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Jane Fonda returns to Fayettenam
Friday Nov. 6th at Haymarket Square Coffeehouse
The War
In Indochina
BRAGG BRIEFS is published in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence
and the United States Constitution.
duty GI's stationed at Fort Bragr,
It is a free press, published by active
North Carolina and dedicated to eatabli-
shing responsible aiternatives to the present military and economic systems.
The United Way?
_ The United Fund has been with us
for a long time , and probably will
be with us a long time after this
article is forgotten. The question
that comes to mind is how the United
fund is in any way related to G.I.s
or thier cause,
. To simplify things, General Tolson
feels that there's a relation. On
@ locally broadcast radio station he
urged all Army personel to support
the United Fund "based on the prin-
cipal of voluntary giving" but even
more specifically support for the
local organizations to which most
of the U.F. funds are allocated in
order to "improve the enviorment of
the military and civilian community
in which we live,"
But let's ask the question; how
much does this improve the so called
"oenviorment of the military commun-
ity." Granted the town of Fayett-
ville has a great deal to gain and
rightfully so, for why shouldn't
their United Fund drive be as suc-
cessful as that of Raleigh, or Char-
lotte, or even New York City, and
Boston? Especially when they have
380,000 troops to give their fare share,
However, the real question at
hand is not knocking these organi-
zations, for they all have merit,
but essentially appealing to the
people behind them, the citizens of
Fayettville themselves.
For example, the citizen who owns
the pawnshop and is charging 15%
interest per month (which comes out to
180% ver year); or the citizen who
owns the used car lot, but as soon
as you remove it from his sight he
doesn't want to know you anymore;
the citizen who owns the jewelry
store and is willing to offer you
"a no money down, sign on the dotted
line, pay thru the nosé for the rest
of-your life contract,"
These are only 4 few of the tech-
niques that are developed to im-
prove your enviorment, Esséntially
you have created an atmosphére where
even the would be creditable buii-
ness man feels the (economic) press-
ure to jump onto the bandwagon. This
atmosphere is truly an unhealthy one,
but unfortunatly one with which the
Army seems willing to co-exist.
All right, this appeal to the
civilian community is all well and
good, but with my experience in life
I've become a mild pessimist, espec-
lally when it comes to financial mat-
ters. So let's assume that the good
citizens of Fayetteville have deaf
ears (probably clogged up with dollar
bills).
or
(cont. on page 6)
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ON
FREe ~TO §
CHICAGO CONSPIRATOR, RENNIE DAVIS,
RETURNS TO FAYETTEVILLE
Peace
lnitiative
by the
People
Rennie Davis, of the Chicago Cons«:
piracy and local May 16th Day "noter-
lety", came back to Fayetteville on
Friday, October 16 to speak to a stan-
ding room only crowd at Haymarket
Square coffeehouse,
The main topic of the evening was ®
the United States governments! lack
of effort in ending the war, and the
alternative idea of the people of
this country, themselves, taking the
initiative of negotiating a peace
treaty with the people of Vietnan.
National coordination is now being
set up to start the organizing and
publicity for a direct American-
Vietnamese compact to end the war and
set a June 30, 1971 deadline for
troop withdrawel,
The work on setting up the negote:
lation teams and the negotiations them-
selves is now starting to take place
with the idea of giving the Nixon ad-
ministration, Congress, the Courts,
or whatever part of the government
structure that wants to take up the
treaty, until May 1, 1971 to impli-
ment it.
If the Nixon administration does-
n't take action on the Peoples treaty
by then, Rennie said, it will be up to
the people of this country to impli-
ment it themselves, There is a maj-
ority of. people in this country that
disagree with the war and they must
physically begin to "pull out" if
the Nixon administration refuses to.
If, by May ist, Nixon and the Cong-
ress don't agree to pull out by the
June 30th deadline, there will be
international reactions,
If the government doesn't stop
the war, then the people will stop
the government. There are now plans
being made to mass thousands of auto-
mobileg on the major roadways in Wash-
ington D.C. on May 3rd, and close
down the capitol with a giant "break-
down", if thats what it will take to
get a response,
The Nixon administration has ignored
the 8 point peace plan proposed by the
Provisional Revolutionary Governments!
representatives in Paris, and he= kept
the American veeonls uninformed of this
(cont. on page 9)
GITs SPEAK OUT
BROTHERS,
One day during the month of
Aug. Pv-2 Courson (5th Evac Hosp)
was driving a jeep, while pulling
his duties as staff duty driver.
It was approximately 1830 Hrs
(6:30) in the evening and private
Courson was stopped at a stop light
when an unknown individual started
yelling at him to put on his hat.
He really didn't see any sence in
putting it on, because he was under
cover while driving the vehicle.
He then proceeded with the green
light and was told to pull over by
this extremly hostile character-
still unknown by his rank..So
Courson proceeded to pull off the
road...e..then he was ordered out of
the jeep and told to stand at
attention and salute, (in the middle
of the road)
Courson did what he was told
to do, but thought that this
character was really so far out
that the whole incident was really
FunNYeceeces
The Lt Col told Courson that
he had a oAss poor attitude�, since
Courgon was a Pv-2 with 26 months
in the Green Machine, and Courson
agreed with him...this made the Lt
Col almost blow up-what a temper-
so he called Coursons unit and
recommended an Art 15-which
Courson laughed at again, and
refused it; requesting a Special
Court Marshall.
Well, nothing was heard of it.
The Lt Col waited about ten day's
later when Courson was put ona
levy for Europe-he was told by a
very reliable source (no names) that
the Lt Col tried to send Courson
to Vietnam, but too bad, because
he's a Vietnam Vet.
So now the brass has once
again solved another problem by
an oversea's transfer and I only
have 9 months until my E.T.S.
Thank you Lt Col Hathaway for
the transfer I always wanted to see
Europe.
Sincerely,
Richard D. Courson
Seen
Brothers,
I'm just another face, of the many
that are in this man's Army. I am
against the war in Indochina, which
automatically puts my name on the
list for harrassment and details. One
particuarly annoying detail is Bat-
talion Police. I am a parachute rig-
ger, which is a critical MOS. So
critical in fact that we're not sup-
posed to wear our red hats on this de-
tail, so that Generals, and Colonels
don't recognize us as riggers.
The man who decided that there had
to be a battalion Police had to have
some kind of animalistic tendencies,
Who else would work men all morning
long and afternoon in the hot NY¥rth"
Carolina sun without a break, while
the people in charge of the detail sit
around in an office and drink coffee
all day long? What's even better
(for them) is that if they have to go
to the bathroom they can go for as
long as they want and not even have
to stand behind a tree or anything.
There really aren't that many trees
we can stand behind because we police
in the lirers Deck yards, and their
wives always look out the back windows
and laugh at the men tramping tnrough
their weeds and garbage.
