[English narrator]
Under the provisions of Title 2
of the 1950 Internal Security Act,
also known as the McCarran Act,
the President of the
United States of America
is still authorised,
without further approval by Congress
to determine an event of insurrection
within the United States
and to declare the existence
of an 'internal security emergency '.
The President is then authorised
to apprehend and
detain each person
as to whom there is
reasonable ground to believe
probably will engage in
certain future acts of sabotage.
Persons apprehended
shall be given a hearing
without right of bail,
without the necessity
of evidence,
and shall then be confined
to places of detention.
[Radio] 'KBCR News, the Southlands'
most comprehensive news coverage.
'The President signed
an executive order
'calling to immediate duty
'100,000 reservists.
'Pentagon sources indicate
'that at least 20,000 of these
newly mobilised troops
'would be sent
to North-East Asia
'in response to
the shelling of Seoul,
'capital of South Korea, last week.
'Sources gave no indication
'as to how the remaining
reservists might be used.
'It was neither confirmed
nor denied
'that they would help
law enforcement officials
'deal with the current
domestic disorders.'
[Boom of jet passing overhead]
'At least 273 Americans
are reported k*lled,
'and a further 492 wounded,
'as an advance force
'of 30,000 US, Cambodian and
South Korean soldiers
'drove deep yesterday into the Hill 98
and Whalesback regions of Laos
'in the heaviest attack so far
since the w*r was extended.'
[Chairman] Patrick John Edwards,
you have been found guilty
of conspiracy to undermine
the national security
and intent to incite to riot.
You are sentenced to 15 to 21
years in a federal penitentiary.
You have the alternative of undergoing
four days in Punishment Park.
How do you choose?
I'd like to thank the court
for its fairness...
Defendant, silence!
How do you choose?
Punishment Park.
[English narrator] Time 9:00am.
The Bear Mountain National
Punishment Park
in Southern California.
Right there. Stop.
You right behind him.
Right there.
You over there. Next man.
OK. That woman there.
The last man in line.
Go on into the tent.
The 47th Emergency Internal Security
Tribunal for the SW Region -
as authorised by executive
order no. 302,
William C. Hoeger,
Chairman, presiding -
is hereby concluded.
[Radio] 'The UN today became
the focus of world attention
'as the US delegate
challenged the Russians
'to admit that their submarines
had moved into the Caribbean.
'He made it clear that the US
'will tolerate no threats
to its sovereignty,
'and he accused
the Soviets of trying
'to divert world attention
from their actions in the Middle East.
'After heated discussion,
the US delegate indicated
'that the communist bloc
were responsible for the tripling
'of our monthly draft calls.
'He denied the Russian delegate's
accusation
'that the US government is building up
a large standing army
'for the suppression of
its own people.'.
Do you like your job of
slaughtering young people?
[Roar of jet passing overhead]
'Senator George McLewis
resigned from the Senate today
'after 22 years of active service.
'He said in a press conference
shortly after
'that he could no longer participate
in what he called the dismantling
'of basic freedoms for which
this country was established.
'In a prepared statement,
he mentioned specifically
'the types of
'repressive' legislation
'which led
to his sudden resignation,
'including the no-knock and
stop-and-frisk laws,
'cancellation of immunity
from 5th Amendment cases,
'preventative detention,
'the activation of detention camps,
'and quasi-judicial tribunals.
'He said that he was
particularly disturbed
'by the activities
of the Punishment Parks.'.
The Marshal will now bring
the 48th session to order.
The 48th Emergency Internal Security
Tribunal of the SW Region,
as authorised by Executive Order
number 302, is now in session.
William C. Hoeger,
Chairman, presiding.
[Defence Counsel] Reporting a motion
for dismissal at this time.
- On what grounds?
- Constitutional.
In particular, 1st, 4th, 5th
and 14th Amendments.
Motion overruled.
How the f*ck you can overrule
the Constitution, man!
[Chairman]
Keep the defendant silent.
If it please the court,
I'd like to introduce a motion to have
the convictions reviewed separately.
[Chairman] Denied.
In that case,
and with all due respect to the Tribunal,
may I move that the court permit
voir dire proceedings?
[Chairman] Denied.
Will the court set bail?
Some defendants have been
in jail for months.
We don't even know what
we were arrested for in the first place.
[Chairman] Keep the defendants quiet!
Bail denied.
[Woman] Deny, deny, deny!
We've been in jail for two months
and we don't know
what we were arrested for.
- Keep the defendants quiet.
- Shut up!
Lee Robert Brown, Jay Kaufman,
James Arthur Kohler,
Allison Michener,
Charles Robbins, Nancy Smith,
William Vallery.
You stand guilty of conspiracy
to undermine the national security
and of separate charges
which will be innumerate
and so indicted and convicted
at the preliminary hearings
of the 5th Emergency Court
of the 44th Precinct
in the District of Glendale,
Captain Edward Rubin, Sheriff,
presiding, May 24th.
Temperature 89 degrees.
At the time of your sentencing
you will be able to choose
between a penal sentence duly passed
or accept the alternative
of Punishment Park.
Punishment Park described by
the US Senate Subcommittee
On Law And Order as,
'...a necessary training
'for the law officers
and National Guard of the country'
'in the control of those elements
who seek
'the violent overthrow
of the US government.'
'Sand the means of providing
a punitive deterrent
'for said subversive elements.'
You will speak only when you are
spoken to and at no other times.
Each violation of this ruling
will result in a citation
for contempt of court
of one year
in a federal penitentiary
in addition to the sentence
duly passed.
Finally, I wish to announce
that we have with us at this time
television cameras
of the National Network.
Also those of Britain
and West Germany.
It is hoped to document these
proceedings in the widest manner,
as we know their import
to be of vital concern to the people
of the free world everywhere.
Their coverage will be impartial.
- Bullshit!
- This trial is illegitimate.
- This trial is illegitimate...
- Quiet!
These are the members
of Corrective Group 638,
and these, the members of
Corrective Group 637
now sentenced to spending
three days in Punishment Park.
[Distant explosions and g*nf*re]
First defendant.
- What's your name?
- My name is Brown, m*therf*cker!
Lee Robert Brown,
well-known author,
broadcaster and political activist.
I want to be tried by a jury of my peers,
that means black people!
In front of witnesses
who identify themselves.
Witnesses! Here!
[Chairman] Keep the defendant silent!
Restrain the defendant!
[Radio] 'No end for the heat wave
'which has been frying Los Angeles
for three months.
'Temperatures today will top 100°
'for the 12th straight day
in downtown LA,
'with the Valley due for 105°.
'Tonight's low will be 79°.
'The deserts can expect
mercury readings of 115° plus.'.
You have accepted this course
of your own volition
as an alternative
to your penal sentences.
You have 3 days and 2 nights
in which to reach
the US flag flying 4.5 miles due north
of the Bear Shadow Mountains.
These you can see to your front.
These mountains are 16.5 miles
from the spot where you are standing.
You will direct yourselves
toward the indicating lights.
Pursuit Leader to 245,
ready your signal.
[Indistinct voice on field radio]
You will head past this point,
immediately turn west -
that is to your left -
and proceed 13 to 17 miles
along the lie of the mountains
until you reach
a second set of flags.
There you will turn north
across the intervening plain,
and pass directly to the following hills,
a further distance of 19 miles,
and proceed directly to
the US flag.
[Senator] 'Mr Brown,
did you actually advocate overthrow
'of these, our United States?'
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that
it may tend to incriminate me.
That's my right under
the 5th Amendment of the US constitution.
And overrule that!
Defendant, defendant,
it's people like you...
Objection, Mr Chairman!
