THE COURT: I direct the marshal to have this man sit down.
MR. KUNSTLER: Every time I make a motion am I going to be thrown in my seat when I argue it?
MR. DELLINGER: Force and violence. The judge is inciting a riot by asking the marshal to have him sit down.
THE COURT: That man’s name is Dellinger?
MARSHAL JONESON: Will you be quiet, Mr. Dellinger?
MR. DELLINGER: After such hypocrisy I don’t particularly feel like being quiet. I said before the judge was the chief prosecutor, and he’s proved the point.
THE COURT: Will you remain quiet? Will you remain quiet, sir?
MR. DELLINGER: You let Foran give a foreign policy speech, but when he tries to answer it, you interrupt him and won’t let him speak.
There’s no pretense of fairness in this court. All you’re doing is employing a riot–employing force and violence to try to keep me quiet. Just like you gagged Bobby Seale because you couldn’t afford to listen to the truth that he was saying to you. You’re accusing me. I’m a pacifist.MARSHAL JONESON: Sit down, please, and be quiet.
MR. DELLINGER: I am employing nonviolence, and you’re accusing me of violence, and you have a man right here, backed up by guns, jails, and force and violence. That is the difference between us.
MARSHAL JONESON: Will you sit down?
(applause)
THE COURT: Will you continue, please, with the direct examination of this witness?
MR. DELLINGER: There goes the violence right there.
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(transcript excerpt from “Famous American Trials, ‘The Chicago Seven’ Trial 1969 – 1970”)