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Kalief Browder's Mother Dies of Heart Attack

Kalief Browder spent 3 years on Rikers Island without being convicted of any crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery that he was innocent of. Next he spent more than 1000 days on Rikers waiting for a trial that never happened. During that time, he endured about two years in solitary confinement, where he attempted to end his life several times. Once, in February, 2012, he ripped his bedsheet into strips, tied them together to create a noose, and tried to hang himself from the light fixture in his cell.

In November of 2013, six months after he left Rikers, Browder attempted suicide again. This time, he tried to hang himself at home, from a bannister, and he was taken to the psychiatric ward at St. Barnabas Hospital, not far from his home, in the Bronx. When I met him, in the spring of 2014, he appeared to be more stable.

Friday, at a hospital in the Bronx, Kalief's mother died of a heart attack. Venida Browder, 63, the mother of Kalief Browder, died Friday at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, said her lawyer, Paul Prestia.

“She was a woman of incredible grace and compassion who tirelessly fought for justice for her son Kalief and who championed the civil rights of others in our city," Prestia said Sunday.

“But the stress from this crusade coupled with the strain of the pending lawsuits against the city and the pain from the death were too much to for her to bear. In my opinion she literally died of a broken heart.”

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Tracey Syphax Named Among "25 Most Influential African-Americans in New Jersey"

From the Block to the Boardroom's Tracey Syphax was mentioned along with Senator Cory Booker and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson-Coleman (U.S. Representative NJ 12th District) as one of the "25 Most Influential African Americans in New Jersey".

That alone would be quite an accomplishment but the path that he took to get there was quite different from that of his peers. His book "From the Block to the Boardroom" details that journey from street hustler, to prisoner, to entrepreneur & activist. 

For nearly 25 years, Mr. Syphax has promoted entrepreneurship as a means to uplift his community of Trenton, NJ through the Minding Our Business initiative among others. He is also featured in several documentaries the newest of which, "Incarcerating U.S." will be released September 15th at Georgetown University. (full article)

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The federal governments move away from private prisons was right. But, was it enough?

Those of us who have been to jail know it's torturous to enough having another person in full control of your life—when you eat, when you rest, where you go, and when you can get visits or calls from your family. In any case, when that control is combined with a financial benefit making plan of action, it assumes an alternate personality. 

The silliness of privatizing penitentiaries, institutions whose purpose is to rehabilitate, is not lost on those of sound mind and judgement. Their financial goals do not correspond with their social missions. For quite a long time this has been at the center of discussions in regards to criminal-justice reform. Amid the Democratic Presidential primaries, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders guaranteed to end the utilization of private detainment facilities if chosen. A week ago, the Justice Department declared its arrangements to eliminate their utilization in the government framework. The legislature had finished up, as Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates wrote in a reminder to government authorities, that these penitentiaries, contrary to the private-jail industry's claims,  “do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security.”

The Justice Department's choice will directly influence just thirteen government facilities, which, combined, house around twenty-two thousand of the nation's hundred and ninety-three thousand elected detainees. Yet, those numbers don't completely mirror the impact that private penitentiaries have had on the more extensive criminal-justice framework. After the private sector initially entered the universe of detainment, in 1983, a modest bunch of organizations rapidly started to apply an unbalanced measure of force in molding the American justice scene. Private-prison organizations have burned through a great many dollars campaigning officials in state capitals and in Washington, D.C. As Adam Gopnik reported, in 2012, Corrections Corporations of America (C.C.A.), the biggest revenue driven jail organization in the United States, has said unequivocally that progress on criminal justice laws and sentencing, and movement change, would hurt its business. A 2005 yearly report from C.C.A. states: 

Our growth is generally dependent upon our ability to obtain new contracts to develop and manage new correctional and detention facilities. . . . The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by the relaxation of enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction and sentencing practices or through the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by our criminal laws. For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them.

 The twisted minds of the revenue driven prison industry have even figured out how to discover bright sides to undisputed social issues like unemployment. In 2008, one industry official composed a letter to shareholders saying that he trusted the interest for jail beds would increase since individuals being discharged at the time would have a more troublesome time discovering occupations as an aftereffect of the financial crash, in this way improving their probability of winding up back in jail. The higher the recidivism rates, the more beds that are filled, and the more beds that are filled, the better for a revenue driven company. So, not every single private jail need to stress over recidivism rates: some of their agreements at the state level insure them a specific number of detainees. Four years prior, Harley Lappin, the chief corrections officer of C.C.A. and the former director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, offered states an arrangement: the company would buy state prisons (the money could help plug state budgets) in exchange for twenty-year contracts and guaranteed ninety-per-cent occupancy. A 2013 analysis by the privatization watchdog In the Public Interest found that two-thirds of private-prison contracts in the country include occupancy guarantees and stipulations that taxpayers cover the cost of any empty beds. 

The U.S. jail framework, over all, unfairly influences Black and Brown individuals, however ethnic minorities are over-represented to a more prominent degree in private penitentiaries. Chris Petrella, a doctoral hopeful in African-American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, has proposed that this overrepresentation can be directly credited to authoritative arrangements that “implicitly exempt private prison companies from housing certain types of individuals whose health care and staffing costs disproportionately attenuate profit margins. Health and therefore age tends to serve as a proxy for race without any explicit reference to it.”  For instance, Black men between the ages of eighteen and nineteen are ten times more inclined to be in state or government jail than White men of the same age, and, in light of the fact that these youngsters have a tendency to be more profitable than their older counterparts, they will probably be imprisoned in a revenue driven jail. Older prisoners are more costly for penitentiaries to house since they have a tendency to require more medical services after some time. As per Petrella, private prisons endeavor to keep older and ailing detainees out, on the grounds that the more they need to spend on an elderly detainee's medical services, the more it cuts into their net revenue per prisoner. 