[Shouting]
Let that man alone!
The object of this course is simple.
Clear the tribunal!
Clear the tribunal!
You must evade capture by
the pursuing law enforcement officers
and reach the flag
by the appointed time,
That is to say 10pm on the evening
of the 3rd day from now.
[Shouting continues]
You f*cking pig!
Each one of them,
take them out of here.
Clear the tribunal.
Your capture or your failure
to complete the course in time
will result in the reversion
to your penal sentence.
Are you or are you not a member
of the Communist Party?
Objection.
I'll answer that
m*therf*cking question!
Watch your language.
Do you think my language
is immoral?
What do you call that sh*t
you just did, man?
What do you call this sh*t?
Give your side-arm to Sepada
and go unlock the prisoners.
Were you going to call
for revolution on that television?
[Mr Brown] What do you want me to say?
I told you the truth.
The truth as you saw it?
I would tell the truth,
I would tell the story of black people
like it has never been told,
cos you never tell it,
cos they never tell it.
I would say what happens
to Chicanos in this country,
because the fruit-growers
ain't gonna tell it.
And either they or members of their club
buy the time on that television set.
I would tell what happens
to people who are poor
and uneducated
and automated out of a job,
who stand in long f*cking lines
talking to little people like you
with delusions of power
in unemployment lines all day long
to be f*cked off because your old man
didn't ball you right last night.
Watch your language,
there's a lady in the court.
Where?
The truth is the fact that
you're devouring your children.
The fact that you're oppressing the people
who are powerless in the country.
- And what would you do?
- A few of the people are living...
Do you want to listen
or do you want to talk?
[Senator] Continue, Mr Brown.
Tell us your message.
You don't wanna hear
my message, man.
[Overtalking...]
You've spent 50 years
evolving a propaganda system
that'll take the truth and change it
into what you want to hear.
You don't want to hear sh*t that
means having to give up something.
You don't want it.
[Overtalking...]
All you want to do is sit on your fat a*s
and draw dividends!
[Senator] Did I react to the names
that you called me?
As your people just
reacted moments ago?
You called me pig and other names.
Did I react?
You're in a different position, man.
All I can do is call you a dirty name.
These officers have...
[Shouting]
...strict instructions
not to molest you in any way,
or to hinder you from
reaching your ultimate destination.
However they will not allow you to leave
the boundary of the course.
[Senator] It has been stated,
and it's a fact,
there are more TV sets and cars
owned by black people in the USA
than in all of Russia.
So what?
That shows a very intense interest
in the economics of this country,
in your people.
[Overtalking...]
They have a standard of living
that's better than any in the world.
Hey, man. You can say an identical thing
for every animal in the zoo.
I'm sure their standard of living
has increased - they certainly eat better.
The time is now 9:54 am.
At 10:00
you will commence the course.
At 12:00 noon,
that's to say two hours from now,
the pursuit forces
will be set in motion against you.
Today's pursuit force will consist
of a unit of the National Guard,
part of the tactical riot squad
of a city police department,
and three federal marshals.
At the 5 de Mayo Congress
Of Chicano Youth
the defendant was quoted saying,
'To you, I say: Free your communities.
Arm yourselves.'
'If the pigs comprehend
nothing but force, then use it.'
'Liberate yourself.
Off the pigs!'
'k*ll the chief pig!
Liquidate the mayor...'
[Shouting]
[Mr Brown] Anybody can lift that sh*t
out of context.
[Chairman]
You had your chance to speak.
Let Agent Donovan finish
his statement.
- This is all we have.
- Pig Donovan.
This man is calling for violence,
for the destruction of this country.
And it's doing more than
just for himself.
His people are spreading this
all over the country.
In the factory where I work
all kinds of people are reading his stuff.
It's all over the place. Mainly
the coloured people are reading it.
And he's stirring them up, talking about
legitimate problems that we have,
trying to pose
his violent alternatives to it.
[Mr Brown] You talk as if this is
some great civilised, non-violent place.
And it ain't. America
is as psychotic as it is powerful,
and violence is the only thing
that will command your attention.
No way, you b*stard!
[g*nf*re]
This country, this America,
was born in violence.
Now revolution's a violent thing.
Get him! Get him!
[Shouting and jeering]
Bring him back over here.
[Mr Brown]
I'm in this place right now
because my people, my forebears,
were violently brought here,
like this, in chains, from Africa,
where they were violently
made to work.
It was upon the labour
of their backs
that you so violently
wrung out of them
that this country
was industrialised.
Right away, right at first.
This land and all the rest
that belongs to the country,
was violently taken
from the Indians.
Violently.
The time 10:03am.
Temperature 91 degrees.
[Distant explosions]
Your goal is straight down the river,
move in that direction.
Time remaining before the
beginning of the pursuit, 2 hours.
Hey, David. Can I have another one
of your cigarettes?
You've had cigarettes off me all day.
Distance to the United States flag,
They made their choice.
They could've done
a lot of things,
but they chose
to throw firebombs
and conspire to violently overthrow
the government.
They're doing what they want to do.
I'm doing what I want to do.
[Automatic g*nf*re in distance]
Over this way, fast!
[Helicopter overhead]
[Field radio] 'You're on your own.'
I don't think any of those kids'll
make it anyway.
D'you see that one little b*stard
take off?
That Mexican's the fastest thing
I ever seen in my life.
Time remaining before the beginning
of the police pursuit,
Those kids are running scared.
Everybody's running scared.
If they didn't break the law,
they wouldn't have to run scared.
Maybe they don't know
what the law is, Captain.
Everybody knows.
If they don't want
to take the consequences,
let them think before they act.
In order to provide what is termed
'further motivation ',
this group have been told
that they will find water
half-way to the American flag.
That long-haired sonofab*tch?
I think he's in
for some real bad stuff.
You really got a hard-on
for that dude.
I don't have a hard-on for him.
He's got one for everybody.
He's got one for the world.
So f*ck him.
If that's how he wants to play,
that's how we'll play.
[Captain] 'A word about violence.
'These three days will be only
as violent as you want them to be.
'Your capture, should that occur,
'will be as peaceful
as you want it to be.
'An officer will announce to you
that you are apprehended
'and that your participation
in the course has concluded.
'Should you resist the arrest,
'or should any of you adopt violence
in any form during the course,
'then we shall use
those means against you.
'In short, you can start
the violent actions if you so choose,
'but I assure you
that we will finish them.'.
Let's take a minute
and get out of here.
- I'm staying.
- I'm staying too.
Oh, you gonna stay here
and play, huh?
That man gonna sh**t the sh*t
out of you! They gonna k*ll us!
[Bald man] We gotta break out sideways,
otherwise there's no chance.
[Mexican man] I'm gonna hide out.
[Woman] I don't know about the rest
of you, but this bullshit's got to end.
I ain't leaving
another m*therf*cking step!
Wait a second here,
you're going to bring them
down on all of us. Forget it.
sh*t! You don't think
they're down on you now.
At least we've got a chance.
What chance, man?
You've got 50 miles of no chance!
You're going to go out there
and play target-practice
for them f*cking pigs!
In two hours
we can get lost out there.
That's the only chance we got.
Here, they're gonna be on you in 5 mins.
You couldn't make it in the heat
if there were no police!
- I say stay.
- They got water.
We can't stay!
That's our only chance.
They're just over that hill.
You're a marksman?
- Yeah.
- A sn*per?
A marksman.
What do you mean
you can't stay here?
The ones that are going have got
to go right now. We can't wait.
If you do a thing with the cops,
you're gonna get us k*lled.
Have you ever k*lled a man?
Yeah.
Jay Kaufman,
co-founder of the National Committee
Against w*r And Repression.
