Some of you know that the Nebraska State Penn has been on lock down for a few months, and that Mondo told the Nebraska Jericho office that he felt the lock down was undermining the heath of the older inmates. For the first time in 30 years he mentioned to me that he had been repeatedly going to the infirmary.
I arrived in Nebraska last evening only to learn that Mondo is in the prison hospital unable to breathe with a breathing disorder called copd. They say he hasn’t slept in days. Only one person from the outside has seen him since he has been in the prison hospital. She is Mary Dickenson, a member of the local defense committee. She said a prison guard stood too close by for him to speak freely. I spoke to his attorney Tim Ashford late this afternoon, who will demand to see him on Monday.
Please call the warden and demand Mondo’s transfer to a regular hospital outside of the prison (the prison is notorious for horrible care).
Warden is: Diane Sabatka-rine 402-471-3161 or 402-479-3216. Diane.sabatka-rine@nebraska.gov
Please help us as I do not want any harm to come to this former member of the BPP. He is also one who I love, please help if you can.
Sis. Tekla Agbala
Nebraska Jericho
(More info on Mondo we Langa at http://sfbayview.com/2011/the-story-of-the-omaha-two-2/
Ramsey Clark praises Black Panthers Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa
October 27, 2012
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark recently visited the Omaha Two, Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice) at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln before speaking about their cases in Omaha the next day. The Omaha Reader covered the event which was ignored by the other Omaha news media.
The Omaha Two were convicted in 1971 for the bombing murder of an Omaha policeman but continue to maintain their innocence. Both men were leaders of the Black Panther affiliate National Committee to Combat Fascism in Omaha and targets of J. Edgar Hoover’s clandestine counterintelligence program code-named COINTELPRO.
J. Edgar Hoover operated a secret nation-wide program from 1956 until 1971 directed at groups and individuals Hoover considered subversive. COINTELPRO dirty tricks were directed at political activists by a cadre of FBI Special Agents. The Black Panther Party was Hoover’s number one target with lethal ferocity.
In the Omaha Two case, J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI Crime Laboratory director, Ivan Willard Conrad, to withhold information about the identity of the 911 caller who lured Patrolman Larry D. Minard, Sr. to his death in a vacant house. Omaha police had sent a recording of the 911 caller who falsely reported a woman screaming to the FBI for identification analysis. Hoover ordered Conrad to not prepare a formal report, which could be used as evidence, and instead telephone the results to Paul Young the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Omaha FBI office.
Hoover’s plan worked and the jury that convicted Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa never got to hear the voice of the deadly caller.
“I think these two men are certainly innocent of the acts for which they’ve been accused and by our system convicted,” Clark told a crowd at the Malcolm X Center in Omaha. “Police investigation is always important for the public to survey carefully. Its’ where our human rights are protected or violated.”
Clark went on to praise both men for their intellectual accomplishments and ability to stay strong under the circumstances. “If you could see them, you would be inspired….They are our hope.” Clark called the men, “uncrushable” and “valuable citizens.”
Ramsey Clark was Attorney General during J. Edgar Hoover’s long tenure as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and unwittingly launched the Ghetto Informant Program on September 14, 1967 by telling Hoover to improve his intelligence about the rioting in major cities. Hoover kept COINTELPRO’s misdeeds from all the Attorney Generals he served under, including Clark. As a result, Clark has followed the Omaha Two case over the years although this was his first trip to the Nebraska State Penitentiary.
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