(cont on page 8)
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DEAR SIRS,
I have just Coupleted reading the
latest issue of Bragg Briefs dated
Oct. 1970. I must ask"where do you
gather your facts? I trust it is from
an authoratative source since several
statements evidently supported b oO
ur
Paper are open to question. a:
quite interesting. The article entitled
"Constitutional Convention" described
by someone known as "we" serves as an
exquisite example of wha
considered "hent and ih Mod Sah
ideas expressed by this article are
merely borrowed from gentlemen like
Marx, Lenin, Hitler, and Roosevelt. I
would like to point out two constant
areas Overlooked by Newton and Co. Take
the "article" and &0 down each para-
graph and ask yourself "who" will set
the standards for the militia, police,
child-care centers, etc; and "whol will
decide who and who will not serve; and
"who" will be exempt and for what rea-
sons; and "who" will decide what will
be done to those who do not chooseto
serve in the "people's militia" (Volks-~
grenadin in Hitler's time), or the
"people's police," or those who choose
not to give up their 4 month old child
(or would you rather have me believe a
child can decide for itself, ) Also, ask
yourself "who" will decide what consti-
tutes "social ideas" and what is meant
by "practice." Racism is a social idea,
what is practice? People are to wel-
come grass, acid, and wesealine to dey-
elop a "revolutionary consclousness:"
May I point out that people on acid
trips generally require someone not on
a trip to supervise and watch that the
ones on the trip don't harm or kill
themseives. Also, people who use grass
state that things move Slower, such as
reaction time and coherent thought. Is
this the great "revolutionary conscious-
ness"=-one that must be superviseq"
who will supervise? All the drugs men-
tioned, in some way, Suspend or distort
the conscious mind of the individual.
Without supervision many would harm or
~kill themselves while "more aware",
No one statement ever expresses
who. It should be obvious. Those who
speak of collectives speak of power,
and those who speak of power speak of
ruling. One line really deserves study-
"the only solution to air pollution is
revolution." Sheer genius. Burning build-
ings and flags will only serve to pol-
lute the air. Is it not clear now who
Will do the deciding and who will do
the following? History clearly shows
that no brand of socialism has ever
worked. By what suspension of reason do
you believe it will work in the most
advanced nation on the globe. Or would
you have us do #way with machines and
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(cont, on page 11)
ILLEGAL
WAR
LOBBY
"The Association of the United
States Army welcomes any American
who is interested in the Army and
national security, and who sub-
scribes to the aims of the As- '
sociation." So goes the official
recruiting line of the AUSA, an
organization only vaguely under-
stood by most GI's. Just what
"the aims of the Association"
actually are and what the AUSA
actually stands for are not inm-
mediately evident but can be quite
important should you be asked or
coerced to join the AUSA in any fu-
ture membership drive at Fort Bragg.
AUSA came into being in 1950
with the merger of the United
States Infantry Association and
the United States Field Artil-
lery Association. It was soon
restructured in 1956 to elimin-
ate conflicts of interest by mili-
tary officers by removing active
duty military personnel from the
governing board and key offices.
This change increased the effecti-
veness of the organization and led
to an increase in the membership
to 100,000, most of which were
either in the Army or in defense-~
related industries. AUSA also
established offices in washington
from which it could base and con-
duct its programs. Since that
time, the AUSA has worked to in-
fluence defense policy to pro-
vide for an Army that could meet
smali-scaie agression anywhere in
the worid and give flexibility
to the strategic nuclear response,
AUSA currently uses the $6vuU,000
4t coliects in dues from its men-
bers and untola amounts it collects
from detense industry membership
and ads in its magazine to support
@ number of programs. (Exactly
how it spends its money is aiffi-
cuit to ascertain in that the AUSA
recentiy faliea to even supply
4ts budget to a member who re-
quested it for his own knowledge.)
tnese programs include support for
oacceleratea procurement of the
most moaern weapons and equip-
ment for the army," support of the
rw
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Saturday, October 10, twelve men-
bers of Fort Braggs'
inst the War went to Washington,
North Carolina, in support of a wor-
kers strike against the local Hamilton
Beach plant.
The workers, ,.mostly Black women, are
members of Local 3678, Communication
Workers of America and are striking
for a 25 cent an hour wage increase,
recognition of senority, and improve-
ment on benifits. The workers are paid
an average wage of $1.93 an hour, one
quarter of the workers make only the
minimm wage.
Since the work is of a seasonal
nature, with a peak period of employ-
ment just prior to the Christmas rush,
many workers are laid off with no
regards to seniority. The best way to
keep working is to brown-nose the
bosses and to keep quite about con-
ditions. Anyone questioning the worke:
ing conditions will end up on the out-
side in short order.
The factory management does not
recognize the union as the auth-
orized spokesman for the workers,
and calls the strike illegal---
this allows the factory to use
scabs (outside workers) and also
to harass the strikers,
Since the factory is the dom-
inate economic factor in Washing-~
ton, it is able to use local pig
C5A, "full support of our coun-
try's objectives in Southeast
Asia," endorsement of oworldwide
deployment of U.S. Army forces,"
support for the "development of
an ABM system," and support for
"efforts to make disrespect for
the Flag a federal offense."
The Braxton Bragg Chapter of
AUSA, headed by Joe Barr,
has as its chief activity the an-
nual membership drive at Fort
Bragg.
The drive is actually carried
out by scores of appointed project
officers and employs the same or-
ganization and tactics as other
drives except that it focuses
mainly on officers and NCO's,
Last year's drive produced 3,632
new members and $27,756 and main-
tained the Braxton Bragg Chapter's
stature as one of the largest in
the world.
The legality of such a drive for
a political lobbyist organization
GI's United Aga-
one anit
forces to arrest workers on chicken-
shit charges, and to keep the pick-
eters from interfering with the op-
erations of the factory.
Twenty-six workers have been
arrested so far, including one wo-
man who struck the driver of a car
who slammed into the picket line,
injuring a women severly.
Members of GI's United of Fort
Bragg decided to show solidarity with
the workers, and went by motor
Caravan to help with the picket-
ing. Within minutes there were three
state patrol cars, two city and
county pig cars, and the local dog
catcher on the scene.
The pigs stopped the GIs at the
strike and asked to see registra-
tions, ID cards and passes, Fortu-
natly, all the GIs had come prepared
for such harassement, and had their
shit in order.
Of course the local press did
not cover any of the action because
it's all controlled by Hamilton.
The strikers have recieved, and
are continuing to recieve aid from
student groups and womensT organ-
izations, They can still use help.
For more information contact:
Comminications Workers of America
Local 3678
Washington, N.C.
Power to the Workers! !
which employs federally-employed
officers on duty and in uniform to
carry it out, as well as the other
activities--advertisement on post,
use of the Fort Bragg Public In-
formation Office for publicity,
voluminous publicity in the semi-
official Paraglide, and the offer-
ing of adniniettats¢ leave to
attend the annual convention as an
incentive for membership-has not
as yet been formally questioned.
The Hatch Act, passed by Con-
gress years ago to eliminate poli-
tical activity and corruption among
federal employees places strict
limitations upon such activities
and opens a question of illegality.
@ust what provisions or standards
of fairness allow the AUSA to main-
tain offices, conduct membership
drives, and distribute and display
printed material on Fort Bragg while
GI's United and other groups are
denied that right is also a yet an
unanswered question.
SeT. SNORKEL! WeTvE
BEEN THINKING, AND
WE'RE NOT GOING To
BLINDLY AccEPT THE
oARMY WAY� ANY LONG-
ER! Look AROUND AT our
NEW ACTIVIST ARMY,
OURS NO MORE JUST To
DO THE ARMY'S CRAP AnD
PALL WE
ARE SAYING,
SARGE, 1S
GIVE PEACE
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THIS ARMY Com-
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QUESTION ING-
O.K.) SARGE " BIG THING-S: WRAY VIETNAM? WHy BILLIONS
FOR ABMTs AND F-illTS? WHy BILLIONS FoR CORRUPT
REGIMES IN GREECE, TAIWAN, SPAIW , BRAZIL , HAITI , GUATE-
MALA AND PHILIPPINES P WHY KENT STATE AND FRED :
HAMPTON 2...OR CLOSER To HOME 2 WHY HARASSMENT
ON SAVINGS BONDS ?,.WHY HARASSMENT ON LONG HAIR?
