All language subtitles for Punishment.Park.1971

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.

'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.'

'At least 273 Americans
are reported killed,

'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 war was extended.'

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.

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.

'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?

'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.

Reporting a motion
for dismissal at this time.

- On what grounds?
- Constitutional.

In particular, 1st, 4th, 5th
and 14th Amendments.

Motion overruled.

How the fuck you can overrule
the Constitution, man!

Keep the defendant silent.

If it please the court,
I'd like to introduce a motion to have

the convictions reviewed separately.

Denied.

In that case,
and with all due
respect to the Tribunal,

may I move that the court permit
voir dire proceedings?

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.

Keep the defendants quiet!
Bail denied.

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.

First defendant.

- What's your name?
- My name is Brown, motherfucker!

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!

Keep the defendant silent!
Restrain the defendant!

'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.

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.

'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!

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.

You fucking 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
motherfucking question!

Watch your language.

Do you think my language
is immoral?

What do you call that shit
you just did, man?

What do you call this shit?

Give your side-arm to Sepada
and go unlock the prisoners.

Were you going to call
for revolution on that television?

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 fucking lines
talking to little people like you

with delusions of power
in unemployment lines all day long

to be fucked 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?

Continue, Mr Brown.
Tell us your message.

You don't wanna hear
my message, man.

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 shit that
means having to give up something.

You don't want it.

All you want to do is
sit on your fat ass
and draw dividends!

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...

...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.

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.

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!'

'Kill the chief pig!
Liquidate the mayor...'

Anybody can lift that shit
out of context.

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.

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 bastard!

This country, this America,

was born in violence.

Now revolution's a violent thing.

Get him! Get him!

Bring him back over here.

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.

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,

53 miles.

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.

Over this way, fast!

'You're on your own. '

I don't think any of those kids'll
make it anyway.

D'you see that one little bastard
take off?

That Mexican's the fastest thing
I ever seen in my life.

Time remaining before the beginning
of the police pursuit,

1 hour and 53 mins.

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 sonofabitch?

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 fuck him.

If that's how he wants to play,
that's how we'll play.

'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 shoot the shit
out of you! They gonna kill us!

We gotta break out sideways,
otherwise there's no chance.

I'm gonna hide out.

I don't know about the rest
of you, but this bullshit's got to end.

I ain't leaving
another motherfucking step!

Wait a second here,

you're going to bring them
down on all of us. Forget it.

Shit! 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 fucking 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 sniper?

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 killed.

Have you ever killed a man?

Yeah.

Jay Kaufman,

co-founder of the National Committee
Against War 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 war
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 war effort.'

Are you for war or against war?

I'm for war if it's necessary
to protect our country.

Do you condone
the war 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?

Who tells you that
this war is protecting your country?

We're fighting communism.

- Well, who tells you this?
- I hear it every day.

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 goddamn fucking 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.

- 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 kill 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 shoot people like you.

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.

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.

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.

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 fucking dirty factory

which puts smoke up in the air,
which pollutes the world,

and you're working your ass 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
fucked 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.

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?

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?

War 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 fucking 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 fucking stupid?

Another outburst
and you'll be taken from the court.

It has no choke on it, the gun
has no choke on it whatsoever.

So the buckshot just flies out
in any and every direction.

Insane people who murder
the children of their country.

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 murder,

with war, with injustice,
with poverty, with racism?

Take the prisoner 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.

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
killed 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 goddamn 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 kill.

Not to disperse.
Not to harry. Not to wound. To kill.

Use it for that fact
when you have to do so.

Time remaining 50 mins.

What are your feelings
towards the police in this country?

I really don't think
they're too different from anybody else.

Pigs are pigs. I mean...

Pigs have always been pigs.

The street-cleaners
of the public conscience.

They're just like hired killers.

These people have been
sent out here unarmed.

Unarmed? I don't think
Jack did anything to them.

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.

They're doing a job.
They're just taking orders.

They're working. They're getting
paid for what they do.

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.

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.

'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 killed once.
I don't like to lose men.

Did any of you know
the deputy that was killed?

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 killed 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 kill 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.

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.

'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 war 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?

2:23pm.

Temperature 101 degrees.

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 gun?
- I've never shot a gun in my life.

- You don't know how to handle one?
- I don't.

I don't like guns.

What were you charged with?

Refusing induction.

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.

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 assault
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?

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.

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 fucking war has to stop.'

We have to do something
about all the hate here.

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!

The pigs are coming!

'You are apprehended!

'Your part in the course is concluded.'.

Get them, come on! Get them!

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 shoot to kill!

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.

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?

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 killer.

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 guns

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.

I bet your mother and father
are proud of you, aren't they?

Yes.

I'd like to hear you sing one.

Celibate ass-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 Dick has the say.

Do you know what snatch is?

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. Fuck off!

Watch your language.

Why should I watch my language?

Fuck off!

Watch your language, defendant.

Oh, shut up! What do you think
I care what you tell me to do?

You're going to kill
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!
- Shoot 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 shoot 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 fucking 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 shooting
weren't even aiming.

I'd walk out of a classroom

and be on my way to lunch
and get killed 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.

