Volume 14, Number 7 (December 1985-January 1986)

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But change seems inevitable, especial-

J. D. Thomas. ly when one looks up and sees that

dark spectre that looms above all

Answer: Only temporarily, it seems. the scapegoat speaks: movement on the Wesleyan campus: the
IWU administration. Glenn Switchen-

berg, Dean of Students, descended

Yes, WESN is off the air, and if and There was the danger that once WESN upon WESN's studios before the shut-
went dark, it would not open again. down with Stu Salowicz, music direc-
when it returns, it will never be the We had very little to work with, but tor from WJBC, who also happens to be
we hung in t~ere and did our best. I a Wesleyan alum.
same. Illinois Wesleyan University's think it was worth the effort, and I
student-run radio station, a long- think a lot of listeners appreciated Switchenberg claims that the visit was
time bastion of creative programming, the DJs' tenacity. just a natural checkup; however, I
free speech, and progressive and don't imagine that he could have kept
diverse forms of music, is for the
time being nothing more than an empty

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if it reappears, it is destined to that would fit in so nicely with the
show signs of increased commerciali- ' u'

zation, slickness, and sorrowfully, During the budget hearings of Communications Program to be institu-

the end of amateurism. spring, 1985, my request for a budget ted at IWU in 1990. What a beautiful

increase was basically denied. The coup that would be, the administration's

For those attentive to and apprecia- budget for 1984/85 was $4,820. Anyone "taking control" of all the tape decks,

tive of the local modern music scene, who tuned in during this time knew transmitters, microphones, etc., that

WESN has long provided a showcase for that WESN's signal was unreliable at Student Senates throughout the years

progressive and alternative acts. best. The remote control was broken have purchased out of their operating

Since the removal of Robin Plan from and water damage from the January funds, assuming that they were making

WRBA a year and a half ago, it's been flood was taking its toll on the expenditures toward a student-run

the only game in town. However, Jon equipment. At times, the only station.

Thomas, WESN's just-fired station man- operable equipment was the two

ager, doubts that this tradition will cartridge decks, and the power was cut Associate Dean Jerry Israel senses the

be re-.established. to ten watts. I felt it was important future, but indicates that the admini-

to stay on the air as long as stration will play the waiting game

Thomas himself is deeply wrapped up possible, however. WESN had hit the for now: "The timing is poor as we are

in the WESN controversy; he was, after lowest point of its existence, but not ready to do anything yet."

all, ~t the helm when the ship sank. a lot of people still believed in us,

Thomas fielded attacks of "unpro- and most of the employees were And so the fate of WESN seems sealed.

fessionalism," "poor management," and determined to see us through the hard It is bound to become a more slick,

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Student Senate moved to relieve manager who gained his experience at

Thomas of his position, then closed The WESN Restructuring Committee first WLS-AM and FM in Chicago). Whether

the station on Oct. 30, just two days met on November 13. Since it was open the real coup de grace was delivered

later. The Senate claimed it needed to the public, I went. Lewis, through by the Student Senate or the admini-

time to restructure WESN. his puppet manager, wishes to have a stration is hard to tell; one won-

But J·ust what does this restructuring 12 hour broadcast day, divided into ders about the actual autonomy of
mean? Well, for one, it portends the the Senate 1.·n the f1." rs t pl ace.
three four hour time slots--
"Contemporary Rock," "Jazz" and
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·that it is precisely this "unprofes- appreciate a fresh, creative, and

sionalism" that is attractive to many When you get right down to it, the progressive approach to radio broad-

in the listening audience. So what Senate needed to clean up the station. casting. Just two weeks ago, a couple

if a DJ plays an entire album side? I was doing just that, but they needed of days after the station went off

It might seem like a heinous crime to someone who could conform to the the air, I was listening to another

some, but I must admit I've done the Wesleyan ideal. I, on the other hand, live radio show, this one out of

same in the privacy of my own home-- had a tendency to go barefoot a lot. Chicago, and two notorious DJs were

sometimes.even with the doors un- Somehow, ·this was taken to mean that I speaking about the pathetic state of

locked! wasn't taking things seriously. college radio.

And what about DJs soliciting Above all, they needed a dramatic "Except for that one at that small
purge to show they were serious about college in Bloomington," said one.
listeners to play music over the
turning the screws on the radio "Yeah, that one's pretty good," said
phone lines when studio equipment is station. This, they did. And, as Jim the other.
~alfun~tioning? I call that practical Lewis warned, I became the scapegoat.
1.ngenu1.ty, not unprofessionalism. That's the way it used to be, anyways.

And what about all the foul-ups, --_11.;[
bleeps, and blunders? Hell, without
them, WESN wouldn't be half as fun to

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It is known, however, that certain members of the Board of Trustees and

administration have never liked the station. "Professionalism" and
"conformity" are encouraged at IWU. WESN was not very professional and
never conformed. Instead, it was a bunch if people on the air having fun.
WESN was more than just a toy, though. For some of us, it was the only
reason for coming to IWU in the first place.

- J. D. Thomas

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Rock interview Page4 December 1985 Post Amerikan

Thieves explain crimes

Like Charles Kuralt, Bloomington's Michael: It's tougher in some ways. Leroy: Are you writing any music?
Tricycle Thieves are on the road.
They play in twelve states, and that I· play more guitar now than when I was James: I'm working on some material,
number continues to grow as they are but it might take a while because I
planning a southern tour this winter. with the Rulers. We were involved in tend to be lazy about it.
The band, which was formed in-June, a genre thing. There was a certain
consists of Michael Goodrich, lead guitar effect that seemed to be Leroy: Michael, you've written'all of
guitar and vocals, drummer Kenny warranted. The guitar chords I was the original material that The Thieves
Callahan and James McManus, bass. playing were stunted and muffled. We are playing. Do .you have any
thought that was the way it was particular influences?
Goodrich co-founded the Uptown Rulers
in the summer of 1980 alld remained supposed to be. The good thing about Michael: Most of it has to do with my
with the band until their break-up this band is that there's no way mood at the time. .I'm not going .to
last spring. He also played with you're supposed to do anything. What deny that I have influences. I don't
Blind Shelley And The Seeing Eye Dogs you do is what comes naturally to you. walk around with blinders and earmuffs
as well as performing solo while a I get more full sound because I'm on. It seems like every time I was
student at Eastern Illinois compared to somebody, the comparison
University. Callahan also played with playing guitar the way I was meant to was at least partially right although
the Rulers off and on for about four play it. Also with just three guys
years. In addition to that, he is an there's less confusion and things get
alumnus of The Duke Babb Band. done faster, such as set-up and sound
McManus was a member of diaTribe and check.
That Hope until his "retirement" a
little over a year ago.

Nowadays they are full of energy and
enthusiasm. They find pleasure in
whatever experiences they might have
on the road. Listening to old
Aerosmith or Replacements in the
middle of Iowa at 5 in the morning,

sharing a few beers with new friends,
and an occasional napping on a frat
house pool table feels just right.

Kuralt never had it this good.

Leroy: Since the inception of The
Tricycle Thieves you have enjoyed a
great deal of success. During your
first month of touring you were
playing four nights a week and have
continued at that pace. You're
constantly aqding new venues and
building crowds at the old ones. Are

you ready for a breather?

James: r wish we could be on the road

seven days a week because I'm having
the greatest time. People are really
good to us. I love playing, and I'd
like to do it ~very day. For me, part
of the .tension in diaTribe came from
not playing often enough·. There was
the frustration of not being able to
get a gig and having to work full time
elsewhere to support the music.

Michael: One minor problem is the Kenny: I feel real good ·about the I was not consciously trying to do
lack of time to devote to practice and situation. There are fewer problems something like that. You don't sit
development of new material. We have because there are only three of us. there and say "I want it to be a genre
worked up five new original songs This way there are fewer hassles and thing. I want it to sound just like
during sound checks, but we haven't this." It works for me, and I'm·not
had a formal practice session since we musically a lot fewer arguments. lying to me.
started touring.
Leroy: James, a little over a year Leroy: How do~s the band work out the
Leroy: You've departed from the ago you decided to quit live music. arrangements?
·musical styles associated with your As a matter of fact Michael was
previous bands. How would you interviewing That Hope for The Post Kenny: Mike brings in an idea which
describe your music now? Amerikan when you announced this. may be a little rough and instead of
What made you change your mind? saying "do it this way or that" he
Kenny: We have a rule. No ska or tells us to do what we want because
reggae. We play rock and roll, jazz, James: Several things. I was going we're two thirds of the band.
blues, R and B and swing. No reggae through a real hard .time then. I had
though. It's not me. I feel like I'm just split up with a girl~riend and I James: We generally work out our own
back to my roots now. was a bit schizophrenic. I was parts, but we're always open to each
worried about whether.! was worth other's ideas.
Michael: I don't want it to be a anything doing what I was doing. So I
genre thing. I just know that this thought I should go back to school Michael: The music comes from all of
song came out of me and it's right and which was fun and everything, but I us.
it works for me. Our music varies realized that what I really wanted to
from funky, complete folk songs, a la do was play bass. I'd go out and see Leroy: What about recording?
drums and bass, to funky soul numbers, bands and become'envious. I wanted to
to something with jazz chords with a be up there. Michael .and Kenny Michael: We've booked studio time in
rock and roll beat. started. playing together after·. The December. We're going to go in and
Rulers split up. They decided to get essentially do our live show, with the
James: I'm. satisfied to say that a band together and told me that they exception of minor embellishments.
we're a rock and roll band. When ,I wanted me to be their bass player. That way when people come and see us
studied music I was a bit.of a snob I've known Michael for a long time and they won't be wondering about the
because I felt that most types of rock we've played music together before. other guitars and vocalists that were
lacked .the!complexity that I was into. So after a few months of practicing on the record.
But now I realize that that was with these guys, I jumped up and said
bullshit. ·It's the simplicity that "I'm ready," and I'm glad I did. Kenny: Getting a recorded product out
lures me to it now. It's emotional right away is one of our short-term
and basically fun. Leroy: You're even doing some vocals goals. Our long term goal is to
now. record with a label. And I know that
Leroy: Iniaddition to the change in whatever we record will be on an
musical style you have reduced the James: In addition to harmonies, I'm album. I don't like little, bitty
number of, musicians in your band to singing "Sex Killer" by Jeffrey Lee records, especially if they're red.
three comp~red to the five or six in Pierce and "can't Put Your Arms Around Just a big fat piece of vinyl full of
the others~ Have there been any A Memory" by Johnny Thunder. Singing our songs.
difficu~ti~s adjusting? feels loose and comfortable for me.

