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OPINION
Tuesday, December 8, 1987
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The Michigan Daily
Prosecutor sides
with
T HE RECENT ARREST of Harold
Marcuse, a University graduate stu-.
dent, for allegedly assaulting an Ann
Arbor Police Officer and a Depart-
ment of Public Safety Officer during.
. the protest of Central Intelligence.
Agency recruiting on campus, points
to a conspiracy between the Univer-
sity's Department of Public Safety,
the city prosecutor and the Ann Arbor
Police Department.
'Marcuse has been charged with two
counts of simple assault. The alleged
tassaults took place in the Student Ac-
tfvities Building while Marcuse and a
group of at least 30 other protesters
were demonstrating against the CIA.
a terrorist arm of the United States
Government.
JLeo Heatley, Director of the De-.,
partment of Public Safety, is respon-
sible for any violence that transpired
at the protest. After demonstrators
tried to assert their right to be in a
University building, Heatley in-
formed the students that they would
have to assault him in order to walk
down a hallway in the Career Plan-
ning and Placement Office,
Fortunately, students did not grant
Heatley's wishes and peacefully
moved forward. Unfortunately,
Heatley's goons did not follow the
example set by the protesters.
Robert Patrick, the Assistant Di-
rector of the Department of Public
Safety, decided that violently attack-
ing a demonstrator was appropriate.
Patrick kicked Marcuse in the testicles
hard enough to make him double over
and fall to the ground.
Patrick has been a safety officer for
16 years and was acting in conjunc-
tion with Robert Pifer another Assis-
tant Director of Public Safety, as they
blocked a door together. There. is no
place for such brutality at this
University; Patrick should be fired.
The city prosecutor has chosen not
to file charges against Patrick for this
violent attack. Instead, he is filing
charges against Marcuse claiming
Patrick kicked Marcuse in the groin
only out of self- defense.
The blatantly false nature of the
charges becomes clearer considering
that neither Patrick or Pifer sustained
any injury, but Marcuse had to re-
quest medical attention, which was
initially denied by Ann Arbor's finest.
Only after Marcuse and protesters
demanded that Patrick be arrested, did
Pifer step forward and request assault
charges against Marcuse. Likewise, a
police detective, Douglas Barbour,
decided to press assault charges that
stemmed form an unrelated earlier in-
cident. If a police officer is assaulted,
the officer can make the arrest imme-
diately, but in the incident between
Barbour and Marcuse, Barbour
waited until Marcuse had filed
charges against the University secu-
rity officer before he requested a
warrant.
It is no surprise that.it took some
time for the charges against Marcuse
to be filed. Heatley roamed around
the hall after Marcuse had been at-
tacked, discussing the incidents with*
both the police and his cronies in the
Pubic Safety Department. The time
lapse may have been necessary for the
police and public safety officers to
come up with a cohesive stQry.
Several witnesses gave the police
statements on the incidents- of that
day, but these accounts.were ignored
by the prosecutor who favored Safety
and police accounts.
On review of eyewitness reports it.
is so clear that Patrick should have
been charged, Rackham Student
Government is offering a $500 re-
ward to Ann Arbor Police or Campus
Safety officers for information lead-
ing to the arrest of their fellow offi-
cers for conspiracy to obstruct justice,
perjury, or any other crime relating to
the abuses at and subsequent to the
CIA recruiting protest.
In the case of Marcuse, the Univer-
sity has resorted to the strongest
means available to squash students'
rights to protest -- physical force. If
it is allowed, the use of violence to
police,
enforce the University's desire for the
CIA to recruit on campus will threaten
all forms of student non-academic ac-
tivity.
The facts surrounding the alleged
assaults at the CIA protest suggest a
conspiracy within the investigation.
This Thursday at 3:00 p.m. starting
on the diag and proceeding to the De-
partment of Public Safety and City
A
Safety
Hall, there will be a rally by the Latin
America Solidarity Committee, Rack-
ham Student Government, and United
Coalition Against Racism. The protest
will address the strange coincidences
involved in this case. Students con-
cerned with preserving their rights to
peacefully protest without legal barri-
ers should attend this rally and sup-
port Mr. Marcuse.
No intervention in Haiti
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MASSACRES IN HAITI that recently
marked the government's suppression
of elections there are another typical
example of the results.of U.S. inter-
vention in the Caribbean.
The rampage of the military and
thugs in Haiti is cited as a reason by
some editorial writers for intervening
again in Haiti. In particularly twisted
logic, these analysts say that past
U.S. intervention in Haiti is the rea-
son for Haiti's problems today, and
now the United States has. the moral
responsibility to intervene again to
right the wrongs it has created.
The history of U.S. aid to Haiti and'
other countries south of the border,
however, proves that the United
States tends to establish and prop up
military dictatorships, rather than
right the wrongs it has created. For
example, in 1915, the UPS. Marines
occupied Haiti and held it under mar-
tial law until 1931, and only with-
drew in 1934.
Today, the Tonton Macoutes and
Haitian military are products of long-
standing U:S. policies. It was the
United States which gave aid to the
brutal Duvalier father-son dynasty
(1957-1986), the remnants of which
are still in power in government and
on the streets.
The same can be said of potential
intervention by the Organization of
American States (OAS), which is
composed of lackey states of the
United States and various military
dictatorships with outlooks similar to
that of the military dictatorship in
Haiti.
UN intervention would not be the
same -thing as US intervention in
Haiti, but there are several fatal flaws
in this idea also. First, UN interven-
tion is politically unlikely given what
countries would have to agree to it.
Thus, the call for UN intervention
might have no practical effect but to
give the United States an excuse to
intervene when the UN doesn't. Sec-
ondly, a UN peacekeeping force
could do nothing but paper over long-
standing conflicts in Haiti. As in the
Middle East, UN peacekeeping forces
would suffer casualties without solv-
ing any fundamental problems or
preventing armed combat.
