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Video: The Terrible Myth Kunstler talks about what he sees as the "terrible myth" of organized society and the justice system, which he believes governments throughout history have used to put people to death with an "aura of legality." Watch the video and read the transcript »

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 4 minutes, filesize: 2.9 MB) Audio: On Self Defense, 1969: Kunstler addresses the black community and talks about self defense, the Black Panther Party and tells his audience that they must stand ready to protect themselves and their community, and retaliate when necessary.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 55 minutes, filesize: 36.4 MB) On the First Amendment and Political Repression, 1969: Kunstler talks about his unique experiences as part of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, the importance of freedom of speech and more.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 102 minutes, filesize: 117.4 MB) Debate with Chicago 8 Prosecutor Richard Schultz, 1970: In this debate, broadcast on KPFA, Kunstler talks about his defense of the Chicago 8 and defendant Bobby Seale, who was bound and gagged during the trial. Schultz responds to Kunstler's statements, and the two men go back and forth.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 15 minutes, filesize: 16.7 MB) Power to the People, 1970: Kunstler addresses and audience and encourages them to unite, struggle against an oppressive government and embrace "power to the people." He also plays a recording of a speech by Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice and minister of information for the Black Panther Party.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 24 minutes, filesize: 27.7 MB) Discussion of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, 1970: In Los Angeles, Kunstler talks about the details of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in front of an audience and encourages them to fight injustices in the court rooms.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 43 minutes, filesize: 48.8 MB) At the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, 1970: Kunstler addresses the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, where he talks about the Chicago Conspiracy trial and the possibility of his jail sentence for contempt during that trial.

All audio above appears here courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives and Emily and Sarah Kunstler.

Transcripts: The Terrible Myth

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Table of Contents

Video: The Terrible Myth Kunstler talks about what he sees as the "terrible myth" of organized society and the justice system, which he believes governments throughout history have used to put people to death with an "aura of legality." Watch the video and read the transcript »

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 4 minutes, filesize: 2.9 MB) Audio: On Self Defense, 1969: Kunstler addresses the black community and talks about self defense, the Black Panther Party and tells his audience that they must stand ready to protect themselves and their community, and retaliate when necessary.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 55 minutes, filesize: 36.4 MB) On the First Amendment and Political Repression, 1969: Kunstler talks about his unique experiences as part of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, the importance of freedom of speech and more.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 102 minutes, filesize: 117.4 MB) Debate with Chicago 8 Prosecutor Richard Schultz, 1970: In this debate, broadcast on KPFA, Kunstler talks about his defense of the Chicago 8 and defendant Bobby Seale, who was bound and gagged during the trial. Schultz responds to Kunstler's statements, and the two men go back and forth.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 15 minutes, filesize: 16.7 MB) Power to the People, 1970: Kunstler addresses and audience and encourages them to unite, struggle against an oppressive government and embrace "power to the people." He also plays a recording of a speech by Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice and minister of information for the Black Panther Party.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 24 minutes, filesize: 27.7 MB) Discussion of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, 1970: In Los Angeles, Kunstler talks about the details of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in front of an audience and encourages them to fight injustices in the court rooms.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 43 minutes, filesize: 48.8 MB) At the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, 1970: Kunstler addresses the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, where he talks about the Chicago Conspiracy trial and the possibility of his jail sentence for contempt during that trial.

All audio above appears here courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives and Emily and Sarah Kunstler.

Transcripts: The Terrible Myth

https://youtu.be/Ft8UNDhV2Uc February, 1970 Transcript And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal — and that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order to life, and an order to a system, and that a person that goes through this order and is convicted, has gotten all that is due him. And therefore society can turn its conscience off, and look to other things and other times. And that's the terrible thing about these past trials, is that they have this aura of legitimacy, this aura of legality. I suspect that better men than the world has known and more of them, have gone to their deaths through a legal system than through all the illegalities in the history of man. Six million people in Europe during the Third Reich? Legal. Sacco Vanzetti? Quite legal. The Haymarket defendants? Legal. The hundreds of rape trials throughout the South where black men were condemned to death? All legal. Jesus? Legal. Socrates? Legal. And that is the kaleidoscopic nature of what we live through here and in other places. Because all tyrants learn that it is far better to do this thing through some semblance of legality than to do it without that pretense. « Back to main page of feature" ["post_title"]=> string(48) "William Kunstler: Audio: Speeches and Interviews" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(180) "William Kunstler talks about the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, the Black Panther Party, the right to self defense and much more in these recordings from the late 1960s and early 1970s." ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(29) "audio-speeches-and-interviews" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2016-06-29 14:20:36" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2016-06-29 18:20:36" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(74) "http://www.pbs.org/pov/index.php/2010/06/22/audio-speeches-and-interviews/" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } } ["post_count"]=> int(1) ["current_post"]=> int(-1) ["in_the_loop"]=> bool(false) ["post"]=> object(WP_Post)#7138 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(1482) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2010-01-17 15:14:17" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2010-01-17 20:14:17" ["post_content"]=> string(8751) "

