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Abbie Hoffman — Part 31
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you know, we just don’t want to see this war brought
to a speedy conclusion, you know, 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
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Vietnanization 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
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pea 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
San sees and barbarically, you now, defoliated the land and
os tried to kill all the people. They realize that
—— they can't defeat the Viet Cong or the Pathet Lao
or the Cambodians or the North Vietnamese or any of
these heroic people militarily, so they can't defeat
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> drain the sea. And we have to understand that the
east people who are responsible for that kind of insti-
tuional violence are gonna be the people 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 somebody 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
detedive, they drop them from planes and they pick
up sounds of life within a halfemlle or mile radius,
water buffalo, child crying, Viet Cong, makes no
distinction, and radios this information to an air~
plane 50,000 feet high in the sky, which inmediatel
cables this information to a computer in the Sevent
Fleet off the China Coast and buttons are all pushed,
you know, none touched by human hands, and the
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