(English narrator) Under the provisions of Title 2
of the 1950 Internal Security Act,
also known as the McCarran Act,
the President of the United States of America
is still authorised, without further approval by Congress
to determine an event of insurrection within the United States
and to declare the existence of an 'internal security emergency '.
The President is then authorised
to apprehend and detain each person
as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe
probably will engage in certain future acts of sabotage.
Persons apprehended shall be given a hearing
without right of bail,
without the necessity of evidence,
and shall then be confined to places of detention.
(Radio) 'KBCR News, the Southlands' most comprehensive news coverage.
'The President signed an executive order
'calling to immediate duty
'100,000 reservists.
'Pentagon sources indicate
'that at least 20,000 of these newly mobilised troops
'would be sent to North-East Asia
'in response to the shelling of Seoul,
'capital of South Korea, last week.
'Sources gave no indication
'as to how the remaining reservists might be used.
'It was neither confirmed nor denied
'that they would help law enforcement officials
'deal with the current domestic disorders.'
(Boom of jet passing overhead)
'At least 273 Americans are reported killed,
'and a further 492 wounded,
'as an advance force
'of 30,000 US, Cambodian and South Korean soldiers
'drove deep yesterday into the Hill 98 and Whalesback regions of Laos
'in the heaviest attack so far since the war was extended.'
(Chairman) Patrick John Edwards, you have been found guilty
of conspiracy to undermine the national security
and intent to incite to riot.
You are sentenced to 15 to 21 years in a federal penitentiary.
You have the alternative of undergoing four days in Punishment Park.
How do you choose?
I'd like to thank the court for its fairness...
Defendant, silence! How do you choose?
Punishment Park.
(English narrator) Time 9:00am.
The Bear Mountain National Punishment Park
in Southern California.
Right there. Stop.
You right behind him. Right there.
You over there. Next man.
OK. That woman there. The last man in line.
Go on into the tent.
The 47th Emergency Internal Security Tribunal for the SW Region -
as authorised by executive order no. 302,
William C. Hoeger, Chairman, presiding -
is hereby concluded.
(Radio) 'The UN today became the focus of world attention
'as the US delegate challenged the Russians
'to admit that their submarines had moved into the Caribbean.
'He made it clear that the US
'will tolerate no threats to its sovereignty,
'and he accused the Soviets of trying
'to divert world attention from their actions in the Middle East.
'After heated discussion, the US delegate indicated
'that the communist bloc were responsible for the tripling
'of our monthly draft calls.
'He denied the Russian delegate's accusation
'that the US government is building up a large standing army
'for the suppression of its own people.'.
Do you like your job of slaughtering young people?
(Roar of jet passing overhead)
'Senator George McLewis resigned from the Senate today
'after 22 years of active service.
'He said in a press conference shortly after
'that he could no longer participate in what he called the dismantling
'of basic freedoms for which this country was established.
'In a prepared statement, he mentioned specifically
'the types of 'repressive' legislation
'which led to his sudden resignation,
'including the no-knock and stop-and-frisk laws,
'cancellation of immunity from 5th Amendment cases,
'preventative detention,
'the activation of detention camps,
'and quasi-judicial tribunals.
'He said that he was particularly disturbed
'by the activities of the Punishment Parks.'.
The Marshal will now bring the 48th session to order.
The 48th Emergency Internal Security Tribunal of the SW Region,
as authorised by Executive Order number 302, is now in session.
William C. Hoeger, Chairman, presiding.
(Defence Counsel) Reporting a motion for dismissal at this time.
- On what grounds? - Constitutional.
In particular, 1st, 4th, 5th and 14th Amendments.
Motion overruled.
How the fuck you can overrule the Constitution, man!
(Chairman) Keep the defendant silent.
If it please the court, I'd like to introduce a motion to have
the convictions reviewed separately.
(Chairman) Denied.
In that case, and with all due respect to the Tribunal,
may I move that the court permit voir dire proceedings?
(Chairman) Denied.
Will the court set bail?
Some defendants have been in jail for months.
We don't even know what we were arrested for in the first place.
(Chairman) Keep the defendants quiet! Bail denied.
(Woman) Deny, deny, deny!
We've been in jail for two months
and we don't know what we were arrested for.
- Keep the defendants quiet. - Shut up!
Lee Robert Brown, Jay Kaufman,
James Arthur Kohler, Allison Michener,
Charles Robbins, Nancy Smith, William Vallery.
You stand guilty of conspiracy to undermine the national security
and of separate charges which will be innumerate
and so indicted and convicted
at the preliminary hearings of the 5th Emergency Court
of the 44th Precinct in the District of Glendale,
Captain Edward Rubin, Sheriff, presiding, May 24th.
Temperature 89 degrees.
At the time of your sentencing
you will be able to choose between a penal sentence duly passed
or accept the alternative of Punishment Park.
Punishment Park described by
the US Senate Subcommittee On Law And Order as,
'... a necessary training
'for the law officers and National Guard of the country'
'in the control of those elements who seek
'the violent overthrow of the US government.'
'Sand the means of providing a punitive deterrent
'for said subversive elements.'
You will speak only when you are spoken to and at no other times.
Each violation of this ruling
will result in a citation for contempt of court
of one year in a federal penitentiary
in addition to the sentence duly passed.
Finally, I wish to announce that we have with us at this time
television cameras of the National Network.
Also those of Britain and West Germany.
It is hoped to document these proceedings in the widest manner,
as we know their import
to be of vital concern to the people of the free world everywhere.
Their coverage will be impartial.
- Bullshit! - This trial is illegitimate.
- This trial is illegitimate... - Quiet!
These are the members of Corrective Group 638,
and these, the members of Corrective Group 637
now sentenced to spending three days in Punishment Park.
(Distant explosions and gunfire)
First defendant.
- What's your name? - My name is Brown, motherfucker!
Lee Robert Brown, well-known author,
broadcaster and political activist.
I want to be tried by a jury of my peers, that means black people!
In front of witnesses who identify themselves.
Witnesses! Here!
(Chairman) Keep the defendant silent! Restrain the defendant!
(Radio) 'No end for the heat wave
'which has been frying Los Angeles for three months.
'Temperatures today will top 100°
'for the 12th straight day in downtown LA,
'with the Valley due for 105°.
'Tonight's low will be 79°.
'The deserts can expect mercury readings of 115° plus.'.
You have accepted this course of your own volition
as an alternative to your penal sentences.
You have 3 days and 2 nights in which to reach
the US flag flying 4.5 miles due north of the Bear Shadow Mountains.
These you can see to your front.
These mountains are 16.5 miles from the spot where you are standing.
You will direct yourselves toward the indicating lights.
Pursuit Leader to 245, ready your signal.
(Indistinct voice on field radio)
You will head past this point,
immediately turn west - that is to your left -
and proceed 13 to 17 miles along the lie of the mountains
until you reach a second set of flags.
There you will turn north across the intervening plain,
and pass directly to the following hills, a further distance of 19 miles,
and proceed directly to the US flag.
(Senator) 'Mr Brown, did you actually advocate overthrow
'of these, our United States?'
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me.
That's my right under the 5th Amendment of the US constitution.
And overrule that!
