having been shot 5 times. Bruce Waters, like far too many fathers of his generation, was forced to deal with members of the "Criminal Justice System": cops, DAs, and courts, as he tried to insure that the killer (or killers) of his son received punishment. His initial contacts were promising, and he complimented law enforcement people on their work. A cop in Homicide told him that 2 men were arrested in his son's killing, and Waters warmly congratulated him. When he asked how the two were apprehended, Homicide's Jack McDermott explained that one of the suspects called him up with information on the killing, Waters said. This, he found curious. A guy calling up a cop, snitching on himself? Well, that was odd enough, and then Waters was told that the number one suspect would call McDermott from time to time, but he hadn't heard from him in a while. When he did call, however, the suspect said he went on a "spree" and that he was sick from the "big one" (AIDS). "Spree?" Waters was stunned. Was this guy, who was a suspect in the murder of his son, not only confessing to that crime but to also going on some kind of crime spree? This thing that seemed so cut and dried became "curiouser and curiouser." The killing of 23-year old Jerry Locke of North Philadelphia drew Waters into a world of intrigue and of utter disbelief. At the center of the case was one Mark White, a young man who was, in every sense of the word, a professional snitch. White was later convicted of second degree murder and other charges, and is now doing life. What made Waters furious is finding out the fact that the person convicted of killing his son, had in fact been arrested over two dozen times on a variety of charges, and was let out again, and again, and again. How? Because White was let out over and over again, to snitch, to "testilie" on behalf of the police and the DA's office, to obtain convictions. He was used in more cases than this writer knows; but here is one of them: Commonwealth v. Malik Bowers and Rasheen Simpson (1996). Here, Mark told police that he heard a confession from Rasheen, and affirmed this story 3 different times. He said he saw Malik shooting at the intended victim, Tracey Postell. Both men were facing the death penalty in the case. Result? Malik was acquitted, and Rasheen's case was thrown out: nol-prossed. Why? In a statement given several years after the prosecution, White admitted to investigators that he lied: Q: Why did you tell the police, and why did you testify in court that he did? A: Because I needed help in my cases and Det. McDermott told me that if I testified for Bill Fisher I wouldn't have to go to jail. And, Bill Fisher knew that Rasheen did it and he needed a conviction, and that he needed something to back up what the other guy said about Rasheen... -- [statement: 8/24/99 - Strohm Investigative Services] White said he hadn't seen anything, nor heard anything. He just wanted out of jail. So he lied. How many more cases? How many other snitches? Waters said, "The cops fumbled, they used Mark White. He should not have been involved, he should've been in jail." Of the judicial system in Philadelphia, Waters said, "Every citizen at one time or another, believes justice will prevail. I'm sorry to say, the system is flawed. Anytime a law enforcement official collaborates with criminals, the system needs to change." Of the Homicide dicks, he was critical: "Homicide detectives are manufacturing monsters. They make Mark Whites." A father's loss. A system's failure. Copyright 2000 Mumia Abu-Jamal. All Rights Reserved. ** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, material appearing in Antifa Info-Bulletin is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for research and educational purposes. Submissions are welcome. ** * * * Via the Web --> http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aff/afib.html Archive --> http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aff/afib-bulletins.html ANTI-FASCIST FORUM (AFF) Antifa Info-Bulletin is a member of the Anti-Fascist Forum network. 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