VLVL Ditzah and Zipi Pisk

[Terrance]

> >  . . . I sure would like to hear from anyone who has a copy
> > of Sale's SDS. Howaboutit? Anyone? Page 423
> >
> >"Thursday, April 4. . . . Law student meeting, King shot. Times Square."
> >
> >This is the section that Pynchon parodies. Violence, violence, violence.
> >
> >The Pisk Sisters are not quite as Sick as Dick Nixon or Brock Vond, but
> >they are the sick secret bombers in the whole sick 60's crew.
> 
> Violence? Parody? Hmmmm.
> ==========
> 423  SPRING 1968
> 
> as many as a million.* This obviously had an impact on the
> entire student generation, and the liberal community in
> general, as Walter Lippmann wrote (just a week, incidentally,
> before the President's announcement):
> 
> The President is confronted with the resistance, open or
> passive, of the whole military generation, their teachers,
> their friends, their families. The attempt to fight a distant
> war by conscription is producing a demoralization which
> threatens the very security of the nation.
> 
> It also led to a turnabout in public thinking on the draft, so
> that by the middle of 1968 pollster Louis Harris figured that
> 36 percent of the public was against the system, a figure that
> would continue to rise as the war went on; so pervasive did the
> antidraft attitude become that even Richard Nixon announced his
> support for a draft overhaul, and the Congress of the United
> States showed so little support that it actually refused to
> renew the draft authority for a long time in the middle of
> 1971. Few in Washington now doubt that there will be a thorough
> overhaul, or quite possibly the abolition, of the draft within the next decade.
> 
> "Thursday, April 4. . . . Law student meeting, King shot. Times
> Square." The assassination of Martin Luther King at a motel in
> Memphis, Tennessee, was a propelling moment for radicals both
> black and white: it seemed a signal, as if one were needed,
> that the old ways were finished, that whatever romance lingered
> from the civil-rights days was dispelled, that the time had
> come for more than nonviolence, more than working with the
> system, more than moral witness.
> 
> *Michael Ferber and Staughton Lynd have made the closest study
> of this issue, in their book, The Resistance. Their figures are
> admittedly uncertain, but even if their guesses are not perfect
> they indicate the scope of resistance: some 5000 turned in
> draft cards publicly, "several times" as many probably have
> done so privately, between 10,000 and 25,000 draft-delinquent
> cases were reported to the federal government yearly from 1966
> to 1969, Department of Justice prosecuted 3161 people in the
> high point of resistance between June 1966 and June 1968 (and
> would go on to prosecute another 6000 in the next two years),
> Canadian exiles number something close to 15,000,
> nonregistrants are estimated at between 50,000 and 100,000, COs
> grew in the two years after the Pentagon demonstration from
> 23,800 to 34,500, delinquencies from 15,600 to 31,900, and
> alternate service increased by 737,000. Resistance in some
> form, then, may have been practiced by at least a million young
> men in the years after the rise of draft resistance.
> ==========


And the next page? 

The ghettos exploded. 

King is dead. 

Violence, violence, violence. Violence in the ghettos. 


And Pynchon parodies Sale's self-serving account. All these former
SDS'ers turned academic historians and celebrities claiming some kind of
"I was there" knowledge of the hand job they think was their revolution,
selling books and movies of themselves, building bombs in Oregon. 


College Of The Surf, dudes. Yeah, they named the buildings after surfer
dudes. Way Cool!