Profit driven companies additionally have a tendency to be more brutal and to give less chances to detainees for training and rehabilitative treatment. For a considerable length of time, activists have been asking a fundamental inquiry: If getting a training while imprisoned has been demonstrated to diminish recidivism rates, then what motivation does an establishment that profits from keeping individuals in jail need to give any kind of instructive programming? The private-prison industries definitive obligation is not to the detained, or even to the non-detained—it is to the shareholder. 

We ought not deceive ourselves into believing that permitting the agreements of thirteen private detainment facilities to lapse will change social approach and end mass imprisonment. It absolutely won't. In any case, that doesn't mean we ought to make light of the significance of the Justice Department's choice, either. At the point when the force of for-profit prisons is decreased, in this, too, is their capacity to participate in political campaigning that affects public and private penitentiaries alike. The lies and deception of private prisons has been conveyed for our consideration by gutsy demonstrations of investigative reporting, enlightening scholarship, and the work of activists who have highlighted the social stratification realized by our prison frameworks. Shutting thirteen private detainment facilities is a little stride, however it reestablishes the discussion on the most proficient method to push ahead. Let's make this instance universally replicated.

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New Jersey Prison Population Drops by Double Digits

New Jersey’s prison population has been reduced by 31 percent during a 15-year period, the biggest drop in the nation.

The statistics are part of a recent analysis by The Sentencing Project, a group established in 1986 that works to improve fairness in the incarceration system. The report studied prison rates from 1999 to 2014 and found that 39 states saw a decline in their peak prison populations.

Twelve states produced double- digit prison population declines, with New Jersey leading the pack at 31 percent. New York, Rhode Island, California and Connecticut rounded out the top five.

New Jersey’s prison population peaked in 1999, according to the report.

Eleven states saw increases in their prison populations. In the last five years, Nebraska has seen the biggest increase at nearly 22 percent.

As for New Jersey, officials at the state Department of Corrections (DOC) point to a number of factors, like drug court initiatives for those struggling with addiction and efforts to deter repeat offenders, for the population decline.

Under Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey has expanded its mandatory drug court program. Started in 1996, drug courts have diverted thousands of nonviolent offenders from state prison through supervised drug treatments.

According to DOC, the rate at which drug court graduates are re-arrested for new offenses is 16 percent, that compares to a 54 percent re-arrest rate for drug offenders released from prison.

Drug courts are currently operating in all of the state’s 21 counties.

DOC Chief of Staff Judith Lang said another factor that is helping reduce the prison population is Christie’s support of re-entry initiatives. Some of these programs include one-stop centers which connect ex-offenders with a variety of services upon their release from prison and back into society.

Lang said New Jersey’s recidivism rate has lowered from 48 percent to 32 percent.

“With Gov. Christie’s support, we are going to continue to find ways to reduce our recidivism rates and our offender population,” Lang said.

A drop in the state’s crime rate has also helped.

“We have seen statistics that are showing that from 2011 to 2014, crime in New Jersey has fallen by 20 percent, and incarceration has fallen by 9.5 percent,” Lang said.

Support among the state’s various agencies and departments has also helped. Lang said Christie and Corrections Commissioner Gary Lanigan support and encourage collaborative efforts.

“We work all of the time with the Office of the Attorney General, state police, human services, parole, as well as legislators,” Land said.

According to numbers from the DOC, the state’s prison population has gone from more than 30,000 people incarcerated in 1999 to about 21,000 today.

“We are very proud of what we have achieved, but we are not done yet,” Lang said.

Read More: Prison population down sharply in NJ | http://nj1015.com/prison-population-down-sharply-in-nj/?trackback=tsmclip

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FCC Moves to Stop Extortion of Incarcerated Families by Prisons and Phone Companies

WASHINGTON — Advocates for incarcerated people are hailing a move by the Federal Communications Commission to lower the cost of jailhouse calls. Fueled by greed sheriffs and phone service providers say the ruling could inadvertently hurt inmates and taxpayers, and even lead to some jails doing away with phone service altogether.

Due to the mass extortion perpetrated by jails, prisons, and phone companies , the FCC in October capped how much incarcerated people and their families are charged for phone calls, cutting some fees in half.

That could help incarcerated families nationally avoid what Shirley Turner went through. The Ipswich woman said that when her husband was in jail at the Essex County Correctional Alternative Center in Lawrence, she had to get a second job to pay the $250 bill for talking to him on the phone every day.

Since jails and prisons get a cut of phone charges, lower rates mean less money for counties and states. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections could lose about $3 million per year, lamented spokeswoman Terri Watkins, which would be added to the state’s $900 million budget shortfall. Her complaints fall on deaf ears once we take into account that the misuse of the $618 million budget ODC already controls. The notoriously racist Oklahoma Department of Corrections has violated human rights repeatedly in recent years. The overpacked prisons in Oklahoma, like those in most states need to be shut down. Release lifers who committed crimes when they were young, non-violent offenders, and drug addicts. Elderly care, work release, and rehabilitation facilities are all more cost effective, and data would suggest more

The department gets $2.30 of every $3 charged by its contractor, Global Tel*Link, for a 15-minute call from a prisoner! Now if that isn't robbery I don't know what is. 

The department is still assessing the impact of the changes, Watkins said.

Sheriff John Whetsel, of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, said roughly $700,000 that his department receives from Global Tel*Link helps pay for providing phone service at the county jail.

If he loses that money, Whetsel said, he may have to eliminate phone service for inmates entirely — a warning echoed by other sheriffs around the country.

Prisons get percentage

Rates for calls to jails and prisons are so high, the FCC has said, because of the way the service is financed.

Unlike many contracts, jails and prisons do not pick phone providers based on how cheaply they provide service. Instead, many choose based on commissions that providers give the county or state. The costs of the commissions, which any honest person would describe as “kickbacks,” are passed along in rates.

Phone companies say the price caps, which take effect in March for state and federal prisons and in June for local jails, could force them to reduce service. CenturyLink, which provides service to Texas state prisons, told the FCC that some prisons will be “uneconomical” to serve.

