They had no evidence at all
to arrest me.
But, they did not give me a bail for twelve days.
They arrested me in North Carolina.
And, the flight from North Carolina
to Oregon where
the commune was located
was only five hours.
They took twelve days
for me to reach to
Portland.
And, they dragged me from jail to jail.
In twelve days, I had been dragged to six jails.
And, when they released me,
I was ordered to leave America, immediately,
within fifteen minutes.
My car was before the court,
and my jet plane
was
kept running on engine
on the airport.
I should leave immediately,
being afraid that if I live one day more,
I may appeal to the Supreme Court.
And, there was every reason for me
to win the case.
When I saw a democracy...
American style at work,
it was absolute nonsense to talk about democracy.
Their Constitution
is just a show piece to the world.
The country consists of criminals
talking about freedom.
Looking at American Crime,
when I had moved through six jails,
I could not believe my eyes.
Every jail had at least six hundred, seven hundred criminals.
All were black.
Not a single white man I came across six jails.
It seems only black people commit crime.
And, these black people
are all young.
America is very much afraid of a black revolution.
So, all these young people have been forced into jail
without any trial.
My
criticism of
American politicians
is based
not on my personal hurts.
They don't matter.
At least to me, they don't matter.
But, I am certainly hurt,
because of American anti-human attitude.
I am against the status quo.
I want to change the whole society,
it's structure.
I want a classless society,
a world without boundaries, without nations,
a world
that is one,
neither black nor white...
neither Indian nor Russian...
nor American.
This small planet can live in peace.
The United States accounts for
five percent of the world's population.
We account for twenty five percent
of the world's inmates.
And, that represents a huge surge,
since
1980.
These are young people who
made mistakes that aren't that different from the mistakes
I made
and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made.
The difference is they did not have
the kind of support structures,
the second chances,
the resources,
that would allow them to survive those mistakes.
And,
you know I think we have a tendency sometimes to
almost
take for granted or it's normal
that so many young people
end up in our
Criminal Justice System.
It's not normal.
It's not what happens in other countries.
What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things.
What is normal is
young people
making mistakes.
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