Document Type
Newsletter
Publication Year
1971
Excerpt
The release without trial of eight Black Panthers after two years imprisonment; the concerted efforts of the Justice Department to confine the Berrigans and their colleagues; the massive, indiscriminatory arrests in Washington, D.C. of young people (as well as citizens trying to get to work) with an estimated 80 percent of these arrests illegal; the rigid defense of this government action by high officials - these and similar cases can be cited to raise concern over the heavy-handed pattern of law enforcement and government control that may corrode the foundations of a state, and ultimately shackle and destroy people.
Recommended Citation
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "The Vanguard (Vol. 18, No. 4), May-June 1971" (1971). The Vanguard. 144.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/vanguard/144
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