Defendant, defendant, it's people like you...
Objection, Mr Chairman!
(Shouting)
Let that man alone!
The object of this course is simple.
Clear the tribunal! Clear the tribunal!
You must evade capture by the pursuing law enforcement officers
and reach the flag by the appointed time,
That is to say 10pm on the evening of the 3rd day from now.
(Shouting continues)
You fucking pig!
Each one of them, take them out of here.
Clear the tribunal.
Your capture or your failure to complete the course in time
will result in the reversion to your penal sentence.
Are you or are you not a member of the Communist Party?
Objection.
I'll answer that motherfucking question!
Watch your language.
Do you think my language is immoral?
What do you call that shit you just did, man?
What do you call this shit?
Give your side-arm to Sepada and go unlock the prisoners.
Were you going to call for revolution on that television?
(Mr Brown) What do you want me to say? I told you the truth.
The truth as you saw it?
I would tell the truth,
I would tell the story of black people like it has never been told,
cos you never tell it, cos they never tell it.
I would say what happens to Chicanos in this country,
because the fruit-growers ain't gonna tell it.
And either they or members of their club buy the time on that television set.
I would tell what happens to people who are poor
and uneducated and automated out of a job,
who stand in long fucking lines talking to little people like you
with delusions of power in unemployment lines all day long
to be fucked off because your old man didn't ball you right last night.
Watch your language, there's a lady in the court.
Where?
The truth is the fact that you're devouring your children.
The fact that you're oppressing the people who are powerless in the country.
- And what would you do? - A few of the people are living...
Do you want to listen or do you want to talk?
(Senator) Continue, Mr Brown. Tell us your message.
You don't wanna hear my message, man.
(Overtalking... )
You've spent 50 years evolving a propaganda system
that'll take the truth and change it into what you want to hear.
You don't want to hear shit that means having to give up something.
You don't want it.
(Overtalking... )
All you want to do is sit on your fat ass and draw dividends!
(Senator) Did I react to the names that you called me?
As your people just reacted moments ago?
You called me pig and other names. Did I react?
You're in a different position, man. All I can do is call you a dirty name.
These officers have...
(Shouting)
strict instructions not to molest you in any way,
or to hinder you from reaching your ultimate destination.
However they will not allow you to leave the boundary of the course.
(Senator) It has been stated, and it's a fact,
there are more TV sets and cars owned by black people in the USA
than in all of Russia.
So what?
That shows a very intense interest
in the economics of this country, in your people.
(Overtalking... )
They have a standard of living that's better than any in the world.
Hey, man. You can say an identical thing
for every animal in the zoo.
I'm sure their standard of living has increased - they certainly eat better.
The time is now 9:54 am.
At 10:00 you will commence the course.
At 12:00 noon, that's to say two hours from now,
the pursuit forces will be set in motion against you.
Today's pursuit force will consist
of a unit of the National Guard,
part of the tactical riot squad of a city police department,
and three federal marshals.
At the 5 de Mayo Congress Of Chicano Youth
the defendant was quoted saying,
'To you, I say: Free your communities. Arm yourselves.'
'If the pigs comprehend nothing but force, then use it.'
'Liberate yourself. Off the pigs!'
'Kill the chief pig! Liquidate the mayor...'
(Shouting)
(Mr Brown) Anybody can lift that shit out of context.
(Chairman) You had your chance to speak.
Let Agent Donovan finish his statement.
- This is all we have. - Pig Donovan.
This man is calling for violence, for the destruction of this country.
And it's doing more than just for himself.
His people are spreading this all over the country.
In the factory where I work all kinds of people are reading his stuff.
It's all over the place. Mainly the coloured people are reading it.
And he's stirring them up, talking about legitimate problems that we have,
trying to pose his violent alternatives to it.
(Mr Brown) You talk as if this is some great civilised, non-violent place.
And it ain't. America
is as psychotic as it is powerful,
and violence is the only thing that will command your attention.
No way, you bastard!
(Gunfire)
This country, this America,
was born in violence.
Now revolution's a violent thing.
Get him! Get him!
(Shouting and jeering)
Bring him back over here.
(Mr Brown) I'm in this place right now
because my people, my forebears,
were violently brought here, like this, in chains, from Africa,
where they were violently made to work.
It was upon the labour of their backs
that you so violently wrung out of them
that this country was industrialised.
Right away, right at first.
This land and all the rest that belongs to the country,
was violently taken from the Indians.
Violently.
The time 10:03am.
Temperature 91 degrees.
(Distant explosions)
Your goal is straight down the river, move in that direction.
Time remaining before the beginning of the pursuit, 2 hours.
Hey, David. Can I have another one of your cigarettes?
You've had cigarettes off me all day.
Distance to the United States flag,
53 miles.
They made their choice.
They could've done a lot of things,
but they chose to throw firebombs
and conspire to violently overthrow the government.
They're doing what they want to do. I'm doing what I want to do.
(Automatic gunfire in distance)
Over this way, fast!
(Helicopter overhead)
(Field radio) 'You're on your own.'
I don't think any of those kids'll make it anyway.
D'you see that one little bastard take off?
That Mexican's the fastest thing I ever seen in my life.
Time remaining before the beginning of the police pursuit,
1 hour and 53 mins.
Those kids are running scared. Everybody's running scared.
If they didn't break the law, they wouldn't have to run scared.
Maybe they don't know what the law is, Captain.
Everybody knows.
If they don't want to take the consequences,
let them think before they act.
In order to provide what is termed 'further motivation ',
this group have been told that they will find water
half-way to the American flag.
That long-haired sonofabitch?
I think he's in for some real bad stuff.
You really got a hard-on for that dude.
I don't have a hard-on for him. He's got one for everybody.
He's got one for the world.
So fuck him.
If that's how he wants to play, that's how we'll play.
(Captain) 'A word about violence.
'These three days will be only as violent as you want them to be.
'Your capture, should that occur,
'will be as peaceful as you want it to be.
'An officer will announce to you that you are apprehended
'and that your participation in the course has concluded.
'Should you resist the arrest,
'or should any of you adopt violence in any form during the course,
'then we shall use those means against you.
'In short, you can start the violent actions if you so choose,
'but I assure you that we will finish them.'.
Let's take a minute and get out of here.
- I'm staying. - I'm staying too.
Oh, you gonna stay here and play, huh?
That man gonna shoot the shit out of you! They gonna kill us!
(Bald man) We gotta break out sideways, otherwise there's no chance.
(Mexican man) I'm gonna hide out.
(Woman) I don't know about the rest of you, but this bullshit's got to end.
I ain't leaving another motherfucking step!
Wait a second here,
you're going to bring them down on all of us. Forget it.
Shit! You don't think they're down on you now.
At least we've got a chance.
What chance, man? You've got 50 miles of no chance!
You're going to go out there
and play target-practice for them fucking pigs!
In two hours we can get lost out there.
That's the only chance we got. Here, they're gonna be on you in 5 mins.
You couldn't make it in the heat if there were no police!
- I say stay. - They got water.
We can't stay!
That's our only chance. They're just over that hill.
You're a marksman?
- Yeah. - A sniper?
A marksman.
What do you mean you can't stay here?
The ones that are going have got to go right now. We can't wait.
