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