--Leroy Thomas

Post-Amerikan December 1985 PageS

Childbirth and Parenting Information Exchange

CAPIE was formed by a small group of * home birth * Holidays for the Whole
parents in June 1984, as a new consumer
group dedicated to insuring that all * breastfeeding Family
parents have adequate information to
make responsible parenting and child- would assure better, safer births and Other projects include serving as a
birth decisions. healthier babies and mothers in the reference for birth and parenting ser-
majority of instances in this country vices in the area, including doctors
Although the group is not sponsored by today. and hospitals, and maintaining books
any doctor, hospital, or other insti- and other reference materials dealing
tution, it is a group affiliate of the To meet these and other goals, CAPIE with alternative topics.
International Association of Parents presents public informational meetings
and Professionals for Safe Alternatives on a variety of subjects, including: While public meetings and reference
in Childbirth (NAPSAC). NAPSAC services are available to any family,
believes that * Routine Hospital Birth Pro- membership in CAPIE is encouraged and
appreciated. Annual dues of $12 (tax-
* good nutrition cedures and Their Alterna- deductible) will secure a subscription
tives to the quarterly NAPSAC News, support
* skillful midwifery (the the work of NAPSAC and CAPlE, and pro-
* Trusting Your Instincts as vide opportunities for involvement
philosophy of midwifery) with other local families with similar
a Parent interests.
* natural childbirth (un-
* Natural Childbirth Film For more information contact Sue
medicated, vaginal birth) Frizzell at 452-0310 or Laurie Bruce
Night at 663-4039.

Home Birth Directory available

Valerie Morris, a childbirth educator The childbirth educator entries list technical terms relevant to
from Elgin, has compiled and published class duration and cost, childbearing.
The Illinois Home Birth Directory. organizational affiliation, if any,
The directory consists primarily of and class outlines. They indicate Because this directory lists
questionnaires printed as they were whether or not the teacher has a independen~ childbirth educators, i t
completed by childbirth educators and sliding fee scale or is open to a is a valuable guide for all
birth attendants throughout the state. barter system, what she feels is the prospective parents, not just those
With the aid of this book, people most important thing she has to offer who are considering home birth.
interested in giving birth at home to couples planning a home birth, and Independent childbirth classes tend to
will become aware of the wide range of whether she would be willing to.attend be strongly consumer-oriented, while
options currently available to a home birth as an extra support hospital-based classes may essentially
them. person. teach pregnant women how to be "good
patients."
_The directory features a variety of The compilation of the above
birth attendants: physicians, nurses, i~formation alone provides a unique, Valerie Morris has provided an
nurse-midwives and lay midwives. The useful and much-needed resource for invaluable resource for those seeking
birth attendant entries indicate expectant parents here in Illinois. birthing alternatives in Illinois.
whether the person is accepting new But Th~ Illinois Home Birth Directory The Illinois ~ Birth Directory will
clients, what the attendant's fees doesn't stop there! Morris has also make freedom of choice in childbirth a
are, what fees include, whether or not included a wealth of additional reality for many who might otherwise
they can/will accept insurance information. There is a discussion of not be able to locate the necessary
payments, and whether they have a common questions regarding home birth. knowledge and support.
sliding fee scale and/or barter There are several birthing tales from
system. The birth attendant Illinois home births. There are The Illinois Home Birth Directory is
questionnaires also list who listings for even more resources in available from the author for $5.95,
accompanies the birth attendant to a Illinois--organizations devoted to postpaid. Send a check or money order
delivery, what kind of safe alternatives in both childbirth to: Valerie Morris
hospital/medical backup is available, and parenting. And, finally, there is
and how far the attendant will travel an excellent glossary of medical and 491 Lincoln Ave.
to be at a delivery. Elgin, IL 60120

Holiday Schedule --Julie Huffman

Planned Parenthood

WILL BE CLOSED

Thursday, Nov. 28 Friday, Nov. 29
Tuesday, Dec. 24 Wednesday, Dec. 25
Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 31 Wednesday, Jan. 1

Planned Parenthood That Hope

of Mid Central Illinois record christened

318 W. Washington, 3rd floor That Hope, a four-piece Bloomington
Administration, Educatipn, Counseling 827-4368 band, will host a record release party
Medical Services & Supplies 827-4014 for their new album titled "Eight
Dollar Hat" on New Year's Eve at the
Galery.

A review of the album w{ll appear in
the next issue.

--Leroy Thomas

Miscellaneous outrages Page6 December 1985 Post Amerikan

you may :_~~\~:--- -----.,....__ Mitsubishi brings
substandard
have ~ trailer court
•.·~·
The new auto plant is already bringing
missed some housing blight to Bloomington-
Normal.
Compiled by
Mark Silverstein Because the new p!ant will create the
need for more low-cost housing, the
Normal city council has approved
developer Jack Snyder's plans to build
an overcrowded substandard trailer
court on the city's north side.

Hoping to attract industrial
development to the land at Linden and
Northtown Road, the council
unanimously rejected the trailer court
plans in early 1984.

Untrained deputies Snyder convinced the council that with
. cause unnecessary overtime the economic incentives offered in the
new west side enterprise zone, he
Because some McLean County Deputies But if typing reports is currently could no longer hope to attract
type their reports too slowly, Sheriff considered a necessary and routine industry to his land.
Steve Brienen has asked the County part of a deputy's work, why not hire
Board to budget an additional only those deputies who are qualified (In other words, planners rushing to
secretary £or his department. for their job? promote the enterprise zone package
failed to anticipate what their
According to a Nov. 6 story in the Police currently have to pass tests efforts would do to land outside the
showing that they know how to use enterprise zone. Or maybe they did
Pantagraph, Brienen hopes to cut down their weapons. But (fortunately), anticipate the impact, but didn't
police officers spend more time typing care.)
on "unnecessary" overtime caused by than shooting.
According to a Pantagraph article,
deputies who must type their reports Lots of traditionally women's jobs can Snyder planned to pack 318 units into
only be filled by job applicants who his 48 acre trailer court, but scaled
by the time-consuming "hunt and peck" pass a typing test. Why not make it down to 288 in a last-minute bid
prospective police officers prove they for council approval. And he got it.
system. · can type, too? Or would that offend But even with the decreased density,
our constabulary's notion of proper the trailer court's lots are still too
With an additional secretary, Brienen sex roles? small to meet Normal's code without
said, deputies could dictate reports special waivers.
into a tape recorder. The new
secretary could transcribe them later. Waivers? No problem. The Normal city
council rs very flexible.

Nuke plant spawns deadly amoeba menace

First they banned swimming. Now the In the early 1970's, the Illinois EPA
Illinois Department of Public Health regulations set the maximum
has banned water skiing at Clinton temperature of the discharged water at
Lake. Why? When Illinois Power
Company starts up its nuke plant, 90 degrees.

discharges into the lake will be warm Jumer's rumorsComplying with that regulation would

enough to provide a comfy home for have placed a great economic burden on
Naegleria foleri, an amoeba whi~h Illinois Power Company, according to

likes to swim up your nose and 1.nto Illinois Power Company. I wouldn't be able to get the city to
your brain and kill you. pour a curb cut for my driveway. But
So the sympathetic Illinois based on rumors that Jumer's Hotels
This rare but deadly amoeba usually legislature passed a special law might build a 175-room inn at College
hangs out only in warm waters far from voiding the EPA regulation. Instead and Veteran's Parkway, Bloomington is
Illinois. But it also likes to show of a maximum temperature of 90
up in lakes that receive the warm degrees, the special legislation ready to spend a half million dollars
water discharged from power plants. allowed discharges as hot as 96 on an intersection to accommodate the
degrees. According to an Oct. 17 project.

When the Clinton nuke was first on the Pantagraph, current regulations even Jumer's hasn't even decided for sure
drawing boards, the power company permit the company to discharge 99 yet, according to a mid-November
. heavily promoted the recreational degree water 12 per cent of the time• Pantagraph article. But Bloomington
benefits of the lake it would build. officials are so eager to please that
If IPC hadn't successfully bent the they've already assigned a half
When the Clinton nuke was first on the ear of the legislature, swimmers and million of an upcoming bond issue to
drawing boards, the plant's discharge water skiers might have been able to Jumer's fancy driveway.
wasn't going to be so hot, either.
THEJMI!Ituse Clinton Lake. Ropp hops
NOVEMBER
Tue. 26 Do.vid Mo.rsho.ll
Wed. 27 Mussolini Love S~uo.d
thru logic hoops
Thu. 28 THANKS6JYIN& CLOSED
Fri. 2q Renegade
Sat 30 Sho.bella State representative Gordon Ropp wants
legislation to deal more strictly with
DECEMBER truants, according to a Nov. 5 story
in the Pantagraph.
..::·:.' Tue. 3 Rich Margher io
'Wed. 4 Comed-y Show Ropp says 25% of high school freshmen
don't graduate. Ropp then said that
Thu. 5 Edge these students who drop out end up
Fri. 6 Tricycle Thieves with idle time on their hands. "They
just think up things that get them in '
Sat 7 Fire Power trouble, and we end .up spending
Sun. 8 Vile Secretions $20,000 to $25,000 per year per person
Tue. 10 Jeff Bernius- Moore +Metzger to keep them in correctional
institutions," Ropp was quoted.

