fern 1i-30 iiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiitiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiQiiiiiiiiiii A NEWSPAPER FOR SERVICEMEN THIS IS YOURS NO ONE CAN TAKE TMS AWAY FfcOAA YOU Travel TOUR #1 Quick Action-packed 12 Month THIS COPY IS YOUR, PRIVATE PROPERTY Trip to the Exotic and Exciting EVEU âl'S HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL rUSHTS FAR EAST (VIETNAM) TOUR #2 13 months in Korea TOUR #3 Hawaii - Japan • Okinawa TOUR #4 Hunt and Fish in Alaska T'RniK/IN^ 1)-RV TOUR #5 Serve in the Sunny Caribbean ) s/ ALL EXPENSES PAID For full details see your unit travel agent (RE-ENLISTMENT NCO) FOR M one i Hf». f4ii s.f. £Z/-Z/VZ r-uptight the brass MAKE RESERVATIONSTODAY Work togefh IIMTERVIE FLASH!, EN MONTEREY!! ! ! Interview with Mrs. Trecethen mother of Ernest Trefethen one i inselinq Center will be of the Presidio 27 .beina tried »round May 1, 69 .in 1 for "MUTINY ;! ! ! '. Monterey. It's pur pose will be to counsel GI's What we.s your soi'» sent to the on C Lcations. To direct stockade .'or: A.WGL, was serv to Legal, suirttural and ing a 6 month sentence. nsychiatriatic del:, with-in the What was your reaction to tha area. This is a cooo orwuect news of the protest? Well I was with local groups, and S.c\ never informed ny the Artnv, X sroups sending down ...ull tinte read about, it. îri the newspaoer. counselors, clercrvmen, What is your opinion of your •ers. Lt will be a clearing sons action? He was doino what >r GI Newspapers, Anti- he tnouohi was riant and i woul< rer lit, local group activities, do the same if 1 were in his md down to earth. , true info nosition. in what is really happing. Took 'What is your oninion od MJÏÛ CAr< SUPPORT THE PRESIDIO 27!! The Military, certainly recoonizinq the- .n our nfxt issue comino out JUSTTOE? r'rom what I can see 1 implication of mass GI peace demonstrations, is attempting to silence ;oon for more info. dont see i;ow the MM if can T GX Protest Movements through intimidation by imposing extaordinary it Mutiny. charoes and punishments on the Presidio demonstrators. What will be your actions if CHECK THIS OUT your son is sentenced? Go to The Presidio 27 were charged with Mutiny for gently protesting a •For info on where vou can pick Hierher courts. stockade guards senseless slayino of a friend by sitting together up copies of this newspaper anr 1 •that did your son no before and singing, "America the Beautiful" and "We Shall Overcome." The others, fine , info on local GI cam^ into the A-vM^? He wrote first three men convicted on these charges received an average of rtteetifurs, Contact Peler at: Poetry ano Painted. fifteen years hard labor. These harsh and unfair sentences, following .•375-9638 .»i'.at nein can the Public oive the spread of GI war protests last fall, makes it obvious that the you2 T\-> Icentify with what Army is useing fear to prevent GIs from exercising their legai richits »»»«»»THERE ARE OTHER;;»****•» ?se to demonstrate against the war 14 of these men are now on boys are ^oinc thru. Have vou read the latest copy trial at Port Ord, are we going to let the Army do this of the "79 By Deb by Woodroofe place his leaflets on top of the car. Walker SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 - Mili replied, "If 1 do that, the leaflets wall blow |Army keeps the heat tary Police at the Presidio army base away and you'll probably arrest me for tO o roughed up antiwar leafleters here March littering." At that, he was surrounded by 22 who were taking part in a campaign MPs, shoved against his car. and hand eus sponsored by the Gl-Civilian Easter Peace cuffed. Ion Ft. Jackson GIs 0) ™ March Committee to inform GIs at the Another demonstrator. Ken Shilman, edi x n base about the April 6 demonstrations. tor of the GI paper Task Force, saw j COLUMBIA, S.C., April 3-The Ft. a "riot" which could have sent the men The campaign, known as "harass the Walker being harassed. He approached j Jackson Nine are still confined, four in marauding through the post brandishing m brass day," began with an antiwar car the MPs and demanded that they stop : their barracks and five in the stockade boots and broomsticks. caravan. Fifteen cars, covered with ban beating Walker. Shilman was struck with [ under maximum security. a stick and charged with assaulting an In the past week, two other activists of ners, posters and bumper stickers publi The nine soldiers have been associated z officer. Ed Arno, a KPIX newsman who GIs United have been victimized, giving cizing the April 6th demonstrations, drove j with GIs United Against the War in Viet- had accompanied the caravan, was film further evidence for the belief—widely held around the city for an hour and then | nam, a predominantly black and Puerto ht ing the scuffle. The MPs were a little late here —that the commander of Ft. Jackson, headed for the Presidio. Although it had i Rican group of Ft. Jackson servicemen, o in noticing him, but when they did, they Gen. Hollingsworth, in concert with the been expected that MPs would be waiting threw a cap over his camera lens, told i They were arrested March 20, following Pentagon, is out to destroy the organi at the gates to turn the caravan away, him he had no right to film and continued ! an orderly discussion meeting held on the zation. Pvt. Joe Goodman of Queens, New there was no confrontation and the cars jo push Walker and Shilman around. j post by more than 100 GIs. Five days York, with only eight months of time drove straight onto the grounds of the ; later, the nine were formally charged with remaining to be served, has received orders o open base. Walker and Shilman were held at MP | a variety of fabricated "crimes," including headquarters for two hours. They de to go to Vietnam. This in itself is highly The caravan was joined immediately j "disrespect to a commissioned officer,""will- irregular, but, in addition, Pvt. Goodman u manded their right to call a lawyer and i fui disobedience to a superior officer," by a military escort. After circling through to be shown the law they had been charged has an Army physical-fitness profile that 3 u | 'failure to obey a lawful order," and "breach the base and receiving enthusiastic vic with violating. Obviously panicked about lists bad knees as a physical disability. •a j of the peace." tory signs from astounded GIs, the cars further bad publicity, Presidio officials fi After the victimization of the nine, Pvt. pulled into a base lot and parked in per nally released the two, telling them they The nine are Pvt. Eugene Jose Rudder, Goodman played a key role in getting out o fect military formation. Doors flew open would be notified by mail if any action Pvt. Andrew Pulley, Pvt. Joe Cole, Pvt. the GI antiwar newspaper, Short Times. and some 50 antiwar activists, armed was to be taken against them. So far Adilberto Chaparro, Pvt. Tommie Wood- Pvt. Steven Dash of New York City, with leaflets and stickers Ie^pt out of the they have received no notification. fin, Pvt. Dominick Duddie, Pfc. Delmar cars and ran in the direction of the PX, Thomas, Pvt. John Huffman, and Pvt. a member of the Young Socialist Alliance The incident had tremendous significance snack bar and barracks. Curtis Mays. Several have been court- active in GIs United, has learned that the in publicizing the April 6 action, a march Army is preparing to discharge him for After several minutes of successful leaf- to the Presidio. It received front-page martialed previously on various trumped- "unsuitability." He will fight anything less leting, the group was approached by one coverage along with a graphic photograph up charges because of their antiwar views than an honorable discharge and has Lt. Empörer. He told them it was illegal of the assault on Walker, which appeared and activities. requested a field-board hearing on the to leaflet the base without a permit. The in the San Francisco Examiner, a paper Delmar Thomas, who had been restricted demonstrators explained that they felt it with a previous history of systematically to barracks, is now in the stockade. He matter. was their constitutional right to leaflet burying antiwar news. March spokesmen was switched because, after being man The antiwar GIs are being represented on the base and pointed out that the real were interviewed on radio and television handled by a sergeant with a history of by attorneys David Rein of Washington, issue was the right of GIs to receive all weekend. In addition to the press break such activity, Pvt. Thomas allegedly D. C, Dianne Schulders of New York City, antiwar literature. Wanting to avoid phy through a campaign for GIs' rights was threatened the sergeant. Michael Smith of Detroit, and Thomas sical confrontation, however, several leaf launched around the incident. The concept On reading the prosecution witnesses' Broadwater of Columbia. Leonard leters headed toward the provost marshal's of the GI as a citizen temporarily in uni statements, the nine marveled at the monu Boudin, general counsel of the National office to see about getting a permit. form, and his consequent right to free mental paranoia, or deceit, of those who Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, has Minutes later an MP who apparently speech and his own opinions was raised saw in the peaceful meeting of GIs United been overseeing the case from New York. had not received word from the higher in the press interviews. echelons that the leafleters had agreed An even larger car caravan, culminating to get a permit, approached Ted Walker.. once again in leafleting the Presidio, is D who was standing by his car waiting being planned for this Saturday. The April BRING THE GIs HOME ALIVE NOW"* for the others to return. The MP demanded 6 committee has not yet heard whether its petition to leaflet has been granted. that Walker, the only black in the group. FREE THE PRESIDIO 27 ^H (ft;?.U^rt,.iIJfflM.K^ Wonderful World Dear Ally: ; for a month, lost my shot record, my car, I'm thirsty, sleepy, my XTi. JAILIl SEKVI Here I am drunk, sick, tired, shoe strings are broke in three hungry, mad, lonesome, flat broke, got guard duty tonight, K.P. to morrow, C.Q. next weekend, got a places, just getting over the flu, H'5 o a homesick, got a hangover, no mail my watch quit running, I got an Do you infc rai for a month, no friends, damn few mule drivers M.O.S., three days 00 :eoto AWOL, and the First Sergeant ingrown toenail with, cold feet, r m for jonsc ienti c u s rations, out of cigarettes, and I about to shit in my pants, and the missed bed check last night, wants to see me after this for mation. latrine is off-limits until after the 0 0 Ul -3t? or legal I'm in debt, poor character ra inspection, and some son-of-a- Do you need Got a 'Dear John" letter, wife with y c ur olassii' LOB . defender!' ting, pay all messed up, chow lousy, bitch just asked me to re-upit" no clean clothes, laundry rejected, ran off with the milk man, my kids got malaria, the rod blew out of A1C, some oth< r dr; ft c >r leave disapproved, and restricted Turkey bniws to Kill! (The cost of two M-16 bullets is equal to the cost COOT ACT: of a loaf of bread and l/2 pound of THE SHORT TIMER'S CODE b'Mer - the difference is life and death. . . Rev. Sidney Peterman OF CONDUCT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Monterey 1 ! am an American short-timer. I ARMY STYLE phone 375-3038 serve in the forces into which I I. Thou shalt not think. was so carelessly drafted. I am II. Thou shalt not place thy hands Peacs & Freedom 61 prepared to leave it at the time in thy pockets. VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST 293 Calle Principal, Monterey so designated by the • Depart III. Thou shalt know the chain of THE WAR phone 373-0824 12pm ment of the Army, or sooner if command and all the other New Address: to 3pm - possible. missing links. and 8pm to lOprn Wednesdays P.O. Box 41254 2 I will never extend or re-up of IV. Thou shalt not laugh at Sec Los Angeles, Calif. 90041 my own free will. If I am in com ond Lieutenants. Tele. No. 2J3-246-0515 mand, I will never permit my V. Thou shalt not use words be fello / short timers to fraternize yond the comprehension of Antiwar marine The drafted Marine was very active in wlrh lifers. NCO's. the Los Angeles GIs and Vietnam Veterans 3. If I am cailed before the CO, I VI. Thou shalt not do things in a Against the War and the building of the will continue to resist his re-up reasonable manner. Los Angeles April 6 GI-civilian antiwar sent to Vietnam talks by all means available. I VII. Thou shalt fear those of higher demonstration. By James Boggio will make every effort to escape. rank and scorn those of lower Fearful that Pfc. Addington's attitude rank. An example of "military justice" is the toward building the antiwar demonstra 4. If I shall become a victim of an VIII. Thou shalt not laugh at RE-UP current case of Pfc. James Addington, Sth tion might spread to the receptive Marines involuntary extension, I shall posters. Shore Party Battalion, Camp Pendleton. at Pendleton, the brass chose to make keep faith with my fellow short It's nowhere- Having submitted an application for con Pfc. Addington an example. timers. If I am the shortest, I will IX. Thou shalt not speak without scientious objector, having a serious phy- take command. If not, I will obey using profanity. cal handicap, and having spoken out GIs and Vietnam Veterans Against the War has asked that protests be made the lawful orders of those short X. Thou shalt believe in the non- brass exiles against the war were goodenought reasons, er than me. existing Army bennies. so the Marines think, for sending Jim to against this. Such protests should be. sent 5. When questioned, should I be Vietnam. to General Leonard S. Chapman, Com mandant of the Marine Corps.Washington, come the object of a re-enlist an antiwar GI On April 1, Pfc. Addington, was called GREN WHITMAN D. C, with copies to GIs and Vietnam ment interview, I am bound to By Paul McKnight in from the field and given orders to pack Ex-Private USA. RA 11354602 Veterans Against the War, c/o Echo Mike give only name, rank, service his gear and to prepare to leave for Viet (Served without distinction of SAX FRANCISCO, April 2 - Don Pyle, nam. He was on his way by midafternoon Coffeehouse, 743 1/2 S. Alvarado, Los number, date of birth and ETS any sorti. a socialist GI who was shipped out of of April 2. Angeles, 90057. ba Ft. Benning, Ga., because of his antiwar activities, was transferred out of Ft. Ord, Calif., on March 26 for the same reason. Pyle had been active in preparations LEGAL AID FOR Gl's FREE for the April 6 antiwar march in Atlanta o while he was at Ft. Benning. He was shipped off to Ft- Ord, where he was kept Francis Ruppert. 7701 Forsyth The following lawyers report incommunicado for 20 days. Later, he Blvd., CLAYTON, Missouri63105, edly are interested in helping READ THE OTHER GI NEWSPAPERS became one of the key Gl organizers of (314) PA 6-4700. anti-war GIs. Some of them will THE ONES WITHOUT A LIFER SLANT the San Francisco April (i dcinonsti chart"» a nominal fee, but most Edward Rudnitsky, 185 Devon On March 26, Pyle received an order wlH give leçai aid~freeof charge. shire, BOSTON, Massachusetts, for a permanent change of station to Camp If tne >r*ss is trying to screw (617) 542-0208. Rank, SN and Roberts, Calif. He was given only 24- you, if you want to be discharged David Klein, 1331 First Nation Send your Name, as a Conscientious Objector to al Bldg,, DETROIT, Michigan, Address to them to get copies. hours notice about this transfer and didn't war, or if you are doing organi (313) 965-0061. even have time to pack his clothes- zing among your fellow GIs you Lyn Castner, ACLU, Upper Mid The Committee for the Gl-Civilian Easter should write the lawyer nearest west Bldg., MINNEAPOLIS, Min Vapzui ucith a national scope. Peace March charged here that this was you to see how he can be of as nesota 55401. a punitive transfer aimed at preventing sistance. Let us know what hap and uioHld ic'-ide diiti- Jeffrey Fogel, Roger Baldwin Pyle from participating in the preparations pens if you do make contact THE ALLY for the demonstration. with any of these lawyers, and Foundation, 45 Academy Street, 5 This charge was born out by subsequent if you run Into others who are NEWARK, New Jersey 07102. P.O. BOX927 6 willing to aid GIs, send us their Alan Levlne, ACLU, 156 Fifth BERKLEY, CALIF. 94709 developments at Camp Roberts, When Pyle name and address so we can Avenue, NEW YORK, New York arrived, he was immediately put to work Include them in the list. 10010. THE BOND at hard labor, still wearing his Class A Henry dlSuvero, Emergency Rm. 633 (dress) uniform. He was told that he would James Harrington, 630 Com Civil Liberties Comm., 25 East 156 Fifth Ave. Vi not be able to get a pass until "he earned merce Tower, KANSAS CITY, Mis 26th Street, NEW YORK, New York YORK, 10010 one." Other GIs who arrived at Camp souri 64108. 10010 A NEW N.Y. Roberts at the same time Pyle did had Edward McManus, Wisconsin James Kozelek, 40 S. Third St., }' TASK FORCE already obtained weekend passes. COLUMBUS, Ohio 43215 Civil Liberties Union, 1840 No. T 2001 Milva St. He was told that even when he did get Laura Ober, ACLU, 1302 Ontario Farwell Ave., MILWAUKEE, Wis A BERKELEY, CALIF 94704 a pass, it would be good for only a 75- consin 53202 Street, CLEVELAND, Ohio 44113. Warren McConnlco, McBirney F VIETNAM GI t mile radius from the base. Since Camp Donald C. Steed, Indiana Draft Bldg., TULSA, Oklahoma. Roberts is an isolated base in central Project, 3034 N. Pennsylvania, T P.O. BOX 9273 California, about the only things within INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana 46202 Gerald Robinson, standard Plaza A CHICAGO, ILL. 60690 a 75-mile radius are the Pacific Ocean Ed Grogan, phone 845-2823, Bldg., PORTLAND^ Oregon 97204, F and a stretch of desert. BERKELEY, California. (503) 228-6277. VETERANS STARS & STRIPES FOR PEACE 6 Pyle was informed .that he would be Ed Mo.gan, 45 W. Pennington, T P.O. BOX 4598 A. Harry Levltan, 1612 Market. A on duty Easter morning, the day of the TUCSON, Arizona 85701. CHICAGO, ILL. 60680 antiwar demonstrations In San Francisco Morris Fut.lck, 1756 L Street, Street, PHILADELPHIA, Pennsyl F and Los Angeles. His job would be to FRESNO, CalLornia vania 19103, (215) LO 3-8825. | T Bill Smith, 3175 W. 6th Street, Marjorle Matson, Law and Fin Pape.*, pxcduczd locally by GU process the papers of any officers who A happened to be transferring into Camp LOS ANGELES, California. ance Bldg., PITTSBURGH, Penn thzifi dun poiti John Porter, 1346 Garnet Ave sylvania. F Roberts on Easter morning. nue, SAN DIEGO, California. Lorenzo Plnlero, P.O. Box 1082, T AT FORT HOOD The San Francisco Committee for the Rudolph Schware, 5650 E. Evans HATO REY, Puerto Rico 00919. A FATIQUE PRESS Gl-Civilian Easter Peace March announced Avenue, DENVER, Colorado, (303) Whitworth Stokes, Jr., 114 Park P.O. BOX 922 that it will seek a court injunction to free 757-5641. Way Towers, 404 Jane Robertson p Pyle to allow him to participate in the Howard Moore, Jr., Legal Dir Parkway, NASHVILLE, Tennes AUSTIN, TEXAS 78767 April 6 demonstration. ector, Southern Legal Assoc. Pro see, (615)256-7172. ******************* (mß ject, 859-1/2 Hunter Street, N.W., John Barnhart, Mandell & Wright AT FORT JACKSON ATLANTA, Georgia 30314, (404) Law Offices, 707 S. Coast Bldg., | 525-8372. HOUSTON, Texas, CA 8-1521. SHORT TIMER Michael Postilion, 100 N. La James Simons, 500 W 10th St., P.O. BOX 543 | Salle Street, CHICAGO, Illinois, AUSTIN, Texas 78701. COLUMBIA, S.C. i (312) 372-1280. Michael Rosen, ACLU, Smith ************** Robert Oberbillig, Black Hawk Tower, SEATTLE, Washington County Legal Aid Society, 708 98104. AT FORT GORDON First National Bldg., WATERLOO, Sander Karp, Esq., & Mel vin LAST HARASS Iowa 50703. Greenberg, Esq., 303 State Street, P.O. BOX 2994 Richard A. Buckley, New MADISON, Wisconsin 53703. AUGUSTA, GA Orleans Legal Assistance Corpor Ersklne Smith, 14th Floor, Na *********** ation, Room 605, Carondelet Bldg., tional Bank Bldg., BIRMINGHAM, NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana 70130. Alabama 35203, (205) 328-0480. AT FORT CAMPBELL ^**0*>~' ACLU, 1205 West Main Street, FLAG-IN-ACTION RICHMOND, Virginia 23220 Central Committee for Con A David Rien, 711 - 14th Street, scientious Objectors, 437 Market P.O. BOX 2416 N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. Street, SAN FRANCISCO, Califor- F NEW PROVIDENCE War Resisters League, 833 nia.^397-6917 TENN. 37040 ...ANP ÏUâT AS W& WERF ARruiT -r,-, Haight Street, SAN FRANCISCO, 6IÎAB H,*.. H6 KAk! WTC^fc^ApI? eU California, 626-6976 Veu,IN& 'SANCTUARY'// Pvt. Don Py!e inHaHiimmiiaHni na "»•" •*- --nrmnmiiiniiiMi ••« m •, i tu 27 FOR THE11 SUPPORT RALLY COUNSELING SERVIC 288 ALVAÄADO #| BANDS ^FOLKSINGERS?, * MONTEREY, CALIF. 93940 SPEAKERS 373-2305 AARS.G.BUNCH (MOTHER,OF SLAIN S.I.) MR. T WLLIMAW (AT TORWEV) KEN SC/.ILLM/4W few 0P -m» K*ce> * PLUS MAWY oTrtGRvS too COLTON HALL DOV^TÖWN NNONTERey luiiiiaiiiiiiiuiiiDiiiiiiiitiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiitDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiniiiiiii MILITARY CO'S by Roger Lorenz LaValley is also a father to his The transfer of the trial of the lous little we on the outside can do. They It's a Bird, It's a Plane, men. For the last year the cooks have "mutineers" to Fort Ord raises the are going AWOL in droves. been regularly pulling long, hard whole question of military co's In an This raises the question, what can we hours of extra duty. If this doesn't acute way. m recent months the writer on the outside do? The following is a sound very fatherly, you have to re has spent 10 hours counseling and talk partial list of suggestions, some of which ing with military CO's for every one some will want to do while other sug member that LaValley pulls inspec hour he has spent with civilian CO's. gestions will suit the taste of other tion on his family, too. He even gave One reason is of course the establish people: It's a Lifer! his daughter 30 days restriction for ment of draft counseling at MPC, but 1. Invite a soldier CO to your home. incurring his displeasure over house equally another is the rising tide of 2. Attend trials. hold duty. disaffection within the armed forces. 3. Join protests, vigils, picket lines When Overseas Weekly sent a re One untruth repeatedly pops up. Some and parades. one has told some hapless Inductee — 4. Contribute money for legal expen This month's candidate for "Lifer porter in to investigate, our model and this "someone" is usually repre ses. of the Year" just has to be SFC Ri lifer explained the whole thing. May sented to be "authoritative* — that the 5. Visit men confined to the base. chard La Valley, chow boss at 507th be he does push his men pretty hard, young man should go into the army and 6. Inform yourself about military law HEM CO in Hanau, Germany. SFC "But it's not harassment, it's extra then make his protest. No more blatant and regulations and counsel men La Valley manages to combine in one training." Got that? untruth exists. This in many cases who need it and ask for it. must have been said with malice afore man all those lifer habits we know To make the picture complete, SFC 7. write letters in support of spe LaValley is always willing to help his thought. The relevant Army Regulation cific men. and love so well. says in part: boys out when they need a few bucks. 8. Help an AWOL (a bit risky). To begin with, like most lifers La- Consideration will be given to re 9. Leaflet All be asks in reiurn is that they they quests for separation based on bona a. Outside bases Valley is always exhibiting his ma kick in a little extra for the "soup fide conscientious objection to parti b. On bases (A very short «Life turity and leadership. Usually he fund" (about 50% extra, to be ex cipation in war, in any form, when Expectancy" on this.) does this by jumping off the bread act) . In case you hadn't guessed, the such objection develops subsequent 10. Become a pen pal to a men or, if counter to the mighty shout of "AIR $1,700.00 "soup fund" went into La- to entry Into active military servic'e. you can wangle, it, to a man in the BORNE!" hitting the floor in a roll. Federal courts have held that. . . stockade. Valley's pocket. His troops thought failure to make a timely claim for As SFC La Valley explained it: "It he was so distinguished they decided exemption constitutes waiver of the ,r , „„, doesn't mean I'm crazy. I've been to tell the whole story to reporters — right to claim. Nixon's Way I want to see that safety pin SHWEl" airborne for 15 years." SFC LaValley is now explaining his It is true that there is more to the story than this and we would be glad leadership to Army investigators! to send a copy of this A.R. to anyone requesting it. But the point is that once F you are In the Army, CO discharges T are very, very difficult to get. Ä The cries for help that issue from F Fort Ord remind one of the old fas hioned press gang. As the tempo of T disaffection within the army increases, A so does the toughness of the "lifers", F the full time career men, toward CO's. Not only are constitutional rights tram T pled on, but the Army's own regulations A are broken right and left. Not only this, F but Instances come repeatedly to our attention of men being shangaled to T Vietnam in order to prevent them from A exercising their rights. F In short, If you are a CO, or thinking T of becoming one, before entering the armed forces, then you are presumed to A be insincere ifyfeu don't refuse induction. The moral is clear: Make your CO claim now and refuse Induction if It Is denied on appeal. There are quite enough cases already of men — many of them in the stockade — ready to climb the «alls and screaming for help when there Is pre- think short (PA6£ 4] V) fa ISSUE m TL MAY *b1 FREE TO SI1 S PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND -FOR AND BY GTS AT THE FORT ORD A/T ITARY COMPLEX! iiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiDiiuiiiiiiiioiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiirjiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiii A NEWSPAPER FOR SERVICEMEN TALES Of TERROR BY COREY MUteR. Everday for three weeks the R.er-R.ÎNT• FßpWFßprAV khaki minibus led by an MP sedan fcecXELCY ßr\Rß with armed guards and followed by a jeep with armed guaTds brings Stephens was able to get it into the fourteen prisoners on trial for The court martial board had not "What are you doing hanging entered the court room yet, but the around?" his testimony thattheblack prison mutiny to the barracks court room ers decided that whatever was done from the stockade. Part of the ori judge, the prosecution, a few people "I'm not hanging around." on the press side and the spectators "Why aren't you at the stock the black prisoners should stick ginal Presidio 27, they walk into together. There appears to have the courtroom through a gauntlet of were beat into silence. Only two ade?" men were talking. It was as out "I'm on leave." ^~ Oeen some doubt among them that armed MPs. Why. of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can ge^t out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. -But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people always can be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN EVERY COUNTRY. Herman ^.^ ^ &ermany Let every man at Port Ord read and understand this statement. You may believe that the U.S. is a democracy or a communist dictatorship. It doesn't really matter. Your voice is a pipsqueak against the U.S. War Machine. IT WORKS THE SAME IN EVERY COUNTRY. YOURS in Peace Pvt.O prisoner of the war machine, Ft. Ord To Andy Stapp, Chairman, ASU, Room 633, 156 Fifth Avenue, wm T* jdjii Power New York, New York 10010 I am a rank and file enlisted man. I I support the constitutional rights of American GIs. Please add my name as 1 hereby declare that I support the American Servicemen's Union | a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee. I understand that I and enclose one dollar to register myself as a member. As a union I sponsorship does not necessarily denote agreement with the political views I member I agree to support other union members in our effort to gain our rights. As a member I will receive a copy of The Gl's Handbook J of any of the defendents. on Military Injustice and any other advice and instruction issued by central union organizers. I will also contact the union center for advice • Name f in case of. emergency and keep the center informed in order to aid other union members. ® Organization I name (for identification purposes only) o military address I Address |City State Zip ... home address GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee j IS. 1 m - Box 355, Old Chelsea Station, N. Y., N.Y. 10011 Ä- • steve raps Last night, my friend, as we stood on the mesquite hill, you showed me the bullet hole ^ in the brim of your floppy, weather beaten hat and you told me you haven't got anything person al against the Viet Cong who put it there. And when we ate dinner you wouldn't come to the ta ble at first because the rules of ettiquite for bid the wearing of hats at the table and just then you felt a deep need to keep that old hat on. You said it meant more to you than any other posession. And we said, damn their stupid rules- we choose to be more human than those les al- low-we want you to wear your hat at ou. able. And back on the mesquite hill you told me that you've learned a lot since that gung-ho lay you enlisted in the Marines. You said you've « learned that, to you least, the United States Marine Corps is a far greater enemy than the Viet Cong. I can see that if that Viet Cong bullet had whacked your head instead of your hat it could not have torn your mind up much more than living the life of a United States Marine has. You told me of an intuition you have: You feel chat if you go back to Nam you'll come home in a coffin and they'll give some medal to your Ma. I didn't tell you this, but the exact same thing flashed into my mind a few minutes before you told me. And yet (Dear God, it's so eruel)- and yet you've applied to be sent back to the jungles where no birds sing because the trees have been defoiliated, back to where you must wake up in the morning prepared to kill, hard and fast, or be killed, hard and fast, back to where you've got nothing personal against those skinny little men you aim your screaming machine gun at and you*? \ feel the deeply personal thing of dying. You want to ,50 back to that crashing smok ing hell, that pit of wrongness where you think you're going to die (even though they'd let you stay here for the remaining few months of your enlistment), because the life of a United States know *w,«=. Marine has made you a man who is more at home, a hippy kiJs sre so uf>-TiG*tr ABour -tie man who is happier there with 4he agony of war \iitA- A/^M u«r for , Even 2/ wy ^e z'J than here with some menial frustrating job at our friendly local Marine base. When we talked T'CS 70 fqkt.., if )} ujâiti'f for troj of his last night I kind of turned away so you beck.- wouldn't notice the tears. This is War Yes, and what if they gave a war and nobody • came?-Sure you've heard it before, but have you ö Oh the awful guns ever really thought about it? Sure, our economy § The roar of the awful guns would crumble, but then it seems to me that any The fragments that cut into the flesh economy-ours, North Vietnam's, China's,-based on | The awful cutting of the fragments into the flesh evil deserves to crumble. Economies arn't what's! The arms are gone important-life is. Nations aren't what's im- Lying there in the mud portant-the harmony and brotherhood of living The legs with thigh bones wrapped in bloody cloth things are.