Age 28.
Time remaining 1 hour 42 mins.
I prefer it for the simple reason
that this thing, with magnum load,
has enough power
to knock down a rhinoceros
if it's coming at you.
I'm sure we're going to be apprehending
very few rhinoceri,
but, if we do, I want to know that
I'm going to be able to stop it.
I see by your file that you were
formerly a candidate for.
Vice-President of the United States.
That's correct.
Also that you were very successful...
See how much I believed
in this system?
Make your answers brief.
OK. Bop.
You say you are against w*r
and depression.
What type of depression?
A depression of the people?
A depression of economics?
No, I'm not talking about de-pression,
I'm talking about re-pression.
Repression. Being oppressed.
What were you charged with?
Draft evasion and, I don't know...
What did they call it?
Er, 'hindering the w*r effort.'
Are you for w*r or against w*r?
I'm for w*r if it's necessary
to protect our country.
[Kaufman] Do you condone
the w*r in Vietnam, sir?
- Certainly.
- You do. Why?
- Because it's protecting our country.
- Who tells you this?
Would you like us to let them come
over here? Would you fight then?
[Kaufman] Who tells you that
this w*r is protecting your country?
[Legion officer]
We're fighting communism.
- Well, who tells you this?
- I hear it every day.
[English interviewer] I gather that
you're not going to try and make
the next 50 miles to the US flag.
I wouldn't walk around
the g*dd*mn f*cking corner
for the American flag,
let alone go out in the desert.
Time remaining 1 hour 25 mins.
Squeeze
and fire.
We're going through
a kind of a group suicide
in America.
In a situation where you want
to fire two shots rapid-fire,
pull the hammer back
fire the first single action,
and follow it up.
Have you any idea how you're going
to complete these 50 miles?
I have no idea.
We're just going to keep on.
Do you know the difference
between a patriot and a chauvinist?
- A who?
- A patriot and a chauvinist.
- A chauvinist?
- Yes.
Define the word chauvinist to me.
Chauvin was
an officer under Napoleon
and his loyalty was so absurd
that we got the word Chauvin,
which is chauvinistic,
an absurd loyalty.
They promised us water
at the other end, water faucets.
They believe in protest
and ritual defiance,
and yet they're willing
to participate fully
in the rules established
by the police for these games,
fully expecting that they'll come out
all right if they make the flag.
Squeeze. Fire.
Are you expecting to die
in the next 2 or 3 days?
I expect to die
in the next 2 or 3 minutes.
Your function with this weapon
is to hit a man-size figure.
You don't have to put out his eye,
or get him in the heart or knee-cap,
or pick the heel off his boot
like Wyatt Earp.
- [Interviewer] How old are you?
- I'm 20.
All you have to do is hit
a man-size figure
from here to there.
I don't think
they're trying to k*ll us, really.
Get him in that area,
he's going down
he's got to go down
and he's going down hurting.
I think they're just making it difficult.
This isn't Mexico or other countries
where they sh**t people like you.
[Woman] What would you do to us
if you were in control?
Would you be very
humanitarian with people like us?
I would make more of an effort
than you are.
What is your moral code?
What would you do for this country?
You're sitting back,
enjoying the adulation
of all these kids.
You are indulging
in this self gratification,
you are indulging in
some sort of mental masturbation.
[Kaufman]
That's what you're doing right now.
How could they have
any faith in a man
who makes a mockery out of
everything that we stand for?
The home, true love...
You haven't the first idea about love
with your love-ins, you really haven't.
If it was up to you,
we'd shut down the factories
and panhandle on the street.
And what kind of society
would we have then?
How would you feed people then?
You want us to support you.
That's what you want.
[Kaufman] There is enough food
and wealth in this country
to take care of everyone,
and everyone isn't being
taken care of.
You want to go round the streets
and have orgies all the time.
[Kaufman] I'm not going around
having orgies all the time.
I'm as concerned as you are about
the direction of this country.
I really feel sorry for you.
We're the same age,
and here you are defending
a miserable existence.
Don't you realise how
you're being exploited?
How the people who control the money
are diminishing your existence
to working in
a f*cking dirty factory
which puts smoke up in the air,
which pollutes the world,
and you're working your a*s off
saving money for your kids
getting pennies while they're making
hundreds of dollars?
Don't you realise
you're being duped?
How they've got your head
f*cked with and indoctrinated?
How they have you conditioned?
How they misinformed you?
Don't you see this?
Are you that blind?
Some new kick or new drug
comes along, you'll try it.
[Kaufman] What about kicks like
genocide, imperialism, napalm warfare?
What about those new kicks
which this country puts in practice?
This is a Remington Wingmaster
model 870 shotgun, 12-gauge.
What about corruption,
police brutality?
[Jurgens] You are immoral!
What about the oppression
of the minorities?
- You're sick!
- I am not immoral, Mrs Jurgens!
Do you want to know what's immoral?
Do you want me to tell you
what's immoral?
w*r is immoral.
Poverty is immoral.
Racism is immoral.
Police brutality is immoral.
Oppression is immoral.
Genocide is immoral.
Imperialism is immoral.
This country represents
all those things.
It's loaded with 00 buckshot.
When are we gonna have love?
When are we gonna have brotherhood?
We're not as long
as this little f*cking Hitler...
Each individual cartridge
has 9 ball-bearings in it.
And you're sending all the
oppressed people to their death!
Don't you know that?
Are you that f*cking stupid?
[Chairman] Another outburst
and you'll be taken from the court.
It has no choke on it, the g*n
has no choke on it whatsoever.
So the buckshot just flies out
in any and every direction.
Insane people who m*rder
the children of their country.
[Chairman] And your record,
what does that show?
What does the record
of this country show?
Destroying the country from within,
this is all your record shows.
You're destroying the world
from within!
Anything in front of you is totally
out of luck when you pull the trigger.
What does LSD have to do
with death, with m*rder,
with w*r, with injustice,
with poverty, with racism?
Take the prisoner out of here!
Get him out of here!
Get him out of here!
Get him out of here!
You have to pump to inject the shell
into the chamber and pump to eject it.
[Panting] I was...
I was at a poetry reading.
Temperature 93 degrees.
The police came in...
...and they swept us
off the stage.
People are just being
k*lled for nothing,
hauled off to jail,
hauled off to prison.
Feelings? There is no feeling.
Every day you walk outside,
some guy takes a shot at you.
Some pig in a g*dd*mn uniform.
Watch the pattern of the buckshot.
And they say this is democracy.
Can you see the dispersement?
It looks like 6 or 7 feet.
We've got to wait
for the first one to come.
What if more than one comes?
An individual carrying a thing
like this with a safety arm,
might see someone
that would be an antagonist.
- Who's going to be a decoy?
- I'll do it.
You've got to hit a man in the right
spot and he's wearing a helmet.
Slip the safety off
and go like this.
How would you try and remedy
what's happening in America?
I don't think it can be done.
We've just got to evolve out of it.
And I think it'll happen violently.
Anything between those two shots
is blown away.
It is no longer causing you any trouble.
It does not exist any more.
It has one purpose alone
when loaded with buckshot,
that is to k*ll.
Not to disperse.
Not to harry. Not to wound. To k*ll.
Use it for that fact
when you have to do so.
Time remaining 50 mins.
[Interviewer] What are your feelings
towards the police in this country?
[Man] I really don't think
they're too different from anybody else.
Pigs are pigs. I mean...
Pigs have always been pigs.
[Young man] The street-cleaners
of the public conscience.
[Woman]
They're just like hired K*llers.
These people have been
sent out here unarmed.
Unarmed? I don't think
Jack did anything to them.