OR A REAL SORE POINT: WHY SATURDAY AND REVEILLE
one 9
The following is a copy of the
petition which the men of the 39th
Med. Group have drawn up, circulated
through their units, and forwarded to
Congress. It was signed by 135 men
who live in the barracks which is ap-
proximately 76% of the total number
of men living in the barracks,
PETITION TO THE CONGRESS
OF THE UNITED STATES
We the undersigned active duty
enlisted men, recognizing our Con-
stitutional rights, do hereby pe-
tition Congress for the redress of
our grievances, Copies of this peti-
tion will also be supplied to the
appropriate Commanders,
The purpose of the reveille for-
mation is to pay tribute to the flag
and serves no other purpose. Only
those men who live in the barracks are
required to stand this formation and
the great majority of personnel living
FORMATIONS ©...1F WE HAVE To MAKE
THEM , THEN EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD " OFFICERS,
NCO's, YOU, EVEN OTTO"EVERYONE oR NO
THATTS WHY WETRE SUPPORTING THE...
iGI°S UNITED PeZizion tA
jis Reveille Formations
formation in order to pay respect to
the flag with us at the same time
(0550 hours) or else that the hyp-
ocrysy of reveille formation be re-
cognized and reveille formation be
abolished.
NAME RANK SSAN HOME STATE
One additional point that was not
mentioned in the petition is that
N.C.0.s living in the bachelor en-
listed quarters and officers living
in the bachelor officers quarters also
do not have to stand reveille.
The fact that the reveille cer-
emony does exist and is applied al-
most exclusively to non-career en-
listed men is an example of the
military's use of its power and
authority to keep men of the lower
ranks in a state of subservience
and oppression. It is an example
bo?
what he felt to be the reasons why
reveille had to be maintained.
A.*It serves as a focal point in
time to assure all men in the bar-
racks are up and accounted for,
B. It sets in motion the necessary
and orderly personal and inter-per- -
sonal actions necessary for morning
ablutions, cleaning of barracks and
breakfast prior to work formation,
Officers and men not living in hhe
barracks must arise as early or earl-
ier to ready themselves for duty."
Regarding the first point, ac-
countability is taken at the seven
o'clock formation for off-post per-
sonnel, the same could be done for
personnel living in the barracks,
Regarding the second point, every-
one in the 39th Group is able to get
up, Wash, clean the barracks, have
breakfast and put on dress greens
prior to the seven o'clock payday
formation. There is no reason why
in the barracks are lower ranking, non- of unnecessary harrassment and also
Career, enlisted men. The very great of a process which conditions men to
majority of officers and noncommisioned respond with unquestioning, obedience
the same routine could not be ac-
complished on work days. Rotating
barracks orderlies would also faci-
officers live off post and are not re-
quired to stand this early formation..
We the enlisted men of the39th Med-
ical Group who live in the enlisted
men's quarters at Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, in the interest of improving
troop moral and eliminating class dis-
crimination, do respectfully request
the Congress of the United States to
enact legislation that will require
every grade (rank) of military per~
sonnel including the Commanding Gen-~
eral of this post to stand reveille
to everything they are aked to do.
In theory the ceremony is to honor litate this procedure.
the flag. Yet those who demand that
enlisted men perform this ritual do
not find it to be that sacred that
they thenselves should attend it.
Copies of the petition were also
sent to the Commanding Gereral of
Fort Bragg and to the Commander of
the 39th Med. Group,
A written response was recieved
from the Commander of the 39th Med.
Group. In this renxpond, he listed
The point of officers and N.C.0.8s
who do not live in the barracks on post
and do not have to stand reveille
Was not addressed, .
We feel that this is a valid grine.
We know the Army will have to act on
it soon if they expect to keen this
Army together
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Withdraw Now ~
The weakest link in the chain of
American Imperialism was Vietnam--
now Indochina. It should be clear
Since the extension of military
action into Cambodia and Laos, that
the present Nixon administration
intends to hang on in Southeast Asia
as long as it is able, vainly hop-
ing for a military victory.
Washington will not get out of
,Indochina one day sooner than the
Indochinese revolution coupled with
a broad American anti-war move-
ment compel it to.
President Nixon's October 7th
proposal in no way signals,a shift
in the United States military or
political objectives in Southeast
Asia, but arrogantly asserts the
"right" to militarily occupy and
dictate the terms of government tbo
the nations and people of Indochina.
If Nixon's administration really
Wants peace, as it seems by the
withdrawal program currently in
progress, why doesn't it dump Thieu,
Ky and Khiem now instead of next
year or year after?
Washington realizes, just as
Saigon knew long before the Viet-
namization program began, that the
present Thieu-Ky group could not
stand total U.S. withdrawal, yet
Nixon maintains in public that he
is pulling out support while in
fact preserving the puppets.
Why not make a firm declaration
that the United States is getting
out and negotiations for a per-
manent peace begun? What is Nixon
holding onto? It can only be the
4llusory hope of a military tri-
umph.
The search for peace demands not
only military de-escalation, but
also political de-escalation in
the sense that those caught in
between the two extremes must begin
to share the power.
Disassociation of the United
States position at Paris from the
position of the Saigon government,
the U.S. negotiating only for its
own withdrawal, can be the only
way to achieve a reasonalbe and just
peace for the people of Indochina
to establish self-determination.
That the United States can jus-
tify 1ts military intervention in
Vietnam on the basis that it must
defend the principle of self-de-
termination for the people of South
~Vietnam is beyond comprehension.
The establishment of peace in
Indochina only requires conditions
in which the people can determine
their own future for themselves.
It has been for this free choice
that the National Front for Lib-
eration has fought for ten years and
not to impose a political monopoly
on the people.
Mme. Nyugen Thi Binh, represent-
ing the Provisional Revolutionary
Government, initiated a proposal
on September 17th to the Nixon
administration that provides a
cognasant peaceful settlement:
If Nixon truely intends to get
out of Vietnam as he states in his
plan for a generation of peace, all
he has to do is set a date for the
withdrawal of troops and the
shooting could stop.
There is no need for oimmediate
negotiations for cease-fire in place
throughout Indochina to be interna-
tionally supervised" as he stated in
the most recent plan or "an in-
ternational body acceptable to. both
Sides to supervise Ceasc-fires, "
plus cessation of combat after a
year of troop withdrawals" as he
stated in 1969, only an agreement in
principle to the withdrawal and the
fighting could stop and negotia-
tions for a permanent peace begun.
~Never do anything against conscience
even if the State demands it.T
Albert Einstein, physicist
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N.C. 28390. Meetings are held on
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Editorial Board:
Phil Friedrich - 12th Support.
Bob Brown - 12th Support.
Ed Furin = 327 Sig. Bn.
Bruce Klauck = 426 Sig. Bn.
Bill Robb 28th. CA Co.
Richard Olgon = 28th. CA Co.
