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...Rusty Calley has evoked unpleasant responses from almost all elements of American society: professional members of the silent majority have organized to make him a hero, professional liberals have propagandized to turn him into a leper, the military has contrived to blame him for conceiving, organizing, and carrying out the assault on My Lai 4 almost single-handedly, the President has intervened to make political...
...first glance, the most distressing response has been the enshrinement of Calley as a hero: the "Free Calley" rallies, buttons, and bumperstickers, the pro-Calley songs, the flimsy Calley magazines. But the response of most liberal media has been at least as wrongheaded: journals such as Time (always the most reliable index of what mistakes the country's liberal center is making) have from the start portrayed Calley as a half-mad, sub-normal robot, a kill-crazed misfit who took out all the frustrations of a life of failure and rejection on the people of one South Vietnamese hamlet...
...people, as we have noted, are not impressed: thousands have rallied to his defense, and many who haven't--those who do not support the proto-fascist pro war movement led by Carl MacIntyre and George Wallace--still feel that Calley has gotten a raw deal, and that his courtmartial was not a good idea. It is the children of the poor and of the lower middle class who fight the war, die in it, and bear its scars; the people who sympathize with Calley do so, in large part, because they have known men who have been faced with...
...people like you sat on their hands... And so we have Warren Burger in place of Earl Warren. And so we almost had George Harold Carswell. We have the Southern strategy and benign neglect...we have the Commander-in-Chief going out of his way to support both William Calley at My Lai and Nelson Rockefeller at Attica...
...pace and tenor of the Medina court-martial at Fort McPherson, Ga., was in sharp contrast to Calley's trial. In the latter case, the coldly efficient Army prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel, was easily able to destroy the bumbling defense put forward by Calley's aging civilian counsel, George W. Latimer. Medina's chief prosecutor was Major William G. Eckhardt, who went into the trial with the record of having unsuccessfully prosecuted two previous Viet Nam atrocity cases. The captain's lawyer, moreover, was the flamboyant Boston attorney F. Lee Bailey, with his vast repertory...