[Man] This is going to be the
first revolution in history
when the pigs were
in the upper class.
I think they're in the same boat
as the people we left
back at the house.
They have a point of view
and they're willing
to use any sort of means
to back it up.
[Young man] They're doing a job.
They're just taking orders.
They're working. They're getting
paid for what they do.
[Interviewer] Can you tell us...
Can you tell us what happened here?
What happened is obvious.
What I don't know is why.
That young man over there with that
white cloth on his head is dead.
[Man] They get paid more than social
workers or college professors.
They have a real stake
in maintaining the status quo.
He was attacked.
Signs point to at least
three people, maybe four.
He was stabbed to death
with the spires of a Joshua tree.
Do you think this man's death
will cause any
further antagonism on the part of
your officers towards these people?
No doubt about it whatsoever.
Each man is thinking that
that could have been him under
the same circumstances.
And it undoubtedly would have been.
There's no doubt that
it'll cause more antagonism,
and I think antagonism
is a very mild word
on the part of the men in
my command towards these individuals.
We have a specific plan of action
that we execute
in case of circumstances
such as these.
And as soon as the National Guard,
who found the body, informed me
that this had taken place,
those measures went into effect.
[Indistinct talking over field radio]
'Better check on suspects
who may be in possession of firearms.'.
Do you feel the country
is on the brink of fratricide?
Yes.
It's already there,
it's been happening for some time.
Did they take any weapons
from the deputy?
They have his patrol car.
They have a .357 Magnum.
They have a Remington 12-gauge
Wingmaster shotgun,
at least 50 rounds of ammunition.
They have his billy-club.
They also took his shoes.
They are armed and dangerous.
They have a shotgun - that's the most
dangerous weapon that I can imagine.
We will use force against them.
We will not take any chances
with these individuals.
They've k*lled once.
I don't like to lose men.
Did any of you know
the deputy that was k*lled?
I didn't know him that well.
It's not about a personal vendetta.
Quite the opposite.
We are not doing this for ourselves.
We're doing this for the people
who pay the taxes.
The thing that appalls me is that
it seems to be almost understood.
It doesn't have to happen this way
if we can just...
If we can somehow create
a change of spirit, a change of mind.
It doesn't have to happen...
but it is.
- Have you ever k*lled a man?
- Yes, I have.
What did you feel
about that at the time?
No feeling at all.
'Warning, the two suspects
are armed and dangerous.
'Intercept with extreme caution.'.
Do you think you'll have
to resort to violence?
No. I hadn't thought
about violence at all.
I don't think there'll be
any need for violence.
That's what we're working against.
But it just seems like
there's no other way
to defend ourselves.
Violence might be necessary, yes.
I can't see the good
in fighting back.
If they k*ll me, what difference
would my politics make?
I would be dead.
You quit your job and
you don't like to work for others.
I can understand that.
I have the same feelings sometimes.
William Luke Vallerio.
Unemployed, age 30.
I take a hunting trip sometimes
or just go off fishing,
leave the old lady at home.
But you're on vacation
all the time.
Is that your view of life?
Just to be on vacation all the time?
I do what I want to do.
[Chairman] Do you understand
why you are before this tribunal?
I don't want to go in the army.
If our country were attacked
within the hour,
would you join the US services?
I would not.
If I told you that I was going
to wad up this piece of paper
and hit you with it,
what would you do?
I would duck.
[Radio] '2:0Opm. KBCR News.
'B-52 bombers today launched
a massive air strike
'against the North Vietnamese
armament centre of Pem Dong,
'only 15 miles from
the border with China.'
it's the whole violent thing
in America.
I don't know when it's going to stop.
I don't know what
would bring it all to an end.
You believe it's obviously
getting worse?
- Very much so.
- All the time.
With the w*r and
the minorities, the poor,
it is constantly getting worse
and it seems that more
and more people
are willing to turn to violence
to take care of it,
and it seems to be escalating
into an unthinkable situation.
I don't think they're sincere.
If they're sincere,
why don't they riot in wintertime?
Temperature 101 degrees.
[Chairman] Have you ever
gone hunting or have your dad
or your friends
taken you out hunting?
I've never gone hunting.
- You've never shot a g*n?
- I've never shot a g*n in my life.
- You don't know how to handle one?
- I don't.
I don't like g*ns.
What were you charged with?
Refusing induction.
[Chairman] Agent Donovan,
would you read that charge?
Conspiracy to aid and abet others
to avoid the draft.
How did you refuse?
I just ignored the letter.
I just didn't do anything.
[Chairman] You don't like to travel
and, according to the charges,
you tried to flee the country
because of draft evasion.
How do you reconcile that?
I don't like to travel
but it was necessary.
I wanted to get to some place
where I could stay, be in one place
be left alone to do
what I want to do,
instead of all the hassles
that I was having.
- Did they just come and take you?
- They broke in.
Mr Vallerio, you testified that you
live alone. Do you listen to the radio?
Do you have a TV set?
I didn't testify that I live alone.
I don't have a TV. I have a radio.
Do you know what's going on,
that the Chinese are crossing
the North Vietnam border
and that we're now bombing
within 5 miles of the border?
Do you realise the intensity in which
this situation places the USA?
It's getting hard to live here.
When they arrested me,
they roughed me up somewhat.
That's when my wife was arrested.
I was just trying to help him.
They charged me with as*ault
on a police officer.
The only legitimate thing
that I can think of doing
is to use my body or well-being,
my freedom or life,
to back up what I say.
At another time, the honourable
or right thing to do
might be to be a policeman
or to be President.
Right now, I think the honourable
thing to do is to be a criminal.
'All units, this is truck 509.
'We have a couple of suspects
in sight of truck 517.'.
Would you describe your work
as committed, socially?
[Faint voice]
Yes, it's committed. But it's...
...not committed to the revolution.
It's committed to...
...sanity.
The normal human body temperature
is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
An increase in body temperature
of 6 to 8 degrees above normal
for any extended period
means death.
[Man] I don't know what
any of us could do.
Maybe if we all got together
for one day or for one week
and stopped, just stopped
doing everything and said,
'This has to stop.
The f*cking w*r has to stop.'
We have to do something
about all the hate here.
[Interviewer] You were 2 weeks in jail
before being brought out here.
How did the police treat you?
Like we were trash.
They were really, really bad.
There they are, there!
[Indistinct voices on field radio]
The pigs are coming!
[Voice over speaker]
'You are apprehended!
'Your part in the course is concluded.'.
Get them, come on! Get them!
[Chairman]
We were just told by the Senator
about the menace that faces us,
and here you sit
as if this was a picnic.
You've got shackles and handcuffs on
and this is a picnic!
Stop or we'll sh**t to k*ll!
You sit there so quietly so calmly.
This is sickening!
You're a traitor.
Get in.
Perhaps you haven't had the guard
put the cuffs on tight enough.
I know it sounds a pain for you.
Out of order. Irrelevant.
Dogs.
I'm beginning to think that maybe
the others had the right idea.
There's no reason to react against that.
It'll just bring it down worse
on all of us.
[Indistinct voices on field radio]
He loves this country but,
'I want to go to Canada.'
Why does he want to go to Canada?
Evade the draft.
Stop, I mean it!
Do you think they did this
because they were Chicano?
It has nothing to do with Chicanos.
They're going to do
the same thing to all of us.
Get in the car!
We have to get out of here, this is
the first place they're gonna look for us.
Sit down.
They could be right behind
any one of these little dunes.
'We've picked up two of them.
'Time check, 17.08.
'One male one female, both Mexican.'.
Temperature 107 degrees.
Will you stop following us, eh?