Frederick Blitzer - Dental Corps.
J.E.A. Bordeaux i 519th. Sig. Co.
Theodore Isaac =- 327th. Sig. Bn.
Gary Lyben = 327th Sig. Bn,
Hal Noyes = JFK Center. . sit
William Carothers - 829th QM Co. USAR
Edwin C, Cox Jr. = 12th Support.
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nity:
But what alternative (recourse)
does this leave us but the Army it-_.
~self? The same good-guys whom I pre-
viously mentioned were willing to
let things ride as they are at present.
Can the Army really do something if
they want?
If the Army can organize service
clubs, PX's, cleaners, etc., what's
to stop it from organizing other ap-
parent necessities such as pawnshops,
auto repair services, etc., and have
them all function (those now existing
as well as these that could be estab-
lished) on a non-profit (it's not a
dirty word) basis. I doubt if there's
an Army PX in the world that's oper-
ating at a loss. Well why not throw
this profit back into the hands of
the G.I., and set-up a true collective
organization where the G.I.s are the
shareholders with the collective pro«
fits being returned to them in the form
of a refund at the end of a fiscal
year (By the way if you haven't al-
ready ascertained it, this is an ap- ©
peal to you General Tolson, hopefully
the same man who was speaking to his
men thru the alrwaves of a local radio
station).
I sort of feel that mild degree of
pessimism creeping up behind me. If
fact it's probably naive of me to think
that I could get the Brass or even the
citizens of Fayetteville mildly ex-
cited about what I've written here.
So what can we do?
Well let's think about a selective
economic boycott. We're asking all
of you to send in letters or cards
describing stores (cleaners, shoe-_.
stores,supermarkets, automotive shops,
car dealers, etc.) with which you
dealt. Let us know of the places that
have treated you fairly as well
as those that have attempted to rip
you off, Leave it to us to compile a
list of desireable and undesireable
places to bring your business,
This is what Bragg Briefs is all
about. Bragg Briefs is a paper cre-
ated by G.I.8 for G.I.8. We want to
help, but we all have to help eachother
to be succesful. Let's do something
about economic exploitation of G.I.s
in Fayetteville,
Let's get our shit together. If
Uncle Sam won't take care of it's own,
let's do it ourselves.
G.I.s of Ft. Bragg Unite!!!
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' Living
Conditions
Impossible
High ranking personnel at Ft.
Bragg are finally admitting to one
another that unless living conditions
are improved an All Volunteer Army
will be impossible. In a Letter,
titled oSupervision in Barracks at
Night" a commander in the 12th Sup-
port Brigade makes the following
statements.
o Pretty drab fare st best and certain-
ly not comparative with civilian life
and its moments of privacy, whether it
be toilet, bath or just reading. We
must eradicate this arcnalic remnant
of the past (The Herd Barracks) while
in garrison if we hope to have a
prayer for an All Volunteer army."
The letter quoted was actually an
argument against the reestablishment
of bed check to curb AWOL'S and stop
the use of drugs, as stated in 12th
Support Brigade Letter AJBLC-CS,dated
10 July 1970. Of this Brigade letter
this commander says" It is recommend-
ed that part of its intent 1s to answer
the oabsentee landlord syndrome" iden-
tified in inter-racial seminars." ..,.
There is little demonstrated benefit
to be derived. In fact, the procedures |
establishes another set of restrict- -
ions and rules which can result in
increased Military Justice problems.
Morever, it certainly is of counter
purpose with efforts to establish an
All Volunteer Army. We are already
having enough difficulties with our
young troopers who deeply resent(rightly
er wrongly) current restrictions on
their movements..."
"A return to bedcheck...restores one
of more odious of the 'Brown Boot
Army' traditions. I did not agree...
then and am even more opposed to it
now as degrading to ~individuals we
call men.'...it smacks of a boys re-
formatory."
If activities of the past and
present continue into the future many
of the conclusions reached by this
officer are correct. In the recent
past a bedcheck was initiated against
the 5th Evacuation Hospital with a
result that many already know about.
On three consecutive nights the AWOL'S
numbered twenty-three, twenty six, and
ten. All this from an approximate
twenty seven men.
If bedcheck is re-initiated, Ft.
Bragg will see such a rash of AWOL'S,
mass disobedience, and mutiny as has
not been seen since the G.i. Yome
Home Movement of 1945-46. Right onl
Charles P. Arnold
INHUMANE ~
FEDAYEEN?
Arad lend.
fnere are now about 1.5 million
Palestinians Living in the Arab coun-
tries surrounding Israel. Most of thea
are in Jordan.fhese are the peopie who
Make up the Pedayeen guerilla rignters
Tne Fedayeen are revolutionaries
tignting te Zionists - they are not
fighting Jews. Berore the birth of
Zionism in tne late 19tn century, Jew-
ish-Arabs, Moslem-arabs, and Christian
Arabs lived together in peace as they
have for centuries.
A recent statement by the Second
World Conference on Palestine, spon-
sored by a coalition of Palestinian
liberation groups, states: " the
Palestinian revolution is determined
to to fight for the creation of a new
democratic and non-sectarian Palestine
as the long term, ultimate goal of
liberation.Annihilation of the Jews or
of the Palestinian exiles and the
creation or an exclusive racist or
In recent weeks auch ars been sali
about the obirbaric, inhunane" hizh-
jackin -:s pulled off by the Popular
Front for the Libz:ration of Palestine.
The media has made much of the dé-
struction of three planes by the
guerillas, while almost completely
ignoring the causes leading to the
event.
The highjackings were organized
mainly to focus worli attention on the
plight of hundreds of thousanis of
Palestinian refugees living in Jordan.
That the guerillas are not as ine
humane as the press reports would have
you believe, is confirmed by the hos-
tages themselves.The first officer of
the TWA jet said oWe've been told not
to talk politics, but I guess I can
say they did everything they could for
us.Some of the guerillas died for us.".
The Palestinians are livinz in
terribly poor refugee camps, where they
were forced by the Zionists after Israel
was created in 1948.
Zionism is a political ideology
which holds basic the theory that anti-
theocratic state in Palestine, be it
Jewish, Ohristian, or Moslem, is to-
tally umacceptable, unworkable, and
cannot last. The oppressed Palestinian
masses will fight and make all needed
sacrifices to demolish the oppressive
exclusive state.". .
This simply means that the gueril-
las want a free, tolerant Palestine
where Jews, Moslems, and Christians
can live together as brothers, not as
enemies. Is there any inhumanity in
that idea?
(Continued on pg. 10)
Semitism among non Jews is universal
and ineradicable.It calls for a separate
Jewish state to escape persecution.
Prior to 7% II and Hitler's massacre
of 6,000,000 Jews, Zionism was a minor
force among world Jeury.After the war,
American and Jewish public opinion
were decidedly favorable to the idea
of an all Jewish state.
In 1947 the United Nations passed a
resolution calling for the partition of
Palestine and the creation of Israel.
The U. Ne resolution incorporated
56% of Palestine into the Jewish state,
although Jews comprised only 33% of
the population, and owned less than 6%
of the land in Palestine.The remainder
of the land was annexed by Jordan.
According to the plan, the Jewish
state would hold 498,000 Jews and
497,000 Arabs.
The® Zionists accepted this because
it created a Jewish state in Palestine.