If you do a thing with the cops, you're gonna get us killed.
Have you ever killed a man?
Yeah.
Jay Kaufman,
co-founder of the National Committee Against War And Repression.
Age 28.
Time remaining 1 hour 42 mins.
I prefer it for the simple reason
that this thing, with magnum load, has enough power
to knock down a rhinoceros if it's coming at you.
I'm sure we're going to be apprehending very few rhinoceri,
but, if we do, I want to know that I'm going to be able to stop it.
I see by your file that you were formerly a candidate for.
Vice-President of the United States.
That's correct.
Also that you were very successful...
See how much I believed in this system?
Make your answers brief.
OK. Bop.
You say you are against war and depression.
What type of depression?
A depression of the people? A depression of economics?
No, I'm not talking about de-pression, I'm talking about re-pression.
Repression. Being oppressed.
What were you charged with?
Draft evasion and, I don't know...
What did they call it? Er, 'hindering the war effort.'
Are you for war or against war?
I'm for war if it's necessary to protect our country.
(Kaufman) Do you condone the war in Vietnam, sir?
- Certainly. - You do. Why?
- Because it's protecting our country. - Who tells you this?
Would you like us to let them come over here? Would you fight then?
(Kaufman) Who tells you that this war is protecting your country?
(Legion officer) We're fighting communism.
- Well, who tells you this? - I hear it every day.
(English interviewer) I gather that you're not going to try and make
the next 50 miles to the US flag.
I wouldn't walk around the goddamn fucking corner
for the American flag,
let alone go out in the desert.
Time remaining 1 hour 25 mins.
Squeeze
and fire.
We're going through
a kind of a group suicide in America.
In a situation where you want to fire two shots rapid-fire,
pull the hammer back fire the first single action,
and follow it up.
Have you any idea how you're going to complete these 50 miles?
I have no idea. We're just going to keep on.
Do you know the difference between a patriot and a chauvinist?
- A who? - A patriot and a chauvinist.
- A chauvinist? - Yes.
Define the word chauvinist to me.
Chauvin was
an officer under Napoleon
and his loyalty was so absurd that we got the word Chauvin,
which is chauvinistic, an absurd loyalty.
They promised us water at the other end, water faucets.
They believe in protest
and ritual defiance,
and yet they're willing to participate fully
in the rules established by the police for these games,
fully expecting that they'll come out all right if they make the flag.
Squeeze. Fire.
Are you expecting to die in the next 2 or 3 days?
I expect to die in the next 2 or 3 minutes.
Your function with this weapon is to hit a man-size figure.
You don't have to put out his eye, or get him in the heart or knee-cap,
or pick the heel off his boot like Wyatt Earp.
- (Interviewer) How old are you? - I'm 20.
All you have to do is hit a man-size figure
from here to there.
I don't think they're trying to kill us, really.
Get him in that area, he's going down
he's got to go down and he's going down hurting.
I think they're just making it difficult.
This isn't Mexico or other countries where they shoot people like you.
(Woman) What would you do to us if you were in control?
Would you be very humanitarian with people like us?
I would make more of an effort than you are.
What is your moral code? What would you do for this country?
You're sitting back, enjoying the adulation
of all these kids.
You are indulging in this self gratification,
you are indulging in some sort of mental masturbation.
(Kaufman) That's what you're doing right now.
How could they have any faith in a man
who makes a mockery out of everything that we stand for?
The home, true love...
You haven't the first idea about love with your love-ins, you really haven't.
If it was up to you,
we'd shut down the factories and panhandle on the street.
And what kind of society would we have then?
How would you feed people then?
You want us to support you. That's what you want.
(Kaufman) There is enough food and wealth in this country
to take care of everyone,
and everyone isn't being taken care of.
You want to go round the streets and have orgies all the time.
(Kaufman) I'm not going around having orgies all the time.
I'm as concerned as you are about the direction of this country.
I really feel sorry for you. We're the same age,
and here you are defending a miserable existence.
Don't you realise how you're being exploited?
How the people who control the money are diminishing your existence
to working in a fucking dirty factory
which puts smoke up in the air, which pollutes the world,
and you're working your ass off saving money for your kids
getting pennies while they're making hundreds of dollars?
Don't you realise you're being duped?
How they've got your head fucked with and indoctrinated?
How they have you conditioned? How they misinformed you?
Don't you see this? Are you that blind?
Some new kick or new drug comes along, you'll try it.
(Kaufman) What about kicks like genocide, imperialism, napalm warfare?
What about those new kicks which this country puts in practice?
This is a Remington Wingmaster model 870 shotgun, 12-gauge.
What about corruption, police brutality?
(Jurgens) You are immoral!
What about the oppression of the minorities?
- You're sick! - I am not immoral, Mrs Jurgens!
Do you want to know what's immoral?
Do you want me to tell you what's immoral?
War is immoral. Poverty is immoral.
Racism is immoral. Police brutality is immoral.
Oppression is immoral. Genocide is immoral.
Imperialism is immoral.
This country represents all those things.
It's loaded with 00 buckshot.
When are we gonna have love? When are we gonna have brotherhood?
We're not as long as this little fucking Hitler...
Each individual cartridge
has 9 ball-bearings in it.
And you're sending all the oppressed people to their death!
Don't you know that? Are you that fucking stupid?
(Chairman) Another outburst and you'll be taken from the court.
It has no choke on it, the gun has no choke on it whatsoever.
So the buckshot just flies out in any and every direction.
Insane people who murder the children of their country.
(Chairman) And your record, what does that show?
What does the record of this country show?
Destroying the country from within, this is all your record shows.
You're destroying the world from within!
Anything in front of you is totally out of luck when you pull the trigger.
What does LSD have to do with death, with murder,
with war, with injustice, with poverty, with racism?
Take the prisoner out of here! Get him out of here!
You have to pump to inject the shell into the chamber and pump to eject it.
(Panting) I was... I was at a poetry reading.
Temperature 93 degrees.
The police came in...
and they swept us off the stage.
People are just being killed for nothing,
hauled off to jail, hauled off to prison.
Feelings? There is no feeling.
Every day you walk outside, some guy takes a shot at you.
Some pig in a goddamn uniform.
Watch the pattern of the buckshot.
And they say this is democracy.
Can you see the dispersement? It looks like 6 or 7 feet.
We've got to wait for the first one to come.
What if more than one comes?
An individual carrying a thing like this with a safety arm,
might see someone that would be an antagonist.
- Who's going to be a decoy? - I'll do it.
You've got to hit a man in the right spot and he's wearing a helmet.
Slip the safety off and go like this.
How would you try and remedy what's happening in America?
I don't think it can be done. We've just got to evolve out of it.
And I think it'll happen violently.
Anything between those two shots is blown away.
It is no longer causing you any trouble.
It does not exist any more.
It has one purpose alone
when loaded with buckshot, that is to kill.
Not to disperse. Not to harry. Not to wound. To kill.
Use it for that fact when you have to do so.
Time remaining 50 mins.
(Interviewer) What are your feelings towards the police in this country?
(Man) I really don't think they're too different from anybody else.
Pigs are pigs. I mean...
Pigs have always been pigs.
