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mentary that did most things right,
and should be screened in every
school in the country once a month.
The piece was produced by Al Levin,
a longtime TV documentarian. His
1970 NET Journal piece Who Invited
Us? is a classic piece of progressive
television, in which among other
things his team landed in Chile right
before the election of Allende and
speculated what the U.S. response
would be. In the early 1970s Levin
collaborated with Moyers on a
number of Bill Moyers’ Journals. Why
Work? was about
“economic
democracy,” examined several work
er-run enterprises in Italy and is
distributed by the left film distribu
tion company California Newsreel.
So this makes up somewhat for
Moyers’ antics at CBS, including the
thumbs-up news analysis of the Gre
nada invasion and a manic cold war
display at the Geneva summit.
On the topic of Grenada, I would
direct anyone rashly congratulating
himself on the absence of a state-con
trolled press in the United States to
Joseph Treaster's article in the New
York Times for October 25. As we
know, the economy of Grenada is in
reasonable points but felt, as all lib
erals do, that it was necessary to say,
“I think you’ve got to look at the San
dinista government in some sort of
pragmatic terms. We've seen no con
version on the road to Damascus.
These are not people who’ve turned
into Jeffersonian Democrats. They’re
Marxists. They’re Leninists and we
shouldn’t think otherwise about
them. . . .”
So how come they never talk about
the Marxist-Leninist leaders of the
People’s Republic of China? This gets
us back to the imagination of the state.
Stop me before I kill again.
Bush’s Broken Date
Briefly in Madison, Wisconsin, last
week to give a talk and sign copies
of my new book Corruptions of Em
pire at Peoples’ Bookstore, I was
pleased to shake hands with one of
that fine cultural outlet’s moving
spirits, Gilliam Kerley. Kerley had
just been released from Leavenworth
Federal Prison Camp, where he had
enjoyed the distinction of being the
only American in prison for draft
resistance, having drawn a three-year
Kerley... had enjoyed the distinction of being
the only American in prison for draft resistance,
having drawn, a three-year term for refusing to
register for the draft....
tatters, as are health and education
services. Herbert Blaize’s ruling party
has this year introduced detention
without trial and censorship of calyp
so. Through Treaster’s rose-pink
shades “you can almost hear the
money jingling in Grenadian pockets”
and “in some ways Grenada is ex
periencing democracy with a ven
geance.” If the imagination of the state
had the power of words they would
be there.
Tigerish Questions
But the state doesn't have things all
its own way. Every now and again of
ficials of the Reagan administration,
mewling and puking with terror, have
to submit themselves to the pitiless
interrogations of McNeil and Lehrer,
as in, for example, this bare-knuckle
encounter between Elliot Abrams,
assistant secretary of state, and Jim
Lehrer:
Lehrer: What is your reading of
how the Arias peace plan is going so
far?
Abrams: Well, I think you’d have
to give an “A” to President Cerezo and
President Duarte and I think you’d
have to give something pretty close to
failing to President Ortega.
Now any rational human would
have taken the mike and whacked
Abrams on the head with it, asking
him not to pollute the airwaves with
such filthy nonsense. If prudence
withheld die mike-whack, any inter
rogator capable of reading a news
paper would have asked Abrams
about an on-going death squad kill
ing in Guatemala and El Salvador;
press freedom in both countries; the
murder of human rights leader
Herbert Anaya; the true and actual
pace of political “reconciliation” in
both countries, as contrasted with Ni
caragua’s concrete demonstrations of
good faith. Lehrer said nothing sub
stantive in a demonstration of truly
spectacular timidity, climaxing with:
Lehrer: Do you feel as we sit here
now that the United States is giving
its full support to the Arias plan?
Abrams: Yes. . .
Lehrer: Mr. Secretary, thank you
very much for being here with us to
night.
Then, since this is a free country,
we had “balance” to Abrams, in the
form of that noted columnist, Senator
John McCain of Arizona, and that
other representative of the far, far left,
Senator Chris Dodd, who made some
term for refusing to register for the
draft—the harshest sentence given a
non-registrant since the Vietnam war.
In Kerley’s case we have the oppor
tunity to consider the imagination of
not one state but two. At the end of
September a Polish anti-draft activist
called Jacek Czaputowicz, himself
imprisoned in 1986, had planned to
protest Kerley’s sentence and incar
ceration in Leavenworth. The oppor
tunity afforded Czaputowicz came
with Vice President George (“I have
briefly experimented with contra drug
smuggling”) Bush’s visit to Poland.
Czaputowicz’s group, Freedom and
Peace, has opposed Jaruzelski’s rule
but has also joined Western peace
groups in criticisms of U.S. foreign
policy. On September 24, the charge
d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in War
saw invited Czaputowicz to a dinner
for Bush on the following Sunday.
Czaputowicz accepted gladly, seeing
a chance to assert his group’s legali
ty. He was also planning to raise
Kerley’s case, and ask the Vice Presi
dent his views on the three-year term
for Kerley, executive director of the
National Committee Against Regis
tration and the Draft (CARD), at
whose sentencing Judge John Shabaz
gave as his reason for the long term
his hope that it would “thwart” Ker
ley’s “illegal activities directed against
the system.”
Kerley and Czaputowicz had pre
viously joined in signing a statement
opposing U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan
contras. Czaputowicz’s group—some
times called “the Greens of Poland"—
oppose militarism, human rights
abuses and ecological destruction in
both Eastern and Western blocs.
Freedom and Peace has been work
ing for conscientious objector status
for Polish draft resisters and oppos
ing a loyalty oath to the Warsaw Pact
required of new conscripts.
Even as Czaputowicz rehearsed his
remarks to Vice President Bush, there
came a knock on the door. It was an
official from the U.S. embassy who
urged Czaputowicz to decline the
invitation.
[Alexander Cockburn's column is par
tially underwritten by the Committee
in Solidarity with the Central Ameri
can People (CISCAP). For more infor
mation about CISCAP's work to bring
peace with justice to the Central
American region, call 485-1755 or
visit the office at 372 W. 10th.]
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