Table of Contents

Video: The Terrible Myth Kunstler talks about what he sees as the "terrible myth" of organized society and the justice system, which he believes governments throughout history have used to put people to death with an "aura of legality." Watch the video and read the transcript »

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 4 minutes, filesize: 2.9 MB) Audio: On Self Defense, 1969: Kunstler addresses the black community and talks about self defense, the Black Panther Party and tells his audience that they must stand ready to protect themselves and their community, and retaliate when necessary.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 55 minutes, filesize: 36.4 MB) On the First Amendment and Political Repression, 1969: Kunstler talks about his unique experiences as part of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, the importance of freedom of speech and more.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 102 minutes, filesize: 117.4 MB) Debate with Chicago 8 Prosecutor Richard Schultz, 1970: In this debate, broadcast on KPFA, Kunstler talks about his defense of the Chicago 8 and defendant Bobby Seale, who was bound and gagged during the trial. Schultz responds to Kunstler's statements, and the two men go back and forth.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 15 minutes, filesize: 16.7 MB) Power to the People, 1970: Kunstler addresses and audience and encourages them to unite, struggle against an oppressive government and embrace "power to the people." He also plays a recording of a speech by Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice and minister of information for the Black Panther Party.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 24 minutes, filesize: 27.7 MB) Discussion of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, 1970: In Los Angeles, Kunstler talks about the details of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in front of an audience and encourages them to fight injustices in the court rooms.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file. Download the file (MP3, length: 43 minutes, filesize: 48.8 MB) At the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, 1970: Kunstler addresses the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, where he talks about the Chicago Conspiracy trial and the possibility of his jail sentence for contempt during that trial.

All audio above appears here courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives and Emily and Sarah Kunstler.

Transcripts: The Terrible Myth

https://youtu.be/Ft8UNDhV2Uc February, 1970 Transcript And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal — and that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order to life, and an order to a system, and that a person that goes through this order and is convicted, has gotten all that is due him. And therefore society can turn its conscience off, and look to other things and other times. And that's the terrible thing about these past trials, is that they have this aura of legitimacy, this aura of legality. I suspect that better men than the world has known and more of them, have gone to their deaths through a legal system than through all the illegalities in the history of man. Six million people in Europe during the Third Reich? Legal. Sacco Vanzetti? Quite legal. The Haymarket defendants? Legal. The hundreds of rape trials throughout the South where black men were condemned to death? All legal. Jesus? Legal. Socrates? Legal. And that is the kaleidoscopic nature of what we live through here and in other places. Because all tyrants learn that it is far better to do this thing through some semblance of legality than to do it without that pretense. « Back to main page of feature" ["post_title"]=> string(48) "William Kunstler: Audio: Speeches and Interviews" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(180) "William Kunstler talks about the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, the Black Panther Party, the right to self defense and much more in these recordings from the late 1960s and early 1970s." ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(29) "audio-speeches-and-interviews" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2016-06-29 14:20:36" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2016-06-29 18:20:36" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(74) "http://www.pbs.org/pov/index.php/2010/06/22/audio-speeches-and-interviews/" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } ["comment_count"]=> int(0) ["current_comment"]=> int(-1) ["found_posts"]=> int(1) ["max_num_pages"]=> int(0) ["max_num_comment_pages"]=> int(0) ["is_single"]=> bool(true) ["is_preview"]=> bool(false) ["is_page"]=> bool(false) ["is_archive"]=> bool(false) ["is_date"]=> bool(false) ["is_year"]=> bool(false) ["is_month"]=> bool(false) ["is_day"]=> bool(false) ["is_time"]=> bool(false) ["is_author"]=> bool(false) ["is_category"]=> bool(false) ["is_tag"]=> bool(false) ["is_tax"]=> bool(false) ["is_search"]=> bool(false) ["is_feed"]=> bool(false) ["is_comment_feed"]=> bool(false) ["is_trackback"]=> bool(false) ["is_home"]=> bool(false) ["is_404"]=> bool(false) ["is_embed"]=> bool(false) ["is_paged"]=> bool(false) ["is_admin"]=> bool(false) ["is_attachment"]=> bool(false) ["is_singular"]=> bool(true) ["is_robots"]=> bool(false) ["is_posts_page"]=> bool(false) ["is_post_type_archive"]=> bool(false) ["query_vars_hash":"WP_Query":private]=> string(32) "9e90d4c1f9a4a916a01aeac421296b69" ["query_vars_changed":"WP_Query":private]=> bool(false) ["thumbnails_cached"]=> bool(false) ["stopwords":"WP_Query":private]=> NULL ["compat_fields":"WP_Query":private]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(15) "query_vars_hash" [1]=> string(18) "query_vars_changed" } ["compat_methods":"WP_Query":private]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(16) "init_query_flags" [1]=> string(15) "parse_tax_query" } }

