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Meanwhile, I felt a growing need to integrate my ideas in the
direction of some kind of anarchistic economic pluralism, with a
strategy based on the principles of Chinese Taoism, incorporating
the left anarchist concept of revolution which most right anarchists
reject in favor of social pessimism, and somehow finding a method
of guaranteeing that the revolution was not strangled in its own
name by whatever elitist groups were involved in the transition
from
centralized coercive authority to decentralized participatory
autonomy. I had no concrete grasp on how to do this, but I decided
to call the resulting gestalt, whenever it finally came to me,
Zenarchy. Somewhere along in there I also decided that my
nom de guerre in such efforts would be Ho Chi Zen, as a gesture of
respect to Ho Chi Minh, and also for Zen Duddhism, the study of
which had enormously stimulated my political creativity.
By early autumn Cara and I had solidified our plans to drop out.
Few of our friends lenew about this, because I knew that if I told
them they would simply talk me out of it, as they had already on
a couple of occasions that summer, and I guess Cara felt pretty
much the same way.
Unable to find anything around Los Angeles that was for rent
cheap, and in those days having a strong preference for warm
weather, we decided we would sell our VW and I would use the
money to fly to Florida and find us a place to live there.
I had heard that Florida was "square" and so decided to shave off
my beard and get a haircut before departure.
One day when all this was going on David Lifton called up. When
I
informed me of our plans he got very upset and said that before
we left he wanted to get a couple of signed statements from me
regarding various things I had told him regarding Oswald and also
Atsugi. The great stress of his wording in this request was that
he wanted the material for a book on the assassination he was
writing, but he mentioned also that he wanted to give copies to
Jim Garrison and I could see no way of turning down such a
request without incurring Lifton's suspicion, since he was very
enamored at that time with Garrison and utterly pooh-poohed my
reservations.
Lifton said it would only take an hour, that he would come
over to the house, and that all I would have to do would be to
sign the statements in the presentee of a notary, since he would
even write them, checking with me to make sure of details as he
did so.
It so happened that someone had recently given me an ounce or
so of grass and I was busily engaged in smoking it up that day,
but I told Lifton to come on over.
Well, it did not take an hour. It took all day. The worl
consisted only of thinee brief statements on the man who used
to speak Russian in the ranks with Oswald and how Jenner told me
this man was named on the Russian lessons available
through special services at Atsugi, and on the presence of the
for
0-2 spy plane at Atsugi. However, Lifton and I spent considerable
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