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GENOCIDE WAGED AGAINST THE BLACK NATION
THROUGH BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION/ORCHESTRATED BY
COUNTERINSURGENCY AND LOW-INTENSITY WARFARE IN

THE U.S. PENAL SYSTEM

PRESENTED FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE
RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL LAW
AND BLACK FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN THE UNITED STATES

lODUCTION

This is a research paper on genocide waged against the Hlack
Nation through behavior modification in the United States penal N
system whicn was itnitially drafted in December, 1988, and di!tribufld’
to several political prisoners in the states and federal prisons to
encourage support and participation for an indepth developmént of this
issue for the research committee on international law and black freedom
fighters in the United States for input to the human rights campaign.

This paper was developed by a team of Black prisoners who experienced
behavior modification inside the prisons and who’'desire to expose the
immediate but prolonged and historical effects of this government's
efforts to control the Black Nation. We do not suggest that the techniques
employed are exclusively implemented on the Black Nation, but there is no
denying that the Black nation is the government's paramont target.

Before going on we want to extend our thanks to our supporters and
to those who have contributed to this paper because this paper was

especially developed to bring about a broader unity on this issue so that
we might collectively expose these human rights violations to the world
through the human rights conference of non-governmental organizations in
Zurich, Switzerland. .-

We specifically charge that the government of the United States is
practicing genocide through behavior modification and counterinsurgency
and low intensity warfare techniques in 1t's penal system, d.e., the
states and federal prisons.

We submit that behavior modification as practiced in United States
prisons incorporates techniques from both conterinsurgencyyslow intensity
warfare;”and the science of psychology in the interest of political and
military objectives.

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the implementation of this strategy in the United States penal system
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is the result of research conducted by government scientists and

counterinsurgency agents who studied the theories and works of past
experts in the distinct fields of behavior therapy ("synomymous with

behavior modification"), insurgency, and low intensity warfare.

Every aspect of this behavior modification program violates the
human rights of those person subjected to it and it is this treatment
that is vehemently complainted about by political prisoners and P.0.W.S.
This program involves a scientific approach in targeting special prisoners
with the aim of achieving political objectives. Each targeted prisomer
is observed to determine his or her leadership poltential, religious
beliefs, aspirations, and most importantly, to record his or her reaction

to the experiments being implemented. The sole purpose of the program

is for government agents '‘to learn lessons from expermenting with
political prisoners, how they suffered and reacted, then use those finding
to formulate a broad plan to be implemented against the people in

society at large who are the ultimate targets.

The oppressive conditions and the experiments conducted . in: the United

States penal systep, as implemented by this government through prison

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officials. are the evidence of a psychological war being waged againstr.

political prisomers who come £ou a people Who are involved in a struggle of

resistance againit oppression in all forns. When'the behavior modif’cation progrem

When the team political prisomer s used in this papex it is mot
Limited to those who are incancerated as a resulf of thein potitical
belies, actions, or affiliations. The tenm Includes persoms Ln prison
for social crimes who became politicized inside prison walls and who
oniented thein Lives around the struggle for social justice and mational
Liberation. Such persoms as MALCOM X, GEORGE JACKSON, THE ATTICA
WARRIORS, and the many other man and women of yesterday and today's

$2ruggle would be and are encompassed in the term.

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conducted by the government is viewed in the light of the mandates

contained in the "Geneva Accord" one can only conclude that the United

States Government's actions are criminal and specifically violate the

international laws concerning the rights of human beings. Accordingly,

the United States Government's acts should be regarded as war cri

Specifically, the U.S. Government is in violation of Article T of
the Geneva Convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime
of genocide which was approved by the United Nation gemeral assembly
on December 9, 1948, and the U.S. Government is in violation of resolution
260, ITT, which entered into force on January 12, 1951. In this
Tesolution "the contracting parties confirmed that genocide, whether
committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under inters
national law which they undertake to prevent and punish." According to

Article TT genocide is defined as any of the following acts committed

with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,

racial, or religious group; such as:

(a). KILLING MEMBERS OF THE GROUP; AND

(b). CAUSING SERIOUS BODILY, OR MENTAL HARM
TO MEMBERS OF THE GROUP: AND

(c). DELIBERATELY INFLICTING ON THE GROUP CONDITIONS
OF LIFE CALCULATED TO BRING ABOUT IT'S DESTRUCTION
IN WHOLEOR IN PART; AND

(d). IMPOSING MEASURES INTENDED TO PREVENT BIRTHS
WITHIN THE GROUP; AND

(e). FORCIBLY TRANSFERRING CHILDREN OF THE GROUP
TO ANOTHER GROUP.

(cited grom "THE LAW OF NATIONS," by Hervert W. Briggs)

Subsequent to having reviewed the above 1ist of acts that constitute

the crime of genocide, as set forth by the Geneva Convention, we submit

That the behavior modification program being carried out

in the United States penal system is a scientific form of

genocide waged against the Black Nation, and it is a continuance of

the nefarious tactics employed by the government over the years to

keep the Black Nation subjugated

On learning of the use of behavior modification techniques in

furtherance of counterinsurgency and low intensity warfare objectives,
especially in light of the government's intended broad application,

all caring people in any society should be shocked.

THE_THEORY Al

PRACTICE OF BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION

Behavior modification is a highly complex science composed of
information from various sciences such as psychology, sociology,
philosophy, anthropology, and even some aspects of biology. By

definition "Behavior Modification broadly refers to the systematic

manipulation of one environment for the purpose of creating a

change in the individual's behavior.

It involves a systematic effort to influence the frequency,
intensity, and duration of specified target behavior." (From motes

0§ Michael S. Rubin that appeared in the Arizona Law Review, Vol. 18).

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During our research we discovered that the behavior scientists -
and counterinsurgency agents of the government learned many of their
tactics from studying the works of John B. Watson and B.F. Skinmer,
two United States psychologist who are leading authorities in the
field of behavior -enfic-uon.y We have also learned that there

are three basic types of behavior modification techniques recognized

today, operant conditioning, classical conditioning, and aversion

therapy.
OPERANT CONDITIONING

Operant conditioning is based largely on the work of B.F.
Skinner and involves the presentation of a reinforcer, usually called
a reward, upon the production of a desireable behavior in order to

increase the probability that the particular behavior will be repeated.

A classic example of operant conditioning is thai~a rat being trained

to depress a lever in his cage which releases food pellets. A reinforcer,
such as the food pellet is something that increases the rate of the
behavior. [See Durland's TZfustrated Medical Dictionary 25th Edition
(1938).

