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Variously described as "strange," "withdrawn," "uncommunicative" and "incredibly defensive," Artie Bremer had no close friends and rarely, if ever, acknowledged neighbors' greetings. His younger brother Roger, 18, says that Arthur, a short (5 ft. 7 in.), husky youth who lifted weights, "just stayed in all the time and had his own views. Ma got on him when he wouldn't go out. He just hated her I guess. I don't think he likes me either...
...Send 'em a Message" runs one of the big slogans--a message mainly about two symbolic issues: "the busin'" and "the welfare." Government has withdrawn to the snug offices of a distant Washington bureaucracy which subjugates practical men to the dictates of "pointy-heads." They are destroying our schools for the sake of the minorities, they are taking our money and giving it away...
...time has long past when a substantial number of Americans supported American involvement in Indochina and the time never existed when our people were consulted by or even informed of our government's actions there. Troops are sent or withdrawn, bombs are dropped, puppet governments are overthrown or propped up, over one million people are murdered: all without the advice or consent of the American people. A little group of men in the White House and the Pentagon sit behind mahogany desks and decree who shall live and who shall...
Last week, as U.S. bombers pounded the North again and the North Vietnamese pressed their invasion, there was an anguished moment of recognition: No matter what the President had promised three years before, no matter how many U.S. troops had been withdrawn, the war was as bloody as ever...
...sniffing out the contradictions in official humbug. Unlike Koestler and Borkenau--both former Communists--Orwell had never been able to muster any enthusiasm for intellectual hooliganism; an Orwell who had become convinced that it was necessary would have been a broken man. It seems likely that he would have withdrawn from politics and simply let go of the world...