* (And there are those who will shud- | This was a man der M This mass of pulp, lying there with staring thing are. Irll bet the Astronants and cosmo- | fingers stiff nants were a little surprised to look down and | Oh the awful stiff fingers that will not feel see that there are no borderlines walling na- | again tions apart and that the colors of the earth f The awful awful stiff fingers that knew life aren't divided with a different color for every | These fingers that once picked a flower from nation like on the maps. (And there are those \ fields and held it in wonderment and love who will shudder with the subversivness of what | Oh God, the awful guns,the noise, the mud, the I'm saying, but hear this: The Communists are sim-§ sights and sounds of dying men ply the opposite side of the same flat worn-out I The waste, the awful waste of human love. •-Don coin; equally obsolete and disgusting.) a iiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiitiiHitaiHiiiiiiiiiniiiitiiiiiiiDiiiiiiiiMiiniiiiiiiiiiii It is long past time for men to realize that I invite you to tell the united States Mar- we are one race: Humanity| we share one place in ines to go to hell or better, point out that the universe: this round world, not flat like the they're already there and that you want to climb coin with only two sides but a sphere with no out int the sunshine. And if it means jail or a sides but one-and we'd better begin to share it dishonorable discharge, well, for me, it would be with each other willingly or lose it. And we can worth it because then I'd be a Man instead of a no longer divide our world and ourselves up into Marine and with the things I know and the love I nations and then point guns and missies at each fell I couldn't possibly be both. other to defend the homeland. I am not a Blah And if you decide to drop out of the kill Blah from Blah Blah Land, I am a Man from Earth ing business before a bullet drops you out I'll and I invite you to share, in the fullest sense buy you a six-pack of Coors (since you teen-agers THIS PftGÊ WOS.TLV of the word, humanness and our planet with me. I are to kill but not to buy beer or vote) and we'll REPRINTS FRo«\ TH£ invite you to discard those obsolete catagories sit on top of that mewquite hill in the sunshine such ass "Whiteman" and "American" and breathe a and breath free. little freer. ET. A! 0) I i-l >.<-* I CO G O x: CD 4-1 , CO ^0 to > X! 4J M-i-ICUC CU cXd) ecxd 43J -GH 3-u GO 3 OctfVix: , cd -H • fcOCU O Just look at it our way, lady. Your son was a profitable investment. 7J- fff fâl6f/yru 30*1 ISSUE m ut MAY IW FREE TO ers PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND -FOR AND BY GVS AT THE V-SIGN PUT prisoner Richard i,V«<»,» FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX (In light of Dr. Nelkin's testimony about thought reform universities, it is interesting to note that pri soner Richard Gentile was just re- .i n isolation for 14 days. | leased on Monday from serving four Ft.Ord trip teen days in isolation when not ap pearing in the court room. He was ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ accused of "sassing a guard and fl\ kicking a toilet seat." He claimed TUT ie did not sass the guard and that ne only kiced the toilet seat when As a result of a chaotic and brü just weary he learned about the isolation. :alized family situation Duncan left (Pvt. Gentile, recently recovered10me at seventeen and attached from hepatitis, existed on what thenmSeT to a slightly older couple prisoners call "rabbit food" while^hom he later left in a fit of in isolation. That means a no-jespondency because he overheard bummer protein diet. A heavy smoker, Gen-frem call him "immature." tile was denied cigarettes while in Unable to have satisfactory re- have all already testified. isolation, too. lations with anybody, he decided to It is inconvenient for these pro (Though Fort Ord denies it, itj0in the military service, fessional men to take time off from is suspected that Vietnam veteran their regular patients. And it is in Gentile flashed the V-sign once too "His reaction to basic training convenient for Mr. Hallinan to exam often entering and leaving the court-was such that he recalls he felt he ine them as witnesses due entirely room) was being squeezed into a mold. to the Army's decision to conduct the In a slow, gentle voice, with noneln the seventh week of basic he trial of these 14 at Fort Ord. The of the arrogance which surroundedrefused to do anything. He was en- area is predominantly, military with earlier psychiatric testimony, Dr.couraged to return and he did. But no radical base in the community, Nelkin commented on Pvt. Stevens, upon completion of basic, he went as opposed to the sympathetic at "In him you find the sort of per-\WOL. He had the feeling he would mosphere of the Bay Area. So the son who had an upbringing which not return. From that moment on time schedule of the trial is being never made it seem worth his while he took every opportunity to remain -eeularly interrupted or delayed to conform to the social require-free." ments of organizations." Despite the prosecution's attempt These delays cause incc the co disqualify • ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^JpKastl as an tnguLsh in his own hands and to do what Kast] remained cool during his tes- to the younig me^^^^^^^^^^^^n on trial and to^ seems more sensible. And when Ste-timony. Capt. Carlotti abruptly their families. vens is repeatedly compelled backwanted to dismiss Dr. Kastl even On Friday psychiatrist Dr. Sam into what appears a foolish useless though he had known in advance uel Nelkin, expert witness, testified activity, when he was put in jail inthe doctor's credentials. This seem- to his findings regarding Pvt. Ri order to be compelled to do some-ed another disruptive act on the chard Stevens. He said Stevens, thing which appears to be foolish, part of the prosecution. though of normal intelligence, was he is well on his way to being Dr; Kastl's credentials included the kind of person "who does not mentally disorganized. And whentime served in Vietnam on the field, adapt well to disciplinary situations conditions in prison are brutal, whenHis job was to determine if men such as in the military." he fears for his life, then he is incoming in from action were psy- He said Stevens did not get along a state of mind not as capable as chologically fit to return. Dr. Kastl's well in grade school nor in high under ordinary circumstances. He testimony related to Pvt. Rowland, school. "Some feel such an experi is temporarily mentally deranged Dr. Kastl believes Pvt. Rowland ence is not worth what it costs and unable to adhere to what he was in a period of temporary psy- them in loss of freedom...they never thought right." chosis on October 14 in which his see enough value in what's being In cross-examination, Capt. Car- ability to make value judgments asked of them," lotti asked Dr. Nelkin to describe was seriously impaired. He said Concerning Steven's mental state the conditions in the stockade. Rowland's prime consideration at on October 14, the day of the so- "As I understand them," ans- this time was to bring attention by Corey Miller called mutiny, Dr. Nelkin said, wered Nelkin, "food was sometimes to conditions in the stockade. He Nowhere on the Monterey Penin "From what I've heard I would say insufficient. Prisoners shifted likened Rowland's state of. mind sula can one escape from Fort Ord. he was in a condition of temporary around so repeatedly they found to that of a Kamikase pilot's totally Its bankroll dominates the econo mental derangement, " themselves sleeping in different occupied with securing improve- my. License plates from Maryland Dr. Nelkin drew a comparison of places, the rules changed some- mené and that Rowland believed and Alabama are not tourist plates. the situation as it existed in the times week to week, sometimes day the Army would be grateful for From 7 to 9 a.m. and from 4 to 6 stockade to the thought reform uni to day. I understand that Private the group's attempt to notify them p.m. businessmen on their way to versities set up by the Chinese in Bunch was recognized by the men of conditions there, and from work wear army uniforms. Korea during the Korean war. Many to be mentally ill, yet he had not During the cross-examination in The society page of the Monterey Americans captured in Korea at received relief from the circum- answer to Carlott's question asking Peninsula HERALD are filled with tended these centers. stances which led to his death, if Pvt. Rowland was delusional, the doings of army wives. There is At the centers, the prison was 'I understand that Sgt. Woodring Dr. Kastl answered, "Yes. He was hardly a spot on the peninsula where first disorganized through isolation repeatedly bullied the prisoners ana operating under the delusion that one cannot hear the firing at Fort and fear, then "offered the pos- attempted to terrorize them by what he was doing was a heroic Ord both day and night. sibility of rescue if they would con- shouting in their faces. That he act. That he was going to help re No one seems less likely to es- form," Dr. Nelkin said. shouted at the-guards and destroyed form the structure of the stockade." ^*jpe from the army than the 14 Dr. Nelkin said it was a "shock any respect the prisoners might Kastl said a delusion is a "fixed ~~"" ng men, a segment of the ori- to the American people when the men have had for the guards. That after false belief with little relation to al Presidio 27, who are on trial came back to find American soldiers Woodring departed the prisoners reality." Fort Ord charged with mutiny turned disloyal." H^^^ were able to yell af the guards One spectator humorously noted having walked away from for- "The Presidio (stockade) de the way they had been yelled at." this week that, "The prosecuting ition on October 14 at the San serves to be compared tothatsitua- The defense next called Dr. James attorney seems to have expanded ancisco Presidio stockade to pro- tion, but not in full," said Dr. Nel L. D. Lamb to testify as to the his staff." This was in reference rtaet the inhuman conditions inside kin. condition of prisoner Richard Dun- to the constant note-passing and cön- stockade. "The stockade was designed to can. dr. Lamb said Duncan could sultation being carried on between s the trial progresses into its disorganize, but the men were given be labelled as having an inadequate the prosecution's desk inside the :ifth week defense attorney Terence no other set of ideas to which to personality and had a severe chron- court area and Dr. Rosenthal, the C^I'Iinan is calling on a long list conform and thereby save them ic reaction to depression. army psychiatrist who sits in the iTBpsychiatrists as expert witnesses selves. The stockade would have the Dr. Lamb could best explainDun- first seat in the front row ofthe clarify the mental and emotional effect of mentally disorganizing even can's confusion by going back- .to press section in the courtroom, te of the young prisoners who those with no mental problems. his earlier experiences. F5 f: OW THE U.S.ARMY PROMISES TO KIDNAP ME, S a — RfcAftfcMBÖk THIS — I A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR TO FORCE ME Thursday night meetinor,, every other week TO KILL IN VIETNAM ! at the Unitarian "Church, 15 Prescott- (over the Warehouse) May 2 and June 5. BE THERE I Lawyer's, Minister's and Counselors. My name is Louis A. Negre, Private First Class, U.S.Army. Waixina to talk with you. I am a conscientious objector. My father left France in 1952 because he refused to take part in the killing and atrocities then being committed by the French Army in Vietnam. My father "Thou shalt not kill". Exodus 20 :13 brought his family to America - the land of freedom - so that his children would not be forced to violate their religion. "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many At my General Court Martial, Sgt. Robert Hart testified under oath that U.S.Army people... and nation shall not lift up sword against nation, men in Vietnam: neither shall they learn war any more". Isaiah 2:4 - Kill unarmed civilians 'Then Jesus said to him: Put up again thy sword into its - Kill prisoners of war place, for all that take the sword shall perish with the sword". - Mutilate the bodies of killed enemies Matthew 22:52 Matthew 22: 52 - Burn undefended villages and homes - Turn civilians and prisoners of war over to South Vietnamese "No more war. War never again". Pope Paul VI soldiers to be tortured and killed 1 refuse to take life. lhe U.S.Army refuses to discharge me or to assign me to noncombatant status. I refuse to commit atrocities and war crimes in Vietnam. Instead"the U.S.Army officially promises to kidnap me - using force and vio lence - and to carry me to Vietnam to take part in the killing committed there "Actions which deliberately violate (universal natural law) as by the U.S.Army. well as orders commanding such act ion are criminal. Blind obedience cannot excuse those who yield to them. Among such Jriajor John Finch, Commanding Officer, Oakland Army Overseas Replacement must first be counted those actions designed for the methodical Station promises to use force and violence to kidnap me to Vietnam. Lt. Paul extermination of an entire people, nation or ethnic minority. L'Engle at Oakland on Easter Sunday did order four sergeants to carry me to the These actions must be vehemently be condemned as horrendous loading area for the bus to Travis Air Force Base to be carried to Vietnam. crimes. The courage of those who openly nd fearlessly re sist men who issue such commands merits supreme comdemna- m he four sergeants did so physically seize and carry me, and only the order of tion". Pope Paul VI, Vatican U. Justice Douglas of the Supreme Court prevented my kidnapping to Vietnam at that time. The Army promises to resume its kidnapping as soon as any stay by "If civil authorities legislate for or allow anything that is con the court expires. trary to the will of God, neither the laws made nor the authori- ?ntjnnBTgnu>d can be binding on the consciences of the citi- Colonel James Garnett, Staff Judge Advocat iixth U.S.Army states his offi zens,;ns , since God has obey. cial approval that the Army may use force and violence to abduct conscientious Pope John XXUl, Pacem in Terris. objectors to Vietnam, if they refuse to go. 'Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said: we ught to obey God rather than men". Acts 5: 29 ||n January 19,1969 a General Court Martial at the Presidio found that an order for me to go to Vietnam was an illegal order. lhe military chaplain, Father (Lt.Col.) Charles L. Richard stated of my^ Lre Major Finch, Lt. L'Engle, Colonel Garnett and the U.S.Army "defending' the Constitution and laws by kidnapping me to Vietnam? "The Catholic Church. .. has taught and recognized that a man should not be compelled to serve in a war which is against his conscience but should be allowed some other form of service". Is the U.S.Army defending and protecting freedom of religion, enshrined in our Constitution when the Army uses force and violence to compel me to take life "It is my opinion that the man is sincere and his beliefs should and commit war crimes and atrocities in Vietnam? To compel me to violate my be honored". religious training and belief? To compel me to violate the laws of God? What has happened to the America of which Samuel Adams could say: lhe Military hearing officer, Captain Ronald L. Van Wert stated: "Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought 'There is no question that PFC Negre's beliefs are religious", and the right of private judgement in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum" Liontrary to its own findings of its own officers, The Department of the me a discharge and denies me noncombatant status. 1 refuse to violate the laws of God: congress passed the law: - by taking life. 'No person shall be compelled to participate in military train ing or service who by reason of his religious training and be -by committing war crimes and atrocities. lief is opposed to participation in war in any form". Selective Service Act, Sec. 6 (j) - by going to Vietnam to abet war crimes. lhe First Amendment to the Constitution says: A great American patriot observed: "United we stand, divided we fall". The L- "Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of U.S.Army, by its force and violence, violating the laws of God and man, is religion..." forcing division upon America. 1 plead for "one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all". \ Wie Presidio Stockade is not , alone in its rebellion against oppressive military authority.' On Wednesday, f Ümtfemt $PMttt0ula îjpralh the seventh of May, the prisoners Tuesday, May 20, 1969. at the stockade at Fort Ord staged a sitdown. This event was well timed F T A Disturbance for it coincided with the "on-the-spot" fi m ML # Xm m inspection demanded by members of Reported in Congress. Tho inspection was not quite spontaneous ; everyone at the Ord Stockade stockade, including the prisoners, knew atleast a month in advance. A disturbance in the The general uptightness that precedes Fort Ord stockade, ap any military inspection was in j, ";s parently not related to the mutiny trial, was re Greatest glory. The usual"adjustIng" ported by Fort Ord au of records was the order of the day. thorities today. The atmosphere was more and more tense ,s ur Some 100 to 150 prison as the day approached. Rules regarding /\YW y° paper. ers milled about the prisoner conduct were enforced, strength it is paid for by donations. yard, singing or chanting ened and enforced again. On the day "Amen," a spokesman It must continue to spread the word. said. They were quickly of the arrival of the investigating moved back into the team the prisoners were told to fall Send as much as you can to: stockade buildings by un outside after lunch at the position armed guards. of parade rest. Not wishing to remain AS YOU WE'RE. None of the 14 prison in such an uncomfortable posture, P.O. 80X 10^ ers on trial was involved MONTEREY, CMT,f- in the disturbance. The several prisoners left for the latrine. spokesman said cause of The idea spread. Soon there were the disturbance was not close to eighty prisoners sitting PVT. 0's COLUMN known. around aftc talking. Nothing was done until it vas time for the afternoon by Pvt. Odin Cahuenga You re in the Army along with three formation. Then, at one o'clock, million other souls. Like most of the 3 Hi H, Tj a M HI » s; s Captain Bernhard Wolpers, the Training O n H. o o o Ira n> rest of themyou think the whole scene i& Hj hi o O fD g rt 1--IH hj Officer, walked over to the group 3 3 ri- 01 3 ffl Mld) O* really sucks. Like bad! Had you only H- en o C. 3 rr £ P- n and began calling on individuals ^^^^^^^ rr | known a few years ago what you were getting v to leave. Not wishing a charge of ft o- o- M- 3 w e « 3 youiself into when you registered at you'r refusing a direct order these people M HI 3 a ta H, ro friedly neighborhood draft board, perhaps M fD fD H fD «J S î m in (t 3 HI a things would be different now. How left. After that there was no reason rt es rt 3*< H- *< rt H- O 0> N many times had the tought of killing for the gathering to continue ted o »-•< crtr J vi the prisoners left for the formation. S 5 H- •< M H another human being actually crossed your t-- H- c n mind until your drill sargeant taught An interesting factor in the sitdown ro v. was that it was interracial. Blacks, C c you the spirit of the bayonet drill. hrowns and whites were joined together For you it's all over. Mou're forced an expression of UlsselAafection ro P o * n M into being a trained kilLjj^^^ •Vv o roo o < n e> with the military command. But how 3 Ç . |3 C rt Despite the fact that you have a long this will continue is not known. O 3 n lo MO O rr «g licrense tb murder anybody happens to 3 K C*> ffl H- 3 be the enemy of our government at any Racial tensions are on the rise and•u £.3 B nu sa M rl-s; there are fears that that will be »nn+»V>m- '.*- M S O 0) fi O 3 H- ..jiven moment, perhaps there is something anotner ^ -H-u-un-HifDC03 O3 riot at the stockade sucdi as the one (-•H-fD 3 rf O rt rt 01 rt you can do to save a life from this M 0) 6 n rr C 3 H- H- H- last November. H- t) (J H-u-3 rfOO & 3 I-* olive drab existence. Maybe you have a teen 3 C M H, 0 ffl 3 0 O a^fDCCSOpKtOrt-O age brother or friend who is nearing H M t» » ß «i R 3 C "< 3 ffl H _ 3 rt rt ffl the age of eighteen. He's probably Q>Û.OP3'<:!T!T O grooving on flowers, love, beautiful > C 3 Hi 3 3 > Hi H- rt H tr M & ro ro n ~- 3 fD H- m-.. 3 r? Q H- girls and life in general. The thought tn * ft ft & § »ft K 1JB(!)OSnC-flBI:33 hWC Oß»-M(i>33 farthest removed from his mind is that rr fi> a H- H- rr TT rT 3 o> o H" • I n t» rr fD H- H- & H ri rr H h of killing innocent people, and reporting w . £' 3 fD CT) M O •< 3 M O 3 (t 3 SO 3 C-tädi _U» B 3 H- O & s 3 M3 ï rr 3 H- C to the neighborhood draft board is 3 S J5TJ fD 3 M K <-" 0> K g g ' Bf >< •< a n 3 3 rr *c rr H. « 3 M 3 only a minor inconvenience to the Srt »OB J SHii S 3= O H- S O fD fD Hi fD &1" """ £ £• fD •< m H- n e5 *ç celebration of his eighteenth birthday. nT PIo> HHirI H- wW s ro Q h- Il ^ 3 .. TJ S O en H- ro SI ï » i3 Hi HOI H Like most of his friends, he is in S 0 3 n CM h h B m S 03*1<- ffl TJ rt ffl rT ffl 3 K» 01 a state of blissful ignorande. g.Q g rrO o - m •O rf3 HO B f< Hi 0 3 Cf H- • >< 3 rr oi o' s 3 e 1 X 3 O. O H. *p H- ffi r« 0) O C 3 3 rtg ' O Where do you fit into this picture? H- • H- D£ IG 3 3 • ro HlîïûftS 3 in i*!r DJ Hi 3 pj 3 H W F- You've been through it all. You know oit a« BU r+ ta H- • «> a r| >< 3 a a 3 M ht, rt- fD f? all the rules, and you IJnow how this M Ö- H"< 3 3 H, R rr oi a w i-" o fD O 3 • a o g , rr M h < H fD - rt f» H- fD fD •*: n c 3 3 H- ro dirty little game is played. You CD O to M 3 W rt 3* 5 fD fD 3 0J 3: H- rt ffl tnOHi3 P- vO 01 possess knowledge which could be E 033fDhl&'&C0fD ë 3 fD h S» 3 rr CT » fD J? ft ?• S valuable to your teenage brother of flj 3 ^ H* H- rr H o 3 n û. 3 "fl c rr <• rr H- M o 3* n *a 0) 3 O lu H- QJ H H- 3 5 1 î a (g 3 frt rrt o" -fD Ô- B h» il Ï3 O M H g H frieild. The next time you write to him, T VIJO CO 3 < 3 0 rr H-« 3 01 fD TJ 1 let him know where things are at on ffl o < a < h* n rt •N) Q 3 n h- Ql rr P- rr^ 3 p"0 n ro H- this side of the fence. Let him know what > • • 5 b" R c f? 5 a 3 h o B fi •n Ö"S nia 3 Cl r" O H- he's getting into. Give hi« some food for n 3 C P -O 3 3 O ffl û < rt < P H O C- 3 O < C fD '. 3 ra 3 n-- • rt D O M H- H' O O O rr ^^m rt » ig. fi) thought. Perhaps he is a potential M o n rr sa s oi n t_ 3 rt- tf ß OK conscientious objector.who just hasn't (0 Ü f) f 6 B P O 3 3 B C Q formulated his thoughts yet. Refer UBÏK < rr <• r;- rr „ 8^ "" ta ffl Fj H, him to a draft counseling service. ,t=.d P n o 530 H> ffl rt T3 Q" O rt ^ O 3 d M Hi P H- C) rs Any college dr university worth anything to OOcahK33Cl-'l-' C O O rt r-> O rt c rr rt • K h) £1 ^ at all has one. He can't fight it pi O 3 3 h 3 rt ta 01 01 2 3 S TJ o O. fD rr O 3 R CD C. 9 CD O rr rr • (D »< fD rr s a s: 5 c c 3 H-TJ h unless he knows what he is up against. 0 £•»< 3 "'S HiD O 5 3 ro a-u H- 3 M rt « en o ro o. \ 3 o IÎ H' > H' -s: •ff 3* If you could help jast one person croc 013(0,0)9; P rt O H £ H- Ô 0) !> •j • a H- a 3 Fi TJ Hi 01 O igL 3 ro to , 'oi get out of»what you let yourself Q 3 rt M v ?a^gr rr j r" H a, *! g ^ 2 M rt 3 o Ig; fall into, maybe it would offer some C • .a justification to your being where you are. IF YOU CANT QUNSEUN6 •SHIP 'EM ERVICE IS NOW OPEN TO HELP YOU 373-2305 288 AMMO«! This Is Mutiny? love is life , and love is a friend ; that I was told at the age of ten. Now that 1 sit in my world of bars, thinking back to the age of ten, I see no life , and 1 see no friend. **** She said she loved me, She called me honey Aa|^^^^)^^l^^l|e^wastrue; But one day she left rff^^^^^^^^B DUL un\. VAW. And then I knew, that it was Russty, her love was to be true. People are white , and people are black Some are Jews, and some are christian »-.,•„...... ». * ; But no one knows why they're bitchen. H£fV5Vf?f^!yr. H What is happening, I don't know People are stirring, and playing in the snow People are sunning; People aresinging And people are dancing. Am I the only one Alone. **** There are bars for the windows, and bars for the doors; And as I sit in the shadows, staring out at the sky, I wonder when I'll dream of bars for the windows, and bars for the doors. Richard Gentile SUPPORT the PR£SIM 271 BRING TNB TROOPS NOMi AT LAST A PERFECT SOLDIER?' < NOW! , SOGEST* fi^ 71-3Cf ETAIS _ mmm sam SSIN 53701 288 ALVARADO #| J MONTEREY, CALIF. 93940 «&*. 373-2305 | ISSUE NQ m. o-one l%1 ' FREETO GT S à PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND-FOR AND KiGVS ATTHE i FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX I THby Corey EMiller LOST MUTINAgain and again in their testimony Y Danny Seals, 22, BCD, FP, 6 These fourteen men tried at Fort Riddle: When is a mutiny not a mos hard labor. (Scored medium Ord certainly were part of the the prisoners repeated what Lee mutiny? mental retardation on psychological group of 27 who walked to the Gentile said "I couldn't take no Answer: When the army calls it tests.) grassy area, arms linked together, more of the stockade, sir" andwhat a mutiny. Buddy Shaw, 18, DD, forfeit $50 singing "We Shall Overcome", Michael Marino said, "This was According to military definition, mo for 15 mos, 15 mos hard "America the Beautiful", and the only way I knew of to express mutiny means to join together In labor. ("It wasn't right for a man chanting for Col. Ford, Capt. La our grievances." concert with others with the Intent In the armed forces to shoot some mont, "We want Hallinan", "We An equation seemed to work its to override lawful military au one in the same armed forces want Glass", "We want the press". way out of all the testimony: con ® thority. just because he wanted to go One man read allst of grievances: ditions In the stockade plus the kill CO In the case of 14 of the original home.") "We want an investigation into ing of Richard Bunch plus a low "Presidio 27" conducted here at Ricky Stevens, 20, DD, forfeit the killing of Pvt. Richard Bunch. tolerance to stress equals an OS Fort ord the military five-man $50 mo for 12 mos. ("thought We want elimination of all shot intolerable situation. court- martial board came in with this was our last chance to ac gun type work details. Attorney Hallinan said they were © twelve "mutinys", one man guilty complish something.") We want complete psychological "operating under an Insane delu of wilful disobedience, and one man Danny Wllklns, 20, DD, forfeit evaluations of all personnel be sion that this (the demonstration) convicted of failure to obey an $50 mo for 9 mos, 9 mos hard fore they are allowed to work In was the right thing to do. They felt order. labor, ("they was talking about the stockade. they would be commended for bring s Due to the brilliant, moving case burning up the stockade, killing We want the violation of Army ing these conditions to the atten presented by youthful defense at guards, that sort of thing.") regulations corrected in the tion of a higher authority.'? torney Terence Hallinan; and be ...RichardDuncan, 20, DD.FP.one stockade But the army called it mutiny cause of the sensitive, expert case year hard labor. (Said only time he We want better sanitary contH- for all but two of the fourteen. studies and diagnoses offered by tions At the pre-sentencing hearing to ever had feeling of freedom was i fourteen psychiatrists and one psy when he was walking in thewoods.) We want prejudice toward black argue extenuating circumstances, chologist testifying for the defense, prisoners ended. the soft-drawling military defense the two-month long trial concluded It should be noted that the Jury We want to be represented by attorney, Capt. EmmlttYearysaid, with a merciful court-martial board maintained allotments for the men our own civilian counsel to ensure "I'm sure lt was, If you say so, announcing sentences ranging from with families, and some pay. Row the protection of our rights." a mutiny. But it was, at best, a three months to fifteen months. land, Stevens, andWllkins are mar The youthful, lnexperiencedLa- technical mutiny". Reaction ranging from stunned ried, Stevens has two children, Wll mont tried again and again to read According to the law, said an disbelief to joyful jubilation spread klns has a boy. Shaw helps to the mutiny article. He finally was other military defense attorney ta through the barracks courtroom as support an ailing father. forced to use the loud-speaker in "Motives are not important in de the president of the court-martial While they imposed the severest the MP sedan. Even then, the chant termining guilt or innocence, but board, Lt. Col. Richard Potter sentences on the men the prose ing, singing, outside noises and motives are important in deter i—i read the sentences in a shaky cution named as leaders (Rowland, Inner psychological tensions and mining punishment." voice: Pulley, Marino, and Shaw) they did anxieties probably prevented the Dejected at the pre-sentencing Richard Gentile, 20, bad conduct consider psychiatric testimony ex men from hearing Lament's girl hearing, Hallinan said, "I have O discharge, forfeit pay, 6 mos at onerating Sales and Seals from any ish voice. become so close to the 14. I see hard labor. ("I couldn't take no responsibility. And, as recom When the MPs moved In to remove them as children. I see the prob more of the stockade, sir.'») mended by the court, they gave the 27, some of the prisoners re lems they have. They are not Ernest Trefethen, 19, dishonor Gentile's Vietnam service special criminals. Whatever destructive consideration. peated over and over "Non-vio able discharge, FP, one year hard lence" and "Don't resist". Some tendencies they have are purely labor. ("The stockade confused To call the actions of the twelve had to be carried In, some respond self-destructive, me.") accused "mutiny" and then to lay ed the MP's tap on the shoulder " . . . We have lost an oppor Patrick Wright, 20, DD, FP, such light sentences on them, Is and walked In. tunity to heal the breach which is one year hard labor. ("Everybody to say they did not commit mutiny In fact, the 45-minute non-vio splitting our nation asunder. We kept yelling at me.") at all. lent demonstration on the grass are another step along on that road w Francis Schlro, 21, DD. FP, one One can surmise that the army where no one was hurt and there Senator McGovern calls 'the war M year hard labor. ("Kept hearing was anticipating a mutiny last Oct was no property damage staged by on our children' " about Bunch all over the stockade.") ober 14 at the San Francisco Pre the 27 young GIs was a cry. for Hallinan also referred to Gil Larry Sales, 22, BCD, FP, 3 sidio stockade. "Top Cop" Lt. Col. help. bert and Sullivan's hope that the mos hard labor. (Didn't know how John Ford just happened to have Building 1213 which was built In "punishment fit the crime". Hall so O to present himself to the court- had several conversations about 1912 for 43 people, held 87 people inan said, "The offense doesn't martial board. Buddies had to teach mutiny on dates close to October on October 14. Overcrowding In the fit the crime, let's hope the pun M him to salute.) 