(Note: In the first of this 3-part series, I spoke briefly to my arrest by SEMCO in Detroit, February 11th, 1989, and the year leading up to it. In the second article, I commenced a two-week trial by jury in August of 1990.)
Allow me to briefly note here some comments made by observers as to my being involved in the drug business yet denying my guilt. Circa 1983, when the CIA et al. popularized crack on the West Coast to finance the White House Contra War, most of us on the left got out of that business.
Recent cooler days...
Cocaine had become devastating to the black and poor communities; there was no longer any political justification for including cocaine in our fund-raising (but, of course, that didn’t stop the gov’t…).
By the time 1989 rolled around, I had been out of that business some 5yrs. This case involves the gov’t (failing to entrap me with their informant) inserting me into a conspiracy of which I was never a member. I make no other claims of “innocence.” more…
