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When the majority of the defendants and VVAW executives decided on a passive defense. Perdue said that he and VVAW Florida coordinator Scott Camil were leery about a defense in which they could only attack what the government brought up. Camil and Perdue wanted to attempt to disprove all the testimony of the government witnesses, even though the contradictions were obvious, Perdue said...
Perdue said that he and Camil thought "an active defense would be a good chance to bring out some political lessons for the American people, to show them why we were on trial and what the reasons really were...
THEIR PLANS for an "active defense" would have called for at least six weeks of testimony from "hundreds of witnesses." Perdue and Camil wanted to discuss the role of the government as a conspiracy that relied on paid agent-provacateurs, the parts of their case which overlapped with the Watergate scandals, and the military's inadequacy in dealing with debilitating Post-Vietnam Syndrome...
Nevertheless, the Gainesville Eight were found innocent after their defense had brought only a single witness to the stand. The explosives expert had told the court that "someone would be better off using kitchen matches" than the home-made bomb Camil allegedly had prepared to blow up a police station...
Fantastic Plot. In two days of testimony, Lemmer, a former paratrooper in Viet Nam, described a fantastic plot that he says he watched develop while serving as Arkansas-Oklahoma coordinator for the antiwar vets. He outlined the scheme that he says Veteran Leader Scott Camil called "Phoenix II" (named after a CIA-sponsored project to eliminate Viet Cong cadres in Viet Nam). Lemmer told the jury that early in 1972, Camil said he was conducting training operations for political assassination squads on an isolated Florida farm with facilities for rifle, pistol and mortar practice. Lemmer, who spent approximately two years...