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In the spring and summer of 1966 I began speaking out publically
assassination an important issue, because I figured the major
against the Warren Report. At first I did not consider the JFK
result of exposing the conspiracy would be simply to put Robert
Kennedy in the Presidency. Also, the whole subject made me very
uncomfortable because I was keenly aware that I was a potential
suspect, and besides that I soon came to realize that an unusually
large percentage of assassination witnesses were meeting with
violent and untimely deaths (though I later learned, not so many
as Penn Jones, Jr., was asserting).
Nonetheless, I gave a rather outspoken statement to Fact:
magazine over the phone, which they published in their November-
December 1966 issue. I wrote an article attacking the Warren
Report for Innovator, the libertarian newsletter I edited, which
appeared in February of 1967. I lectured on the shortcomings of
the Warren Report at the Henry George Schools in San Diego and
Los Angeles, and gave a rather nervous interview on the subject
of the murdered witnesses over Harry Pollard's KPFK radio show.
I also wrote an article for Ramparts, which they did not pub-
lish, on my experiences with the Secret Service and the FBI just
after the assassination and, later on, with the Warren Commission.
(The manuscript copy of this article, which was in the Ramparts
files as late as 1968, contains some rather interesting informat-
ion; the edited typeset version which they also had in their files
is too distorted by deletions to make much sense.)
By 1967 I reached a point in my politics where, as far as basic
issues and premises go, I remain to this day. When the conservatives
began complaining that radical students were interested in nothing
but "sex, drugs, and treason" I realized that, instinctually, they
had hit the nail on the head. Sex, drugs, and treason were the
three things I was for.
Regarding sex, I became firmly convinced that unless there were
trends established in our culture in the direction of uncompromising
sexual honesty, tolerance for minority sexual preferences, equal
treatment of the sexes, rational openess concerning VD and birth
control, and saner attitudes regarding sex and child-rearing,
particularly with reference to masturbation -- urther meaningful
social change would not be possible. The basic cornerstone of the
entire edifice of the authoritarain submissive/dominant personality,
I came to believe, was composed of the implicit supposition that
one's body does not really belong to oneself, which is contained
in all sexually antagonistic attitudes, from censorship to rape.
The dhild who is persuaded not to masturbate will, of logical
necessity, become an adult who can be conned or coerced into
military behavior. Ownership of one's body is the politcal issue.
Regarding drugs, I gained a great deal of respect for psychedelic
substances as powerful tools for restructuring portions of one's
personality which could not be reached by intellectual effort
alone, for expanding one's sense of identification and compassion,
the
and for opening narrow and dry Western ego to mystical possibilities.
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