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+The name of the game is control in the guise of security--a
+microcosm of the nation outside prison walls--the practice of power
+without compassion.
+After Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs was rejected for the
+second time, I appealed to the Regional Director of the Bureau of Prisons
+(as instructed by the warden) for an independent review. I also wrote to
+the ACLU. I heard back from neither. Todd McCormick was released from
+prison in December 2003. Among so many other things to catch up on, he
+would finally be able to read what he had written. However, he was
+discharged to a halfway house, where all his books and magazines were
+confiscated as "paraphernalia."
+Postscript: Prisoners at a jail in South Carolina are being denied any
+reading material other than the Bible. In May 2011, the ACLU asked a
+federal judge to block enforcement of that policy. A staff member at the
+prison told plaintiff Prison Legal News. "Our inmates are only allowed to
+receive soft back bibles in the mail directly from the publisher. They are
+not allowed to have magazines, newspapers, or any other type of books."
+There is no library there, and since 2008, all copies of Prison Legal News
+that were sent to prisoners have been "returned to sender."
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+In July 2017, the national Human Rights Defense Center
+organization has filed a federal lawsuit against the Kentucky Department
+of Corrections for violating free speech. It has unconstitutionally blocked
+the delivery of many books to state prisoners, including the Prisoner
+Diabetes Handbook, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, and the
+Prisoners Self-Help Litigation Manual.
+Welcome to Camp Mogul
+My irreverent friend, Khan Manka, Chairman & CEO of Manka
+Brothers Studios, had broken his ankle and was afraid he wouldn' t be
+able to attend the 26th annual gathering of the nation' s most powerful
+executives and their trophy wives in Sun Valley, Idaho. I really wanted to
+spy on this 2008 summer camp for billionaires, so I suggested that Manka
+get a wheelchair, then I could serve as his official wheelchair pusher, and
+he immediately went for the idea.
+This by-now traditional five-day extravaganza for three hundred
+guests was hosted by Wall Street investment banker Herbert Allen,
+President and CEO of Allen & Company. There were moguls all over the
+campground, overflowing with the country's most influential leaders in
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+business, entertainment and media. I could feel myself developing a
+severe case of imposter syndrome.
+Saturday was Talent Night, and it was absolutely hysterical. Part-
+time Sun Valley resident Tom Hanks served as the emcee. Warren Buffett
+was the opening act, performing a medley of Jimmy Buffett songs, all
+rendered out of tune. Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos skillfully juggled
+five Kindles (wireless electronic books). Edgar Bronfman from Warner
+Music--dressed like the character Tevya in Fiddler on the Roof--sang with
+zest, "If I Were a Rich Man." Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang--who had previously
+turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy Yahoo--sang a duet with the
+ex-CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates, harmonizing on a song from Annie Get
+Your Gun, "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better." Meg Whitman of
+EBay did a striptease, auctioning off each item of clothing, one at a time,
+and over 3 million dollars was raised for an unnamed charity. Oracle Corp.
+CEO Larry Ellison gave a hilarious lecture on "How to Destroy Evidence
+and Make False Statements."
+There had been a lot of drinking in the evening, and it was obviously
+too much booze that loosened up Fox mogul Rupert Murdoch' s tongue.
+He was shouting at the moon: "Who says there are twenty-seven million
+slaves around the world? And where the fuck can / get one? How would
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+anybody know it's twenty-seven million anyway? Do they have census
+takers or what? You tell me! !' Il decide!"
+Also, a screaming match broke out between Google co-founder
+Sergei Brin and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, over the infamous cover of the
+New Yorker, which depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as the new
+President and First Lady, a terrorist couple doing that fist-bump gesture in
+the Oval Office. Sergei thought it was a brilliant satirical illustration, but
+Eric thought it was racist and irresponsible.
+Last year, the surprise guest was former British Prime Minister Tony
+Blair. This year, it was Steven Beschloss, the editor of a new magazine,
+scheduled to be launched in October 2008 and be delivered to 100,000
+U.S. households with an average net worth of $25 million. There were piles
+of preview copies scattered about.
+While Beschloss was holding court in an outdoor area, annoying
+mosquitoes kept buzzing around the crowd. Mark Zuckerberg, the
+founder of Facebook, yelled at him, "I guess we'll never hear your
+readers whining about a mental recession. And those of your subscribers
+who were in the sub-prime mortgage industry--these mosquitoes are their
+fault, because, along with all the home foreclosures they're responsible
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+for, the stagnant water in abandoned pools turns into new breeding
+grounds for mosquitoes."
+Someone yelled out, "Where are you from, In-Your-Facebook?"
+Others drowned out Zuckerberg' s apparently serious rant by singing the
+mogul version of a couple of good old-fashioned camp songs, "This Land
+Is My Land, This Land Is My Land" and "KumBuyYahoo." I couldn' t
+help but notice that billionaire activist Carl Icahn snapped his fingers as if
+having an epiphany; a week later he ended up on Yahoo's board of
+directors.
+Khan Manka explained that the bigwigs at these events have so-
+called "informal" meetings which always take place where a pair of
+individuals can have their discussions alone without any interruption--on
+the golf course, hiking along an isolated trail, fly-fishing at Silver Creek--
+but Manka had been privy to only one specific example that he could
+share.
+"Back in 1995," he told me, "Disney honcho Michael Eisner met
+with Robert Iger, who was then the head of ABC. And exactly one month
+later, these two giant companies merged into one media megamonster.
+Coincidence? I don'
+t think so. Their deal had been sealed when Eisner
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+and Iger exchanged friendship bracelets that they had worked on at Camp
+Mogul."
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+HIGHER THAN THOU
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+Checkmating With Pawns
+It was a hot day at the chess tournament in Phoenix, Arizona—103
+degrees, to be exact-and 14-year-old Nathaniel Dight was elated over his
+custom-made chess set. Those carved wooden pieces had been weighted
+precisely for the smooth moves he liked to make. Each one had been
+lacquered and, for this extreme heat, carefully protected by matte acrylic
+spray. But before the game could begin, young Nathaniel was ordered to
+take a urine test.
+"I know why you' re doing this," he snarled. "It' s because l' ve
+won three tournaments in a row, isn't it?"
+"No, son, that' s just a coincidence. This is a random drug test."
+"I don' t do any drugs. I mean like when I get a headache from
+playing chess too long, I won' t even take an aspirin."
+"Look, here' s a cup. I need you to go fill it, right now..."