14 with stockade commander, Capt. stockade made things that were dis ishment fits better." Robert Lamont. Lamont just hap Even Capt Dean Fllppo argued Allan Rupert, 20, DD, FP, one pened to have had the Manual for advantages intolerable. During the year hard labor. (Turbulent youth week-end following the Bunch kill for the prosecution magnanimously Courts Martial on hand to read to asked for mercy for the prisoners, crowned by mother's twelve mar the 27 GIs who walked away from ing, tension and fear were so ram riages "we felt nobody cared.") the 0730 work formation that day pant according to the prisoners, though he remembered to note that M > Stephen Rowland, 22, DD, for to sit on the grass singing "We that the alternatives to a non-vio "If you feel two or three had a feit $50 per mo. for 15 mos., 15 Shall Overcome". Photographers lent demonstration were riot, kill more active part (in the mutnlty) mos hard labor. (Father: "Hasn't were ordered to appear. Video ing of guards, and burning down the that should be reflected (in the he shamed us enough?") tapes were ordered. A firetruck stockade. sentence)." < Roy Pulley, 19, DD, FP, 15 mos was nearby. A fellow officer was Article 138 of the military code o t hard labor. ("Hemphill was shot. posted opposite Cap. Lamont to allows a soldier who feels wronged n w Bunch was killed. I had a feeling make sure the mutiny article could to appeal to a higher authority. o we'd all get killed.") be heard. And when the men con The men felt they had exhausted Z Michael Marino, 20, DD, FP, 15 tinued to chant and sing an MP all avenues of appeal. As one mos hard labor. (When Air Force sedan with loud speaker equipment defense attorney asked "How can O Sgt. father came home at night, was made available. you write 'Please Investigate the Michael was "treated like a raw Bunch killing' on a 510 form?" recruit.") Berkeley Barb Reprint Hmilri'nî^rnitiBiilttîurrcilîi Mon., June 16, '69. New Today Chow Line . . . The fol lowing notice is posted on a bulletin board at Fort Ord The Counseling Center Hospital : for "Attention! G.I.s "Are you slightly incapa C.O.s citated from meritorious and everyone worried about service in Vietnam and military service currently enrolled in the 288 Alvarado in Monterey hospital medical holding company, Fort Ord, Calif. ? 37Î-2305 "If you are, you and your date can take advantage of a free dinner at any one of these restaurants in the Monterey area: "Angelo's, Highlands Inn, Shutters, Outrigger, Neil de V a u g h n 's , Mark Jot^on's war in Vietnam Thomas Inn, Hearthstone, Aldon's, La Playa, Ware THERE'S REALLY NO CHANGE house, Rappa's, Elegant Rooster, Jolly Roger, Holi day Inn, Golden Bear and Hyatt House." A nice gesture by the community, I think. KAYO OKAYS They were almost unrecognizable TRIAL RESULT in action. Terence (Kayo) Hallinan isn't Martial Board found the men tech Just as brown bag lunches are entirely happy with the sentences nically guilty—according to law, TRIMS INDdelivere d to the prisoners, Maj. for his 14 Presidio "mutiny" cli but saw the validity of psycholo Novinger announces the Jury is re ents, but feels "it's the best we gical testimony in handing out light And so at about 8:30 AM, on turning. Chairs scrape being turned 1 could have expected." sentences. The jury saw the GI's Saturday June 7, two months after back. Attorneys reappear. Spec * "The main thing is. the men not as criminals but as brutalized the trial had begun, almost eight tators put everything away. The are happy," he told BARB at the young men crying for help. months after the "mutiny" had been press returns like vultures. conclusion of the trial at Ft Ord. committed, following law officer Er ma Trefethen folds her hands. Lt. Col. James Hagan's rapid, but "They were overjoyed they got "I expect most of the men to Natalie Gentile puts a handkerchief to tell it like it was, and get light be home by Christmas," Kay said generous Instruction, the court- to her mouth. Glora Stevens hides martial board composed of a lieu sentences." hopefully. He pointed out there her head. The boys look straight r*w Kayo of course contends the men has already been talk of clemency tenant-colonel, a major, a ser ahead. geant-major, and twosergeants left were completely innocent and from high Army sources. Each stood as his name was shouldn't be punished at all. Now that the grueling trial is the court tö decide the fate of the called. When Col. Potter finished, "But this is a good step," he over Kayo is taking a short break, fourteen prisoners. there was a moment of silence, said of the sentences. "It's a real but not for too long. The Man is What can you say about a mili then the boys began hugging each check to repression. It's strange it still out for blood — this time tary jury? They all look alike. other and embracing mothers, kiss came from the Army." He pointed Kayo's. On June 16 hell be in The spectators, long familiar ing wives and girls. The court- out that a statement by Lt Col. court to have a date set for his now with this windswept desolate martial board c ame down from their Richard Potter called the decision own trial. The SF Tac Squad is area of Fort Ord, soon brought seats and joined in wishing well a "vindication of psychiatry over out to get Kayo on a bum rap out their thermos, brown bag to the boys and to their families. law." "Take care of those two little stemming from an incident at SF lunches, and candy bars. The white Hallinan explained that the Court State May 1968. —jj court room soon became busy with girls" Sergeant-Major Sims told people moving in andout, watching, Gloria Stevens. Col. Potter told smoking, gesturing, moving chairs, Shaw "You can be out by Christ talking. mas." Gentile was jumping up and At one point, prosecutor Major down. Phil Far num.: concerned Another Leave for John Novinger handed the judge a Clergy and Laymen, was crying. It folded newspaper. "Have you seen was a happy scene. your picture In the Berkeley BARB, Twenty minutes later as the boys The Unwanted 61 sir? You should also be sure to filed out of the courtroom for the read the want ads, sir." last time, they were greeted by Imagine L B J in judicial robes a long round of applause from A 21-year-old GI who officer in Porterville, he with the BARB propped up in front the press and spectators who had has spent most of his time called the Pentagon twice on him. Apparently the judge did shared their long trial. in the service on a mystery and even having had the not stop with the mutiny article Loaded onto the khaki minibus, furlough received yet an Navy check up on his status or the want ads. He looked at the GIs were still disbelieving other extension of non- — he was still home, "await every page. and laughing, but as MP Sgt. duty yesterday. The MPswatched'good-naturedly Whorely gunned the engine for their ing further orders." as families and boys experienced final return to the stockade the Private First Class Ri His date of discharge came more freedom than ever before fourteen began to sing strongly. chard Beaty of Porterville up in February, 1969, with in the courtroom. Hallirfan visited "We Shall Overcome" they sang was sent home in November, still no word from the Army. affectionately with the boys who had all the way out of sight and sound 1967, for a 30-day leave. He of the courtroom where twelve He hired a lawyer to sue for no families present. Only prisoner was told to await further or discharge and back pay, and Duncan sat alone, turning his chair had been judged guilty of mutiny ders. so he can watch out the wired win one of wilful disobedience, and ont yesterday the Army smiled rfan Jrantisco Qjjronitlf dow out to the distant purple moun of failure to obey an order. Fifteen months later, hav on him in the form of another tains beyond the Salinas valley. As one young woman in the ing checked with a recruiting j 20-day leave. Tues., May 27,1969 Pulley and Marino voluntarily crowd said, "There will be a lot cleaned up the area, emptied ash of changes once the rumor gets trays. The boys' faces changed. around that they got a straight kick." - think short How We Lost World War II UNION DEMANDS By PFC F.O. Richardson (ret.) 1. An end to saluting and sir-ing 5. Federal minimum wages of officers — let's get off our The Belgian landscape was all knees 6. The right of free political as grey snow so we huddled in the house sociation and when the Nazis shelled it we dived 2. Election of officers by vote of for the cellar — all except those out the men 7. The right of collective bargain ing. back in the stable, which seemed 3. Racial equality protected and safe. 8. The right to disobey illegal or- They missed the main part of 4. Rank and filers control of court- ders — like orders to go and fight rv the house but one shell hit the stable martial boards in an illegal war in Vietgam and blew a big hole in the wall. It killed three guys there inside. One had his pants down and was squatting to go. He was frozen solid like that. 10 THE The next day the graves regis R G T C fp Suai- EDITOR: tration truck, a three quarter ton R»rarl -^ *n the last issue of this publication there was weapons carrier, came up the hill ** a reproduction of a pamphlet by PFC Louis Negre through the snow, and the bodies, entitled "How the U.S. Army Promises to Kidnap frozen rigid like statues, were load ed on the back. It made a klunking Me, a Conscientious Objector, to Force Me to Kill in Viet Nam." The sounu like loading cord wood. Army carried out this promise at 2:23 in the morning on April 22. These were a few of the many The Army forced him on the plane though he refused to go because of GIs killed during the Nazi leaders' his beliefs. When I heard of this action my only surprise was that last attempt to reverse the tide and I wasn't surprised, and that was the pity. For I remembered other win for Hitler, the "Battle of the Bulge." men like Louis Negre who were also taken against their will and a- It was also during the Bulge gainst their conscience men like Brad Morse, Freddie Sanders, Dan when the Nazis lined up captured Lathrop and got the feeling that this was just the tip of the ice American GIs in the snow at Mal- berg. medy and machine-gunned them. When I first heard of kidnappings by fellow Americans I made | The Malmedy Massacre was a small •-. sample of the mass killings the Nazi myself foster at least an uneasy disbelief. These were stories a- bosses and their military Brass bout rav.country . As I heard of more of these practices I rememb carried out against millions of ered my History, History that used to be as meaningful as any oth people: Jewish families, anti-Nazi Germans, Russian civilians and sol er subject in school. But it statted to speak to me. I remember- dier prisoners, and people from MMiMa^HaB^^^^, ed that the Japanese, when no longer did they have the sup— other overrun countries. BOND Reprints poet ©£ their men, chained them We supposed we were fighting to their guns in the name of the against Nazism and militarism and Bnperor. I remembered that the stuff like that and. that when we Kangaroo Court-Marti ai, a booklet had won the war that would be the Russians sent their dissenters to end of it. telling the story of the Harvey and Siberia in the name of the peo General Graf von Kielmansegg Daniels case, has just been published ple. I remembered that Hitler was one of the leaders of this by the Committee for GI Rights, 448 committed most of his atrocities Nazi death machine and enjoyed his Old Chelsea Station, YV.I0Q11. 10c in the name of Law & Order in job — as long as the Nazis were THE GOOD SHIP ROMMEL? winning. He even proudly wrote the face of Communism« I won a book (Tanks Between Warsaw The dead veterans of World War dered when we chained men to planes, and the Atlantic) telling of his planes, called them Communists exploits for Der Fuhrer. We thought II who fought against Nazi General that he and his kind would be removed Rommel and were told that they were because they dissented for rea fighting to stop fascism can turno sons of conscience and sent them forever. ver in their graves - again. A ship Do you know what happened to built by the U.S. government for West to Viet Nam. All this in the General von Kielmansegg? Germany was launched in Maine on name of freedom, order, and be With the approval of U.S. February 1. It was christened after cause of the threat of Ccmmunism. moneymen who decide these things the Nazi brass hat. Sieg heil! 9hen the words Justice Jack and who don't oppose Nazism as long 1 6f as it works for them, von Kielman MORE DESERTIONS — THEY'RE o son, the chief prosecutor for segg simply changed his brand of SAYING 'TO HELL WITH IT!' the United States at Nuremburg, stars. i jarred me: He's now your boss. Every two and a half minutes, Since 1966 General von Kielman one of your biiddies, a soldier, sail That while this law segg has been the commander of all or, or marine says to hell with it is first applied a- NATO forces in central Europe to and goes AWOL. More than 200,000 gainst German agg which you as an American GI can AWOLs in 1968. 53,357 of these ressors, the law in be — or are — assigned along with guys stayed gone over 30 days and British and West German GIs. are considered deserters — a deep cludes, and if it is Say "Sir" and salute. sign of the anger and resistance to serve a useful which is growing. purpose, it must con COS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE to demn aggression by OF BRASS' PARANOIA any other nations, in The military here at Ord are paranoid. Lately, everytime the l-0s cluding thèse which come in contact with trainees they sit here now in Judge« put up maximum security. Last Fri day we (the l-0s) had an hour of first- ment aid training. We were told at the I wondered about nations who training area that we would not be allowed to speak to trainees. On the sat in Judgement. two breaks, we were moved from the On Friday May 9 of this training area so that we were at least 200 feet from the trainees. If the sit year, James Goss, a National uation is as explosive in the train ing centers as the Army seems to think, then we may be able to achieve Guardsman, was taken by force something with the program we are planning. to VietNam from Oakland. Jim Fort Ord, Calif. (Continued next page) A Frei ODIN 'S COLUMN SEND YOUR ARTICLES IN NOW SERVE THE PEOPLE Prom Pvt. Odin Cahuenga P.O. Box 1062 Monterey- MEETINGS FOR GIs.... California, 93940 Think« Want to rap with other GIs who ON INTERROGATION... F feel like you? Need legal ass If a person who has violated or who is T istance in filing for CO? Or accused of violating a military regula IF YOU CAN*T A just want to get away from tfee tion is questioned by his Company Com F Green Machine for a little mander the C.I.D., or M.I., he has a •SHIP "EM- T while? Every other Thursday riçjht to refuse to answer any questions. A evening (June 19 & July 3) at He also has has the right to consult F 15 Prescott, Unitarian Church. with a lawyer before answering any quest T Over the Warehouse-Cannery Row. ions; but this does not mean that he can A be forced to talk with a lawyer and then F compelled to answer questions. You have T the right to remain silent with possibly A a few qualifationsi First of all, you F should probably give your name, rank and, T serial number. Remember you are a prison-»- A er of a military organization whether it F is American or Vietnamese. You should T probably also show them your military I.D. A if you have it. On the other hand, if F you don't have it you have nothing to lose T by refusing to answer. A No other question need be answered. It a National Guardsman, was taken by force from Oakland. is entirely appropriate at this point to inform the agents, courteously but firmly, is a Conscientious Objector who applied at Oakland on May 7. that one has nothing else to say and that Ttie personnel at Oakland at that time assured Jim that he he would appreciate it if they would ask would be able to file as it was his right under AR-635-20. no further questions. It is generally a Jim felt easy in the promises of the officers and enlisted poor idea to allow interrogators to go on men of integrity of the U.S. Army. As the guards came to asking questions because becuase you then take him away he was stunned. By luck he got to a phone and have to refuse again and again. Many peo- called his sister in San Francisco to ask her to clear up l»egin to feel rude and nervous and find the mistake for he was promised by his fellow Americans. themselves answering questions against His sister called the base. As she was being assured that their better judgement:. In the course of Jim would be allowed to file he was being forced on the their usual business, Military interroga plane to VietNam. tors are accustomed to refusals to answer I no longer wonder about America. Now all I can do their questions} they do not regard such is shudder at the thought of what it is becoming« E*en an exercise of ones constitutional rights the Law is no longer sacred. What is a nation without as rude. law but a jungle where might is right and the minority is prey? I no longer ask why the Black Panthers store wea If an interrogator warns a suspect of his pons or why Conscientious Objectors are becoming more rights and then presents hia with a "wai numerous. I shudder to think of the still trusting men ver" tö sign, there is no obligation what like Jim Goss who go to the JAG office at Fort Ord, or to soever to sign. If the waiver is signed, their commanding officer, era Chaplain asking, in all hon any statement ma$e may be used against the esty, for help or advice. By necessity he will talk to a individual at a Court Martial. man who tacitly assents to every illegal and immoral act which is done in the same uniform he wears. I also shud Your best policy is to remain silent, refuse der to think of what is happening in VietNam to men like to sign anything, and refuse to answer any Louis Negre who know the real enemy and now the real ene questions at all. Remember, you are their my know them. And now I'm afraid myself. Tell me bro prisoner. Tell them only your name rank ther, that the staccato echoes I hear are not the march and serial number. ing of the police state. Ex PFC CO LWË> MOW |* AUU Vrrx, ur^foGr HA.C,***,&, PfZOT^T^ **otP *"»* 6..«S 4 *? %^Z(^t&C,HILOieHW*>&* UK* cOiv^AirOiNOJ fcvat* beul W ÎÏ5MI other Jiviïs9 farn, 7Z-30H «THE STREETS OF OUR COUN TRY ARE IN TURMOIL. THE UNI VERSITIES ARE FILLED WITH STUDENTS REBELLING AND RIOTING. COMMUNISTS ARE SEEKING TO DESTROY OUR ISSU E COUNTRY. RUSSIA IS THREAT Jut. y IW ENING US WITH HER MIGHT, AND THE REPUBLIC IS IN DANGER. YES, DANGER FROM WITHIN AND FROM WITHOUT. WENEEDLAW AND ORDER. YES, WITHOUT LAW AND ORDER, OUR NATION CANNOT SURVIVE. ELECT US AND WE SHALL RESTORE LAW as you were AND ORDER." Adolph Hitler Hamburg, 1932 PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND - FOR AND BY GI'S AT THE FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX - The article points out overseas in 119 countries» Ho w RETIRED GENERAL CRITICISES many of the aspeots which have did this immens» military MILITARY enabled the military to obtain commitment evolve to its its present status of power in present state ? American Sooiety. The points "America has become a America's role in world he makes are very educational politios came to the forefrontt militaristic and aggressive to any person being held cap nation," These are not the after WWII. It was a politioal tive by this all powerful ins power based upon a very strong words of a Berkeley radical,a titution known as the Military. Columbia University SDSer or military power. Many of ihe Some of his points are briefly war heroes turned to politios any other student dissident summarized in the following whose opinions might be looked and governmental positions paragraphs. where they held influential upon with disdain. This attack General Shoup compares on the united States' military offioes. our present policy of solving Military attitudes and establishment comes from a problems by military force to former Commandant of the? Unit- virtues permeated all levels the "primitive, pre-World War of American life after WIT II. edStates Marine Corps, General II gunboat diplomacy'." The David M. Shoup. It appears in This war produced 14.9 million only difference now is that veterans, and Korea produced the April, 1969 issue of The this gunboat diplomacy has 5.7 million» As of 1968 there Atlantic Monthly in an article mushroomed into a militaristic were 2Ç million living veterans entitled "The'New Amerioan culture which maintains in (con. P. 4,- Col. 1) Militarism." excess of 1,517,000 soldiers â'l'A'lb 81 H 5370t friends, whom I love gather FLIGHT TO NIXON'S HELL like to defecate half on and around and with a quart of half off?.,. Tf you wouldn't whisky as the needle, I break don't end up in th$ Fort Or à 10:00 P.M. the olister which has been May 29, 1969 Stockade...is another Presiaio rubbing for three months, and incident in ord^r here?..,So gallons of tears pour out upon next time teach the lesson a Hi Bill, my Mother's breast. little bit stronger..,Public A scene not unlike war—that opinion is against oppression After what seemed a lifetime with the disgusting puddles of ...The army has abandoned Ham at Oakland, but was actually unsettled liquor smeared over burger Hill (937).-, .Explain only three days, I am finally our kitchen, love is the pre that to the 84 TT's killed and winging my war-like way tow dominant factor. the 480 wounded. . .Talk about' ards the bullet-infested jun Sadness fills my body on senseless deaths, the last gles of Viet Nam, via Anchor Monday morning. (Christ wept week of June 247 Americans age, Alaska, and Japan on the over Jerusalem), I see the wo were reported killed, but the new, action Flying Tiger Air» men in my family cry. On yet Pentagon assures us that there 1ine s. unsteady feet 1 stumble out was a decrease of 88 deaths At this point, we're trip side, being unable to choke from 335 the previous week... ping across Canada at an ap the tears back myself. Dad American wounded dropped from proximate altitude of 25,000 follows, embraces me himself, 1,695 to 1,686...That's really ft., just above the billowing almost successful in keeping encouraging isn't it?...At the snows of white gunpowder his face dry. time of printing 36,625 Ameri drifting above the earth. Into the house for the final cans have been killed in Viet It's 10:10 P.M. and yet it's acknowledgement of weeping» nam since Jan 1, 1961...Anot only 6:30. The sky is blue—it shaking hands with my brother, her 234,889 have been wounded has turned neither the gray of telling him that I'm allergic and 1337 are listed as missing dusk, the dark blue of twilight to penicillin, but sulfa is captured, or interned...By un nor the black infinity of night used also. Then climb into the official count, 13,674 Ameri It remains blue, with pink oar and go to the airport, cans have been murdered since edges, bringing to mind the feeling unreal. Final good May 13, 1968 when preliminary birth of twins - a boy and a byes. And from there to now. peace talks began in Paris... girl - Siamese twins - not ug Preferring to forget the time Of these,6,568 have died since ly - but beautifully joined in between. Dec 7, '69, when South Vietnam back to back, gradually, grad As passing thoughts of mine agreed to join the talks-isn't it about time we put a stop to ually becoming the other while have been swept clean and gath er upon this white vastness, this oppression? The time is beneath them lay the white rug near, and it can be done!... rolled out in expectation of I am drained. Therefore, I close for some time in the From the Army Times a few quo the supreme photographer. tes about dissent, and some GI In the near distant future future near and distant when I shall again stir your tnin*A. rignts Soiaiers» of 18 hrs. I shall walk out in right - although not an to the steaming green, where mechanisms, and not so strang ely, and hopefully not so ser lute one — to express their mixed with thick, moist red of views on public and personal fallen me's, I will see the iously, and so to you in love and peace, and life. >. . matters"..."Functions of the grim Christmas gifts of wooden government and the public... toys, complete with storage Goodspead, Andy may require reasonable limita boxes, cut and fitted for each tions on the exercise of the specific toy. right of expression..."...Vets Which brings to mind Christ Pvt Odin Cahuènglene a is on leave. of WWII and Korea will be sur mas. Is it followed so closely "ODIN'S COLUMN" in next issue, prised to learn of some of the by Easter, to point out the me anwhi^ereadHej^^a^IlL^---- rights they unknowingly had... beginning of the end? or does NEWS IN CAPSULE We have sent men to the moon it mark the point in our lives FOR and left an American flag...We where hopes can be rekindled, OUR ARMED FORCES have sent men to Vietnam and wishes can be fulfilled, and left Americans dead... The dreams become reality? Dateline Fort Ord Military flag was plastic! Since last I saw you, I have Complex, California...The new AS YOU WERE newspaper is be- fallen in love — with her. u F There in the city where we coming one of the hottest CO T •rt touched, kissed, and said good items on the list of required a. u A bye for the first time. Five FTA material for all non-lifer oO -On t.* a, F years of companionship - desir soldiers here... let's keep the E-i a, ing to touch, kiss - love, and paper going...If you have some = CO g T information that could be use -p LO t-, o A afraid - built to this minute to © 2; — this first orgasm of saying ful, or just want to send us a — 2 r-i M t. F tü W) aJ U en >j "Yes, I love thee", of taking letter for print or personal fc-« 2 -H 00 CO -p T a <; +i a. » -n the courage to say to my mind, reply... Remember this paper iSs Q 1 -H r-K o A S fxj a <0 O ."I love her" risking of making published underground— for and S, H (t -p u F a fool of myself in front of by GI's at the fort ord Military. wn g m -P y HISJ s o ? ; o F spent - a few days with my fat is out... Fort ord stockade •«! œ D i .n m W W £ U X her talking over life - wonder reaches another low... As « - «8 G M m A ai u o x g ing why, in all of it's punishment to the prisoners F cruelty it is so beautiful. a, .c P ro meat and milk was cut out of Kf OS ü T Sunday night comes. Three their diet..., keepingit down to < -H -H CO S, X fe =H w r A 1000 calories a day...would you F T BRING THE GIs HOME ALIVE NOJLw >• WWW A GiîWER Lasr words? Yeah ... I shoulda burned my draft card! Only the Best' j •*-* SEND YOm ARTICLES IN NOW M P.O. Box 1062 Monterey MM whil, i .•—**»e the —casket i i s com.in .6 to 'iji the cemeteries with tne youth of America." California 93940 it is good fcr the economy of even more valiant battle..than our 'forefathers'"? Are we Ï K WAN IS CLUB the country. Let us not forget "protecting not only our coun i^ear Draftee, that we have been living under try, (although they call it As you precare to enter essentially a war economy since your country) but 'all' free the Armed Services of the Uni World War II, and in this peoples throughout the world ted States of America, pl«ase period of time we have seen against...international 'com always remember that you are the defense budget soar upward munism'". The answer most ob joining the greatest fighting to 60 billion dollars a year, viously is NOJ force the yrorld has ever known. about 10 to 12'= of tne gross Your forefatners through the national product.So it becomes It is good to understand centuries have fougnt to keep obvious that we are not deal then, that this war, which we your country free, and now you ing with a nickel and dime are being asked to die for, is are taking your pLaor in hist business, but rather a very not being fought to insure our ory-fighting an even more val influential and profitable livelihood, but rather to in iant battle, protecting not sector of the economy. After sure that the fat profits the only your country but all free all, which businesses on the good businessmen of America peotles throughout the world stock market are showing the are reaping continue to pour against the tyranny and oppre highest gains in profits? Cer in to their bank accounts... ssion of international commun tainly the aircraft, electron while the caskets continue to ism. ics, communications, armaments fill the cemetaries with the and other defense related ind ;. outh of A-nerica. We want you to know ustries are right near the top. that your community is proud of So it is not surprising when you and /our role in this vital the Kiwanis. Club of Decatur, effort. Georgia suports the heavy ANTIWARRIORS Kiwaris 31ub of Decatur spending in defense and other This is an authentic letter, related industries,because the sent to ali draftees by the MEETINGS FOR GIs, good businessmen of Georgia Kiwanis Club, Decatur,Georgia. are profiting from the war The business community has Want to rap with other GIs who just like all good businessmen a strong vested interest in the feel lidce you? Need legal ass here in America. But the whole war in Vietnam; quite blunty, istance in filing for CO? Or point of using tnis letter is just want to get away from the to put forward the quest ion:do Green Machine for a little ...we, the GI's, really have an while? Every other Thursday interest in the continued exp evening at 15 Prescott, loitation of the !eorle of Unitarian Church. Over the think Vietnam? Are we "fighting an Warehouse, Cannery Row. short SHOUP VS. MILITARY... of the uS armed forces,, that most of our military his article, it stands to or in other terms, this acc leaders don't even know who reason- ounted for 20# of the adult the "enemy"is. that youi are not going to be population in America. This The romanticism of the the one who will profit from set up a permissive atmosphere inter-service rivalry is an this war unless, of course,you in which the American militar other very important factor in are a career officer or an ex ism could grow and thrive. the new militarism. In 1965 ecutive in a defense industry. Another factor to be con all four services were compet You stand only to lose your sidered in American militarism ing against one another to TTFel '' is the cult of guns and vio build up forces in Vietnam. We must do all we can to lence which we have been liv The motivation was to "demon expose the military establish ing under for so long. Tele strate respective importance ment for what it really is. It vision and movies have romant and combat effectiveness." will continue to flourish un icized military violence since Many army officers wanted less, as General Shoup says, 1939 and for many Americans combat units sent into Vietnam "the blight of Vietnam reveals "military training...and war - "to test plans and new equip that militarism is more a poi fare are merely extensions of ment...and to gain combat exp sonous weed than a glorious the entertainment and games of erience for young officers and blossom." childhood." non-commissioned officers."This When you have a spare We turn now mere specific- is the "Communist aggression" moment, go to the Post Library cally to the military itself. for which you are to give your and read General Shoup's ar The power of the military is life. ticle in the April Atlantic in the hands of an elite, art As a former Marine, Gen Monthly. iculate group of professional eral Shoup states that the ex It should provide some soldiers. General Shoup points istence of the Marines seemed food for thought". QST out that most of the high rank to be in jeopardy during the ing professionals are service early '60's.The Army had been academy graduates. They have taking care of most of the VIETNAM: 'FOR GOOD OF BAD' gone through rigorous selection action in Vietnam. Many offi The flurry in the press procedure, and they therefore cers in the Marine Corps felt over the rival Nixon and Clif are top-notch men by military that if their participation ford schedules for troop with standards. They have not was escalated, the existence drawal from Vietnam distracts received liberal educations. of the Corps could be just public and journalistic atten As a result they are "technicians ified. tion from what has always been and disciples, not philosophers." Since 1961, the Marine the principal issue of the When we speak of the thr Corps had a drawing board plan Vietnamese war: shall a cor eat of militarism we must real for an amphibious landing on rupt military dictatorship en ize that we are faced with a the coast of Vietnam. The ch dure as the voice of the peo powerful group of extremely ance to practice it o^ ple? Ths signifioent differ well trained and dedicated pro 1965 when the VC attacked a ence between tue president Special Forces oamp at Pleiku. view and that of Mr. Clifford fessional soldiers. War is lies in the recognition of the their livelihood and it is the It was a race between the 3rd Marine Division and the Army's latter that "we cannot realis only trade they know. In order tically expect to achieve any to advance in their trade they 173d Airborne Brigade to see who would land first. The in thing more through our mili mustbecome military heroes, and tary force". Not that our to do this they need a war. ter-service rivalry to build forces in Vietnam had thus be force ever did accomplish any Peacetime is not a time of pros thing there, except 36,000 perity for most professional gun in earnest. sacrifices to our belief in soldiers. This points out quite law and order. This offers a partial ex clearly the games that are be planation for the war we are ing played in Vietnam. It is David I. Tom already involved in. But it refreshing to see someone like Newsweek July 21, 1969 is necessary to conjure up General Shoup recognise the some sort of justification for situation for what it"is and Nixon's a war. After all, the symp to criticise it openly. Jo^K^on's war in Vietnam athy of the American public is The real tragedy of the w necessary if the officers are issue at hand lies in t e fact THERE'S REALLY NO CHANGE going to be allowed to play that people such as you are their games. In the case of expected to risk your life in Vietnam it is "Communist agg order that some officer can ression" which is threatening become a hero«. The tragedy is the bulwarks of democracy. The underlined when we look at the military involvement is there ghettoes, pollution, inadequate fore justified. It may be a schools and other social prob The Counseling Center surprise to some of you when lems existing in America to for General Shoup states that day which could be relieved G.l.s "most military people know with the money being wasted on C.O.s very little about Communism the games being played in Viet and everyone worried about either as a doctrine or as a nam. military service form of government."What en Considering the points 288 Alvarado in Monterey couragement this is to know which General Shoup made- in 373-2305 VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR P.O. Box 41254 Lot Angelas, Calif. 