(Young man) The street-cleaners of the public conscience.
(Woman) They're just like hired killers.
These people have been sent out here unarmed.
Unarmed? I don't think Jack did anything to them.
(Man) This is going to be the first revolution in history
when the pigs were in the upper class.
I think they're in the same boat
as the people we left back at the house.
They have a point of view
and they're willing to use any sort of means
to back it up.
(Young man) They're doing a job. They're just taking orders.
They're working. They're getting paid for what they do.
(Interviewer) Can you tell us...
Can you tell us what happened here?
What happened is obvious. What I don't know is why.
That young man over there with that white cloth on his head is dead.
(Man) They get paid more than social workers or college professors.
They have a real stake in maintaining the status quo.
He was attacked.
Signs point to at least three people, maybe four.
He was stabbed to death with the spires of a Joshua tree.
Do you think this man's death will cause any
further antagonism on the part of your officers towards these people?
No doubt about it whatsoever.
Each man is thinking that
that could have been him under the same circumstances.
And it undoubtedly would have been.
There's no doubt that it'll cause more antagonism,
and I think antagonism is a very mild word
on the part of the men in my command towards these individuals.
We have a specific plan of action that we execute
in case of circumstances such as these.
And as soon as the National Guard, who found the body, informed me
that this had taken place,
those measures went into effect.
(Indistinct talking over field radio)
'Better check on suspects who may be in possession of firearms.'.
Do you feel the country is on the brink of fratricide?
Yes.
It's already there, it's been happening for some time.
Did they take any weapons from the deputy?
They have his patrol car.
They have a.357 Magnum.
They have a Remington 12-gauge Wingmaster shotgun,
at least 50 rounds of ammunition.
They have his billy-club.
They also took his shoes.
They are armed and dangerous.
They have a shotgun - that's the most dangerous weapon that I can imagine.
We will use force against them.
We will not take any chances with these individuals.
They've killed once. I don't like to lose men.
Did any of you know the deputy that was killed?
I didn't know him that well.
It's not about a personal vendetta.
Quite the opposite. We are not doing this for ourselves.
We're doing this for the people who pay the taxes.
The thing that appalls me is that it seems to be almost understood.
It doesn't have to happen this way if we can just...
If we can somehow create a change of spirit, a change of mind.
It doesn't have to happen... but it is.
- Have you ever killed a man? - Yes, I have.
What did you feel about that at the time?
No feeling at all.
'Warning, the two suspects are armed and dangerous.
'Intercept with extreme caution.'.
Do you think you'll have to resort to violence?
No. I hadn't thought about violence at all.
I don't think there'll be any need for violence.
That's what we're working against.
But it just seems like there's no other way
to defend ourselves.
Violence might be necessary, yes.
I can't see the good in fighting back.
If they kill me, what difference would my politics make?
I would be dead.
You quit your job and you don't like to work for others.
I can understand that. I have the same feelings sometimes.
William Luke Vallerio. Unemployed, age 30.
I take a hunting trip sometimes or just go off fishing,
leave the old lady at home.
But you're on vacation all the time.
Is that your view of life? Just to be on vacation all the time?
I do what I want to do.
(Chairman) Do you understand why you are before this tribunal?
I don't want to go in the army.
If our country were attacked within the hour,
would you join the US services?
I would not.
If I told you that I was going to wad up this piece of paper
and hit you with it, what would you do?
I would duck.
(Radio) '2:0Opm. KBCR News.
'B-52 bombers today launched a massive air strike
'against the North Vietnamese armament centre of Pem Dong,
'only 15 miles from the border with China.'
it's the whole violent thing in America.
I don't know when it's going to stop.
I don't know what
would bring it all to an end.
You believe it's obviously getting worse?
- Very much so. - All the time.
With the war and the minorities, the poor,
it is constantly getting worse
and it seems that more and more people
are willing to turn to violence
to take care of it,
and it seems to be escalating into an unthinkable situation.
I don't think they're sincere.
If they're sincere, why don't they riot in wintertime?
2:23pm.
Temperature 101 degrees.
(Chairman) Have you ever gone hunting or have your dad
or your friends taken you out hunting?
I've never gone hunting.
- You've never shot a gun? - I've never shot a gun in my life.
- You don't know how to handle one? - I don't.
I don't like guns.
What were you charged with?
Refusing induction.
(Chairman) Agent Donovan, would you read that charge?
Conspiracy to aid and abet others to avoid the draft.
How did you refuse?
I just ignored the letter. I just didn't do anything.
(Chairman) You don't like to travel and, according to the charges,
you tried to flee the country because of draft evasion.
How do you reconcile that?
I don't like to travel but it was necessary.
I wanted to get to some place where I could stay, be in one place
be left alone to do what I want to do,
instead of all the hassles that I was having.
- Did they just come and take you? - They broke in.
Mr Vallerio, you testified that you live alone. Do you listen to the radio?
Do you have a TV set?
I didn't testify that I live alone. I don't have a TV. I have a radio.
Do you know what's going on,
that the Chinese are crossing the North Vietnam border
and that we're now bombing within 5 miles of the border?
Do you realise the intensity in which this situation places the USA?
It's getting hard to live here.
When they arrested me, they roughed me up somewhat.
That's when my wife was arrested.
I was just trying to help him.
They charged me with assault on a police officer.
The only legitimate thing that I can think of doing
is to use my body or well-being,
my freedom or life,
to back up what I say.
At another time, the honourable or right thing to do
might be to be a policeman or to be President.
Right now, I think the honourable thing to do is to be a criminal.
'All units, this is truck 509.
'We have a couple of suspects in sight of truck 517.'.
Would you describe your work as committed, socially?
(Faint voice) Yes, it's committed. But it's...
not committed to the revolution.
It's committed to...
sanity.
The normal human body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
An increase in body temperature
of 6 to 8 degrees above normal for any extended period
means death.
(Man) I don't know what any of us could do.
Maybe if we all got together
for one day or for one week
and stopped, just stopped doing everything and said,
'This has to stop. The fucking war has to stop.'
We have to do something about all the hate here.
(Interviewer) You were 2 weeks in jail before being brought out here.
How did the police treat you?
Like we were trash.
They were really, really bad.
There they are, there!
(Indistinct voices on field radio)
The pigs are coming!
(Voice over speaker) 'You are apprehended!
'Your part in the course is concluded.'.
Get them, come on! Get them!
(Chairman) We were just told by the Senator
about the menace that faces us,
and here you sit as if this was a picnic.
You've got shackles and handcuffs on and this is a picnic!
Stop or we'll shoot to kill!
You sit there so quietly so calmly.
This is sickening! You're a traitor.
Get in.
Perhaps you haven't had the guard put the cuffs on tight enough.
I know it sounds a pain for you.
Out of order. Irrelevant.
Dogs.
I'm beginning to think that maybe
the others had the right idea.
There's no reason to react against that.
It'll just bring it down worse on all of us.
(Indistinct voices on field radio)
He loves this country but, 'I want to go to Canada.'
Why does he want to go to Canada? Evade the draft.
Stop, I mean it!
Do you think they did this
because they were Chicano?
It has nothing to do with Chicanos.
They're going to do the same thing to all of us.
Get in the car!
