What Has Happened To Justice In America?
LT. CALLEY
CONVICTED BY MILITARY COURT MARITAL OF MURDERING 109 VIETNAMESE CIVILIANS--
NOW FREE ON APPEAL BOND
JOHN SINCLAIR
CONVICTED BY DETROIT RECORDERS COURT OF POSSESSION OF TWO JOINTS OF MARIJUANA
APPEAL BOND DENIED BY STATE SUPREME COURT
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO JUSTICE IN AMERICA?
If John Sinclair were a thug selling heroin to grade school children & paying bribes to police and public officials he'd be a free man today
If John Sinclair were a pilot for Air America dumping polyethylene bags of opium/heroin in the Gulf of Siam he'd be a free man today
If John Sinclair were shaking down bar owners in Pontiac forcing mafia juke boxes down scared throats he'd be a free man today
If John Sinclair had bayonetted Vietnamese women or smashed off their face-skin with bamboo mallets he'd be a free man today
If John Sinclair had slimed through the system scratching backs & sucking back down further picking up appointments for no thing no where no service like Judge Robert Colombo he'd be a free man today.
Two years after his sentencing
it curses our miserable death-trampled lives that John should still be enslaved in the mind of Stringfellow/Colombo
And that's what it is where John lies buried in boulders & steel.
o subtle currents of power
o rainbow humans roaming like Blake-folk
set him free set a gentle man free.
The only answer is pressure
and a solemn declaration before the boundless universe:
Love & public tranquility & sharers' bliss for those who help set him free
& a huge screaming mob outside the homes of every official who keeps John Sinclair in jail.
Ed Sanders
Aug-Sept-Oct 1971
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Freeing John Sinclair
Old News
Ann Arbor Sun