They were, however, not satisfied with
the small Jewish majority or the nation-
al boundaries imposed upon them by the
plane
Referring to the violence that broke
out after the plan was announced, Prof=
essor William E. Hocking wrote, oin
the confusion a pattern began to emerge,
an organized military campaign systenm-
atically directed towards two major
�
MINISTER OF DEFENSE ¥
( GoemaeL Der Fee
Tuat Genocive Ts: Basicasy
Huey P. Newton
Second Revolutionary
Peoples Constitutional
Convention
objectives: first to confirm Jewish
domination over Arabs within the pro-
posed limits of the Jewish state, and,
seconi, to enlarge these limits.The
Irgun, the Stern Gang, and the Haganah
( Jewish military groups )...began
ovenly to attack Arab villages and
cities, iriving out the inhabitants
or massacring those wno stood by their-
homes and fielais...fhat this vas a
Dlanned military maneuver, there is no
longer the slightes doubt.".
The fightin: continued until July,
1949, shen iraistices were :sisnei bte-
tween Israel ani the neis:borin; Aarib
coumtries.By this time, Israel ad son
22% of the land ai.ocated to the Arp
state ty tne U. N. plan, ana ned forcei
over 400,0U0 Paisstinians lfrouw tneir
nomese
In adiition to creating a real
Jewisn moijority in tie new Israel, tne
ecomomic penerits of tne Arib exodus
were euoswous,. More ta2n 0% of Isr2ei
( pre 19-¢ ) consiitea o- L:ni ao-ioned
by tie Arcbs.0r the 59U new Je.isa
-ettLoments ectiblicaed tetyveen 1948
ani 1253, 350 ~vere on o osentee" prop-
erties. In I¥54 more tii one-tilri of
lernel's Jewish pspul2tion livei on
FREE THE
PEOPLE
ry
Last month Bragg Briefs reported
on the Revolutionary Peoples Con-
stitutional Convention held in
Philadelphia on Labor Day.. Spon-
sored by the Black Panther Party,
the Convention drew over 10,000
people who, through their various
workship sessions, began to put
together the outline of a new
Constitution to fit the reality
of present day America.
This month the actual writing of
the Constitution will take place
at the final session of the Con-
vention which is to be held in
Washington D.C. over Thanksgiving.
All people who want to take part
in creating a revolutionary con-
stitution for a truly liberated
country should make every effort to
attend.
At this time GI's United has no
information concerning the place or
time of the convention. i
If you are interested, go to or
call either the Quaker House, 223
Hillside ave. (485-3213) or the
Haymarket Square Coffeehouse, cor-
ner of St. and Bragg Blvd
(485-9792).
~~
GITs Confront Agnew
Spiro T. Agnew spoke at the cam-- groups were apparently afraid we were
pus of North Carolina State Univer-. there to create violence. This in it-
sity, on the evening of October 26, self is a fallacy, we only went there
The contents of his speech was well to express our opposition to the war,
covered by the Straight Press, and When we tried to express ourselves we
needs no further explanation here. were told to shut-up. wWe,the G.I.'s,
There is one point about the news were tired of sitting back and not.
coverage that I would like to bring expressing ourselves. We did suc-
out. Bragg Briefs consistently re- ceed in expressing our point to a
ceives letters from readers who quest-certain extent, at least the people
ion the source of the information for who-were there now know all G.I.8s
articles in the paper. For the most don't support the war. The Fayette-
part these same readers will place ville Observer printed and I quote:
great faith in the "truth" con- oOnly one minor incident was repor-
tained in articles which appear in ted at the coliseum as thousands of
the the straight press. adult Republicans who were turned
Monday night in Raleigh, at Agnews' away from the packed house milled
speech there was a different story around with long-haired students,
than that which was reported in any oflistening to the Vice President's
the straight papers in this area. speech over a public address systen.
about 30 men and women from GI's ___ Raleigh police said that occured
United went to Raleigh Monday night when words were exchanged between
to let the vice-president know where ., small group trying to listen to
we stand on current political issues, the speech and a group of chanting
We had several banners stating our NON=-STUDENT demonstrators led by
opposition to the war and to the re- anti-war organizer George Vlasits of
pressive measures now being taken Durham,
to suppress dissent within their ~freeT
society.
Upon arriving at North Carolina
State we immediately ran into oppos-
ition from the Left, Right, and Center,
It seems as though all three of these
GITS SPEAK OUT - CONT.
(cont from page 2)
| The most degrading thing of the
~whole day is-when you are told to
climb through a hole in a fence and
| police coke cama and paper out of
~flowing sewer water. When you try
. to explain how unhealthy this is to
~an N.C.0O. who has so much respon-
sibility, amd he tells you it's too
fucking bad, and gives you a direct
- order to do it, what can you do?
{ That was Battalion Police which
: should now be entitled as :Hard:.
Labor. I feel that any time a per-
son is given a pick and a ten 1b.
sledge hammer, and told to crush
rocks, he might as well consider
himself on Hard Labor.
I don't know if LTC. Lawrence E.
Gaiter, Battalion Commander of the
12th Support Brigade is aware of any-
thing, other than the fact that he
~Wants the street in front of his ;
office swept every morning and clean BROTHERS,
of all rocks, or if all of these are
his requirements.
I am a white Amerikan from an upper
middle class family. Am I proud of my
heritage? No I am not.
The Amerikan white race is a dis-
grace to the human race. Our race is
constantly oppressing othe¥ races. we
started out by owning Black slaves,
treating them worse than we treated
animals. We controlled them and allow-
ed them no real freedom. If a slave
would not obey his master, he was ei-
ther beaten orT killed.
fhrough the war between the states,
we supposedly gave the Blacks their
rightful freedom. Were they really
freed? According to the law they were.
The White man feeling superior to the
Black man kept exploiting and oppress-
ing him.
Shortly after the freeing of the
Slaves, a group of Whites saw that
their White utopia was in danger so
they organized a group commonly known
as the K.K.K.!! This group was formed
to insure other Whites that the Blacks
A Parachute rigger?
would stay in their proper place, under
the White man's thumb,
~~.
The article in the Fayettville
Observer countradicts or uses false
statements three times in that short
article. First of all in the first
paragragh it states thousands of
Republicans outside listening to the
speech. The second paragragh states
only a small group was outside
listening to the speech,
Secondly, that group of chanting
NON-STUDENT demonstrators were in
reality GI's from Ft, Bragge's GI's
United.
Finally, George is not in any way
an organizer in the GI;s United
movement,
The straight press does not nece--~
ssarily print the truth, but in actual.
ity only what it wants the people to
know! !
The White man, after first arriv-
ing here, decided it was time to begin
moving west. In our move west we found
the land belonged to another people.
The Amerikan Indian. Again, the Ind-
lan was a minority. According to the
White man the Indians were savages
and besides we needed the land more
~ than they did. We the Whites pro--
ceeded to slaughter the Indian. The
ones we didn't kill we placed in Res-
ervations. The White man gave the
Indians some land,and called it Okl-
ahoma (meaning belonging to the Ind-
jan). It was soon after this that oil
was found in Oklahoma, so again the
White man forced the Indians out of
their land, out of pure greed.
The White man has always felt the
need to exploit other people under
this system. Today we are in Vietnam
supposedly helping the South Vietnanm-
ese people fight for freedom. Yet in
our own country, the Blacks and the
Indians that are fighting for their
own freedom in this country are lab-
eled either criminals or Communists.