We have to get out of here, this is the first place they're gonna look for us.
Sit down.
They could be right behind any one of these little dunes.
'We've picked up two of them.
'Time check, 17.08.
'One male one female, both Mexican.'.
Temperature 107 degrees.
Will you stop following us, eh?
(Chairman) He's going to make a choice between Punishment Park or prison
and he'll have to make that choice himself.
The desert heat is a killer.
It will burn your skin, sap your strength,
cut your efficiency, drain the moisture from your body
and thicken your blood unless you drink water.
There will be a temperature difference of 45 degrees
between daytime heat and pre-dawn cool.
Dawn on the second day.
Temperature 62 degrees.
Nancy Jane Smith.
Popular singer and composer.
Age 19.
I understand the defendant does not wish to have you as her counsel.
That's correct, Mr Chairman. She wishes to defend herself.
How do you feel?
My hands... my fingers are numb.
I'm afraid of my feet. They...
I'm so cold I threw up.
Did you hear the patrol cars during the night?
We heard them...
We heard them in the distance, but they didn't come near us.
I'd like to... I want to find out a little bit more about you.
You were arrested for assaulting a police officer.
What did you do to him?
I was trying to keep him from arresting me.
The songs that she composes are of a seditious nature.
She advocates the overthrow of the government in many of her songs.
One of them I'll read right now.
Evidence Nancy Smith.
Seditious literature.
Santa Claus is coming With a bag of bombs and guns
Santa Claus is here The revolution has come.
Grab a handful, dip in quick Grant a slogan, make it stick.
Right on, Baby Get yours and fight like crazy.
We can win, blow up buildings Watch them fall.
For hours that we spend Standing in the hall.
(Jurgens) I bet your mother and father are proud of you, aren't they?
Yes.
(Jurgens) I'd like to hear you sing one.
(Nancy) Celibate ass-lickers Riding cars made of gold.
Taken from the poor They've gathered to their fold.
Father Pig leads a flock of sheep Father Pig makes ready.
For the slaughter.
Celibate snatch-men Their rhythm is the way.
Poor ladies get the babies.
But Father Dick has the say.
Do you know what snatch is?
(Lurgens) I don't have to be insulted by this little guttersnipe.
In the psychiatric evaluation of the prisoner, these songs
do show a neurotic and schizophrenic tendency.
Is that your opinion, dummy?
Here's what I'm interested in...
You came from a wealthy family.
You had the best of things that this country has to offer.
Why do you turn against the country?
My parents taught me to think
and my parents gave me certain values of honesty and...
- To think? - That's why I'm here.
- Tell people to throw bombs too? - No.
They taught me to think and they gave me a set of moral values.
It don't have anything to do with sex, lady.
- What happened to the moral values? - I still have all of them.
What about the songs you write?
Do you call those moral?
Yeah. I call them a lot more moral that what you're doing
sitting right there. Fuck off!
Watch your language.
Why should I watch my language?
Fuck off!
Watch your language, defendant.
Oh, shut up! What do you think I care what you tell me to do?
You're going to kill me in a little while.
Old man!
Stop that language! That's part of all the other moral crap.
Moral crap? You said crap!
Yes. You make me say crap!
- You make me very angry! - Shoot that woman!
She said crap!
Sit down, defendant.
What you're doing to the children...
What I'm doing?
Yes, what you're doing! You make me sick!
You're a crazy girl! You ought to be locked up!
Why should I be locked up? Why don't you shoot me?
Because you're schizophrenic! You're cuckoo!
Miss Smith, I remind you that your violent
overthrow-of-the-government, financially-rewarding songs,
really gives you a peculiar kind of freedom
to have your love-ins, to have your pot.
What is your philosophy of government?
What do you believe in?
I would take every man that is in this country
that's in a uniform in another country
and bring him back home and put him back in the world.
I would take every prisoner out of their cages.
I'd take every hungry person and feed them,
and take away every rich person's money.
I would take every person that's tired of working jobs
like on the auto lines and things like that
who have worked for years for nothing and never getting ahead...
Or people in college, because I had to quit school because
I got so fucking paranoid, because after Kent State
I realised that I had to put on
a cheerleader's sweater with an I love America pin
and the people who were shooting weren't even aiming.
I'd walk out of a classroom
and be on my way to lunch and get killed just as easily
as in the front line of a barricade in a demonstration.
- Do you have any children? - Yes, I have.
How many children?
You've tried to get into the mind
of some of my children.
They were brainwashed by watching Donna Reed and Father Knows Best.
By the time they listened to me, they were past their formative years.
- How many? - I have 3 children.
How would you feel if one of them died?
I'd feel terrible.
(Siren begins wailing... )
The course has now been in progress
for 24 and a half hours.
(Siren and explosions continue... )
(Chairman) Let us get back to the charges.
I'll read them again.
(Nancy) I have a charge to make against you.
I have a charge to make against you, old man!
You old, sick man.
How many kids have you led to the slaughter?
How many kids are out there now?
Who's getting killed by the guns that I hear go off?
How many children have been through these tribunals?
- Silence! - No!
How many children have you killed?
Who's dying right now?
You sent those kids out there.
I sent those kids out there?
Who's dying? Who's dead that was sitting right here?
You sat here and with all the arrogance in the world...
I don't have to listen to that.
You don't even hear me.
Cut it out!
You have no real way of running anything, you're a phoney!
Don't you dare talk to me like that!
There's no question about this girl
being a definite communist threat to this nation.
Each member of this group
is now lacking about two quarts of body water.
(Nancy) I believe in destroying everything that you stand for
and destroy everything that you're trying to do.
(Committee members interject)
I'm complaining?
I have the right to complain!
Defendant, sit down. Restrain the defendant.
You're going to put a bullet...
Basically, we found ourselves in a situation where
we thought we had the entire group of militants pinned down
and called upon them to surrender.
They did not do so and you see the consequences of their decision.
Silence the defendant!
Senator, this is when it is getting out of proportion...
You may have kids and their lives are relevant...
I've got a couple of young kids. How are you going to raise them?
We have at least one more running around.
What do you plan to do now?
We have this gun.
We'll try to find a place in the high ground
and wait for them and, if they don't come, we'll get out.
We know we'll get them.
This whole fucking game is like a revolution and we're in it.
If we don't get them, the desert will.
We've got to either win or die.
- Where was he hit? - In the neck.
I don't much care just so they're hit.
And if we do win, we're going to wreck this fucking establishment
and this fucking game.
They don't understand what's going on in this country.
They have no idea, no loyalty, no understanding,
and they respond with violence.
And the words in her songs 'Throw bombs!'
'Blow up!' 'Kill!' 'Kill!'
And who do they kill? Innocent people.
And she drives the kids here and says we did it.
Temperature 98 degrees.
One of the main reasons for having Punishment Park in the first place
is because, with the type of crime
that we have being committed today,
the civil and social crime,
we're filling up our prisons
faster than we can build new facilities.
(Indistinct chatter)
Ask the Senator how it is.
May we ask you what you feel about
your duty on the board today?
What do you feel about disciplining young people?
A number of these young people
remind me of a situation I had at home.
It was one of my own daughters.
For about a year we had quite a difficult time with her.