William Kunstler: Audio: Speeches and Interviews

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Video: The Terrible Myth
Kunstler talks about what he sees as the "terrible myth" of organized society and the justice system, which he believes governments throughout history have used to put people to death with an "aura of legality." Watch the video and read the transcript »

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file.

Download the file (MP3, length: 4 minutes, filesize: 2.9 MB)

Audio: On Self Defense, 1969: Kunstler addresses the black community and talks about self defense, the Black Panther Party and tells his audience that they must stand ready to protect themselves and their community, and retaliate when necessary.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file.

Download the file (MP3, length: 55 minutes, filesize: 36.4 MB)

On the First Amendment and Political Repression, 1969: Kunstler talks about his unique experiences as part of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, the importance of freedom of speech and more.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file.

Download the file (MP3, length: 102 minutes, filesize: 117.4 MB)

Debate with Chicago 8 Prosecutor Richard Schultz, 1970: In this debate, broadcast on KPFA, Kunstler talks about his defense of the Chicago 8 and defendant Bobby Seale, who was bound and gagged during the trial. Schultz responds to Kunstler's statements, and the two men go back and forth.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file.

Download the file (MP3, length: 15 minutes, filesize: 16.7 MB)

Power to the People, 1970: Kunstler addresses and audience and encourages them to unite, struggle against an oppressive government and embrace "power to the people." He also plays a recording of a speech by Eldridge Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice and minister of information for the Black Panther Party.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file.

Download the file (MP3, length: 24 minutes, filesize: 27.7 MB)

Discussion of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, 1970: In Los Angeles, Kunstler talks about the details of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in front of an audience and encourages them to fight injustices in the court rooms.

This audio file requires the Flash plug-in to play inline. You may also download the file.

Download the file (MP3, length: 43 minutes, filesize: 48.8 MB)

At the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, 1970: Kunstler addresses the National Lawyer's Guild Convention, where he talks about the Chicago Conspiracy trial and the possibility of his jail sentence for contempt during that trial.

All audio above appears here courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives and Emily and Sarah Kunstler.

Transcripts: The Terrible Myth

February, 1970

Transcript

And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal -- and that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order to life, and an order to a system, and that a person that goes through this order and is convicted, has gotten all that is due him. And therefore society can turn its conscience off, and look to other things and other times.

And that's the terrible thing about these past trials, is that they have this aura of legitimacy, this aura of legality. I suspect that better men than the world has known and more of them, have gone to their deaths through a legal system than through all the illegalities in the history of man.

Six million people in Europe during the Third Reich? Legal.

Sacco Vanzetti? Quite legal.

The Haymarket defendants? Legal.

The hundreds of rape trials throughout the South where black men were condemned to death? All legal.

Jesus? Legal.

Socrates? Legal.

And that is the kaleidoscopic nature of what we live through here and in other places. Because all tyrants learn that it is far better to do this thing through some semblance of legality than to do it without that pretense.

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