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<p>Skolnick COMMENTARY #013
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<p>[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve
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either all or portions of the following.]</p>
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<p>[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put
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out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up
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the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]</p>
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<p>Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts,
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9800 South Oglesby.</p>
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<p>The phone company reserves the right to sabotage your phones if
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you are a political activist.</p>
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<p>The background: In the 1960s and 1970s, like other phone
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companies nationwide, Illinois Bell Telephone Company assisted
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the espionage agencies in monitoring and sabotaging the phones of
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civil rights advocates, anti-war activists, trade unionists and
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such. Some local police units had or have units called "red
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squads" on the presumption that political activists are
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subversive. "Red squad" agents had free access to phone company
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facilities to monitor phones, to obtain records of phone calls,
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and to screw up phone lines so calls couldn't go through -- such
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as right before or during civil rights protest events.</p>
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<p>In 1969 there was a boycott in Chicago by blacks, directed
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against banks who refused them mortgages and took discriminatory
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and highly inflated contract payments instead. The protest was by
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the Southside Contract Buyers League, some 25000 black
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homeowners. At a key point in the boycott, all the phones were
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blanked out in the areas where the Southside Contract Buyers
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League members lived. Blacks who weren't even members, but lived
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*near* members, also had *their* phones cut off.</p>
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<p>Thereafter, a class action lawsuit was being planned against
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Illinois Bell Telephone for sabotage and racial discrimination in
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services. The president and the vice-president of the black
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homeowners group met with phone company officials in the home of
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our [Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts] chairman. The
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phone company offered a "gift" of a half-million dollars in
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"hush" money. The meeting blew up, however, when our chairman
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said he was going public with the phone company's attempted
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bribery.</p>
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<p>Chicago alderman Ed Vyrdolak headed a committee supposedly
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investigating phone company complicity in wire-tapping. City
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Council hearings were scrapped, however, after Illinois Bell
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Telephone Company reportedly gave "Fast Eddy's" [i.e. Vyrdolak]
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law firm a bribe of almost $1 million.</p>
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<p>By 1982, the FBI and the Chicago police entered into a federal
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court consent decree that they would cease doing dirty tricks
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against political activists and others in this federal district.
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Thereafter, the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] intelligence,
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acting similar to CIA, took over wire-tapping and spying in this
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district, the result of a loophole in the consent decree. The IRS
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gestapo does a number of acts having nothing to do with tax
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collecting:</p>
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<p>1) They monitor and sabotage the phones of political activists.</p>
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<p>2) As admitted offhand during a federal court hearing, the IRS
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keeps dossiers on federal judges here for blackmail and
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extortion. A federal judge who does not rule in favor of the IRS
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can expect himself and his family to be wrecked.</p>
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<p>3) The IRS unlawfully spies on first class mail, with the
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connivance of postal authorities.</p>
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<p>4) Top IRS officials in the Chicago area are secret partners in
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vending machine companies owned by the mafia in the south
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suburbs.</p>
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<p>5) According to an unpublicized court suit, the IRS demanded the
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wife divorce a husband for publicly criticizing the IRS.</p>
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<p>Does the phone company sabotage these [Citizen's Committee's
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phone] lines? You're darn right. In November of '93, Illinois
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Bell -- now called Ameritech -- resumed a 20-year-long sabotage
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campaign against these recorded commentaries. (By the way, the
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phone company security department is a *rotten joke*.)</p>
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<p>In Chicago, see us on cable t.v. channel 21, 9 pm most Monday
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evenings.</p>
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<p>Play it again: Murdered Reporters. (312) 731-1505.</p>
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<p>New message Thursday; we change it several times a week.</p>
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<p>Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the
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Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the
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latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political
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assassinations, and the news media.
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