KAlEldOSCOpE ^ milwaukee, Wisconsin ;v: member: underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) liberation news 'service {l.n.s.) ROTC ATTACKED AT MARQUETTE P. 3 MILWAUKEE JOURNAL PANICKS P. 3 OTHER SCENES P. 6 PAGE 2 April 25 - May 15, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPFiJ.m.i.)[^ HRi tmtfahmiMm The second floor is quiet now. It is four in the monring and my people are sleeping. But I 'can't sleep. I keep thinking about these friends who sleep around me; about what we're doing and why. I'm thinking Revolution, brothers; and what have I done as an individual to end our oppressive government without having to kill anyone. So far, my two biggest moves have been buying the MC5 album and' re­ fusing to take my army physical. Not exactly a Che Guevara, am I? But that isn't what I wanted to tell you. I really wanted to explain some of the changes that have taken place since I first decided to have Board 46 remove my name from their mailing list. On the good side there is Freedom. I have never been as totally insane with Freedom as I am at this moment. Each morning I think: "Wow, man, you should be locked up you're so crazy!" I mean all I ever do now is touch people, smoke dope, lay with my woman, and suggest that people overthrow the government. And that's cool, but' it's getting out of hand. I mean the whole idea of draft refusal, of stopping in your tracks and telling the system to shove it, has emerged into a romantic birthday party. Already I have visions of myself bent over the edge of my cot with a soft blue light hanging overhead as 1 scratch out lonesome letters home that say: "Well, I've lost 30 pounds and they beat me every night before I go to bed with rubber hoses, yet my inner light grows brighter by the hour..." And then there is the beautiful lily-white liberal who keeps patting me on the back and telling me how brave I am and it's people like Mel Laird: Defender of the Faith you who'll save America and YOU are the true patriot. And like they by Dennis Gail military chaplain in voluntary sent Laird steaming in. What is just keep talking and patting me and treating me like Jesus until I Melvin Laird has made it clear counseling and guidance from really strange about the whole finally piss them off by calling a cop a Pig. You see, liberals talk to the public that the Nixon ad­ the military functions which the affair is that most religious lead­ a great Revolution. They tell you that the System fucks everybody ministration is firmly on the side chaplain performs for and in be­ ers supported the Army's decision and the small guy can't be blamed because he's a victim just like you. of God and Country. Recently half of the Command." to drop the compulsory part of So you are expected to direct your discontent towards an intangible the farmer-with-the-bomb revers­ The controversy points out just the program. government while maintaining respect for the man with the gun be­ ed an Army order deleting the how deeply woven into the fab­ Dr. James Nash, a Methodist cause, after all, he's a human being too. It all makes sense, a hell mentioning of God from compul­ ric of American life the military minister who is Director of Social of a lot of sense, until you finally hit the streets. Because this is sory Character Guidance programs really is. The Army has used Relations for the Massachusetts where you take on confrontations. I have yet to meet Richard Nixon for soldiers. religion as a tool of indoctrina­ Council of Churches, comment­ or the head of Dow Chemical on Oakland avenue, but I have come .face to face with the Man. And if I am to keep the idea of non­ The Army had issued the order tion, not to promote religion for ed in support of the Army's De­ violent Revolution as a mainline to my life, each action I take must last December i n response to a its own sake, but rather to use cember decision, "I think there be meaningful and real. Like the more you just talk, the whiter your complaint from the ACLU. The it in helping to build what it has been an unfortunate tendency liberalism gets, and man, it's time we all started going down Black. ACLU had objected to the "re- calls good soldiers. An exerpt to associate the deity with acts Civil Disobedience has to become as easy as passing gas, and just as ligious indoctrination" of the from the Army's pamphlet used of the government. To my mind natural. Each day should normally involve a constant series of minor troops. Lawrence Speiser, Di­ in the indoctrination will suffice, this is a valuable effort to pre­ actions, confronting both the System and yourself. rector of the Washington, D.C. to point this out. An Army vent this kind of propaganda." office of the ACLU, stated that lesson entitled "The Moral Re­ With the present trend of Amer­ For example, yesterday morning I burned my draff card, registration the ACLU objects "not, as has sponsibility of Safety" states: ican foreignand domestic policy, card, high school diploma, and birth certificate in the privacy of my been reported, to any and all "God has supreme and exclus­ few religious leaders want their own room. I was all alone, and without planning or ceremony, put references fo God which might' ive ownership over human lives, God given credit for such de­ matches of freedom to the things that have defined my existence to this be made in the lectures and dis­ and so he is the only one who bacles as Vietnam, and most want society. I then ate breakfast and went back to bed. cussions which comprise the pro­ has the right to allow men to to religiously avoid the creation The major battle I now face is not with the Law, but with myself. gram, but rather to its overall kill other men. Granted that of a military-religious complex. The burning yesterday did a great deal to break down some of; the ro­ religious flavor and mandatory God may delegate that right to Laird has jumped in where an­ mantic fantasies I have held. I am slowly trying to teach myself that character." the State for the common good gels fear to tread. He's laid a disobeying obscene laws is the natural thing to do, like the "quick and The Army had originally agreed and to the individual to repel good one. The next thing we easy, no-muss no-fuss" commercials on TV. Fucking is more important to drop the mention of God in an unjust aggressor, it is obvious might look for is a declaration to me than burning a card or saying no to the government; thus, it seems these compulsory lectures, but that He does not give that right from the Department of Defense logical that I would give fucking more attention. Laird, in response to Congres­ to the motorist. If, then, we that the War in Vietnam is a The same goes for dope. And I know that in tin e I will make a sional criticism, reversed the recognize the moral imperative 'holy' war. total break from all the bullshit involved with Revolution, and move order and has asked for a study behind the Commandment, we It is of course easy according to the rules I have made for myself, not the rules of some­ of the matter. Laird defended will drive as responsible, decent to sympathize with the Army. one else. the moral guidance program and human beings, conscious of our Their job is made easier if they But what about the lily-white liberal who just keeps on a-talking? said theyare used by commanders obligations to our creator." The can convince the average soldier That great white brother who is fighting the Revolution from a $10,000 in the field to "instill and ACLU has branded-such lectures that all the death and destruction a year job? Well, I just don't know man, because new lines are be­ strengthen patriotism and a sense "sermonizing," and therefore ob­ he's a party to is somehow part ing drawn all the time. Things are tightening up inside people's heads, of individual moral responsibility jects to them. of a divine play, written and and it's becoming easier to see who is where. in enlisted men." Laird, whose In a lecture on Chastity, the produced by God, and directed 'And how many times can a man turn his head aid pretent that he fatherwasa Presbyterian minister, Army sounds like our Puritan by his regent on earth, Melvin just doesn't see? I don't know, but I do know that this time the ans­ went on to say, "I want to state fathers. "Holiness comes from Laird. wer ain't blowing in the wind; it's burning in the eyes of my silent that there will be no prohibition doing the will of God, obeying Amen! brothers. against the use of 'God', 'Su­ His law respecting the laws of preme Being', 'Creator', 'faith', nature, which means the correct 'spiritual values', or similar use of the sexual power that God Resist Poetry Reading Planned words." gave man." The meaning under­ Twenty-six of America's most ton Eshleman, Jim Cunningham, The readings are being coordin­ The ACLU contends that such lying these lectures is clear: "A distinguished poets will make clear Morgan and Barbara Gibson.TiC- ated by RESIST, a national or­ compulsory indoctrination is a good American is a good Christ­ their support o f draft resistance kets will be $3 for adults and ganization of adults who support violation of the First Amendment ian and a good Christian is a by joining together in a series of $1.50 for students.