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...Kunstler charged that the government chose Harrisburg-predominantly Protestant-because of its citizens' pro-war attitudes and their allegedly anti-Catholic bias...
...Kunstler compared the Harrisburg conspiracy trial to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933. Just as the Nazis were determined to discredit their main opposition, the Communist Party, he said, the Federal government is trying to convince the American public that a widespread threat of terrorism exists within...
...Kunstler, who was chief defense counsel in the Chicago 8 and Catonsville 9 conspiracy trials-and faces a four-year sentence for a contempt of court conviction stemming from the Chicago trial-spoke to 700 persons in Lowell Lecture Hall Saturday...
...Kunstler attacked the government's choice of Harrisburg as the site of the grand jury investigation, and thus of the conspiracy trial. At least three other cities could have been selected, he said, since the alleged conspiracy existed in at least four East Coast cities: Harrisburg;, Lewisburg, Pa., Danbury, Conn.; and Seeburg...
...used in court. "The contention of the Attorney General is in error," ruled U.S. District Judge Damon Keith in Detroit last week. "Such power held by one individual was never contemplated by the framers of our Constitution and cannot be tolerated today." It was a rare victory for William Kunstler, who represents three White Panthers accused of conspiracy to bomb a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich. In ruling the wiretap illegal, Judge Keith wrote: "An idea which seems to permeate much of the Government's argument is that a dissident domestic organization is akin to an unfriendly foreign...