[Chairman] He's going to make a choice
between Punishment Park or prison
and he'll have to make
that choice himself.
The desert heat is a k*ller.
It will burn your skin,
sap your strength,
cut your efficiency,
drain the moisture from your body
and thicken your blood
unless you drink water.
There will be a temperature
difference of 45 degrees
between daytime heat
and pre-dawn cool.
Dawn on the second day.
Temperature 62 degrees.
Nancy Jane Smith.
Popular singer and composer.
Age 19.
I understand the defendant does not
wish to have you as her counsel.
That's correct, Mr Chairman.
She wishes to defend herself.
How do you feel?
My hands... my fingers are numb.
I'm afraid of my feet. They...
I'm so cold I threw up.
Did you hear the patrol cars
during the night?
We heard them...
We heard them in the distance,
but they didn't come near us.
I'd like to... I want to find out
a little bit more about you.
You were arrested
for assaulting a police officer.
What did you do to him?
I was trying to keep him
from arresting me.
The songs that she composes
are of a seditious nature.
She advocates the overthrow of
the government in many of her songs.
One of them I'll read right now.
Evidence Nancy Smith.
Seditious literature.
Santa Claus is coming
With a bag of bombs and g*ns
Santa Claus is here
The revolution has come.
Grab a handful, dip in quick
Grant a slogan, make it stick.
Right on, Baby
Get yours and fight like crazy.
We can win, blow up buildings
Watch them fall.
For hours that we spend
Standing in the hall.
[Jurgens] I bet your mother and father
are proud of you, aren't they?
Yes.
[Jurgens] I'd like to hear you sing one.
[Nancy] Celibate a*s-lickers
Riding cars made of gold.
Taken from the poor
They've gathered to their fold.
Father Pig leads a flock of sheep
Father Pig makes ready.
For the slaughter.
Celibate snatch-men
Their rhythm is the way.
Poor ladies get the babies.
But Father d*ck has the say.
Do you know what snatch is?
[Lurgens] I don't have to be insulted
by this little guttersnipe.
In the psychiatric evaluation
of the prisoner, these songs
do show a neurotic
and schizophrenic tendency.
Is that your opinion, dummy?
Here's what I'm interested in...
You came from a wealthy family.
You had the best of things
that this country has to offer.
Why do you turn
against the country?
My parents taught me to think
and my parents gave me
certain values of honesty and...
- To think?
- That's why I'm here.
- Tell people to throw bombs too?
- No.
They taught me to think and they
gave me a set of moral values.
It don't have anything
to do with sex, lady.
- What happened to the moral values?
- I still have all of them.
What about the songs you write?
Do you call those moral?
Yeah. I call them a lot more moral
that what you're doing
sitting right there. f*ck off!
Watch your language.
Why should I watch my language?
f*ck off!
Watch your language, defendant.
Oh, shut up! What do you think
I care what you tell me to do?
You're going to k*ll me in a little while.
Old man!
Stop that language! That's part
of all the other moral crap.
Moral crap? You said crap!
Yes. You make me say crap!
- You make me very angry!
- sh**t that woman!
She said crap!
Sit down, defendant.
What you're doing
to the children...
What I'm doing?
Yes, what you're doing!
You make me sick!
You're a crazy girl!
You ought to be locked up!
Why should I be locked up?
Why don't you sh**t me?
Because you're schizophrenic!
You're cuckoo!
Miss Smith, I remind you
that your violent
overthrow-of-the-government,
financially-rewarding songs,
really gives you a peculiar
kind of freedom
to have your love-ins,
to have your pot.
What is your philosophy
of government?
What do you believe in?
I would take every man
that is in this country
that's in a uniform
in another country
and bring him back home
and put him back in the world.
I would take every prisoner
out of their cages.
I'd take every hungry person
and feed them,
and take away every
rich person's money.
I would take every person
that's tired of working jobs
like on the auto lines
and things like that
who have worked for years for nothing
and never getting ahead...
Or people in college,
because I had to quit school because
I got so f*cking paranoid,
because after Kent State
I realised that I had to put on
a cheerleader's sweater
with an I love America pin
and the people who were sh**ting
weren't even aiming.
I'd walk out of a classroom
and be on my way to lunch
and get k*lled just as easily
as in the front line of a barricade
in a demonstration.
- Do you have any children?
- Yes, I have.
How many children?
You've tried to get into the mind
of some of my children.
They were brainwashed by watching
Donna Reed and Father Knows Best.
By the time they listened to me,
they were past their formative years.
- How many?
- I have 3 children.
How would you feel
if one of them died?
I'd feel terrible.
[Siren begins wailing...]
The course has now been in progress
for 24 and a half hours.
[Siren and explosions continue...]
[Chairman]
Let us get back to the charges.
I'll read them again.
[Nancy] I have a charge
to make against you.
I have a charge to make
against you, old man!
You old, sick man.
How many kids have you
led to the slaughter?
How many kids are out there now?
Who's getting k*lled by the g*ns
that I hear go off?
How many children have been
through these tribunals?
- Silence!
- No!
How many children have you k*lled?
Who's dying right now?
You sent those kids out there.
I sent those kids out there?
Who's dying? Who's dead that
was sitting right here?
You sat here and with
all the arrogance in the world...
I don't have to listen to that.
You don't even hear me.
Cut it out!
You have no real way of running
anything, you're a phoney!
Don't you dare talk to me like that!
There's no question about this girl
being a definite communist threat
to this nation.
Each member of this group
is now lacking
about two quarts of body water.
[Nancy] I believe in destroying
everything that you stand for
and destroy everything that
you're trying to do.
[Committee members interject]
I'm complaining?
I have the right to complain!
Defendant, sit down.
Restrain the defendant.
You're going to put a b*llet...
Basically, we found ourselves
in a situation where
we thought we had the entire group
of militants pinned down
and called upon them to surrender.
They did not do so and you see
the consequences of their decision.
Silence the defendant!
Silence the defendant!
Senator, this is when
it is getting out of proportion...
You may have kids
and their lives are relevant...
I've got a couple of young kids.
How are you going to raise them?
We have at least one more
running around.
What do you plan to do now?
We have this g*n.
We'll try to find a place
in the high ground
and wait for them and,
if they don't come, we'll get out.
We know we'll get them.
This whole f*cking game
is like a revolution and we're in it.
If we don't get them, the desert will.
We've got to either win or die.
- Where was he hit?
- In the neck.
I don't much care
just so they're hit.
And if we do win, we're going to wreck
this f*cking establishment
and this f*cking game.
They don't understand
what's going on in this country.
They have no idea, no loyalty,
no understanding,
and they respond with violence.
And the words in her songs
'Throw bombs!'
'Blow up!' 'k*ll!' 'k*ll!'
And who do they k*ll?
Innocent people.
And she drives the kids here
and says we did it.
Temperature 98 degrees.
One of the main reasons for having
Punishment Park in the first place
is because, with the type of crime
that we have being committed today,
the civil and social crime,
we're filling up our prisons
faster than we can build
new facilities.
[Indistinct chatter]
Ask the Senator how it is.
May we ask you what you feel about
your duty on the board today?
What do you feel about
disciplining young people?
A number of these young people
remind me of a situation
I had at home.
It was one of my own daughters.
For about a year we had
quite a difficult time with her.
She didn't believe that there
would be any discipline at home
and we sort of worked
that thing out.
May I ask you how you worked it out?
I kept punishing her
and she kept responding
until finally we worked
it out quite well.
You've got to remember that
these children of ours today are like
skilled and trained,
highly-bred horses.
They're trained
to go around that track,
but then you've got
to sort of hold them in,
because, if you let the reins out,
they'll just run around that track
without any control at all.
