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Abbie Hoffman — Part 31
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bombing, total bombing saturation for a two-mile
radius in the countryside of Vietnam within ten
mimites and the whole war is automated and we have
to put ourselves in the positions of our brothers
and sisters who are Vietnam people and if we truly
believe 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 weeks 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 see the people getting a little
edgy and then they ran it down to us. They said
in North Vietnam they had six tape recorders.
Everything we see about technology every time
somebody puts ina plug, every t somebody uses
the word ‘electricity, every time somebody talks
of media, every time (illegible) the people are
talking of death, you know, and that’s the unfortu-
mate part about this war, that it's shown that
great technology, you 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, bombing's part of war, that's the way
it goes, you lnow,’ and they learn that they can
revise the movies, you know, and not stick people
in ovens and concentration camps, that's bad P.R.,
know, fortunately the Nazis didn't have Madison
Avemie to use terms like protective reactive strike
and saturation bombing and things like that.
“And you look at MELVIN LAIRD, you look at
General MITCHELL, you look at President AGNEW, and
you look at these people and you say they're __
xeasonable, they're rational, they‘re responsible
people, you know, They're not violent, they're not
crazy, you know, like the hippies and Yippies and
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