+All right, I confess, I made all that up, but consider the implications
+of something that I haven' t made up:
+America' s drug czar, Barry McCaffrey, wrote in an article published
+in Chess Life magazine: "Research proves that mentoring youngsters and
+teaching them games like chess can build resilience in the face of illegal
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+drug use and other destructive temptations. Drug testing is as appropriate
+for chess players as for shot-putters, or any other competitors who use
+their heads as well as their hands."
+Accompanying the television image of a couple of eggs sizzling in a
+frying pan, the phrase, "This is your brain on drugs" has always carried
+negative connotations, but apparently General McCaffrey has changed his
+mind about that. He now seems to believe that drugs can actually improve
+the way your brain functions.
+There was an infamous chess player named Alexander Alekhine who
+held the world championship longer than anybody else. His games often
+had superb surprise endings, known in chess circles as "brilliancies." For
+instance, he would checkmate with a pawn move that no sane and sober
+mind could ever imagine. However, he was a notorious alcoholic, and
+McCaffrey is only referring to illegal drugs.
+"Just when I thought l' d heard it all from McCaffrey," was the
+reaction of Allen St. Pierre, executive director of the NORML (National
+Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) Foundation. "Drug
+testing for chess players? What's next from this overreaching drug czar?
+Drug testing for tiddlywinks players? How about bingo players?"
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+Moreover, McCaffrey' s proposal smacks of subliminal racism. Social
+psychologist Walli Leff tells me, "I think most of the movement to involve
+young people in chess is directed toward the African-American
+community, and the assumption is, if the kids are black they're going to
+be drug users. I think white middle-class suburban parents would have a fit
+if their kids had to take drug tests for their extracurricular activities. Or am
+I out of it and am I missing a new, white middle-class suburban
+submissiveness?"
+McCaffrey had been influenced by Chesschild, a group sponsored by
+the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Chesschild is a
+substance abuse prevention program conducted in libraries and schools,
+promoting a combination of drug-free lifestyles and chess.
+"Policy recommendations like this one from ONDCP," said St.
+Pierre, "demonstrate a deep and disturbing pathology that goes well
+beyond opposing drug-law reform efforts."
+Maybe the drug-law reformers should follow the example of gay-
+rights activists by having celebrities come out of the pot-smoking closet.
+Already, veteran stand-up comic George Carlin—in an interview by The
+Daily Show' s Jon Stewart following Carlin' s HBO special-admitted that
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+he smokes a joint to help him "fine-tune" his material. "One hit is all I
+need now and it' s punch-up time."
+At the Shadow Convention that took place while the Democrats
+were in Los Angeles, Bill Maher revealed to the audience, "I' m not just a
+pot reformer, l' m a user" -something which ABC forbids him to say on
+Politically Incorrect-then quickly added, "Just making a light remark
+there, federal authorities."
+Actor and hemp activist Woody Harrelson has stated, "I do
+smoke." Willie Nelson confirmed in his autobiography that he smoked
+pot in the White House. And on KRLA, radio talk-show host Michael
+Jackson's program, Michelle Phillips, actress and former member of the
+Mamas and the Papas, said that she still enjoys smoking marijuana.
+Just as Ellen DeGeneres appeared on the cover of TIME magazine
+saying,
+"Yep, l' m gay," there might come a day when a presidential
+candidate will appear on the cover of Newsweek saying, "Yep, l' m
+stoned." Isn't that what young pot-smokers need-good role
+models-so they won' t be ashamed of their private pleasure seeking?
+Meanwhile, drug czar McCaffrey would continue his crusade, not
+only against illegal substances, but perhaps also against certain food
+supplements, such as a popular herbal mixture with a reputation for aiding
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+memory and concentration. Who could ever have dreamed that chess
+players might get in trouble for using ginkgo biloba as a performance
+enhancer?
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+Tim Leary, Ram Dass, and Me
+In 1964, I assigned Robert Anton Wilson to write a front-cover article
+in The Realist, which he titled "Timothy Leary and His Psychological H-
+Bomb." When that issue was published, Leary invited me to visit the
+Castalia Foundation, his borrowed estate in Millbrook, New York.
+The name Castalia came from The Bead Game by Herman Hesse,
+and indeed, the game metaphor permeated our conversation. Leary talked
+about the way people are always trying to get you onto their game-
+boards. He discussed the biochemical process "imprinting" with the
+same passion that he claimed he didn' t believe anything he was saying,
+but somehow I managed to believe him when he told me that I had an
+honest mind.
+"I have to admit," I said, "that my ego can' t help but respond to
+your observation."
+"Listen,"
+he assured me, "anybody who tells you he's
+transcended his ego..."
+Leary and his research partner, Ram Dass (then Richard Alpert) were
+about to do a lecture series on the West Coast. At the University of
+California in Berkeley, there was an official announcement that the
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+distribution only of
+"informative"
+literature (as opposed to
+"persuasive" literature) would be permitted on campus, giving rise to the
+Free Speech Movement, with thousands of students protesting the ban in
+the face of police billy clubs.
+Leary argued that such demonstrations played right onto the game
+boards of the administration and the police alike, and that the students
+could shake up the establishment much more if they would just stay in
+their rooms and change their nervous systems. But it wasn't really a case of
+either-or. You could protest and explore your 13-billion-cell mind
+simultaneously.
+I became intrigued by the playful and subtle patterns of awareness
+that Leary and Alpert manifested. If their brains had been so damaged, as
+mythologized by mainstream media, how come their perceptions were so
+sharp? I began to research the LSD phenomenon, and in April 1965 |
+returned to Millbrook for my first acid experience. Tim Leary was supposed
+to be my guide, but he had gone off to India.
+Dick Alpert was supposed to take his place, but he was too involved
+in getting ready to open at the Village Vanguard as a comedian-
+philosopher. I chatted with him for a while. He was soaking his body in a
+bathtub, preparing his psyche for the Vanguard gig. He had taken 300 acid
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+trips, but there I was, a first-timer, standing in the open doorway, reversing
+roles and comforting him in his anxiety about entering show business.
+When I told my mother about taking LSD, she was quite concerned.
+She warned me, "It could lead to marijuana." And she was right. It did.
