[conus]

Another moron. In the first place, as I stated, by the end it was simply revenge-- a reaction to the typically heavy handed police repression of the time. I never claimed the majority of the participants, as revolutionaries, were anything to write home about. It sounds as if you believe the SDS and Days of Rage participants were the real thing, rather than some spoiled white children who didn't give a fuck one way or another that three million Vietnamese were being slaughtered by American pigs. All they knew was that they didn't want to get drafted. There were a few kids whose hearts were in the right place and had loose ideas behind their protest, but, again, by the end of that three-week period it was just revenge and genuine fear of the murderous American pigs.

At sixteen I had been in America for all of about one year. I am a white American citizen whose parents lived in the Philippines between 1954, when I was born, and 1969, when we moved back here. Growing up so close to the war and knowing I would soon be in America and 18, I had been keeping an eye on it pretty closely. With me it was more a concern about the what was happening in Vietnam than a fear of getting drafted. I didn't (and don't) feel any allegiance to these Americans, and I've never really feared them. If worse came to worse I could just jump on a plane and go back to the Philippines.

Not long after my introduction to the way things were in America, my hatred for their police was naturally substantial. I went up to IV simply to get a few lumps in, and I did. Whatever the original motives of most of the others in IV, by the end of that three-week period, hatred of the pigs drove people as much as anything else. To tell you the truth, I regret that we were unable to kill a few. It was what should have happened, and there were more than a few who richly deserved it.

But regarding whatever remarks I made about the overall context in which the riots occurred were just that-- a few sentences to give a little context to some moronic American kid who watches television and doesn't know what the fuck Indo-China even was. I was really amused, though, to see that you really believed that, by comparison, in places like Berkeley people were "serious."
Very few people in this country are serious about anything beyond themselves and americans are beginning, just beginning, to reap what they have for so many decades sewn.