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Classical conditioning utilizes a stimulus to elicit an involuntary

response or a reflex. At the beginning of the program an "unconditione

stimulus, such as food,is employed to elicit the reflex, such as

T John B. Watson lufi%fi{oudtn 0f behavionism «n the United States

in the 1900's. He A d mentatism, and introspection and advocated
a purely objective psychology...B.F. Skinmer was a pivotal figure in
psychotogical behaviorism. Much of his work has centered on the process
of operant conditioning.

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sclivation. A second stimulus which by itself would not produce -
the involuntary or unconditioned rospons-,vbsc g_;m:fi;e‘%:”mw_,’ shmu
unconditioned stimulus. After continued pairing of the" same response

is obtained from th§ presentation of the neutral stimulus-as was

produced by the unconditioned stimulus. Thus, Pavlov in his now famous
experiments was able to elicit a dog's salivation upon the hearing of a
bell by the repeated pairing of the sound of the bell - conditioned
stimulus with the presentation of food - unconditioned stimulus. (see

G. KimbLe and N. Garmezy, principtes of gemeral psychology (1968)).
AVERSION THERAPY
Aversion therapy has been defined as and attempt to associate an’

undersirable behavior pattern with unpleasant stimulation or to make

a2’ consequence of the undesirable behavior.

the unpleasant stimulation

In either case it's hoped that an acquired connection between the behavior

and the unpleasantness will develop. There is further hope that the

development of such a conmection will be followed by a cessation of the

target behavior. (See S. Rachman and Teasdale, aversion therapy and

behavion disorders).

Even though all three of the above techniques are used by prison
officials in the United States penal system,aversion therapy seems to be
the most preferred techinque used in connection with counterinsurgency

and low intensity warfare. Many behavior therapists have confirmed that

there are many erse si

effects assoicated with aversion therapy,
e.g. pain, frustration, increased aggressiveness, arousal, general and
specific anxieties, somatic and physiclogical malfunctions, and develop-

ment of various unexpected and often pathological operant behaviors.

(See F. Kanfer and J. Phallips, Lzarning Foundation of Behaviox
Therapy) .

For the most part, we should not over look the fact that all
behavior modification techinques are intrusive to the indIvidual

whether the effects of the behavior modification experiment are

felt physically or psychologically. In short, individuals in the
experiment are subjected to the tampering with their mind, or their

body or both.

As history shows us, behavior modification is no new phenomenon

in the United States penal syst However, in earlier years prison

officials used more of a "hands-on" approach in

nipulating prisoner's

behavior. During our investigation of the past experiences of many

rned that in earlier y

prisoners and ex-prisoners we 1 rs those persons
who resisted the oppressive measures perpetrated by prison officials, or
those persons who complained of oppressive conditions or those persons
Who were labeled incorrigible,were arbitrarily confined to mental wards
inside the prison, or transferred to mental institutions for the
criminally insane where they experienced the severe effects of mind
altering drugs, electric shock treatment, or psychosurgery, which were
the ultimate wespons used by prison officials in carrying out their

behavior modification strategy.

However, these measures had proved to be virtually ineffective in

the United States penal system by the end of the sixties or early

seventies as prison demonstration end up-rising occurred in rapid
succession throughout the United States and coincided with the liberation
movement happening outside prison walls. ' Accordingly, the government

became concerned about group control inside the prisons, and to

address this concern the government resulted to the use of -
psychological warfare. Consequently, prisoners of strong religious
and cultural beliefs who had organized prisoners to resist and those
prisoners who put up independent resistance were singled ut and met
oppression as the targets of experimental behavior

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modification.”

with extr

We submit that Black people were in fact the first experimental
targets of group behavior modification. Furthermore, current datm and

statistics on the prison situation support our contention that Black

people inside the states and federal prisons today remain the prime

targets of the government's program.

Moreover, we discovered durign our research that the psychological
warfare being waged in the U.S. pemal system was planned as far back
as the early sixties because the government foresaw that ahé people
would revolt against being oppressed, even in prison.” Black people's
conduct, like that of many people throughout history, validates the

axion that "oppression breeds resistance."

d Dr. Edward Schein

Significantly, in 1961 a social scientist n

presented his ideas on brainwashing at a

ting held in Washington,
D.C., that was convened by James V. Bennett, then director of the

Federal Bureau of Prisons System,

want o emphasize that prisonens who resist outside of P/

organization frame work axe expressing dissatisfaction with the soccal
situation although their expressed reason for having dome s0 does mot
include the use of teams commonly articulated by a comscious resistox.

As ome wniten stated whife addressing this issue, "criminalily itself
i a 204- of unconsclious protest, neflecting the distoations of and
imperfect society, and in a revolutionary situatign, the criminal, the

4ychopath, may become as good a revolutionary 48 the idealist.
PRIEPGERTGY The BRI pas 0003, Soyp ot tionany 48 Lhe ldeatisz
and was attended by numberous social scientists and prison

wardens.” Dr. Schein suggested to the wardens that brainwashing
techniques were patural for use in their imstitutions. In his

address on the topic "Man Against Man" he explained that in order

to produce marked changes of behavior and/or attitude it is necessary

to weaken, undermine or remove the supports of old patterns of behavior

and old attitudes. cause most of these supports are the face to
face confirmation of present behavior and attitudes, whcih are provided
by those with whom close emotional ties exist. This can be dome by
either removing the individual physically and preventing any comaunication
with those whom he cares about, or by proving to him that those whom he
respects are not worthy of it, and indeed should be actively mistrusted."
Dr, Schein then provided the group with a list of specific examples °
such as:
1. PHYSICAL REMOVAL OF PRISONERS TO AREA SUFFICIENTLY
ISOLATED TO EFFECTIVELY BREAK OR SERIOUSLY WEAKEN CLOSE
EMOTIONAL TIES.
2. SEGREGATION OF ALL NATURAL LEADERS.
3. USE OF COOPERATIVE PRISONERS AS LEADERS.

4. PROHIBITION OF GROUP ACTIVITIES NOT IN THE LINE
WITH BRAINWASHING OBJECTIVES.

5. SPYING ON THE PRISONERS AND REPORTING BACK
PRIVATE MATERIAL.

6. TRICKING MEN INTO WRITTEN STATEMENTS WHICH ARE
THEN SHOWN TO OTHERS.

7. EXPLOITATION OF OPPORTUNISTS AND INFORMERS.

Tnfonmation concerning that historical meeting was found in the
"Mind Manipulators” by Alan W. Scheflin. (See Libarary of Congress
satatoglng in pubtication data); additlonat Lnfornation wes found
4n panphtet on "Breaking Men Winds™ behavlon control in Marlon

noi.

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8. CONVINCING THE PRISONERS THAT THEY CAN
TRUST NO ONE.