+After Leary got arrested in Texas for possession of pot, the notoriety
+of his research in Millbrook spread. Law enforcement in nearby
+Poughkeepsie, led by Assistant District Attorney G. Gordon Liddy, raided
+the estate. In the summer of 1966, Leary and his associates ran a two-week
+seminar on consciousness expansion, culminating in a theatrical
+production of Hesse's Steppenwolf legend that weaved its way around the
+Millbrook grounds and buildings. Leary invited Liddy and members of the
+grand jury that indicted him, but none showed up.
+Leary told me about prominent people whose lives had been
+changed by taking LSD: actor Cary Grant, director Otto Preminger, think-
+tanker Herman Kahn, Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson, TIME
+magazine publishers Henry and Clare Boothe Luce. Of course, it wasn't so
+difficult to drop out when you had such a stimulating scene to drop into.
+On the day that he announced the formation of a new religion, the League
+for Spiritual Discovery (LSD), I signed up as their first heretic.
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+Alpert and I enjoyed what he called "upleveling" each other with
+honesty. On one occasion, we were at a party. I was particularly manic and
+he pointed it out, choosing an eggbeater as his analogy. I appreciated his
+reflection and calmed down.
+On stage at the Village Theater, Alpert was sitting in the lotus
+position on a cushion, talking about his mother dying and how there
+seemed to be a conspiracy on the part of relatives and hospital personnel
+alike to deny her the realization of that possibility. He also talked about
+some fellow in a mental institution who thought he was Jesus Christ.
+Conversely, I teased him about discussing his mother openly but
+concealing the fact that the man who thought he was Christ was his
+brother--death obviously carrying more respectability than craziness. At
+his next performance, Alpert identified the man as his brother.
+* * *
+The essential difference between Tim Leary and G. Gordon Liddy was
+that Leary wanted people to use LSD as a vehicle for expanding
+consciousness, whereas Liddy wanted to put LSD on the steering wheel of
+columnist Jack Anderson's car, thereby making a political assassination
+look like an automobile accident. But who could have predicted that,
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+sixteen years after the original arrest, Leary would end up traveling around
+with Liddy in a series of debates?
+I attended the debate in Berkeley in April 1982. Leary warned the
+audience that Liddy was a lawyer-- "trained in the adversary process, not
+to seek truth. I was trained as a scientist--looking for truth, delighted to be
+proved wrong." He confessed that "Liddy is the Moriarty to my Sherlock
+Holmes--the adversary I always wanted--he is the Darth Vader to my Mr.
+Spock."
+"As long as it's not Doctor Spock," said Liddy. He argued that
+"the rights of the state transcend those of the individual." Not that he
+was without compassion. "I feel sorry," he admitted, "for anybody who
+uses drugs for aphrodisiacal purposes."
+"Gordon doesn't know anything about drugs," countered Leary.
+"It's probably his only weakness." He looked directly at Liddy. "It's my
+duty to turn you on," he said, "and I'm gonna do it before these debates
+are over."
+Then he made a unique offer: "I'll eat a rat if you'll eat a
+hashish cookie."
+Liddy turned down the offer--one can carry machismo only so far,
+and he had to draw the line somewhere--but he did provide appropriate
+grist for my own stand-up comedy mill. According to Liddy's book, he
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+actually ate a rat. He did it to overcome his fear of eating rats. Certainly a
+direct approach to the problem. None of that gestalt shit. Now, I'm not
+sure how he ate the rat, whether he just stuck it between a couple of slices
+of bread, or barbecued it first, or chopped the rat up and mixed it with
+vegetables in a stew.
+But there were rumors that when Leary and Liddy were on tour, the
+Psychedelic Liberation Front found out their itinerary and began feeding
+hash brownies to rats and releasing them, one by one, in Liddy's room at
+the various motels he stayed at, while he was debating, in the hope that
+nature would sooner or later take its course, and one night Liddy would
+feel in the mood for a midnight snack, catch the rat that was left in the
+room, eat it and, by extension, the hash brownie the rat had eaten, and
+then Liddy would think he got stoned from eating the rat. This would, of
+course, be right on the borderline on the ethics of dosing.
+* * *
+Each tablet of Owsley White Lightning contained 300 micrograms of
+LSD. I had purchased a large enough supply from Alpert to finance his trip
+to India. The day before he left to meditate for six months, we sat in a
+restaurant discussing the concept of choiceless awareness while trying to
+decide what to order on the menu.
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+In India, he gave his guru three tablets, and apparently nothing
+happened. Alpert's postcard to me beckoned, "Come fuck the universe
+with me." Instead, I stayed tripping in America, where I kept my entire
+stash of acid in a bank vault deposit box.
+Richard Alpert returned as Baba Ram Dass. Eventually, he dropped
+the Baba. He was now just plain Ram Dass. His father called him Rum Dum.
+His brother called him Rammed Ass. One afternoon he was visiting me,
+and I taped our conversation.
+"In 1963,"
+I said, "I predicted as a joke that Tiny Tim would get
+married on the Johnny Carson show, and in 1969 it happened. You and I
+talked about that, and you called it 'astral humor,' but I never knew exactly
+what you meant by that phrase."
+"Well, it's like each plane of reality is in a sense a manifestation of a
+plane prior to it, and you can almost see it like layers, although to think of
+it in space is a fallacy because it's all the same space, but you could think
+of it that way. And so there are beings on upper planes who are
+instruments of the law. I talk about miracles a lot, but I don't live in the
+world of miracles, because they're not miracles to me. I'm just dealing with
+the humor of the miracle concept from within the plane where it seems
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+like a miracle, which is merely because of our very narrow concept of how
+the universe works."
+Ram Dass knew of my involvement with conspiracy theory. "I'm just
+involved in a much greater conspiracy," he continued. "You can't grasp
+the size of the conspiracy I understand--but there's no conspirator--it's the
+wrong word. That's why I say it's just natural law. It is all perfect."
+"Would you agree with the concept--what William Blake said, that
+humans were created 'for joy and woe'--the implication of which is that
+there will always be suffering?"
+"I think that suffering is part of man's condition, and that's what
+the incarnation is about, and that's what the human plane is."
+So l asked Ram Dass, "If you and I were to exchange philosophies--
+if I believed in reincarnation and you didn't--how do you think our
+behavior would change?" He paused for a moment. "Well," he said, "if
+you believed in reincarnation, you would never ask a question like that."
+And then his low chuckle of amusement and surprise blossomed
+into an uproarious belly laugh of delight and triumph as he savored the
+implications of his own Zen answer. I would find myself playing that
+segment of the tape with his bell-shaped spasm of laughter over and over
+again, like a favorite piece of music.