White capitalist Amerikans are the
criminals by the fact that they are
denyi these people their freedon.
of cnis country are uniting for one
on goal.-What is that goal? Our
aba). terka change the system in this
country so that all people will be
and equal.
atl . unite American vow to help
e this system and replace it
sate. Bae that 1s fair and just for
all people! If I mst, I will give
my life for this cause. ~
WHITE AND NOT PROUD
BUT ANGRY,
FT. BRAGG GI.
THEY DONTT SELL DOPE TO PEOPLE, THEY SELL PEOPLE TO DOPE!!!
Up to 1949 the most important
symbol in the ghetto was the knife,
from then on it became the needle.
In 1956 the first wave of smack
(heroin) hit the young black people
of Harlem, an attack on the poor
youth of the ghetto that served to
"pacify" the oppressed people of the
city. In New York over the last ten
years smack has been used to break up
gangs of poor whites, blacks, and
Puerto Ricans.
In all the heavy communities of
America people have noticed a marked
increase of smack use and all that
follows from an influx of hard drugs-
rip-offs, burns, murders, uptightness.
We've got to try to understand why
there has been more and more smack use
in our communities and in the communi-
ties of our brothers and sisters.
Smack is big business. The smack
dealers on the street get thelr smack
from the Mafia or the Syndicate and
most of the dealers are strung out
themselves, dealing to support their
own habits. William Burroughs called
smack the perfect capitalistic
commodity because you do not sell it
- to the people, you sell the people
to it (smack), and once they're
hooked all you've got to do is supply
the dope.
Our brothers and sisters are get-
ting fucked up behind smack. Smack
does not come from our lives, from
our communities. It comes from the
Mafia businessmen who control the
largest "corporation" in America.
RENNIE DAVIS
| AT
HAYMARKET SQUARE
(cont.from page 1)
plan, and the growing dissent against
the war among popular leaders in the
Saigon government.
Rennie brought out the Vietnamese
proposals, that when Nixon agrees,
even in prinicipal, to a withdrawal .
date, that all U.S. prisoners of war
will be released, and a cease fire
will begin. The PRG has stated that
_the present Saigon government struc- |.
ture and ARVN forces can remain intact
and coalesce with ail major forces and
personalities to form a provisional
government. This government will hold
the long promised free elections that
the U.S. government has continually
thwarted,
On the other hand, Nixons proposal
speaks of negotiations for a cease-
fire, but says nothing about re-
moving U.S. troops at any time. This
is the main reason the people of Viet-
nam, Laos, and Cambodia have said no
to it---there is no sign of any break
in U.S. control.
Davis showed how the "backward"
nation of Vietnam has stood up against
all the tremendous U.S. firepower that
has been leveled at it for the last 10
years. Vietnam shows that ordinary
people can win against the, "machine*,
The question is, how are we going to
end imperialism? End racism? End
sexism? End a system based on pri-
vate greed? Rennie Davis said that we
have an obligation to build our own
future, and so did the audience,
The work towards the development of
@ peoples peace is now starting, and
GI's are an important of it. That's
why Rennie Davis came to Fort Bragg---
te start letting people know whats
WELCOME WE'VE MET MANY OF YOUR VICTIMS. we must come together to deal with
Herman Khan, Pentagon egghead researcher,
the head of the RAND (research and deve-
Lopment corporation), did a study for
the U.S. Government on the strength of
the Mafia and concluded that "the Mafia
is so powerful that all the U.S. can
do about it is negotiate.� wWhy would
hey want to negotiate? They work
well together in their destruction
and oppression of people.
One of the reasons I think that
we see so much smack is that smack
slavery is an attack on our people by
the power structure of this country.
Drugs like LSD, pot, mescaline, can
help people have experiences that are
about learning to live in new ways.
The youth culture in this country 1s
linked to these life-giving experiences.
WE ARE NOT ABOUT SMACK OR SPEED OR THE
SYSTEM OF LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY THAT IS
OPPOSED TO OUR SEARCH FOR LIFE. Nixon
has called for newer and stiffer drug
laws against psychedelics, but the. -
spread of destructive drugs goes on,
and each day more and more people-the
youngest people who hit the street
first-get fucked up behind smack and
speed. If we see ourselves as a
community of people who are trying to
live a new kind of life together,
being done. It's time to get to-
gether to end the war, and every
individual must do his part, mst
begin to take control of his own life.
This was Rennie Davis' message.
Port Bragg GI's can play an integral
part in the action, but its up to ua,
it's our lives. 3
the problems that face us. One
thing that we know about America
is it's isolation. Many of us are
trying to be hip im response to
the isolated futures that this
country has laid out for us. We @
must come together in a coherent
and progressive way to get rid
of smack and begin the creation
of a community that relates to all
of our brothers and sisters.
VIETNAMESE DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE
AW men, ave wealed
equal. They ave edowed
by thew cveator with
certain unalemmole
;
|
Canadian GovTt. vows to destroy
Front for the Liberation of Quebec
» As Bragg Briefs went to press,
the Front for the Liberation of
Quebec (FLQ) continued to hold two
kidnapped government dignitaries,
and was negotiating for the re-
lease of twenty three political
prisoners, Canadian Prime Minister
Pkerre Elliott Trudeau slapped the
revolutionaries in the face by
beginning a round-up of almost a
thousand "suspected FLQers and
sympathizers,"
Shortly after the mass arrests
began, Quebec Labor Minister
Pierre Laporte, one of the two
kidnapped men, was found dead in a
bleak Montreal suburb, shot in the
head ©
By invoking the emergency War
Measures Act, Trudeau virtually
suspended all civil liberties in the
predominantly French-speaking pro-
vince. Arrests can now be made
without warrants, offices broken
into, and detainees kept incom-
municado for three months on end
without charges,
The wave of repression, includ-
ing the use of armed troops in the
city of Montreal, began soon after
the FLQ kidnapped James Cross,
British Trade Commissioner in
Canada, and Laporte.
The action of the FLQ, a re~
volutionary socialist group fight-
ing for a Quebec independent of
English and USedominated Canada,
has provoked strong reactions,
negative and positive, among the
French in Quebec, who are 83% of
the Quebec population and 43% of
all the unemployed in Canada.
As Minister of Labor, Pierre
Laporte was a despised figure who
stymied the interests of Quebec's
working class movements up and
down the line, a man who could do
nothing to stave off unemployment
and misery, and a man who worked
for the English. He was also an
"assimilationist" who did not
~believe that the Quebecois are a
people who have a country of their
own,
Thus when Laporte's body was put
on public display in Montreal,
local TV stations were forced to
carefully edit their tapes of the
osolemn mourners" in front of the
casket--too many of them were
cracking jokes, poking each other
in the ribs, and smiling.
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
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The most dangerous result of the
kidnapping/execution may not be the
crushing of the FLQ itself; instead
the brunt of-government repression
is falling on the entire spectrum
of the Quebec liberation movement,
of which the FLQ is only a small
segment. Some of the people
rounded up in pre-dawn raids under
the emergency act include trade
union leaders, newspaper editors,
radical lawyers, and even candidates
in Quebec's upcoming elections.