9. TREATING THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO COLLABORATE
IN FAR MORE LENIENT WAYS THAN THOSE WH ARE NOT.

10. PUNISHING THOSE WHO SHON UNCOOPERATIVE ATTITUDES.
11. SYSTEMATIC WITH HOLDING OF MAIL. °

12. PREVENTING CONTACT WITH ANYONE NONSYMPATHETIC TO
;giufi?‘on OF TREATMENT AND REGIMEN OF THE CAPTIVE
E.

13. BUILDING A GROUP CONVICTION AMONG THE PRISONERS
THAT THEY HAVE BEEN ABANDONED BY AND TOTALLY ISOLATED
FROM THE SOCIAL ORDER.-

14. DISORGANIZATION OF ALL GROUP STANDARDS AMONG THE
PRISONERS.

15. UNDERMINING OF ALL EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS.

16. PREVENTING PRISONERS FROM WRITING HOME OR TO
FRIENDS IN THE COMMUNITY REGARDING THE CONDITIONS OF
THEIR CONFINEMENT.

17. MAKING AVAILABLE AND PERMITTING ACCESS TO ONLY
THOSE PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS THAT CONTAIN MATERIALS
WHICH ARE NEUTRAL TO OR SUPPORTIVE OF THE DESIRED
NEW ATTITUDES.

18., PLACING INDIVIDUALS INTO NEW AND AMBIGUOUS
SITUATIONS FOR WHICH THE STANDARDS ARE KEPT DELIBERATELY
UNCLEAR AND THEN.putting PRESSURE ON THEM TO CONFORM TO
WHAT IS DESIRED IN ORDER TO WIN FAVOR AND A REPRIEVE FROM
THE PRESSURE.

19, PLACING INDIVIDUALS WHOSE WILL POWER HAS BEEN SEVERELY
WEAKENED OR ERODED INTO A LIVING SITUATION WITH SEVERAL
OTHERS WHO ARE MORE ADVANCED IN THEIR THOUGHT REFORM AND
WHOSE JOB IT IS TO FURTHER THE UNDERMINING OF THE
INDIVIDUAL'S EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS WHICH WAS BEGUN BY ISOLATING
HIM FROM FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

20, USING TECHNIQUES OF CHARACTER INVALIDATION, e.g.
HUMILIATIONS, REVILEMENTS, SHOUTING TO INDUCE FEELINGS OF
GUILT, FEAR AND SUGGESTIBILITY, COUPLED WITH SLEEPLESSNESS,
AND EXACTING PRISON REGIMEN AND PERIODIC INTERROGATIONAL
INTERVIENS.

21, MEETING ALL INSINCERE ATTEMPTS TO COMPLY WITH CELLMATES
PRESSURES WITH RENEWED HOSTILITY.

22. REPEATED POINTING OUT TO PRISONER BY CELLMATES OF
WHERE HE WAS IN THE PAST, OR 1S IN THE PRESENT, NOT EVEN
LIVING UP TO HIS OWNN STANDARDS OR VALUES.

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23, .REWARDING OF SUBMISSION AND SUBSERVIENCE TO THE
ATTITUDES ENCOMPASSING THE BRAINWASHING OBJECTIVE WITH =
A LIFTING OF PRESSURE AND ACCEPTANCE AS A HUMAN BEING.

24. PROVIDING SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORTS WHICH REINFORCE
THE NEW ATTITUDES. -

Following Dr. Schelin's address, James Bennett commented, "We
can perhaps gundertake some of the techniques Dr. Schein discussed
and do things on your own. Undertake a little experiment with what
you can do with the Muslims. There is a lot of research to do. Do

it as groups and let us know the results."

Approximately eleven years after that historical meeting, it was

confirmed that Dr. Schein ideas and objectives were in fact being
implemented inside the prisons. In July 1972, the Federal Prisoner's
Coalition, in a petition to the United Nations Ecomomic and social
council, asserted that the Asklepieion program conducted at the Marion,
Illinois, federal peni:enc{-ry was directly modeled on Chinese methods
of though¥ reform. The petiton contains a point by point comparison
between Dr. Schein's address, and the written description of the goals
and structure of the Asklepieion-program. (See the Mind Manipulators,
by Alan W. Schefin).

Although the tactics introduced by Dr. Schein when viewed

individually

y not necessarily shock the conscience of society,,the
tactics, when executed singularly’ or in totdl are. nevertheless very
deleterious to those persons subjected to them. We charge that the

execution of the tactics are a violation of the prisomer-victim human

rights, violations which are prohibited under international law.

Many writers today who have done articles on prison behavior
modification usually leave their readers with the inaccurate impression

that the experiments are only implemented in isoldted units of a prison.
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The writers usually mention the infamous control unit at the N
U.S. Penitentiary located at Marion, Illionois, as a prime example.
However, we want to make it very clear that the experiments are
conducted nationwide and that there is close colaboration-between the
states and federal prison systems. Moreover, the results obtained from

having conducted these experiments are used by government agents to

formulate a broader plan that will be implemented a

inst people in
society at large. One of the objectives of the broader plan is altering
the behavior of young people by creating conditions and situstions that
incline them in the direction of deviant and self destructive behavior
and that derail them from a course which would incline them to resist
being oyynsud.y

Subsequent to having examined B.F. Skinner's analysis of behavior
one would readily conclude-that United States penologist heavily
borrowed information from Skinner's works in formulating their behavior
modification program and in devising fi;h specific techniques. In his
book, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, Skinner explains that "a culture is
very much like the experimental space used in the analysis of behavior.
Both are sets of contingencies reinforcement. A child is born into a

culture as an organism is placed in an experimental space. Designing

a culture is like designing an experiment;

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'I(unz behavion séientists will attest to the fact that situations
can be contrived in such a manner that they will inffuence people o
engage in self-destructive behavior. Therefore, the United States
government must be held accountable §or comtributing to the behavion
of the oppressed.

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PO IIPN
e [ contingenicies are arranged and effects noted. - In an R

experiment we are interested in what Nappens, in designing a
culture with whether it will work. This is the differance betwsen
science and' technologys"™ -

In unequivocal terms, Skinner's theory relates to a prison

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environment and society at large. If We imagine a prisoner replacing

the child in the situations spoken of above and i

gine a prison as the

experimental space, 4hen one can clearly see that the experiments
carried out inside prisons is done with the experimenters having in
mind the ultimate objective of altering the culture of an entire people.
The placing of a person in a designed situation for the purpose of
tearing him or her down then rebuilding him or her according to the ~

specification of an alien group is a clear act of genocide.