But advocates for incarcerated people applaud the FCC’s decision, saying the warnings of reduced service are empty threats made by companies and governments that have profited off inmates for years.

In remarks made when the FCC approved the cap, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, a Democrat, called charges for jailhouse calls “untenable, egregious and unconscionable.”

Inmates may not get much sympathy, she said, but high rates most affect families — including 2.7 million children with at least one parent behind bars.

Contact with family reduces the chance that incarcerated people commit new crimes after their release, the FCC noted.

The FCC’s cap limits charges for calls to prisons to 11 cents per minute. The cap for jails is 14 cents.

No ban on commissions

Critics of the caps also attacked the FCC’s handling of the commissions paid by phone companies to local and state governments.

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CIA Informant: Ron Karenga (RAT 416-NZA) & Kwanzaa Exposed:

During the era of 1969-1972 a large-scale politicization of prisons throughout the U.S. flourished, particularly in California, and was causing the enemy no end of problems. Led by the writings of Malcolm X, George Jackson, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, Marcus Garvey, Che Guevara, Mao Tse Tung and Ho Chi Mihn, Afrikan prisoners in particular, were becoming conscious of themselves as prisoners in a larger war against our race. As a result the imprisoned Afrikans began to organize, study and compose creative pro-Afrikan ideas, writings and works assert their natural human rights, unify as a force and drop systematic self-destructive behavior. This widespread organization was the beginning of what was to known as the powerful Prisoner’s Rights Movement. The success of this Prisoner’s Movement began to spread like wildfire throughout prison systems in the U.S. and as far as the UK. It even crossed racial lines, as Latinos, Native peoples, Asians and even whites started to support and emulate this bold new dynamic and to target our common enemy. In response to this perceived threat, the CIA, FBI and coordinated military intelligence groups (Office of Naval Intelligence and Army Intelligence in particular) and engaged in several operational initiatives of murder, sabotage and destruction. Jonathan Jackson and his brother George were set up and murdered, prison race gangs (Black Guerilla Family, Aryan Brotherhood, Mexican Mafia, La Nuestra Familia, etc.) were encouraged, assisted and fostered to target and kill political prisoners, and progressive groups within the prisons. These elements were funded and used to spread death, drugs and criminal mayhem as a move to destroy the gains of the Prisoner’s Movement. Snitches and all manner of provocateurs were cultivated, trained and inserted amongst the revolutionary prisoners and groups. Division Five in concert with other departments of the FBI, specifically set-up and bad-jacketed/snitch-jacketed targeted prisoners for inmate incited hostilities and murder. Later, in the case of the revolutionary Attica uprising, the Prisoner’s Movement was violently suppressed on personal orders from Nelson Rockefeller, with scores of prisoners brutally beaten, tortured and murdered as examples to others in and out of the penal system. The strength of the Prisoner’s Rights Movement was born out of imprisoned Afrikans consciously transforming themselves into revolutionary Afrikan warriors to serve the people. Their successes were noted and the CIA, in concert with Division Five of the FBI, the Stanford Research Institute, the California Bureau of Prisons, and the LAPD’s CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section, organized a project known as The Black Cultural Association (BCA). The BCA was a specific behavior modification and psychological experimentation unit housed within the California State Prison and Medical Facility at Vacaville. Funding and direction for the BCA came from the CIA via the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) as well as the LEAA (Law Enforcement Assistance Administration of the U.S. Department of Justice). The cover story was “the development of black pride” for the Afrikan prisoners. Heading up this department was a psychotic house **** by the name of Colton Westbrook. Westbrook came from a U.S. Army background as a specialist in Psychological Warfare and Terror Ops for the CIA’s Phoenix Project in Southeast Asia. Westbrook provided logistical support for CIA’s Phoenix Program and his particular job was the indoctrination of assassination and terrorist cadres also known as synthetic terror groups or pseudo-gangs. The Phoenix Project was a sustained policy of political assassinations, rigged elections, outright terror campaigns against civilians, political imprisonment in American-made tiger cages, torture and Psy Ops propaganda by CIA agents. CIA Director William Colby promised at his Senate confirmation hearings in July 1973 that he would curb the CIA’s activities at home and abroad. Instead, he has imported the Phoenix Program directly into the United States. A career CIA man, Westbrook worked under cover with A.I.D. (the Agency for International Development). Handling undercover black ops assignments throughout Cambodia, Thailand, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Okinawa and Soviet Union. He later went on to supervising the CIA’s drug operations throughout Asia before finally being summoned to establish and direct the BCA at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville (a psychiatric state prison) in California. The California Medical Facility at Vacaville in actuality housed the Maximum Psychiatric Diagnostic Unit, or MPDU. This MPDU’s function was to receive and “treat” the worst “troublemakers” from prisons throughout the state. Westbrook adopted the name “Yajiuma” as part of his cover and then inserted his “pro-Afrikan” group, the Black Cultural Association into the inmate population. Westbrook/Yajiuma set about creating the BCA as honeypot to attract Afrikans who fit a specific psychological profile under the auspices of a cultural haven and pro-black self-development center. Under Project MKSEARCH, the Stanford Research Institute and CIA Research and Development programs worked with drugs such as Librium, and Magnesium Pemoline, which were administered illegally to certain BCA members at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville. Westbrook’s assignment in the Black Cultural Association behavior modification unit was to recruit future agents for CIA domestic intelligence programs. Seemingly random killings, assassinations, and operations such as the Zebra murders in San Francisco, are linked to this prison control and training, through the imposition of mind-altering drugs, psycho-surgeries, chemo-surgeries, use of electric shock and electrode implants, and mind control programming such as Clear Eyes assassin training. The code-named “Zebra” killings (so-called by police because the crimes involved black on white crimes) took place in San Francisco during a six-month period from 1973 to 1974 and occurred during the time of CIA/FBI involvement in Vacaville and COINTELPRO operations in California. The murder spree involved shootings, stabbings, and hackings with machetes and was running roughly concurrent to the time that the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army) was active. The crimes were allegedly perpetrated by so-called American Black Muslims motivated by “revenge on the white race”. Given the history of such tactics as the use of disinformation and smear campaigns against “subversive” groups, it is possible that this was also part of a CIA/FBI project to discredit the Muslim movement in America, and that the murders were said to have been committed by whites in black face make-up. For a 179-day period, the “Zebra” killers brutally assaulted, robbed, and sodomized a total of twenty-three persons, leaving fifteen dead. Also running concurrently was the string of occult connected murders attributed to a so-called maniac dubbed the Zodiac Killer. Compelling new evidence reveals that this too was a coordinated part of the U.S. intelligence agencies’ synthetic terror operations, and that the “Zodiac Killer” was actually Team Zodiac. A terror squad composed of satanic cult organized killers and patsies, very much like the ones they established within the Manson Family and Son of Sam terror teams.

