{"id":27459,"date":"2013-06-16T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T00:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=27459"},"modified":"2015-12-21T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:14:22","slug":"q432","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=27459","title":{"rendered":"Q432 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>To return to the Tape Index, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28703\">click here<\/a>.<br \/>\nTo read the Tape Summary, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=28165\">click here<\/a>. Listen to MP3 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q432a.mp3\">Pt. 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/nas\/streaming\/dept\/scuastaf\/collections\/peoplestemple\/MP3\/Q432b.mp3\">Pt. 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><i><strong>(Note: <\/strong>This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>(First few minutes of tape include ghost from previous recording) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 1:<\/strong> \u2013that\u2019s all. A good family song. Okay? (hums)<\/p>\n<p>(Sings song: adaptation of \u201cA Simple Song of Freedom\u201d by Bobby Darin)<br \/>\nCome and sing a simple song of freedom<br \/>\nSing it like you\u2019ve never sung before<br \/>\nLet it fill the air<br \/>\nTell the people everywhere<br \/>\nWe the people here want war no more<\/p>\n<p>Hey there, mister rich man, can you hear me?<br \/>\nListen!<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t want your diamonds or your gain, no<br \/>\nWe just want to be someone known to you as communists<br \/>\nAnd if you\u2019re honest, you will want to be the same<br \/>\nHey, yeah<br \/>\nCome and sing a simple song of freedom<br \/>\nSing it like you\u2019ve never sung before<br \/>\nLet it fill the air<br \/>\nTell the people every\u2013 everywhere<br \/>\nWe the people here want war no more.<\/p>\n<p>Seven hundred million are in misery<br \/>\nAnd most of what we read is made of lies<br \/>\nSo speak it one to one<br \/>\nAin\u2019t it everybody\u2019s sun?<br \/>\nWait till in the morning when we rise<\/p>\n<p>(Calls out) Everybody now! Hey!<\/p>\n<p>(Sings) Come and sing a simple song of freedom, ooh<br \/>\nSing it like you\u2019ve never sung before<br \/>\nOh, hey! Let it fill the air<br \/>\nTell the people\u2013 people everywhere<br \/>\nWe the people here want war no more<\/p>\n<p>(Calls out) Last verse<\/p>\n<p>(Sings) No doubt some folks enjoy doing battle<br \/>\nLike presidents, prime ministers and kings<br \/>\nSo let us build them shelves<br \/>\nSo they might fight among themselves<br \/>\nAnd leave us be<br \/>\nWe who want communism!<br \/>\nHey, yeah!<br \/>\nCome and sing a simple song of freedom! Oh!<br \/>\nSing it like you\u2019ve never sung before!<br \/>\nHey, hey!<br \/>\nLet it fill the air<br \/>\nTell the people\u2013 people everywhere<br \/>\nWe the people here want war no more!<\/p>\n<p>(Calls out) Sing that chorus again! Ho!<\/p>\n<p>(sings) Come and sing a simple song\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (sings) \u2013of freedom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 1:<\/strong> Yeah! Sing it like you never sung before! Hey, hey!<\/p>\n<p>Let it fill the air<br \/>\nTell the people, people everywhere<br \/>\nWe the people here want war no more!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 1:<\/strong> A song that\u2019s important to all of us. Very basis of our education regarding how to <em>live<\/em>. Being true comrades in communist <em>truth<\/em>, we learn this song. Arise ye prisoners of starvation. Everyone join in and sing two verses of that song, <em>remembering<\/em> where we came from.<\/p>\n<p>(Sings song: Adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/history\/ussr\/sounds\/lyrics\/international.htm\">\u201cThe Internationale\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Arise, ye prisoners of starvation<br \/>\nArise, ye wretched of the earth<br \/>\nFor justice thunders condemnation<br \/>\nA better world\u2019s in birth<br \/>\nNo more traditions\u2019 chains shall bind you<br \/>\nArise ye slaves, no more in thrall<br \/>\nThe world\u2019s rising on new foundations<br \/>\nYou have been naught, you shall be all.<br \/>\nYou have been naught, you shall be all.<br \/>\nYou have been naught, you shall be all.<\/p>\n<p>(Speaks) Thank you, comrades, I love you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 2:<\/strong> And now we\u2019re going to go into our play, \u201cThe House That I Live In.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 1:<\/strong> (Dramatic tone) More importantly, what is the house of your fellow man like? Is it a house filled with love, or hate? And is there food aplenty, or starvation? And what about the burdens? Are they light, or are they heavy? And is there caring and sensitivity, or apathy and indifference? I\u2019m sure that at some time in our lives, each of us has lived in a house similar to the ones that we see portrayed here tonight. There\u2019s <em>still<\/em> a <em>lot<\/em> of suffering in this world, many frustrations born of the unfulfilled promises of freedom. And <em>too<\/em> many people giving their lives as the result of the tortures that we are having in our prisons, mental institutions, nursing care homes for the aged and in places like South Africa, Chile, and the underdeveloped countries of the Third World. But through <em>all<\/em> this, there is a common cry, a cry of a people who want only to be free, with the assurance of the very, very bare necessities of life: food, clothing, shelter. Is <em>this<\/em> too much for the people to ask? I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n<p>(Sings) What does your house look like, Anna?