Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...more than anything else from its men, and independent political thought is one of the gravest conceivable dangers to discipline. Not surprisingly, the Army gets paranoid as soon as a serviceman's politics drift left of far right. Levy, for instance, combined his questioning of the war effort with civil rights work in Mississippi. The Pesidio defendants had the bad luck of sitting in two days after a major west coast anti-war protest in October. 1968. Imagining some connection between the "mutiny" and anti-war politics, the Army came down hard on the dissidents...
...lesson he doesn't draw is that no society rotting at its roots can expect to maintain the discipline and the civil rights of its armed forces simultaneously. The best cement for any fighting body is belief in the rightness of the fight. The Israelis and the North Vietnamese have shown the power of conviction. It will be some time before the United States can have the luxury of a military free of repression...
...TERRY: Is a second Civil War, or a race war between blacks and whites in America, a possibility or an inevitability...
...think it's inevitable. It is a possibility. This great mass of white middle America is getting more and more uptight. They are prone to violence. The black community is getting more uptight. And it is prone to answer violence. But I don't see a full-scale civil war in the sense of two clearly defined groups opposing each other violently. I think the black group is so small is so small that it would render itself almost impotent. I just don't think we could carry...
...nine defendants are appealing their sentences. A lawyer from the Boston Legal Assistance Project is handling their defense. The Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union is giving them special assistance in their appeal...