Wed. II Rockin' Roots Shocking. According to Ropp; 25% of
Thu.l2. TO BE ANNOUNCED all high school freshmen drop out and
Fri. 13 Action Potential wind up in prison. Ropp, presumably,

Ill C. ~ eo.llfO'rt, 1ftrMflri, 4-5 2-9Iqz Sat 14 That Hope stayed in school and graduated. See,

. anybody can.

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Swastika decorates
epublican entryW8y

The old-fapj:rioned. mosaic tile ent,ryway at McLean County
Republican Headquarters Oeft) includes a few swastikas
(see close-up, above). Seeing a Post photographer in
action, a Republican worker emerged from the party
headquarters and explained ·the swastikas this way: 1)
They are the 'landlord's fault, not the Republicans'
fault; 2) the symbols have been there for many years;
3) the Republicans used to cover them up with stickers,

but the stickers came off; 4) the. swastikas are
harmless Indian symbols anyway.

Commie sympathizers infiltrate

Bloomington City Hall ·

Pos't-Note: They had Post Amerikan out the names of the officers. digging in, becoming more obstinate,
writer Mark Silverstein on WJBC Forum invitirtg more litigation. After my
iri 11 ate October. Here· s what he said: Corporation Counsel David·Stanczak suit was filed last summer, I asked t
look at minutes of meetings of the
justified the deletions with a · Board of Fire and Police
Commissioners. These are public
creative misreading of the law and meetings of a public agency. But it
took several weeks and.. detailed reviE:!
he actions of city officials are some inventive claims about the by city officials before I saw a
single page. And David Stanczak had
diverting your tax dollars to the legislature's intent. . even deleted some names from these.
publ~c minutes of public meetings.
coffers of the American Civil What s he trying to do, make the ACLU
rich?
Liberties Union. ,· I asked State Representative Barbara
Flynn Currie about the legislature's I don't begrudge the time our
You know the ACLU. They made intent. She sponsored the Illinois Corporation, counsel spends poring
Freedom of Information Act~ She told through piles of pape~s with his
Bloomington sell its nativity scene. me that the legislatQre clearly _bottle of white-out in hand. It keep
intended .that the citizen complaints I him from more dangerous pursuits, lik
They made Normal re-write its sign requested were to be disclosed. evicting old ladies from their
substandard houses or watching sexy
ordinance so it complies with the videotapes to prepare a new decency
ordinance.
Constitution. ·
But the value of Stanczak's wasted
Now the ACLU is iri court to get The ACLU will· win this case. All they time is not the only cost of this
Bloomington to obey the new Illinois need is a judge who admits he can read official stubbornness. When the ACLU
Freedom of Information Act. the page in front.of him. If they wins, Bloomington won't have to turn
can't find one in McLean County, over just the documents I requested.
Here's the background. A year ago I they'll appeal. It shouldn't be that Bloomington will also have to turn
asked for copies of citizen complaints _hard to find a judge who can read. over buckets of money to pay for the
made against Bloomington police ACLU's attorneys~ fees. You know wha
officers. The pages I received You'd think Bloomington officials lawyers charge for their time.
contained large sections that were would start admitting they can .read
blacked out. The city even blacked- the law too. But instead, they are If some closet.pinko commie symps in
city hall want to contribute to the
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Free Speech Crackdown

Normal officials defy federal,court order

For more than a year now, Normal In defiance of a federal court order, within ten days.
residents Bob and Marilyn Sutherland
have displayed a sign in their yard Normal officials ordered Bob and "Failure to comply," Cotton's letter
expresssing their opposition to U.S. Marilyn Sutherland to remove t~e sign said, "will result in the violation
policy in Central America. (above) which has been posted ~n being turned over to the Legal
their yard since September& 198~. Department."
Their sign is in technical violation
of Normal's sign ordinance. Cotton, who claimed a complaint
prompted his removal order, told the
But in January, 1984, a federal Sutherlands that their sign violated a
district judge in Springfield ruled provision of the ordinance which
that Normal's ordinance was specifies what signs are permitted in
unconstitutional. He issued a the Sutherlands • neighborhood. ·
permanent injunction against its
enforcement. According to Cotton's letter, only a
sign containing the name and address
"Specifically, the Town officials may of the house's occupants is permitted.
not prevent persons from displaying In addition, such a sign cannot be
signs concerning political beliefs and free-standing; it must be fastened to
positions, nor may they enforce the the house itself.
size restrictions on such signs,"
Judge Ackerman's order said. The Sutherlands' next-door neighbors
have a free-standing a sign with their
Howard Cotton, a five year employee of name and address on it. Although this
Normal's inspection department, sign violates the same provision of
apparently doesn't care what a federal the sign ordinance, Cotton has not
judge says or doesn't say. ordered its removal.

On November 13, 1985, Cotton ordered Maybe he didn't get a complaint about
the Sutherlands to remove their sign that sign.

--Mark Silverstein

Welcome to our little town

All things Amerikan

First of all, a belated but still fond Which reminds me of something ISU Our city councils seem overly booster-
farewell to fired Normal police chief, patted itself on the back for, the ish to me. They have given so many
David Lehr, who served faithfully and other week. Our monolith of higher tax incentives to our foreign friends
to the best of his ability during his education crowed that it was introduc-· that it's going to take at least ten
tenure as the inspiring symbol of our ing a Japanese language class in re- years for the plant to begin paying
law enforcement community; to \vhom sponse to the Mitsubishi decision back into the tax system. It was very
many of our stolid citizens went with because it "attempts to be on the cut- thoughtful of the two groups throw-
their problems. We can only hope his ting edge of scholasticism" or some ing the area in hyperbooster drive,
successor learns from his tactical such nonsense. Why they never had a but the result is warp 8--a dangerous
errors. Hey, it's been a riot, Dave. Japanese language class before now condition, as any trekkie will tell
seems to be a bit of an oversight on you. With the changing business en-
And while we're at it, let's also con- their part, especially in view of the vironment, it seems quite possible
gratulate the state and B/N politicos exchange program with Japan that has that in ten years the plant may well
who managed to get the Mitsubishi been going on for a number of years be out out of date, out or proauct~on
plant for us. Let's hope the plant But we can't expect ISU to be per- and closed down. In that case, we can
managers are into ecology and don't fect--the rest of us certainly aren't. still walk by the rusting building
save a little money by dumping toxic and reflect on the vagaries of
substances in the creek. I have a Boosterlsm boosterism and business realities,
good feeling about this, really. The while Mitsubishi is out finding a
Japanese are a very neat and tidy I don't want to knock gung-ho pro- better ten year deal in Ohio.
people. They're also willing to learn motion of our "centerpiece of down-
state Illinois," but unbridled T.0.0. B.A.D.
•about their new community and its boosterism has historically landed our
preoccupations. I hope they learn to species in deep trouble. Once we get Even our governor seems to be promot-
drive under the speed limit and drink the plant, the fifty thousand new ing us out of farmland and wildlife
Blatz beer. Maybe they'll start a residents and the lake, the natural areas in a determined effort make his
country club. thing to build is a nuclear power mark on this state, rather like a
plant. We could call it the Thompson child with a rubber stamp, playing
Vision !-iemorial Industry. TMI would get with indelible ink. He'd like to call
glowing praise from our local utility his scheme to bring renewal to our
The thought of increased urban con- because it would produce expensive little patch of rustbelt a master plan
gestion as our little town grows warms power at a greater volume than ever to bring the land of Lincoln to the
my heart. As thousands of people pour previously unneeded. We could tear forefront of our group of declining
in to compete for the opportunity to down an area (say that den of porno- states. I'm sure he'd like to call it
make fine quality cars, I can see the graphy in downtown Bloomington) and something like Thompson's Obnoxious
cheerful little trailer parks spring- put up a cooling pond and twin towers. Obligatory Businesses And Developments
ing up here and there and, really, It's really unfortunate that we won't It's just T.O.O. B.A.D. for the rest
only good can come from growth, right? be able to go water-skiing or swimming of us.
This plant is going to do great things there because of .the killer amoeba
for our community, because our civic that seems to lurk in radioactive --Divad X.
leaders have vision. They are not waters.
going to do petty things here •. They
are going to take the swelling income * ··~ * * * * * * * * * * * * * Diesel DicKs
from the influx of emigrating citizens
and widen roads, put up new traffic WE SPECIALIZE *****************
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creating a reservior for the new B/N ****************
marina (probably called Future Lake
after the wonderful signs posted on FOREIGN~
the business loop), and lobbying for
a new mandatory crash helmet law for lXJMESTIC
anyone driving an economy car. In the
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Post-Amerikan December 1985

From Project Disarm's
Down the Arsenal:

