The animals in our society probably ought to be destroyed because they have no right to live among human beings. He said, "Mexican people, after 13 years of age, it's perfectly all right to go out and act like an animal.
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Down in San Jose, not too long ago, a young Chicano was on trial and I'd like to read a quote from the transcript, a quote by Judge - I think his name is Chargin, the fascist. Now something else has been happening in the courts, and I think this is an incident that we all ought to be aware of because it's another instance of terror entering into the courts. There is terror in the courts, that judge, whose name is Hoffman proved that he is going to take on the terror in the society and bring it into the courts, that he is going to use what is supposed to be a court of law, justice, equality, whatever you wanna call it in order to meet out all of these, you know fascist acts of repression. The Chief of the National Guard said that outright. It's evident that the terror is becoming not just isolated instances of police brutality here and there, but that terror is becoming an everyday instrument of the institutions of this country. I think that they are really preparing for this now. I think it points to the fact that they are going to begin to use that whole military apparatus in order to put down the resistance in the black and brown community, on the campuses, in the working class communities. Now what are these areas? First of all, he says, disruption in minority communities, then he says disruption on the campus, then he says disruption in industrial areas. I saw in television last week that the head of the National Guard in California decided that from now on their military activities are gonna be concentrated in three main areas. And this reminds me, because I think this is very relevant to what's happening in Vietnam that is the military situation in this country. It's becoming evident in all the brutal forms of repression, which we can see everyday of our lives here.
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What happens if the war in Vietnam ceases? How is the economy going to stand unless another Vietnam is created, and who is to determine where that Vietnam is gonna be? It can be abroad, or it can be right here at home, and I think it's becoming evident that that Vietnam is entering the streets of this country. It's based on the fact that more and more and more weapons are being produced. This whole economy in this country is a war economy. Now I think there's something perhaps more profound that we ought to point to.
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I think that demonstrates that if the link-up is not made between what's happening in Vietnam and what's happening here we may very well face a period of full-blown fascism very soon. And I'd just like to point to the most dramatic one in the last couple of weeks, which is the chaining and gagging of Chairman Bobby Seale and his sentence to four years for Contempt of Court. And in fact, we're seeing that as this country is being defeated in Vietnam, more and more acts of repression are occurring here on the domestic scene. And if you analyze the war in Vietnam, first of all it ought to become obvious that if the United States Government pulled its troops out of Vietnam that that repression would have to crop up somewhere else. We have to talk about the necessity to raise the level of consciousness of the people who are involved in that movement. But I think we have to talk about the political content. They think that mere numbers will be enough in order to affect this government's policy. Somehow they feel that it's necessary to tone down the political content of that movement in order to attract as many people as possible. Now I think we should ask ourselves why the that first group of people want the anti-war movement to be a single issue movement. And in order for the anti-war movement to be effective, it has to link up with the struggle for black and brown liberation in this country with the struggle of exploited white workers. We have to talk about what's happening in Vietnam as being a symptom of something that's happening all over the world, of something that's happening in this country. There's another group of people who say that we have to make those connections. They do not want to relate it to the other kinds and forms of repression that are taking place here in this country. One group of people feels that the movement, the anti-war movement ought to be a single issue movement, the cessation of the war in Vietnam. And I think there are two main issues at hand. Now there has been a lot of debate in the left sector of the anti-war movement as to what the orientation of that movement should be. Yeah, I'd just like to say that I like being called sister much more than professor and I've continually said that if my job - if keeping my job means that I have to make any compromises in the liberation struggle in this country, then I'll gladly leave my job.