First, I am not a land-fill operator. I never have been a land-fill operator. Our family land corporation does own land on which a land-fill is situated, but like everything else, farms, houses, filling stations, etc., they are all leased to others.
Secondly, I never said Black men were inferior to White men because of the difference in the water content of their earwax. I did say it was further proof of the fact that Black and While men are two different species of men, and that is so.
Third, Judge Mills asked all the questions of the Sangamon County Jury. We were not permitted to interrogate the prospective jurors. We have the newspaper clipping from the Springfield Register that says this is the first time in the history of the Sangamon County Judiciary System that this has happened. Why?
In his closing statement, the Assistant State's Attorney of Sangamon County presented three questions to the jury that were not brought up during the trial, and after the Assistant State's Attorney had closed. Therefore, we were unable to answer them. First, he spoke of the danger to the secretary, as being as much as the danger to Jones, my Research Assistant. There was not any danger. She was not going to the campuses, Jones was! She was not implicated in any way with the investigation and research, Jones was! I stood between her and any danger. I was creating the dozen bills and resolutions to control these disorders in1969-1970. There was. no connection between this girl and the radicals. Jones and I had the danger.
The Prosecutor asked why I did not trace the license number of Jones' car: The only time I saw the car was at the Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival. I failed to remember his license number due to the many things taking place at the Festival. Jones and I met approximately sixteen (16) times in the fifteen (15) months he worked for me. He either called me off the floor of the House by telephone and met me by my car in the parking lot, or he turned up at my home in Decatur. When he left my home in Decatur, he headed into the park. next door. I presumed he parked his car there in the park. I never followed him because I thought it would be ill advised. I never met Jones in his car as your article stated.
Lastly, Jones kept his own notes. They were his notes. I could not take them from him. If he wished to assume the risk of radicals finding these notes on his person, that was his decision to make.
I am sure the notes could have been of extreme danger to him it" found. The last time I saw Jones was June 3. 1970. It was just after he gave me his report on his, three days of activity at the Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival.
It was my duty as a soldier with fourteen decorations and as a Legislator, to do something to deter the radicals. Black. &White, who were destroying, burning and looting in 1969 and 1970. They were even calling for the over throw of our government by force.
I did what I thought was right in defending my God my Country and the Constitution of the United States. I feel that I kept my oath of office. If this matter finally ends and that I must go to jail for my actions in 1969 and 1970, I will cheerfully do so. There is no shame or disgrace for going to jail for defending my Country in a time of disorder such as was happening in 1969 and 1970.
The people in my district have formed a Defense Fund. In She first three days they raised $1650.00 plus court costs, to repay the State and County for the money I was alleged to have stolen. They have a be paid, over One Thousand Dollars for the transcript of the Sangamon County Trial. How much more they will raise and pay for the Supreme Court, I do not know. Every bank in Macomb County opened a Defense Fund for me. By far and large, the majority of the people believe I did the right thing in 1969and 1970 with their tax money.
IN RESPONSE: Whatever Borchers' technical relationship to the land-fill on his property, he took great umbrage at Environmental Protection Agency efforts- to make sure it was run according to law and introduced many hills to prune its authority. The story's reference to the inferiority of blacks based on ear wax is the conclusion several reporters drew from one of Borchers' rambling floor speeches. Borchers will have to ask Judge Mills his third question, and for the rest of his abjection's, only one deserves comment.
Borchers, In both state and federal court, repeatedly said "Dan Jones " refused to go on she state payroll as a campus investigator because he feared for his safely. The point Assistant State's Attorney Wayne Golomb made was that Borchers apparently accepted this story because he did not must Jones goon the state payroll. Nonetheless., Borchers did not hesitate so describe the secretary as a campus investigator and to put her on the state payroll.
Tom Laue, author of "The two trials of Borchers: How could a man be Found not guilty - then guilty?"' (April 1976)
10 / October 1976 / Illinois Issues