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Abbie Hoffman — Part 33
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you know, we just don't want to see this war brought
to a speedy conclusion, you mow, and the troops
home, We want to see a government in Southeast Asia,
in Vietnam, that is representative of the needs of
the people and that contributes to the welfare and
the general well being of the people : in that entire
area, That is what we want to see and we have to
fight for that.- We have to fight against the
Vietnamization program. We have to be careful not
to fall into the trap of, you know, seeing Lieutenant
CALLEY or My Lai, you know, or people pick up some= ,
body's head and cut it off, you know, and responding
to that without failing to respond to the saturation
bombings, free fire zones and these general policies
of institutional genocide that are set in
Washineton that have contributed to the defamation
of eighteen per cent of the arable land in Vietnan,
that have turned it from an exporter of rice into
an importer of rice, you see, that have totally
and barbarically, youlnow, defoliated the land and
tried to kil] all the people. They realise that
they can't defeat the Viet Cong or the Pathet Lao
or the Cambodians or the North Vietnamese or any of
those heroic people militarily, so they can't defeat
the £ish that swim in the sea, so they attempt to
drain the sea. And we have to understand that the
people who are responsible for that kind of insti-
tuional violence are gonna be the peecple that are
gonna have to be the defendants in the war crimes
of the future. And it’s not gonna be Lieutenant
CALLEY, he is the scapegoat, his hands are in
blood, you know, but you shoot somebcdy point blank,
you know, it is some existential thing you have to
think about it and you have to confront it. But -
in Vietnam, the latest tactic is planting a radio 7
detective, they drop them from planes and they pick ——~
up sounds of life within a half-mile or mile radius, ‘ae
water buffalo, child crying, Viet Cong, makes no LS
distinction, and radios this infoxmation to an air- ~
plane 50,000 fcet high in the sky, which dnmediately
cables this information to a computer in the Seventh
leet off the China Coast and buttons are ali pushed,
you know, none touched by human hands, and the
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