Huey Newton statement read by Bobby Seale at KPFA; The death of George Jackson

Here is the statement concerning brother George Jackson concerned situation at San Quentin prison. What happened yesterday. From in a community news service of the Black Panther Party. The servant of the people here P. Newton States that our position is in support of the action of George Jackson. The first rule when a people's soldier is captured is to immediately start planning his IC's get immediately start planning his Xscape his action was a political statement because he set the standard for all political prisoners. He took the only available avenue. A red dress.

In state murder. The state created the violent situation that exist in San Quentin today. The state gives itself the arbitrary privilege of taking life the right to kill. Capital punishment sanctioning violence sanctioned violence which leaves no room for religious redress of grievance. Is the contract between the people and the state relation to their relationship to the laws of the land. People were speckle all of that serve them. They will will tolerate the role that they do

not respect. As long as there is an avenue for redress and change voting and petitioning and ever actions are really just vehicles. But when capital punishment is legislated. The neutral relationship regarding a life between the people and the state breaks down. The person being threatened with death by the state has no alternatives but to defend them. All living things have in minimal right to protect their own lives their own lives are all in their little rights must be protected.

But the can continue correctly with the servant statement. We state this. The minister the servant has stated this. If the state decides it can take life then the people can do you know the basic integrity of man is predicated upon respect for life. The state does not have the right to take a life. Every man has a right to preserve his own life. The state is supposed to represent the basic integrity of the individual. We should all live sacred and no one and groom the state should have the right of right to snuff out life. No one group should have a right to snuff

out life. Only through natural forces and acts of God should man give life up and science through its research and production of medicines is trying to combat the thing we call death. There is no capital punishment or might I say if there is no capital punishment to be direct on in a communal level. This would stop all wars of aggression. If there is no capital punishment on a criminal level this would stop all wars of aggression because the only time one could take a life is in the Defense of Life never that a retaliatory

posture that is against individuals. But to continue with the servant statement and to sum it up George Jackson feel much of a Black Panther Party. Let me repeat your objection. Feel marching for the Black Panther Party or soldier in the People's Army. He gave his life in an attempt to free political prisoners and to preserve his own dignity and manhood. I feel Marshall George Jackson moved in a defensive matter. The state had threatened to take over the George's life. The executioner already had a hood over his head a glass cage had

been built and euphemistically called a court room. The shackles were locked. George broke the shackles spurned the glass cage and defended his man who in the spirit of freedom brothers and sisters people everyone. Community black community everyone interconnected in a lock in a relation from the black community to everywhere in the world. The minister said this in his last paragraph and I read George Jackson was the supreme servant of the people because he gave his life all that any human being can give and struggling for all the purrs people. This statement was signed by.

The new servant of the people from the Black Panther Party.