Hampton
19th August 2006, 23:09
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Ruchell Cinque Magee is the longest held political prisoner in the world, he has been in jail for more than 42 years, his captives hold him in violation of the law and the Constitution.
Slavery is being practiced by the system under color of law – Slavery 400 years ago, slavery today; it's the same thing, but with a new name. They're making millions and millions of dollars enslaving Blacks, poor whites, and others - people who don't even know they're being railroaded. -- Ruchell Cinque Magee
Ruchell C. Magee arrived in Los Angeles, California in 1963, and wasn't in town for six months before he and a cousin, Leroy, were arrested on the improbable charges of kidnap and robbery, after a fight with a man over a woman and a $10 bag of marijuana. Magee, in a slam-dunk "trial," was swiftly convicted and swifter still sentenced to life.
Magee, politicized in those years, took the name of the African freedom fighter, Cinque, who, with his fellow captives seized control of the slave ship, the Amistad, and tried to sail back to Africa. Like his ancient namesake, Cinque would also fight for his freedom from legalized slavery, and for 7 long years he filed writ after writ, learning what he calls "guerrilla law", honing it as a tool for liberation of himself and his fellow captives. But California courts, which could care less about the alleged "rights" of a young Black man like Magee, dismissed his petitions willy-nilly.
In August, 1970, MaGee appeared as a witness in the assault trial of James McClain, a man charged with assaulting a guard after San Quentin guards murdered a Black prisoner, Fred Billingsley. McClain, defending himself, presented imprisoned witnesses to expose the racist and repressive nature of prisons. In the midst of MaGee's testimony, a 17 year old young Black man with a huge Afro hairdo, burst into the courtroom, heavily armed.
Jonathan Jackson shouted "Freeze!" Tossing weapons to McClain, William Christmas, and a startled Magee, who given his 7 year hell where no judge knew the meaning of justice, joined the rebellion on the spot. The four rebels took the judge, the DA and three jurors hostage, and headed for a radio station where they were going to air the wretched prison conditions to the world, as well as demand the immediate release of a group of political prisoners, know that The Soledad Brothers (these were John Cluchette, Fleeta Drumgo, and Jonathan's oldest brother, George). While the men did not hurt any of their hostages, they did not reckon on the state's ruthlessness.
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Magee, who was the only Black survivor of what has come to be called "The August 7th Rebellion," would awaken to learn he was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, and further, he would have a co-defendant, a University of California Philosophy Professor, and friend of Soledad Brother, George L. Jackson, named Angela Davis, who faced identical charges.
The jurors in Ruchel's case, all 12, found him "not guilty" in the Marin Court incident, where he rebelled against slavery and was on his way to a TV/radio station to tell the world that the United States of America was practicing slavery when James McClain, William Christmas, Jonathan Jackson and Judge Harold Haley were murdered by prison guards on Governor Ronald Reagan's orders. Juror Moses Shepard said in his declaration dated April 28, 1973, "That, under the law, rightfully applied, he Ruchell) should be a free man," and if he had been freed after the first acquittal, he would not have been in the Marin court room on August 7th 1970.
Links
Ruchell Cinque Magee and the August 7th Courthouse Slave Rebellion By Kiilu Nyasha (http://www.prisonactivist.org/blackaugust/BlackAugust_1_KN.shtml)
Introduction to the case By Curtis Mullins (http://www.dickgregory.com/dick/Ruchell_Cinque_Magee.html)
The Campaign to Free Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee (http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/08/home/davis-campaign.html)
Ruchell Cinque Magee: Sole Survivor Still by Mumia Abu-Jamal (http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/ruchell-magee/index.html)
The American judiciaries conspiracy to deny due process: Introduction to Ruchell Cinque Magee’s Case By Curtis Mullins (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/516.html)
Ruchell Cinque Magee is the longest held political prisoner in the world, he has been in jail for more than 42 years, his captives hold him in violation of the law and the Constitution.
Slavery is being practiced by the system under color of law – Slavery 400 years ago, slavery today; it's the same thing, but with a new name. They're making millions and millions of dollars enslaving Blacks, poor whites, and others - people who don't even know they're being railroaded. -- Ruchell Cinque Magee
Ruchell C. Magee arrived in Los Angeles, California in 1963, and wasn't in town for six months before he and a cousin, Leroy, were arrested on the improbable charges of kidnap and robbery, after a fight with a man over a woman and a $10 bag of marijuana. Magee, in a slam-dunk "trial," was swiftly convicted and swifter still sentenced to life.
Magee, politicized in those years, took the name of the African freedom fighter, Cinque, who, with his fellow captives seized control of the slave ship, the Amistad, and tried to sail back to Africa. Like his ancient namesake, Cinque would also fight for his freedom from legalized slavery, and for 7 long years he filed writ after writ, learning what he calls "guerrilla law", honing it as a tool for liberation of himself and his fellow captives. But California courts, which could care less about the alleged "rights" of a young Black man like Magee, dismissed his petitions willy-nilly.
In August, 1970, MaGee appeared as a witness in the assault trial of James McClain, a man charged with assaulting a guard after San Quentin guards murdered a Black prisoner, Fred Billingsley. McClain, defending himself, presented imprisoned witnesses to expose the racist and repressive nature of prisons. In the midst of MaGee's testimony, a 17 year old young Black man with a huge Afro hairdo, burst into the courtroom, heavily armed.
Jonathan Jackson shouted "Freeze!" Tossing weapons to McClain, William Christmas, and a startled Magee, who given his 7 year hell where no judge knew the meaning of justice, joined the rebellion on the spot. The four rebels took the judge, the DA and three jurors hostage, and headed for a radio station where they were going to air the wretched prison conditions to the world, as well as demand the immediate release of a group of political prisoners, know that The Soledad Brothers (these were John Cluchette, Fleeta Drumgo, and Jonathan's oldest brother, George). While the men did not hurt any of their hostages, they did not reckon on the state's ruthlessness.
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7884/210605808c9962eee6dwm1.jpg
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/5701/2105929409afcfa6db7js0.jpg
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2303/210565627ff56a5b5e9gf2.jpg
Magee, who was the only Black survivor of what has come to be called "The August 7th Rebellion," would awaken to learn he was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, and further, he would have a co-defendant, a University of California Philosophy Professor, and friend of Soledad Brother, George L. Jackson, named Angela Davis, who faced identical charges.
The jurors in Ruchel's case, all 12, found him "not guilty" in the Marin Court incident, where he rebelled against slavery and was on his way to a TV/radio station to tell the world that the United States of America was practicing slavery when James McClain, William Christmas, Jonathan Jackson and Judge Harold Haley were murdered by prison guards on Governor Ronald Reagan's orders. Juror Moses Shepard said in his declaration dated April 28, 1973, "That, under the law, rightfully applied, he Ruchell) should be a free man," and if he had been freed after the first acquittal, he would not have been in the Marin court room on August 7th 1970.
Links
Ruchell Cinque Magee and the August 7th Courthouse Slave Rebellion By Kiilu Nyasha (http://www.prisonactivist.org/blackaugust/BlackAugust_1_KN.shtml)
Introduction to the case By Curtis Mullins (http://www.dickgregory.com/dick/Ruchell_Cinque_Magee.html)
The Campaign to Free Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee (http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/08/home/davis-campaign.html)
Ruchell Cinque Magee: Sole Survivor Still by Mumia Abu-Jamal (http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/ruchell-magee/index.html)
The American judiciaries conspiracy to deny due process: Introduction to Ruchell Cinque Magee’s Case By Curtis Mullins (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/516.html)