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+Remembering Scott Kelman
+Scott Kelman had seen me perform stand-up satire at Town Hall in
+New York in 1962, and again twenty years later at the L.A. Stage Company
+in Hollywood. He moved to Los Angeles and in 1984 launched an
+alternative theater in the grungy, old, industrial skid-row area of
+downtown. He named it the Wallenboyd (at the corner of Wall and Boyd)
+Theater and invited me to open there as soon as it was completed.
+In fact, on the first night of my performances, the crew was still banging in
+the final nails. At the time, I was living in San Francisco, so Scott slept at his
+office and I stayed at his apartment in Venice Beach. A year later, I moved
+to an apartment on that same block. Scott became my producer and my
+close friend. We never had any need for a signed contract.
+As my producer, he would occasionally give me suggestions and I
+would follow those that I felt worked for me. He' d say in his distinctive
+gravelly voice (he was addicted to cigarettes), "It doesn' t matter if you
+fuck up-it's how you recover." That was theatrical advice, but it also
+applied to life.
+And it was a two-way street. For Scott, whatever happened in life
+automatically became grist for his theatrical mill. He was an exemplary
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+explorer. Knowing I was an unbeliever, he once asked me, "What do
+atheists say during sex when they come?"
+"Oh, no-God!" I responded, interspersing those words with moans
+and groans. "Oh, no-God! Oh, no-God! Oh, no-God!" He suggested that
+I expand that concept into a stage piece, and it evolved into a ten-minute
+meditation on the relationship between religion and orgasms.
+Scott conducted theatrical workshops, and one of his students was
+John Densmore, the former drummer for The Doors.
+"I stumbled into the
+downtown art scene,"
+Densmore told me, "after a big peak in
+rock' n' roll. It felt as creative as the ' 60s. I now get off on the process,
+and it doesn'
+t matter if it's fifty people at the Wallenboyd or twenty
+thousand at Madison Square Garden, it's the work that rings my bell."
+Scott also produced Peter Bergman, of the Firesign Theatre. Scott
+thought that Peter, Paul and Harry would be a great title for an evening of
+political satire at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He asked the curator if
+she knew of an appropriate performer named Harry. She suggested Harry
+Shearer. Scott asked me about him. "He' s brilliant," I said, "let's do
+it." And so he produced a completely sold-out series that was extended
+for two weekends.
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+But if Harry had been named after his other grandfather, there
+wouldn' t have been a Peter, Paul and Harry. Each of us prepared to
+perform in our own particular way. Peter stared at himself in the mirror
+and made strange sounds to exercise his vocal cords. Harry sat in a
+separate room where his makeup woman, who had flown in from lowa,
+transformed him into Derek Smalls from the mockumentary Spinal Tap.
+And I was off hiding behind some boxes, toking away on a joint of the
+marijuana that served as my creative fuel. Scott was sure that I performed
+better when I wasn' t high, and he was under the impression I was
+straight when he told me one night, "That was the best show you' ve
+ever done." I confessed that I had smoked a giant doobie before I went
+onstage. The irony was that Scott sold pot to help pay the rent, and that
+was exactly the stash that got me stoned that night.
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+The 20* Anniversary of the Summer of Love
+I never went to any of my high school or college reunions, but I
+couldn't resist attending the twentieth anniversary of the Summer of Love
+in San Francisco. At noon on the summer solstice of 1987, young and
+middle-aged hippies--gray hair and potbellies, but not having erased a
+certain gleam in their eyes--were marching in an All Beings parade down
+Haight Street. Costumes ranged from a giant snail to Zippy the Pinhead.
+One fellow still in civilian clothes explained, "I was supposed to be
+Tarzan, but I had to wash the dishes."
+Local countercultural fixtures were all there: The Mime Troupe, Rosie
+Radiator and her fleet of tap dancers, the Automatic Human Juke Box, and
+a panhandler asking, "Can you spare a hundred dollars?" The buses now
+had posters that suggested Shop the Haight.
+The charm of that entrepreneurial urge was not to be confused with
+the mission of the Haight-Ashbury Preservation Society, whose targets
+were symbolized by a walking Big Mac cheeseburger, a prisoner of
+Thrifty' s in chain-store chains, mock pallbearers carrying a casket to
+mourn the wished-for death of Round Table Pizza, a sign warning Don't
+Mall the Haight! and somebody in a Merlin the Magician outfit with a
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+placard, You don't need magic to fight the franchising. A lone, sad-faced
+clown bore a banner with a white dove in a red heart.
+In Golden Gate Park, an emcee asked the crowd a series of rhetorical
+questions to rev them up: "How many people were here in the sixties? ...
+How many are here now? ... How many don't know? ... How many don't
+care?" A musician announced, "We were told not to have amplifiers, but
+we decided to break the law today." Hog Farmer Sharon Share-alike
+offered her roll of hard candy to novelist Herb Gold, which immediately
+aroused his fear of dosing. He asked, "These really are Life Savers, right?"
+The Summer of Love reunion continued at the I-Beam, a disco on
+Haight Street. On stage, I compared the decades:
+In the sixties, marijuana was ten dollars an ounce. In the eighties, it's
+three hundred. In the sixties, teenagers used to hide their pot
+smoking from their parents. In the eighties, parents have to hide it
+from their kids. In the sixties, the favorite chemical drug was LSD. In
+the eighties, it's Ecstasy. In the sixties, Ken Kesey wasn't allowed to
+donate blood because he had ingested acid. In the eighties, there
+are those who are afraid to get a blood transfusion because of AIDS.
+In the sixties, Lenny Bruce got arrested for saying "cocksucker" on
+stage. In the eighties, Meryl Streep got an Academy Award for
+saying it in Sophie's Choice. Now, almost the entire audience at a
+Grateful Dead concert is younger than the number of years the band
+has been together--but these kids have less deconditioning to go
+through than we did. They have less innocence to lose.
+When a group of students and other protesters, including Abbie
+Hoffman and Amy Carter (the president'
+s daughter), won their case
+against CIA recruiting on campus by using a "necessity defense,"
+attorney Leonard Weinglass told me that the turning point for the
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+
+jury was the testimony of Ralph McGehee, who revealed how he had
+been recruited right off the football field by the CIA, only to become
+a star player in their assassination-squad program. Members of the
+jury would not have voted that way in the sixties because they
+weren't prepared to believe such testimony as they are in the
+eighties.