 Westbrook, working with the LAPD’s CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section) and Division Five of the FBI, used certain newly “Africanized” and modified recruits to set up two primary synthetic terror groups known as the Us organization with police agent Ron N. Everett a.k.a. Ron Karenga; and the SLA, or Symbionese Liberation Army with police informer and provocateur Donald DeFreeze. According to CCS police snitch and provocateur Louis Tackwood, Ron Karenga and his Us (later known as the United Slaves) organization were funded by the Ford Foundation, the LAPD and his good friend Mayor Sam Yorty through municipal funds. Financing to the tune of over $50,000 per year, plus two offices and five apartments, as indicated in the September 6, 1969 edition of the Black Panther newspaper. The Wall Street Journal revealed that Karenga “Maintained close ties to the eastern Rockefeller family” and that “A few weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King… Mr. Karenga slipped into Sacramento for a private chat with Governor Ronald Reagan, at the governor’s request. The black nationalist also met clandestinely with Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin after King had been killed.”Louis E. Tackwood was the liaison man between Karenga and DeFreeze and LAPD’s CCS division. Aptly named, the Criminal Conspiracy Section’s sole purpose and agenda was to target and destroy black militants and their organizations, through conspiracies involving informers, agent provocateurs, programmed assassins and set-up men. As well as “militant” synthetic terror groups to sabotage and discredit the Afrikan liberation movement in general. Through Tackwood, Ron Karenga and his United Slaves (we should’ve known they were punks by their ******* name alone!) were given their assignments to “Work in opposition to other Black groups within the Black community, which attracted large numbers of Blacks.” Karenga was directly ordered to “Curtail the Panther Party’s growth, no matter what the cost, and that no rang-a-tang (CCS slang for US members) —that’s what we called his people— would ever be convicted of murder.” Tackwood also stated that he provided Karenga with assassination orders from the FBI to kill Panther leaders Elmore Geronimo Pratt, and Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter.

Why target “Bunchy” Carter?

The Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party was formed in 1968 by Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter. Carter was the former head of the 5,000-strong Slauson gang and its hard-core unit, the Slauson Renegades, and was known in the area as “the Mayor of the Ghetto”. While spending four years in Soledad prison on charges of armed robbery, he became a Muslim and a follower of Malcolm X. In 1967, Carter met Black Panther Party Minister of Defense Huey Newton and immediately became a Panther on the spot. Newton recognized Carter’s formidable organization and leadership skills and tasked him with forming and leading the Southern California BPP chapter. In early 1968, he was given the revolutionary position of Deputy Minister of Defense.

Mae Brussell on Ron Karenga, originator of Kwanzaa: “Black leader of the US Organization. In December, 1967, Detective Sergeant R. Farwell recruited Donald DeFreeze to work for the Public Disorder Intelligence Unit, of the CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section, LAPD). Its purpose was to monitor black political activities in California. Karenga worked with DeFreeze and the LAPD, as part of a "f**k-f**k unit,” running guns to various black militant groups, hoping to set off a gang war between the Black Panthers and the US Organization. US member Melvin Cotton Smith helped set up Black Panther busts for the police. The Steiner brothers, working with Karenga and the LAPD, killed Panther leaders John Huggins and Alpretnice Carter at UCLA.“ Members of Karenga’s group were at Vacaville with DeFreeze. http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Why%20Was%20Hearst%20Kidnapped%201.html

On January 17, 1969, Jerome Huggins, 23 and Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter 26, were gunned down by Karenga’s men, George P. and Larry Joseph Stiner, Harold Jones, Donald Hawkins and the triggerman Claude "Chuchessa” Hubert. Larry Stiner was wounded in the shoulder from a shot squeezed off by Alprentice Carter, and three of them made their way back to the get-away car driven by their FBI handler Brandon Cleary also known to them as Control One. According to a police agent code-named Othello (most likely either D’Arthard Perry, a.k.a. Ed Riggs or Louis E. Tackwood), Cleary drove three of the assassins back to the FBI building in Los Angeles, where they met in a 14th floor office for debriefing. The FBI then facilitated gunman Claude Hubert’s escape as Hubert was subsequently transferred to an east coast office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in New York City. Hubert has never been apprehended and is believed to be currently living under Bureau cover. As for the Stiner brothers, they were ordered to turn themselves into police whereupon the Bureau would assist them when things quieted down. After their reported surrender, the Stiner brothers were tried and convicted of the murders of Carter and Huggins. They were sentenced to San Quentin, a maximum-security prison. Four years later, as “model prisoners”, the two were transferred to the minimum-security section of the prison. The FBI made good on their promise and facilitated their escape in 1974, during a conjugal visit arranged for both. Aided by a black prison guard the two were literally allowed to just walk off, and their handlers in the FBI assisted in providing them safe transit and haven in Guyana, South America. One has to wonder what Larry Stiner knows, and if his services were utilized further in nearby Jonestown, as he was in Guyana during that time. His brother George eventually left Guyana, and his current whereabouts are an FBI secret. Larry however, changed his name to Watani, married, and moved to neighboring Suriname. After civil conflicts threatened his family and great new life, he called his handlers with a request to return to the United States in exchange for granting political asylum for his family. This scumbag traitor and FBI snitch returned in 1994 and was double-crossed by his masters, who arranged for him to finish out his life sentence.

