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through evil and violence receive poetic justice at the end of a bayonet or a bomb or a bullet or a billy club, and King saw that. So it was not a question of strategy. It was a question of an ultimate way of life.

And he saw the war in Vietnam as an insane adventurism. He saw the absurdity of telling nine-year-old children on elementary school playgrounds all over America, "Stop fighting. Walk into the classroom and sit down around the table and talk it out," and then ten years later give them an M-16 and tell them to go out and kill or be killed. He saw that as a contradiction in this society, and so do I. And now that I'm a United States congressman and my friends journey to Washington to see me, sometimes I have to take them on a tourist trip to Arlington Cemetery. And if you ride through Arlington Cemetery, it's not unlike riding through Disneyland, because an attractive hostess is sitting in the front, pointing out all of the interesting places. And then suddenly out of nowhere her voice says, "By 1980 all of the plots of land in Arlington Cemetery will be filled." And not one damned person asks why? Why do the young people have to fight and die in an insane adventurism?

Have you ever thought about why the old folks never go to war? Let me tell you why. Because if you've walked on the face of this earth long enough, you get to the point where you love life with such lust that you're afraid to risk it, but you'll send your children. I have a home and a car and a business, but send my children. I have a family, but send my children. I am important in the community, but send the babies. Well, you and I have got to mobilize all the babies and the children in this world and say, "If the old folks are not willing to fight a damn war then there ain't gonna be any more."

But King was not solely about withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. He was about withdrawing from a mentality that sees the need to kill, harm and maim as a way of solving human problems; withdrawing from the role that this country is playing as police officer in the world, number one gun runner in the world, and now a partner to exploiters-witness Portugal, Brazil and South Africa. That's what he was talking about, not solely the withdrawal of troops from Indochina, but the withdrawal from a mentality that sees the need to bomb and to kill and to destroy and send the children to fight insane adventurisms anywhere in the world.

Human beings' greatest strength is not in our ability to build a bomb, but in our ability to come together in total and absolute