Rock Island Arsenal is central to efforts even began Monday, they had to police clubbed him with a flashlight,
everything that is wrong in the repair 14 punctured tires .•. They (the was charged with "attempting to disarm
U.S. and in the world: the mass- demonstrators) would use guerilla- a police officer," a felony charge
production of instruments of warfare type tactics where they would carrying a 2-5 year sentence.
death while millions starve, hit and run. It seemed like they were
escalating armed intervention trying to lead our officers away from The authorities' repression strategy
against popular revolutions in the main demonstration ••• On the bridge included other elements as well. In
the Third World, and rapid moves there were few problems, but the Moline, 7 members of the Chicago
toward a nuclear World War outlying radical groups caused Religious Taskforce on Central America
III .•. Our appeal is not to those numerous problems." The mobile groups were swept up before they had even
in power, those who are committed kept moving and blockading for up to reached the scene. This was just the
to war. Our appeal is to the an hour and then coalesced into one most blatant example of numerous
people: to take risks, to fight large group which took over the street arbitrary arrests and intimidation
for international justice and not and marched toward the bridgehead, tactics. The Moline Dispatch revealed
the "national interest." Being a blocking traffic as they went. When that the Davenport police used 6
Good American in 1985 is no met with a large police response, they undercover agents on the sidewalk,
different than it was to be a dispersed. Only a few of the mobile mingling: undercovers were also thick
Good German in 1935. We must blockaders were caught. 'in Moline. People arrested in Moline
take direct action, to develop were voice printed. The press played
resistance to war ••. that can Tactical innovation pervaded the its role, blacking out coverage
actually stop specific war plans action. The timed mobile blockades leading up to the 21st, following the
and effectively challenge the war demonstrated a level of coordination lead of a June editorial in the Rock
machine as a whole. Island Argus. As the last option, the
not often seen in the u.s. The Arsenal had 110 MPs from Fort Leonard
For 3 hours beginning at 4 AM Monday Wood, Missouri, stationed on the
morning, October 21st, 400 or so women's action showed that a island itself.
activists attempted to shut down the stationary blockade, with the
Rock Island Arsenal by blockading participants submitting to arrest, can Project Disarm, a Midwest regional
workers trying to drive onto the use materials and the element of effort which came together for the
island. The five-month organizing surprise for maximum effectiveness. first Shut Down action on June 4th,
campaign by Project Disarm culminated The DNA/Project Disarm guidelines 1984, is coordinated by Disarm Now
in an action with 127 arrests. Many include the use of "nonviolent bodily Action Group of Chicago and members of
of these were people attempting to force" to free people from police, the Quad-Cities War Resistance
blockade Arsenal workers, and many increasing the potential for Community, a Catholic-based group.
others were arbitrarily arrested. resistance. And a principle in Participants came from anti-war and
Several people were beaten by the organizing is "no negotiations": no church groups, college campuses and
police and pinned with outrageous, legal permits and no giving high schools all over the Midwest
trumped-up charges, including one information to the authorities about (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
felony charge. Dozens more engaged in plans for the action. Missouri, Indiana, Ohio), Brooklyn and
innovative mobile direct action and Ithaca, New York. Represented, among
were not caught. The Arsenal wasn't Police brutality was widespread on others, were the Northern Illinois
shut down, but as one Quad-Cities TV both sides of the river. In Methodists, No Business As Usual
news show put it, " ••• it was anything Davenport, the women were hit and youths from Chicago, Antioch College
but business as usual for the Arsenal kicked as they were arrested, and one
today." arrested man was clubbed for refusing Ohio, u. of w. and Malcolm Shabbazz HS
to leave a bus. Three women were
Rock Island Arsenal, the u.s. Army's charged with multiple misdemeanors, students from Madison, punks and U. of
including assault. In Rock Island, a M. students from Minneapolis.
largest, employs 9-10,000 civilians. 4-car police tac .squad attacked a Enthusiasm among participants ran high
2,500 work on the production lines for group that was moving down a street. afterward. Legal defense is underway,
howitzers that are supplied to the When people fled and freed one particularly for those facing
U.S. and to regimes including El another, the police tackled people and outrageous charges. Contributions can
Salvador, South Africa and the clubbed them repeatedly with be sent to: Project Disarm, c/o 407
Philippines. The rest work in nightsticks and flashlights. "The
administration and research for the cops were frantic," said Kim Clemons s. Dearborn #370, Chicago, IL 60605.
of Minneapolis, who was struck in the
u.s. Army's AMCCOM: Armaments, neck by a police nightstick, "They --Mike Haywood
just went crazy on us." Three youths
Munitions, and Chemical Command. were caught. Two, a man and a woman, Disarm Now Action Group, October, 1985
AMCCOM, headquartered~at Rock Island, were charged with battery, and one 19-
is a far-flung command that oversees year-old first-time demonstrator who
research, production and deployment of took 8 stitches in the head where the
all Army weapons, including chemical
and nuclear, putting it on the

frontlines of u.s. preparations to

fight and win World War III. The
production complex at Rock Island
includes research and development of
chemical and nuclear-capable howitzers
and shells.

Arsenal workers must cross one of 3
bridges spanning the Mississippi River
every workday morning. Because of
overwhelming security forces on the
bridges themselves, Project Disarm
focused its blockading on the city
streets leading toward them.

At 6:00 AM in Davenport, a women's Rape Crisis Center
group from Chicago, No Pasaran, drove
two cars up to within 2 blocks of the of Mclean County
bridge, jumped out and promptly
chained the cars together and to W~'RE A NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MAIN PURPOSE IS TO OFFER
parking meters on either side of the ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THEIR FRIENDS
street. They then chained themselves AND FAMILIES.
to the cars, and a crowd of supporters FEMALE VOLUNTEERS ANSWER OUR CALLS, BUT BOTH MALE AND FEMALE
gathered around to make the arrests as VOLUNTEERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR CRISIS ASSISTANCE, INFORMATION AND
difficult as possible. The blockade SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS.
succeeded for up to 30 minutes as
several other groups blockaded If you want to talk to one of us
secondary routes, and the crowd moved Call PATH 827-4005
into and out of the street adding to and ask for the
the disruption.
Rape Crisis Center
In Rock Island, several mobile action
groups carried out simultaneous
blockades at pre-designated times on
key arteries leading to the bridge
head. One of these blockades stopped
traffic on a main approach for up to
10 minutes using about 20 railroad
ties. One police car was immobjlized
by paint on the windshield as it
pursued a mobile group that was on
foot. Rock Island Police Sgt.
Anderson said, "Before the police's

· Page 10· December 1985 Post Amerlkan

Deputies start fight; local woma

On Tuesday evening September 11, 1984, observed the court testimony of Cathy Griffin's house at 910 w. Front
County Sheriff~ deputies knocked at Cathy's witnesses, who included John
Cathy Griffin's door at 910 W. Front McClelland, a ~riend who was visiting steps, police dragged her across the
St. They had a warrant for her that evening. All agree that police and bounce against the rails. While
boyfriend (now her husband), Eric started the physical confrontation. held her face down on the ground and
Gulya~h, ~or failing to appear in neck. Surgeons later removed pieces
court on a traffic charge. Everyone was inside the house except
Eric, who was sleeping on a cot on the hit Eric. Eric said the blow was
The city cops had already nabbed Eric front porch. When the County cops somewhere between a punch and a shove.
for that warrant the preceding Friday. came to the door, they asked f or Eric. The force knocked Eric back onto his
But Cathy got it all straightened out Cathy -said she just knew they were cot. He jumped back up, hopped over
that same day. She talked with there for that bogus warrant. Cathy the porch railing and ran.
assistant State 's Attorney Tom Davis told them she could get Eric in an
and Judge Ivan Johnson. They realized hour. Here's how Deputy Thompson's report
that Eric's failure to appear wasn't tells it. "Officer Sparrow told her
his fau lt. (It was his lawyer's The cops asked for everyone's she was under arrest and had to be
fault.) The judge got someone from identification. Cathy gave them a pulled back out of the residence were
the Circuit Clerk's office to call the phony name for the person sleeping on [sic] she fell upon the porch and
jail. Eric was rel eased late Friday the porch, Cath y said the cops front two steps. R/ 0 [Reporting
morning. started getting tough with her, Officer] had control of one of her
telling her she could go to jail for arms to effect the arrest and Eric
So when the Count y cops showed up at lying to them and harboring a Gulyash then came at Officer Sparrow
her door Tuesday night, Cathy knew · f ugitive. in a threatening manner as if to
there had been a mix-up. Someone had strike the officer. The subject,
forgotten to get all the pieces of Cathy tried to explain that their Gulyash, was pushed back down upon the
paper in the rig ht places, leaving the warrant wasn't valid anyway. But the blanket he had been sleeping with in
Sheriff's Dep artment with no official cops didn 't want to listen to her. order to avoid the battery."
notice that they should not act on the They wanted her to tell them again the
warrant for Eric. name of the person sleeping on the But Thompson~s description of events
porc h. Cathy knew the cops were on to leading up to the arrest report
Warrant no good her . contains a statement which Eric, John,
and Cathy hotly dispute. When he
Cathy told the deputies their warrant Cathy sa i d she stepped out onto the reports Sparrow removing the beer can
was no good. She offered to show them porch, woke Eric up, and to l d him he 'd from Eric's hand, Thompson says, "The
the paperwork to prove it. If Cathy have to go wi t h the cops. can was removed from his hand and he
had been a midd l e class citizen living was told to stand up to be escorted by
on the East side, deputies Sparrow and The discussion about harboring a R/O's. At that point Ms. Griffin
Thompson would probably hav e looked at fugitive continued. Cathy remembers struck officer Sparrow upon the upper
her paperwork, radioed in to the one of the cops saying that if she
Sheriff's office, and got the whole didn't shut up, she was going to go to
thihg straightened out. jail.