Who was Othello? Depending on sources, he was either D’Arthard Perry, a.k.a. Ed Riggs, or Louis E. Tackwood. From 1968 to 1975 he was a paid undercover operative for the FBI and committed many of the crimes that the congressional committees and the Justice Department failed to uncover. Othello was the code name given to him by the FBI, who ultimately became so pleased with his performance they gave Othello $2,400 a month in cash payments and expenses, making him one of the bureau’s highest-paid (and therefore one of its most valued) operatives. As FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act years later revealed, there were at least 295 FBI operations against black groups up to year 1971; of that total, 233 were specific operations launched against the Black Panthers. The Bureau wound up spending an estimated $7,400,000—much of it on operatives like Othello—and informants and undercover men to wreck the organization. That amount is about double what the FBI was spending to obtain information about organized crime. Meanwhile back at California Medical Facility at Vacaville … A covert mind control unit with funding from the CIA channeled through the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). These Menlo Park behavior modification specialists experimented with psychoactive drugs administered to members of the BCA. Black prisoners were programmed to murder selected black leaders once on the outside. The CIA/SRI zombie killer hit list included Oakland school superintendent Dr. Marcus Foster, and Panthers Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, among others. Working with some white CIA associates; Westbrook was now very busy mobilizing his BCA hypno-soldiers into a violent para-military synthetic terror group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Amongst them a pathetic loser named Donald DeFreeze stood out. From 1967 to 1969, he worked as a police informer for the Los Angeles Police Department, under Detective R. G. Farwell, Public Disorder Intelligence unit. At the time, the LAPD was supplying weapons to independent black agents and the United Slaves (US), hiring them to specifically kill Black Panthers. DeFreeze worked closely with police agent provocateur Ron Karenga, head of the US organization. Later, other members of Karenga’s group were programmed at California Medical Facility at Vacaville with DeFreeze. DeFreeze stated that at Vacaville in 1971-72 he was the subject of a CIA mind-control experiments. He described his incarceration on the prison’s third floor, where he was corralled by CIA agents who drugged him and said he would become the leader of a radical movement and kidnap a wealthy person. Prior to Vacaville, nothing in DeFreeze’s background indicated a political consciousness while he worked as a police intelligence informer. Shortly after his arranged escape from Vacaville (an exit door was left unlocked for him), that’s exactly what he did, following his programming on cue. Colton Westbrook co-opted the works and revolutionary writings of the genuine Afrikan Prisoners Movement, and incorporated them into the teachings of the BCA. DeFreeze, his star pupil, was even allowed to set up a sub-group called Unisight to refine his programmed leadership role in the Symbionese Liberation Army. Earlier, Westbrook had invented Ron Karenga’s United Slaves logo with the seven-headed cobra, along with accompanying Swahili principles incorporating each head: Umoja Kujichagulia Ujima Ujamaa Nia Kuumba Imani You may know these now as the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa. After Karenga’s conviction and the US (United Slaves) were no longer of any practical military or intelligence use. Colton Westbrook revamped the United Slaves seven-headed cobra and principles, and grafted them onto his new group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). DeFreeze who now changed his name to Cinque, or Cin, would be the leader of the group who consisted of 5 white intelligence assets and negro operative named Thero Wheeler. Wheeler met DeFreeze earlier, when they were both prisoners at Vacaville in 1972, and Wheeler was placed as an inside handler to manipulate both DeFreeze/Cinque and the rest of the SLA. Thero Wheeler was later transferred to San Quentin and to facilitate his activation in the SLA, he too was allowed to just walk away from his imprisonment in August of 1973. Another unusual development with intelligence connections, was the sudden appearance of a man by the name of Bernard Keaton who was secured as an actual double for Donald DeFreeze. Keaton surfaced in spring, of 1973, after DeFreeze walked away from Soledad and claimed to be Donald DeFreeze. As cover, Keaton moved in with DeFreeze family friend Reverend W. Foster and family, in Buffalo, New York. Keaton’s impersonation was so good, that he was even familiar with intimate details of the family history that only DeFreeze could have known about. The only reason for having Keaton as a double was in case law enforcement officers in the Bay area had accidentally picked up DeFreeze during the time between his “escape” from Soledad and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst. Then if necessary, his double could have taken his place in prison. Three long-years had gone into training DeFreeze for his mission while at Vacaville Medical Facility, and it couldn’t afford to be jeopardized. Later when the FBI was challenged about Bernard Keaton being DeFreeze’s double, the FBI stated they are not concerned or even curious about him and stated that it “isn’t illegal.” When the CIA/FBI/CCS decided that the SLA had outlived its usefulness, and DeFreeze’s programming was coming apart more and more. Their terror group the SLA needed to be publicly eliminated. Wayne Lewis, an FBI agent provocateur, reported that the FBI had asked him to replace DeFreeze 2 weeks before DeFreeze’s death because “the FBI was going to kill him.” The police and the FBI, then carefully arranged for their select operatives Thero Wheeler, Emily and William Harris and Patricia Hearst to be secreted out to safety, and surrounded the SLA’s safe house. As soon as Thero Wheeler and another negro punk made sure the others remained in the house for sacrifice, the clean-up operation began in earnest. Agent Donald Gray of the FBI shot DeFreeze in the back from a position just outside the house. Then a fusillade of bullets were fired into the house and the structure set ablaze on national TV. DeFreeze and 5 other SLA members