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Another pet theme of the NRA--as expressed in the May 1967 American Rifleman--is that gun laws disarm the law-abiding citizen and leave him defenseless against armed criminals, who don't obey gun laws...
...timing of the announcement, less than a week after Senator Robert Kennedy had entered the presidential race on an antiwar platform, lent more than a little credence to speculation that the President might be contemplating a change in Viet Nam policy-or else had taken the opportunity to disarm critics by giving the impression that he might. Westmoreland, the chief instrument of past policy, could hardly be expected to implement any broad changes...
...have to turn the tide of history," he continued, "turn it into a global community, disarm the world, feed everybody. There's a way to approach things, you know. You can reach people by approaching them intelligently...
Actually, pain and violence are anathema to the Intentional Community. Says Judith Malina: "We are a terrible lot of moralists. We are trying to live together in peace, not only saying that the U.S. should disarm, but that we should not scream at one another in rehearsals-or if we do it, to understand why." The collective ideal seems to fall between the Group Theater of the '30s and a 19th century Utopian experiment like Brook Farm. Actress Jenny Hecht, daughter of Ben Hecht, puts it this way: "I want to live with people close, in a state...
...seemingly normal environment explodes with tantrums and shrieks. Each child is shown to be living in an emotional fortress bristling with hostilities: a small boy answers every question with a curse; others seethe with body-shaking fears and hates. With monumental patience, the young Warrendale staff tries to disarm the children, holding them during their emotional storms, constantly preventing their retreat into themselves with physical force as well as emotional empathy...