90041 Tele. No. 213-246-0515 0 F.T. At Pa^o 7*~30e! HÖH AUF. 93940 373-2 305 I believe that if we had and would keep out: dirty, bloody, dollar- crooked fingers cut of the business of tho&« nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own, that they design and want, that they fight, and work for. And if unfortunately their revolut ion must be of the violent kind ruse the "haves" refuse to share with the "have-nots" by any peace PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND BY, AND FOR G, ful method, at least what they get AT THE FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX will be their own. and not the Lean style, which they don't want: and above all don't want cram med down their throats by Americans. —Ret. General David M. Shoup May 14, 1 UCMJ Chanc, bx Connmai tart J of the Marine Corps Can Save Nour Ski Hero of itl Le of Tarawa York I, martial, which is tried betöre Washington • a singIe 0tfic-*=*r and involves A law providing wide- The new law is also direct- military judge and makes courts-martial cases alone it minor offenses. spread reforms in the sys- ed toward the criticism that him. part of an independent the death penalty may be im- Since the accused does not tern of United States mili- post commanders could ap- judiciary that is not responsi- posed have the riçhl to legal repre- tar.N became effec- ply pressure on participants ble to the commander of the If an enlisted serviceman sent a ; ion it a summary live on August 1. in courts-martial. The law installation where the desires tn be tried before a court-martial, he could ask The new law makes signifi- prohibits mentioning in effi- court-martial is conducted. court-martial board, he may for local representation at a cant changes in the authority ciency or fitness reports the JUDGE also request, during a pvetri- special <>r general court of military judges, courts- performance of a member of Another change in cenpral «»1 session, that enlisted men martial despite the minor nn- martial procedures, qualifi- a court-martial. coi cited on his heard. lure <>l th • a iegrd offense. lesal counsel, re- Major changes have been courts-martial, which deal The law requires ICRal W unifiai re used pending made m lne i^^^Êg^gM appelate review irts-martiarwhlch " permit? r significant provi- ,}eai wun felonies and other quest that his case be heard where a bad-conduct dis- fron' von iner-ent pending an sion of the, law assures the major offenses. The law re- by a military judge alone charge may be imposed. U appeal and allows the ac- defendant of representation designates the law officer of Military judges are prohibit- permits the accused to refuse eused two year-; to petition by legally qualified military a military court-martial as a ed from d e c i d i n g general trial by a summary court- for a new trial or civilian counsel unless it "cannot be obtained on ac count of physical conditions Russ Kids Called 'Pacifist' or military exigencies." The political .al of the most. COUNSEL Soviet Arme ss has complain WW Qualified legal counsel was The journal is primarily read ed that some people are not required under the uni by military officers and the pol Gl POWER pacifists and lack the "hatred" form code of military justice itical education specialists of and in some cases defend of older generations for the the armed forces. It generally ants were represented by of Soviet Union's enemies. ficers with no legal qualifica reflects party line and is a voice tions. The journal s .ndatory for what amounts to the lobby in for young recr : be educated the Soviet Union for heavy defen in- "hatred for se spending. which the United States is fore "It is absolutely clear", the it journal said, "that" a new war is being prepared by the imperialists that will be directed against the let Union and other Socialist countries." "The agressors openly state their % . plans to liquidate the Social- ost countries through this .war. All s makes it necessary for the strengthening of Soviet troops in a spirit of high vigilance and class hatred for the imperialist agressors CO The article said that American ideologists and bourgeois propaganda had a "pathological hatred toward Socialism. o from New York Times 7/9/69 ed. note - What i£ they called a 1 war and nobody came???????? fee •'.-'-•-' More GIs In Vietnam Demonstrations WASHINGTON — "Apparently we're going Planned by ANTI-WARRIORS in the wrong direction," U.S. troop strength in Viet Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., nam, despite the an told the Senate. Anti-war Groups MEETINGS ?OR G.I.'s nounced withdrawal of 25,- "Why Is it." asked Sen. SAN FRANCISCO Want to rap with other GIs who 900 men, continues to rise J". W. Fulbright, D-Ark., tnd now stands at 4,500 "in view of the announced —The National Anti-War feel like you ? Need legal ass Conference, which says it more than when President withdrawal of troops we istance in filing for CO ? Or have more troops in Viet r e p r e sents 200 peace just want to get away from the Nixon took office, say two nam today?" groups, declared Tuesday Green Machine for a while ? Senate war critics. A week ago Gore pre it would hold four demon Every other Thursday evening sented similar figures and strations starting Aug. 17. The first will be at at 15 Prescott, Unitarian t h e Pentagon explained President Nixon's Summer Church. Over the Wharehouse, troop strength would start to decline in early August White House at San Clé Cannery Row. Aug. 28, Sept. 11 and would reach 515,000 by mente and will oppose the the end of August, as war in Vietnam. stated after Nixon's June On Oct. 3, the conference announcement. said, there will be a r-the small society demonstration at Chicago when trials start for those arrested during the last Democratic National Con PEFERZINÔTOTHE CHILENEN" vention. AS FePLA^EM&NTS/ On Nov. 15, the confer ence added, there will be I s i multaneous demonstra Saigon Desertions tions against the war in TOKYO - The Viet Washington, D.C., and in Cong's Liberation Press San Francisco. Agency said today that more than 50,000 South Be sure to check the Vietnamese soldiers have August Playboy. Some deserted since early 1968. €fttfKM*M> interesting letters to the editor.—ed. MILITARY INJUSTICE In our opinion, a sit-down demonstra tion is a valid, useful and nonviolent El Malcriado form of protest, which is a constitutional Vmerican citizens. TI © Army seems out of touch with present ^-—S DELANO, CALIFORNIA THE VOICE OF THE pHWIHrOlW*"™« realities in denying the soldiers accused menu planners...should not be re ARMWASHINGTONY BUYS, D.O.UP , GRAPES....TJune 30-- purchaseO DEFENs of scabD grape THsE jumpe AMERICAd N WAY OF LIFE? of mutiny at the Presidio stockade their quired to consider whether a labor democratic right. Especially considering The end of the government's fis to 555,000. For the first half of dispute exists when making these the circumstances—the fatal shooting of a cal year, 1969, on June 30 closed this year, purchases topped decisions." fellow prisoner and the poor conditions the books on the Federal govern 2,000,000 pounds. Defense Depart in the military jail—the soldiers were ment's most blatent attempt in re ment officials admitted that pur Spokesmen for the UFWOC charge under a moral obligation to protest. To corded history to break a labor chases of the scab grapes were that, on the contrary, the tremen punish them for this act of valor is Union through massive purchases expected to top 4,000,000 pounds dous increase in grape purchases vicious and inhuman in itself. This dem onstration occurred in a noncombat sit of scab products. for the year, when all figures were can only be explained by the fact uation and its nonviolent nature did in and recorded for the fiscal year that purchasers for the Department The United Farm Workers Or not endanger any lives. The severity of of Defense and other Federal Age ganizing Committee has repeatedly ending June 30. the sentence constitutes cruel and un charged over the last two years *** The Department of Defense ncies knew about the boycott and usual punishment for an action we consid that the Federal government, and admits that overall purchases of WERE UNDER ORDERS TO HELP er not an offense at all. If, as it appears, especially the U.S. Defense Depart grapes, for armed forces in this THE GRAPE GROWERS DEFEAT the Army is increasingly oblivious of accepted civilian standards, its discipline country, Vietnam, Europe, and el THE UNION. "The military has ment, have sought to bust the Un must be based only on fear. It is a bleak been buying up dumped California ion's boycott of table grapes by sewhere, were expected to top 16 prospect if our future defense rests upon huge purchases of the grapes for million pounds this year, compar grapes as a market of last re intimidation. distribution to the armed forces. ed to 7.5 million pounds in 1967. sort for the struck grape growers," We feel that if the United States is charged UFWOC research director On June 6, 1969, the Department *** Civilian purchases of grapes ever to regain its self-respect, such repres of Defense released information to in Vietnam jumped from 350,000 Jerry Brown. "Giumarra and Bo- sive and inhuman punishments as were two years ago to 2,800,000 last zich and the other 93% of the imposed on these men must cease and the Los Angeles Times and other the persons responsible for their persecu year, most of these'purchases are grape growers who have refused to newspapers which tragically con tion must be removed. We urge that the negotiate with the Union are coun firm the worst of the Union's ac by the Government (Departments cases of these soldiers be carefully recon cusations. of State, Agriculture, etc.) for con ting on the Federal Government's sidered in order to obtain the justice spending tax-payers' money to bail *** The Department of Defense sumption by their "advisors" in they deserve. them out from the effects of the says it is now shipping eight times that war-torn country. (Signed by 137 students) State University of New York more grapes to U.S. Troops in The Defense Department says that international boycott of tabic Stony Brook, New York Vietnam than in any previous year. the increases are due to increased grapes." "There is no record of any grapes "Troop acceptance". The Depart The Union has called on members shipped to Vietnam prior to fiscal ment also states in a "fact sheet" and friends of the Union to write year 1967," the Department of De which it distributes, "The Depart to their Congressmen and Senators fense admits. In the fiscal year ment of Defense does not purchase protesting this flagrant Union-bus ending June 30, 1967, U.S. taxpay grapes merely because they have ting with tax payers' money. And VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THÉ WAR ers payed for 468,000 pounds of been made more available and less it j is more important than ever to grapes shipped to Vietnam. The expensive due to the effects of the continue and to expand the grape P.O. Box 41254 boycott...In the interests of objec boycott in the U.S. and Canada Lei Angeles, Calif. 90041 following year (which was the first Tel«. No. 313-246-0515 of the all-out grape boycott effort) tive and systematic management, to counter the military's insidious strike-breaking plot. A NEWSPAPER OF COMMON SENSE AND SURVIVAL FOR GPS ODIN'S COLUMM Thought you may by PFC Odin Cahuenga GIs S&&&tR OUT! be curious about "I think a fellow should be com what was happening at GIs Tune Out ! ft. ord last year pelled to become better and not Seem "spontaneous" musical demonstration Mongolia or listen to the House Armed Services Committee CD the men of the 28th had Wyatt on the fiddler play, when in June 1966. g Cxi his knees. ro to he ' s playin to the break Is Lewis Hershey a Communist? Are r—I On the morning of June- 20th the 1 -p • Band played at the 2nd BDE gradua of day. LISTEN TO THE General Philip B. Davidson, Jr., 1 p -p tion exercises. For some strange BAND O c Ft. Ord chief and your tin god = CD reason everyone was off that day. company commander also Communists? S The band played out of tune, the i -p Probably they are not card carrying CO M wrong notes, varying tempos, and 2 O changing keys, with added effects members of the Party. But they do O « by dropping instruments at strategic not have to be members to be effect (—1 co H ro moments. ive. And in their effectiveness in D the Band left the parade field a slave -they might as LU O LO COL J. W. V Claii the 2nd BDE ell be Communists. Od -PO CO, called SGT Wyatt over for a a> o "little talk," and later Wyatt was CO o od -^r called in for another talk with the IG. U-l — We can only guess whose faxe uas v: > • C) rox redder, but the result was lhat Wyatt At Fort Ord today, more and more M TS O shaped up for awhile. H •H men are coming down on levy to Viet 00 roS • Before the Band played at the 4th nam. Many of these men wish that • BDE graduation that afternoon, SGT Wyatt told the men that the morning they had come down on a levy to flj events had been "a learning exper- I» ience for everyone." "Everyone makes Washington, D.C. they know that the ^2 mistakes, including myself," he con most serious threat to America is fessed. not the V.C. but the D.C. government. fl> To top it off Wyatt announced CONTINUED that everyone had passes for the 0 0 coming weekend. Funny thing .... ON PAGE 4 CO Û Z O 09 va*» A F T A F BRING THE GIs HOME ALIVE NOW 1 A GITCWER MUTINY ? ODIN CONTINUED Only when the D.C. lackeys such as Hershey and Davidson are removed from Your rights power will we have a government of The real importance of the cnan- the people, by the people, and for ges. in the code of military jus the people. tice is that nçw, at last, GI's There is no reason why any man whç is i can get legal protection* at spe a slave in the U.S. Army should go to cial court martials. If you Kietnam and kill his brothers. Yes, are getting a bum deal with an in Vietnam people are fighting for Article 15 or a summary court their freedom and independence from martial, then you can take a foreign invaders like the D.C. chance on a special or general The civil war in Vietnam began as a court martial where the Army struggle for liberty by the people is nçw required to provide you in South Vietnam. The Saigon puppet with legal assistance. The dictatorship tried to stop the peo word is that the Army is wor ple, but failed. Who wants to fight ried about what happens if for a dictatorship? Then the Saigon used by the D.C. as an too many soldiers decide to PU e S W go to the higher courts. They UOn t vO lO bGGQ exc us e to se to had enough lawyers for a sys- get killed and wounded. Fortu When Odin Cahuenga started wai nately for the cause of freedom where the GI's weren't pro ting for this paper, he was Pvt. ? the South Vietnamese people also tected, but they don't now. Odin Cahuenga. In his last let have friends and help came to them You've got new rights. Use ter he informs us that he is now them..' PFC Odin Cahuenga. A step up, from their brothers in North Viet and maybe in a few years it will nam. This is the way it really Bug the BRASS be lifer Odin Cahuenga. Wouldn't happened the Xrmy be a groovy place if all And yet in the U.S. Army, they Ever thought of naming a peace lifers were Odin Cahuenga's. still try to get us to believe or resistance group as the ben the lie that the North invaded eficiary on your life/death pol Positively Fourth St the South. The Army knows th icy? Apparently one GI did and have to lie to keep the w rt.rmy xs arraia o provoked a visit from a Navy In Last May the Adjutant General truth. -For example, they try to telligence goon squad. All you sent out a guideline on dissent. make it difficult for you to get have to do is change^your per What it said was that "mere po- this paper. sonnel file by filling out forms session of a publication may not By the way, have you seen the new Army DA-41, Air Force AF-246 or be prohibited; however, posses pyschedelic poster put out by the Navy/Marine Corps NAVPER3 601.2. sion of an unauthorized publica Sixth Army. It is a red and WE KNEW IT ALL ALONG tion coupled with an attempt to white propaganda octupus with distribute in violation of post "Freedom Now","Make Love, Not War'T When we say that this is a pa regulations may constitute an etc., printed on its arms. You per "of,by, and for the GI's at offense." To distribute any can buy it for a dollar at poster Fort Ord, we really meaiit. kind of article requires prior head shops or get it free from any There is no way this paper can be approval, but "A commander may orderly (disorderly) room in the published unless you write and not prevent distribution of a Sixth Army. tell us what is happening in yçur publication simply because he company, unless someone steps for does not like its contents." ward to edit each issue, and un Nixon's Why the memo? Near the begi- Johri^on's war in Vietnam less alot of guys come through ning the Adjutant General wrote with the bread. This paper is "It is important to recognize THERE'S REALLY NO CHANGE free to GI's but that doesn't that the question of "soldier mean that it doesn't cost any dissent" is linked with the Con thing to print. we aren't stitutional Eight of free speech being financed by anybody but and that the Army's reaction to GI's. So far we have only been such dissent will—quite proper running off about 500 copies. So ly—continue to receive much at if you have ideas, letters, or tention in the news media. Any spare cash, send it to P.O. action taken on any,level may Box 1062 *•*nWi therefore Reflect—either fav LIFESAVERS orably or adversely—on the im Try this idea for a lifesaver. age and standing of the Army An insurance plan against those with the Americanpublic." unforeseen and dangerous things Though the report is apparent that can happen—like Article 15's ly a liberalization, it is also A buck a month puts the bread very carefully hedged. So you back into your pocket as soon as be careful too. If you want a the Brass tries to take it away. complete copy of the memo, come Every time a buddy gets an Article to the counseling center at 15, the FUND PAYS. Now that's an 288 Alvarado in Monterey. idea. fa**1*-*âl There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. I SWEAR BY MY LIFE AND MY LOVE FOR IT THAT I WILL NOT LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF ANY MAN NOR ASK ANY MAN TO LIVE £&£ FOR MINE. ll'HWFirlKD John Gait (Atlas Shrugged) AUGUST 1969 ISSUE Dedication: This issue is dedicated to our brave boys in Canada and Sweden, those who are serving our country proudly in prisons and stockades and those young men who live underground as you in the U.S.A. to avoid military slavery. O o o OOO OOO OOO PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND OF, BY, AND FOR G.I.'S AT THE FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX ARMY is a four-letter wordl Do you have your own copy of the AS YOU WERE ? Come on down to 288 HEAVY Hint Alvarado in Monterey, 373-2305. that's 288 Alvarado near Del Monte. FREE to "The Party seeks power entire GI's. GI Counseling 12-7 p. m., Tues-Sat ly for its own sake. We are not GI Library and Rap session 7-9 p. m. interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. What pure power means MILITARY you will understand presently. We are different from all the oli garchies of the past in that we know what ve are doing. TERRORISM All the others, even those who Ann Breen, David Simpson, and Rev. Mark Ann and Mark checked with a lawyer^ resembled ourselves, were cow In 1967, the Supreme Court of Cal ards and hypocrites. The German Sullivan distributedthe AS YOU WERE to GI's Nazis and the Russian Commun waiting for the Fort Ord bus at the San ifornia upheld the right to dis ists came very close to us in Francisco Greyhound Station. Why not? It's tribute literature on private pro their methods, but they never had perty which is designated for pub- the courage to recognize their own a free country, isn't it? Greyhound doesn't Torivp«i- Th. ] jr »o T«»_r^. Frederick Hoffman thhee y even mm?believed, tha t or some GI's it was the first look at et. al. seized power unwillingly and for a Ann & Mark informed Greyhound & limited time, and that just round Ft Ord's popular underground newspaper. Ann the corner there lay a paradise and Rev. Sullivan handed out the AYW and Pinkerton of rights to distribute where human beings would be free copies of the Department of Army memo "Guid guaranteed by the First Amendment and equal. to the U.S. Constitution. Grey We are not like that. We know ance on Dissent" which outlines current Army that no one ever seizes powerwith policy on underground GI papers, the America hound management said they did not the intention of relinquishing it. Servicemen's Union, etc. The DA tells us care about the law, they had their Power is not a means; it is an own "law" about distribution of end. One does not establish a dic many of its latest ideas on how to dissent. tatorship in order to safeguard a The 5:30 bus was about to leave as Ann literature on their property. revolution; one makes the revolu jumped on to hand out the paper. The bus- Which is really what this confron tion in order to establish the dic tation is all about — citizens' tatorship. The object of persecu driver told her to "get your fanny off the tion is persecution. The object of bus unless you have a ticket." (including GI's) constitutional torture is torture. The object of A long line of GI's waited for the 7 p.m. rights. power is power. When any institution, including We are the priests of power. bus to Ft Ord on Sunday, August 10. Ann and God is power. The real power, Mark again handed out papers ... the Pink- the Army and Goliath Greyhound, the power we have to fight for erton Security Guards (Rent-a-cops) threaten assume a law-making function, then night and day, is not power over they are acting contrary to the things, but over men. How does one ed to arrest Mark if he did not leave. assert his power over another? By interests of the citizens of this making him suffer. Obedience is democratic society. The function not enough. Unless he is suffer ing, how can you be sure that he of making laws is reserved to Leg is obeying your will and not his islative Bodies. own? Dave Simpson joined Ann and Mark Power is in inflicting p<«ii and humiliation. Power is in tearing and they were soon after approached human minds to pieces and putting by the Police Department. The boys them together again in new shapes in blue did not listen to the Hoff of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind ©f world man Case. Perhaps not knowing how we are creating" ft is the exact to deal with the technicalities of opposite of the s ùid hedonistic law as opposed to the enforcement Utopias that the old reformers imagined, A world of fear and of law, the Cops gave our heros treachery and torment, a world of 30 seconds to leave the property. trampling and being trampled upon, (Seen any Old Wild West movies a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines lately—this was even better.) itself. Ann, Dave & Mark told the cops Progress in our world will be they would sue for false arrest, progress toward more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they continued . . . p.2 were founded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our A Welcoming Party world there will be no emotions continued ...p.2 ro* THe PLEASE Gl AIMTI WAR ACTIONS IN SOUTH VIET NAM from VIE'TNAM COURIER 46 Tran Hung Dao Street, Hanoi, DRV June 9, 1969 No. 220 (6th Year) As the long,hot summer of 1969 goes on and Nixon continues to decieve the American people about ending the The harsh reality of the U.S. war in South Viet Nam has grad War, give your friends some relief. ually been awakening U.S. Servicemen to the dishonourableness and Sprinkle the AS YOU WERE on them. Get uselessness of an aggression directed against a people's indepen extra copies at 288 Alvarado (373-2305) dence and freedom and profitable only to a gang of warlike puppets. in Monterey. Growing numbers of GIs have risen up to defend their personal Reverend Andrew Juvinall in a dignity and their vital interests and those of the United States. sermon at the Hamilton Methodist Actions against this immoral war have been succeeding one another, Church in San Francisco said 'Today especially since the end of December 1968. The biggest of them took we are engaged in an immoral war in place in a base of U.S. Infantry Division 25 stationed at Dong Du, Vietnam, a war-in which the name of 30 km northwest of Saigon, under the "repatriation" slogan. A few democracy, we are preventing the people days later, came the protest by servicemen of Battalions I and 2, pf Vietnam from the right of self- U.S. Infantry 9, garrisoned at Birih Due, 64 km southwest of Saigon, determination. In the name of freedom4 who resisted the orders to go on a raid and demanded an end to the we are in the process of destroying Viet Nam war. Despite the brutal repression by American Commanders the people and land of a poor country." who set up such jails as the Long Binh Jail, 20 km northeast of Saigon, and Da Nang Jail, in an attempt to intimidate the GIs and And meanwhile back in the States, check their dissent, the movement keeps mounting even among the young men are forced into military L.B. Jail inmates who set fire in August and end of November 1968 slavery. Young men who are students, to several army barracks. doctors, lawyers, factory workersiare ordered into the Army. Why? The Since early 1969, when U.S. and puppet troops all over South government tells you why: In the Viet Nam came under PLAF violent attacks, war protest actions broke name of freedom and democracy 1 ( j") H How do these young men justify RRP^TTSxvxsion Americal, Infantry Division 1, First Air Cavalry their participation as a military Division, Division 25 and 90 in which American Servicemen disobeyed slave whether enlisted member or orders to carry ouf'sweeps"or to go on rescue missions, staged officer? Most of them can't justify sit-in demonstrations, burnt barracks, fired at their commanders or it. They offer only excuses: "Well, put out anti-war and repatriation slogans. everyone else is doing it." This is Many waves of similar.demonstrations have occured in U.S. In not true. Less than half of the rfraft fantry Division.9. On Jan. 3 and 14, 1969, 160 GIs of 3 platoons age men are slaving (serving?) in the refused to board a chopper bound for a raid and asked to be taken military. Or they say: "Well, the home. Some of them fired shots in the air, and frightened their Army is better than going to jail or CO.s into giving way. On Jan. 28, in the same locality, the GIs going to a draft-free country such as ransacked their CO.s' offices and many barracks, killing 23 men Canada." A man who answers thusly and wounding 12 others. They manhandled the American M.P.s, killed admits that he is a slave and; what's hundreds of police dogs, destroyed thousands of sand bags used in more^a coward for he does not stand fortification, pushed into the river more than one hundred small up for what he really believes in. trucks carrying food and ammunition. On Feb. 23, 1969, the GIs of a battalion of Brigade 3, Division 9 at Due Hoa, 25 km west of Saigon MOURM NOT THE DEAD shot at their COs, killing eight qf them including a captain and a lieutenant. On March 18, American soldiers of a company of Bri gade Mourn not the dead - 2, Division 9, stationed at Son Phu, 75 km west of Saigon, took off But rather mourn the apathetic throng their uniforms and lay on the road, refusing to take part in a The cowed and meek terrorist operation and asking to return home. In April 1969, sol Who see the world's great anguish diers of two platoons-at Binh Due and 300 GIs of Division 9 H^ and its wrong objected to raiding orders, set an M.113 ablaze and shouted "Send And dare not speak. us back home!" There is every indication that GI discontent will grow as the| Look at yourself. Are you doing Nixon Administration clings to South Viet Nam and goes on throwing Iwhat you honestly believe is right in U.S. youths into it's senceless and costly war there. jyour own mind, in the eyes of God? Everyday soldiers and other [prisoners of the military system come to me and ask, "PFC Cahuenga, what •can I do to help stop the war and tbring my buddies back alive?" Thanks to Dow's napalm and moderng VIETNAM Continued Over technology, it is possible to take the STICKERS & BUTTONS- "Outlaw Guns", "Vietnam: $80 million ovens to the people rather than the a day", etc. assortment. $2 M & K; P.O. Box 565; Kalimazoo people to the ovens. Mich. 49005. MC. Odin continued., 37 If you are in the Army at Fort Ord you have many opportunities to express yourself and show your friends what you can do. Here are some of the many 'actions you may take: 1. Religiously inspired? Apply 'for a discharge or noncombatant status as a Conscientious Objector under AR 635-20. 