<br \/>\nDescribe it to us<br \/>\nSo we can bring news<br \/>\nOf your husband, to your children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jose Simon:<\/strong> (speaks in native tongue)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 3:<\/strong> He said when (unintelligible word) the white oppressors comes to take his land away, he saw many of his people go down. And this makes for a heavy burden in all people who are oppressed. Now, he will sing one of his native songs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon:<\/strong> (Sings song, while clapping beat. At least one other male singing with him)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 2:<\/strong> (Sings) There\u2019s a house over there<br \/>\nOn the edge of nobody\u2019s world<br \/>\nIn South Africa, Rhodesia, Katanga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 3:<\/strong> I came to this city for medical attention, having the fear of black lung disease that kills most miners in their mid-forties. It cost a lot of money for doctors, and us miners still can\u2019t get insurance. I\u2019ve worked in the mines all my life, some 20 odd years. My family lives in fear every day that when I would go to work in that dark, dirty, three-by-five foot mine that I might\u00a0 never return home alive again. My dad <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> one day. <em>I<\/em> still miss the old home place, because the city\u2019s sure no easy place to earn a living. Especially when you\u2019re like me, all I know to do is work in the mines and even that\u2019s sure no easy job. Poor working conditions, why, I couldn\u2019t\u2013 couldn\u2019t even eat breakfast in the morning because I\u2019d just vomit it up from laying on my back and crawling on my knees in that dark, dirty mine. We walked out on strike, protesting poor working conditions, no insurance benefits, and low pay, but with no help from the union and our families facing starvation, we were forced to return to the mines. I wonder where it will all end. When will people start caring for one another? I believe that\u2019s the answer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 1:<\/strong> (sings) What does your house look like, Anna?<br \/>\nDescribe it to us<br \/>\nSo we can bring news<br \/>\nOf your husband, to your children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 4:<\/strong> (Sings adaptation of \u201cA Change Is Gonna Come\u201d by Sam Cooke)<\/p>\n<p>I was born by the river in a little tent<br \/>\nAnd just like that river, I been running every since<br \/>\nYou stand alone, a long time coming<br \/>\nBut I know change is going to come<\/p>\n<p>When I go to my brother<br \/>\nAnd say brother, help me please<br \/>\nAnd he wind up<br \/>\nMy brother, he\u2019d wind up knocking me<br \/>\nTill I fell on my knees<br \/>\nOhh, there been times that I\u2019ve thought I couldn\u2019t last<br \/>\nI couldn\u2019t last too long<br \/>\nIt\u2019s been a long, a long time coming<br \/>\nBut I know change is gonna come<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 5:<\/strong> A knock comes to the door, and I am given the command that I must go and kill the enemy, who turns out to be human like you and me, and I\u2019m bitter. I am bitter as I search for answers to what we were really fighting for. Each day my bitterness grows deeper and deeper. I volunteered my life to fight a war that was supposed to guarantee freedom for my people here at home so that they could have a better life, and I\u2019m <em>bitter<\/em> today. I\u2019m <em>bitter<\/em> as I asked myself, <em>who<\/em> we were really fighting for. For you see, it was <em>not<\/em> the Vietnamese, it was not the Japanese, it was not the communists who pulled a gun on my mother because she was one minute late for work in the fields. Hell, she had a sick baby to care for, and I\u2019m bitter today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 3:<\/strong> Oh, I got it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Child:<\/strong> (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 3:<\/strong> Yep, the check is\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Child:<\/strong> (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 3:<\/strong> What?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Child:<\/strong> I don\u2019t have to (unintelligible) school any more?