Dublin Core
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
Katzenbach 5 kirts Demand
F —fit— Gf - Rod
To Prosecite Garnuchaeh
By ROBERT S. ALLEN
and PAUL SCOTT
WASHINGTON Attorney ,
General Katzenbach has a ing that the Department of Jus-
“Black Panther” by the tail and tice forthwith commence pro-
doesn’t know whether to try to ceedings of a criminal nature,
bell it or let go. applying the penal provisions of
the draft law against Carmi-
The militant ‘‘cat’’ is Stokley chael,
Carmichael, 25-year-old organiz- «4; members of Congress, we
a i the ae have sensed that action of a
anther Negro criminal nature would have
Party and the { been initiated: long ago’ were it
head of the Stu- - not for the fact that this individ-
dent Nonviolent _ ual has been parading about the
Co or dinating " land masquerading as a sup-
Com mittee. © posed civil rights leader. We are
(SNCC). of the opinion that if left un-
A group of checked by the government,
ra ere a such dangerous Americans as
Hehe A” Carmichael could and will pro-
ert Sweeney, D, |
and Wayne|>
Hays, D, both §
strong civil right |
| advocates, have
bluntly notified
| Katzenbach to
| either end his vacillating on Car-
' michael or they will go directly
to President Johnson and de- —
mand forceful action.
For more than a month the
lakers pave, bombarded th the
idee calls and telegrams urg-
osecution of Carmichael
io ing Cleveland Negroes to
i the he Selective Service law
d not register for the draft.
But Katzenbach has done —
nothing,
All Sweeney and Hays have
gotten from him is a polite |
enh ott over the phone and
form letters signed by aides that —
Katzenbach had their correspon-
dence.
‘Stil unanswered. is a letter cit-
Carmichael’s inflammable
anti-draft statements and urging |
his prosecution as a deliberate —
law violator.
the orders of the Selective Servy-
ice System.
“Weowisty tordraw your atten-
"hon to the fact that Stokley
Carmichael made an appear-—
ance in Cleveland reeently in an
effort to sitr up sentiment |
against the war in Viet Nam,”
the ieee se “AS ue
of his p Carmic !
‘golihseted. bis aaa in ex-
ess of 500, that they should
ae refuse to cem-
aly with the provisions of the.
Universal Military Training and
| Service Act.”
+ p *
THE LAW — Flatly
gerous American aa appears
the scene with vi
on the sia ene
cies,
“We ate » advised that the pen-
al provisions Of the Universal
Military ‘Training and Service
Act .., do apply against such
persons as: Carmichael who
would aes to nol only Fidi-
ent the ry, but to ¢
others to’ avoid ‘conabiiance Will
“Accordingly, we are request-'
mote riots of sizable dimension
in our cities and succeed in the
development of a pattern of an-
arch in many parts of the
an any
Should Katzenbach continue te
ignore their insistence that Car-
michael be prosecuted, the leg-
islators will seek a une ees
al probe,
“The Carmichael case in-
volves much more than just one
person “advocating defiance of ~
the draft law,” says Representa-
tive Sweeney. ‘The question is
whether the atlorney general is
practicing a double standard of
justice; one for civil rights vio-
lators and another for civil
ea leaders who violate the
aw.”