James Cross is still alive, |
according to a note written by
him and received by authorities; |
the FL@ is still holding out for ai
release of the 23 political prison-
ers. But now the government has
decided to utterly destroy the FLQ
and has decided that nothing short o
fascism will do. Whether it will |
be temporary or more permanent
fascism is still an open question, |
=
Voice of Hanoi |
You can hear the "Voice of Viet |
nam" broadcast daily in English to |
the American people = the official
voice of the Vietnamese people in
thier struggle to expel the United
States occupation forces - bringing
you news, commentary, documents
of war, plus special cultural pro-
grams from Vietnam andT the peoples
of Indochina.
"The Voice of Vietnam" is
beamed northward by the trans-
mitters of Radio Havana in Cuba
at 9:10 pem., 10:40 p.m, and
11:40 p.m. EST on three differ-
ent frequencies: at 9,525 kc.
on the 3i-meter band, and at
11,970 ke. on the 25=-meter band,
and at 17,715 ke. on the 16-meter
band.
The Vietnamese who put the
broadcasts together would like
to hear from people in the United
States. Letters, which are often
broadcast, can be sent to "The
Voice of Vietnam" at P.O. Box
6116, Havana, Cuba or at 58 Quan
Su Street, Hanol, Democratic
Republic of Vietnan,.
It's now
(PALESTINE, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7)
The recent war in Jordan was sparked
by the massacre ot isolated Palestinian
units by King Hussein's Bedouin sol-
diers.When tae heavy fighting pegan on
Sep. 17, the government cut otf water
and electricity to the people of Amman.
Phone and telegraph lines were cut.The
airport was closed. The lack of water
forced the Red Crescent ( the Palestin-
ian Red Cross ) to announce, o Your
Children are expiring of thirst. we
Cannot help you except by telling you
that you may be able to save lives by
let:.ing them drink tieir own urine.
It will cause no harm.".The lack of
communications meant that there was
virtually no news of the massacre of
thousands of civilians.
The New Y ork Times carried a story
Of a Red Cross column attempting to
evacuate wounded from the Wahdat ref-
ugee camp in Amman.The column was able
to get within 500 yards of the camp's
hospital when they were forced to turn
back by a government attack that "de-
fied the imagination", A Newsweek cor-
respondent interviewed wounded civil«
ijans. He wrote, "What they said left
little room for doubt that the Jordan-
ian Army had engaged in a wholsale
Slaughter of civilians." In the past
week correspondents have discovered
mass graves dug by the army to hide
the number of persons actually killed,
estimated by some to be as high as
10,000 deaths.
The U. S. government has said no-
thing about the massacre of civilians
in Jordan.All they said was that they
might send in troops if it looked like
Hussein was going to fall. Now Deputy
Secretary of Defense Packard has an-
nounced that the United States will
send Hussein weapons.According to the
New York fimes, ohe suggested weapons
might be included beyond those King
Hussein possessed when the fighting
broke out last week...The aim, he said,
would be to increase Jordan's ability
to defend herself." That's one of the
things Palestinians mean when they
talk about U. S. imperialism.
| TOLL: 342,790
The following casualty figures for
Southeast Asia are based on U.S. gov-
ernment statistics, They are lower the
than the figures reported by the lib-
eration forces. The first figures
cover the war from Jan. 1, 1961 to
Sept. 19, 1970. Figures in parenthese
cover the war for the week Sept. 12
to Sept. 19. Killed: 43,674 (.52);
"Non=-combat" deaths: 8564 (33); Woun-
ded: 289,001 (333); Missing, captured
1551.
November
Officer Receives
C.O. Discharge
After having his initial app-
lication disapproved, Lieutenant
Bill Lynch has been discharged
from the Army as a Conscientious
objector,
Bill has been active in GI's
United since just before May 16
Rally with Jane Fonda and Rennie
Davis. Using his backround as
&@ lawyer (Lynch has a law degree
from the University of Chicago)
to help other co applicants
work their way through the inte
ricacies of the process.
Bill said that in general a
successful application will
hit all major points, Eg obj-
ection to all wars. But he
observed that the most import-
ant criterion was whether the
"oOkay Lord, new moke @ 480 degree turn te the right or we'll blew this thing up.�
Bill explained that he kept
Army wants you out and that kidding himself into belleving
what the application reads is that he wasn't really going to
secondary. have to kill people. He had been
One reason initial applica- in ROTC from 1963 to 1965 when
tions are routinely turned dow the war in Vietnam had not yet
is that the Army is interested
in determining if you have the
money to hire legal assistance
the typical fee being about 1200
or 1300 dollars.
If the applicant can pay for
@ legal fight through:the civ-
ilian courts then the army will
usually try to avoid the hassle
and expense of fighting the app-
licant. The consequence of thig
is that GI's from Wealthy fam-
ilies or GI's who are lawyers
themselves will have an easier
time winning co discharges than
GI's from poor families.
Bill began applying for Co
status in November 1969 after
he had received orders for Viet-
neni. Fe noted that it is entirely
possible to apply for a CO dis-
charge after receiving Orders
for Vietnam, though it then be-
comes necessary to explain why
the application was delayed un-
til that moment,
become a major issue for many
Americans,
When his orders came down
he admits he was "finally forc-
ed to think about the reality
of Vietnam." He decided that
"You can't love your neighbor
and kill him. Christ is in all
human beings and you can't act
as God and kill another human
being.
Before he left Fayetteville
with his wife, Bill encouraged
peaceminded people to be active
to keep the antiwar movement
from "being dominated by violent
people."
He also noted that because
of his application and work for
GI's United he had been invest-
igated, but he said this "doesn't
mean anything as long as they
can't find anything. What they
are really trying to do is to
make you paranoid. Don't let
that happen."
New Peace Plan
When Rennie Davis spoke at the
coffeehouse, October 16, he presented
an honorable peace plan designed to
have all U.S. troops out of Vietnam
by June 30, 1971.
The time is now for you the American
people and G.I.s, to decide exactly
which side you are on. The side of
Richard Nixon, whose proposal will
leave approximately 280,000 troops in
Vietnam for an indefinate length of
time, or the proposal of the Provis-
ional Revolutionary Government, whose
plan will insure the bringing home of
all U.S. troops and U.S. prisoners of
War by June 30, 1971.
The Nixon Five Point Peace Program,
and the Provisional Revolutionary Gov-
ernment's 8 Point Peace Proposal are in
this issue. Read both Peace Plans and
(you the American people,) decide
which Proposal you support.
It should be noted that within the
next couple of months American people,
not government officials, will be go-.
ing to Paris and bringing back signed
peace treaties to end the war. Then
perhaps you, as American citizens will
stand up and demand an end to this
senseless, inhumane war that we are
fighting in Vietnan.
How long will you as American
People allow the government to use you
as the tools of a war of this nature?
THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!!
Full opportunity for full
development is the unalienable
right of all.He who denies it
Atlanta WIN has experienced mil-
itary counselors and is Willing to
help anyone who wants or needs help.
They cover matters concerning GI
rights, laws, and regulations. They
, are particularlly available Saturday
afternoons from 2:00 to 6:00. The
street adress is 253 North Ave. N.E.,
Atlanta Ga. Telephone: (404) 875.
0646, :
he who does notdesire it is
dead, The earth for all the
people! That is the demand.
Eugene Debs, 190
""
z AGREE KID. WARTs 7@moaAr
(cont. from page 2)
dividual. Without him there can be no
society. collective, or Bragg Briefs.