But Cathy's not middle class and she John McClelland was standing i n the
lives on the West side. Police know doorway, j us t behind Cathy. He
her and don't like her mouth. And witnessed most of the physical
deputy Brian Sparrow was already confrontation that was to begin.
angry. He told Ca thy to shove the
pap erwork up her ass. As things got more h eated , Cathy
r e members, she was screaming at th~
"Don worry cops about how they had better leave
you're feeling down and you dish her property , because they didn't have
out 20 years to some poor devil. a vali d warrant and she had the papers
The next day you feel great and to prove it.
everybody gets a suspended sen-
tence. lt all evens out in the end. " Deputy Sparrow to ld her to shove her
papers up her ass.
sparrow's statement launched a series
of .events (described in more detail Cop squishes can
further on), in which Cathy says she
was thrown down her own steps, dragged Eric started to get up to go with the
through her yard, dragged over cops. But first he grabbed a beer can
railroad tracks, and beaten in the that was near him. He started to take
legs with billy clubs. Because police a drink.
cruelly ground a billy club into the
back of her neck, Cathy eventually Officer Brian Sparrow grabbed the b~er
required surgery to remove pieces of can and crumpled it right in front of
broken disk from her neck. (She was Eric's .face. Beer splashed in Eric's
wearing a collar when I interviewed face from the force of Sparrow's
her in April, 1985.) Police charged aggressive gesture.
Eric with aggravated assault and
escape. Cathy faced charges of Cathy reacted to Sparrow's action.
aggravated battery and resisting a "It was just a . verbal reaction," John
peace officer. The county deputies-- McClelland testified. "She didn't do
who needed three back-up patrolmen anything physical. ...
from the Bloomington force--now face a
lawsuit which is still pending in That's when Sparrow shoved Cathy
federa 1 court. forcefuly back into John. "I think he
[Deputy Sparrow) pushed Cathy down. I
Police started fight know I went down ." John fell back
ihto a recliner that was jU~t inside
I have talked with Cathy, her son the door.
Derek, and Eric Gulyash. I also
Right after shoving Cathy back into
John, Sparrow grabbed her and. said
"You're going to jail now." John
testified that Sparrow picked her up
and threw her down on the porch.
Cathy immediately started kicking and
screaming.

Cathy said Sparrow grabbed her by the
arm or wrist and yanked her forcefully
forward. She said the cop "flung" her
down the stairs. She landed face
first, head toward the sidewalk, body
and legs still on the steps.

'Don't hurt her'

Eric saw Cathy yanked face down onto
the porch and steps. He saw both cops
go for her, one of them pulling her
arm behind her back. Eric stood up
from his cot and asked "Please don 't
hurt her." Sparrow got up fast and

Post-Amerikan December 1985 Page 11

an gets broken neck, six months

Deputy Sparrow chased after Eric, In court, none of the police officers
leaving Deputy Thompson alone to try remembered seeing any nightsticks or
to handcuff Cathy. He couldn't do it. billy clubs that night. (Oh well,
they can't be expected to remember
John testified that Thompson wrestled everything.)
around with Cathy a lot. He threw her
off the porch onto the sidewalk. He For resisting a peace officer, Cathy
bounced her around face first and was sentenced to six months in the
dragged her on the sidewalk. Thompson County Jail. She gets out during the
had only one cuff on her and couldn't days to go to work and be with her
get the other one on. family, which is certainly better than
a standard jail term.
John tried to help calm Cathy down at
one point, to get her to go But if McLean County Sheriff's
voluntarily with the police. He said deputies Greg Thompson and Brian
he almost succeeded when Deputy Sparrow had been willing to look at
Thompson became newly antagonistic. Cathy's paperwork and listen to her
story about Eric's warrant, she
John ran to Cathy's father's house, wouldn't be in jail at all.
then came back. When he returned, he
saw that reinforcements from --Mark Silverstein
the Bloomington police department
had arrived. They had their billy
clubs out.

Billy clubs

John testified that one county cop and
one Bloomington cop had Cathy face
down on the ground_

John saw the Bloomington cop center his
billy club on the back of Cathy's
neck. With a knee on each end of the
nightstick, the cop ground the club
into the back of Cathy's neck. They
finally got Cathy handcuffed, using
two sets of cuffs.

Afater getting Cathy cuffed, police
dragged her across the railroad tracks
which go through her front yard. John
saw three cops--one carried her on
each side while a third beat her 1 egs
with a billy club. Instead of

carrying her legs too, the cops let

them dangle and bounce over the
railroad tracks.

Eric, meanwhile, had quit running.
Handcuffed by Deputy Sparrow, Eric was
back in time to see Cathy dragged
across the railroad tracks.

When they got Cathy to the police van,
Eric said, he saw a Blooomington cop
beating Cathy's legs with a billy

club.

t. After flinging her down the porch When police hauled Eric and Cathy off Change your life
railroad tracks, letting her legs dangle to jail, they left Cathy's two sons
trying to get her handcuffed, police (ages seven and twelve) in the house,
forced a billy club into the back of h.er without making any provisions for them
of broken disk from her neck. or informing them about what was
happening to their parents.
chest and stated something out loud
about the arrest situation." Court

Cathy, Eric and John all said that Aggravated assault and escape charges at the next P·A
Cathy never struck Officer Sparrow. against Eric were dropped.
Sparrow's shoving Cathy back into John benefit.!
was the first physical contact. Cathy's aggravated battery charge was
bogus. But the State's Attorney's Has your life seemed a bit drab
Not polite office threatened to give Cathy three lately? Is the discovery of Nutty
years in prison for the aggravated Wheat Thins the most exciting thing
Cathy believes the final straw for battery unless she accepted their plea that's happened since August?
Sparrow was when she said "It's too bargain. They offered to drop the
bad people have to pay taxes to aggravated battery and give her six Well, if you can hang in there, plan
support assholes like you." That's months if she pled guilty to resisting on getting perked right up at the next
when Sparrow shoved her and yanked her a peace officer. It was a bluff. She Post Amerikan benefit, slated for Jan.
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any reason but my mouth," Cathy said. to go to trial for aggravated battery, .turn you on with their folksy, bluesy,
"And they made the worst come out." the State just dropped the charge. jazzy gig (as you may remember, the
Toasties are a self-styled coalition
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Cathy's mouth got even worse. She it's still illegal to resist it. Action Potential will be rockin' the
screamed and yelled and kicked and floor at the Galery in Normal.
resisted the officers' attempts to In September, Cathy had a jury trial
handcuff her. The cast she had from a for resisting a peace officer. But We're also considering auctioning off
previous wrist injury was hindering Judge Witte refused to allow any some Post Amerikan memorabilia like
the cuffing, and the officers' efforts testimony about the validity of the original My Sister, The Punk Ro~ker
to cuff it anyway were causing her a cop's warrant. Cathy was not cartoons and Post vending machines
lot of pain, which made her scream and permitted to explain that she'd taken that have seen the bottom of Miller
yell and struggle even more. Cathy care of the warrant the Friday before. Park Pond and typewriter ribbons
described herself as hystericai. She was not permitted to recount what stolen from narcs' garbage, selling
she was trying to explain to the cops colorful Post and My Sister T-shirts,
that night. She was not permitted to giving out autographs, letting our
explain why she was angry with the fans see that we're just plain people,
cops or why she said things that made and, as always, stumbling into ill-
the cops angry with her. Evidence advised liaisons. Look for'more
that the cop's warrant for Eric was details in the next Post!
invalid, Witte said, would have
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against Cathy.

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kept in his permanent £ile. potluck revival ~1oney," examines the forces influenc-
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An attorney with grievances filed All Bloomington/Normal women are in- economic and security concerns.
against him will be passed over, when, vited to a potluck on Sunday, Dec. 8
and if, he is ever considered for The film "Who's in Charge here?"
appointment for judgeship. Also, if at 3:00 in the afternoon at 1311 w. analyzes the economic effects of the
a lawyer is running £or some election, arms race and points to more product-
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gather monthly to show off their
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County Health Service and ask them to local and world significance). unwrapped Xmas present for Gift Lift).
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Robert Warren Cassity

977 Camp Road

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28144-0080

- - - --~ ... --, ""t'" - ---·~ ~-

Pigeons for my ·son Fo ~ F,Rtc~i) \Qf J:~AL!.­ Marcos jails
.'-f\1 p(!WN··.~ h!Vi~~j ..
I gave the boy ~'->t~~~~-M~ueL
a pair of pigeons
born and bred
in my harsh prison.

They had taped wings, kicking, strangulation, electric shock as "about nil," but the efforts of
and the instructions were and sexual molestation while being such writers as Noam Chomsky, Nadine
specifically held incommunicado for interrogation Gordimer, Denise Levertov, Audre
to keep them on for weeks purposes. Lorde, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller,
until they'd gotten used Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich and Alice
Subversion Walker have, in concert with other
to their new cages. international efforts, secured her
He never liked The original military charge of release from solitary and her transfer
the thought of me "subversion/rebellion and/or to Bicutan Prison, considered a
in prison, his own mother, conspiracy to commit subversion/ government "showcase."
rebellion and/or sedition" was reduced
and would not three days later by a civil court to The Philippine PEN asserts that Mila
stay for long mere violation of Presidential Decree is not in prison solely "for her
on visits. 33, "illegal possession of subversive writing," but because "the military
So perhaps I thought documents." Mila's companion, Cynthia believes that (she is a member of) a
of souvenirs. Nolasco, categorically denies that the Communist conspiracy that is behind
But the tape from his pigeons three were in possession of such the insurgency of the New People's
he removed one day, documents, insisting that "they must Army .... The Communist Party in the
and set them free. have come from a military storehouse," Philippines is illegal and many
You'd think (Malaya, January 23, 1985). The civil members of PEN ... have for sometime now
that would have angered me, court set bail at P600 ($33 U.S.), been arguing for its legalization so
or made me sad at least which the three paid in cash, but that membership in it should not be
but I guess we're of one mind. before they could be released, the cause for imprisonment." While
Why cage pigeons military produced antedated continuing its work for Mila's
who prefer free flight Presidential Detentive Act(s), release, Philippine PEN "would very
in the vaster, bluer skies? legalizing incarceration for up to one much like to see ... our American
year without charges. colleagues appeal to Washington so
--Mila Aguilar

