¡Basta Ya!, No. 19

              go A LETTER
Ststement
We the twenty seven slave- convicts,
black, brown and white alike, of San
Quintin Adjustment Center stand victi-mized
through a plot of conspiracy to
be murder just like our comrade George
L. Jackson, was murder August 21,1971.
The scene was made to 110k 55 an sca-pa
attemt, but it was a conspiracy to
murder the Soledad Brothers and Ruchel
Magee in particular» and the rest of
the freedom fighter in general.
Since the State fail to murder the
remaining ( two) Soledad brothers and
Magee, the're attemting to project
them as leaders, in order to bias the
mind of the people. The State know the
Soledad brothers have world wide su-pport
and their present case will not
stand up in court, due to the power of
the people to meat their own justice
when they see victims are unjustly ac-cused.
The state know that Magee has
been held in slavery illigally for se-ven
years for known fraud evidence.
This whole mass murder conspiracy was
the state's desperate but feeble at-temt
to eliminate prominent political
prisoners and save court cost.
Since August 21, 1971. Warden Parks
has diseminated to the people false
propaganda and lies. This is why we
are held in a state of incommunicado
to amputate us from the people. We
vere deprive of penciland paper for a
lenghty piriod of time. The first do-cument
that was drawn was done so
with paper and pencil that was smuggled
to us .We are still to a great degree,
cut off from the people; the sudden
restrictions impose upon our viaits;all
books, magazines and newspapers have
been stopped, We aro not allowed to
have earphones to hear the news. Most
of us are in constant hunger due to
the lock of nutrition that is necessa.
ry to maintain good health. These ars
just a few of the gestapo-like tactics
employed by this prison pig administra-tion
in an effort to silence us and
prevent their exposure.
August 21,l97l,twenty-seven of us ex-pirience
fascism in its rawest form.
We were Subjected to all kinds of phy-sical
brutality i.e. beaten with clubs,
kicked, torture with lighted cigarret-tes
cursed at, spit on dragged, stuck-ed
with pins,etc, etc.A1l this was go-ing
while we were chaned like animals,
lying naked upon the grass. The hand
cuffs, and leg- chains were put on so
tight that our blood stopped circula-ting
and sour linbs were numb, This ja
the same position ( chained down) Al
Mancino was in when a fascist pig(ap-poximately
three feet away) shot
him. One pig said he was shot becau-se
he moved and another one ( pig)
stated he was chot because he asso-ciated
with dirty niggera and grea-sers.
Mancino was wrapped up with a
rag without being un-shackled and was
thrown in s cart and was carried sway.
We were msde to lie in this inhuman
and antagonizing position eppoximately
six hours. Then we were dragged in the
building to have our heads sud eyes
brows shaven. From there we were kic-ked
and beatien and made to crswl on
our knees to our cells.Our lives are
threatened daily auch as: we will be
poisoned, we will he gassed, we will
never leave the Adjustment Center a-live,
there will be no court for us,
etc. etc. The çhains and hand-cuffs
are always put on tight when we go on
our visits and we're always beaten and
spit on. This type of treatment goes
on every dey and they're trying to re-duce
us to the lowest terms. We rea-liza
that we're at their mercy, but
as proud slaves, there is so much we
will stand ir, order to maintain our
dignity as men. In this type of at-mosphere
there will be more conflict.
As you know we are up against the
greatest odds and will come out on
the short end.
This is why we must be taken out of
the custody of the state and trans-ferred
to s federal institujon. Con-gressmen,
senators, lawyers etc. have
been in here as investigators. They
have seen how we have been brutalized,
humiliated and starved. We are won-dering
do they realize that our lives
are in danger constsotly and that
every time investigators leave the
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SsQ, 27 prizon grounds we are brutalized and put back on a restricted food diet.
We feel that our true words are
not getting to the people without being
diluted and distorted, therefore this
paper is necessary.
Th.re are Blaek, kown and I4site con-rada
here that don't belong to any par-ticular
political organization. All they
ask for, is the people's support in our
day to day struggle. We realize that
people have the habit of not identifying
with people that don't adhere to a cer-tain
ideology or concept. However, there
are men among us from all walks of life
and some of us don't read Marx, Lenin»
Engels, Mao, etc. As a matter of fact
some of us can't read periodi What we
are saying is that, we need help from
anybody, be they punks, pimps, prosti-tute,
preacher or p.h.d's. It is time
for the people to come together in spite
of our political beliefs. Petty politics
is just snother form of division that
has kept us from working together.
Also, we have formed the habit of co-unter-
attacks instead of attacks. Mean-ing
that we wait until one or more of
our comrades have been murdered before
someone decides to re-act out of emo-tional
impulse, which results in the
captures or death of more comrades. We
cannot continue to swap lives with the
pigs, that is not winning. Comrade Geo-rge
said that 'we must learn how to fight
Anybody can die; dying ia easy, liv-
-ing and being respected as men and equal
among all men.
We do not mourn or weep for our belov-d
comrade. He the dragon- has instilled
in our hearts and minds the courage and
knowledge to carry on his ideals, in his
dynamic spirit. He has made the ultimate
sacrafice and his Black blood is the
nourishment that gives us (the baby dra-gons)
the strength to struggle against
the overwhelming odds of oppression. We
shall avenge him, for we are the ones
who knsw. and loved him most. We shared
his joy and sorrow, his pain and pleas-ure,
We are a part of him and he a part
of us.
Kenneth E. Devons
Charles Gardner
Robert B Soto
Luis N. Talamsatea
Gary Hetlind
Ruchell Magee
Lawrence Justice
Bobby Maybe
Willie Tate
Lawrence Fields
Allen Mancino
Bernard Gordon
Johnny L Spain
David Johnson
Felton Cooper
Bernard G. Dunn
Arthur E. MacHays
Allen Fisher
Earl Gibson
Arthur Anderson
Hugo A. Pinel
Jack Joukes
Louis Lara
Raymond W. csragei4
Arthur Gibson
John Cluchette
3.Q, MAXIMUM SECURITh'.