Saturday, May 29, 2010
RICHARD RODRIGUEZRichard Rodriguez was convicted of the execution-style murder of a man on April 16, 1972. The victim was scheduled to be a witness in a trial when he was killed. When Rodriguez was arrested, he was in possession of numerous weapons. He was sentenced to life in prison and was incarcerated in the California Department of Corrections, Deuel Vocational Institute, in Tracy, California. Rodriguez escaped on December 30, 1978, by cutting through the prison bars with hacksaw blades obtained from the machine shop at the institution. He then lowered himself to the ground with a rope made from bed sheets and climbed through a double fence between guard towers during dense nighttime fog. A federal arrest warrant for Rodriguez was issued on January 10, 1979, in Sacramento, California, after he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid confinement.
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Richard Rodriguez was also a Latino Black Panther Party member. Rodriguez was misinformed through the COINTEPRO (see J.Edgard Hoover) program and persuaded to execute James Carr a fellow Black Panther Party member because the FBI "badjacketted" Carr's position in order to cause dissent within the Party. COINTELPRO was extremely successful in creating paranoia, dissent and murder in most anti-establishment organizations in the US since the 1920s that included socialist, communist, student and civil right movements among others. (see Freedom of Information Act on BPP or Agents of Repression by Ward Churchill). Ernest Withers well known as a Civil Rights photographer and entrusted by Martin Luther King was recently revealed as an FBI COINTELPRO informant; code name ME338-R. This fact was not known until September 2010 because the FBI accidently released Withers name in a Freedom of Information document. We must understand all the circumstances caused by Government repression in the climate of the 1960s to accurately assess history and not pass judgments on victims of entrapment and coercion.
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