As Black psychologist Bobby E. Wright perfectly stated in his view
of Skinner's theory, "any Black with a cursory knowledge of B.F. Skinner's
experimental analysis of behavior should recognize it's potential
danger to our community, where every institution is under the control

of the White race." (See Black Suicide, 1980, Bobby E. Wright, PHD.).

We want to emphasize that it would be very difficult for a Black
psychologist or any other psychologist not to draw a parallel between
Skinner's theory and Dr. Scheins's objectives as it pertain to the agenda

implemented against the Black nation.

Nevertheless, in further discussion of the many tactics implemented

under this behavior modification program, we should not over-look the
fact that prison officials will use drugs as a method of control. In

fact, we have discovered that most of the drugs u

d by prison officials

today are far more detrimental in their relative atency than those
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used in earlier years.” It is not unususl inside the prisons today-

to see prisoners exhibiting "Zombie-like-behavior" as a fesult of the
type of drugs adainistered to them uunsz.:’-“. with their consent.

In many prisons it is a prerequisite for some prisoners te take .certain
prescribed drugs in order to be released form solitary confinement.
There are several courts that support the forcible use of drugs by

prison officials thus 1

ving the way open for the u:

of drugs as

a hands on tactic.

‘i In a necent tour of the Soviet mental institutions by the American
) '\'chuazua Association, which included numerous interviews with
detainees, it was found that most of those being detained were gox
poltitical neasons and that they were being administtered pyschotropic
drugs as part of a clear program to neutralize political dissent,
Furthenmone, it was neponted that Soviet doctors still use the "broad

brush diagnosis schizophrenic" to Look people up.

The "broad brush diagnosis schizophrenic”, which is 8till commonly
used in America, is a smoke screen appelfation used in the Government's
political - military stratergy to contain and isolate individuals

perceived o be a potential threat to the.s

tus quo.

The A.P.A. spcifically alleged that patients are treated with massive

of pain-causing psychotropic drugs that western doctors comsider

to have no medical dors it top OF I3

“The durg thorazine (chLoromazing) was the irst anti-schizophrena w
used in Zhe United States and was generally given to prisomers in e er
years, This drug cleanly produces a "Zombie-Like-behavion® in the
4ndividual. Furthermore, it is used as the standard against which the
newer drugs axe compared. (See multimodal behavion therapy, by Axnold A.
Lazarus). AlLthough, thorazine 44 s%iLl being used b"y Eu‘.um officials
today, new drugs cafled prolixin (fLuphonazine) and hoZdof (holoperido)
are mone preferably prescaibed. Prolixinm has a relative mifligram potency
0§ 70:1 o thorazime, and holdol as a potency of:100:1 to thorzine

Both daugs produces drastic mental and physical sidé effect.

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This position give rise to the very serious question of the
intent of the APA sspecially when the light is cast on the
empirical investigation of the value and efficency of the drugs.
(See New York Times article, Maxch 3, 1989, which is an exhibit

in support of the above).

We submit that the APA tour to and reported findings about
Soviet institutions clearly represents the height of hypocrisy on
the part of the United States Government, because we make the same
contentions about the practices in the United States penal system that
the APA alleges with respect to the Soviet Union. If the past and
present tactics implemented in the United States penal system are not
acknowledged, and the objectives clearly recognized and understood,

then we simply make way for these abuses to continue in the future,

thereby, furthering the program of genocide.

It is our position that whether or not ones response is a shocked

conscience on learning of the behavior modification experiments one
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should not consider the sure of ones feelings the acid test” in

deciding that the experimentors have exceeded the legal criterion of

what consitutes violative practices. One should merely bare in mind
that the behavior modification experiments are conducted to achieve
nefarious conterinsurgency and low intensity warfare objectives.

Nevertheless, the judicial branch of government continues to support

the daily abuses arising out of the behavior modification progr:
carried out in the United States penal system by not intervening to

order the executive branch to cease their deleterous program and

practices.

conding to the Webster Thind New Inteanational Flcudnmy, 2he

Zhe definition of "acid test" is, a severe on cnub&ul test,
bt X3 5 R rey Il 4, as of value
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Moreover, many of the programs carried out by the Regean -
administration and continued by the Bush administration that
focus on the suppression of the Black Nation would immediately be

cond

d were they exposed to public scrutiny. Of course,- ome such

program that would

t with public condemnation 1f it were given
wide public exposure is the behavior modification program under
discussion,

THE USE OF BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION TO

ACHIEVE COUNTERINSURGENCY AND LOW
INTENSITY WARFARE OBJECTIVES

COUNTERINSURGENCY tactics are the political and military actions
undertaken to forestall the inevitable fire of resistance before it is
strikingly manifested. Of course, the use of such tactics demonstrates

acl

r recognition on the part of those governing the state that unjust

ble future.

conditions exist and will continue to exist into the fors
Additionally, once resistance has been manifested counterinsurgency

tactics are used to effectively destroy it.

LOW INTENSITY WARFARE involvi

the use of political - military

strategy to achieve political, socialyeconomic, and psychological

objectives. Such wars are often of a protracted nature and many of the
major battles are fought in the diplomatic, esonomic, and social arenas
in an effort to apply psycho-biological pressure on the resistors.
Equally important is the fact that low intemsity wars have as their
main features the constraint on weaponry used and the intermittent
eruptions of violence. Accordingly, low intensity warfare is suited
for the use of subtleland sophisticated techniques. The use of such
techniques is aimed at keeping the conflict disquised (e.g. using

such techiques emables the state authorities to.label a military action

a police action),
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preventing scrutiny by relevant in-country and out of country -
parties, and preventing the introduction into the conflict the
application of international standards governing warfare and/or

acts of genocide. -

During our research we discovered that the application of
counterinsurgency and low intensity warfare techniques in the United
States is derived from the strategies formulated by Frank Kitson and
Robin Eve qn.y The government has effectively managed to pursue this
two track strategy through the military, law enforcement agencies,

and prison officials.

It is our contention that judging by all the standards of what

constitutes a low intensity war, we,the rising Black Nation,are in fact

the targeted insurgents in the United States, because our people have
not been standing still ifi ‘response to the permanent oppression

us
pertatrated against by the government. Moreover, we should not forget

the infamous I. E. Hoover's co-intelpro of the 60's era during which

time he directed counterinsurgency measures against the "Black Nationist

Mov to prevent the rise of a "Mau Mau" like group and to prevent

ack Messiah."

the ascent of a "

“Frank Kitson was the commander of the British counterimsurgency force

in Nonthern Irefand fox many years, and before that he was an officer in
many of Britain's Lost colonial wars, e.g. Kenya, Aden, and Cyprus. Most
of examples of Low intensity operations are drawn §rom Britain's waxr
4n Iretand and the United States war in Indochina. One of his strategic
techniques was the use of gangs. The rise of gangs in the oppressed

comm ies in America partially u%uw the successful .use of his
4s2rategy by past administrdtions. The corollary to the use 0f gans if the
emergence of an increasing clamor gn Law and ordex. Mitson's book, which
sy rati tmtulgnflpuu-u‘au (1971), 4is the basic manual of
counterinsurgency methods used in Western Europe and North America.