Within the Philippine archipelago of So began an unusual and telling that no aid should be given to .
over seven thousand islands, there confrontation between Philippine
courts and the military. Mila Aguilar Marcos--aid which only entrenches him
operates another archipelago of 174 was kept in solitary confinement, then
prison camps and detention centers, in power and lengthens the agony of
the Philippine people."

where President Ferdinand E. Marcos taken before Military Commission No. Killings
confines his opponents by decree, 25 and charged with subversion; before

despite his announced suspension of Special Military Commission No. 1, she

martial law four years ago. was charged with rebellion. On the Nadine Gordimer has written of a
grounds that all such military
A "typical" isolation cell measures commissions were to have been "double demand" imposed upon writers
three meters square (with toilet), abolished with the lifting of martial in regions of political conflict,
where prisoners are kept padlocked but law, the poet refused to enter a plea
for brief exposures to daylight. In before these tribunals, so as not to " ..• the first from the oppressed to
the camps, men and women relieve recognize their legitimacy. The three act as spokesperson for them; the
themselves in buckets; where toilets then petitioned for mandamus· (an order second, from the state, to take
and sinks are available, they are issued to an office, agency or ~unishment for being that
often clogged. The air is sepia with corporation to follow an order). spokesperson." In recent months,
dust, fruit-flies and mosquitos, so writers and journalists in the
that prisoners have written that even On November 16, the civil court
the occasional breeze seems trapped denied the military's motion, and on Philippines have borne that burden.
inside. There is little water December 19, the Supreme Court ordered According to the Philippine National
Press Club, "The Philippines accounted
available for bathing, in some places the release of Nolasco and Tolentino,
only the rain, collected at intervals despite the Presidential Detentive for nearly one quarter of the global
total df 29 reporters killed in 1984."

The slain journalists include:

of six and eight months. The daily Act(s). They were released, but Mila --Manuel Julian, 28, a newspaper
food budget of thirty to fifty cents remained in solitary. By early columnist of the San Pedro Express,
(U.S.) is skimmed by "caterers" and September 1985, the Supreme Court is
expected to hear the case of Mila who was shot dead by gunmen inside a
guards, to allow only rice gruel, mpvie theater in Davao, about 600
Aguilar, but if the court orders her miles south of Manila on June 2nd
perhaps a small fish, a little coconut release, it may be that only

milk or soya, a rare egg. The

drinking water is polluted. Prisoners intensified international pressure can --Nabokodonosor Velez, 47, a
suffer from malnutrition, vitamin force the military to comply. commentator for the labor-run DYLA
deficiencies, beri-beri, tuberculosis,
malaria and amoebic dysentary. Pressure radio station in Cebu, about 360
Medicines are scarce. miles south of Manila, who was
attacked by six gunmen on June 1 as

Torture Could such pressure bring Mila Aguilar he watched his 19-year-old daughter
her freedom? The Philippines section compete in a beauty contest

Upon apprehension, detainees are taken of PEN International views her chances

to what the military refers to as a

"safe house," for a period of NOW OPEN

interrogation under torture which can
last as long as a month. They are
then transferred to a camp, provincial

jail, barracks or "rehabilitation"

center. Torture methods include

beatings, electric shock, cigarette

burns, thumb-tacks forced under

fingernails, sleep deprivation, sexual

molestation and the water ritual,

whereby a victim's face is tilted

back, and the mouth and nostrils

filled to near drowning.

Those who survive complain of chest
and leg cramps, insomnia, failing
vision and psychological imbalance.
For the latter, a word has been coined
in the Philippine dialect Cebuano:
the word buryong, "suggestive of food
that has begun to ferment due to
prolonged storage (buro) and psychosis
(buang)." Without English equivalent,
it describes the state of anxiety,
fear, mental lethargy and
disorientation that afflicts those who
succumb to it.

Mila Aguilar, a Filipina poet who has
been detained for a year, speaks of
her poetry as among her defenses

against buryong. On August 6, 1984,

she was arrested along with Cynthia
Nolasco and Willie Tolentino in La
Lorna, Quezon City, by the Metrocom
Intelligence and Security Group (MISC)
of the Philippines Constabulary. The
three were blindfolded and taken at
gunpoint to Camp Crame, where Mila was
forced into isolation in a windowbess
room and, according to Amnesty
International, endured beatings,

Page 14 December 1985 Post Amerlkan

Philippine writers Understanding prison

--Charlie Aberilla, 64, a radio One can always Priso,. is a double wall
commentator and columnist with the not understand. one of adobe
~indanao Scoop in !lagan, shot down The croaking of the other
ln the announcer's booth at radio a hundred toads so many layers
station DXWG (while on the air, can muffle of barbed wire
pleading for his life) even the silence, both formidable.
and the hum The outer wall
--Arturo Ybnzon, La Union reporter, of steady, is guarded
shot dead at point blank range in unending rain from watchtowers.
San Fernando in April 1985, The other
apparently as a result of an expose -::an silence is the prison
he wrote about a local protection even my croak. within,
racket One ·chooses where they will
hammer you
what to hear into the image
and then again of their own likeness,
what one hears whoever they are.
one can silence
because --Mila Aguilar
one has chosen--

--Tim Olivares, a reporter for Tempo, Among the Philippine contributions but when they are tried and convicted
who disappeared in February and is on crimes of conscience it is for what
presumed dead after publishing to the twisted euphemology of the they have done as 'more than a
reports of a drug-smuggling scandal writer.'" She quotes Camus: "It is
latter twentieth century, is this word from the moment when I shall no longer
--Vicente Villordon, like Velez, a be more than a writer that I shall
commentator on Cebu City's DYLA "~a~vage," which in Philippine cease to write."
radio station, shot dead by unknown
assailants as he was leaving work in m1l1tary parlance means "to save" "I am tempted to join/The black rosary
December 1984 passing by/Which they say wards off
information extracted from a victim evil./But I do not believe in God,/So
--Alex Orcullo, editor of Mindaweek, for now I find refuge/In writing a
"executed" at the roadside 1n front bsaevfoe r"e a destroy ing the so urce , a or i "to f poem" Mila wrote in "Poem Written Amid
of his wife and son in Davao City in Marcos opponent from l fe o Struggle." In "To A Foreigner" she
October 1984 acknowledges that "you accuse me of
opposition. Last year, there were 538 sloganeering/and being unpoetic/By
--Jacobo Amatong, publisher and editor
of the Mindanao Observer, gunned doc~mented c~ses of "salvaging"; writing lines like/'Damn the u.s.
down with human r1ghts lawyer Zorro
Aguilar in Dipolog City in September dur1ng the f1rst three months of 1985 Marcos dictatorship,'" and replies to
1984 this in still another poem: "In the
another ninety-three. A case is only' face of class murder/He~ can we be
--Noe Alejandrino, a reporter for the lyrical?" One is reminded of Neruda's
Manila_Business Weekly, murdered in considered documented, however when a response to those who warned him
Bocaue, Bulacan, in September 1984 against the inclusion of politics in
body is actually found. ' his poetry: "the truth is, I do not
--Geoffrey Siao, a reporter with the wish to please them."
Phillippine Post, killed in March The Philippine Supreme Court has come
1984 reportedly for his expose of to the aid of such voices in the past, --from American Poetry
irregularities involving government stirring hope for the outcome of its Review
officials. decision regarding Mila Aguilar. Last
year, the government "withdrew
When Jacobo Amatong was taken to the
hospital, he managed to whisper subversion charges against We Forum
"Army--Army--Army" before his death. publisher Jose G. Burgos, J~ and 12
No one has been charged with the
killing. columnists and staffers three months
after t~e Supreme Court ruled a July
Detention ~983 ra1d on the tabloid's premises
lllegal. The bulk of prosecution
During 1984, a documented 4,168 people
were detained for participating in evidence against Burgos and others
public demonstrations and other
opposition activities. Of that consisted of documents seized during
number, 851 remain in prolonged
detention, an unfavorable condition the raid, and, as a result, government
compared to mere imprisonment, wherein
the prisoner is sentenced to a given lawyers admitted their case was weak.
period, and at least knows the date of
its termination. Ironically, these Government attorneys also attempted to Post-Amerikan December 1985 Page 15
detainees are themselves among the block a Supreme Court ruling that
fortunate, having escaped being ordered the return of We Forum's Pall hanging over Manila
"salvaged" by the military. confiscated equipment,but eventually
lost in this effort, as well. We As the boat glides slowly
Forum was relaunched on January~1
(1985)." Portward ·

Activists Carrying still the fresh winds

"For these writers," writes Gordimer From sea and countryside
"there is no opposition of inner and'
outer demands. As they are writing,
they are at the same time political
activists in the concrete sense:
teaching, proselytizing, organizing.
When they are detained without trial
it may be for what they have written,

One can see the pall hanging over

EQU--AL OPPORTONI'tr Manila,

IN HOUS'I·NG· ·. City of one's birth,

One's most fevered child.

The dissonance of cars bustling to and

fro

Greets ears used now to the silence of

cicadas

Chirping warmly from cool treetops--

And later the gray smirking face·s

lined up

.IS YOURi"RIGHT! In jeeps reeking of sweat

And soot-laden collars.

If you feel you have been denied housing or treated unfairly because On the pall that hangs over Manila,
City of my birth to violence,
race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, ph ysicaf
My most fevered child!
mental handicap, or because you have children under 14 or require the
On a hilltop at night
use of a guide dog, contact the Far from the smokestacks belching
The daily black of exploitation
Bloomington Human I watch her, bejeweled now
Relations Commission With varicolored gems of light
Moving seeming slow from a distance.