2. Tell your orderly room to have the Finance Office deduct a Class E allotment from your pay each month. Tell the Army to send the allotment (for example one dollar or five dollars) to AS YOU WERE, PO Box 1062, Monterey, California, 93940, or the Central The peace we seek is not victory Committee for Conscientious Objectors, anyotherpeople^ etc. You have the right to do this. They cannot deny your request. 3. Join the American Servicemen's Union, Room 633, 156 Fifth Ave., New ARA$ York, N.Y., 10010. The Union demands feder al minimum wages for all service When armies are outlawed men. Only outlaws will have armies... Organize. uOIN THE A.S.U. TODAY SAME OED CRAPA few of the American Servicemen's VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST Union demands Are: THE WAR It's the same old story. Un i. Federal Minimum Wages P.O.Box 41254 less you sit down and knock out 2. Racial Equality Los Angeles, Calif. 90041 3. Right of Collective Bargining Tele. No. 213-246-0515 the old nitty-gritty, how can we tell our fellow captives 4. Right to Disobey Illegal Orders about the problems and sucesses like orders to go and fight in you've had in your company. an illegal war in Vietnam. Worried about identity, then WRITE to Andy Stapp, CHAIRMAN why not try writing a parable? AMERICAN SERVICEMEN'S UNION Fly The Peace Flag Maybe your 1st Sargaent should 156 FIFTH. AVE., Room 633 be nominated for Bastard of the NEW YORK, N.Y. 10010 Month. Let us know and we'll begin work on the center page TELL IT LIKE IT IS fold out that we're sure he'd The army is not really afraid of be happy to pose for. We're Communism ( fellow conspirators, after all, usually are friendly toward' one having problems finding beer- another). The army's real enemy is belly bikinis, but we'll try "Freedom". Like the freedom to dis harder. tribute the AS YOU WERE. The army is Wouldn't the Pentagon make a afraid of the AS YOU WERE. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. S/t cannvt /^'My 6e iaAen fictn you f*»l <*ny leaéon- <7û//n« ! —1 SEPTEMBER69 i ^-rwrmg issue If mankind does not put an end to war . . . war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy L . •>. as you ATTENTION ATTENTION New policy, .send one stamped self- PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND OF, BY, AND FOR G. I.'s addressed envelope for each month AT THE FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX you desire the paper. Example: 12 envelopes = one year's subscription. The Rebellion Of Company A Many of the U. S. newspapers have been running the story of the company of GI's But How Do You Vote If You're In Jail? in Vietnam who refused to go into battle. Q. Mr. Secretary, you have spoken repeatedly, both here and on other occasions, about the importance of The incident was covered in analysis by self-determination for South Vietnam and an open James Reston of the New York Times, re political process there. I wonder how you would re printed in a recent San Francisco Chronicle. concile this with the recent jailing of the Buddhist 1 monk and the continuing presence in prison of Truong Reston s analysis of the incident is worth Dinh Dzu, the presidential candidate. Have you dis noting for he poses some very interesting cussed this with the government of South Vietnam? questions. What is your position on it? SEC. ROGERS: Yes, we have discussed it. I don't The incident in question involved the men of Company A of think the two questions are particularly related. One the 196th Light Infantry Brigade's battle-weary Third Bat involves civil liberties and the other involves voting talion in the Son Chang Valley. And as the news reports ex right«. As far as voting rights are concerned, these plained, these men had obeyed orders for several days of two cases you have mentioned wouldn't affect that... fighting and found their force depleted and thier hope all but —Secretary Rogers' press conference, April 7. gone. Their strength was down to 60 men, half its combat strength, when they reached a point beyond which they could 1. F. Stone's Weekly, April 21, 1969 not go. Reston's analysis points out that this incident is noteworthy Alert and Eager For New Vietnams for a number of reasons. He asks continuously in his re "Our operations in Vietnam have been conducted to port of the incident if it is not a surprising thing that the in block Communist aggression in Southeast Asia, but cident has not been more prevelant in Vietnam, and indeed thi> aggression is only the most visible portion of the Communist threat to United States security in under the circumstances it would seem that such an event terests in the Pacific. Less obvious components of the might be a more usual circumstance given the conditions and total Communist threat are manifested by the pro justifications for that confrontation. (And then again, how vocative actions of North Korea, the mounting pres sures of the North Vietnamese presence in Laos and much does the American Press tell us ?) And another of Cambodia, and the rising level of Communist inspired Reston's points reflects the delimna that an incident of insurgency in Thailand and Burma. These situations this kind places on President Nixon, whether the incident is have required careful and continuing evaluation to insure the most efficient allocations of available re isolated or not. For as Mr. Reston points out, Nixon is in sources in the Pacific Command to conduct the war the process of trying to end this war and in doing this he is in Vietnam and, at the same time, the protection of reacting to the revolt from different sectors of the population. vital United States interests in an area stretching from the Bering Sea in the north to the eastern But if he is saying that military victory isn't in the cards Indian Ocean in the South." and that we might even lose Southeast Asia, just what is it — A^m. Sharp's preface to his Report on the War. he is asking of "Company A".? The hills and the valleys of the battle weary Vietnam become little more than strategic points and tactical maneuvers. As Reston puts it, "He is asking Comp to fight for time to negotiate a settlement with Hanoi that s1-ill save his face but may very well lose thier lives." Reston then points out that the whole fiasco really moves one step further from the men of Company A. Rather than even strategic points and tactical maneuvers, we have moved the en WHAT DO YOU KNOW tire business into the realm of political strategy that we are ABOUT YOUR FLAG? now asking men to lose their lives for. An incredible request. As a part of this political strategy we see Nixon, as Mr. 1. What are the words of the "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag? Reston sees it, delaying the announcement of more troops from Vietnam until a point where it can be advantageously used at 2. What do the flag's colors mean? home. Reston feels that Nixon hopes to cool some of the anti 3. How is it displayed at meetings? war sentiment on the college campuses by putting off the an- 4. How may it be used as a decoration ? noucement til the kids are back in the full swing of the fall term 5. How should you dispose of an old flag ? Reston echos our sentiments when he points out the irony of ^ (Answers on page 4) the whole thing. . .there are just too many of us who just are not buying. . .and more who aren't buying for long. The L rest of Reston's analysis speaks for itself: (cont. pg 2) From Page 1 On the crudest level, as long as we slant are willing to condemn two out of five Analysis we* children in Latin America to early death in order to increase our material com forts and prosperity, by what newly found The potential uses of nonviolent brotherhood will we be able to resist the temptation to wipe out two out of five, SYMBOL power are tremendous and as yet not three out of five, or even five out of For the more the President fully realized. But it is important says he's for peace, lhe more t'i understand that nonviolence can five, of the children of China in overt troops he withdraws from never be developed in such a way as to warfare if it is dinned into us that it Vietnam and Thailand, the carry out some of the tasks assigned to is necessary to preserve our freedom, or more he concedes that South the lives of ourselves and our children? east Asia is nol really vital to it by its more naive converts. It the security of the United would be impossible, for instance, to If we cannot respect our neighbors more States, the harder it is to ask defend the United States of America, than to keep large numbers of them penned for the lives of the men of as we know it, nonviolently. This is up in rat-infested slum ghettos, how will Company A. not because of any inherent defect in we develop the sense of human solidarity They may not be typical. with our opponents that is so needed. but they are a symbol of his the nonviolent method but because of coming dilemma. He wants a very important strengtn : nonviolence How will we reach across the propaganda- out on the installment plan, cannot be used successfully to protect induced barriers of hate fear and self- but the weekly installments special privileges that have been won righteousness (belief in the superiority are the lives of 100 to 200 by violence. The British could not have of one's country, race or system) to American soldiers, and he disarm ourselves and our enemies? cannot get away from the continued to rule India by taking a insistent question: Why? To leaf out of Gandi's book and becoming David Dellinger, editor Liberation what purpose? nonviolent. Nor would the United States "The Future of Nonviolence" The breaking point comes be able to maintain its dominant posi Studies on the Left in politics as it came to Com pany A and it is not far off. tion in Latin America if it got rid of What will now be gained by its armies, navies, special forces, CIA this incessant killing? And guerrillas, etc. Does anyone think that how will the President or a majority of the natives work for a few anybodv, else explain or ex cuse itf*" cents a day, live in rural or urban slum and allow forty four per cent of their children to die before the age of five because they love us? Or that they are content to have American business drain As You away five hundred million dollars a : in interest and dividends, on the *A Flag is a Silent Symbol . . Were is theory that the shareholders ox : tf i, I Odin Cahuenga HAPPY-SAD We are happy to announce the re tirement of Private First Class Odin Cahuenga» At the same time we regret the loss of one of the Army's finest reporters. He was an erudite gentleman and didn't take any bull. We on the staff are sure that he was as much an inspiration to you as he was to us. Odin will continue his work by helping to coordinate the Nov. 15ti anti-war demonstration. He has also left us with a fine set of plans for the liberation of Fort Ord. These plans will soon be completed and put into action. ("This is no wishy-washy exercise such as the one we saw at Fort Lewis.") We will dedicate this column to the "no-holds-barred" approach to JOAN BAEZ/CLEANUNESS & GODLINESS SKIFFLE BAND LAZARUS MINX journalism for which Odin layed EXPERIMENTAL WING OF THE COMMITTEE LIGHTS BY MOTH LIGHTS WEST the foundation. Those of you who wish to follow the fine example n i •> o C"l • ., ai of Odin should contact the staff •^ »J o * 3 Z* a soon. We are certain that the • a, -y. Bä; Q s inspiration generated by Odin 1~ =: ~5 will be reflected by the continu ^. o G a i te N 6 ation of this column. IB 1 Q 5 ********************************* SIS 3 OÎ ai CO 53 S a •s « 55 3 c > 3 O ~ —< 6J •r...... Those who think that non- i 2 e" resistance is a milk-and-water e o S theory have got another guess. t- «J U s Z Ö s; It is not. I was talking the i) DQ o other day with a man who has been n h 5 •r. S- o LU o a colonel in the war. I said: er Se 1 4) "I do not know how you could get Social Mi I ton tup courage to go up in the face of cannons and bayonets and take To Marry a your life in your hands." He says : "I did it because i -,/as too big a Nixon's Social Soldier Johrf^on's war in Vietnam coward to run away." And that SOUND OFF New York is why most all men go to war. Socialite Josephine Drexel They are too big cowards not to THERE'S REALLY NO CHANGE TO THE EDITOR Duke 'JO. a leader ot the stu fight. Do you think it is a dents for a Democratic So brave man who fights; or is it ciety and a number oi stu the brave man who does not fight? dent protests at Columbia University, plans to marry I will show you ten thousand men HxsKmr LESSON Special -1 John Marshal! who are willing to go up in the • feace Conference 1938 — England's "I have been gratified at the warmth and Geste Brown Jr.. a Vietnam face of hostile cannon, where Prime Minister met with Germany's friendliness of my reception, not only by veteran from Philadelphia'.- you cannot find one man who will Premier. "We want peace with England. the German Government but by the main line. take one stick of criticism in We want nothing, absolutely nothing— people who have come out into the Miss Duke has withdrawn- trom-Barnard College at Col a daily newspaper. There is not from France. Only peace." —Â. Hitler streets and given me their welcome." umbia to "give full time to anything on earth so cheap as —N. Chamberlain "Goodbye and thank you for all you have the revolution." She is one of pysical courage. the founders ut the radical done for me, Herr von Ribbentrop." "At this moment the British Premier, Clarence Darrow, 1910 —N. Chamberlain who took the political initiative, is Ft. Di.\ Coffeehouse at Ft. Dix. N.J. where Brown has piloting the little ship of peace into "We regard the agreement reached last been stationed since he was VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST port." —B. Mussolini night as symbolic of the desire of our wounded last year and re- THE WAR two nations never to go to war with one îurued to this country P.O. Box 41254 another aaain." —A. Hitler ... A year later: World War II. Us Angeles, Calif. 90041 Tele. No. 213-246-0515 SEE IT FOR WHAT IT IS The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY Our government has become pre occupied with death, with the business of killing and being killed. About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility. Our business is with life, not death. Our challange is to give what account we can of what be comes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is our home; and most of all, what becomes of men, - all men, of all nations, colors, and creeds. This has become one world, a world for all men. It is only such a world that can now offer us life, and the chance to go on. Geo. Wald, Harvard March 4, 1969 ********* The "rap"room at the counsel ing center is available eves from 7-9. Come on down. We also need some volunteers to .. m 1k, air, on fand andern. staff it. THE SERVICEMAN'S PRAYER ***************** "Now let us assume that we lost Indo-China. If Indo-China goes, several things happen right away. The peninsula, the God my Father, so merciful I believe that God in His mercy M last bit of land hanging on down there, would be scarcely and kind to all Your children, 0) defensible. The tin and tungsten that we so greatly value and justice, rewards goodness < Ê from that area would cease coming .... So when the U.S. protect me this day from every and punishes evil. H- TJ votes $400,000,000 to help that war, we are not voting a danger to soul and body. 0 T) giveaway program. We are voting for the cheapest- way rD H- that we can to prevent the occurrence of something that" I am truly sorry for all my sins 3 (B would be of a most terrible significance to the U.S.A., our Bestow Your blessings on my because they have offended You [fl security, our power andabilityto get certain things we need M country and on all who fight who are so good and merciful. I w from the riches of the Indo-Chinese territory and from o Southeast Asia." love You with all my heart and 4 H- against the evils of Communism. ri) m Bless also, my family and friends, I promise that with Your help, I p. UJ h President Dwight D. Elsenhower at a Governors' Confer- who wait for me back home. will never offend You again. Help m ence August 4, 1963. '< t; me to do. all that is necessary to K W obtain eternal life. o H- I believe that in God there are C H<- ANSWERS TO FLAG QUIZ •H three Divine Persons - Father, s: 3 Grant, dear Lord, that I may H- IÜ 1. "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the •s Son and Holy Spirit. return safely to those I love, and M i United States of America and to the re C M 0J RJBLI3HSD 'JNDERC-BOuîfl) - FOE AND BY GI'S AT THE FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX , OCTOBER 15 What do you think we should do in case of attack, Well, there's bound to be trouble; put an extra guard at every corner to watch for suspicious persons., Fixed bayonets on all regular guards is a must. NOVEMBER 13,14 & 15 What about the gates? Should we close them? No, If October 15 showed but put MP's at all of them—and no civilians are to how the people felt, Nov be allowed to enter the post after 4 PML Also, double ember 13,14 & 15 will concertina should be handy just in case the MP's get show what the people can overrun = do. The General leaned back behind his two stars and All segments of the told the Provost Marshal, cont'd,, page 2 American population turned out in Octobero All except the businessman.. For this reason, the National Moratorium Committee suggested that no one spend any money during November 13, 14 and 15. This will give the businessmen an opportunity to close their businesses and join the American people r in protest„ This is also the one legal and very effective protest in which all GIs can participate» Do not go to the Post Exchange, theater, barber, etc» The brass ! will feel three days of an economic cont'd, page 2 November 1, 1969 Page 2 October 15 Cont'd. November 13,14 & 15.cont'd. keep those bastards in line. But boycott: After all, it's less sir, the Colonel retorted, those money they'll get in kickbacks. riot control troops should be One other protest GIs can brushed up on the new techniques participate in is the wearing of and get Gas Chanber drill and... black armbands OPF DUTY AND OUT Ah, you worry too much, they've OF UNIFORM. We hope you'll take been training for 27 weeks! this opportunity to express your But that does bring up a point. rights and protest. Don't spend Have protective masks issued to any money and wear black arm every guard on the post. bands. Of course the Hospital is The people of the Monterey ready. We have half a dozen Peninsula will be gathering at ambulances ready. Somebody has Monterey Peninsula College, Har- to pick those bodies up off the tnell College and other parks street. "g-2," screamed the Man, and campuses to hear speakers I want a special effort made to and get the great feeling of arrest anyone found distributing togetherness so apparent in Oct leaflets for the week prior to ober. GIs are invited to any of the massacre. Those ringleaders these activities. Watch the are ruthless. They'll try any local newspapers for details. thing. They even tried to trick Nationally, a march is planned us by using the Port Ord Regulations, in Washington and San Francisco. All right, the meeting is ad The march in Washington begins journed, but make sure my heli at midnight, November 13. At copter is ready—I don't want to that time, the first of 50 state miss one bloody minute! delegations totaling 43,000— Were these the plans for the 45,000 persons, will begin walk final invasion of the'West Coast ing from Arlington National of the United States? Hardly; Cemetary in a solemn single-file they were the measures taken for procession past the White House the peaceful gathering of towns to the Capitol steps. people for the October 15 Vietnam The march in San Francisco Moratorium. Sort of makes you will travel from the ferry to wonder if peace will ever come. Golden Gate Park. There will be singers, speakers and PEOPLE. We urge all GIs who can possibly MEETINGS FOR GIs...... attend to do so. If you have a car or need a ride—contact the Want to rap with other GIs who Draft Counseling Service (373-2305 feel like you? Need legal ass and we will do our best to match istance in filing for CO? Or rides with riders. Plan to attend just want to get away from the November 15 in San Francisco. Green Machine for a little while? Every Tuesday evening at 15 Prescott St. Unitarian Church. Over the Warehouse, Cannery Row. ATTENTION ALL GIs!! ! ! HELP! To get YOUR paper to YOU, we need ++++-t-+++++++++++++++t+++-f-++t+t++ YOUR help. Send ARTICLES AND "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their creator with MONEY to: AYW certain inalienable rights; Among these are life, liberty, and the P.O. BOX 1062 pursuit of happiness." The Dec MONTEREY, CALIF. 93940 laration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. SEND WHIT YOU CAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!! (North Vietnam) November 1, 1969 Page 3 READER RESPONSE OD ON OD To the Editor: Tonight I liberated myself, For those GIs who are curious Army. Your petty threats of as to where the ideas for the Article 15s and Court Martials perverted training they receive no longer instill fear in my brain. come from: to quote Lt. Col. I've been to your stockade and I Townsend Whelen, U.S. Army, saw the hand-carved peace symbols "It is an easy matter to teach on the cell walls and I got high the few simple technical details talking to my fellow inmates who of bayonet combat, but an inst rejected your military indoctrin ructor's success will be measured ations. Do you know the real mean by his ability to instill into ing of freedom, Army? I am FREE! his men the will and desire to Not a deserter, not AWOL, not use the bayonet. This spirit content to forget my oppression is infinitely more than the in a cloud of marijuana smoke physical efforts displayed on or beer anymore, but right in athletic fields; more than the your ranks—FREE! grim determination of the firing Your propaganda directed to line—it is an intense eagerness ward programming me for a slot in to fight and kill hand to hand, a hung-up Army and an unfree and is the overwhelming impulse society no longer affects me as behind every successful bayonet it once did. No longer do I assault. eagerly accept stripes, medals, "Bayonet fighting is possible and citations for being a docile only because every red-blooded amoeba conditioned to react to man naturally possesses the fight external stimuli—for "getting ing instinct. This inherent de with the program," as you say. sire to fight and kill must be carefully watched for and en Your entire reality can only couraged by the instructor. It be described as obscene. How first appears in a recruit when do you justify the fact that your he begins to handle his bayonet mission is to brainwash me to with facility, and increases kill my brothers in Vietnam, as his confidence grows. With Berkeley, Chicago, and Newark the mastering of his weapon while feigning shock when someone there comes to him a sense of says, writes, or otherwise ex- personal fighting superiority pressesthe word fuck in public? and a desire for physical THE SQUARE NjJEDLiâ "You're going to get shot in lead to inflammation and hence the balls with a square needle." sterility. Trainees have been making such This lack of medical value jocular statements to each other has given rise to a second theory; for as many years as the Army that the trainees were the plat has been giving shots. They oon "duds" and the shot was a have always been taken as the "motivation technique" but this somewhat sadistic joke they were is an unlikely coincidence as intended to be. Until now! the trainees were the first For twenty trainees of "All twenty in the platoon alphabet Hawaiian" C-4-3 here at Fort Ord ically. the joke suddenly isn't very funny. The Sixth Army Surgeon express To SP5 Melvin Keeton of Hospital ed some interest in the case Co., and Staff Sergeant Rivera, during his recent visit and the formerly of C-4-3 it isn't very investigation continues quietly funny anymore either; or at least even as the brass tries to keep no funnier than a General Court the public out of the picture, Martial. At this point both SSG Rivera Keeton, who should know better, and SP5 Keeton are awaiting didn't use square needles but he trial by General Court Martial«, did inject three cubic centimeters, In stunning contrast to cases about three times the normal shot of dissent, they are not in dosage, of normal saline into the pre-trial conf inemea t and have scrotum of the twenty trainees. been seen frequently in the Keeton states, and SSG Rivera Permanent Party Club. denies, that this was at the Their trial will be a case of instigation of the Drill Sergeant; Army values. It inevitably raises which leaves open to question questions: just what in the hell would —Is physical abuse of trainees possess a sane man to obey such an more or less important than the obviously illegal suggestion. singing of protest songs (Presidio Since the brass has understand —Will the unauthorized use of ably given the issue as little government property (syringes) attention as humanly possible there lead to a lighter or heavier sent is still a great deal of specul ence than for possession of mar ation as to the reason for this ijuana? shot. One story has it that the —Should a Drill Sergeant, or a trainees were chosen at random for medic, have the kind of life and an "experiment#* $his would rate death authority over a trainee with the "meddUBfcl experiments" that leaves them afraid to refuse of the Nazi concentration camps a violation of their rights? though the medical benefits would be less. Just what the experiment At a General Court Martial the was designed to accomplish is Army answered the questions posed not even hinted at. by reducing Keeton to E-2 and Col. James Bradley, US Army ordering forfeiture of 2/3 pay Hospital Commander has released a for six months. Contrast this statement that, "There have been with the 16 year sentence for no medical complications" and has sitting in a circle and singing not elaborated. This carefully as in the Presidio Case. avoids the issue of what value to ++++++++t+t+t+t+++++++++++-H-+++++ medicine the shot would have. Letter cont'd. Normal saline has no prophylactic ful citizen into a hate-filled or curative powers,; unnecessary soldier. Is this the American since no actual or potential way? Maybe!! disease was suggested. It could A Fort Ord GI ' November 1, 1969 Page 5 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY CPT Masi/as1/4495 Headquarters United States Army Training Center, Infantry And Fort Ord, California, 93941 AMNOR-CTNG 29 September 1969 SUBJECT: TRAINEE HARASSMENT 1. All physical readiness activities during off-duty hours (such as reveielle) will be exercised to insure that duration of period and degree of difficulty are compatible with and do not exceed the level of physical fitness of the individual. 2. The conduct of physical readiness activities which are not specifically included in FM 21-20, e.g., the "dizzy whizzy," where individuals are required to run around a baseball bat with their forehead touching the bat, are prohibited. 3. Any action that tends to demean or harass a trainee of this command is prohibited: a. Harassment or hazing; to trouble, worry or torment unduly, i.e., interfering with legitimate privileges; unwarranted interruption of sleep; mass punish ment; disregarding medical profiles; constant annoyance or agitation; and any other action that might infringe on the human dignity of the individual. b. Demeaning actions: Treating with irreverence; contempt or mistreating wrongly, i.e., degrading the physical body, person, customs, race, color, or creed by use of insulting or coarse language. 4. It is prohibited to require or to conduct physical activities or exercises as harassment or punishment» These prohibited activities include but are not limited to the following: push-ups, low-crawl, runs or sprints, front-leaning rest position, and dying cockroach» 5» Other actions prohibited are: Hanging boots or shoes from the neck, pistol belts, suspenders, field pack or weapons; weighting of personal clothing or field equipment with items not specifically prescribed by training requirements ; *> requiring trainees to recite all items of information on a bulletin board. 