Robin Evelegh has written a book that foxms the basis of the revised
British strategy used im Ineland. His approach £o suppressing insurrectios
44 also widely favored by the seecret police in United States.

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The iiiiiffi diction contained in the above quoted passages were
taken from documents detailing Hoover's plan and serves as unequivecal
testimony that the govbrnment formed itds strategy against the Black
Nation after having read about Kitson's experience, particularly in
Kenyap,fighting the "Mau Mau" and after having read about Xitson's use
of gln;s and counter gangs. Specifically, Hoover's co-inter program
contained the following five objectives:

1, TO PREVENT THE COALITION OF MILITANT BLACK

NATIONARIST GROUPS, WHICH MIGHT BE THE FIRST STEP

TAWARD A REAL "MAU MAU" IN AMERICA; AND

2. TO PREVENT WHE RISE OF A "MESSIAH" WHO COULD UNIFY
AND ELECTRIFY THE MOVEMENT; AND

3. TO PREVENT VIOLENCE ON THE PBRT OF BLACK NATIONALIST
GROUPS BY PINPOINTING POTENTIAL TROUBLE MAKERS AND NEUTRALIZING
THEM BEFORE THEY EXERCISE THEIR POTENTIAL VIOLENCE; AND

4. TO PREVENT GROUPS AND LEADERS FROM GAINING RESPECTABILITY
BY DISCREDITING THEM TO THE RESPONSIBLE NEGRO COMMUNITY, TO
THE WHITE COMMUNITY (BOTH THE RESPONSIBLE COMMUNITY AND THE
LIBERALS - THE DISTINCTION IS THE BUREAU'S), AND TO NEGRO
RADICALS; AND

5. TO PREVENT THE LONG RANGE GRONWTH OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS,
ESPECIALLY AMONG THE YOUTH, BY DEVELOPING SPECIFIC TACTICS TO
PREVENT THOSE GROUPS FROM RECRUITING YOUNG PEOPLE. (See
PoLitical Legacy of Malecolm X, page 225-226, by Oba T. Shaka).
Bvén the church committee report on urban unrest in the 60's era labeled
the participants, the disenfranchized who took part in the roits,
rebellious and skirmishes, as insurgents. It sheuld be remembered that
the urban unrest and church's labeling of those who participated as
¥/ Cont.
However, Evelegh's suggested methods foxr smothering and imsurrection
are presently being haug debated in ruling class circles. (See Peace
ociety: Lessons ni

Keeping in a Democratic Northern Ireland (1978) by
Robin Evelegh).
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L insurgents occurred using the developments of tie Black .
Liberation Movement. m of the people of that period who
participated in ‘the struggle on various !;;uls became social prisoners,
political prisoners, and prisoner of war.” However, 1t should be
pointed out that in many cases those who were imprisoned were jailed
as a result of tactical maneuvers carried out by the government in their
effort to suppress the resistance of the people in society at large.
As one prisoner of war stated, "Prisons are a fundamental pillar of
state power. Their manin function is the suppression of all internal
threats to the State." (See Sun views by sunazaz4ncact
The implementing of counterinsurgency and low intensity warfare
through behavior modification is geared to destroy the captive

Black Nation.

Over the years we have seen many of our brothers and sisters in
the struggle placed in prison for their political beliefs and
affiliations. These imprisonments resulted from a wicked conspiracy
perpetrated by this government through their law enforcement agents
and agencies. A1l this was done for the purpose of suppressing the
Iiberation movement of Black people. We have also seen our people
assassinated for the same reasons.

We submit that the captured Black Nation vl!,":nd reamins a
prime target of the government's strategy of behavior modification
counter-insurgency and Tow intensity warfare. The evidence of the
implementing of the government's strategy is evinced by the ex-
ceptionally harsh treatment inflicted on Black prisoners in tne

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TA committee chaired by Semator Frank Church made an overatl
evaluation of the riots and rebeblion that swept the United
States during the development of the Liberation Movement in
the 60's era.

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United States penal system --- especially those prisoners who are .
committed to the Black Liveration Movementg,the struggle for self
determination. -

We want to point out, and it {s important to understand the fact
that the prisons in the United States have always been operated
primarily by White administrators and supplied with predominantiy White
prison guards. This combination of factors renders the Black prisoner
excessively vulnerable to and a prime target of unbriddled racism and

brutality. In addition, there is the fact that the government itself

is deeply rooted in racism.

Also, we must not overlook the fact that there are prisoners from
other oppressed Natfons inside the United States and from the Carribbean
Islands who, as they fight for their national liberation,are also targeted
by this government's strategy of counter-insurgency and low intensity
warfare. One indication of the commitment and determination possessed by
these brothers is reflected by the fact of the many political prisoners
and P.0.W.'s from their struggles locked inside the bowels of the

United States penal system.

The Puerto Rican National Liberation Movement in Puerto Ricof’ind
in the United States of America has been a prime target of the United
States Government and the government has used the most severe tactics
of counter-insurgency and lTow intensity warfare against them for a
half century or more. Since United States troops invaded the island
in 1898, the people have used every method within their reach to
terminate the colonial type structure designed and imposed on them by
the colonizers, specifically the United States Congress.

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Again the United States has violated the most basic
principles of a people. The United States is cognizant of their
wrongfulness and they are aware that the people of the world, airing
their views through their representatives in the United Nation
General Assembly, side with the struggling Puerto Rican people.