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 3:<\/strong> No, baby. The check is here. Now we can take care of all of our bills, and see\u2013 let\u2019s see how much is here. (Pause) No more worries now. (Pause) Oh. Dear\u2013 Dear Miss Hopeful. On the sixteenth of September, a man was seen coming from your house. Un\u2013 Under the act of thir\u2013 Proposition 13 (Pause) says that I\u2019m not eligible\u2013 I\u2019m not eligible to receive (cries) from the State of California\u2013 Oh! I don\u2019t believe it. Not after this\u2013 (sobbing) after waiting so long. All my bills are due. I wish momma hadn\u2019t died and left me. I don\u2019t know what to do now. All I can do is think about momma, and how if\u2013 if momma hadn\u2019t died, I could (unintelligible) school. (Unintelligible) my child. (Unintelligible). Life is nothing. (Unintelligible).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Child:<\/strong> Momma, I\u2019m hungry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 3:<\/strong> (Sings adaptation of \u201cYesterday\u201d by Paul McCartney)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday.<br \/>\nAll my troubles seemed so far away<br \/>\nNow it looks as though they\u2019re here to stay<br \/>\nOh I believe in yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly<br \/>\nI\u2019m not half the mom I used to be<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a shadow hanging over me<br \/>\nOh I believe in yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Why you had to go I don\u2019t know<br \/>\nYou didn\u2019t say<br \/>\nI gave my life for yesterday<br \/>\nYesterday<br \/>\nOh, yesterday<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 2:<\/strong> (Sings) There\u2019s a house over there<br \/>\nOn the edge of nobody\u2019s world<br \/>\nIn South Africa, Rhodesia, Katanga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 6:<\/strong> I never get well no more. Nobody cares about me. The children see me lying on the street. They just walk on over and keep on going. But you know, if they really knew me, they would think differently about me. Hey, dig, man, I got this degree in college (unintelligible) And what good did it do me? The only time like a businessman. So I had to work hard all my life. The odd jobs. Porter work, washing dishes, <em>anything<\/em>, to feed my family. Now my wife\u2019s gone. Children left me. And I\u2019m all alone, I\u2019m on welfare. Yes, I take a nip every now and then. But think what you will, this is my house, and I guess I\u2019m stuck with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Females 4 and 5:<\/strong> (Sing, unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 4: <\/strong>Oh! Hallelujah!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 5: <\/strong>Hey! Praise his name! Hey!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 4: <\/strong>Good morning, sister. Has the Lord touched you today?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 5: <\/strong>Oh, well, don\u2019t worry. You can\u2019t win them all for the Lord. Oh, Lordy, won\u2019t you come by here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Females 4 and 5:<\/strong> Oh, Lordy, won\u2019t you come by here? Oh, Lordy, won\u2019t you come by here? Oh, Lordy, won\u2019t you come by here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 7:<\/strong> Ah, you\u2019ve got to obey the will of the <em>Lord<\/em>. The Lord says you got to render unto Caesar that which is of <em>Caesar<\/em> and uh, you\u2019ve got to render under God that which is of God. Ah, uh, the book says, it\u2019s in the book, and it says that uh, uh, Caesar is due respect and uh, if you don\u2019t respect Caesar, uh, he\u2019ll send down\u2013 he\u2019ll send down dem all-American boys or the polices, and they got the liberty stick, and they\u2019ll play the <em>Star<\/em> Spangled Banner across your (unintelligible word) head.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 6:<\/strong> (yells and screams in background)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 7:<\/strong> But you\u2019ve got to render unto Caesar. Ah, Glory hallelujah, sister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Laughter)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 6:<\/strong> What? Look here, uh, you\u2013 Look here, uh, preacher boy. I mean, you know, like, (laughs) hey man, I got a date coming and I, but (unintelligible) you and your Jesus (unintelligible word) gone blow my trip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 7 <\/strong>and <strong>Female 6 <\/strong>speak over each other; unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 6:<\/strong> What has he done for you? I mean you and this get up you\u2019ve got on\u2013 I mean what (unintelligible) is come on over to <em>my<\/em> side. You understand me?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 7:<\/strong> Say what? No, Lord. Watch out! Watch out!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 6:<\/strong> I figured from the way it was gone here that your side (unintelligible).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 7:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) dry cleaning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 8:<\/strong> (Unintelligible) dry cleaning. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Laughter)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 6:<\/strong> Hold it, hold it. Let\u2019s get to the serious point to this thing. I mean, look, you people, you sisters, like, I\u2013 I got five black babies here to feed. You understand? I mean, it\u2019s not easy being out there. I mean, don\u2019t look at me with great disappointment. I mean, it\u2019s frightening out there. I mean, it (unintelligible) right? I mean, it goes on and on. It will continue until all our black and oppressed people are free. You know? I mean, it\u2019s hard out there. I mean, (unintelligible). I mean, this is what you call survival. You have to go through this in America. It\u2019s not easy. It\u2019s not easy, sister. What do they do? You go for a job? They tell you, you don\u2019t have any skills. No, I didn\u2019t have the proper education but I\u2019m still (unintelligible) and got to wait on the Lord!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 7:<\/strong> Yeah! (unintelligible) I got the minister\u2013 I got\u2013 I\u2019ve got the administers, too. I\u2013 I believe in the laying on of hands!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Laughter and hubbub)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 1:<\/strong> (sings) What does your house look like, Anna?<br \/>\nDescribe it to us<br \/>\nSo we can bring news of your husband<br \/>\nTo your children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 9:<\/strong> The house I live in. It is barred with steel. It has learned to break my spirit and destroy my mind. But they only serve to make me stronger and more determined to <em>defeat<\/em> my enemies. The ruling fascist elite has branded me a political prisoner and has thrown me amongst the ranks of the forgotten, expecting never to hear from me again. But being here only gives me more time to plan my next move. Inside these walls is a whole different kind of world, a world where power is absolute, and the actions of the pigs that run this place are never questioned. No one on the outside can imagine, so it\u2019s genocide in (unintelligible word) of our people that goes on in here. Remember George Jackson. Remember the Wilmington Ten.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd<\/strong>: Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 9:<\/strong> Remember the Rosenbergs [Ethel and Julius Rosenberg].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd<\/strong>: Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 9:<\/strong> And remember all our brothers and sisters that have been tortured and buried within these walls\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd<\/strong>: Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 9:<\/strong> And remember, this house is only able to stand because <em>you<\/em> dare not speak out in the streets too. So speak out. It may be <em>you<\/em> the next time!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd<\/strong>: Right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male in background:<\/strong> Okay. (Unintelligible). Let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n<p>(tape edit)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p>(men in performance on stage yelling, chanting)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 7:<\/strong> You say you don\u2019t want to die, because <em>I <\/em>don\u2019t want to die? You say you don\u2019t want to die because there\u2019s no <em>cause<\/em> to die for? Just because you have a good job and a fine home in the suburbs? Just because you were a (unintelligible) and causing all the women to scream from a cause unknown, that\u2019s no cause for you to forget who <em>is<\/em> the cause of our brothers and sisters who are being exploited and oppressed. Many of our brothers and sisters have died for many causes, and they are also dying for causes every day. People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Patrice Lumumba, yours truly, last but not least, Harriet Tubman. (Pause) Just because you don\u2019t believe that there is a cause to die for, what is the cause of the neutron <em>bomb<\/em>? What is the cause of mass genocide? What is the cause <em>of<\/em> the cause of the Wilmington Ten being in prison? What <em>is<\/em> the cause of <em>your<\/em> cause that makes you think that there is <em>no<\/em> cause to die <em>for<\/em>? Remember, my brothers and sisters, it is glorious to die for a cause and not because. I\u2019d just like to say that you better find a cause to die for soon, \u2018cause if you don\u2019t, you gonna die anyway, and I don\u2019t want to be the cause to die because you don\u2019t believe that there is no cause to die for. Die because and <em>not<\/em> because.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 10:<\/strong> Remember, a person is not fit to live, not unless you have a cause to die for. And that cause just happens to be <em>freedom<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(Drums)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 10:<\/strong> <em>And<\/em> I mean free-e-e-<em>dom<\/em>. (Pause) (calls out) Remember! I want you to remember! Remember! Remember!