were calculatingly incinerated, along with any telling and critical evidence. The LAPD did not notify DeFreeze’s family of his death for three days. His remains were sent to them in Cleveland, Ohio, with both the head and the fingers missing. I can only imagine that if a proper and thorough autopsy were performed specifically on the brain tissues, it would have revealed evidence of any chemo-surgeries, physical surgeries, psychoactive chemical residue and/or electrode experimentation. It was either that, or the body they had was actually Bernard Keaton the double for DeFreeze. It was alleged that directly after the clean-up operation, the CIA demanded possession of DeFreeze’s head. … Ron Karenga was convicted of two counts of felonious assault and one count of false imprisonment. For his role in the imprisonment and grievous torture of two Afrikan women named Deborah Jones and Gail Davis. A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen. Said that on May 9, 1970, she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis’ mouth and placed against Miss Davis’ face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said.“ Additional evidence and testimony surfaced that indicated that the following day, Karenga allegedly told the women “Vietnamese torture is nothing compared to what I know” (CIA torture lessons from Westbrook and the Phoenix Project no doubt). One of two cohorts, Luz Maria Tamayo reportedly put detergent and a caustic substance in the women’s’ mouths, and the other, Louis Smith turned a water hose full force on their faces, with Karenga, holding a gun, and threatening to shoot both of them (Jones & Davis).” Karenga was also found to have burned Davis and Jones with lit cigarettes and inserted a water hose into them (their vaginas) and sadistically forced cold and alternately very hot water into them. Seeing that this could lead to a real stretch in a real prison, Karenga didn’t want to do hard time in a regular prison, so he feigned insanity and beseeched his covert masters for their help. Quoting from a transcript of Karenga’s sentencing hearing on Sept. 17, 1971: “A key issue was whether Karenga was sane. Judge Arthur L. Alarcon read from a psychiatrist’s report: “Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell.” “… During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed, stating that there was someone there and implying indirectly that the ‘someone’ was a woman imprisoned with him for some offense. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment.” Either he was faking for a reduced sentence, or some BCA programming was going haywire. In any event he was sentenced on Sept. 17, 1971, to serve one to ten years in California State Prison named “California Men’s Colony”, in San Luis Obispo, California. His handlers stepped in once again and he was later transferred to—get this… the California Medical Facility at Vacaville (for possible de-programming or re-programming?). Brother Spartacus of GAP Radio asserts that it’s possible that Karenga may have never even served the sentence in the prison at all. And that his masters in the FBI may have arranged for fake prison records to be generated at the facility of his alleged prison term. Which is something to ponder, considering how valuable he WAS to them then, and IS to them now. Since then, the FBI’s Anti-Afrikan COINTELPRO strategy continued uninterrupted, and has been expanded and instituted globally with new names such as TOPLEV, COMTEL and THERMCON. A brief account of the sentencing ran in several newspapers the following day. That was apparently the last newspaper article to mention Karenga’s unfortunate habit of doing unspeakable things to black people. After that, the only coverage came from the hundreds of news accounts that depict him as the wonderful man who invented Kwanzaa. Karenga was released a scant 3 years later in 1974, and his handlers in the CIA and FBI set him up to be Chairman of the Department of Black Studies at California State University. Now named Professor Maulana (Master teacher) Karenga, He later resurfaced with the resurrected SLA principles and dubbed them the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa complete with an Africanized Hanukkah menorah called the Kinara. His handlers in the FBI thought that this would serve a two-fold purpose of the establishing and marketing a synthetic African holiday with a convoluted African origin, that would serve their financial agenda as an alternative Christmas marketed directly to black people. And two, to give their valued operative with a new cover for a re-insertion into the Afrikan community. Primarily for intelligence gathering, gate-keeping and an assumed leadership role with complete absolution of his crimes against the Afrikan masses. That, in addition to the great laughter they enjoy watching us sanctify a sick, sadistic, predator of Afrikan people. A vile tool who delights in the continued destruction of our liberation. But let’s hear from the man Karenga himself talking candidly in a May 9, 1978 article from the Washington Post: “People think it’s African, but it’s not”. He continued, “I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods (young black people) would be partying.” We need to make a revolutionary choice at this point, and either continue celebrating a holiday given to us by our enemies. A holiday that amalgamates Christmas and Hanukkah, with a synthetic African characteristic, inserted strategically for seven days right after Christmas. Kwanzaa was an Afrikan Trojan Horse to continue an un-official celebration of the Christmas season, and redirect our hard-earned money back into the enemy’s coffers. To depart a legend and give absolution to a traitor Afrikan masses should have judged and gave a death sentence for crimes against Afrikan people and our struggle. Kwanzaa is now as commercially viable a commodity as Christmas, generating millions in greeting-card sales alone. “It’s clear that a number of major corporations have started to take notice and try to profit from Kwanzaa,” said a San Francisco State Black studies professor Oba T'Shaka. Let’s stand as one, and salvage the good from Kwanzaa, then give it a burial and develop our OWN day that Afrikans around the world can look up to in pride and united celebration. A day that serves OUR collective interests, and enriches the revolutionary traditions of OUR race. A day that our enemies will revile. A day that frees us from their shallow trappings and venal exploitations.