+In the sixties, we knew that the CIA was smuggling heroin from
+Southeast Asia. And in the eighties we know that they're smuggling
+cocaine from Central America. The same planes that fly weapons for
+the contras to airports in Panama, Honduras and Costa Rica come
+back to Florida, Louisiana and Arkansas with their cargoes filled to
+the brim with cocaine, even though the administration is carrying on
+its anti-drug campaign. The pilots only have to be careful to evade
+the radar screen. So while Nancy Reagan is saying, "Just say no,"
+the CIA is saying, "Just fly low."
+Meanwhile, the quality of co-option had not been strained. The slogan
+"Today is the first day of the rest of your life" was used in a TV
+commercial for Total breakfast cereal. Tampax promoted its tampon as
+"Something over thirty you can trust." Beatles songs were used to sell
+cars, or, if you preferred to walk, they also sold sneakers. Time magazine
+was being peddled by the Byrds' version of Pete Seeger's song, "Turn,
+Turn, Turn" --based on Ecclesiastes—t here's a time for this and a time for
+that, get it?
+The Youngbloods once sent a copy of their song "Get Together"
+to every member of Congress and the Senate, with a suggestion that it be
+established as the new national anthem, but who could ever have guessed
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+that it was really destined to become a jingle in a jeans commercial? Or
+that a Jefferson Airplane song would be used in a bank commercial? Or
+that Timothy Leary would model a Gap shirt for a full-page ad in Interview,
+and Ram Dass would peddle a rejuvenating skin cream at a Saks Fifth
+Avenue counter? People magazine was selling the twentieth anniversary of
+the Summer of Love with a feature story set off by a double-paged cover
+with psychedelic artist Peter Max's signature on both pages.
+In red spray paint, on a brick wall just off Haight Street, standing out
+among the graffiti like John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of
+Independence, this message summed it all up: Love Is Revenue.
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+POLITICS
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+The Last Election
+The Republicans'
+party line that Barack Obama was "palling
+around with terrorists" didn' t work, although some people believed it
+because then they wouldn't need a racist reason not to vote for Obama.
+Next, the campaign acted as though his advocacy of age-appropriate sex
+education for kindergarteners meant putting condoms on cucumbers. That
+didn' t work, either. Then John McCain tried calling him a "socialist."
+Also didn' t work. Ironically, Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas ran
+for president six times, and never won, but every one of his platform
+planks were eventually adopted by Democrats and Republican
+administrations alike. They just didn' t call it socialism.
+In January 2009, Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson stated that
+God told him America is headed for veritable socialism as well as an
+economic rebound under President-elect Obama. "What the Lord was
+saying," he claimed, "the people are willing to accept socialism to
+alleviate their pain. Cast off all the gloom and the doom because things
+are getting ready to turn around. I say with humility, I hope l' ve heard the
+Lord. I spend time praying and asking him for wisdom, and if there's a
+mistake, it's not his fault, it' s mine." Humility in action.
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+In any case, one of the factors in Obama's win was indeed the
+confidence-destroying financial crisis, and now he faces a food chain of
+euphemisms. Hey, is this like the Great Depression? Nah, it's not a
+depression, it's only a recession. Wait, it's not a recession, it's just an
+economic downturn. No, it' s not an economic downturn, it's a
+correction. Oops, it's not a correction, it's an adjustment. Hurry, get me
+a chiropractor. Similarly, there's a food-chain of solutions to the problem.
+From the Troubled Asset Relief Program to the Bailout Bill to the Rescue
+Package to the Emergency Economic Stability Act to Alan Greenspan
+confessing "My bad" to Free Botox for Everybody.
+Perhaps the most bizarre byproduct of the campaign began with an
+anonymous ad on Craigslist, headlined: "Need Sarah Palin Lookalike
+ASAP for Adult Film." The pay would be $3,000 and, it was duly noted,
+"No anal required." This porn flick, it turned out, would be shot by
+Hustler Video, and no, Tina Fey did not apply for the job. The climactic
+scene was a threesome with Sarah Palin, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary
+Clinton.
+Hillary was played by veteran porn star and sex educator Nina
+Hartley, who told me that "The big hullabaloo over the movie is being
+generated by feminists from both the pro- and anti-porn sides. They're up
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+
+in arms that 'women are being non-consensually satirized' by Big Evil
+Porn, and The Big Bad Larry Flynt. The usual nonsense from the usual
+suspects. Even some pro-porn feminists are upset at Palin being
+'targeted' by porn. They conveniently overlook the fact that most porn
+satirizes white men in power: politicians, police, professors. Most recent
+case in point, The Elliot Splizter Story ..."
+Who's Nailin' Paylin was ready for release before the election, as
+was an issue of the horror comic book Tales From the Crypt, which
+featured on the cover a painting of Sarah Palin swinging her hockey stick
+to disperse the Vault-Keeper and other ghoulish characters as she
+sneeringly asks, "Didn' t we get rid of you guys in the ' 50s?" --a
+reference to the censorship problems faced decades ago by EC Comics, the
+original publisher of Tales From the Crypt, and concomitantly a criticism of
+Palin for her "rhetorical question" about removing objectionable books
+from library shelves.
+However,
+another publisher was producing a comic-book
+biography of Palin that wouldn' t be released until February 2009, so two
+endings were prepared. But an edition of South Park--broadcast the day
+after the election--took a risk with only one ending, which lampooned
+Obama'
+s victory. Co-creator Trey Parker explained, "We're just going
+HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015320
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+
+to make the Obama version, and if McCain somehow wins, we're basically
+just totally screwed." Likewise, Garry Trudeau gambled that Obama would
+win, and his syndicated Doonesbury strip--published the day after the
+election--depicted three soldiers in Iraq watching the returns on TV as a
+reporter is saying, "And it' s official--Barack Obama has won."
+Some editors were undecided about whether to publish it. Trudeau
+encouraged them to choose hope over fear. "If!' m wrong," he told the
+Los Angeles Times, "it' Il be my face that' Il be covered with eggs, not
+theirs." Times editors had decided, in the interest of accuracy, to wait for
+the election results, and if Obama won, they would publish the strip on
+Thursday, but then they must have realized it was just a comic strip, not
+investigative journalism, and they published it on Wednesday after all.