6. This letter is effective until 22 September 1970 unless sooner superseded. FOR THE COMMANDER: R.Fo MALONE Captain, AGC Assistant AG EDITOR'S NOTE: The above is a combination of two command letters recently sent down to all troop units at Fort Ord» Do you know of any infractions? If so, it is your responsibility to report them to the Inspector General. November 1, 1969 Page 6 SAVE THE ARMY WHY? The old soldiers who never die Inevitably the day arrives. are dying; the middle-aged who You drive him to the airport and retire are forgetting; the young wait for the plane to come. who never went are ineligible and Even know, this close to parting, anyway don't care. The forces are it still doesn't seem real. dying as the retreat sounds. The Going to war only happens to young men wear long hair and "Make John Wayne and strangers in the love not war" badges; the only paper. You uselessly try not to sound of marching is on homeless cry. He gives last minute in demonstrations; their uniforms come structions about the car, what from Ashbury. What can be done bills can-, be put off,, what bills to bring back the tears and cheers cart, and once more'tries to of former days, the bonhomie and explain how to make the check brotherhood we used to know, the book balance. The plane has unity of a nation divided? Apart come. You both decide that from Korea, Lebanon, Cuba and when he returns you will both Vietnam and little local difficul boycott that airline. One ties we haven't had a war for a last kiss and then he's gone. generation. Do you wonder at Only a masochist could watch the Army's low morale when there the plane leave. are men in their mid-twenties You don't really remember born in peace? There are only driving home. Home. What used twenty-one years after WWI. to be home is now an empty apartment that you eat and sleep What are you doing to steer a in, and can't wait for the morn gunboat into territorial waters, ing to come so you can get out toast an ambassador with a Molotov of it. cocktail, press a button to re Then the games begin. Each lease a rocket with a nuclear time you enter the apartment, you warhead? Won't you even join a know he'll be sitting there hate campaign against the Reds, reading the paper, waiting for the Chinks, the Wogs, the Frogs, you to return. When you open the Huns, the Dagoes, the Nips? the door you can almost see him. Please, oh please, for the love But the door shuts only you and of God, listen. the ghost inside. Your Army and Country need you! At night you roll over and reach out, hazily expecting him t+++-H-+++t+++++ttt+++++++++++t+t++ to be lying there warm beside NEXT, CANINES UNITED you. Then you rest your hand on the cold pillow. King, one of the Labrador After the games you try to retrievers being trained to track figure out why. Why did he have Viet Cong, is sitting in a Ft. to go? We never carried picket Gordon doghouse awaiting discharge signs. We never used drugs. We for apparently refusing to par never threw a brick at a cop. ticipate in the program. News Why does he have to go and fight about King has been hard to come for his life in a war that by. Col. Henry Gibson, commandant neither of us believe in? at the Ft. Gordon military police school, told one newsman, "We ++t++t+++++~lmMmm+ +mh don't want to represent this dog as a conscientious objector. In this world everyone has his You might say tracking VC is not head up someone's ass. We in his bag." the military are proud that our heads are up the biggest ass The Militant in the world. November 1, 1969 Page 7 POOR COMPANY October 27, 1969 (Reprinted from the Monterey Peninsula Herald) Dear Friends, Due to circumstances beyond Editor, The Herald: our control (like court martials for How many young men will die before example) we of Head On (Wish) got we realize that the Vietnamese do not ourselves a bit wiped-out last month» want us in their country? So, as we no longer are able to We've been fighting there for 10 years maintain a post office box, please and haven't even secured Saigon. It cross us off your mailing list»»., was President Eisenhower who wrote that both our Box 879/J-ville, N»C» and "had elections been held possibly 80 Box 822/Havelock, N.C. have been per cent of the population would have cancelled and mail sent to them voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh," will only be returned to you postage the undisputed nationalist leader of due by the post office» If we are the anti-colonial struggle» able to re-group, we'll contact you Fascist dictators like Nguyen Cao ASAP» Ky who imprison even neutralist candid Thanx and head on to peace, ates who oppose him want us in Vietnam» Big business interested in what Eisenhower Staff of Head On called "the rich empire of Indochina" Fort LeJune, N.C» wants us in Vietnam» Politicians and military men who +++++++++++++t++++++++++++++++++++++++ are afraid to admit that we made a mistake want us in Vietnam. My name it is Stella This is pretty poor company to be in. I'm a girl seventeen» I shine boots When will men realize that it is not on the American post. My mother just "My country right or wrong," but is part French, my father he is rather, "My country right or wrong, Vietnamese. I speak both those and if my country is wrong, help me to languages and from a friend I have set it right?" learned better English» My friend he is a jazz musician» PVT» MAURICE WADE, he is an american soldier» he is Defense Language older than I. he's very friendly, Institute, Monterey» he gives me american cigarettes and tells me i am more beautiful than NOTE: As a result of this and other american girls, my friend is not expressions of Pvt» Wade's opinion like the other soldiers» he does which is guaranteed under the first not carry a gun, he carries with amendment of the Constitution, he him always a camera and takes nice has been constantly harassed by the pictures of me because he says i am brass. Presently, Pvt. Wade is on beautiful» he comes to my house and his way to Fort Lewis, Washington eats rice on the floor with the where he has been reassigned» rest of us» he's very funny when he tries to speak our language, ++++++++++++++-1 - + + + + -H he always tries though, And my mother likes him» "Many of our forefathers came to this country to get out from under the burden yesterday he told me i am the of conscription in Europe» I have most beautiful girl in the whole yet to hear these ancestors referred to world» last week he helped my father as "draft dodgers," or the men now fix the roof, the rain was very hard going to Canada referred to as 'Pilgrims» and made our floor muddy like the fields» my friend tells my sisters ANONYMOUS and my brothers stories with his hands and brings laughter into our house» tonight the rockets and guns are very close» i wonder if my friend will come. S PA« _K 0 Aren't you just a little upset having to risk your life for reasons nobody seems to understand? There are very few ways you can express your dissatisfaction with the war in Vietnam, and now is your chance. Support the economic moratorium on November 13th, 14th, and 15th. You cannot be ordered to spend your money. Let the brass know that the moratorium has reached the military. Don't let any money pass your hands on these days. If you have to buy anything, buy on the 12th or 16th. But, whatever you do, do not spend any money at the P X, Clubs, Shows or Exchanges on the 13th, 14th, or 15 th. There is no way to peace. Peace is the way o NOVEMBER IW*. PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND OF, BY, AND FOR 3. T.': AT THE P?RT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX "STAT -QCIETT [SET MADISON. WISCONSIN 53706 FORT ORD £MD THE MORATORIUM NOVEMBER MORATORIUM - NEW TWIST -Where were all the GIs on Friday night, The people who came to the Monterey November 14? That's what many of us were Peninsula Moratorium Rally to listen ended asking as we looked around the crowd of up being the speakers. close to 800 at the Moratorium Rally at Due to circumstances, the scheduled Colton Hall. For all the advance notice speakers were unable to get to the rally and publicity given the rally, it was on time, so many people from the audience surprising that GI attendance was so low» shared their experiences, education and One hundred forty GIs did make it, however, ideas with the group. but out of about 30,000 personnel on Fort The unscheduled speakers included an Ord (including 15,000 trainees), really ex-Marine, active duty GIs, 2 professors nowî and a lawyer. They spoke about the But maybe it wasn't the individual's social and economic implications of the fault. Although the Army's hysteria wasn't Vietnam Conflict, the American Service as great this month as last, many personnel men's Union and the United States' use^of were restricted for the sole purpose of biological warfare. There were poems read preventing them from attending the Morat songs sung, children laughing and people • orium. At least three AIT companies, smiling. including C-2-4 and E-2-2 were restricted One speaker who managed to arrive on to the post and company area, respectively, time was Miss Jeanette Rankin, the former for the hours of moratorium activities congresswoman from Montana. Miss Rankin (from Friday at 6 P.M. through most of was in congress during the outbreak of Saturday), Of course, all of the Basic both world wars and was the only person Trainees were given no chance to get to to vote against U.S. involvement in both Monterey, but many permanent units were of them. She spoke on the need to re effectively restricted by being given ject violence as a valid means of settling extra inspections and GI parties. A med disputes between countries. She said ical unit was given a fake alert Thursday that no matter how noble the goal, night to use as an excuse to have a GI party violence is not a justifiable means of Cont'd page 2 achieving it. Cont'd, page 2 November 21, 1969 Page 2 Fort Ord cont'd» NOVEMBER MORATORIUM cont'd» LEVY SPEAKS Friday night and an unscheduled inspec tion Saturday morning» Unfair harassment Dr» Howard Levy, the main speaker, like this prevented participation in the ended the rally with a firery speech» San Francisco march as well as in local Levy, the former medical officer who activities» was sentenced to 3 years for refusing to train Green Berets as medics, urged Individual harassment was also harsh in some cases» One man at Fort Ord had civilian support of GI organizations» his pass and ID card confiscated for He stressed the need for GIs to organ wearing a black armband on post» Mean ize themselves to resist the army and while over at the Presidio of Monterey, the corrupt system that perpetuates it» a car parked there during the Moratorium "All our citizens can take to the was illegally broken into and searched streets, and all our students can dem because of a bumper sticker supporting onstrate, but the war will go on," the Moratorium» Needless to say, the said Levy» "But give me 10% of all sticker was ripped off on the spot» GIs and I'll get you out of this war»" At both installations extra MPs stood Levy mentioned the many coffee around watching the gates, and at Fort houses and GI organizations across the Ord's Second Street gate, a number of country and the need for civilian supp 8 foot barbed wire barricades were ready ort» "Organizing means harassment for to be thrown across the roadway if needed» GI's and civilians alike," said Levy, The brass may explain them as necessary "but only by working together will the in case of an invasion but the real rea GI get any of the rights that he should son is to give the illusion of impending have as a citizen»" violence and therefore have a justific At the end of the rally, Levy met ation for restrictions» They would have with some of the GIs present to discuss probably been used to prevent masses (if what was going on at Fort Ord and to there were masses) of GIs from leaving give suggestions on organizing» the fort to join the townspeople in +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ protest» In spite of all this, fear still seems NEW POLICY AT SPD to be the army's main weapon—don't let If you are one of the unfortunate it bug you; we're all in this together» ones in Fort Ord's Special Processing Detachment, you can now sign out to go GI MEETINGS GROWING AT FORT ORD A»W»0»L» That's right—the new command er there became so upset over the con Interest and participation at GI coun dition of the chain link restraining seling meetings at the Unitarian Church fence around the compound from repeated has been broadening recently» The last escape attempts that he has instituted meeting, held on Tuesday, Nov» 18, was a new policy» If a prisoner decides attended by about 60 GIs» he has had enough of SPD, all he has The original intent of the meetings was to do is sign out on the A»W»O.L» group counseling of C»0»s, and while the register and walk out the gate» emphasis is kept on this function, there Somewhere around November 1, when are a number of activities which should the policy first took effect, three be of general interest to GIs» Black prisoners took the usual route over Panther Masai Hewitt spoke to the group the fence and split into the darkness» in October and the last few weeks the They were soon apprehended by the guards program has included films from Newsreel, and brought back, where they were in a San Francisco group that makes and dis formed of the new policy» They then tributes political and highly controver signed out and walked through the gate sial films» Films on People's Park and unmolested» Most of the GIs being the San Francisco State riots are sched held at SPD seem to be E-ls and E-2s— uled for the Tuesday, December 2 meeting» maybe rank doesn't have all the See you there—15 Prescott Street at privileges » 7:30 P»M» +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++H I-+++++++++ - November 21, 1969 Page 3 DON'T PUT ALL OFFICERS After the rendering of an absol IN THE SAME BAG utely horrendous efficiency report, the decision was made to eliminate me Although some young officers may think from the service» In the light of my it impossible to resign from the Army attitudes, however, I was allowed to before their 2_year committment is up, resign instead of going through all it can be done» Being a product of ROTC, that bullshit» I had a long time to think about what I really would like to thank the I was doing before I had to do it« In two full colonels at the Fort Ord Hosp the year between my last term at school ital. Without their outrage at my ac and the beginning of active duty, my tions I probably would never have gotten attitudes toward the military changed out» I suppose not many officers have completely. So much, in fact, that I refused to go to CBR school because of had to seek some way of getting discharged conscientious objection to war, though. after only 5 months of service» It was such a shock to them that their I offer no secret—all I did was be image of the army commissioned officer myself» From the time I entered the was shattered that they really hurried service I refused to kiss the fuzzy asses up my discharge» of my superior officers» My concern soon There are many young lieutenants became focused on the enlisted man just who don't believe in what they are like it says in the book, right—after doing—some of those really would like the mission comes the welfare of the to get out» If they feel this way they troops. Well, since the mission really should tell their superiors instead of didn't need any help, I took it upon my living a hypocritical existance» I self to help correct the massive injust don't think any officer shauld be forced ice being heaped on the average GI by to do something he doesn't want to do» other officers» Sort of a champion of In fact, enlisted men shouldn't be forc the underdog, ^ou might say» ed to serve eitherI Now, if only they I was completely honest in my dealings would accept enlisted resignations, we with the army» If someone asked me about might get somewhere» politics, I'd tell them what I thought, "The War Sucks and it is ridiculous to + + + -rH+++ M7m+m%&+&%+$&&h-++++ + continue it another day»" If somebody OUT asked me about my loyalty, I'd say, "Patriotism is not in the best interests RAs: you may have an early out of the people of the world'»' I find it waiting for you—as much as one, or even impossible to defend the actions of this two, years early» If your enlistment country while the basis of its foreign contract promised you (in writing) train policy is "We'll make them do it the ing or an MOS you have not received, you American way even if it kills 'em." are eligible under AR 635-200 for sep Finally, when I was relieved of command aration after two years' active duty of a company after one month, the brass because of non-fulfillment of contract» called me in and asked me what the prob Our congratulations to ex-SP/4 Mike lem was» I tried to condense my feel Austin of Fort Polk, who was discharged ings by saying, "I guess my idea of good October 31 after serving exactly two order and discipline is not the same as years» Mike had originally enlisted for yours»" After about an hour of quest four years and been guaranteed training ioning on my refusing to carry a »45 for and assignment MOS 16B (Artillery)» He pay day, signing a re-enlistment notice Was denied this training when his secur for the bulletin board with a peace symbol ity clearance was lifted after he applied instead of a signiture, and the terrible for classification as a CO» Mike took crime of fraternizing with enlisted men, his contract to a lawyer, who helped him the interviewing officer came to the to draw up a request for separation, and conclusion "If you don't believe in the the request was approved by the brass» army, how can you be a commissioned officer? There's no way of knowing for sure, but I thought "You got it jack, that's what the brass * decision to let Mike go might I'm here for»" have been influenced by his activities in organizing GIs at Fort Polk» November 21, 1969 Page 4 ^HE RESISTANCE hair cuts, and generally ig Basic Combat Training is not noring military discipline. always depersonalizing for the To the extent that BCT permits trainee. Some times it is demor such practices D-2-1 is carry alizing for the cadre that has to ing on the tradition. They have train them. If a company "has its made subtle rebellion a fine shit together" they can wreak more art that the lifers have been havoc than the lifers can return. unable to crack. Such a company, D-2-1, is in its From As You Were a "well BCT cycle now. This group of ab done." The Guard remains the out 150 men is an all NG and ER one best hopes of a non-lifer company. As a result it has an ex army. And to the committee tremely high proportion of college group members still to meet graduates, including a fair number this company; good luck, you of lawyers. They have speedily are definately going to need it. informed the remaining members of their rights; and the result of all this is a lifer's nightmare. GIS SUE ARMY 2Lt Gonzales, Training Officer Twenty-two enlisted men have for the company, went through the filed suit in Federal Court, barracks looking for open lockers, accusing the base commander at Finding about 20, he tipped them Fort Lewis of a "pattern of over, messing up a few electric harassment" aimed at silencing shavers in the bargain. One dissent among anti-war GIs. trainee saw the Captain the next The suit followed a crack morning and asked to see the IG down on antiwar activities at about a possible claim for the am the base, a key transfer point ount of damages to his shaver. for troop shipment to South He was appeased only when the CO Vietnam. promised to have the Lieutenant The ACLU lawyers retained by pay for it. the GIs predict that the case The company has not yet been will eventually become a major successfully dropped for pushups challenge to military restrict outside of PT. The platoon guides ions on the First Amendment just quote the Fort Ord Regulation guarantees of free speech, free (published in the last issue of press and freedom of assembly. As You Were) and refuse to drop Their lawsuit seeks to enjoin the men. They know their rights, the military from disrupting they stick together, and they are political meetings. winning; leaving a trail of frus- At a meeting with unit com tratedlifers. Their conduct in manders and senior NCO's, a the classes to date has carried on spokesman said, the commanding the FTA campaign. Most instruc general "made it clear thatwe tors try to start off with, .a joke. don't have any SDS or Black Pan They get nothing but a blank stare thers here. These political back. If they try a second joke activities will not be permitted. the company responds with a forced And if somebody promoting such laugh that mocks the instructor a cause runs afoul of our mission more than his joke. The result he's probably going to be discip is instant demoralization, poor lined. classes, and confused instructors. The spokesman conceded that Many remember the National the crackdown began last week Guard unit a Fort Lewis which had when military police raided a to be sent to North Fort and seg- meeting of the American Service gegated for such subversive ac men's Union on post and arrested tivities as painting peace symbols 35 enlisted men and 3 civilians. on their trucks, refusing to get Nearly half the soldiers in- Cont'd. page 5 November 21, 1969 Page 5 GIs SUE ARMY cont'd» None of the men has been confined» volved in the meeting are Vietnam combat Most have been put on restriction to veterans» Many are high school dropouts their company areas, where they have been and nearly all say they were "politicized" forbidden to talk to civilians» Some can against the war while still fighting in leave their barracks only under armed guard. Vietnam» "We have a real sense of struggle To support charges of harassment, one now," said Specialist 4 Bruce Whitiver, GI claims his commander accused him of 19, of Spokane, Wash », a purple heart win being a narcotics addict after spotting ner» a skin rash on his chest. Another anti The Fort Lewis spokesman said that the war soldier was given an article 15, or political meeting was "neither authorized nonjudicial punishment, for having a rusty nor unauthorized" by Army regulations. lock on his wall locker» "There's no express regulation prohibiting As part of the crackdown, the base a meeting of the ASU," he said, "but the commander yesterday promulgated a new ideas expressed there would put members policy that any civilian who comes to in immediate sharp and irrevocable conflict Fort Lewis for "political purposes" will with the Uniform Code of Military Justice»" be given a letter of expulsion and warned His statement angered legal opponent that he'll be arrested if he returns a of the code, who insist that it is a wea second time. pon for enforcing discipline rather than Reprinted from a system of justice as the title implies. The New York Post "This is the most innocent form of First Amendment protection possible," said ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Michael Rosen, executive director of the READY TO GO ACLU. "They were just sitting quietly and listening to a political discussion»" ARVN is getting stronger all the Originally charged with "boisterous time, right? ARVN is becoming a bunch conduct" by the Fort Lewis provost marshall, of courageous fighters, right? At all the defendants have been put under" least that's what the official Pentagon "indefinite investigation," according to East propaganda tells us» Well, we think military lawyers» somebody should tell it to Saigon Presi dent ThieuS President Thieu is so confident that: 1) He sent his 14 year-old daughter to school in Switzerland. 2) LOYALTY uu'ti j He sent his 7 year-old son . to live on Formosa. 3) He and his wife live inside Tansonhut airbase in Saigon, staying close to you-know- * what» ++-M r++++++ PASS THIS COPY AROUND YOUR BARRACKS ! ! ! ! ! SU +++++++++++++++++++++++++-M SEND ANY IDEAS, ARTICLES ff! AND MONEY TO: ') *-•**tf^a. ** »-»»• AS YOU WERE P.O. BOX 1062 *» -*.*'*• *•* MONTEREY, CALIF. 93940 November 21, 1969 Page 6 READER RESPONSE THE STOCKADE'S A BAD PLACE To The Editor: , The well known laxity of guards at When I was a civilian and a college the Post Stockade, together with the student, many months ago I attempted to equally well known availability of all tell people how absurd the war in Viet types of drugs has once again produced Nam actually is» The majority of the a shocking case of prisoner-prisoner people condemned me as being not only brutality» After a lengthy investigation a traitor to my country, but someone by the Article 32 officer, which dragged trying to start trouble over something on since last August (perhaps while the I knew nothing about» Typical of the Brass tried to find a way to hide or remarks were"you've never been in the minimize the incident), some half dozen Army so how can you know what is really persons are to be charged with assault going on," also "how do you think the and sodomy» men in Vietnam would feel if they knew The investigation seems to show that a you were saying that the war they are number of prisoners high in unnamed fighting is wrong»" Unfortunately, this drugs began a rampage which lasted sev is the thinking of the majority of the eral hours» During this period a num people running this country» ber of other prisoners were attacked, Now I am in the Army and people say jumped upon, hit with ash trays and gen "you may be in the Army but you've never erally terrorized» Several prisoners been to Vietnam so how can you say that were forced into a blanket shrouded it is wrong?" After coming back from lower bunk and forced to submit to var- Vietnam I tell people the atrocities iou sexual molestations» that I have seen, the corruption, and The guards, as usual, were nowhere animalistic treatment of our soldiers around; a fact which has brought some by lifers, and the inhuman way our "well" concern to General Davidson, who does trained troops mutilate both North and not like such occurances in his "best South Vietnamese, and they say, "how of all possible worlds" and especially can you know what is happening—you were in his model stockade» That description only in one place?" by the way is the base public informa I would like to say something to the tion officer's, not ours» American people: get off your posteriors, With typical efficiency the Army away from your televisions, throw away actually discharged some of the Worse your Copley newspapers and wake up to offenders of this rampage during the the fact that you are being used by the investigation, and they are now safely corrupt and facist government of this beyond prosecution» All of this will violent country» Face the fact that of course be denied by the Brass and this is not a free country, and if you their whitewash investigating committee want a free country—do something about but check your unit bulletin board it, NOW!!! where they post sentences of General Court-Martials and you may see the Just Another GI results—if the Brass don't manage to ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kill the whole thing» GIs! ! ! DO YOU WANT A FORT ORD GI NEWS i i i ? t « i i i i i i i i r i i i I I I » i i i » I I I I t ? i i i i i I ! o.)oooooa.ooiooo»eoPDa»«»»»«oooo»oooooi>o PAPER??? IF YOU DO, THEN HOW ABOUT CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR WORKING ON IT??? ALL WE ASK IS THAT "They asked me if I knew what con YOU SEND ARTICLES AND ANY MONEY YOU scientious objector meant» I told them CAN SPARE TO: that when the white man aig^d me to go AS YOU WERE off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man P.O. BOX 1062 treated the black man in America, then MONTEREY, CALIF» 93940 my conscience made me object»" TELL US WHAT'S HAPPENING IN YOUR COMPA NY, HOW ARE YOU GETTING SCREWED, WHAT YOU Malcolm X HAVE DONE TO GET BACK AT YOUR FIRST SARGEANT » WRITE TODAY! !•î «S!!»!»!!!!! November 21, 1969 Page 7 HOW YOU CAN everybody ate in the snack bar? Did AVOID ALL THE SHIT! you ever think of striking the mess hall? Like if everybody did it, could Do you say the army is really bad? you imagine at three meals a day for Do you say that you are caught up in a 200 people, just how much garbage would big machine and can do nothing? Or do pile up in a couple of days, or maybe you say that your commanding officer is a couple of weeks? Can you see that really bad? Did you ever think that if nobody signed the meal roster the maybe it could be your own fault? Did mess hall wouldn't get any more food? you ever stop to think that maybe you Then can you imagine what would happen have been bullied like a child into a if one day 200 people demanded their useless fear that serves only to benefit food and there wasn't any? Would that the army? Do you ask what can be done? psyche out a mess sergeant and maybe Did you ever think of organization? the CO? Have you noticed within the last year What if 100 or 200 privates all of that the army has been forced to add a a sudden complained of stiff joints new regulation: that mustaches can be and stiff necks and nausea, and thought worn as long as they are neatly trimmed? maybe they might have spinal meningitus? It used to be that only mustaches could Can you imagine 200 people on sick call? be worn if on your ID card, remember? Could you image the effect of a letter Could it be that enough soldiers began to a congressman saying that they would losing their ID cards after mustaches not let you go on sick call for poss were grown, that it became too much of ible spinal meningitus? Could you a headache for the army paper work? Can imagine 200 such letters? Would that the army be forced to do more? What if be a mind blow? everyone began to wear a flower in their You say you don't like the idea of buttonhole? Could it be possible that saluting? What if a private salutes a eventually the army would publish a reg private? Is there a regulation saying ulation declaring that flowers worn will that a private can't salute a private? not''exceed two inches in diameter and If everybody saluted each other then it three inches in length? It sounds silly wouldn't mean much, would it? Would but you must admit that it would be a that be taking the officers * thing away? change much like that of the mustaches, If a private saluted an officer and then wouldn't it? a private, would that be a silent way Do you say that you have a bad CO and of saying, "We're all the same, baby"? a lot of useless harassment? Did you What if everybody addressed each other ever think of harassing the CO? Like as "sir", would that blow a mind ortwo? for instance, do you have a US Savings Can you think of other possibilities Bond? Did they tell you to sign for one Where is the old "GI ingenuity"? Can in basic? Did you know that you don't you organize? Can you write letters to have to have one? Did you know that any congress? Can you do things in numbers? harassment by the CO or First SGT for Can you sign petitions? Can you resist? not having one is illegal? Did you know Are you brainwashed? that the CO gets a nasty letter from Do you notice that everything is the higher-ups if his company doesn't this article is written as a question? have close to 100 per cent participation A question doesn't really say to do in the bond program? Can you imagine anything, does it? Like whoever wrote the nasty letter he would get if all of this bunch of questions cannot be con a sudden the participation were to be victed of conspiring a mutiny, can 0 per cent? Did you know that all you he? DIG IT? have to do to cancel your bond is to Reprinted from tell your company clerk to do it, and SHAKEDOWN that any action to prevent your request +++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++ is illegal? Can you imagine the effect +++ +++++++++ it would have on the CO to have 100 or "YOU'RE HERE TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY, more cancellations in one day? Like SOLDIER, NOT PRACTICE IT»" it might blow his mind, wouldn't it? