#title Cops of America: Attention
#subtitle Would Richard Nixon Die for You?
#author Eldridge Cleaver
#SORTauthors Eldridge Cleaver;
#date 1970
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/101-march-19-april-1-1970/cops-of-america-attention]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2024-01-17
#notes Fifth Estate #101, March 19-April 1, 1970



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“Both police and armed forces follow orders. Orders. Orders flow from the top down. Up there, behind closed doors, in antechambers, in conference rooms, gavels bang on tables, the tinkling of silver decanters can be heard as ice water is poured by well-fed, conservatively dressed men in horn-rimmed glasses, fashionably dressed American widows with rejuvenated faces and tinted hair, the air permeated with the square humor of Bob Hope jokes. Here all the talking is done, all the thinking, all the deciding.”

—Eldridge Cleaver, <em>Soul on Ice</em>