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...William R. Calley again makes headlines as a result of a recent court ruling permitting him to be freed on bail pending an appeal of his previous convictions for "murdering at least 22 Vietnamese citizens at My Lai March 16, 1968." I would like to make it as clear as possible that no one could more deeply deplore than I the crimes of Lt. Calley. They really border on the insane. It is certainly conceivable, however, that an unstable character might have honestly believed that he or she was carrying out the orders of superiors, or even those...
...Calley, along with hundreds of thousands of other American military forces, was not sent to Korea and Indochina to repel aggression, or in support of freedom and independence, as officially proclaimed, but to rob the people living there of their national resources for the profit of the privileged few here in the USA. This was made splendidly clear, as far as Indochina is concerned at least, by President Eisenhower in a speech to the Governor's Conference in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4, 1953 in which he mentioned the rich resources of the area and mentioned tin and tungsten among others...
...them in order to accomplish the planned robbery. This has always been standard operating procedure (SOP) by the military everywhere, in cases of national aggression. This was and is, of course, the reason for sending troops in the first place. It is certainly conceivable, to me at least, that Calley was doing what he was sent to do, as were many thousands of others. Unfortunately for Calley, his crimes were reported, and it was therefore thought necessary for public relations purposes, to make a scapegoat of him. And this, in my opinion, they have done...
...Force and Navy pilots operating in Indochina, including Mr. Nixon's POW pets who were shot down, have murdered, maimed and wounded in indiscriminate bombing, a thousandfold more Indochinese than Calley and his group. This was also true of the acts of other U.S. ground forces. All of these crimes were, of course, in violation of international laws which the U.S. government agreed to obey. This is the primary reason, in my view, why so many concerned Americans consider the trial, conviction and sentencing of Lt. Calley to prison as absurd and literally obscene...
...still an Army officer, and proud to be," Calley said after his release on bail by the civil court judge. He still is appealing the 20-year sentence he received from a military court for murdering 22 civilians in the 1968 My Lai massacre. "I intend to continue to pursue all legal avenues until my conviction is reversed, I am released completely and forever, and my name is cleared." Meanwhile the review of Calley's case by Army Secretary Howard H. Callaway has already begun. Callaway, or President Nixon when he reviews the case later, could reduce...