She lies,
Hard black stone inlaid
With clusters of gold and diamonds and

rubies,
Hiding the many sins lurking behind

Esteros and seedy bars,
Knowing yet unthinking
Of the unfathomable grief she causes,

Grief causing lonely acts
Lonely acts pushing onward
A hungry desperate people.

· at Manila: metropolis mushrooming
Not out of any dream
. _ , . , . ,:128~7361· But the sweat of millions
. . .. ·:. . I On steel-hot machines
-~;··:, ·" ~ .,, . And the toll of millions more
..A.;tfl:1' . . On placid-fertile greens.

·The Blo.Omingto~ Humq,; R~1JB C:I!Mmtission- ;.,. --Mila Aguilar
· here to assist 'and tq h,e~: · · -· 23 May 1980

Page 16 December 1985 Post Amerikan

NEA under fire for'pornographic' poetry

On July J1 the House of Representa- by DeLay consisted of four titled were four authors and four grants; in
tives met to vote FY '86 funding for works, which DeLay introduced as fact, there were two authors and two
the National Endowment for the Arts follows1 "They (the poems) are from grants. Moreover, according to Frank
(NEA). Prior to that meeting, in a 1984 and each author received a Hodsollp "the Endowment did not
surprise move, Representative Tom $12,.500 grant." The statement support the writing of these poems
DeLay (R-Texas) called a press neglects to mention that of the four since each poet's Fellowship year
conference on Capitol Hill in which poems, three were written by Marcus began after they were written.
he proceeded to launch the latest Again, no Federal funds were ·
round.in the conservatives' ongoing Gra~es, who received a single grant involved."
campaign to reduce government funding of $12,_500 in 1984, and one by Mary
for the arts. Crowe, who also received a $12,_500 --Allison Gamble,
poetry fellowship in 1984. Thus, from New Art Examiner
A major portion of DeLay's attack was
directed at so-called pornographic the press statement implies that there
poetry allegedly written under the
auspices of NEA grants. Richard Armey Rep. De Lay leads attack
and Steve Bartlett, two other Repub-
lican Congresspeople from Texas, Post Note: The following are latter, he (sic) must prove that his
assisted DeLay in compiling his press excerpts from DeLay's press (sic) work is, in NEA's own words,
statement as well as a supporting release about the so-called worthwhile of "exceptional talent,"
packet of 11 poems bearing a cover "pornographic poetry." The right of an individual to free
p~ge emblazoned in large, hand-printed· speech does not extend to the
letters1 "Taxpayer Funded Pornography Today I will be offering an amendment obli~ation of a newspaper to print
--How you can be awarded up to his (sic) views, nor to the Federal
$12,.500 from NEA for obscene poetry." to cut funding for the National Government to bankroll them.
Endowment for the Arts by 10% of the
Pornography FY '8.5 level. The NEA is an agency --~ Art Examiner

In the Washington Times, Armey where abuse is out of control. _ We nred writers!
recounted how he "sat in (his) office Taxpayers are being forced to subsidize
with seven virile young men and not Send your
one of us could read • • , those poems pornographic poems. There is strong main pains
aloud, they were that bad," The poems evidence of" cronyism running rampant to the
in the packet DeLay introduced as Post, P.O.
evidence of NEA-funded pornography within the halls of the Endowment. Box 3452,
were divided into two groups. The Bloomington,
first section contained seven I have included a sampling Qf IL, 61702.
untitled and undated poems which use quotations from these poems, along
explicit language in describing with the amount of the cash award and GEORGE F TASE FF
anatomical parts and dealt with the year in which these grants were ATTORNEY AT LAW
subjects such as death, love, awarded. I hate to reproduce these but
alienation, and politics. I feel that many people would never General practice wiTh emphasis on
believe the grossness of the writing
Frank Hodsoll, Chair of the NEA, if they were simply told it was Criminal Law and Civil Ri9hts.
refuted DeLay's allegations in an obscene. Examples are required to
official letter, stating, "none of 102. N. CENTER, 4!!! FLOOR, 82 q-43q6
these poems was written earlier than make this point. So as not to tire
the period of the grant. Thus, no you with this offensive material, I Aalericaa·
Federal funds were involved." Allen
Binder, an aide to Rep. DeLay, have taken the liberty of omitting
admitted to this reporter that none
of these poems came from NEA files, vowels from the four-letter words.
none were submitted as part of an NEA
grant application, and none were While I am by no means a literary
written during the period of an NEA criticP I think it is fair to ask
grant. why this sort of literature should be
encouraged by our government with
No federal funds generous grants. One must distinguish
between the "right to publish" and the
The second group of poems presented "right to be funded." To qualify for

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$10,000, 1978 (NEA)

Post-Amerikan December 1985 Page 17

"Kiss of the Spider Woman --

biting realism

Most movies are well-advertised before martyrdom. The other prisoner is a homosexual translate his dreams into
their arrival in local movie theaters. worshipper of fantasy. His dreams and reality--personal love at great risk
There are preview-exc.erpts shown to illusions are to him more desirable and sacrificial discomfort and
the regular movie-goer that give a than reality. He is a homosexual humiliat~on. The viewer is given the
clear idea of what the movie is about. criminal whose crime was against an opportun1ty to see that, in his way,
And the news media also often builds underage boy. the dreamer does have a firmer
an audience by making attendance at a understanding of some parts of reaiity
particular movi~ into a popularity The viewer enters the prison cell than doe~ the realistic revolutionary.
index of a type of thinking. during the telling of a fantasy movie He ~xpl~lns.to the revolutionary who
"Entertainment" movies seem to fall by the homosexual to his cellmate. he 1s, 1n h1s story of the Spider
into three categories--humor, horror Each has his own understanding of this Woman. But it is the revolutionary
or "adventure," or some combination story-movie. One prisoner sees the who offers love at the highest price.
thereof. The "psychological drama" story as a great romantic love,
that falls outside those categories is transcending ideologies and This is not an entertaining movie, a
a very precarious proposition and nationalities, where love, in defiance movie that offers us release from
seems doomed to defeat due to lack of of the intelligence and higher harsh reality. But this is a very
a paying audience. loyalties of the lover, is enough to artistic movie and a movie that
make the lover offer herself into a clearly analyzes the human spirit.
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a sacrifice. The other prisoner first The homosexual is at first only very
psychological drama that cannot be sees the story as Nazi lies and entertaining, but then develops into a
abbreviated into a "preview-excerpt" propaganda, but then, touched as an sincere character capable of
to be shown to other movie audiences individual, reveals that he personally considerable nobility. The
to build an anticipation for the film. has experienced a love that could not revolutionary is a puzzle that is
The mating habits of the Black Widow be bound by ideologies. grudgingly and reluctantly revealed.
Spider suggest to the curious that There seem to be no unexpected
this movie is indeed about love and We also see the dreamer try to change defeats, and only moral victories--
death, but still it is far too the realist into a dreamer, and victories of the spirit over material
complicated for that simple a embrace personal love, rather than the coercion. The viewer is spared any
summation. When one sees all the futility of love of abstractions, such graphic sexual display and is given
Hispanic names in the movie credits as "Freedom, Justice, and Universal the opportunity to understand that
with no easily recognized Anglo Dignity." The realist tries to change homosexual love is as capable of
"stars" and some cultural art fund the dreamer into a participant in altruism as is heterosexual love.
providing the funding, the viewer reality--these are real scars where I Both prisoners get their desire--the
immediately should know that this is was tortured, immediate death is my homose~ual gives the revolutionary
no ordinary entertainment movie. certain fate, I am still a part of the the capacity to dream and to achieve
revolutionary struggle even here,· the only possible joyful release he
The movie is about two prisoners in a imprisoned and helpless, Nazis fed can obtain. The revolutionary gives
South American prison. One is a faggots into the gas ovens. the homosexual the choice of being
realist, a revolutionary who knows able to actually live the kind of love
that his prison stay is oniy a prelude The two prisoners, each operating that he has dreamed about. It is a
to his death. If he reveals his according to his own true beliefs and very interesting movie, an
secrets under torture or deception, he highest desires, do change each other. enlightening movie, rather than an
will die sooner. If hP refuses to The dreamer makes the revolutionary entertaining one.
reveal his secrets, he will only aware that he is an individual with
prolong the agony of dying, but he may personal fantasies and unrealistic --Ralph Dring
at least achieve the futile dignity of desires. The revolutionary makes the

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Page 18 December 1985 Post Amerikan

ians. and AIDS hysteria

Do what to your neighbor?