In fact, "The General Assembly,,,refirms the legitimacy of the
people's struggle for liberation from colonial and foreign
domination and alien subjugation by all available means, including
armed struggle.” (See U.N. General Assembly resolution 3030

(xxviai),

The American government has assassinated certain members of
the Puerto Rican Movement; they have tortured and maimed political
prisoners; the government has used fram-ups resulting in imprisonment;
they have transferred the Puerto Rican leadership from the Island of
Puerto Rico to prisons deep inside the continent of the United States,,
Thus, denying the leadership the fi;onunicy to conmnicate with

persons in the on going movement,

An example of United States imperialism and the United States'
effort ot contfol and alter the behavior of people resisting
oppression becomes starlingly clear when we observe the handling
of Black and Latin freedom fighters from the Caribbean Islands who

are incarcerated inside the U.S. penal system,

Again the U.S. Government is clearly violating international
standards by transferring Puerto Rican and Caribbean political prisoners
into prisons deep inside the United Stats, The United Nations has
establisnied slear provisions against this sort of practics. on or
about March 3, 19 the U.N. eral Assembly passed into effect
resolution 43/173 which is called, "Body of principles for the
protection of all persons under any form of detention or imprisonment."
Under its listinmg of principles, specifically U.N., resolution a/res/
43/173, principle 20, the following is stated: "If a detained or
imprisoned person so requests, he shall if possible be kept in a place
of detention or imprisonment feasonably near hiy usual place of
residenc g

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prisoners are politically opposed to the "puppet

many of the:
regimes in their Caribbean Island that American controls.

Consequently, these dissident prisoners also become targeis of the

government's counter-insurgency and low intensity warface,

It should also be understood that because of the geo-political and
economic objectives thx United States is carrying out in these under
developed and developing nations many social crimes are committed on
these islands and these crimes are a direct result of America's
intervention, After arriving on United States soil, though, the
prisoners from the Garibbean Islands become socially, politically,
and culturally active in the United States prison system and their
experiences inclined them to create unbreakable bonds between
themselves and the other Black freedom fighters inside the United

States,

To fully appreicate.the. overall effect of béhavior modification
and low intensity warfare on those prisoner subjected to it more
research will have to be done. But we feel that it is safe to say,
in view of the incarceration of freedom fighters from the Caribbean
in the United States prison system which results in their political
and cultural isolation, that they are very, very much ermeshed in
the U.S. Government's cmecpifiyrgcncy, low intensity warfare and
behavior modification programs,

;;Q loitative and brutal control the United States wields over

the Caribbean Islands is evinced by the cowardly attack on Grenada, the
intervention in Manley's Government d.url.n{ the election in Jamaica, and
the continual colonization of the Virgin Islands. One salient
consequence of the U,S. exploitative and brutal control over the
Caribbean is the major influx of Rastafarian and progressive prisoners
from the Islands into the United St.tes Penal system,

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WHEN WHITE ANTI-IMPERIALISTS
PARTICIPATE IN THE RESISTANCE -

The mentioning of Blacks from the United States continent and
the Caribbean Island, the mentionings of Puerto Ricans from the United
States and from the Island of Puerto Rica — up till now ta have
exclusively mentioned freedom fighters of color no doubt has given rise
to the question: are White anti-imperialists prisoners also targeted by

the government's programs,

‘When White anti-imperialist are charged and brought before
judical tribunals, many American judical members sugguggest that because
the White anti-imperialist is not a victim of oppression they have no
Justification for participating in the resistance, This position is

clearly a nullification of the "Nurenburg principle,"

Furthermore, we submit that it is natural for a caring human
being to sympathize with, support, or align themselves with those who
resist being oppressed. However, when the White anti-imperialist does
get involved in the resistance and is thereafter placed in prison
because this government is deeply rooted in racism and feels compelled
to discourgae Whites from aligning themselves with Blacks, the
treatment inflicted on anti-imperialist is just as severe as that meted
out ot Blacks and the treatment is sometimes exceptionally cruel,

These tactics are aimed at sending the message to North American Whites
to stay clean of the struggle.

But the strategy goes further than merely preventing Whites from
entering the struggle. The government is concerned with determining why
this phenomenon exist, and the government is interested in altering the
behavior patterns of captured White anti-imperialist in achieving one
prone of their multiprons objective of preventing the growing of ranks

of White people who fight against oppression.
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Persons arrested as grand jury resistors
are in fact victims of counter-insurgency
tactics, and in prison, they are the target
of the govermment's behavior modification
program.

Another tactic used by this government that we must not
overlook and that we have seen used in most of the liberation
movements, is the imprisonment and the inflictingof harsh treatment
on grand jury resistors. These comrades are clearly not guilty of,”
or even charged with any crime. These comrades are incarcerated
because they refuse to violate their principle that prohibit them
from collaborating with the government. On this issue, like we have
done at the close of other issues discussed in this parper, we chargs

pY

the U.S. Government with violating accepted international n,andnds_.‘/

Many times grand jury resistors are not members of a particular
movement. They are usually the friends or relatives of the
revolutionary who is being inquired about or they are sympathizers
of the cause. So their imprisonment is clearly at tactic designed
to intimidate. Moreover, what we see here is another aspect of the
covnter—insurgency strategy that encompass the objectives od
determining the resistors leadership capabilities and level of

gy thedmerican goverment taking punitive measures against grand

Jury resistors they violate accepted standards that wers enacted
prohibiting the use of such measures. On or about March 19, 1989,
the United Nations General Assembly passed into effect resolution
43/173, titled: "Body of Principles™ for the protection of all
persons under any form of detention or %mmso t. Under its
listing of Trinciplss U.N. resolution (A/Res/43/173) principle

21, ‘number 1, the fo is stated: Tt shall be prohibited to
take undue advantage of the sitvation of a detained or imprisoned
person for the purpose of com) lux:f him to confess, to incriminate
Binsels otherwite or o testily againsc any other persons

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political development and dedication. All the obtained -
information is essential to the government for use in conducting

counter-instrgency operations.

In short, grand jury resistors are given a subponm',nn
thrown into jails and prisons, and are sudjected to psychological
and emotional distress...all this is done in order to facilitate
the breaking of the mind of therevolutionary inquired about and
to suppress the movement. For the govermment to execute all the
above mentioned measures actually consummates the marriage
between behavior modification, counter-insurgency = low intensity

warfare.

"Isolation and sensory deprivation in the
ison context and the larger attack on the
ack community.”
What really needs to be considered and is truely of

paramount importance, is the totally licentious fashion the
United States Govermment Officials so effectively utilize their
penal system as the primary tool in repressing and crushing all
dissent, mercilessly destroying the minds of countless people, Amic/,
their souls, after a slow death is offered on the alter of

"real politic."

To examine this Question in its proper context we must first
of all endeavor ot understand the actual mechanism that the state
employs to achieve its nefarious ends.

We submit that, first ofall, the science of politics is not
truely grounded in morality. Political scientist and politicians
in general simply utilizes a lot of false laudatory moralizing to
build a convienient facade behind which to cleyerly conceal their
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In the politician = oppressor dealings with the oppressed,when the_
question is raised regarding what gviding precept to embrace,
morality looses ort to expediency, doing that which, not surprisingly,
conforms to the cynical spirit of Machiavalll. History speaks all
too clearly in confirmation of this.

