Los Angeles Free Press Jan, 19, 1967 Page 3 'We were not made for a Nazi uniform' Mort Sahl spiaks out on the future of America

PAUL EBERLE but make the same error they made manager. A guy who was a confi- anybody In my government wanting country becomes a colonial power. Mort Sahl, absent from Los An- In Germany—that if they have dante of the President—on a cer- to harm the President.' ° Now, of course, we're not made geles radio for over eight months, enough money, they will buy out. tain recreational level." "But somewhere along the line, for that, because it's not our tra- shared the KPFK microphone with Garrison is showing the picture Later, speaking about Oswald we gave up. We gave in when the dition. So that's the conflict. That's Elliot Mintz Sunday night for four of a neo-Neal group, and as Ruby and the assassination, he said of government said, 'We know better why everybody's hung-up and they hours. All the station's telephone said toward the end, as he was in the Liberals, "They weren't looking what's good for you than you know say, 'Well, why do the kids look lines were lit up continually from jail, helped them because It was the other way. There wasn't one yourself.' That's why the so weird?' Because you're driving the beginning of the show to the a money deal. I helped people who member of the American Bar As- of today is puny.' He spoke their body in one direction and end, as Sued rapped with Mintz will burn my people.'' sociation who said anything about of Lawrence Sherman, Robert their head in another, They're being and with listeners who called Ira 'There are Jewish elements, defending Oswald. And there wasn't Vaughn, Carl Reiner and Eugene pulled apart. Asked about his taring from Jewish liberal elements that turned One member of the ACLU whowent McCarthy and the dissenting De- 'We're not made for it. We're not KLAC last spring, Sahl said, 'We their back on the President. And in to defend Lee Harvey Oswald. mocrats thus: 'It's twenty years made for a Nazi SS uniform, If I had a 17 rating—higher than ISB.I. they know better. I know people And as Garrison said to me, 'Be- too late, mare They've been drafting was going to form a Fascist state, The people were listeningl • out here—they're in the indus- cause we lost an adversary pro- people like you for twenty years, I would go to the Germans. They're ',Earlier! he said, when try—and their answer to me Is a ceeding—because the law wasn't so that eventually, 435 honorable set up for IL It's like Sinatra they fired me from the television large blue pencil drawn through protected by lawmen, we not only men In the Congress don't even told me: You don't found a record show the first time, I talked about my name, in case I get a job, and lost our President—we Lost our object. And nobody votes against company, you buy one. He bought It On the radio show, and we got imagine that all they can do to a Justice too.' the Un-American Activities Com- one that was set up already. He 31,000 letters.' man in America is take away his Who killed President Kennedy? mittee. And nobody says anything had a commitment, too, by the way, "when they dropped the radio right to make a living. You have 'Well," Mort replied, "the scen- about the war. And nobody says 'The House I Live In.' I don't hear show," he said, "this time, I got all the liberals with their knees ario points toward a coalition of anything about anything. And notiOdy that from him anymore. I don't hear no notice." knocking, looking the other way. anti-Castro Cuban exiles, oil-rich says anything about murder in the from anybody anymore. Where are sf was in the office, and Garri- What happened was that I could not psychotics from Texas, according streets. I've been crying, Fascism! all of you? Or don't you care? Wbere son called me from New Orleans get a job anywhere.° to the District Attorney, retired) Fascism! How much success, how are you going !olive? Where are you and said, 'I have an exclusive for °Pm still the same guy who was various voices of the] heady was the sensation, and how going to go? You can't hide in Swit- you to break on the air. I have intoxicated were the Fascists in zerland. You know, you are an Am- eye witnesses placing Rutty, Oswald, this country, to get to a point erican. You're not gonna feel that and Shaw together in 138ton Rouge. where they thought they could go geod. Everybody says, If you've got Eyeball Witnesses.' So I went on 1. ahead with as bold a stroke as enough money, you'll feel Ailed any- the air and I told that on the air killing him in the street? What where. It's really not true. There They erased the entire tape and makes them think they can get away isn't anything quite like America. sent me a letter the next morning with tt? The experience of getting You're really gonna miss it. firing me. In mill-contract. At a away with it! Over the years! They time when they owed me $81,0001" tend to get power-drunk because "But to get back to your question, .1 tried to call it the way I they've been successful. It gets this group of neo-Nazis, who would saw It in Los Angeles. There were crazier and crazier. They've ex- have brought us Fascism In the many subjects On the program. And, tending Fascism for so long in name of National Security ... the although I want to stay with the this country—without challenge, a facts on who shot the President assassination, I want to point out generation! Since 11191! This long are in the archives because of that everybody knows who they are. night started with Roosevelt's national security. Everything is And since God put me in the role death. You can chart the whole national security. The Cie. Is na- of holding the mirror up to Dra- thing from there—and it gets to tional security. The FBI. And cula, who knows very well what a point where a whole generation meanwhile, you don't recognize he looks like anyway ... they doesn't know any better. Robert your own country. Think of Amer- didn't stand up to be counted when Kennedy talks about massive re- ica as a body and think of the they were needed. I made the ap- taliation and Communism and Ca- pressure points in the first aid peal. I stood up there and said, pitalism and vehicular capability. class. Mark Lane is saying to you, "You knoW who you are. And you You can't even tell if somebody 'I've got this pulse in the left know the fight we're in, and what's is Jiving you anymore! Because arm, and it's an accelerated puLse, at stake is America." in essence. it's twenty