Word: saneness
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...When the initial reaction to the Calley verdict burst out, I thought for a moment that I was one of a few sane individuals in a vast mental hospital. Surely this man was responsible for his actions toward the enemy, no matter how vile the system that spawned...
...farcical nature of our system of "justice," which confines both inmates and guards for almost incomprehensible reasons having to do with preservation of the myth of good order, and the government protected by that myth. A myth that kills and destroys in numbers and quantities which I fear the sane mind dares not grasp. In a new and penetratingly significant way, this experience led again to the realization that if "criminal" is associated with guilt, and if it bespeaks of injustice, then criminal can describe only those who promote our war in Indochina. And those who insist on the bars...
...change policy, to affect the thoughts and feelings of others, or to overcome our own sense of powerlessness, if we become paralyzed in the non-participatory search for the perfect solution to our ills. It seems that only in action can we promote renewed hope for better heads and sane policy...
...Also included in the memo are such tidbits as names of Philadelphia area college faculty members which appeared on the letterhead of SANE, a nationwide peace group, and a letter from a woman apologizing to the FBI for having told her neighbors information that the FBI had asked her to keep confidential (she had talked, she said, because she thought the information was "inconsequential and of a trivial nature...
...hard to know what, if anything, we can do to help bring about a sane drug policy. We should certainly be prepared to stand behind people who are busted if they think our support would be helpful. Write letters to our Congressmen? Far out. And although by now we have learned to expect absolutely nothing but duplicity and waffling from our Harvard surrogate parents, it would be nice for the Faculty and Administration to tell the world that lots of people here smoke dope with no apparent harm except legal paranoia, and that grass should be socially and legally accepted...