Jail myself for federal smuggling in san diego california. Right after i came out of vietnam i was carrying no some marijuana from from vietnam because it was good and i was smoking it on a regular basis i learned about that over there. And i was busted with it and thrown it into federal slowly charged very serious but increasingly i was with 5000 young people blacks spanish panic americans and a few white people mostly old drug crimes nonviolent but they were being severely dont with at the time it was the beginning the very beginning of the war on drugs nixon had just been elected he ended cleared that war yet but he was about to so we were the 1st wave that i could see in the injustice of it these these kids most of them were. Coming from rough lives they didnt want to go to vietnam you know they they were boarded at the best of their ability but many of them were drafted the they that they were trying to make extra money on the side that was the way to do it there was a system that
Life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive done to the best of my ability one thing ive done which makes me very proud and so i documented the war before you people knew argue with me about vietnam through other sources and when it came to films and pictures it was the pain of the american saying in the in the deer hunter but he do say that he killed people and maybe stopped a rape of demis nels but you came back knowing the lie i just want to skip a lot on a bed to midnight express because the Prison Industrial Complex is something we talk a lot about here on going underground fact we say often that the United States imprisons per capita more people than stalin or mao why was midnight express not just about what happens in turkey if it mr and what happens to be watching to try to make their point unsuccessfully at the turn but when i wrote midnight express years later this was in 1978 i come back from vietnam in 68 late 68 i had been thrown in jail myself for federal
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
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