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Do you say the harassment is really bad? Well, what if around payday c'^""f^p'^ FOR STEVE, KILLED IN VIETNAM The newspaper today is full of holes. Between the lines are booby traps and mines. In one of the holes is Steve who stepped on an explosive today screamed scattered and settled a golf champion we fished bass and golfball s out of the water hazards : in our eleventh year. The word» dropped like boulders through the official folders that came today instead of Steve. His father, a doctor, took it with professional calm, not as the loss of a son or daughter, riot even letting his-eves water. A SECOND LOOK AT The Massacre My experience thus suggests that My Lai was REFLECTIONS ON MY LA I probably anything but an isolated incident. The My Lai massacre may have been quantita Isolated, sai^ the ^resident. It was an tively abnormal, but it is clear that atroc isolated incident which has no meaning in ities are committed with some regularity in dependent of its own occurence. Vietnam—by our side as well as by the enemy. Many people believe the President's pos The question to be asked is not whether there ition is not wholly tenable, and I agree has been an atrocity, but why have the many with them. A multitude of facts discredit atrocities not come to the attention of his assessment of what ha.jaD^fied at . public. The only answer that comes to me is 11 1Ü Will known tha-5 t it. is genera1 l nract- oe that the information is being suppressed at to bomb, strafe, air burn the v liases of all levels. Young soldiers fear the power citizens who sympathize with th <= NIF, and of their superiors, and therefore do not re to transport the surviving inhabitants to port incidents of atrocity; participants are concentration camps. This is routine; but • understandably hesitant about turning them what happens in the aftermath has often selves in, and participation is apparently gone unnoticed. widespread; moreover, at high levels there I have not been to Vietnam, but I have is fear that news of misdeeds committed by been to basic training, and this has driven the military might deflate the balloon of me some insights: for manv basic training public support for the war. continu«* drill sergeants an* instructors are Viet nam veterans. A young sergeant, conversing with the CQ while I was CQ runner, spoke >.: IM I of good times in his air cavalry unit in TOO HASTY A WTHDfVWL Vietnam. A highlight of his experience was AT THIS TIME COULO RESULT pushing villagers out of helicopter doors IN TURNING VIETNAM and watching the terrified expressions on INTO A their faces as they dropped over the edge. BUDODBATHli They were bound, he said, so it was a sim - pie matter of pushing them with one's feet. The sergeant laughed and the CQ laughed with him. One day on the rifle range an instructor, also a sergeant, told us of th<= joys of killing. Approaching a field hospital one day after an engagement, he said, he and a friend has seen a U.S. soldier lying in a stretcher outside of the main tent. "Why aren't you inside?"' they asked him. "No room," replied the wounded man. Entering, they saw a row of beds occupied by wounded villagers and Viet Cong soldiers. They switched the weapons to automatic and raked the entire row of beds—all of this, of course, to make room for their wounded com rade. Such devotion to one's comrade I had never heard of. The story t^xed my credulity, but I learned to a/»c«-pt it, for stories like it became n°rt of mv dailv fare. ©tëtffsamamESsmiifcmiiiESEgv*!, ROBB villagers back to life. Justice? No, for My Lai justice means exactness in affixing merit and blame, snA the "buck" might iust as well have stopped on the desk of Captain It is only fair to say that the soldier is Medina, General Westmoreland, Stanley Resor, not wholly at fault. If, as I believe, Amer or Lvndon Johnson, for all of these men icans have committed more in part to the ex approve of the bombing of civilian targets traordinarily unfavorable set of conditions and of search and destrov missions. icans have committed more atrocities in this Deterent? No, for off the battlefield war than in others, it is because of the Calley is nrobablv not a dangerous man. conditions under which he has to fight. He He was fighting an unconventional war, and is fighting guerrillas who wear no uniforms. what he allegedlv did was not entirely out He is fighting a war in which v^n Olause- of character with what was being done all witz has gone out the window because con around him. ventional victory is impossibla, and a The alternative course to be taken by war for which he is prepared by a kill- the government seems clear enough. It oriented training schedule which includes shoul^ indemnify the bereaved as fully as such things as singing the near-rhymed possible; guarantee the welfare of surviving couplet, dependents; discharge Galley, Medina, and I wanna go to Vietnam; the others, detaining them in enlightened I wanna kill the Viet Cong. institutions to be studied and examined as Moreover, he is fighting at a time when products of our current national military civilian control of the military is relaxed training institutions and of our war* policy; due to an increased diffusion of military- and, most importantly, while bringing th° men and money throughout all of American war to as fast a conclusion as possible— life. Whatever the explanations, it is for example, by taking advantage of the clear that America, despite the avowed Viet Cong's proposed six-month cease-fire— purity of its mo tives, is contributing take measures to assure that in any future to this world's very ample deposit of evil. American war there will be no more My Lai's. Relocating the human political base of the opposition is one thing; but destroying it is another. It is hardly consistent with fostering trv csuse of free choice. Occurences of the My Lai variety, as well as events I heard described in basic train ing, can only be prevented by disengage ment. This, of course, will allow for more atrocities to be perpetrated by the Viet Cong for a time, but that is a domestic matter to be handled by the Vietnamese. The thing to remember is that when a rep résentative government—or any kind of ef fective government—comes to power in the south, the violence will subside. It certainly will not subside as long as the United States is involved. TRAINING OF c TTAR-nç; r ji pnsT STOCKADE The tragedy of My Lai is not so much that T AT V Fi 100 to 500 civilians were massacred there as it is that the American public has only It might be a good policy for the new now been made aware of the corruption of correctional officer at the Fort Ord Stock its war policy. Further, that even with ade to review training policies for stock eyewitness accounts and shocking color ade guards. Present emphasis on authority photographs, it has not been moved to a and power breed disrespect and rebellion general clamor for a change in policy, among prisoners. strong-arm tactics like but rather to the writing of mailbags full usin^ mace indiscriminantly in isolation of postcards supporting the President's cells to force compliance to such orders policy of perpetuating the war to preserve as getting dressed is totally uncalled for. America's vanity. Investigation of the In the Nov 68 issue of Army Digest incident is left in military hands, in the concerning the Correctional Training "^a- hands of the people who prevented its dis cilit3'' program at Fort Riley, one drill closure in the first place; and Lt. Calley sergeant wh^ underwent a training pro is called to trial to serve as a scapegoat gram oriented to the use of psychology to appease the very weak prickings of the stated that he found he was able to pro national conscience—a conscience dulled duce muck better results if he used hi s by years of killing and destroying under head before he used his mouth. The pro- legal and social approval. sent training emphasis is on teaching the What should be done? The public is dis guards hate and fear, instead of respect pleased and the natural outgrowth is pun and the proper ways to use authority. ishment of the offenders. The President A guard from the 30th MP Btn at ^ort promises it. But why punish? Lt. Calley Ord has been quoted as saying "How c-^n we is charged with the "murder of oriental have respect for prisoners when our N00•s human beings," (a rather racist phrase, eh?) have no respect for us?" Sounds like thm the penalty for which is death. But what r^gul Br old armv to me. would that accomplish? Restitution? No, for killing Calley would not bring the s*»fc VICTORY Bullet has muzzle velocity, so great, 1235 feet per second SCREWED BY THE RED WHITE AND BLUE and 1.2 seconds later it meets Steel Helmet who held up as well he might Bullet According to the U.S. Army, failing to but Bullet's force was great and he stand at attention for the national an was melting and vaporizing and them, when either live or recorded, is spritzing out tiny blobs of lead punishable as a crime. as Helmet gave in According to PVT-2 Dennis Owens and a inward bulged the steel and lLt., who decided not to stand for the on rushed Bullet 1.204 seconds anthem before a movie at one of the post after leaving Muzzle - theatres about December 15th, it's hardly jagged edges behind him he met a crime. Hair who held up newise But immediately after their defiant in his Journey act, they were apprehended by two plain Skin gave way to mushroomed Bullet and clothes MP's, who sit around in the back Bones deformed at his will of the theatre just in case something like 671 feet a second he went as he tore this should happen. The theatre supervi vessels too surprised to bleed sors, E-8 Truett and lLt Larrveld, then then Bullet nosed through soft gray-white asked the men to leave but they demanded stuff hardly hard as butter their money back. When the money was not First he cut through the memory of Mom refunded, and the men refused to leave then a smal1 gray dog without their refunds, more MP's and a •hrough a first car, a wreck but what patrol car were called, and the two "crim the hell it ran through a huge area of inals" were taken to the station. Some scraped knees and where in the process, one MP was heard to pulled pigtails then remark, "Do you know what happened to two a little bit of fear-about this guys who did that overseas? They beat about that the dogshit out of them." about bullets PVT Owens, and his friend were charged then through a first kiss and the warm soft with two violations of the Uniform Code skin of a girl and of Military Injustice: Article 92,para plans for a boat— graph A — Failure to obey a lawful gen eral order or regulation, and Article then through a first kiss and the warm 134, Sec. F, paragraph 5 — Making dis soft skin of a girl and loyal statements undermining discipline plans for a boat-someday and loyalties. When the charges were re and tears- ferred to the commanding officer, they of acrid wine first tasted- were dropped because the men were await the rememberance of raucous birds calling ing discharges for another reason. It in the soft gray dawns of winter just happens that both had applied for of food cooking warm and pungent- discharge as conscientious objectors. of sex and school and sandwiches and sorrows This is not the first time this has then he was through that map of life and out happened; we have heard of other similar the otherside easy as punch incidents. But really, why in hell is flicking Helmet's edge it necessary to harass people when they continuing on have gone to the movie as a temporary erractic now partly flattened escape from the Army? going 662 feet per second slowing down until in a palm tree sitting there warmlv- duty done- to map Hell where Paradise had been. Are you having trouble with the Army? Ronald J. Willis Do you find it hard to get help from (Reprinted from OM) Lifers? Could you dig rapping with other guys in your situation? We have: (assistance in filing for any type of discharge; disability, Conscientious Objector, hard ship, etc.) (a place to rap, with coffee) The Counseling Center (lawyers and clergymen to talk for with) G.Ls C.O.s (controversial films by the and everyone worried about Newsreel people from San Fran military service cisco) 288 Alvarado in Monterey Where? Unitarian Church...15 Prescott 373-2305 Monterey (Just above "The Ware house") Every Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. BLACK RAP The Amerikan Way Of Life is a bitch. The BROTHERS! Being in this^war is a jive Indian couldn't relate to the AWOL (Amerikan cop out. We're either fools, cowards or Way Of Life) so this country's leaders laun Toms because when it came down to either ched a policy of genocide (that's the system standing up to Pig or laying down for him atic extermination of a whole people or na we dove for the ground and came up smelling tion) that went on for hundreds of years. funky and dirty and wearing a green costume. After killing all the Indians it felt neces It's a shame. Brothers are being dragged sary this country legislated the rest of off the farm and the block left and right them out of existance. ana some fools are even enlisting. We talk- in* 'bout, "Damn, it's just two years, may More and more of our brothers and sisters as well get it over with". Some of us were are saying the same thing; that they can't really tricked; thought it was our duty; relate to the Amerikan Way Of Life - and we was proud; went strutting back to the block live in the shadow of the same kind of ex IN UNIFORM and couldn't figure out why all termination (human, social, cultural, and the sisters were laughing. Everyone laughs political) that the red ir.an has suffered. at a chump; a sucker. Fools are the funni Nat Turner, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. est thing going and we got an Army of 'em. They couldn't relate to the American Way and We've got to be fools 'cause we got caught it killed them. in a trick and ain't doin' nothing about it. Amerika is a Lie. Amerika = Lie, because Nothing except dying and getting sent to when you say one thing and turn atound and do another your actions become untruthful. jail. The Amerikan soldier is the epitome of But the shit ain't funny. It's pitiful. the Amerikan Lie. He's the defender of it; It's pitiful to see brothers marching up and he fights for it. The Amerikan Way Of Life down the streets being brainwashed and and the Amerikan »ay of Lies is the same screaming at the top of their lungs VIETNAAAM. thing. That's us and I'm ashamed of it. Talkin* 'bout they're gonna kill a Charlie I'm ashamed of that green costume and you Cong. It's pitiful. should be, too. Being in the war is cold. iVhen the Fig sees you relating to the Now you brothers might be saying, "Damn, Truth, which means you're relating to CHANGE don't be so mean! Give us a break. We he gets uptight. That's why he comes'down don't want to be here". Which is exactly so hard on basic rights - basic rights he the point; we don't want to be here but we tells you Ï^~ ••-^VF, h»j-, tehich you know you are. Why are we here? I know some of us don•t. are Toms and cowards and fools but not all of us. There are toe many brothers who are We don't have any rights. If vie did we righteously together for us to think that. wouldn't have to sneak around to get this No, we're here for a reason. Let's examine paper to the brothers. it. By speaking out - by daring to speak out- we accomplish one of two things: either we We're here because we've been programmed. expose the Pig as a lie, as a defender of We've been programmed to fear the man and lies, or we get what we want. depend on him for food, clothing, shelter, The Man realizes that he is a lie. That's education, LAW, ORDER, and MONEY. We've why he indulges in so much Tricknology. He been programmed to think that if we fuck up tries to sweeten the lie. He gives us Ser then we can forget about getting a piece of vice Clubs, Gymnasiums, The Army Times, and that good ol' American Pie; that giant Pie Television. He even has the nerve to hold in the sky. The Man says, "Go head on, boy. a Soldier of the Month label in front of us.. Fuck up. Just see if you get any of that Dig that. That's the biggest Lie of all. good goin' pie". The Chief Chump. And what happens. Some brothers say fuck We have to fight with whatever weapons we you and your pie, and the Man kills 'em, have. Ou most effective weapon at the beats 'em, jails 'em, runs 'em out but he present time and at all times is our MIND. STILL ain't gettin' up off no pie for the If we can control that, we can deal with brothers who been laying back, tryin' to this man. We can't relate to getting out make for themselves and their families. The of the Army (prison) and forgetting about Man still ain't gettin' up off of no pie. the problem. We can't divide ourselves into He's got us afraid of losing something that G.I.'s and civillians - we're all in the we, as a people, have never had and aren't same boat. The only thing about being a G.I. about to get. He's got us relating to the is that it brings us a little closer to the Amerikan Way Of Life which ain't nothing but Pig's breath. We can get a little better a trick. It's a subsitute for real life. whiff and I'm sure that we can all agree on It's plastic. one thing. The closer you get the worse it The Man has cleverly woven a net around smells. us. Not just Black People but all people in Let's get it on. Power to the Black this country who are struggling to maintain Trojan Horse. a meaningful and decent way of life. He Right on! says, take your choice; my crumbs or my S. Rashid chains. And that's why we're all here; FEAR. Fear of jail, fear of exile, fear of never being able to get a gig. We serve not out of a sense of duty or obligation but out of fear. The gun is at our backs. We*ve been programmed to relate to the Amerikan Way Of Life. Many people have expressed concern over, There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. the "drab" logotype-thing;/- on the ,^eft; "' here which identifies the paper .% Thé * staff wishes to make it clear onfee and for all that it is not responsible.for the similarity with the logotype*vfor i ^"iw-llj) PANORAMA offical (?) organ for officers FEBRUARY 1970 ISSUE and housewives at the Fort Ord military complex. Any suggestions will grates fully be accepted and studiously con4. sidered. Send 'em to P.O. Box 1062',. as you Monterey, Calif 93940. PUBLISHED UNDERGROUND OF, BY, AND PÇR G.I.'S AT THE FORT ORD MILITARY COMPLEX MONTEREY PENINSULA HERALD HAS NO GUTS Open Letter to Basic Combat Trainees Early in 1969, when some of your comrades The local establishment newspaper, the under arms were defending democracy in the sou Monterey Peninsula Herald, has blocked another thern part of Vietnam, President Richard Milhous effort by the GIs at Ft Ord to gain their con Nixon delivered a speech in which he spoke of stitutional rights of free speech. The paper GI's as citizens first and soldiers second. Such refused to print an ad expressing dissatisfact a statement was necessary, because what should ion with the Vietnam War that was signed by 150 have been obvious to those living in a democracy active duty enlisted men at Ft Ord and the Pre had become misconstrued by Army policy and prac sidio of Monterey. tice. The Herald was informed of the GIs' intent For you and your fellow trainees the next ion, with civilian help, early in December.. Bob couple of weeks will be your first experience of Campbell, the Herald's advertising manager, was "Army life". Others have traversed that trail then given a copy of the ad. He initially ap before you and have been subject to needless proved of the statement and did not object to intimidation, harassment and degradation at the "the content or wording. It read: hands of the Army. There exists no reason why As active duty GIs at Ft Ord and the Presidio their experiences can not enable future GI's to of Monterey we object, to the continuation of be citizens first and soldiers second. the most useless and destructive war in Amer Did you know that: ica's history. 1. Not only can this underground news THE KILLING IN VIETNAM MUST STOP. paper, but other like publications and literature, We support any non-violent and legal Vietnam are your own personal property .and can not be Moratorium activities to be held in January •caken from you, (Annex C, Department of the Army. and the coming months both locally and' Memorandum, Subject "Guidance on Dissent" dated nationwide. We urge servicemen everywhere 27 May 69). to use their constitutional rights to pro- - 2. Army policy forbids "interfering ' test against this immoral and senseless war. with legitimate privileges ; unwarranted interr (Followed by 150 names of servicemen with r*ank uption of sleep; mass punishment; disregarding included.) . t medical profiles; constant annoyance or agitation When the money to pay for the ad was brought tion". (Fort Ord letter, subject "Trainee harass into the Herald office on Monday, January 12, ment" dated 29 Sep 69). one of the advertising men and the general man 3. If you feel your civil rights have ager of the newspaper, Dick Gifford, flatly re been denied you by the Army because of race, fused to accept the ad because of "excessive religion or national origin, then you can seek risk to the paper." remedy under Titles II, III and IV of the Civil Local speculation has it that the decision Rights Act of 1964, or under Appendix I to AR 600- was not made entirely by the Herald. It is 22 (USATC and Ft Ord Regulation 500-18, subject known that there is an FBI advisor connected "Equal Opportunity and Treatment of Personnel" with the paper. Also, the Army Brass knew that dated 18 Jan 55). the ad project was in the works. 4. It also forbids "physical activities When pressed for a real reason the ad was or exercises as harassment or punishment...to refused, one of the advertising men said "It's include but not limited to the following: push too hot an item." You're damned straight. If ups, low-crawl, runs or sprints, front-leaning GIs were not deprived of their rights, maybe rest position and dying cockroach". (Fort Ord it wouldn't be so hot. letter, subject "Limitations on Physical Training and Activities" dated 19 Sep 69). PRIS0N3R SHOT IN STOCKADE 5. You as a citizen soldier can init iate action to remove a Drill Sergeant from his On Feb 24 Pvt Peter Madallina was shot in position of authority over you and/or from your the side by a tower guard when he attempted to company for "mistreatment of trainees and using escape from the Fort Ord stockade. of profane or abusive language". (USATC & Ft Madallina, who was in the stockade because Org Reg 600-4 dated 14 Sep 66), SEE SECOND PAGE SEE SECOND PAGE OPEN LETTER (con't) 6. You can receive an honorable dis MADALLINA (con't) charge from the service for conscientious object of AWOL charges, attempted with one other prisoner ion to war. (USATC & Ft Ord Reg 600-4 dated to escape during a stockade disturbance. 2 Sep 69). The Fort Ord Information Office stated that 7. The conditions surrounding your Madallina was shot 40 yards from the compound, induction into the service may constitute an but this statement conflicts with those of three erroneous induction and can be remedied witn an witnesses who said that Madallina was still ort honorable discharge. the stockade fence when shot. 8. Degrading or depersonalizing ac tion such as the practice of requiring the heads of soldiers to be shaved or cropped extremely FREE THE FORT ORD FORTY THOUSAND: close are forbidden. Hair will be well groomed, cut short or medium length, preferably two inch A new GI Coffeehouse has opened in Sea es or less...A neatly trimmed mustache is per side at 1540 Del Monte Blvd, the old Greyhound mitted. (AR 500-23) bus station. 9. GIs may participate in public It's a place where GIs from Ft Ord and the demonstrations when they are off duty and out Presidio can rap together, find some hot coffee, of uniform. (AR 600-20) tea and pastries and make use of in any insur 10. Permission to distribute unofficial gent way they choose. literature on base may be obtained by submitting We're against the imperialist war of ag a request to the Provost Marshall Office. (AR gression in Vietnam, against racism in and out 210-23) of the service, and against the dictatorial In addition to the foregoing regulations, inhuman rule of the lifers and the brass. the following articles of the UCMJ provide pro Weekly free entertainment, including movies tection for GI rights under law: and speakers, is planned. So far the City Plan- 1. Article 31. No person can be com niily Souuuiùùïwt'i trvlixM ^-O no la cntc pelled to answer questions that might incrimin tainment license, but with support from the ate himself. No person suspected of an offense community and the GIs whose needs we -intend to may be interrogated without first informing him serve, we expect to win that struggle. Leaf of the offense. lets, pamplets, newspapers and books are already 2. Article 138. Any person who be available - cheap. Nixon-mug dart board is in lieves himself wronged.by his commanding.offi- heavy use. Music is available whenever you want cer, and who, upon due application to that CO, it - just pick from our great record selection. is refused redress, may complain to any superior Drop in. Meet people from the Seaside com commissioned officer who shall take steps for . munity and the whole West coast. Help build redressing the wrong complained of. the GI Movement. Have a groovy time. HELPFUL MILITARY PERSONNEL -Staff members of.GI Coffeehouse JAG The Judge Advocate General's office is the legal branch of the Army. They are. help ful in obtaining legal advice and in finding "PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE" the. exact wording of regulations• (It's best to try and obtain a civilian lawyer for actually "I pledge allegiance to the people of the trying cases ). Permission cannot be legally whole world, who are trying to make this denied to go to JAG if you go through the chain planet a better place in which to live. One of command-, world of people, indivisible by hate-mongers, IG The Inspector General investigates and working together to eliminate war and poverty, corrects injustices. You cannot legally be and bring true liberty and justice to all." denied permission to go to him if you have ex-' hausted all remedies in your company. You may LETTER FROM VIETNAM be harassed if you go to him. If so, just keep going back until it stops. The IG may be 26 January 1970 helpful, but it is not good to completely de pend upon him. Dear Friends, HOSPITAL Good for medical problems and obtaining recommendations for a medical dis One by one, planeful after planeful more charge, and for compassionate reassignment. guys are emptied out at Camn Rahn only to be The important thing to remember about shuttled to one base camp or another and may the above "rights" of a GI is that when you, be push a pencil or trod through knee deep as a GI, are given an order to perform a mud. questionable duty, exercise, etc. you must We don't want to, we never have, but first obey, that order and then seek remedy nevertheless we're here. Why? for any injustices incurred. Further infor Do this. Do that or'else! Move it! mation and legal advice are available for you Knock off the bull! Phrases only to famil on matters mentioned above if desired. You iar. But we can change that. Not I myself, have the right, if situations are not remed but many of us...together. ied at company level, to request an appoint Will you help us? I mean in your own ment with the IS and/or the Chaplain. way. All I ask is that you help us to either Responses to this open letter are welcome. receive through subscription or other way For"while the Army seems to deny participation your publications and ideas. in the democracy you are supposedly defending, We want to get off our asses. the staff members of AS YOU WERE stand ready Khy not? Please help. to defend your rights as citizens in a demo Peace cracy . Therefore, it becomes apparent that the The following is a description of the Uni only non-violent way to force negatiations is ted Farm Workers strike and table grape boycott through a boycott, in this case of table grapes. written by Ed Arnolds, the former coordinator The aim of the boycott is to so reduce the sale of the boycott for the western United States. of table grapes as to force the growers to ne Ed spoke to the Ft. Ord GI's at a Tuesday night gotiate with the Union. To this end "boycçtt Warehouse meeting in early January. It is im committees" have sprung up in all major U.S. and portant that every GI understand the meaning of Canadian cities and in some European cities. the strike and boycott as the Dept. of Defense H Many religious, labor, and civic leaders bought eight times the quantity of grapes in u across the nation have asked the large chain 1969 as in 1968, and is foisting them off on us £ stores, out of sympa thy with the farm workers'' in the me.ss halls. This is an obvious case of •a plight, not to sell grapes. Few have responded.' direct intervention into a labor •management rH Some have refused to even meet. Many, such as dispute by a governmental agency and should not u Safeway, Jewel, and Kroger have so openly mani be tolerated. o fested their alignment with the rich against T? G the poor that many religious, labor, and civic A Plea From Delano m groups hve recommended that all persons con H tn cerned with social justice not patronize these The basic issue in the now four year old C chains until they change their policies. "grape controversy" is the right of farm work w c As if the conspiracy of growers and re ers are the most impoverished and abused class tailers were not enough, the Department of De of workers in our society - average annual •H rO fense got into the act, too, to complete the earnings for adult male migrant workers in the picture of the "Military-Industrial Complex" ai U.S.A. in 1965 were $1,307, according to the c against the worker. The Department of Defense U.S. Department of Labor - this is not the is •H has increased their shipment of grapes to Viet sue. Neither is the fact that farm workers do u nam by roughly 3% million pounds over last year, not enjoy health or disability or unemployment -p ffl an octuple increase. insurance ; decent working conditions, such as o toilets and drinking water in the fields ; or a The Union has no money for public relation Di voice in matters which- gravely affect them, C firms (everyone working for the Union, from Ce •H sar .Chavez and down, makes the same, subsistence such as the use of deadly pesticides on the rrl crops they pick (which, by the way, cannot be plus $5 a week). That is why the farm workers sc •H washed off of grapes before consumption and do i-l desperately need your help. They.appreciate your U not break down in the body). Even if growers W good wishes. They appreciate your not buying were the most benevolent of patrônes, who al H grapes. They appreciate,your contribution. O ways looked after what they judged to be the How can GIs support .the boycott? The well-being of their workers before their own next issue of AS YOU WERE will discuss profits, even if farm workers made as much as ways the boycott can be supported that auto workers, farm workers would still have a are within your rights as citizens . every right to collective bargaining. Does anyone soldier at ft Ord and DLI, enlisted men argue that airline pilots should not have a un and officers alike should be aware that ion because they are not starving, in fact hap they are .being used as pawns by the Dept py, or because their work is critical to the Vi of Defense to squelch the right to collec national well-being, or because if they struck tive bargaining in our society. they could ruin an airline? The farm workers have a right to and need a union. But the growers, mostly turn-of-the- century breed individualists, all but extinct now save in the hinterlands of Americana, simply CJ do not want "any spic telling them how to run their business." So the union is compelled to 4 TRUE RELIGION • call a strike in order to force the growers to 3 negotiate. This and this alone IM Is true religion- However, in the case of the farm workers To serve thy brethren: a strike is largely ineffective. And this is for two reasons. First, agribusiness is This is sin above all other sin, unique in having an almost unlimited supply of To harm thy brethren: scab labor available from Mexico in the form of Illegal aliens (according to the California Ru In such a faith is happiness, ral Legal Assistance, about 20 per cent of the mi In lack of it is misery and pain: state's seasonal farm work force) are "Green Carders", aliens who legally cross the border Blessed is he who swerveth not aside to work, but reside in Mexico. Neither "wet From this strait path: backs" nor "Green Carders" are interested in Blessed is he whose life is lived anything more than making a few dollars, which, ai« Thus ceaselessly in serving God: at the 12.5 - 1 exchange rate in Mexico is quite a substantial amount. Those who suffer By bearing others' burdens, are the American farm workers. Second, the farm workers' Union does not have sufficient And so alone, funds available to pay striking workers. Those Is life, true life, to be attained: workers who are on strike are