<\/p>\n<p>(Tape edit)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 2:<\/strong> (Sings) There\u2019s a house over there<br \/>\nOn the edge of nobody\u2019s world<br \/>\nIn South Africa, Rhodesia, Katanga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male 11 (likely Peter Wotherspoon):<\/strong> It was the year of 1973, when a beautiful leader of\u2013 in Chile was named Salvador Allende who was overthrown by the CIA, backed up by CIA. Nine million dollars put on it. (Pause, then sigh). He died bravely. He didn\u2019t give his people up. He died along with them. So did <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=65480\">Victor Jara<\/a>. He died leaving this song for all the beautiful people that he loved. His song was all about freedom. (Song in Spanish composed by Chilean poet Victor Jara [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.musica.com\/letras.asp?letra=982177\">Complete words<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XkXise2bHE0\">Music<\/a>])<\/p>\n<p>El derecho de vivir<br \/>\nEl poeta Ho Chi Minh que golpea de Viethnam a toda la humanidad<br \/>\nNing\u00fan ca\u00f1\u00f3n borrar\u00e1<br \/>\nCadena que har\u00edan triunfar el derecho de vivir en paz<br \/>\nT\u00edo Ho, nuestra canci\u00f3n es puro fuego de amor<br \/>\nEs palomo palomar<br \/>\nOlivo de olivarEs el canto universal<br \/>\nCadenas que har\u00edan triunfar el derecho de vivir en paz<br \/>\nEl derecho de vivir en paz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 7:<\/strong> As you all know, Daniel Ellsberg worked for the Rand Corporation during the Johns\u2013 during the [Lyndon] Johnson administration, preparing reports and studies that served to justify the United States involvement. He did this until he reached a point where his conscience would <em>no<\/em> longer allow him to make reports that were <em>misused<\/em> by the United States government to deceive the American people. Mike Prokes will portray Daniel Ellsberg just after he reached his (unintelligible) of conscience.<\/p>\n<p>(Pause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prokes:<\/strong> How can I do this thing that I\u2019m doing now? What false figures and doctored statistics must I feed into this computer that it will give the generals the <em>excuse<\/em> they need to carry on a war that not only <em>can\u2019t<\/em> be won but should not be won? What is the morality of trying to destroy a brave people, the Vietnamese, whose belief in their cause is so strong, that they fight back harder with <em>firmer<\/em> resolve each time that their land and their babies are <em>blown up<\/em> by America\u2019s bombs. Beautiful land. Precious babies. I\u2019ve <em>seen<\/em> them. Human beings so proud and so bold, and yet we call them \u201cgooks\u201d because it\u2019s so much easier, don\u2019t you know, to drop napalm on \u201cgooks\u201d than it is on human beings. (Pause) What kind of vicious inhumanity is this? What kind of sick and depraved minds would look at <em>persons<\/em> as if they were <em>things<\/em>? <em>This<\/em> is racism, like the world has never known before! And you want me to tell you that this war can be <em>won<\/em>? It\u2019s already <em>lost<\/em>. It was lost <em>long<\/em> before it was started. It was <em>lost<\/em>, America, when you told that poor young black man whom you wouldn\u2019t provide a job for that you would pay him to fight. You gave him no choice! And then you lied to him. You told him he was going to fight for someone\u2019s freedom, when he did not have his own!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scattered in crowd:<\/strong> Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prokes:<\/strong> And now he\u2019s dead. You killed him, America. And you don\u2019t even care. God damn you, America! (Voice rises dramatically throughout) And God damn your system, your war, and your men who created it! God damn you, Secretary McNamara [Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense]! And Secretary Rusk [Dean Rusk, Secretary of State] for <em>lying<\/em> to the people to hide the death and destruction you\u2019ve caused! God <em>damn<\/em> you, General [William] Westmoreland and General [Maxwell] Taylor! I charge you with the premeditated murder of innocent babies whose blood drips from <em>your<\/em> hands! And God damn <em>you<\/em>, President Johnson! <em>You<\/em> who could\u2019ve stopped it all but kept it going because you didn\u2019t want to look weak or admit you were wrong! You <em>blinded<\/em> yourself to the tortures and suffering, all so you could perpetuate your immoral and corrupt power! (voice drops dramatically) And you want me to feed your statistics into this computer? I\u2019ll feed it all right, but I\u2019ll feed it with the truth, and I\u2019ll take the truth that comes out, the truth which reveals America\u2019s committing one of the greatest atrocities in the history of mankind. I\u2019ll <em>take<\/em> that truth, and expose it to the world!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Female 7:<\/strong> Are you still satisfied with your house, or do you see the need for a change?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Woman in crowd:<\/strong> I do!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crowd:<\/strong> (Sustained applause)<\/p>\n<p><strong>End of tape<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Tape originally posted December 2009<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use this material, please credit The Jonestown Institute. Thank you. To return to the Tape Index, click here. To read the Tape Summary, click here. Listen to MP3 (Pt. 1, Pt. 2). (Note: This tape was transcribed by Vicki Perry. The editors gratefully acknowledge her invaluable assistance.) 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