She didn't believe that there would be any discipline at home
and we sort of worked that thing out.
May I ask you how you worked it out?
I kept punishing her and she kept responding
until finally we worked it out quite well.
You've got to remember that these children of ours today are like
skilled and trained, highly-bred horses.
They're trained to go around that track,
but then you've got to sort of hold them in,
because, if you let the reins out,
they'll just run around that track without any control at all.
We do get a few oddballs before this tribunal.
Especially that one that wouldn't kill a fly.
He said he'd take one of these cups and catch the fly
and take it outside and let it free.
He's probably a 1-A now, or in Indochina. I wouldn't know.
I'd rather be in a lot more places than in the desert.
I have a wife and family back home.
There are certain things you have to do for your country,
but for all the abuse and just seeing these characters
have no respect for this country it's difficult.
We give them a chance
to have a fair say but they don't seem to appreciate it.
It's a very difficult job to do, it really is.
But somebody has to do it.
We do our best.
What would you do if one of your own children appeared before you?
Oh, my God.
No, my kids wouldn't do that. They really wouldn't.
They've been trained differently.
I see a running pattern of paranoia in these youngsters.
This may sound funny, but it isn't funny.
I think there should've been more spank and less Spock in America,
and our youth wouldn't be what they are today.
These are political criminals. They are not social criminals.
They have to be shown that their way is wrong.
We cannot show them by killing them, by building gas chambers,
or by setting up machine-gun bunkers and covering them with bulldozers.
This is not the way we like to operate.
- What's wrong? - Fuck! Fuck!
- Let's get going. - Let's get the fuck out of here.
But going where?
Let's try to make it to the flag.
How we gonna make it somewhere? We have no water!
There's no water that way.
What would your forefathers have done, Mr Kohler,
if, during the revolution
they were all conscientious objectors?
If the majority of my forefathers were conscientious objectors
it would include the people from England too
and in that case they would have been acting justly
towards the people in the colonies...
James Arthur Kohler.
Pacifist. Age 20.
And they wouldn't have been over here killing the Indians.
Tell me, are you aware of the crisis in this country?
How deeply do you feel about the present crisis of the nation
and of the world at large
and the responsibility that we have to this crisis?
What responsibility do you have as a citizen of this country?
My responsibilities as a citizen do not include killing for it.
I'm not going any further.
They want us to try and break out.
They want us to become violent.
They want us to be like them.
I'm not going to let them play games with me any more!
Anyone that wants to come with us, come on.
They want to blow your brains out.
They're going to kill you. Straight and simple.
See that? That's what'll kill us! Things like that!
Are you familiar with Saint Thomas Aquinas?
Yes, I am.
I think he had this to say about a just war.
He laid down a proviso for a just war, he said this:
That war must be decided upon legitimate authority
and, secondly, that its objective must be to vindicate justice
and that, thirdly, it must be waged with a just intent.
This was during the 12th Century, before this present time.
He understood what a just war meant.
Can't you understand that the policy in Indochina
is even justified by a 12th Century philosopher?
Those provisos came from Saint Augustine originally,
and Saint Augustine had a fourth proviso which shows
the total absurdity of considering any war just:
That a war must be waged
under the control of a loving disposition,
that no man is fit to inflict punishment
until he has banished hate from his heart.
Temperature 109 degrees.
Distance to the US flag,
27 miles.
Defendant, I take it from your philosophy
you're opposed to slavery, is that right?
Yes, I am.
And the Civil War was fought to free the slaves?
It wasn't.
Speak up, will you?
It wasn't fought to free the slaves
and it wasn't a just war.
It was a just war
because the black people fought for freedom.
Would you have fought on the side of the black people?
Black people haven't gained their freedom!
What do you think what's happening right now is all about?
We know that there are only a handful of black militants
that are running the People's Army. It does not represent the community.
You are trying to overthrow the government.
Charles Robbins
member of the People's Army.
Age 25.
Martin Luther King was opposed to your violence and
you're talking about a People's Army when you're only a handful.
(Robbins) To deal with the thing of what you call black militants
trying to overthrow the government.
The thing is, we're trying to save people,
because the government is overthrowing itself.
My loyalty is to the people. People are the most important thing,
and people have been left out
while the cats that run this country have moved and shitted all over.
(Sully) You dwell on the black problem.
It's quite obvious because I'm black.
I've been to Washington DC
and I have seen the schools and ghettos,
and we are trying to educate,
and yet you're trying to take over our programmes.
Is that what you're trying to offer? Our own programmes?
The thing is we don't want to take over your programmes
because we know your programmes are very corrupt.
Do you believe you're separatist or a racist?
I'm neither. I'm an internationalist.
(Policeman) You have no chance in hell going the way you're going.
Two surviving members of Corrective Group 637
have seized a West German sound technician as hostage.
(Robbins) We're trying to save the people.
(Jurgens) In what way?
Through mass education. We believe in education through example.
We have very functional programmes. Example. Right on.
What kind of example are you?
You're a revolutionary.
Your newspapers show a black militant with a gun.
'Shoot the pigs!' 'Shoot the pigs!'
I believe in this.
It's simple and plain.
When fired upon, I believe in firing back.
One...
- Two... - Don't shoot. Don't.
Three.
It's just a matter of staying alive.
It's like a game they're playing with us.
You either win or you die.
(Robbins) The pigs are running madly through our community,
slaughtering off our children and our women.
The truth in America is that America is a sick society.
America is full of motherfuckers who have shitted upon people.
Are you afraid to die?
No, I'm not afraid to die. That's quite obvious.
Why are you leading your people into a mass hysteria?
When I walk through Washington DC asking why...
Hey, man, you're always in Washington DC,
but you ain't doing nothing in Washington DC!
You're out here in California right now,
sitting on a committee
that is supposed to be from this particular area,
but you are not even from this area,
because you spend most of your time in Washington DC.
How come you're not in Washington DC relating to the problem?
Does that make me a pig?
I don't to have to call you a pig because you know what you are.
What are you taking about a mad dog? Define what...
Would you like me to define what a politician is?
A politician is nothing but a debater.
All that you do is debate issues, you fat pig!
You meathead! That's all that you are,
because you're a lying sucker!
You're lying to the camera, to your mamma, to everybody!
(Chairman) Quiet!
Quiet, defendant!
You ain't got no humanity in you because you're a pig!
You lying punk!
(Chairman) Restrain the defendant.
(Jet engine overhead)
Shut him up!
Shut him up! Gag him!
Shut him up!
Defence counsel.
Shut him up!
What seems quite clear now
is that instead of trying to bring estranged and excluded Americans
such as these people back into the national community,
the administration has chosen
to accept and exploit the division within the country
and to side with what it considers as the majority.
Instead of the politics of reconciliation,
it has chosen the politics of polarisation.
Have you discussed what you'll do if you have to leave him?
Or will you try and take him with you?
We never thought about it.
Morning on the third day.
When the human body has suffered a dehydration of between 6 to 10%
it experiences dizzines, difficulty in breathing
decreased blood volume, indistinct speech,
and finally an inabiliity to walk.
Distance to the US flag,
23 miles.
I'd like to know about violence on the campus.
I'd like to know why you people do these things.