We do get a few oddballs
before this tribunal.
Especially that one
that wouldn't k*ll a fly.
He said he'd take
one of these cups and catch the fly
and take it outside and let it free.
He's probably a 1-A now,
or in Indochina. I wouldn't know.
I'd rather be in a lot more places
than in the desert.
I have a wife and family back home.
There are certain things
you have to do for your country,
but for all the abuse
and just seeing these characters
have no respect for this country
it's difficult.
We give them a chance
to have a fair say
but they don't seem to appreciate it.
It's a very difficult job to do,
it really is.
But somebody has to do it.
We do our best.
What would you do if one of your
own children appeared before you?
Oh, my God.
No, my kids wouldn't do that.
They really wouldn't.
They've been trained differently.
I see a running pattern of paranoia
in these youngsters.
This may sound funny,
but it isn't funny.
I think there should've been
more spank and less Spock in America,
and our youth wouldn't be
what they are today.
These are political criminals.
They are not social criminals.
They have to be shown
that their way is wrong.
We cannot show them by k*lling them,
by building gas chambers,
or by setting up machine-g*n bunkers
and covering them with bulldozers.
This is not the way
we like to operate.
- What's wrong?
- f*ck! f*ck!
- Let's get going.
- Let's get the f*ck out of here.
But going where?
Let's try to make it to the flag.
How we gonna make it somewhere?
We have no water!
There's no water that way.
What would your forefathers
have done, Mr Kohler,
if, during the revolution
they were all conscientious objectors?
If the majority of my forefathers
were conscientious objectors
it would include the people
from England too
and in that case
they would have been acting justly
towards the people in the colonies...
James Arthur Kohler.
Pacifist. Age 20.
...And they wouldn't have been
over here k*lling the Indians.
Tell me, are you aware of the crisis
in this country?
How deeply do you feel about
the present crisis of the nation
and of the world at large
and the responsibility
that we have to this crisis?
What responsibility do you have
as a citizen of this country?
My responsibilities as a citizen
do not include k*lling for it.
I'm not going any further.
They want us to try and break out.
They want us to become violent.
They want us to be like them.
I'm not going to let them
play games with me any more!
Anyone that wants
to come with us, come on.
They want to blow your brains out.
They're going to k*ll you.
Straight and simple.
See that? That's what'll k*ll us!
Things like that!
Are you familiar with
Saint Thomas Aquinas?
Yes, I am.
I think he had this to say
about a just w*r.
He laid down a proviso
for a just w*r, he said this:
That w*r must be decided
upon legitimate authority
and, secondly, that its objective
must be to vindicate justice
and that, thirdly,
it must be waged with a just intent.
This was during the 12th Century,
before this present time.
He understood
what a just w*r meant.
Can't you understand that
the policy in Indochina
is even justified by
a 12th Century philosopher?
Those provisos came
from Saint Augustine originally,
and Saint Augustine
had a fourth proviso which shows
the total absurdity
of considering any w*r just:
That a w*r must be waged
under the control
of a loving disposition,
that no man is fit
to inflict punishment
until he has banished
hate from his heart.
Temperature 109 degrees.
Distance to the US flag,
Defendant, I take it
from your philosophy
you're opposed to sl*very,
is that right?
Yes, I am.
And the Civil w*r was fought
to free the sl*ves?
It wasn't.
Speak up, will you?
It wasn't fought to free the sl*ves
and it wasn't a just w*r.
It was a just w*r
because the black people
fought for freedom.
Would you have fought
on the side of the black people?
Black people haven't
gained their freedom!
What do you think what's
happening right now is all about?
We know that there are
only a handful of black militants
that are running the People's Army.
It does not represent the community.
You are trying to overthrow
the government.
Charles Robbins
member of the People's Army.
Age 25.
Martin Luther King was opposed
to your violence and
you're talking about a People's
Army when you're only a handful.
[Robbins] To deal with the thing of
what you call black militants
trying to overthrow the government.
The thing is,
we're trying to save people,
because the government
is overthrowing itself.
My loyalty is to the people.
People are the most important thing,
and people have been left out
while the cats that run this country
have moved and shitted all over.
[Sully] You dwell on the black problem.
It's quite obvious
because I'm black.
I've been to Washington DC
and I have seen the schools
and ghettos,
and we are trying to educate,
and yet you're trying
to take over our programmes.
Is that what you're trying to offer?
Our own programmes?
The thing is we don't want
to take over your programmes
because we know your programmes
are very corrupt.
Do you believe
you're separatist or a r*cist?
I'm neither.
I'm an internationalist.
[Policeman] You have no chance in hell
going the way you're going.
Two surviving members
of Corrective Group 637
have seized a West German
sound technician as hostage.
[Robbins]
We're trying to save the people.
[Jurgens] In what way?
Through mass education. We believe
in education through example.
We have very functional programmes.
Example. Right on.
What kind of example are you?
You're a revolutionary.
Your newspapers show
a black militant with a g*n.
'sh**t the pigs!'
'sh**t the pigs!'
I believe in this.
It's simple and plain.
When fired upon,
I believe in firing back.
One...
- Two...
- Don't sh**t. Don't.
Three.
It's just a matter of staying alive.
It's like a game they're playing with us.
You either win or you die.
[Robbins] The pigs are running madly
through our community,
slaughtering off our children
and our women.
The truth in America is that
America is a sick society.
America is full of m*therf*ckers
who have shitted upon people.
Are you afraid to die?
No, I'm not afraid to die.
That's quite obvious.
Why are you leading your people
into a mass hysteria?
When I walk through
Washington DC asking why...
Hey, man, you're always
in Washington DC,
but you ain't doing
nothing in Washington DC!
You're out here
in California right now,
sitting on a committee
that is supposed to be
from this particular area,
but you are not even from this area,
because you spend most
of your time in Washington DC.
How come you're not in Washington DC
relating to the problem?
Does that make me a pig?
I don't to have to call you a pig
because you know what you are.
What are you taking about
a mad dog? Define what...
Would you like me to define
what a politician is?
A politician is nothing
but a debater.
All that you do is debate issues,
you fat pig!
You meathead!
That's all that you are,
because you're a lying sucker!
You're lying to the camera,
to your mamma, to everybody!
[Chairman] Quiet!
Quiet, defendant!
You ain't got no humanity in you
because you're a pig!
You lying punk!
[Chairman] Restrain the defendant.
[Jet engine overhead]
Shut him up!
Shut him up! Gag him!
Shut him up!
Defence counsel.
Shut him up!
What seems quite clear now
is that instead of trying to bring
estranged and excluded Americans
such as these people
back into the national community,
the administration has chosen
to accept and exploit the division
within the country
and to side with what it considers
as the majority.
Instead of the politics
of reconciliation,
it has chosen
the politics of polarisation.
Have you discussed what you'll do
if you have to leave him?
Or will you try
and take him with you?
We never thought about it.
Morning on the third day.
When the human body has suffered
a dehydration of between 6 to 10%
it experiences dizzines,
difficulty in breathing
decreased blood volume,
indistinct speech,
and finally an inabiliity to walk.
Distance to the US flag,
I'd like to know about
violence on the campus.
I'd like to know why
you people do these things.
A lot of us work hard
to build those schools
and pay taxes.
And build these universities
for our kids to go to.
And you people just come along
and burn them right down.
Do you want him
to answer your question?
You'll get a chance,
Defence Counsel.
Students don't burn buildings down.
That's just a myth.
It's just a sensationalised myth
brought about by the press.
Students don't burn buildings down,
and, besides,
I don't advocate violence.
Alison Michener, radical organiser
of women's unions,
co-founder of the National Committee
Against w*r And Repression.