The other night, just for the heck of a seventh-grade hemophiliac who had tives, Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA)
it, I re-read the parable of the Good caught AIDS from a blood transfusion; asserted that "God's plan for man was
Samaritan. You know, the one in the Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" and
New Testament. In the Bible. The --In Texas, a company fired a homosex- complained that "in.an age of ubi-
Holy Bible. ual who did not have AIDS and ordered quitous pornography and blunt speech,
all its employees to take a blood it should not be so hard to say in
You remember the story. It was told test; plain English that AIDS is almost
by X, the reputed founder and inspir- entirely a disease caught by men who
ation of the mighty Xian religion. X --In Florida, an AIDS victim seeking bugger and are buggered by dozens or
had commanded some folks to "love to protect his dentist from infection even hundreds of other men every year."
your neighbor as yourself," and one reported his disease, and then was The message seems clear to me: In
legalistic type in the crowd wanted to fired; Xian Amerika if you've got AIDS and
know just how far he had to go wi·th you're waiting for the Good Samaritan
this cockamamie notion, so he asked X, --In Colorado, health officials now to come along, you have as much chance
"And who is my neighbor?" keep a list of all persons who test of seeing that as a camel has of pass-
positive for AIDS; ing through the eye of a needle. Xian
In response, X told the parable of the Amerika would rather support dictators
Good Samaritan. --In Texas, an insurance company has and accommodate apartheid than give
advised its agents to check the life- aid and comfort to a bunch of queers.
It's a simple tale, really. Nothing styles of policy applicants, to screen Every now and then some benighted Xian
much happens: a man gets beaten and out potential AIDS victims; asks us gay folk how we can reconcile
robbed and left to die; some members our homoseuality with god or religion
of the Galilean Moral Majority won't --In Florida, a judge has ordered a or Xianity. Seems to me the Xians hav
touch the guy and pass by him on the man charged with a sex offense (pub- a lot of reconciling of their own to
other side of the road; a Samaritan do; they need to reconcile their beha-
comes along, feels compassion for the It's very nice, dear, but d~ you think Des Moines is ready for it? vior and feelings with their very own
dying victim, bandages his wounds, teachings. And they should start with
carries him to an inn, takes care of licly engaging in mutual masturbation) the parable of the Good Samaritan.
him, and pays for his extended care to take the AIDS-antibody test; the --Ferdydurke
coverage. (Obviously "Samaritan" is judge said he would require the test Sources: News.week, Nov. 25, 1985; The
an ancient word meaning Blue-Cross of others appearing before him on Advocate, Nov. 2u, 1985; USA Today,---
"sex charges"; Nov. 4, 1985; The so-called Holy Bible,
lue-Shield representative.) revised standard version.
--In Massachusetts a physician has Author's note: The use of X as a sym-
s I said, nothing much happens--it's actually suggested that the state in- 'bol for Christ and Christians is, in
a simple, straightforward tale of voke an old public-health regulation reality, not a snotty typographical
compassion in action. What is even to quarantine "irresponsible" carriers affectation of a godless commie ·
of the AIDs virus and then send them writer. It is, rather, a traditional
ore interesting--especially these abbreviation, once used by the Xians
days--is what does not happen in the to an island off the coast of Cape themselves as a code to protect
parable of the Good Samaritan. Cod, which was once used as a leper themse~ves from persecution--sort of
colony. like calling yourself "gay" or wear-
o condemnation ing a blue handkerchief in your left
(Well, the Xians were wrong about lep- pocket. I am not making this up;
Amazingly, the Samaritan just helps the rosy for thousands of years; I look in the American Heritage Dic-
man. He doesn't berate the victim or guess we can't expect them to be tionary under X, defini ti.on 1. It is
blame him for his condition. He also true that the godless writer of
doesn't tell him that he shouldn't be re~sonable and scientific about AIDS.) this article found it a lot easier to
hanging out in dangerous places or use the symbol than to repeatedly
that he deserved what he got and Little charity write out the hateful name of his
should change his lifestyle and that persecutors.
And the lies and the insulting remarks
hat happened to him is god's pun- of public officials show little Xian FINE GAY. ENTERTAlNMEN
ishment. The Samaritan simply feels charity and concern for the victims:
compassion and does something to aid IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS
a human being in pain. ~-writing in a national newpaper, a
OPEN NIGHTLY 'TIL 4A.M.
I wonder how many Xians in this coun- member of the Indiana legislature
try have read this parable. Maybe PRESENT THIS AD AT THE BAR
they don't have it in their bibles · said: "Sodomy is an evil that may be FOR A DRINK. LIMIT ONf PER
anymore. Maybe they've replaced it
the catalyst for a devastating plague CUSTOMER PER NIGHT
ith the Book of Armaments or the
arable·· of Ferdinand Marcos or the II •
eatitudes of apartheid.
••• I
I mean, all these electronic preachers
keep ranting about what a Xian nation --speaking about the passage of his

e've got and how we should get back amendment to give the Surgeon General
to X's teachings, and how we need the power to close gay bath houses,
prayer in the schools and creation Rep. Robert Dornan of California
in biology and nativity scenes in said: "This is a tiny, small step
city hall and Pat Robertson in the forward to do something to help people
White House. But what do they have to who in many cases seem unable or un-
say about the Good Samaritan? Not willing to help themselves as far as
one frigging thing. stopping the transmission of this
disease";
Instead, Pat Robertson and Pat Buchan-
an (aka Ronald Reagan's director of --addressing the House of Representa~
communications) can sit around on the
700 Club and blame gay men for VEGETARIAN RECIPES
bringing AIDS to this country and com-
plain about having to pay a "sin tax" 10 Nutritious&. Delicious $2.00 and SASE. Also
to help AIDS victims who got that Nuke Reagan Bumperstlckers, $1.00 each and
awful disease by buggering African SASE. Send cash Only to:
lads and Haitian boys and each other.
99 REO BALLOONZ
Moral outrages PO Box 152 • Dearborn Heights, Ml48127

If the AIDS crisis and the AIDS hyster-
ia have taught us anything, it's that
Amerika is about as Xian as witchhunts
and the Inquisition. The number of
moral outrages that have been perpe-
trated in response to AIDS would make
Torquemada weep for joy. Try these
on for size:

--In New York, neighbors tried to
evict a physician who treated AIDS
patients;

--In New Orleans, a construction worker
was fired after a magazine reported
he feared he had AIDS (he didn't);

--In New Jersey, parents of students
kept their children home because a
fourth grader's sister had inherited
AIDS-related complex from her mother}

--In Indiana, authorities sought to bar

Post-Amerikan December 1985 Page 19

What if somebody says you're gay?

urviving military witchhunts

Post Note: The following is from a gay cases. The groups named below can 3. KEEP QUIET. If you want to stay
leaflet written for military help you find inexpensive or free in, anything you say can and will be
personnel. For copies of the leaflet, used against you. You can even be
please contact the. organizations "I tried homosexuality, and it discharged for saying what you think
listed at the end of the article. tasted a whole lot better than Coca-Cola!" or feel. If you want to get out,
saying the wrong thing can ruin your
The Pentagon says, "Homosexuality is I CHRISTOPHER STREET discharge or get you court-martialed.
incompatible with military service." Military investigators are paid to
But if they try to kick you out for civilian counsel. You should talk to convince you that they are your
being gay, you can fight back and you civilian counsel before you talk to friends. Any discussion with one of
might well win. On the other hand, if the military lawyer and before you do ~them which lasts 30 seconds has lasted
you want to get out for being gay, you anything else. twenty-five seconds too long.
can get an honorable discharge.
4. DON'T TATTLE. You may be asked for
Things you should know the names of people you think are
lesbian or gay. Giving names will
1. The military regulations treat never, ever help you! T~ ----
bisexuals the same as lesbians and investigators will only despise you
gays. They define "homosexual" as for selling out your friends--and your
anybody who ever wanted to have a friends may end up in trouble.
lesbian or gay experience.
5. MEMORIZE THESE RULES: "Say nothing!
2. In the military, doctors, Sign nothing! Get counsel! Fight
chaplains, and most legal assistants back!"
do not keep secrets. What you tell
the psychiatrist can end up on your For more help, contact: Midwest
Commanding Officer's desk. Only a Committee for Military Counseling, 42
lawyer who is to represent you is S~ Wabash, 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL
obligated to keep information 60605, (312) 939-33491 or Military La
confidential. Task Force, National Lawyers Guild,
1168 Union, #202, San Diego, CA
3. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TALK TO ANYBODY. 92101, (619) 233-1701.

Things you should do --RECON Network

If you want to get out of the
military, or if somebody says you are
gay:

1. GET A MILITARY LAWYER. If you Hooray for Norway
follow the regs exactly, you may be
able to stay in if you want, and you

can get out. But if you mess up, you Norway has a national law which speci- broadcast.
could get a bad discharge or court- fically protects gay people from dis-
martialed. The regs are complicated crimination and persecution. The 1981 Hans Bratterud, an evangelist who re-
and tricky. You will need help. If statute makes it illegal to "publicly ceives some funding from the ~oral
they try to kick you out, you have the threaten, insult, or bear hatred Majority, received what is the first
right to a military lawyer. Get one! towards, persecute or hold in con- such conviction in history: a 30-day
But the military lawyer might not have tempt a person or group of persons suspended sentence, a 2,500 kroner
experience with lesbian or gay cases. on the grounds of homosexual orienta- ($315) fine and two years' probation
He or she might not have time to do a tion and way of life" or to discrimi- for break~ng the law.
good job or may be prejudiced. nate in "professional activities or
Sometimes military lawyers are great, use of facilities." Bretterud--who had said that "homosex-
but sometimes they give bad advice uals should be removed from any lead-
that could get you court-martialed. France passed a similar law in July of ing positions they hold in our coun-

2. GET CIVILIAN COUNSEL. You also this year. try"--welcomed the legal action. In
have the right to civilian counsel, court, he pleaded with the judges
but you have to arrange for it In September Norway's supreme court .to make him a martyr by imposing the
yourself. Civilian counsel means a found a fundamentalist preacher guilty largest possible sentence.
civilian lawyer or military counselor of violating this gay rights law by
who has experience with lesbian and making antigay statements in a radio "I ask the court to punish me as hard
as possible," he said. "The only

thing that can help Norway today is

p that I go in the footsteps of Jesus,

\ (. "'-· • Jterbs •SjiceS •:FY'Uits • Vegetafies ·}Juts .;-. who suffered and died for our sins •
I witness before God and fellow
human beings that I would have said
it all over again. It would be a good
thing for the country if my prayer
that open gay and lesbian people lose

• thier jobs be fulfilled."

The court refused to martyr Bratterud,
though, setting a light sentence.

--The Advocate, Nov. 26, 1985

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