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Abbie Hoffman — Part 33
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bombing, total bombing saturation for a two-mile
radius in the countryside of Vietnem within ten
minutes and the whole war is automated and we have
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GU PUL VuLsotlaves shh i PUES L AUIS Vl VR ia
end sisters who are Vietnam people and if we truly
belleve in a global village, they are our brothers
and sisters, and they walk out of a hut in their
simple village and they look up and all they see,
all they see with technology is death...
"We were in Paris just three wecks ago talking
with the Vietnamese and we wanted to use the tape
recorder and one of the people had, one of the
sisters had a camera, you know, and all of a sud-
den you could sce the people getting a little
edgy and then they ran it dam tous. They said
in North Vietnam they had six tape recorders.
. Everything we see about technology, every time
somebody puts ina plug, every time somebody uses
the word ‘electricity,’ every time scmebody talks
of media, every time (illegible) the peeple are
talking of death, you know, and that's the unfortu-«
nate part about this war, that it's shown that
great technology, yau know, as well as serving
people can be used to exterminate people and this
country has perfected it, you know, and taken it
one step beyond the Nazis, because we don't even
respond to it. A million people killed and people
say, ‘Well, bembing's part of war, that's the way
it goes, youlmow,*’ and they learn that they can
revise the movies, you know, and not stick pcople
in ovens and concentraticn camps, that's bad P.R.,
you know, fortunately the Nazis didn't have Madison
Avenue to use texms -like protective reactive strike
and saturation bombing and things like that.
“And you look zt MELVIN LAIRD, you look at
General HISCUELL, you look at President AGNEW, and
you look at these people and you say they're
reasonable, they're rational, they're responsible
people, you know. They'xe not violeat, they're not
crazy, you know, like the hippies and Yippics and
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