mostly working as organizers or pickets and are paid subsistence Nothing is hard to him who, casting self adide Thinks only this- ' plus $5 a week. Many workers who would like to How may I serve my fellow-men? strike just cannot afford to do so; perhaps thev have car payments to meet; nor can the Union af ford to have them strike. - Translated from the Sanskrit by M. Ghandi MEETINGS MEETINGS MEETINGS MEETINGS MEETINGS PRISON IS A STATE OF MIND Every Tuesday night at 7:30 PM a meet ing is held at the Unitarian Cnurch above The unpardonable reality is that GI's as the "Warehouse" at 15 Prescott St, Monterey, well as civilians are separated from society for group discussion of problems individuals for following the dictates of their conscience are encountering with their applications for because they refuse to cooperate with the war conscientious objector (1-0 or 1-A-0). Quali machine. Given this fact, the possibility of fied lawyers and clergy are usually present confinement faces every GI who makes the de MONTEREY at these meetings. cision to choose life rather than death and 288 Alvarado St. Counseling is also available during and does not obey the regulations and orders of 373-2305 after these meetings for individuals consid the military. The experience of one GI who ering filing for conscientious objector sta was confined three, times at Ft Ord and once tus and for those needing help in the pre at Ft Leavenworth should provide insight paration of their applications. into the nature of the source of strength that non-violent philosophy creates under Attendance is generally around- fifty trying conditions. persons. Coma and find out that you are not alone. This GI (we will call him Joe) feels that the most difficult aspect of stockade life is the never-ending attempt made to break down ones individual will to resist by impersonal systemization. The^nore one allows himself to conform to this role, such as res ponding to commands like Pavlov's dogs, the closer one comes to being inhuman a mere machine. Joe says that the worst result of the process is that the men retreat into them selves and stop communication with each other. Joe combatted his prison enviornment in many ways he found needle and thread and sewed his own clothes and made peace symbols ; he read everything he couli get his hands on; (Diioovt and worked to overcome self-pity by concen 'The only serious drawback I can see about bringing trating on the problems of fellow prisoners. this weapon into production is that it might bring The point is, he says, that if you can keep civilization, as wè hnoxv it, to an end." your mind active and your empathy for your fellow prisoners alive, that there is nothing to fear about prison. Joe feels, that in a Poem by Ft Ord GI real sense, one is freed from many of the problems that on the outside. The material Walking around in my uniform one day- problems of food,, clothing, and shelter are all green, like every one else taken care of. Many of the little nusances 'cept I feel sick such as saluting, polishing boots and Mous ing fatigues (which all serve to remind one Some man walks up to me and says, that he is in the military) are no longer "counting your money soldier?" practiced. .Joe quoted the following line of and I cough an say "pardon", a poem by Robert Lovelace that beautifully meekly describes this freedom: pulling my hands out of my pockets: looking dumb, Stone walls do not a prison make laughing to myself and Nor iron bars a cage Screaming in the back of my mind. Minds free and innocent That for a hermitage make. Then he walks away feeling good and mighty The most striking thing about Joe is his and I wonder that maybe total committment to nonviolence and its tre it really did him some good. mendous effect upon the people around him. I mean I do have something that His dedication to this principle was severely he ain't got, tested a few times, but he was able to turn but realize that he can't know that cause violence directed towards him into a tremen he is digging it. dous moral victory. Both guards and other prisoners were extremely impressed by his" self-control during the few times he was beaten. Joe feels that violence directed to " ..students on campus are rioting. wards himself was greatly decreased because We are engaged in a dibilitating war he was nonviolent. People who intend to use outside, and inside communists and physical force upon another person just don't opportunists are trying t® destroy know how to handle a smile, he says. our republic." Joe's experience in prison serves as an Adolf Hitler (1931) example to those of us ivho face confinement. This total dedication to a functional princi ple - that of active nonviolence - should form the basis for a meaningful way of life. Y@y AR 381-135 All GIs have the riglu to receive any written matter they desire in the mail, and have the right to keep any books, i—ami newspapers, or pamphlets they want AS YOU WERE A MIRROR OF NON-VIOLENT REVOL AMERICA All GI's have one thing in cox - experi ence severing their minds, bodies, from meaningful life. Part of the larger strug r human rights, the GI Movement is similar to t .truggles in that it was born out of oppresr i This Movement manifests itself in many ways and on rr jlutionary because new structures, attitude. . lither replacing old ones or are entirely un^ lief that ends and means are related is revolutionary vital • . it is here that the AS YOU WERE xntenas to focu -violent. révolue •• IHM olution c ^presenting unity of all îggles for peace and for social, . L peoples at jiome c abroad a- Once stating t staff wishes to ate that the pat that reason we encourage dis cussion in . military including those who wo v.ould disagree with our advocacy ver means neces- sary, including - the repressive inhuman systems I encourage articles arguing it is only through wide- -violent revo- lution that i rstood and ac- cepted. The AS YOU WERE r ."•sed by the GIs at Re re- search into various p that much needed back this paper. We are be position in the G . as in the larger soci our hope thai meaningful dialogue among Black GIs and Whit The st mall number of active-duty GIs and recently disci .3 your support» If you dig us, or if you -DO IT IN WRITING. BEAUTIFUL - Z - HERE TODAY GONE TOMORROW .RDER OF MAXIMILIAN The Special Processing Detachment (SPD) is the most Visiting the Fort Ord Stockade these days can be a confused unit in the US .Army. Having ..-pent a 5% month harrowing venture; that is if you happen to be Father tour of non-effective duty in SPD, I suppose I qualify Traynor, an activist in the massive West Coast as an expert correspondant from this theater of non- resistance movement. combat . Traynor, whose hair is long and patience with mili SPD is a special unit designed to try to retain all tary hagglers is very short, sought to visit Robert soldiers who are either awaiting their courtsmartial Beard, a prisoner here in the Fort Ord stockade, for the or who have already had them and are serving a sentence second time in less than a month» of hard-soft labor. SPD also serves as a holding (and On the first attempt by Father Traynor and a col 'splitting') area for guys coming out of the stockade league, he was blocked by the stockade head chaplain, awaiting orders . aperwork design for SPD looks Col. Sullivan, for reasons that are particularly clear like it would produce a smooth-running operation but to no one. It seems that only certain kinds and shapes such (thank God) is not the case. Underneath the thin of clergymen are recognized as real (compared). veil of order, is the wonderful, mischievious anarchy of Well, Father Traynor, not easily put off, went home the flashy-eyed, marvellous INDIVIDUAL. and got' some of his friends and neighbors, members of The temporary inhabitants of SPD have worked dili the Order of Maximillian, and on April 15, 1970, they gently to earn the title of "SPD Roadrunners" —Here returned. today - gone tomorrow. We have our own unit insignia: a This time, around with a few demands meant for Gen. large red roadrunnor heading off down the road again» Davidson, and one or two litanies, the small group BEEP BEEP!! This insignia, gentlemen, has inspired cour pressed forth for the rights of all prisoners. age and faith in the hearts of the men of this unit and First stop was the ICH* St. Chapel, which was lib has served as an everlasting tribute to the undying erated and dedicated to St» Maximillian and is now off spirit of man. limits to those sho support militance and war» Although it is intuitively obvious to anyone who has After trying with little success, to reach our el -it time in SPD, everyone in SPD IS NOT EFFECTIVE IN usive General, the group decided to go to the stockade. THE WAR EFFORT. In fact, anyone in SPD recieves a new- Military efficiency being what it is, no less than ele temporary MOS: 57AI0,-non-effective duty soldier. It is ven ( they were counted) M.P. cars were dispatched to also encouraging that your tour of non-duty in SPD is all interrupt the invaders. .sidered good time toward that ETS date. After a few hymns and another litany the clergymen I still remember my first tour here, After the 'Reg decided to press on with their purpose, but the troops ular' Army, SPD ' a godsent relief! The usual mind' eld their ground and physically bumped the marchers hassles about getting places on time, the hup-two three, ack. Thus ended the Battle of the Road with the at military etc. etc. didn M.P.s a bit more certain of their manhood and the They know that soon after fWPBWW^^W^S^^WPTHSCTr Is the following week on April 21) too much about how the Army works to mindlessly continue Still unresolved, however, is whether or not Rob following a blind man. And why should anyone ever mind ert Beard, or any other stockade prisoner, will be lessly follow a blind man?! As a matter of fact, 91% of granted their rights under Fort Ord rules as well as all confined soldiers never complete their tour of duty. the United States Constitution. Once the Army realizes the mask is off with all their We eagerly av/ait the return of the Order of Maxi play acting, they discharge you. milian; lets give them our support. To end on a bit more of a serious note, for all of FL°iSH April 21st has arrived and approximately 60 people's concern for mankind, how many times in life does clergy were stopped at the lOtSt Gate by the MP's. someone tell you: "Kill that man!" Mayte only once, and Gen Davidson ordered that the Order of Maximilian and so I say to you, you have only one chance to say, "No, their supporters were NOT TO SET FOOT .ON POST. It was I'm not going to do it." In straight life to proclaim, obvious that at least half of the MP"s didn't dig re "Thou shalt net kill!" is meaningless NO ONE IS ASK moving demonstrator, sitting in line across the street. ING YOU TO KILL SOMEONE!!! This is a once in a lifetime They dug the communion service, litany, and songs. The opportunity. brass continue to refuse GI's their basic human rights So people interested in people, it's okay to let the by, not.allowina clergy to visit the men in the stockade. officers know where you stand, The worst they could do Intensification of the struggle will take the form of would be to send you here with us to SPD, which is not ' a press confefence in the office of Francis H'eis1er, so bad. Hope to see you. and very possibly a suit filed in the Federal Court st Gen Davidson will result. Phil Wagner — ex-Roadrunner LETTER FROM A GI Over breakfast we read - 40,000 Americans dead in Viet Nam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush thru crowded streets is not to cry murder. I ut, to hit that trough before someone else gob bles up our share. An equation: 40,000 dead = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh; 142,000 pounds of brain matter; 50,000 gallons of blood' 1,840,000 years of life that will never be born. (The last we can afford because there are too many starving children in the world already.) Do we scream in the night when it touches our dreams? NO, we don't dream about it, because we don't care about it. We are too interested in law and or der so that American streets may be made safe while we transform' those of Viet Nam into flowing sewers of blood which we replenish each year by forcing our sons to choose between a prison cell here or a coffin there. ^ Jr... Everytime I look at the flag my eyes fill with tears. -5- BLACK AND THIRD WORLD NOTES is a result of AYW's broad, new thrust BLACK LIBERATION AND THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT in the direction of solidarity with Third World uprisings. It will seek to crovide a forum for Black The Black liberation struggle in North Expression and Opinion. It will America ( the rtru.tgle for our minds and continue as a permanent part of AYW. bodies ) does not concern itself, primarily, It is written by Black People at with the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Fort Ord and their friends. Black People realize that an instant end to the W lid hardly even begin to solve the problems facing them all across the «rlobe. Black People in great numbers are no- ticeably absent in the ranks of coordina BLACKS STRUGGLE IN TRINIDAD tors and participants in the Anti-War Move ment r,ct because they fp-»-~r * w«r ^^^ i*: The tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad- so detrimental to them, but because there is Tobago made world news recently when the a conscious reaction to the dangers of co U.S. rushed six warships to it's shores in alition uolitics and a heightened commit the wake of onshore disturbances caused by ment to Black croals. Black Power advocates. An end to the Vietnam War does not, As usual the U.S. defended this action necessarily, imply a commitment to the by saying that it's only aim was the protec liberation of oppressed peoples in this tion of American lives and property which and other countries. But a commitment to has always been a good excuse for it's Latin the liberation of all oppressed people American interference. does, necessarily, imply an end to the War Trinidad, like most of the Caribbean in Vietnam. Black liberation fighters who islands happens to have a large black major are aware of the vrorldwide nature of the ity and a small white minority which domin struggle have, therefore, always been in ates the nation's economy. official or unofficial opposition to all Trinidad received it's independence colonial wars. from Great Britain in 1962, which only means Blacks are saying to whites - we're that Britain has become less visible in the with you on ending the war - but are you economic affairs of the nation. Old style with us when the war is over. colonialism in Whiteface has given way to Black People in America realize that Neocolonialism in Blackface. The Europeans their main fight is right here. There are merely moved out the white administrators too many brothers and sisters being strang and moved in the powerless black puppets. led by menial out-caste jobs and drug ad Black People in Trinidad are fighting diction right here. Right here Black People for the same things Blacks throughout the in disproportionate numbers are herded into world are fighting for - economic, social prisons and Army Stockades. There are too and political autonomy. many brothers, right here, who are simply It is clear that the U.S. government losing the battle for survival. Black peo has a vested interest in the suppression ple realize that they should be dying here of worldwide black insurrection. It is now in the streets in defense of their families supplying arms to the ruling classes in and communities and not over there in de Trinidad to be used against our brothers fense of PIG millionaires. and sisters who are trying to themselves We are in trouble and time is running and control their own destiny. out. Black People are not willing to die The battle for the Americas, Africa for electric toothbrushes and basketball and Asia is still in it's beginning stages scholarships. Black People are not willing and lt will be won. Black People in the to integrate with corruption and death. military must not get caught in the trick The sooner the war is ended, the sooner of fighting their own people or any people, blacks forced into the military can come for that matter, who are strusscling against horn* and join their bio-hers on the streets neocolonlalist domination. and on the campuses where the real stru gle All power to the brothers in Trinidad. is being waged. -¥- SHOULD BLACKS JOIN G.I. UNIONS DELTA BLUES We have to realize and not lose sight Goddam ! of the basic problem; the unity and libera Ain't this a bitch tion of our people. We have to ask our Here I am protecting selves how a G.I. union or organization the rich can be effective in helping us obtain our Them with their yachts objectives. and First of all, in order for a G.I. Union stocks to be effective it must be an outlaw union. and It must work outside of the law which is the planes UCMJ. A G.I. union that works within the steel mills car mills existing structure can never relate to any all thing more than miscellaneous issues, such the as haircuts, working hours, better pay, etc. grain Blacks can't afford to get hung up in these And here I am kind of issues. It's irrelevant whether or with gun in my hand not the prisons are made comfortable. tryin' to keep Any union or organization that doesn't charley relate to the struggles of liberation being from waged by nonwhite peoples all over the world gettin' is of no practical value to Black People. his Many whites can relate to being against the land war but it is doubtful whether the majority And what am I gettin' can relate to the Third World uprising. Too but sweat many are still hooked on the American Way of and Life; as it stands. Too many would love the lead Army if they could have rock concerts every rain _a[fiakaad—ajacLJhfi_allQwed to wear.their hair I wonder if I'll ever see l«ng. The real issues are obscured or are never clearly pointed out. slgluuiT A. G.I. union would serve to heighten an already dangerous sense of isolation from the Black community. The Army has suc s. rashid ceeded in fixing in our minds that we are either G.I.s or civilians thus inducing a feeling of alienation from the struggle. Blacks cannot consider themselves APART from the community. We are not G.I.s.v That's bullshit; we are people and we are ONE with the Black community. Our only difference is that we are in the lap of naked oppression. Here we are likely to die a quick death ra ther than the slow painful one that is char acteristic of American society. No. Black People can't relate to the Army at all - much less become an institu tion within it. Our fight is against this racist, elit ist society and we've got to relate to pain ful, self sacrificing struggle. Black carjtives and detainees within the U.S. military structure must work closely with student and community organizations and if and when they organize it should be to walk out. Period. One thing that Black People have to organize is communication networks. We must talk to each other and strengthen our selves- by strengtheneing ourselves we THERE IS NO REASON ANY INTELLIGENT MAN strengthen our communities - and by so doing SHOULD HAVE IT EASY IN AMERICA - we weaken our oppressor. ESPECIALLY NOT ANY INTELLIGENT BLACK MAN A united struggle is what is necessary. Just how effective are G.I. unions ? Ameer Baraka ( LeRoi Jones ) LASIMA TUSHINDE »ffllLASHAKA ( We shall conquer without a doubt ) After the decision in the Chicago conspiracy trial, OPEN LETTER (Con't) a number of demonstrations occured across the nation. One Your retail food outlets distribute food of declin of them was in Isla Vista, Calif. 75% of the residents of ing quality, artificially grown, and of little nutritional Isla Vista are students at the University of Calif, at value. We accuse you of destroying the world's ecological Santa Barbara. For years, they have been complaining about balance through your mining concerns your manufacturing high rent, absenteeism among landlords, poor housing, com interests, and your petroleum companies like Union Oil pulsory 10-month leases for eight month occupancy, non- (or have you forgotten the beaches of Santa Barbara?). refunded cleaning deposits, police harrassment, and the In whose interests is LAW AND ORDER when one of your firing of popular professors for political reasons. directors, Harry S Baker, sits on the board of the"lar- The incident which touched off the recent rebellion oest police weapons manufacturer in the world, Bangor was the arrest of black activist, Lefty Bryant, on Febru Punta ? ary 24ü, on charges of "obscenity". Passersby began pelt Tliis is for the people of the world to decide: ing police cars with stones and by the end of the night, '. is the burning of a bank compared to the founding every window of the Bank of America was broken. Also bro of a bank ? _ In whose interest is the law and order when ken were the windows of every large real estate agency. tyranny prevails? Nothing else was touched. The next night, approximately 8% of the population of Isla Vista gathered in the streets, and by the early morning hours, the Bank of America building was burned to the ground. Like vas a police car» It was not a riot. The participants were well organized and methodical. The only difference between Isla Vista and the Boston Tea Party was that the people in the streets of Isla Vista didn't disguise themselves as Indians. The Bank of America has reacted by spending,close to a million dollars in advertising their position on vio lence in America. They say that they are aware of the problems that people are demonstrating against, but hide behind a conflict of violence or non-violence in order to cover up their world-wide oppression. They say that vio lence and destruction are the seeds of anarchy and ty ranny, contributing great financial . to the 'ETHE ter of the Vietnamese people. The San Jc published an open letter in refute to ca's position that will clearly c about the world oppressor; Every Tuesday nite at 7:30 PM a ting is held at ' ¥0 Tii- - MSB • at -lb Prescott S t plications for conscientious We are deeply disturbed by the wanton ac Qualified lawyers and clergy are gression perpetrated on the peoples of S. E. Asia - .hese meetings. gaged in revolutionary struggles These military ilso available during and after these terventions are not childish pranks, peaceful der Iduals considering filing for conscien- tions, nor even non-violent disruptions design status and for those needing help on the prep- symbolic meaning to imperialism. Rather, the_ Come and find out that you nal acts of violent proportions directed aga i people's democratic struggle. They are fascis of the kind that lead to further violence, bloodshe . and repression» Nor are they isolated instances ther a continuation of the calculated violence that I been eminating from your banks and financial ins'' in the name of the state under the directions porate few. -s may concern, You compare us in the American Révolutic. ment to the "brown shirts" of Nazi German Letter will not be long because I'm not sure if forget, it was the brown'shirts of Nazi Germany who an address exists, such a doubt arose because I was to power in order to repress the Revolutionary mover to your agency by a graffiti-ridden wall agacent in pre-Nazi Germany. In whose interests then d hare a ride station" just outside the base here. of "law and order?" exposure to information of doutfull signifi- We accuse your bank, Chairman Lundborg and ex- :h it off, as someones spontaneous discharge man Peterson, in your plunder of "hungry new x > captivate people like myself, who feel that and your affiliations with defense contractors -ike I ; walls of this great and progressive country is chock ton & McDonnel-Douglas, in your magnanLrtous aid to I s secrets of the universe, if only one uses the CIA through the Asia Foundation, of raping the "under ..ntest bit of imagination. developed world»" Please send me a preview of how you can help me gath We accuse you of conti nuing the racist heger er my powers to rid myself of the situation I am present American Lmperialism over Asia, South America, and A: ly enrolled in, Thank you. We accuse your bank, Director Di Giorgio, of being the AMN R.C. parasitic landlord in the state of California, ownln: Vandenberg AFB, Calif. perties larger in area than the whole state of Delaware, P.S. if this happens to be recieved by a military office and yet you fight against the minimum wage demand. of some sort, or more accurately, a gleaming germ free mi-grant farmworkers and lobby for the contimuation of the office of a Colonel or a Captain, etc, please ignore "bracero program." Not only do yo'.. - labor in your this message for it was composed obviously by a psycho control of agribusiness in California, but you have con- tic, disoriented, definitely ill individual and please sistantly opposed the demands of workers through generous hear these words as if T.were standing before you? "GOOD support of anti-labor legislation. AFTERNOON, SIR!" -4- COMMITTMENT-MEASURE OF A MAN PARANOIA MEASURE OF A MOVEMENT The lingering steps of a General, "I can no longer associate myself with an organiza Pacing our shoulders tion that thrives on death and oppression. I was induct The patient bloody caressing, of ed into the army unknowing of what "duty" was. Is it my The smoke of cigars duty to "serve as a mindless animal, as a killer, as a Making its rings around our necks, tool in the hands of madmen? I say NO. Any system that Back and forth, puts forth a program of depersonalization, any system Between the gutted teeth, that thrives on suppression of individual rights. that A smile, like the intercourse of dogs, holds a total disregard for human life, and uses fear to control its servants should not be allowed to further Can you love him? or continue to impress the nation's youth into involuntary Will killing him rid you of his wrath, servitude. I will not be a part of the killing and the The girth of stabbing paranoia, dehumanization of mankind that is set forth by the mili The pressure and call of fear, tary. I will no longer be a part of the United States The black bars, and Army." Freedoms course through the mire, These words were spoken by Jim Seymour on July 15, Hair growing reaching the heavens, 1958 with a group of eight other men in San Francisco Mustache tickling the curled beard, when they announced their resignations from, the Armed Like children playing among the stars, Forces of the United States. For these words, Jim was sentenced to 4 years confinement at hard labor and a The anguish rsf a mothers face dishonorable discharge. He was released from Fort Lea During childbirth, and . venworth last December. What kind of committment is it The searching joyful bliss of her excursion, that makes men like Jim refuse to give in to such great While orgasm spins, pressures and fear? After recently interviewing Jim, the They are the same, Staff feels that his story merits retelling. It serves The satisfaction of freedom, as an example for those of us in the Movement who from Obtained only by stalking the General, time to time might feel our own courage and conviction Face to face, deserting us. thout fear. _, n, „ . „ Drafted in March of 68, Jim got enough of a taste By Ft Ord GI of the army in Basic and AIT infantry to know that he together and ' Francisco fou George Sgalitzer, physician in criaryy öT Lhe confronted with the same problems. When this group deci nation's 74 Selective Service examining stations, has ded to resign from the military they became known to the suggested that "draft candidates" who feel physically public as THE NINE FOR PEACE. The 48-hour service began or emotionally unfit for active service should seek at the Howard Presbyterian Church in San Francisco and the help of their family doctor or of a competent ended in St. Andrews United Presbyterian Church in Marin draft counsellor. This statement was made in light of City. During the entire service, each of the nine men statistics which indicate that almost 2% of the men were chained to a priest or minister who wished to stand entering the armed forces for the first time will be together with the NINE in resistance and brotherhood. At discharged for physical or emotional conditions which the end of the service, the men were arrested by the MPs existed prior to entry into the service (so far about and taken to various stockades and brigs. Jim went to the 14,500 men). Sgalitzer indicates that the medical For Ord stockade to be tried in a General Courts Martial. knowledge (or lack thereof) of the examining officer Jim says that for the first time since he had become and his professional motivation are the most impor involved with the military, his actions with the NINE tant contributory factors, and states that standard made it possible to live with himself and not be in con policy Is to assume an individual acceptable for in stant inner conflict. From that point on he was able to duction unless medical documentation proves otherwise.. model his life after the way he feels it should be and Senator Richard Scheweiker, a member of the Armed live according to his own conscience. While he was in Forces Committee charged that "some armed forces ex training and then in confinement Jim said he met many amining stations are doing a sloppy job" and that the outranking soldiers including officers who v/ere sensi result is often unreasonable hardship for all parties tive , decent human beings, not wanting to shaft or harm concerned and a waste of government funds. More impor other men, but who did because they were afraid to tant than the cost of drafting and clothing, etc., in buck the system. Jim feels that these men are constant dividuals unfit (approximately $980.00 per), Is the ly bothered by conflict of conscience. Bothered? Hell issue of inconvenience and hardship. yes were bothered! The war bothers us, the war machine The assumption that medical problems will be dis bothers us to the core of our being. We've felt it our covered during basic training by service doctors selves and seen it on the faces and in the actions of our is frequently in fact without basis. Can we assume that fellow GIs. The decision as to how each one of us deals additional physical training or some type of punishment with these problems, as Jim says, is a matter of personal be given a soldier (individual?) who frequents the conscience. But because of men like Jim Seymour it does early morning sick call lines? A recent study at Ft. not have to be simply an isolated event. Although each Dix, N. J., and neighboring McGuire AFB indicated that man and each decision is unique, Jim and the NINE FOR suicidal behavior was most common among trainees and PEACE, the man discussed in last issue's article, 'Prison stockade prisoners: 96 trainees out of 37,000 are is a State of Mind ' , can be multiplied by the thousands. known to have attempted suicide at the two bases dur They are the strength and vitality of the GI Movement and ing the latter half of 1968. 9 known actual suicides have lived Victor Hugo's thoughts when he wrote, "No army occurred in 1968. Is there any indication that the sit can withstand the force of an idea whose time has come." uation at Fort Ord is any different? While Senator Schweitzer hopes the Armed Forces Committee can get some action, in the meantime - to borrow an Army ex pression - cover your ass - visit a military counselor and get help!
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