Garry Condemns American 'Justice'

Charles Garry, chief counsel for the Black Panther Party, denounced the American judicial system last night in Lowell Lecture Hall.

Garry is currently defending Black Panther chairman Bobby Seale, on trial in Now Haven for allegedly conspiring to kidnap and murder Panther Alex Rackley in 1969.

Because of "ignorant" judges and jurors, and lawyers who urge their clients to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit, Garry said. 60 million minority Americans "do not get any form or semblance of justice."

Garry was also critical of the FBI. apathetic young people, and the welfare system.

Genocidal FBI

The FBI, he said, is instrumental in the current "attempt by the establishment to commit genocide on the Black Panther Party."

Garry said that the "fervor" of American youth has apparently decreased so that they feel "the same degree of helplessness as my generation."

The welfare system. he said, forces people to "cowtow and kiss people's behinds in order to get what they need to exist."

Addressing the law students in the audience, Garry said that "under the guise of due process of law. you're learning how to be able to keep the corporations in power."

Most judges are "ignorant and stupid," Garry said. "They have to be part of the establishment who will see to it that the status quo is perpetuated."

FBI or CIA

Asked about the recent article in The New Yorker in which Edward J. Epstein. teaching fellow in Government, denied the existence of a Federal conspiracy to kill Panthers. Garry called Epstein "a congenital liar who is either an agent or a tool of the FBI or CIA."