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The Sally Hemings
Vol. 2, No 3

A CALL TO THE PEOPLE

The credulous among you, in your academic isolation, have a rare opportunity tomorrow to get a real life civics lesson. At 9 a.m. (Tuesday) in Corporation Court, 4th and High Sts., the Commonwealth will put her shoulder to the wheels of justice for the second try at grinding up Tom Doran.

You may recall that Doran was convicted last summer of some minor window breaking during last spring's strike. Now Doran is on the line accused of perjury (a felony) in this misdemeanor trial. Not that we have a case of double jeopardy here, for such would involve merely another small-time trial for window breaking.

Citizens, behold the process of eliminating "outside agitators." Find a busted window. Get a witness whose story should be short and obscure. Get a conviction. Is the sentence too light? Then rip the defendant off for 10 years on a perjury charge. Perfect, no?

Poor Doran has spent a solid month in jail before going to trial (his bond was a mere $5,000). Further, prosecutor Camblos refused to reveal the particulars of the charges until they were pried loose by a defense motion last week!

Tom is gambling up to 10 years of his life in court tomorrow. He claims the state's witnesses in the first trial couldn't have picked him out of a crowd of similarly attired and hirsute people. TEN YEARS OF TOM DORAN'S LIFE DEPENDS ON HAVING A BIG, HAIRY AUDIENCE IN COURT THAT NOBODY COULD PICK HIM OUT OF.

We are Doran's defense, and he, in turn, is our early warning system. Remember: Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!

ANOTHER TOM DORAN...

Unpublicized because he's black. An appeal hearing for Tommy Johnson, a member of the Black Panther Party from Charlottesville. Johnson was convicted of "robbery" last summer. Same place as Doran's trial, 4 p.m.,
Tuesday, December 15.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It is an extra dimension of feeling that we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women--and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationships with out fellow men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

--John Fowles, The Magus

THE GENERAL THOMAS GAGE-DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AWARD: To the Redwhiteandblueblooded Colonel-Professor Arcey Dart (U.S.A.) for the courage to stand erect for Amerika! The Col.-Prof. exposed to his captive audience the Nervous Nellies among us: notably those lukewarm professors who did not fight hard enough for ROTC credit, the corroders of respect for our fighting forces, and assorted dupes and fellow travelers.