+Trudeau thought that newspapers should run the strip because
+"polling data gives McCain a 3.7% chance of victory." Indeed, a week
+after Obama' s win, McCain himself admitted to Jay Leno, "I can read the
+polls--they tried to keep ' em from me." There were dozens of polls,
+from ABC to Zogby, and, psychographic sophistication aside, they didn' t
+always exactly agree. For example, in Nevada during the last week of
+October, one poll put Obama's lead at 12%, another at 7%, another at
+5% and two others at 4%, which meant that, given the margin of sampling
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+error, McCain could conceivably have been slightly ahead. This, then, was
+the last presidential election. In the future, you' ll only need to vote for
+the pollster that you trust the most.
+During the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, I was among
+15,000 protesters who had gathered in Grant Park for a rally when the
+police, triggered by the actions of one of their own provocateurs, attacked
+the demonstrators and sadistically beat as many as they could reach. It
+seemed impossible that we could ever work within the system. But now,
+forty years later, there were 200,000 celebrants who had gathered in that
+same park, giddy with the excitement of Obama's victory. They had
+worked within the system.
+During the past four decades, there has been a linear progression
+from Jimi Hendrix playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock to
+Aretha Franklin singing "My Country,' tis of Thee" at the inauguration.
+Is it possible that this event signified the early tremors of a nonviolent
+revolution? As the late singer/songwriter Harry Chapin once said to me
+backstage at a benefit: "If you don' t act like there's hope, there is no
+hope."
+And remember, placebos work. My hope is I don' t get
+disappointed. [But I did.]
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+Meanwhile, the memorabilia business flourishes as millions of voters
+seek a variety of tangible items to remind them of the part they played in
+history simply by voting. Mouse pads, baby bibs, aprons, dog jerseys,
+bobble-heads, niche buttons ( "Ventriloquists for Obama" ), T-shirts (
+"Now I Don' t Have to Move to Canada" ) and, as reported by NPR,
+Obama condoms. Somebody bid $400 on eBay for the November 5th issue
+of the New York Times. USA Today printed 500,000 extra copies; the
+Washington Post printed 350,000 extras. The only thing I saved was a full-
+page ad by the 99 Cents Only stores, which included a "Joe the Plumber
+Special" plunger. There was no limit on how many I could buy.
+HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015323
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+A Letter to Barack Obama
+October 10, 2010
+Dear President Obama,
+It seems that the theme emanating from the White House is "Eat,
+Pray, Be Disappointed." And yet, whenever I do feel disappointed, I always
+realize that the alternative was John McCain, with Sarah Palin just one
+Halloween
+"Boo!" away from the presidency, and then I always feel a
+sense of relief.
+Actually, you' ve kept one big campaign promise--to send more
+troops to Afghanistan--so I guess we can' t fault you for that. In fact,
+according to Bob Woodward in Obama' s Wars, all you want to do now is
+get out of Afghanistan. Well, why don' t you just do what Osama bin
+Laden did; cross over to Pakistan. Since we bribe Pakistan to be our ally,
+you' d think they would never consider harboring bin Laden, though they
+reek with empathy when our outsourced drones drop those bombs.
+Also, during the campaign, you said you believe that the legality of
+same-sex marriage should be decided by the states, but that you
+personally think marriage should be between a man and a woman. Which
+is exactly the position that eventually led to the revocation of Carrie
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+Prejean' s Miss USA crown. And another thing. You promised to end the
+raids on medical marijuana dispensaries, but they haven' t stopped.
+[In 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder issued a memo ordering an
+end to federal raids of medical marijuana dispensaries. In March 2011,
+there were 28 such raids in a duration of 24 hours.]
+Here's how I understand Washington. America' s puritanical
+political process serves as a buffer between the status quo and the force of
+evolution. For instance, in order to get Republican votes for the children' s
+healthcare bill, Democrats agreed to fund $28 million to their abstinence-
+only program.
+And, during your own campaign, you admitted, in the context of
+health care reform, that the multinational insurance conglomeration is so
+firmly entrenched that you would be unable to dispense with it. So there
+would have to be compromises. Now, what with the compromises made to
+help passage of Prop. 19, amnesty becomes the single-payer system of
+marijuana reform, and growing your own pot becomes the public option.
+Meanwhile, as long as any government can arbitrarily decide which drugs
+are legal and which drugs are illegal, then anyone serving time for a
+nonviolent drug offense is a political prisoner.
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+In his new book, Bob Woodward writes about Colin Powell' s status
+as an adviser to you. Referring to his previous book, Plan of Attack, the
+New York Times then reported that
+"Secretary of State Colin Powell
+disputed Woodward's account...He said that he had an excellent
+relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney, and that he did not recall
+referring to officials at the Pentagon loyal to Cheney as the 'Gestapo
+office.' " Who among us would be unable to recall uttering such an
+epithet? Powell later apologized for it. He has also changed his mind about
+gays in the military. In my capacity as a stand-up satirist, I used to conduct
+an imaginary dialogue with Powell.
+"General Powell, you' re the first African-American to be head of
+the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and you come from the tradition of a military
+family. So you know that blacks were once segregated in the Army
+because the other soldiers might feel uncomfortable if blacks slept in the
+same barracks. And now that's what they say about gays, that other
+soldiers might feel uncomfortable about gays sleeping in the same
+barracks."
+"Well, you have to understand, we never told anybody we were
+black."
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+And, Mr. President, that was the forerunner of the same "Don' t
+ask, don' t tell" policy that you promised to rescind, only you haven' t
+been acting like a Commander-in-Chief. All you have to do is sign such a
+directive. Those who serve in the military are trained to follow orders. If
+they can follow orders to kill fellow humans, they can certainly follow
+orders to treat openly gay service people with total equality.
+Not only is the current guideline counterproductive, but also this
+display of trickle-down immorality must, on some level of consciousness,
+serve as a contributing factor to enabling the anti-gay bullying and
+torturing of innocent victims. I know, you don' t want to take a chance
+that retracting the policy would interfere with your re-election. You' ve
+made the point that you don' t want Mitt Romney to win in 2012 and turn
+around all the good things you' ve accomplished.
+Incidentally, Romney had wanted to overturn Roe vs. Wade, yet, in
+1994, when he was running for the Senate, he came out in favor of choice
+for women. However, freelance journalist Suzan Mazur revealed that he
+admitted to Mormon feminist Judith Dushku that "the Brethren" in Salt
+Lake City told him he could take a pro-choice position, and that in fact he
+probably had to in order to win in a liberal state like Massachusetts.
+Pandering trumps religious belief.