. In a positive step short of interven-
tion, Reagan and Congress have acted
to cut off all but food and develop-
ment aid to Haiti. That includes with-
holding four million dollars in mili-
tary aid. These actions are nonethe-
less too little too late to help solve
Haiti's current problems. As the
United States has proved its inability
to solve problems in Haiti, any future
humanitarian aid to Haiti should be
administered by the International Red
Cross. Only by keeping its hands out
of the aid game can the United States
give the people of Haiti a chance to
determine their own destiny.
Ultimately, there is no easy solution
in Haiti. In the long run, the Haitian
people can solve their own problems.
As the example of Nicaragua indi-
cates, it is necessary for the people to
organize in order to promote lasting
change when someone like Duvalier
falls from power.
The only way to speed up this pro-
cess is for the United States to stop
intervening in Haiti. Without aid from
the United States, the Haitian military
and Tonton Macoutes will eventually
fall.
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To the Daily:
This is in response to Tom
. Krause's sarcastic display of
misinformation in his letter,
"PIRGIM refund, where,
(Daily, 11/23/87)?" His letter
addressed two concerns, (1)
how easy it is for students to
get refunded, and (2) the lack of
publicity of the refund process.
In fairy-tale fashion, Tom
first questioned the location of
the box for the "mythical"
refund,- referring to it as a
"majestic metallic gray cube"
that his eyes beheld in an "out
of the way corner." First, the
refund is not "mythical;"
having simply signed your
name, written your student I.D.
number, and printed your name
and address, you will indeed re-
ceive the $0.75 refund.
Second, yes, Tom, the box
is gray and metallic. Most
ballot boxes are. And yes, the
box was in a corner in the exit
hallway of CRISP. And for
good reason:
(1) CRISP was chosen be-
cause most students register
there. Those who don't (Law,
Med., Dental, some Rackham,
etc. students) will receive
refund slips by mail. It is an
easy place to reach most stu-
-dents.
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hall and because students are
less occupied with their
schedules, classes, etc. when
exiting than entering CRISP.
The exit area is also better than
inside CRISP because inside
there are far too many
distractions and too many other
things students must do.
(3) The corners of the
refund. Wrong, Tom. Had you
looked again, you would have
seen that upon exiting CRISP,
there is. a large poster that
reads, "PIRGIM/MSA refund
forms available," with an arrow
pointing both ways. There is a
poster, table, and refund box in
both directions when exiting
CRISP.
Tom also mentioned
"wasting his time" filling out
the form. Granted, a checkoff
on the SVF would be easier.
As would not having to fill out
or sign abything. But he's
forgetting that MSA, PIRGIM,
and most importantly,
students, decided on the re-
fundable method of .collection.
This was done after many,
~ many, many months of hard
work and debate of the issue.
Now that the decision has
finally been made, MSA and
PIRGIM are working together
to make the process as easy as
possible. Given the refund
process, if Tom or anyone
knows of. an easier way to
reach all students, we would
certainly like to know about it.
Tom's second concern was
that the neither MSA nor
PIRGIM publicized the loca-
tion of the refund boxes. This
was not done because it would
have been analogous to
publicizing CRISP, which.
most of us would agree is
ridiculous. Our aim is for every
student to see the refund forms.
The method we chose as
outlined above is more than
adequate.
In addition, in case any
students miss the boxes or
change their minds later, we
have agreed to accept refund
requests through all of next
semester. Students should
simply go to the MSA office
on the 3rd floor of the Union
to get a form. As the posters
read, for more information,
students can call MSA at 763-
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Tom says we're not doing our
job in representing students.
Help us do our job by voicing
your concerns.
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MSA/PIRGIM Refund
Coordinator
November 28
Reader: Are there too many radicals?
To the Daily:
Boy am I glad there are some
people on this campus w h o
still think. Paula A. Mighion
said, "While everyone has the
right to demonstrate, everyone
also has the right to
interview," ("Daily biased
against CIA recruitment,"
Daily, 12/7/87). I thought
most people had forgotten
about that amendment to the
constitution (which number is
it again?) which states,
"Wherefore, all citizens shall
have the right to an interview
with an organization, no matter
how slimy it may be." We
need to protest our sacred right
to interviews, not the other~
way around.
Jeff Hamilton's deep
understanding of the concept of
right and wrong is also
heartening. "The CIA, whose
role is admittedly highly
confront Soviet ralliers" is
relevant to our discussion of.
the CIA (Daily, 12/7/87).
What right did those people
have to disrupt traffic in
Moscow? It's just like our
protesters here - they think
because they have some moral
issue, they can tie up
commerce. Our CIA protesters
were there, interrupting Paula's
right to interview just because
they thought murderers
shouldn't use the facilities of
the University community to
which they belong.
Outrageous.
What's more, they disobeyed
the public safety director. Leo
Heatley told those protesters,
"You'll have to get through me
to get in there." Leo was there
trying to be impartial and
protect safety by making
inflammatory threats, and what
did our protesters do? They
building because it was on fire,
you'd get out. It's the same
when he tells you to stop
protesting, you'd better do it or
things will start to get unsafe,
people will get hurt, protesters
will get kicked. Next time, you
radicals, listen to the safety
director - it's for your own
safety.
That's just it - it's all these
radicals around campus. I
mean, it's pretty radical to state
the facts about the CIA and
wait for anyone, anyone in the
whole world, to-say something
redeeming about what Jeff
called "an organization of the
government which also has
rights." Enough with the
rhetoric, Someone stop these
radicals from waiting for
someone to try to defend the
CIA. All they go around doing
is citing irrefutable evidence
and it's making me sick.1
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