So, it is aginst the back-drop of these brutal realities that
we wxamine the question of imprisonment in general and isolation
and sensory deprivation in particular. %What is isolation and
sensory deprivation, and how does it impact upOn its victimized
subjects? This is a deep question that encompass very subtle and
deep emotional, psychological, and physiological realities.

We charge that at present, and for some time now, there is and
has been a very clear and systematic program of low intensity warfare
perpetually in motion in the prisons across America. Alse, this
program, brutally alive and well, is no mere accident, no loosely
controlled haphazard affair. No, it is part of a precise, coordinated,
careful, well thought out program that embraces the most scientific
and subltle techniques of brainwashing, of psychological infiltration,
of mentacide. It is a program for the ruthless manipulation of
people's minds for forcing them to con!‘wl'n with a scientific and
arctletypal patterns of broken subjects.’ Their scientists have
very meticulously worked out the intricate details of this practice
through experimentation, deduction, and inference.

They have worked out the details on how to create a controlled
environment, on how to timpregnate the enviromment with certain

Eouyl experimentation, deduction, and inference call of which is

empirically verifiable through repeated experimentation and arriving
at the same results in conformance with the projected model or worked
out crchetype their scientists are able to workdyt and develop the

precise formula that will enable them to direct and control people's
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subtle messages in order to trigger certain thoughts and Behavior ‘
patterns in their controlled subjects — all based upon their knowledge
of the laws of the workings of the mird.

Isolation and sensory deprivation as it is practiced in the
Auschwitza and Dachaus scattered across America is a definite aspect
of the oppressor's controlled environment. They know that through
isolation, through the systematic removal, inclusion, or manipulation
of key sensory stimuli they can attack a prisoner's mind and reduce
him or her to a warped, subservient state characterized by feelings
of lethargy, listlessness and hopelessness...in short, a prisoner
develops the feeling of being more dead than alive.

They combine thepractice of tampering with sensory stimuli with
sensory stimuli with a deficient diet, a diet lacking key mutrients
indispensable to the proper functioning of a well integrated
personality. The diet consist of meals that have an acceptable
appearance but are nutritiously deficient, and after having eaten a
few meals one finds oneself getting hungrier and feeling lethargic.
Being on such a diet promtes depression and ultimatély gives rise to
to thoughts of self=destructiony

See_covert dion information bulletin, issue number 31, wherein
Susan Rosenberg speaks about the horrendous conditions she, Silvia
Baraldini, wdih,j-ndflu Torres ware confined under the Lexington

high security unit.

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ALl of this is intentional and all of this is based upon a very
clear, scientific program, one of the best programs their "Think Tanks"
could devise. On this, as in all other areas, they know examctly

what they are doing; they know precisely what their experiments,

their scientific applications, will entail. In this, as in other
areas, they are again in violation of international standards.’

It is clear, unequivocally clear, that this is a most cruel brand
of psychological and emotional torture that is a violation of humman
rights and violates theU.S. Constitution prohibition against cruel
and unusual punishment. These measures rivall even the methods used
by Razi Germany. Right now there are literally thousands of people
being subjected to this program. It is an essential feature of the
American penal syste. )

The penal ystem is désigned to break minds, to create warped and
aberrated personalities, and isolation “_ifl"mory deprivation play

a most singular and unique role in thist

In general, all prisoners are targeted. Even the staff
themselves become victimized by the same system they blindly seek
to uphold.

U.S. resolution 43/173, Principle 22, passed of into effect on
March 19, 1989, states the following: No detained or imprisoned person
shall, even with his consent, be subjected to medical or scientific
experimentation which may be détrimental to his health.

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_490 "The Mind Manipulators" by Alon Scheflin. It contains

information on some of the techniques used on prisoners. Here is a

telling list of the chapters: Assaulting the lilfig Tampering Wita The

Mind HI)* Ruli:fi The Mind; Amputat: Mind; :s The Mindj

%.h“'l;:r 'he Mind; Blowing The Mind; Castrating The mind; Robotiz: z
e .

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You cannot dehavmanize people without yourself becoming
dehumanized in the process. Yes, all prisoners are targeted and
the harshness of their treatment vary only in degree and the most
severe treatment is meted'out ot those with some political
consciousness or to those who are in prison for political offenses.

They concentrate extra hard on the political prisoner because
the political prisoner has the clearest understanding about the true
nature of things, about the exploitative relationship that prevail. _
Accordingly, they concentrate extra hard on the political prisoner be=
cause she or he has the greatest potential for awakening and
organizing the rest of the prisoners.

So, isolation and sensory deprivation has always played a
unique role in the goverrment's perenial war on the political
prisoner. Through isoldtion and sensory deprivation, through being
confined within a limited space, through the denial of privacy, lack
of natural light and fresh air, through the lack of intellectual
stimulation, lack of comradeship, through the lack of undisturbed
sleep, lack of proper health care, lack of educational and recreational
outlets = the lack of these things that contribute to fueling life

reduces one to an existence of lifelessnesst

This is war. This is a war of attrition and it is designed to
reduce prisoners to a state of submission essential for their
ideological conversion. That failing, the next option, in deadly
sequence, is to reduce the prisoners to a state of psychological
incompetence sufficient to neutralize them as efficient, self-directing
antagonists. That failing, the only option left is to destroy the
prisoners, preferably by making them desperate enough to destroy

themselves.

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Is everyone so inexorably chained to partisan politics that they
reframe from applying their conscience until given the nod by party
bigwigs? The world can see what goes on in the tomb of America as
Black people are being slowly strangled and suffocated to death and
are reeling drunkenly uxli;!‘ the cy-nnfiica.l whip of oppression.

Yes, the world can see what goes on. Yet there remains a

deadly chorus of silence, a conspiracy of silence.

‘e charge the American Government with genocide. In clear,
unequivocal terms, we charge thé American Government with genocide
against the captive Black people in America who are perpetually
under siege. We charge genocide, infantacide, and mentacide, which
is perpatrated via institvtionalized racism.

The voracious jaws of oppression and exploitation constantly

feast upon our people. :’Additionally, every aspect of our existence
is determined and controlled by another people, by a brutal enemy
intent upon our total annihilation. We see the emissaries of death
wreaking havoc in our ravaged communities by further eroding the
quality of life (already at & subhuman level) and by further

contributing to the horrendous deficiency of life supporting stimuli.