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Nelson Mandela Biography and thoughts of US Middle East Policy

Biography of Nelson Mandela:

Ndileka Mandela said the 94-year-old's near family members were getting comfort from details of support from the team. Meanwhile his little lady Makaziwe said he was "still there" and dealing with get in touch with. South Africa's first black us chief professional has been in hospital in Pretoria since 8 This summer with a bronchi illness. His wellness has complex in newest periods, pushing existing President Edward Zuma to stop a worldwide examine out. He has now came back again at the hospital.

Emotional audiences have gathered outside, such as details of support for Mr Mandela, known by his team name Madiba. Children released 94 balloons into the air in his respect. Correspondents say Southeast Africans now seem reconciled to the opportunities of his deaths. "We don't like seeing Mandela going through so much pain, he has had issues in his way of lifestyle and he's gone through a lot of fight. I think this fight should get over previously," Khulile Mlondleni advised Reuters Details Company. "We are all going to encounter bad when he goes [away], but at the same time we will be experiencing his way of lifestyle. He has done so many wonderful landmarks for thiscountry,"

A massive determine in Twentieth millennium record, Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela exposed how knowledge and tolerance can victory over bigotry and incredible energy. Truly the Dad of a Nation. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of one of Southern Africa's major dignitaries, Main Gretchen Mandela of the Tembu  Tribe, and it was as a younger law student that he became engaged in governmental resistance to the white-colored community regime. Becoming a member of the Africa Nationwide The legislature (ANC) in 1942, he co-founded its more powerful Youngsters Group two decades later.

The 1948 selection success of the Afrikaner-dominated Nationwide Celebration led to the apartheid program of national segregation becoming law. Mandela increased to popularity in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Strategy and the 1955 The legislature of the Individuals, whose adopting of the Freedom Rental offered the essential program of the anti-apartheid cause. Initially dedicated to non-violent huge battle and found innocent in the race Treason Test of 1956-1961, Mandela  and his co-workers approved the situation for equipped activity after the capturing of disarmed demonstrators at Sharpeville in March 1960 and the prohibiting of anti-apartheid categories. In 1961, he became the leader of the ANC's equipped side, Umkhonto we Sizwe. In Aug of the following season, he was  arrested and locked up for five decades. In This summer 1964, he was sentenced again, this a chance to lifestyle prison time, for his  involvement in preparing equipped activity.

 He began his prison decades in the notorious Robben Isle Prison, a highestpossible protection service on a little island off the shore of Cpe City. In Apr 1984, he was shifted to Pollsmoor Prison in Cpe City and in Dec 1988 he was shifted to the Winner Verster Prison near Paarl from where he was gradually launched. During his prison time Mandela trained himself to talk Zulu and discovered about Afrikaner record. He was able to communicate with his protection guards in their own terminology, using his appeal and intellect to purpose with them and try to understand the way they believed. This triggered the regulators to substitute the protection guards around consistently Mandela as it was sensed that they could were becoming too easygoing in their therapy of their popular captive. While in prison, Mandela refused provides created by his jailers for remission of phrase in return for recognizing the  Bantustan plan by identifying the independence of the Transkei area and recognizing to negotiate there. Amongst opponents of apartheid in Southern African-american and worldwide, he became a public icon of freedom and equal rights. Mandela stayed in prison until Feb 1990, when continual ANC campaigning and worldwide stress led to his release. On 2 Feb 1990, Southern Africa Main executive F.W. de Klerk raised the ban on the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations. Mandela was published from Winner Verster Prison on 11 Feb 1990. He and Main executive de Klerk - who did much to take apart the organizations of apartheid - distributed the Nobel Serenity Award in 1993. In Mandela's 1994 life story, 'Long Stroll to Freedom', he did not expose anything about the claimed  complicity of de Klerk in the assault of the 1980's and 90s, or the part of his ex-wife Winnie Mandela in that  bloodshed. However, he later mentioned those issues in 'Mandela: The Authorized Biography'. After his release, Mandela came back to the authority of the ANC and, between 1990 and 1994, led the party in the  multi-party discussions that led to the nation's first multi-racial elections. As the first dark president  of Southern African-american (1994 - 1999) he presided over the conversion from community concept and apartheid. He won compliment for his authority during now, even from his former white-colored competitors in Southern African-american. Following his pension as president in 1999, Mandela went on to become an suggest for a wide range of public and human-rights organizations. He used his position as a well known older statesman to provide bodyweight to relevant issues, declaring the U. s. Declares "a risk to globe peace" in 2002 while contacting on then president Henry W Shrub not to launch strikes on Irak. Because his wellness was decreasing, Mandela select to stay and retire from community lifestyle in 2004 and went on to decrease his wide range of performances, although he was too popular a determine to vanish absolutely. His name has been used to advertise  charitable projects near to his center such as the Nelson Mandela Invitational non-profit organisation tennis competition, which has raised an incredible number of rand for kid's non-profit categories since its organization in 2000.

The battle against Helps is one of Mandela's primary issues and he used his gravitas to increase attention about the  issue on the international level. Having supported the 46664 Helps fundraising events campaign, which was known as after his prison number, he went on to contact for more attention in referring to the situation. His son Makgatho Mandela passed away of Helps in  2005 and the statesman used the event to tell those who not concealing the situation, but referring to it, is the  only way to crack the judgment. In 2007, he introduced together older statesmen, peace activists and individual privileges supporters such as Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Ela Bhatt, Gro Harlem Brundtland and Li Zhaoxing under a non-governmental company known as The Seniors.  The aim of the company was to merge the elders' combined knowledge and use it to fix some of the problems. 

Although he talked out less about issues impacting nearby countryZimbabwe in his pension, Mandela tried  to convince Main executive John Mugabe to leave workplace with some pride in 2007. However, Mr Mugabe ignored him and hung on to energy, major Mandela to throw the "tragic failing of leadership" in This summer 2008 when Zimbabwe was in crisis following questioned presidential elections.  In Nov 2009, Mandela's efforts to globe freedom were compensated with a exclusive action by the U. s. Countries General Set up. One's human body declared that his wedding, 18 This summer, would be known as Mandela Day. The receiver of  hundreds of prizes and honorary recognitions, such as the Nobel Serenity Award, Mandela is constantly on the apply impact on the globe even without being definitely engaged in issues. His last community trip was during the ending wedding of this years FIFA World Cup in Gauteng. In Jan 2011, Mandela was hospitalised, forcing issues about the wellness of the 92-year-old statesman. The Nelson Mandela  Foundation exposed that he was in Milpark Medical center in Gauteng, although it said his lifestyle was not in danger. He was permitted house after a short efforts and was shifted house, where he brings a basic pension. On 18 This summer 2012, Mandela's 94th wedding, 12 thousand schoolchildren across Southern African-american honored him with a specially consisting music to indicate the day. Meanwhile, Mandela popular silently at house with his near relatives.  