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+Meantime, since gays and lesbians have waited so long for basic
+fairness, they might as well just wait for the next election. If you win, then
+would you kindly do immediately what you believe is right, constitutionally
+and in your heart, and end this injustice? The ultimate irony is that gays in
+the military are fighting, being maimed and dying unnecessarily,
+supposedly to protect the freedom their own country is denying them.
+Sincerely,
+Paul Krassner
+Postscript:
+I sent a copy of the letter to some folks that day. Among the
+responses, I received a message from a mother: "I am trying to explain
+this to my twelve-year-old son, who wants to know why, if men and
+women don't share barracks in the military, why gay men and hetero
+men should share barracks, but then follows with 'They should all sleep in
+the same place.' "
+And that evening I received this email from a seasoned journalist: "I
+know it's late, but I cannot wait to ask if this letter is a spoof, or you've
+actually sent it to Obama. If it's a spoof and you've not sent it to him,
+would you like to? I've got his fax number and he's got a great sense of
+humor. May I have your permission to send this to him?"
+"Absolutely."
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+Two days later, to the dismay of Obama--who told a town hall
+meeting that he was restricted because the "Don' t ask, don' t tell"
+policy was written into law, adding, "This is not a situation where I can, by
+the stroke of a pen, end this policy" --he wanted Congress to repeal it
+after the November midterm election, but Federal Judge Virginia Phillips
+upset that timetable by issuing an immediate and permanent ban on what
+she considered to be unconstitutional. This ruling was not a spoof, though
+it was treated as one by an appeals court that set aside her injunction. In
+December 2010, Congress repealed the 17-year-old law.
+Nor was it a spoof when Attorney General Holder-having been
+pressured by nine former DEA chiefs, plus the president of Mexico--
+warned that if Prop. 19 was passed, making California the first state to
+legalize pot, the federal government would not look the other way, as it
+has done with medical marijuana. Holder (who wouldn' t prosecute the
+Bush administration for promulgating torture) explained:
+"Let me state clearly that the Department of Justice strongly
+opposes Proposition 19. If passed, this legislation will greatly complicate
+federal drug enforcement efforts to the detriment of our citizens. We will
+vigorously enforce the [law] against those individuals and organizations
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+that possess, manufacture or distribute marijuana for recreational use,
+even if such activities are permitted under state law."
+In a truly free society, the distinction of whether marijuana is used
+for medical or recreational purposes would be as irrelevant an excuse for
+discrimination as whether the sexual preference of gays and lesbians is
+innate or a matter of choice.
+And so it came to pass that Barack Obama was re-elected. His
+opponent, Romney, fell to his knees and pleaded, "Oh, dear Lord, you
+promised that I would win. Why hast thou forsaken me?" And the voice
+of God boomed out, "HEY, MITT, LISTEN--/ WAS JUST FUCKIN' WITH YA
+• . ."
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+
+Unsafe at Safeway
+It was Steve Allen, and later Lenny Bruce, who said that "Comedy is
+tragedy plus time."
+But everything is accelerating. Even the rate of
+acceleration is accelerating. The time between tragedy and comedy gets
+shorter and shorter. The more horrible the news is, the more victims there
+are to involuntarily serve as setups for punchlines.
+Reality has long been nipping at the heels of comedy, and it finally
+caught up. Example: On the same day that people were being burned alive
+in the fire at the Branch Davidian headquarters in Waco, Texas, Jay Leno
+did a joke in his Tonight Show monologue about there being two kinds of
+cult members there-- "regular and crispy."
+Of course, events like the recent madman massacre outside a
+Safeway supermarket can be challenging. How could made-up humor
+possibly top the actual absurdity of mass murderer Jared Loughner asking
+his MySpace friends not to be mad at him. After all, he was merely
+planning to indiscriminately kill as many innocent human beings as he
+could, with democracy itself as collateral damage.
+The night before Loughner committed his senseless slaughter, he
+had taken photos of himself posing with his gun while wearing a bright
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+red G-string and displaying his naked ass. Satirist Harry Shearer observed
+that "The nightmare in Tucson is the inevitable result of a society where a
+mentally confused young man can purchase a red G-string anywhere at
+any time, and pose with it as he sees fit. Can't we all agree now to lower
+the temperature on underwear?"
+Speaking of lowering the temperature, in the Pittsburgh Post-
+Gazette, editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers depicted the U.S. Civil Discourse
+Gun Shop where a customer is asking the clerk: "Do you have anything
+versatile enough to go from a campaign breakfast to a protest march to a
+Town Hall meeting?" And in the Orlando Sentinal, Dana Summers
+depicted another gun store featuring semi-automatic 31-clip weapons,
+where the clerk is explaining to a customer: "Say you have thirty-one
+burglars break into your house."
+On the Monday following the tragic weekend, Jon Stewart was
+unable to find anything funny about it. Nor was Stephen Colbert, although
+he did present a montage of news clips with various explanations of
+Loughner' s behavior, and the final one, from Fox News— "He is also
+being described as a left-wing political pothead" -managed to evoke
+laughter from the audience. And Rush Limbaugh called him a "marijuana
+junkie."
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+In October 2008, Loughner told an old friend, Bryce Tierney, that he
+wasn' t going to smoke marijuana any more. Tierney never saw him
+smoke pot again, and was surprised at media reports that Loughner was
+rejected by the Army in 2009 for failing a drug test: "He was clean...l saw
+him after that continuously. He would not do it... After he quit, he was just
+off the wall." But Loughner did not fail a drug test that day at the
+processing station. Rather, he admitted on an application form that he had
+smoked marijuana "hundreds of times." He didn' t know that the
+military has an official maximum of times you can admit to smoking pot.
+A journalist I know acknowledges that he tried to join the Air Force
+at the San Diego recruitment office, but, "When the subject of drugs
+came up, I figured, okay, I have long hair, I look maybe homeless, they're
+going to know I'm lying if I say l've always been straight. I'll say l've
+smoked pot seven or eight times--something ridiculously, embarrassingly
+low. Whatever it was, it was too high. The recruiter said. 'You can't have
+smoked more than five times. Go away, kid. Maybe the Marines will take
+you. Two weeks later I was at the Sacramento recruitment office and I
+had the
+'magic number.' I joined the Air Force. One of the stupider
+things l've done."