Age 23.
It's a waste of time.
You try to destroy the Bank Of America,
try to break in a window or something.
They can build it right up.
They have the money, power.
That's not the way to change things.
I'm glad I'm here.
Some of the guys
have gotten pretty upset
since the deputy incident the other day.
I'm afraid they're going to sh**t first
and ask questions later.
Have you heard
some of the men say that?
They've really gotten paranoid.
I think that people become violent
when they are deprived
of their basic human needs.
I think that they become violent
when that is their only alternative
to achieving the satisfaction
of those needs.
A major component
of our democratic society
comes from the preamble
to the Constitution
which states that an individual
is guaranteed the rights to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The rights to life.
It seems paradoxical to me that
a nation with such ideals
and such economic power
still cannot fulfill or
seems unwilling to fulfill
basic human needs
of food, clothing and shelter.
[Policeman] The decoy seems
to have worked very well.
It's brought them out in the open.
They've reached the decoy.
[Alison] A country with this economic
power and those kinds of ideals
still at this point
can't feed 11 million people,
according to a government survey.
[Policeman] Your participation
in the course is terminated.
Temperature 111 degrees.
...Still can't feed 11 million people,
can't clothe those people,
even though they're producing
those things in overabundance.
Now why is that? And if you have
someone who can't get food stamps
and who can't get on welfare
and who is starving,
that person has two alternatives
he or she can either sit there
and watch his children starve...
...or go out and fight
for what he needs.
[Policeman] Stop where you are.
Sit down, cross your legs and
keep your hands behind your head.
Stop where you are!
Sit down where you are!
Cross your legs and
put your hands behind your head.
You're under arrest.
I think they can't hear you.
Stop where you are!
Stop!
Stop where you are!
Stop. Sit down. Go back or
I shall sh**t to k*ll.
I don't think they can hear you.
Just a minute.
Get back. There seems
to be some confusion here.
Stop where you are!
Sit down!
Now come on. Slow up.
They can't hear you.
Sit down! Sit down!
Sit down!
f*ck!
Go on! Get the g*n!
Dear Lord,
we pray for Harold.
Violence is inherent in this society.
You don't seem to understand that.
You f*cking b*stards!
Get out of here!
The movement went through
a long time in history
and was very reluctant to make
radical changes, to become violent.
We saw the government would
only make changes
when we did become violent.
[Chairman] Violent, violent,
violent, violent.
Yes, violence, Mr Chairman.
I think we should realise
the dangerous extent to which...
You wish the floor, Defence Counsel?
- Yes, I do! Yes, I do!
- Then get up.
We should realise the degree
to which the violence of the students
is now being overplayed and that of
the establishment is being minimised.
[Alison] You are trying to put radicals
on trial as scapegoats
for the problems of your own system.
It's rather appropriate
that Harold was a poet.
There's no place for a poet
in this culture.
It's so hard to have
any hope about anything
after you see how completely
inhuman people can be.
We must draw this
cross-examination to a close.
There was no need to do that.
I'm sitting here chained in the chair
and you don't need to send
these people you train
to behave like mad dogs.
I have a very important part of
the hearing to talk to you about...
I don't think you know
what's important,
...the amnesty provision
and I want to read it to you.
Your signing of
a voluntary pledge of loyalty
that you will not again participate
in any form or manner
of extra-legal or subversive
political activity,
and that you will not again hinder
State or Federal authorities
in matters relating to safeguarding
of the national security.
I am loyal to the people
of this country, Your Honour,
or whatever your title is.
I am not loyal to the government
because it is against the people.
Hands behind your head.
Come out.
Don't sh**t them! Don't sh**t them!
They're all right!
Tell them not to sh**t!
Tell that f*ck not to sh**t!
Tell them not to sh**t.
Wait!
Tell that n*gg*r to put his hands up
where I can see them.
f*ck you!
Come on! Come on! Come on!
There's a camera crew here!
I don't give a f*ck who's there.
[Reporter] Ease up! Ease up!
[Woman] m*rder*r!
Put your hands behind your head.
You're just waiting to k*ll us.
Take pictures of this!
They're gonna k*ll us!
I think there is a chance
to make it through this course
and I think we're going to do it.
We have to not lose hope
and keep on going.
We don't have any g*ns.
Please watch them, don't leave!
Come on!
Our choice is whether to submit
to this self-destruction
passively or violently.
That's the only choice I see.
f*cking liar!
You'll sh**t us in the back!
Keep back. Keep back, now.
So you feel that, just as you feel
there's a reason for going on
through the course,
this is the same way
to try and deal with
what you feel is wrong with
the system in America?
I think that's right. Yeah.
I think if you play it
by the rules of the people
who've set up the game,
even though they're stacked
against you,
that's the only way
to possibly win the game.
[Reporter]
Don't do that! Don't do that!
[Shouting continues]
Get down!
You g*dd*mn m*therf*cking
weekend warriors!
You k*lled them!
[Reporter] Oh, God!
Oh, God.
m*therf*ckers!
You murderers!
Cut! Cut!
k*ll him!
Leave him alone! Leave him alone!
That's an accident!
Put that f*cking rock down, boy!
Cut the camera!
I feel very little hope for us.
I don't see any hope either way.
It's simply a matter
of what you believe in.
Either you believe in non-violence
or you don't.
And, if you do,
many times there's
only one path left to you
and you have to take that,
no matter what it means to you.
Now, come on. Help these people!
Help these people! Help them.
Help them.
That one's dead.
[g*nshots]
Oh, you f*ck! You f*ck!
You shitty f*cking c**ts!
We've got one left alive, huh?
f*cking idiots!
We've seen this! We've seen this!
We've seen this!
Officer Edwards, we've seen this!
I don't give a flying f*ck
what you've seen!
This is going on NBC!
We've seen this!
I don't care if you take it
and jam it in your a*s.
You murdering b*stards!
You f*cking b*stards!
As soon as you get through
with your little hysterics, we can go on.
Hysterics, mate? You wait until
you see yourself on TV.
I've been on TV before.
I'm not worried.
Not like this you haven't.
Captain, should I call
for the ambulances?
Let the buzzards get the
sons-of-b*tches. And him too.
- They threw rocks and...
- This man's shook up.
Leave him alone.
The g*n went off, it was an accident.
I didn't want to k*ll anyone.
Why did you k*ll two people?
I don't know. It was an accident.
- You didn't mean to k*ll them?
- No, I didn't want to k*ll anyone.
You didn't want to k*ll them?
No! No!
No, I didn't want to k*ll anyone!
It was an accident!
Hey! Leave him alone.
Leave him alone!
I didn't want to k*ll anyone,
it was an accident.
- How old is this kid?
- He's 18.
What's a kid doing in the National Guard
if he can't use weapons?
- He's trained to use them.
- Trained to use them?
What do you expect with
all those men throwing rocks?
- You mean he's trained to k*ll people?
- Yes, he is. To defend his country.
He's trained to defend his country!
You mean he's trained to k*ll
unarmed people like that?
It was an accident!
It was an accident.
They were throwing rocks.
The g*n just went off.
I didn't know what happened.
What are you going
to say to their parents?
Come on, soldier. Let's go.
Come on. Let's go.
[News reporter] 'President Nixon
in San Clemente, California,
'sent a telegram for reading
at the Artists' Variety Show.
'The Chief Executive told the artists:
''We Americans are known throughout
the world as forward-looking people.'
'The President said the USA is
a symbol of progress, of hope
'and of just and orderly growth.'
[Newsreader] 'Seven flights of B-52
bombers hit guerrilla infiltration routes
'along the Cambodian border
north of Saigon today.'.
The afternoon of the following day.