Mandela has been wedded three times, along with a 38-year wedding to politician Winnie Madikizela, who was his second spouse. They wed in 1958 and had little girl Zenani the same season. Their second little girl Zindzi was created in 1960.  His newest little girl was just 18 several weeks old when he was sent to prison. Nelson and Winnie divided in 1992 and divided in 1996. His first wedding to Evelyn Mase had also led to divorce in 1957 due to his commitment to innovative frustration.

They had been together for 13 decades and had four kids together such as Thembi, who was created in 1946. He passed away  in a car accident in 1969 at the age of 23 and Mandela was prohibited to go to the memorial as he was in prison. Their first little girl Maki, who was created in 1947, passed away at just nine several weeks old and the several known as their second little girl in 1953 in her honor. Makgatho was created in 1950. On his Eightieth wedding he wedded Graca Machel, widow of the delayed Mozambican president Samora Machel. The several now  live at his house in Qunu. Mandela invested more period of time in hospital towards the end of 2012, being affected by a bronchi disease and gall stones. He was  discharged a few periods before New Year and began 2013 at house enclosed by his near relatives.

In a rare interview, the South African demands that George W. Bush win United Nations support before attacking Iraq

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Sept. 10 —   Nelson Mandela, 84, may be the world’s most respected statesman. Sentenced to life in prison on desolate Robben Island in 1964 for advocating armed resistance to apartheid in South Africa, the African National Congress leader emerged in 1990 to lead his country in a transition to non-racial elections. As president, his priority was racial reconciliation; today South Africans of all races refer to him by his Xhosa clan honorific, Madiba. Mandela stepped down in 1999 after a single five-year term. He now heads two foundations focused on children. He met with Newsweek’s Tom Masland early Monday morning in his office in Houghton, a Johannesburg suburb, before flying to Limpopo Province to address traditional leaders on the country’s AIDS crisis. Excerpts:

  NEWSWEEK: Why are you speaking out on Iraq? Do you want to mediate, as you tried to on the Mideast a couple of years ago? It seems you are reentering the fray now.

Nelson Mandela: If I am asked, by credible organizations, to mediate, I will consider that very seriously. But a situation of this nature does not need an individual, it needs an organization like the United Nations to mediate. We must understand the seriousness of this situation. The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Unqualified support of the Shah of Iran led directly to the Islamic revolution of 1979. Then the United States chose to arm and finance the [Islamic] mujahedin in Afghanistan instead of supporting and encouraging the moderate wing of the government of Afghanistan. That is what led to the Taliban in Afghanistan. But the most catastrophic action of the United States was to sabotage the decision that was painstakingly stitched together by the United Nations regarding the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan.

If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world.

That must be condemned in the strongest terms. And you will notice that France, Germany Russia, China are against this decision. It is clearly a decision that is motivated by George W. Bush’s desire to please the arms and oil industries in the United States of America. If you look at those factors, you’ll see that an individual like myself, a man who has lost power and influence, can never be a suitable mediator.

What about the argument that’s being made about the threat of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and Saddam’s efforts to build a nuclear weapons. After all, he has invaded other countries, he has fired missiles at Israel. On Thursday, President Bush is going to stand up in front of the United Nations and point to what he says is evidence of...

. . . Scott Ritter, a former United Nations arms inspector who is in Baghdad, has said that there is no evidence whatsoever of [development of weapons of] mass destruction. Neither Bush nor [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair has provided any evidence that such weapons exist. But what we know is that Israel has weapons of mass destruction. Nobody talks about that. Why should there be one standard for one country, especially because it is black, and another one for another country, Israel, that is white.

So you see this as a racial question?

Well, that element is there. In fact, many people say quietly, but they don’t have the courage to stand up and say publicly, that when there were white secretary generals you didn’t find this question of the United States and Britain going out of the United Nations. But now that you’ve had black secretary generals like Boutros Boutros Ghali, like Kofi Annan, they do not respect the United Nations. They have contempt for it. This is not my view, but that is what is being said by many people.

What kind of compromise can you see that might avoid the coming confrontation?

There is one compromise and one only, and that is the United Nations. If the United States and Britain go to the United Nations and the United Nations says we have concrete evidence of the existence of these weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we feel that we must do something about it, we would all support it.

Do you think that the Bush administration’s U.N. diplomatic effort now is genuine, or is the President just looking for political cover by speaking to the U.N. even as he remains intent on forging ahead unilaterally?

Well, there is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like. And of course we must consider the men and the women around the president. Gen. Colin Powell commanded the United States army in peacetime and in wartime during the Gulf war. He knows the disastrous effect of international tension and war, when innocent people are going to die, young men are going to die. He knows and he showed this after September 11 last year. He went around briefing the allies of the United States of America and asking for their support for the war in Afghanistan.

But people like Dick Cheney . . . I see yesterday there was an article that said he is the real president of the United States of America, I don’t know how true that is. Dick Cheney, [Defense secretary Donald] Rumsfeld, they are people who are unfortunately misleading the president. Because my impression of the president is that this is a man with whom you can do business. But it is the men who around him who are dinosaurs, who do not want him to belong to the modern age. The only man, the only person who wants to help Bush move to the modern era is Gen. Colin Powell, the secretary of State.

I gather you are particularly concerned about Vice President Cheney?

Well, there is no doubt. He opposed the decision to release me from prison (laughs). The majority of the U.S. Congress was in favor of my release, and he opposed it. But it’s not because of that. Quite clearly we are dealing with an arch-conservative in Dick Cheney.

I’m interested in your decision to speak out now about Iraq. When you left office, you said, “I’m going to go down to Transkei, and have a rest.” Now maybe that was a joke at the time. But you’ve been very active.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it’s difficult to say no.

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