years of madness. As and Jim Garrison's got the right That's the reason that when Budd much as my Jewish friends aren't arm and he's saying the same thing Schutherg went to Watts, and sold gonna like it, the German people and Mario Sayler is there by his I television show off of it, and weren't barn crazy. They were right temple and he says it, and the articles to Playboy, I pointed made crazy by their government. Stokely Carmichael is at the left out that Budd Schulberglonows bet- They were made in a form that ankle and he says It. - Everybody ter. Before he knew the history of was most convenient to that gov- tells them. Dylan tells them. the Negro people, he knew the his- ernment which is Fascistic, which Everybody tells them. The patient tory of the Jewish people, And he broke the backs of the unions, and has a high fever and an accelera- knew the history of the Un-Amer- used anti-semitism as a dodge. The ted pulse. And I can't find any- ican Activities Committee. And same thing is happening here— body who cares about Lt. that we must all face ourselves. they're trying to drive the American Now that wasn't pleasant for every- people crazy, and I think they're 'A lot of good men died so body. But we had to say it on the succeeding. There's great evidence that you could sit out there and air, In the barbarism in their day to decide whether to sell out or not. "I talked about all the ex-lett under contract to all three net- Right, at the operational level of day life, and in the lack of di- It may be too late for you to sell In Hollywood, and what they had works," he said, speaking of his the conspiracy, And at the plan- rection. And in the lack of men- in. Thai's what really terrifies me. become, since they Joined the es- almost total ostracism by the en- ning level, the Cubans were a tal health in this country. And I'm I don't know whether we're over tablishment. They hadn't become tertainment and broadcast indus- good setup, because they were not suggesting they go h:la psychi- the hill or not. Naturally I'm going Left; they hadn't become Right. try. 'Pm still the same guy who disenchanted with the Kennedy ad- atrist, because most of them are to get up tomorrow morning and go They hadn't become anything. They Mend the academy awards. I'm ministration—and also because sell-outs too, Sad to say, because at it the same way. The bell rings had become eunuchs. And I wanted that guy," Yet, he said, when he they were lawless. You've got to they know better, but all they want and you come out of your corner to remind them and ask them if recently went into an expensive remember that these informants to do is repair you and gel you swinging. We've got to keep trying. it was worth the price, Because Beverly Hills restaurant, No- who worked for the CIA along the back on the line,. To keep punching Because this is all we have. But as Garrison says, in the Faust body would speak to me. They ail way, if you have government by out Mustang frames. nobody has to be naive about the Legend, 'The price Is YOU," averted their heads. There's that hoodlum, what are you spawning? eLood what happens—FAR dies; elements In this country. Why did "I pointed that out. I pointed much terror." Every cop In L.A. has his con- what was the plan? To make Ger- I indict liberals, the so-called so- out that the country is going down 'And my former manager was tacts, on Maln Street or East many into an occupied agricultural cial democrats in this country? the tube because we have no hope, there, a guy who still handles the Fifth Street. He's got junkies, and state. But what happens after- Because there are not enough evil affairs of Peter we have no optimism, as we had Lawford, he's the pimps, and peddlers, etcetera, But wards? Truman goes into Office; men in this country to do It In, under Kennedy. And we're trying guy who once threatened me with he knows what they are, and he and he forms the defense depart- They are the generals. But the to rationalize the war. I pointed never working again in America. keeps them in perspective to work ment, the Marshall plan, he aids privates in their army—the vast out, as unpopular as it may sound, Peter Lawford and his manager— for 'the greater good' as they say. the Fascists in the hills of Greece ranks—are the vast ranks—are that there's a vast store of Jew- both 'of them—if I didn't stop kid- But the CIA keeps them on staff to STOP COMMUNISIvil He founds the liberals. Because evil mencan ish people in this city -who've ding Presiden t Kennedy. They loved for twenty years. And that's the the CIA in 1047. He gives J. Ed- only do evil because of the indif- turned their backs on their cam mit- him, you see. difference. This undercover thing' gar Hoover a blank check, and they ference of good men, And that's ment, which is survival. People "But they also— these same peo- of doing what you want to and coun- go ahead with the Un- American Ac- what It is. The road to Fascism who have gone the other way, and ple—then changed gloves from termanding orders of the Presi- tivities Committee, and they start Is paved with those liberal bricks, who will give Ronald Reagan a the left hand to the right hand ... dent, and writing blank checks, and the Great Witch Hunts, And Mc- Every young man who was headed standing ovation in Hollywood Bowl and see that you continue not to not being checked by the Congress, Carthy comes on ... And two to the Left was castrated by a because he says the right things work, for asking who killed him. spawns a Government-by-Hood-- bombs—on the Japanese people— good Liberal, who wants him to about Israel, I didn't love him. So t can give tuna That is not to say that the In civilian areas. And the Korean fit 'But, as hard as it is to point full time to finding out who did government subsidized the assas- War. Anti-Com munism, We will not out, the Jewish people, and I know him in,' he said sarcastically. sination. We don't know that. Gar- tolerate it anywhere. And Vietnam, "Everytlme you meet a guy over some who even fled from Hitler— "I knew him, And I wrote for him rison denies it. I asked him, 'Why and China. And Santo Domingo, forty, you have a right to spit In come full circle now, and not only for nineteen months." do you say ex-CIA men?' and he You can see it, step by step. Twen- his face. Because he has cast a rationalize the war in Vietnam, "Evans," he said, "used to he my said, 'because I can't conceive of ty-two years of Fascism. Your shadow over your future."