[Chairman] This has been a session
marred by continual disruptive outbursts,
in direct defiance
of judicial authority,
by the defendants
and Defence Counsel.
Outbursts in the form
of constant murmurs.
This disruption is a further example
of what I've been referring to.
Marshal, you'll restrain the prisoner
if he makes any more outbursts.
Outbursts in the form of
constant murmurs and derision,
shouting profanity and abuse.
No record, no matter
how skilfully transcribed...
- We'll have quiet here!
- Or what?
...can adequately portray
the venom, sarcasm,
and tone of voice
employed by a speaker.
This has been a session marked
by guffaws, cheap theatrics
and other affectations
used by the defendants
in an attempt to break up
these proceedings.
Despite these outbursts,
the proceedings have been conducted
with impartiality and objectivity,
as called for by the extreme
seriousness of the circumstances.
Turn him loose!
These proceedings have been conducted
before a nationwide TV audience
in an attempt to clarify
for the American people
the issues at stake
as an object lesson for others
who may be considering
the willful and tragic path taken
by the defendants who stand before us.
Defence Counsel,
do you have anything to say
as to why I should not
proceed with the sentencing?
Ladies and Gentlemen
of the tribunal,
I would like to read you something...
'The streets of our country
are in turmoil.'
'The universities are filled with
students rebelling and rioting.'
'Communists are seeking
to destroy our country.'
'Russia is threatening us
with her might'
'and the Republic is in danger.'
'Yes, danger from within and without.'
'We need law and order
or our nation cannot survive.'
We might all be forgiven
for supposing those to be
the words of our President.
But they are not.
Those words were uttered
in 1932 by Adolf Hitler.
[Brown] Sieg m*therf*cking Heil!
We know what kind of law and order
followed in that country.
You ask if I have anything to say
to show cause
why sentence shouldn't be passed.
Other than that these are young people
with all of life before them,
full citizens of the USA,
to whom the Constitution
and the Bill Of Rights apply.
No, I can't think of anything.
m*therf*ckers.
Those b*stards.
- That's it!
- We're here.
That's the flag! We made it.
What are they doing there?
Lee Robert Brown: 15 to 21 years
in a federal penitentiary.
Jay Kaufman: 15 to 21 years
in a federal penitentiary.
William Luke Vallery: 7 to 10 years
in a federal penitentiary.
Nancy Jane Smith: 7 years
in a federal penitentiary.
James Arthur Kohler: 5 to 7 years
in a federal penitentiary.
Mary Ellen Michener: 7 to 10 years
in a federal penitentiary.
Charles Robbins: life imprisonment.
[Policeman] 'At this point your
participation in the course is completed.
'You are to be remanded in custody.'.
What?
'Stop right now and
no harm will come to you.
'I don't care how far you've come,
you'd better stop.
'Stop where you are and
no harm will come to you.'.
We made it!
Stop it!
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
Cut! Cut! Cut!
Lee Robert Brown,
which do you choose:
Punishment Park. So recorded.
Jay Kaufman: 15 to 21 years
in a federal penitentiary
or Punishment Park?
Hey! Leave him alone!
Stop that!
No!
Jay Kaufman: 15 to 21 years
or Punishment Park?
Punishment Park.
And I'm heading back here so have
your troops around this f*cking tent!
William Luke Vallery: 7 to 10 years
in a federal penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
Punishment Park.
So recorded.
Nancy Jane Smith: 7 years
in a federal penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
Punishment Park.
So recorded.
James Arthur Kohler: 5 to 7 years
in a federal penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
I'll take the Park.
Take Punishment Park.
So recorded.
Mary Ellen Michener: 7 to 10 years
in a penitentiary,
or Punishment Park?
- Punishment Park.
- So recorded.
Charles Robbins,
with a nod,
do you want life imprisonment,
or, shake your head,
Punishment Park?
How can he talk?
Shake your head...
You're gonna k*ll him,
you f*cking idiot!
Mr Chairman...
Clear the court! Clear the court!
We've already made the sentences.
I feel so ashamed.
Nobody's touching that flag!
They were just
surrendering peaceably.
My Christ, I've heard
about the American police!
I'm glad you got to see it.
Tell all your friends about it.
Send them postcards from England,
because that's where they'll listen.
This is going on European TV...
I don't give a good g*dd*mn
where it goes!
...And France and Germany!
- Remind all you...
- Bloody barbarians!
Remind you bloody European b*stards
of the g*dd*mn American soldiers
that are dead in your g*dd*mn country
when you're talking about it!
- Why did you do that?
- Because they g*dd*mn deserved it.
They k*lled two officers!
That wasn't part
of the g*dd*mn game.
Don't you g*dd*mn come near us.
We're just doing our job and
I'm tired of you hassling us!
Can you tell us why
you did what you did?
For the same reason he did.
They had it coming to them.
They had a chance to stop.
Did they stop? I'm asking you.
Because they rushed us.
That's not a reason, man!
That's not a reason!
They wouldn't have rushed us
if you hadn't been there.
Oh, sh*t.
You were the one who started this.
I started it?
I told the man to stop.
The captain told the man to stop.
And that's all there is to it.
He didn't stop. He attacked me.
I don't care what the f*ck you think.
How does that sound?
I don't care what the hell you think.
You can do with your newsreels
whatever you want.
This is the second night
this has happened.
You could have let those four people
come straight through.
Had they wanted to
they could have done that.
We're dealing with criminals
who have k*lled two of my men.
As it happens these four people
have not hurt a g*dd*mn fly
on the entire desert.
Do you think we'd let them
reach that flag?
Do you think they deserve that flag?
They belong to this country
as much as you do.
They care about this country
as much as you do.
What the hell are they
doing out here?
They gave up their rights when they
started breaking this country's laws.
That's what we're here for:
To enforce those laws.
And we do
a g*dd*mn good job of it!
You're making out like
a big humanitarian.
The only thing you want is
to sell this to your g*dd*mn network.
I don't see you putting
any band-A*DS on anybody.
All you want is the money
for this programme.
You could have opened your ranks
and let them go through.
This happened in Chicago.
It happened in Los Angeles.
Hey buddy, were you at Chicago?
It'll happen as long as we've got
this type to deal with.
[Gavel knocks]
Get the defendants out of here.
You see what your great land
is all about?
No, we haven't cheated.
You cheated. You never intended
to let them finish the course.
You're full of sh*t.
You had radios.
They've obviously been under control.
You have your opinion.
There's nothing that will change it
and it isn't worth
my valuable time to talk to you.
Keep these sons of b*tches
out of here.
- That's bullshit!
- We've had enough of this.
The 48th Emergency Internal
Security Tribunal of the SW region,
as authorised by
Executive Order No. 302,
William C. Hoeger,
Chairman, presiding,
is hereby concluded.
- What have they done to her head?
- They've bashed her about the jaw.
Since the completion of this film
one of the members of its cast.
Appearing as defendant
Charles Robbins.
Has been indicted on a charge
of conspiracy to b*mb.
The sentence on this charge
has not yet been determined.
For a second charge
of as*ault on a police officer
this cast member has been sentenced
to 3 years in a federal prison.
Welcome to our World! Where we serve you cookies to ensure you get the best viewing experience on our site.
Did you know that you can remove censorship board-wide, use our advanced search functions, be notified when new content is posted, join our memberships, set episodes to show in any order you want & more if you are logged into your account?
Register or sign in here: ucp.php?mode=register
Did you know that you can remove censorship board-wide, use our advanced search functions, be notified when new content is posted, join our memberships, set episodes to show in any order you want & more if you are logged into your account?
Register or sign in here: ucp.php?mode=register