What 211 of your radical leaders sug-
gest is an Animal Farm vyr* of society
where the individual ,you, is subject
vo the collective, they. If you doubt
that sociai.sc�"�- Y any form or name,
is a failure merely ov.�TYe auseses or
Red China, with the Red Guard 1.°*�"�
ally killing anyone who dissents; or
England, since they went socialistic;
or U.S.A. as it becomes more socialis-
tic. Please think.
AN® UNETHICAL ....... QUT RE ME mBER,
TT IS AUSO VE Ay PROFITABLE.
go back to more pleac�* times"serfs
and lords? It is interesting to note
that in an issue of Newsweek, two
economists who defected from Russia
Stated that in order to survive Russia
must convert to the types of capital-
ism practiced in the U.S. But you would
have us throw it away in favor of mass
Suicide. Brilliant.
Another term I hear and read in
your paper is chauvinism, whether male
or female. That is one trick of verbal
gymnastics that I would hate to defend.
Chauvinism is "excessive or blind pa-
triotism;" Patriotism is "love for
one's country;" such a blatant disre-
gard for definition makes argument or
defense quite weak,
Your paper could be effective. In-
stead of being a hate peddler why don't
you think or probe? Remember, the
Smallest minority on earth is the in-
I hope there. are some of you who
have the intellectual strength to
reason and the moral strength to judge
for one is the outgrowth of the other.
However, since your articles go un-
Signed I rather doubt it, Any moron
Can shoot a gun or burn a building,
but a moron will never SWay an opin-
lon by thought. Even Hitler signed
Mein Kamf.. Think]
W.A. mullendore
Womack Army Heap.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
It is obvious that GIs have
few Constitutional Rights. There
is no free speech, no free assen~
bly, no freedom from unreasonable
searches, no jury trial. There
are however rights under the
Army's own regulations. These
should be taken advantage of,
LIFER JUSTICE
MILITARY RIGHTS
48 85-1 All GIs have the rig-
© receive any written matter
they desire in the Mail, and
have the right to keep any books,
newspapers, or pamphlets they
want.
i 600-23 "Degrading or deperson-
Zing actions such as the pra-
ctice of requiring heads of sol-
diers to be shaved or cropped
extremely close are forbidden,
Hair will be well &roomed, cut
short or medium length, prefer-
rably 2 inches or less... A
neatly trimmed mustach is per-
mitted,"
AR 600-20 GIs may participate
n pu c demonstrations when
they are off duty and out of
uniform,
AR 635-20 "An individual who ap=
Piles for discharge based on con-
scientious objection will be re-
tained in his unit,"
As chen e Permission to distrib-
ute unofficial literature on
base may be obtained by submit-
ting a request to the Provost
Marshall Office,
aa Personnel on holdover
Status are to be treated as per-
manent party.
UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JuSTIcK
ax ticle 13 Punishment may not be
mpos the person has deman-
ded trial by court-martial.
A person who consider- -
_» punish-
ge Foams) ia8 article unjust
«~ssproportionate to the offen-
se may, through proper channels
appeal to the next superior auth-
ority. :
On alg. 1 1969 change 1) requires
the Army to provide "certified"
counsel for special or general
court-martial, 2) allows a summary
court-martial to be refused in
lieu of a special court-martial,
3) provides for "military judges"
to replace lifers in a special
court-martial when requested,
Art. 30 Any person who believes
himself wronged by his command-
ing officer, and who, upon due
application to that CO, is refused
redress, may complain to any sup-
erior commissioned officer who
Shall take steps for redressing
the wronged complained of,
ACTS PUNISHABLE BY COURT={MARTIAL
(often commited by officers)
(follow procedure under Art.
138)
Art. 93 Cruelty toward, or opress-
lon or maltreatment of any person
subject to his orders,
Art. 97 Unlawful apprehension, ar-~
rest or confinement of any person,
Art. 98 Unnecessary delay in the
Sposition of any case of a per=-
son accused of an offense,
Art. 107 Signing, with intent to
eceive, any false record, or or-
der, or false official statement,
Art. 117 Using provoking or re-
proachful words or gestures,
Art. 121 Wrongfully taking, ob-
taining, or withholding from any
person any money, personal prop-
erty or article of value of any
kind,
Art. ist a) "communicating a threat"
~taking, opening, abstracting,
secreting, destroying, stealing
or obstructing mails" c) "all con-
duct of a nature to bring discre~
dit upon the armed forces"
DISCHARGES AVAILABLE
AR pap=20 Persons who, because of
religious training and belief,
are opposed to participation in
War in any form will be dischar-
ged"for the convenience of the
government,"
AR_ 635-89 Persons committing
ay axe oan acts.
AR -200 Persons returning to
schoofsatesting teaching, join-
ing a police force or working in
seasonal labor may be discharg-
ed up to 3 months early. Persons
suffering from hardship in fine
anclial support of dependents
may be discharged,
Chapter 10: Persons facing a
court-martial with a possible
punishment of a bad conduct or
dishonorable discharge may be
discharged upon request for the
good of the service,
AR 635-212 Discharges for the
following: "frequent incidents
of a discreditable nature with
military authorities," drug pos~
session or use, an "established
pattern of shirking", homosexual
tendencies, Discharge is only
noseihle when the proper auth-
Qr
Bragg Briefs
P.O. Box 437
. ; 28390
orities consider "rehabilitation
to be impossible,
AR 40-501 Discharges for numer-
ous technical medical reasons,
Some of the above (esp.635-212)
result in undesirable discharges
which may be appealed to obtain
a "general discharge under hon-
orable conditions,"
HELPFUL MILITARY PERSONNEL
JAG: The Judge Advocate Generals
office is the legal branch of
the Army, They are helpful in
obtaining legal advice and in
finding the exact wording of re-
gulations. (It is best to try and
obtain a civilian lawyer for
actually trying cases). Permis-
Sion cannot be legally denied
to go to JAG if you &0 throught
the chain vi cummand, (Post
396-5506, 82nd 396=1904)
iG The Inspector General invest-
igates and corrects injustices,
You cannot legally be denied
permission to go to him if you
have exhausted all remedies in
your company. You may be harras-
sed if you go to him, if so just
keep going back until it stops.
The IG may be helpful, but it is
not good to completely depend on
him. Call 396-5106
HOSPITAL: Good for medical prob-=
lems and obtaining recommendat-
ions for a medical discharge
(also contact civilian doctors),
Sick call is a right, not a priv-
ilege.
RED CROSS: They are necessary for
recommendations for a hardship
or dependency dischare, and for
compassionate reassignment. Call
396-0345
CHAPLAIN: They are usually gung-
ho, but Occassionally you can find
one that will listen, and poss-
ibly use personal pressure to
help you out,
HELPFUL GROUPS
ASU American Servicemen"s Union
room 538, 156 Fifth Ave., New York,
N.Y. 10010 call 212-675 6780)
May provide publicity, legal ad-
vice or lawyers,
GI_ CIVIL LIBERPIES DEFENSE COM.
Box » Ol elsea station
New York, N.Y. 10011 Call 212-
243-4775
ADC American Desertera Commit tee
"_ ""~ " a ow -~
112 st. Paul St. West. r50m5=-22
Montreal, Quebec tall 84368144
epneressme;, Often initiate inves-
tir tions into problems that the-
ir constituents are having.