The funeral pyre burns on and on. Our youth stumble through the
wildrerness of confusion, hopelessness and feelings of insignificance.
Their young and vulnerable bellies are bloated with the plauge of
self-destruction, miseducation, rejection, feelings of worthlessness.
Our youth are the denizens of a defective social system that was not
designed with the best interest of our people at heart:

con
chat tnie Saneiniatrasional bodtes Tave ben TG oty S

Fegards to the brutal treatment of Blacks in America, a people who

o .
ca‘"éhiiviig'i:gef“ real rights in America. L:-e calling attention
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The govermment of America know's exactly what it is doing; N
they have mastered the techniques of mass control. They know
how to build into an environment certain stimuli that will set into
motion a desired process that takes on a life of its owp with the
hand that originated the process becoming less and less visible.
The withdrawing of the hand results in the people mistaking the
effect for the cause.

Before this process can be properly cultivated to fruition,
it first of all becomes necessary for the oppressor to develop
ways to determine what the oppressed will think and when they
will act. The first step in determining these things is to
systematically destroy anything and anybody which or who might
provide an alternate frame of reference, which means first of all
attacking and douu'vyi.n;. that people's history and culture , and
secondly, giving the oppressed something warped and twisted in
place of that whch has been destroyed. Keep in mind that the
oppressor knows what negative experiences the oppreseed are
subjected to and the oppressor knows what trashy ideas are stuffed
into the heads of the oppressed.

In connection with this brother Amilcar Cabral noted,
"that oppression or domination of a people is only secured when
the culturel 1life of a people is destroyed, paralyed, or a t
least neutralized. Parenthetically, it may, in fact, be the case
that the fifferent forms of oppression experienced by African
peoples is determined by the emphasis placed on destroying,
paralyzing, or neutralizing the culture of the people under
domination.

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We hold this government responsible for the conditions
of our éeeph. In places like Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and
South Africa, they do it blantantly (and we must not forget that
it was and is the U.S. Oa'vormunt who finances and fl’lins’
practically all of these oppressive regimes); they do it crudely,
and blatantly with gun and truncheony

In America, they do i% through psychology, theology,
philosophy, biology, through the refinement of sophisticated
behavioral sciences, and we see the evidence of its effectiveness.
all of the institutions of America serve to further uphold and
perpetuate t is oppressive order all of their sciences are drawn
into this nefarious enterprise and are subordinated to it.

Brother Wade Nobles has expounded on this saying: "The ideas
of science do not deniop in empty space, or even abstract space
where there is supposedly nothing but ideas. The ideas, interests,
application and definition of science goes on in a human world, and
human life is cocial. There is, therefore, no science which is not
some part a sooial science. Smilarly, when the social reality is
defined by racism and oppression, there can be no science which
is not, in part oppressive and racist. Just as science and
technology have gone hand and hand in the last three hundred years
to assist in the development of the Western World; so, too, does it
seem apparent that social science, as a political institution, now
rves to maintain the advantages obtained by technological superiority
of the Western World. Where the connection between science and

society once was in science's devotion to the creation and use of

technical and industrial power, science now serves Western society
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in the creation and use of theories and ideas designed to h
control the use of power in general by oppressed people. In fact,
where power before was defined by the creation of ideas and the
ability to have people re:ig;d to one's ideas as if they represented
the respondent’s reality.

The allegation we make are very clear; even many of their own
establishment figures admit as much. Statistics always fall short
of fully conveying the entire picture but even the one's that are
out present a most bleak and shocking picture of what is happening
to our people. Cited here are just a few of these statistics.

It is estimated that one third to one half of Black men up to _
age 24 are unemployed; many are caught in a cycle of drugs,
homicide, and suicide. . They say that employment amont Black men
were 8l percent in 1940, but only 67 percent in 1980. Today one
third of Black men are éIther unemployed, or completely out of the
labor market. This is more serious than during the great depression.

In the past 25 years the ;mploymsnc rate of young White men has
remained constant m':ua Bladks dropped from 52 to 26 percent in the
16 to 19 age group and from 77 to 55 percent in the 20 to 24 age
group.

It is estimated that a young Black man has one chance in 21 of
dying from homicide while the typical American has a 1 in 133
chance. More Black men died from homicide in the single year 1977,

%om Wade Noble rican Consciousness and Liberation Struggles:

Implications for the development and construction f scientific
paradigms.

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for instance, than died in the entire vietnas war, and we .

believe there has been many such years.

In 1987 the Bureau of® Justice estimated that the number of
prisoners in this country reached 546,659 = over one halfemillion
people. No other country has that many peopls in prison. It has
been estimated th t from 1975 to the year 2000 the total prison
population will quadruple and the number of Black prisoners is
expected increase tenfold.

Moreover, on closer inspection of the statistics one clearly
sees that the rates of imprisonment began accelerating after the
social upheavals of the late 1960's eraw In 1969, 120 cities
burned during the Black rebellion. In 1983, the imprisorment rate
per one hundred thousand people was 713 for Black people (even
greater now!); compm& ‘to 114 for White people, and it goes on
and on ad infinitum.

CON; T

We submit that it would be a meaningless exercise to litigate
the charge of human rights violations in the Umited States Courts,
especially in view of the fact that the executive branch has virturally
usurped the discretionary powers of the judicial branch thus making
it impossible for us to receive relief.

Even the Supreme Court of the United Stat s has closed its eyes
and ears to t these human rights violations. As Alvin J. Bronstin
states in his introduction to Prisoner's Litigation Manual
"The courts have returned to the handsoff doctrine."

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Over the years, prisoners have put forth the effort to
engage in legal battles regarding constitutional violations
and prison conditions and.treatment. . (Moreover, it was hoped
that the occasion of being in court could be used to expose
the United States penal System to the internat’onal community.)

The courts, for a shsort period supported prisoner's by
sustanining their allegations of constitutional rights violations.
However, as the result of the pressure applied on the courts by
the executive branch, the independence of the judical branch was
erased and consequently, prisoners were letft deprived of the
institutional guarantor of the protection of their constitutional
rights which really mean prisonems exist in a constitutional void."

CONCLUSION

In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for

redr in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have

been answered mainly by repeated injury. A nation, whose charac-
ter is thus marked by every act, which may define a racially
oppressive regime, is unfit to receive the respect of a free
people.

America's national mentality demonstrates poor judgment and
irresponsibility in dealing with people at both a domestic and
foreign level. America appears self-centered in her search for
immediate gratification and failure to make long range goals that
benefit humanity.

As we noted the date of the 1962 meeting with Dr. Schein,
and his objectives, and recall the infamous J.E. Hoover's memo,
therein directing counterinsurgency against the Black Nationalist
Liberation movement, to prevent the "Mau Mau," and the rise of
the Black Messiah, it is therefore evident that Kitson's
experience in Kenya, fighting against the "Mau Mau," emerged as a
strategy of the U.S. government's counterinsurgency

objectives

Again, this paper is to encourage an investigation by the

International Human Rights Commission.