A lot of us work hard
to build those schools and pay taxes.
And build these universities for our kids to go to.
And you people just come along and burn them right down.
Do you want him to answer your question?
You'll get a chance, Defence Counsel.
Students don't burn buildings down. That's just a myth.
It's just a sensationalised myth brought about by the press.
Students don't burn buildings down,
and, besides, I don't advocate violence.
Alison Michener, radical organiser of women's unions,
co-founder of the National Committee Against War And Repression.
Age 23.
It's a waste of time.
You try to destroy the Bank Of America, try to break in a window or something.
They can build it right up. They have the money, power.
That's not the way to change things.
I'm glad I'm here.
Some of the guys
have gotten pretty upset since the deputy incident the other day.
I'm afraid they're going to shoot first and ask questions later.
Have you heard some of the men say that?
They've really gotten paranoid.
I think that people become violent
when they are deprived of their basic human needs.
I think that they become violent when that is their only alternative
to achieving the satisfaction of those needs.
A major component of our democratic society
comes from the preamble to the Constitution
which states that an individual is guaranteed the rights to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The rights to life.
It seems paradoxical to me that
a nation with such ideals
and such economic power
still cannot fulfill or seems unwilling to fulfill
basic human needs
of food, clothing and shelter.
(Policeman) The decoy seems to have worked very well.
It's brought them out in the open.
They've reached the decoy.
(Alison) A country with this economic power and those kinds of ideals
still at this point
can't feed 11 million people, according to a government survey.
(Policeman) Your participation in the course is terminated.
Temperature 111 degrees.
Still can't feed 11 million people, can't clothe those people,
even though they're producing those things in overabundance.
Now why is that? And if you have someone who can't get food stamps
and who can't get on welfare and who is starving,
that person has two alternatives
he or she can either sit there and watch his children starve...
or go out and fight for what he needs.
(Policeman) Stop where you are.
Sit down, cross your legs and keep your hands behind your head.
Stop where you are! Sit down where you are!
Cross your legs and put your hands behind your head.
You're under arrest.
I think they can't hear you.
Stop where you are!
Stop!
Stop where you are!
Stop. Sit down. Go back or I shall shoot to kill.
I don't think they can hear you. Just a minute.
Get back. There seems to be some confusion here.
Stop where you are!
Sit down!
Now come on. Slow up. They can't hear you.
Sit down! Sit down!
Sit down!
Fuck!
Go on! Get the gun!
Dear Lord,
we pray for Harold.
Violence is inherent in this society. You don't seem to understand that.
You fucking bastards! Get out of here!
The movement went through a long time in history
and was very reluctant to make radical changes, to become violent.
We saw the government would only make changes
when we did become violent.
(Chairman) Violent, violent, violent, violent.
Yes, violence, Mr Chairman.
I think we should realise the dangerous extent to which...
You wish the floor, Defence Counsel?
- Yes, I do! Yes, I do! - Then get up.
We should realise the degree to which the violence of the students
is now being overplayed and that of the establishment is being minimised.
(Alison) You are trying to put radicals on trial as scapegoats
for the problems of your own system.
It's rather appropriate
that Harold was a poet.
There's no place for a poet in this culture.
It's so hard to have any hope about anything
after you see how completely inhuman people can be.
We must draw this cross-examination to a close.
There was no need to do that.
I'm sitting here chained in the chair
and you don't need to send these people you train
to behave like mad dogs.
I have a very important part of the hearing to talk to you about...
I don't think you know what's important,
the amnesty provision and I want to read it to you.
Your signing of a voluntary pledge of loyalty
that you will not again participate in any form or manner
of extra-legal or subversive political activity,
and that you will not again hinder State or Federal authorities
in matters relating to safeguarding of the national security.
I am loyal to the people of this country, Your Honour,
or whatever your title is.
I am not loyal to the government because it is against the people.
Hands behind your head. Come out.
Don't shoot them! Don't shoot them! They're all right!
Tell them not to shoot!
Tell that fucker not to shoot!
Tell them not to shoot.
Wait!
Tell that nigger to put his hands up where I can see them.
Fuck you!
Come on! Come on! Come on! There's a camera crew here!
I don't give a fuck who's there.
(Reporter) Ease up! Ease up!
(Woman) Murderer!
Put your hands behind your head.
You're just waiting to kill us.
Take pictures of this! They're gonna kill us!
I think there is a chance to make it through this course
and I think we're going to do it.
We have to not lose hope and keep on going.
We don't have any guns.
Please watch them, don't leave! Come on!
Our choice is whether to submit to this self-destruction
passively or violently.
That's the only choice I see.
Fucking liar! You'll shoot us in the back!
Keep back. Keep back, now.
So you feel that, just as you feel
there's a reason for going on through the course,
this is the same way to try and deal with
what you feel is wrong with the system in America?
I think that's right. Yeah.
I think if you play it
by the rules of the people who've set up the game,
even though they're stacked against you,
that's the only way to possibly win the game.
(Reporter) Don't do that! Don't do that!
(Shouting continues)
Get down!
You goddamn motherfucking weekend warriors!
You killed them!
(Reporter) Oh, God!
Oh, God.
Motherfuckers!
You murderers!
Cut! Cut!
Kill him!
Leave him alone! Leave him alone!
That's an accident!
Put that fucking rock down, boy!
Cut the camera!
I feel very little hope for us.
I don't see any hope either way.
It's simply a matter of what you believe in.
Either you believe in non-violence or you don't.
And, if you do,
many times there's only one path left to you
and you have to take that, no matter what it means to you.
Now, come on. Help these people! Help these people! Help them.
Help them.
That one's dead.
(Gunshots)
Oh, you fuckers! You fuckers!
You shitty fucking cunts!
We've got one left alive, huh?
Fucking idiots!
We've seen this! We've seen this! We've seen this!
Officer Edwards, we've seen this!
I don't give a flying fuck what you've seen!
This is going on NBC!
We've seen this!
I don't care if you take it and jam it in your ass.
You murdering bastards! You fucking bastards!
As soon as you get through with your little hysterics, we can go on.
Hysterics, mate? You wait until you see yourself on TV.
I've been on TV before. I'm not worried.
Not like this you haven't.
Captain, should I call for the ambulances?
Let the buzzards get the sons-of-bitches. And him too.
- They threw rocks and... - This man's shook up.
Leave him alone.
The gun went off, it was an accident. I didn't want to kill anyone.
Why did you kill two people?
I don't know. It was an accident.
- You didn't mean to kill them? - No, I didn't want to kill anyone.
You didn't want to kill them?
No! No!
No, I didn't want to kill anyone! It was an accident!
Hey! Leave him alone. Leave him alone!
I didn't want to kill anyone, it was an accident.
- How old is this kid? - He's 18.
What's a kid doing in the National Guard if he can't use weapons?
- He's trained to use them. - Trained to use them?
What do you expect with all those men throwing rocks?
- You mean he's trained to kill people? - Yes, he is. To defend his country.
He's trained to defend his country!
You mean he's trained to kill unarmed people like that?
It was an accident!
It was an accident. They were throwing rocks.
The gun just went off. I didn't know what happened.
What are you going to say to their parents?
