They was really happy, you know, talking about Chairman Fred is dead. And in addition to proving, as I said, that it was a one-sided raid, that the police came in firing, the evidence also showed that Fred Hampton was in fact killed with two bullets, parallel bullets, fired into his head at point-blank range. You dig what I’m saying? When he looked up, just looked up, he didn’t say a word. They stopped shooting. You might get caught up in the emotion of this movement. He never got elected to anything again. So, internally, the The Panthers were smart enough to invite the community in. But that’s alright, because we said even before this happened, and we’re going to say it after this and after I’m locked up and after everybody’s locked up, that you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. We were in our bed. We wanted to be—so we started the People’s Law Office in a sausage shop.
New Book, “The Assassination of Fred Hampton” Discussed on Democracy Now!, December 4, 2009 Had Fred Hampton lived, he would have been 62 years old and possibly ready for retirement. is a 501(c)3 non-profit news organization. And in addition to proving, as I said, that it was a one-sided raid, that the police came in firing, the evidence also showed that Fred Hampton was in fact killed with two bullets, parallel bullets, fired into his head at point-blank range. He was just 21 years old. The police never sealed it. And the more we dug and the more we uncovered, the more interested we got and the more we realized that this was a national program.
He’ll barely make it.” I assumed they were talking about Chairman Fred. So there was a tremendous reaction. As a matter of fact, reading is so important for us that a person has to go through six weeks of our political education before we can consider himself a member of the party able to even run down ideology for the party.
Then we uncovered a document that they gave the informant a bonus after the raid, because his information was invaluable to the success of the raid. The pigs, they started shooting again. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means. We’ve got to struggle with them to make them understand what peace means.Bobby Seale is going through all types of physical and mental torture. You had the national office of So we wanted to be lawyers for the people. Today marks the 45th anniversary of the death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. And I think we started it with a sense of collectivity.
He ran for congressman. But what we’re saying is that there are white people in the mother country that are for the same types of things that we are for stimulating revolution in the mother country. You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton, but you can’t murder freedom fighting, and if you do, you’ll come up with answers that don’t answer, explanations that don’t explain, you’ll come up with conclusions that don’t conclude, and you’ll come up with people that you thought should be acting like pigs that’s acting like people and moving on pigs. Please do your part today.Democracy Now! The pigs, they started shooting again. Pigs kept on shooting. We did not know that it would take us to J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell and the seat of government. And that was his real threat.And so, we knew there was this program to prevent the rise of a messiah. And I think, unfortunately, or not surprisingly, no one has ever done a day of time for the murder of Fred Hampton, for that raid. Please do your part today.This is viewer supported news. Nothing’s more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.For more on Fred Hampton’s life and death, we’re joined in our So, that morning, which was exactly 40 years ago this morning, just about this time, I went to see the survivors. We wanted to be—so we started the People’s Law Office in a sausage shop. Then they started shooting. We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. I heard two shots, and then the other one said, ’He’s good and dead now.’”And about this time, I jumped on top of the chairman. Please do your part today.Democracy Now! You got a little glimpse of that in what—the clip that you saw. You understand what I’m saying? Black Panther leader Mark Clark was also killed in the raid.
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