The course has now been in progress

for 24 and a half hours.

Let us get back to the charges.

I'll read them again.

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 killed by the guns
that I hear go off?

How many children have been
through these tribunals?

- Silence!
- No!

How many children have you killed?

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.

I believe in destroying
everything that you stand for

and destroy everything that
you're trying to do.

I'm complaining?

I have the right to complain!

Defendant, sit down.
Restrain the defendant.

You're going to put a bullet...

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!

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 gun.

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 fucking 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 fucking establishment

and this fucking 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!' 'Kill!' 'Kill!'

And who do they kill?
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.

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 kill 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 killing them,
by building gas chambers,

or by setting up machine-gun bunkers
and covering them with bulldozers.

This is not the way
we like to operate.

- What's wrong?
- Fuck! Fuck!

- Let's get going.
- Let's get the fuck 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 killing 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 killing 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 kill you.
Straight and simple.

See that? That's what'll kill us!
Things like that!

Are you familiar with
Saint Thomas Aquinas?

Yes, I am.

I think he had this to say
about a just war.

He laid down a proviso
for a just war, he said this:

That war 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 war 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 war just:

That a war 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,

27 miles.

Defendant, I take it
from your philosophy

you're opposed to slavery,
is that right?

Yes, I am.

And the Civil War was fought
to free the slaves?

It wasn't.

Speak up, will you?

It wasn't fought to free the slaves

and it wasn't a just war.

It was a just war

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.

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.

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 racist?

I'm neither.
I'm an internationalist.

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.

We're trying to save the people.

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 gun.

'Shoot the pigs!'
'Shoot the pigs!'

I believe in this.

It's simple and plain.

When fired upon,
I believe in firing back.

One...

- Two...
- Don't shoot. 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.

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 motherfuckers
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!

Quiet!

Quiet, defendant!

You ain't got no humanity in you
because you're a pig!

You lying punk!

Restrain the defendant.

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,

23 miles.

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 War 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 shoot 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.

The decoy seems
to have worked very well.

It's brought them out in the open.

They've reached the decoy.

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.

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.

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 shoot to kill.

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!

Fuck!

Go on! Get the gun!

Dear Lord,

we pray for Harold.

Violence is inherent in this society.
You don't seem to understand that.

You fucking bastards!
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.

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.

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 shoot them! Don't shoot them!
They're all right!

Tell them not to shoot!

Tell that fucker not to shoot!

Tell them not to shoot.

Wait!

Tell that nigger to put his hands up
where I can see them.

Fuck you!

Come on! Come on! Come on!
There's a camera crew here!

I don't give a fuck who's there.

Ease up! Ease up!

Murderer!

Put your hands behind your head.

You're just waiting to kill us.

Take pictures of this!
They're gonna kill 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 guns.

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.

Fucking liar!
You'll shoot 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.

Don't do that! Don't do that!

Get down!

You goddamn motherfucking
weekend warriors!

You killed them!

Oh, god!

Oh, god.

Motherfuckers!

You murderers!

Cut! Cut!

Kill him!

Leave him alone! Leave him alone!

That's an accident!

Put that fucking 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.

Oh, you fuckers! You fuckers!

You shitty fucking cunts!

We've got one left alive, huh?

Fucking 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 fuck
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 ass.

You murdering bastards!
You fucking bastards!

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-bitches. And him too.

- They threw rocks and...
- This man's shook up.

Leave him alone.

The gun went off, it was an accident.
I didn't want to kill anyone.

Why did you kill two people?

I don't know. It was an accident.

- You didn't mean to kill them?
- No, I didn't want to kill anyone.

You didn't want to kill them?

No! No!

No, I didn't want to kill anyone!
It was an accident!

Hey! Leave him alone.
Leave him alone!

I didn't want to kill 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 kill people?
- Yes, he is. To defend his country.

He's trained to defend his country!

You mean he's trained to kill
unarmed people like that?

It was an accident!

It was an accident.
They were throwing rocks.

The gun 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.

'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.'

'Seven flights of B-52
bombers hit guerrilla
infiltration routes

'along the Cambodian border
north of Saigon today.'.

The afternoon of the following day.

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.

Sieg motherfucking 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.

Motherfuckers.

Those bastards.

- 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.

'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:

15 to 21 years or Punishment Park?

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 fucking 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 kill him,
you fucking 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 goddamn
where it goes!

...And France and Germany!

- Remind all you...
- Bloody barbarians!

Remind you bloody European bastards
of the goddamn American soldiers

that are dead in your goddamn country
when you're talking about it!

10 minutes later...

- Why did you do that?
- Because they goddamn deserved it.

They killed two officers!

That wasn't part
of the goddamn game.

Don't you goddamn 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, shit.

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 fuck 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 killed two of my men.

As it happens these four people
have not hurt a goddamn 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 goddamn good job of it!

You're making out like
a big humanitarian.

The only thing you want is
to sell this to your goddamn network.

I don't see you putting
any band-aids 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.

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 shit.

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 bitches
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 bomb.

The sentence on this charge

has not yet been determined.

For a second charge

of assault on a police officer

this cast member has been sentenced

to 3 years in a federal prison.