"Stop the Grand Jury!!!!"
Title
"Stop the Grand Jury!!!!"
Subject
Legal Reform Movement
Description
This pamphlet criticizes expanded grand jury powers and the way they are used against political activists. In part it argues:
"THE INTERNAL SECURITY DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOW TRYING TO LAY DOWN A WIDE FOUNDATION FOR INDICTMENT AND PROSECUTION OF MANY INTER-RELATED POLITICAL 'CRIMES' AND CONSPIRACY CHARGES. IT IS CREATING A WHOLE NEW PATTERN OF REPRESSION, INTIMIDATION AND FEAR. THIS PATTERN CAN BE USED SELECTIVELY FOR THE TIME BEING BUT IT OFFERS VERY SWEEPING POLICE STATE POWERS FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S FUTURE USE."
"THE INTERNAL SECURITY DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS NOW TRYING TO LAY DOWN A WIDE FOUNDATION FOR INDICTMENT AND PROSECUTION OF MANY INTER-RELATED POLITICAL 'CRIMES' AND CONSPIRACY CHARGES. IT IS CREATING A WHOLE NEW PATTERN OF REPRESSION, INTIMIDATION AND FEAR. THIS PATTERN CAN BE USED SELECTIVELY FOR THE TIME BEING BUT IT OFFERS VERY SWEEPING POLICE STATE POWERS FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S FUTURE USE."
Creator
Bay Area Committee to Stop the Grand Jury
Source
Roz Payne
Publisher
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
Format
mimeograph
Type
leaflet
Original Format
paper
Collection
Citation
Bay Area Committee to Stop the Grand Jury, “"Stop the Grand Jury!!!!",” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/454.