+Indeed, Chris Hedges wrote on TruthDig. "Power does not rest with
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+the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political
+parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary
+that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations. And
+corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, even wars we have no
+chance of winning. All polite appeals to the formal systems of power will
+not end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We must physically obstruct the
+war machine or accept a role as its accomplice."
+When it comes to bloodbaths, the only difference between such
+invisible corporations and Jared Loughner is that he did it face-to-face.
+Obviously, Loughner is crazy, but not legally insane, because he
+knew right from wrong, as indicated by his expectation of life in prison or
+execution for his unspeakable crime. True, John Hinckley was crazy when
+he tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan—his motivation was to impress
+actress Jodie Foster so she would go out bowling with him--yet he was
+sentenced to serve his time in a mental hospital, including occasional
+outings with his parents, which resulted in public outrage and a weakening
+of the insanity defense.
+Ironically, Hinckley came out for gun control, and Reagan came out
+against it.
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+The Yippies and the Occupiers
+As a co-founder of the Yippies (Youth International Party) -known
+for demonstrating against the Vietnam War at the 1968 Democratic
+convention in Chicago--I find myself comparing and contrasting the
+Yippies and the Occupy Wall Street protesters.
+We had to perform stunts to get media coverage of our cause, so a
+group of us went to the New York Stock Exchange, upstairs to the balcony,
+and threw $200 worth of singles onto the floor below, watching the gang
+of manic brokers suddenly morph from yelling "Pork Bellies" into playing
+"Diving for Dollars." Then we held a press conference outside, explaining
+the connection between the capitalist system and the war.
+Now, a particular placard, "Wall Street Is War Street," gives me a
+sense of continuity. Other anonymous Occupier spokespersons carried
+posters proclaiming: "God Forbid We Have Sex & Smoke Pot. They Want
+Us to Grab Guns & Go to War!"
+"I am an immigrant. I came here to take
+your job. But you don' t have one." "$96,000 for a BA in Hispanic
+transgender gay & lesbian studies and I can' t find work!" And a woman
+in a wheelchair: "Stand Up For Your Rights!"
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+By the sheer power of numbers without the necessity of stunts, the
+Occupiers have broadened public awareness about the economic injustice
+perpetuated by corporations without compassion conspiring with
+government corruption that has resulted in immeasurable suffering. The
+Yippies were a myth that became a reality. The Occupiers are a reality that
+became a myth. The spirit of nonviolent revolution is what connects them.
+NPR waited until eleven days of Occupy Wall Street had passed
+before reporting its existence. The executive news editor explained that the
+Occupiers "did not involve large numbers of people" (actually, there
+were already several hundred), no "prominent people" showed up (thus
+ignoring Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon), the lack of "a great
+disruption" (the police pepper-spraying protesters trapped in a cage of
+orange netting finally met that need), "or an especially clear objective"
+(oh, right, like all those flip-floppy pandering politicians whose clear
+objective is to get elected).
+The Occupiers appear to be a leaderless community-most likely,
+you can' t name a single one; not yet, anyway-whereas Abbie Hoffman,
+Jerry Rubin and I served as spokespeople for the Yippies. We had media
+contacts and knew how to speak in sound bytes. If we gave good quote,
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+they gave free publicity for upcoming demonstrations. It was mutual
+manipulation.
+Sample: A reporter asked me about the 1968 counter-convention we
+were planning, "Will you be staying in tents?" I replied, "Some of us will
+be intense. Others will be frivolous."
+During an interview with Abbie and me for the CBS Evening News,
+taped at his apartment, Abbie paraphrased Che Guevara and said, "I'm
+prepared to win or die." However, that never got on the air. When the
+reporter asked me,
+"What do the Yippies actually plan to do in
+Chicago?" I smiled at her and said, "You think I'm gonna tell you?" That
+portion of my answer was used to end Walter Cronkite's segment on the
+Yippies, but my follow-up sentence-- "The first thing we're gonna do is
+put truth serum in the reporters' drinks" --was omitted. They had beaten
+me at my own game.
+The Yippies were inspired by the Buddhist monk in Vietnam who set
+himself on fire in order to call attention to the war. The photo of that
+incident traveled around the globe, and I wore a lapel button which
+featured that flaming image. Similarly, in 2010, a street vendor in Tunisia
+refused to pay a police bribe, then immolated himself, which inspired a
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+revolution there, and next in Egypt, spreading into Arab Spring, which
+ultimately inspired American Autumn in 2011.
+Inspired by the Yippies attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pie-
+thrower Aron Kay wanted to get fellow Occupiers to levitate Wall Street.
+No interest. Likewise, inspired by the Yippies nomination of an actual pig
+named Pigasus for president, Michael Dare tried unsuccessfully to
+persuade fellow protesters at Occupy Seattle to carry out his notion that,
+"If corporations are people, let's run one for president." I offered
+myself as Secretary of Greed.
+The evolution of technology has changed the way protests are
+organized and carried out. The Yippies had to use messy mimeograph
+machines to print out flyers that had to be stuffed into envelopes,
+addressed, stamped and mailed. The Internet generally-and social media
+such as Facebook and Twitter-have enabled Occupiers to inexpensively
+reach countless people immediately.
+When the Yippies were being tear-gassed, and beaten sadistically
+and indiscriminately, we chanted, "The whole world is watching!" But
+now, when a bloodbath was expected to happen if the New York police
+forced the Occupiers out of the park-and then that didn' t
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+happen—Michael Moore asked a cop, "Why don' t you think the eviction
+happened?" The reply: "Because the mayor' s afraid of YouTube."
+(One month later, Mayor Bloomberg apparently lost that fear; by his
+order, the eviction happened at 1 a.m. The next afternoon, a protester,
+before being allowed back in, was overheard remarking, "The cops have
+occupied Zuccotti Park. We're just trying to figure out what their demands
+are.")
+Not only what occurred in Chicago in 1968 was officially labeled "a
+police riot" by a government-sponsored investigation, but also an
+undercover police provocateur-who was disguised as a local biker and
+acted as Jerry Rubin' s bodyguard-would ultimately state that he
+participated in pulling down the American flag in Grant Park, destroying it,
+then running up the black flag of the Viet Cong in its place.
+"I joined in the chants and taunts against the police," he said,
+"and provoked them to hitting me with their clubs. They didn' t know
+who I was, but they did know that I had called them names and struck
+them with one or more weapons."
+Now, as the Occupy model has spread around the country, police
+brutality has increased, and it's not surprising that there have been
+accusations of provocateurs sabotaging the nonviolent principle, not to
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