Come on, soldier. Let's go. Come on. Let's go.
(News reporter) 'President Nixon in San Clemente, California,
'sent a telegram for reading at the Artists' Variety Show.
'The Chief Executive told the artists:
"We Americans are known throughout the world as forward-looking people.'
'The President said the USA is a symbol of progress, of hope
'and of just and orderly growth.'
(Newsreader) 'Seven flights of B-52 bombers hit guerrilla infiltration routes
'along the Cambodian border north of Saigon today.'.
The afternoon of the following day.
(Chairman) This has been a session marred by continual disruptive outbursts,
in direct defiance of judicial authority,
by the defendants and Defence Counsel.
Outbursts in the form of constant murmurs.
This disruption is a further example of what I've been referring to.
Marshal, you'll restrain the prisoner if he makes any more outbursts.
Outbursts in the form of constant murmurs and derision,
shouting profanity and abuse.
No record, no matter how skilfully transcribed...
- We'll have quiet here! - Or what?
can adequately portray the venom, sarcasm,
and tone of voice employed by a speaker.
This has been a session marked by guffaws, cheap theatrics
and other affectations used by the defendants
in an attempt to break up these proceedings.
Despite these outbursts, the proceedings have been conducted
with impartiality and objectivity,
as called for by the extreme seriousness of the circumstances.
Turn him loose!
These proceedings have been conducted before a nationwide TV audience
in an attempt to clarify for the American people
the issues at stake
as an object lesson for others who may be considering
the willful and tragic path taken by the defendants who stand before us.
Defence Counsel, do you have anything to say
as to why I should not proceed with the sentencing?
Ladies and Gentlemen of the tribunal,
I would like to read you something...
'The streets of our country are in turmoil.'
'The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting.'
'Communists are seeking to destroy our country.'
'Russia is threatening us with her might'
'and the Republic is in danger.'
'Yes, danger from within and without.'
'We need law and order or our nation cannot survive.'
We might all be forgiven
for supposing those to be the words of our President.
But they are not.
Those words were uttered in 1932 by Adolf Hitler.
(Brown) Sieg motherfucking Heil!
We know what kind of law and order followed in that country.
You ask if I have anything to say
to show cause why sentence shouldn't be passed.
Other than that these are young people
with all of life before them,
full citizens of the USA,
to whom the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights apply.
No, I can't think of anything.
Motherfuckers.
Those bastards.
- That's it! - We're here.
That's the flag! We made it.
What are they doing there?
Lee Robert Brown: 15 to 21 years in a federal penitentiary.
Jay Kaufman: 15 to 21 years in a federal penitentiary.
William Luke Vallery: 7 to 10 years in a federal penitentiary.
Nancy Jane Smith: 7 years in a federal penitentiary.
James Arthur Kohler: 5 to 7 years in a federal penitentiary.
Mary Ellen Michener: 7 to 10 years in a federal penitentiary.
Charles Robbins: life imprisonment.
(Policeman) 'At this point your participation in the course is completed.
'You are to be remanded in custody.'.
What?
'Stop right now and no harm will come to you.
'I don't care how far you've come, you'd better stop.
'Stop where you are and no harm will come to you.'.
We made it!
Stop it!
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
Cut! Cut! Cut!
Lee Robert Brown, which do you choose:
15 to 21 years or Punishment Park?
Punishment Park. So recorded.
Jay Kaufman: 15 to 21 years in a federal penitentiary
or Punishment Park?
Hey! Leave him alone! Stop that!
No!
Jay Kaufman: 15 to 21 years or Punishment Park?
Punishment Park.
And I'm heading back here so have your troops around this fucking tent!
William Luke Vallery: 7 to 10 years in a federal penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
Punishment Park.
So recorded.
Nancy Jane Smith: 7 years in a federal penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
Punishment Park.
So recorded.
James Arthur Kohler: 5 to 7 years in a federal penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
I'll take the Park.
Take Punishment Park. So recorded.
Mary Ellen Michener: 7 to 10 years in a penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
- Punishment Park. - So recorded.
Charles Robbins,
with a nod, do you want life imprisonment,
or, shake your head, Punishment Park?
How can he talk?
Shake your head...
You're gonna kill him, you fucking idiot!
Mr Chairman...
Clear the court! Clear the court! We've already made the sentences.
I feel so ashamed.
Nobody's touching that flag!
They were just surrendering peaceably.
My Christ, I've heard about the American police!
I'm glad you got to see it. Tell all your friends about it.
Send them postcards from England, because that's where they'll listen.
This is going on European TV...
I don't give a good goddamn where it goes!
And France and Germany!
- Remind all you... - Bloody barbarians!
Remind you bloody European bastards of the goddamn American soldiers
that are dead in your goddamn country when you're talking about it!
10 minutes later...
- Why did you do that? - Because they goddamn deserved it.
They killed two officers!
That wasn't part of the goddamn game.
Don't you goddamn come near us.
We're just doing our job and I'm tired of you hassling us!
Can you tell us why you did what you did?
For the same reason he did. They had it coming to them.
They had a chance to stop. Did they stop? I'm asking you.
Because they rushed us.
That's not a reason, man! That's not a reason!
They wouldn't have rushed us if you hadn't been there.
Oh, shit.
You were the one who started this.
I started it?
I told the man to stop. The captain told the man to stop.
And that's all there is to it. He didn't stop. He attacked me.
I don't care what the fuck you think. How does that sound?
I don't care what the hell you think.
You can do with your newsreels whatever you want.
This is the second night this has happened.
You could have let those four people come straight through.
Had they wanted to they could have done that.
We're dealing with criminals who have killed two of my men.
As it happens these four people have not hurt a goddamn fly
on the entire desert.
Do you think we'd let them reach that flag?
Do you think they deserve that flag?
They belong to this country as much as you do.
They care about this country as much as you do.
What the hell are they doing out here?
They gave up their rights when they started breaking this country's laws.
That's what we're here for: To enforce those laws.
And we do a goddamn good job of it!
You're making out like a big humanitarian.
The only thing you want is to sell this to your goddamn network.
I don't see you putting any band-aids on anybody.
All you want is the money for this programme.
You could have opened your ranks and let them go through.
This happened in Chicago. It happened in Los Angeles.
Hey buddy, were you at Chicago?
It'll happen as long as we've got this type to deal with.
(Gavel knocks)
Get the defendants out of here.
You see what your great land is all about?
No, we haven't cheated.
You cheated. You never intended to let them finish the course.
You're full of shit.
You had radios.
They've obviously been under control.
You have your opinion. There's nothing that will change it
and it isn't worth my valuable time to talk to you.
Keep these sons of bitches out of here.
- That's bullshit! - We've had enough of this.
The 48th Emergency Internal Security Tribunal of the SW region,
as authorised by Executive Order No. 302,
William C. Hoeger, Chairman, presiding,
is hereby concluded.
- What have they done to her head? - They've bashed her about the jaw.
Since the completion of this film
one of the members of its cast.
Appearing as defendant Charles Robbins.
Has been indicted on a charge
of conspiracy to bomb.
The sentence on this charge
has not yet been determined.
For a second charge
of assault on a police officer
this cast member has been sentenced
to 3 years in a federal prison.