District Attorney Schlosser comes to rescue of Klan/Nazi murderers

              COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY, USA
PO Box 6874
Greensboro, N.C. 27405
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Signe Waller
Press Officer
March 27, 1980 (919) 273-6379
DISTRICT ATTORNEY SCHLOSSER COMES TO RESCUE OF KLAN/NAZI MURDERERS
This week, as the star defense witness, District Attorney Mike Schlosser
was able to rescue the floundering selective prosecution argument of the Klan/Nazi
murderers.
Although he was forced to admit the obvious—that the Klan and Nazis fired
the first shot and the shots that killed five persons, Schlosser promised to indict
the Communist Workers Party (CWP) supporters for defending themselves against the
assassins. This is consistent with his past logic of blaming equally the criminals
and the victims. His testimony legitimatized the Klan/Nazi self-defense claims,
which corroborates his portrayal of the November 3rd Greensboro massacre as a
"shootout between extremists."
Cutting through the legal smokescreen fanned by Schlosser, the facts remain
clear. The Klan/Nazi butchers committed the premeditated murders, in broad daylight,
of 5 CWP members. They attacked people who had been sufficiently disarmed by the
Greensboro Police Department. The reasons why the CWP hasn't been indicted so far
is because it is blatantly obvious to millions,who saw the massacre on television,
that no crimes were committed by CWP members and supporters. The only selective
prosecution that exists is that all 35 known Klan/Nazi murderers have not been
prosecuted; that conspirators Harold Covington, Virgil Griffin, and Rayford Caudle
have not been prosecuted; and, that Police and FBI accomplices have not been
prosecuted.
The Schlosser farce this week is part of the nationwide campaign to promote
the Klan and Nazis and to discourage resistance. Locally, the recent picture of
Klan/Nazi Roland Wood as a church-going defender of Black children is an insult to
peoples' intelligence.  The history of murder, rape and lynching of Black and Jewish
children by the Klan and Nazis speaks for itself.
The message of the rulers of this country is the same in the prosecutions of
anti-Klan/Nazi fighters in Greensboro, Decatur, Birmingham, Philadelphia, and other
cities: don't stand up against oppression; don't defend yourself against attacks;
and don't fight back.