European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 19, 1977 the stars and stripes John p. Roche Page 15 press censored itself in ignoring Mccarthy Gene Mccarthy has certain Quali ties which despite our political differences have always Given me a  when last fall using league of women voter s sponsorship As the pre text the debates were limited to Ford Anncarter it seemed like a dirty trick. Of course if the equal time provisions of the communications act had not been evaded about 20 kooks would also have been on stage but the thought of Gene throwing darts at those two waxwork Sta Tesmen appealed to the Leprechaun in me. Also during the big wait in Philadelphia As Ford and Carter stood like statues i m sure Gene would have sat Down and sent out for Beer and  problem was Given the rhetorical Competition he might have won the elec Tion and then either demanded a recount or abdicated. He had no vice presidential candidate Gene has always been in this world but somehow not of it. John Blatnik longtime Minnesota congressman once recalled slumping in the Iron Ore Region with Mccarthy who was running for the , he said got up and delivered a Beautiful talk about St. Thomas and the Musicof the spheres. Then the audience tears in its eyes turned on Blatnik and said "ok.John, what Are you and Hubert doing about unemployment Well Gene is off the reservation again socking it to the Media giants for censor ship and irresponsibility in the june Harper  there is a certain element of special pleading they treated him As a non candidate in the election but the Central thesis of his essay sins of omis Sion is right on target. The press he argues has taken to defining truth in and Jesse l. Jackson bonkers neglect Black potential imagine this american Bankers an businessmen travelling the oceans wide to link interests with whole nations that have to to Oiler than a nation within our nation one with consumer spending Power greater than All but a dozen or so nations in  nation i refer to is of course Amer Ica s Black and minority communities an their business enterprises. It is hard for most of us to imagine these enterprises actual and potential Power because by an Large it is a Blind spot to the american economic  it is a very real presence what s  Enterprise is threatened and beleaguered. It is an economic outcast King a Bleak and Uncertain future unless it can turn the Comer on its problem soon. In a nation boasting a system of free Enterprise in an open capitalistic Economy minority Enterprise is incarcerated by in equity shut out by inability to secure capita and exploited by profiteers who Are spiritual adherents of  doubt that this spirit still lives. Many m America live publicly with desegregation on their lips and in their mannerisms but with segregation in their hearts. As even our president knows the spirit Mil lives in Many churches. It lives in attitudes about friendships and marriage i Public and private education. And it lives most everywhere in the american Economy. What i m talking about will become dear when you consider some of be devas Tating Side effects of the Federal Law that jetted Public accommodations to non note  examples during the decades Tot Blacks could t sleep in most hotel and Motel Beds a network of Black owned hotels and motels grew up. When Blacks finally were allowed to sleep overnight in White Beds they woke up to find Many Lack owned hotels being squeezed out of existence by suddenly concerned compe  funeral Homes an Industry boosted to prominence by a notion that segregation is practice into eternity Are eagerly sought by some while funeral homeowners who since their ambulances now have to pick up Black bodies want the whole  i soft a Call for a return to Public segregation in the name of Black and minority Enterprise. What i urn issuing is a common sense plea to business and government and a warning to Blacks and other minorities. The plea is this the inner cities immediately the total cities ultimately will col lapse without economic  All minority business people were a critical component of the minority vote that provided Jimmy Carter his mandate lie Onasi be called on to pay his debts. Minority businesses can t survive or begin without capital and Protection. If minority businesses can t survive the inner cities can to either. The warning 1 have for minority Ameri cans is this there Are those determined to stifle minority economic and political growth. Their weapons Are a powerful will to exploit you and the dollars to do  must be resisted and overcome. Make sure your dollars Aren t spent wit them. Make sure your congressman knows your concern about his neglect of Bill needed to provide full employment and to finance Urban development. And Don t underestimate the Power of your own dollars no matter How few they  and minority dollars Are the margin of profit for Many big influential businesses. Spending elsewhere or not at All sends a message so loud even the spirit of segregation can hear it. The survival of Black and minority Enterprise is More than a Dollar and cents Issue. It s a matter of life or death. It Stime to Force the Issue and to seize the initiative to reconstruct your communities starting at their crippled economic , everything that was Ever ours and All we Hope to gain will be lost and Only the spirit of segregation will profit. Vanlean censoring by ignoring Seri Ous counter proposals or alternatives. Since Richard Nixon s Moth like ques for the flame has recently produced water Gate revisited let me take a few hem from that Era some of which Mccarthy comments on in his essay. Or. G. Gordon buddy it will be recalled refused to sing for maximum John Sirica that is buddy stood silent when questioned about the provenance of the watergate  protests by some advocates of the Bill of rights myself included he was busted harder than the average rapist he is eligible for parole this summer. Now i m not about to invite buddy to join the social democrats . And i m certain he would decline the invitation but the fact is that As the press pack howled for blood buddy was awarded As cruel and unusual a punishment As behave witnessed in a Century. When i raised this Issue with my one time associates in the fight for constitutional rights i was told in no Uncertain terms that judge Sirica was a hero of civil liberties who was simply cleansing the government of bad  put a different customer on the rack demand for instance that a reporter reveal the source of a Story or be held i contempt of court. The orchestration is in credible a reporter it seems is a pries with special Protection from state inquiries. Thus if a journalist heard from an Eye witness that John Roche robbed the state Street Bank the reporter is supposedly under no obligation to Aid the enforcement of the criminal Law. This is preposterous. Yet buddy went off to the laundry for 25years while judges hide the minute a re Porter starts spieling about his first amendment  Points out the extent to which the Media giants consider themselves Sovereign states. I have been waiting years for lbs to put. Out its own postage Stamps lie focuses on the Washington Post s double Standard the president s men got information from Telephone company records by using the Fri the Post s men by using a Telephone company source. The president and his men obstructed Justice the past s men indicated a willingness to tamper with a grand  and he ends this cutting indictment with a quotation that precisely defines the bifocal Ity of watergate. There was a big thing called Legal jus lice he quotes social critic Laurence learner As noting and something called journalistic  recently i observed Here that Richard Nixon s greatest crime was giving anti totalitarianism a bad name. Surely the next worst was the extent to which his sins have been employed to buttress the sovereignty of the Media. Fortunately Gene has put a solid shot into that mythical Castle. A wort