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Jimmy Dore
All right, and let me go to Daniel Ellsberg, any closing thoughts?
Daniel Ellsberg
Yes, I can't help feeling that it's an honor to be on this panel and to see the faces of my fellow
panelists here. I had to laugh when you raised the question about censorship and one of us,
Alice said, "Well, I've been banned, my books are good". And when it comes to my case, I was
prosecuted. Last night, I was reading a book that was one of my great inspirations, actually, for
the Pentagon Papers, I don't know if you can see this, it's Noam Chomsky book. Why was I
reading this now, because I was looking up his chapter on the beginnings and the rationale for
World War Two in the Pacific, and it's the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, has put me on to
study, from the Japanese point of view, actually the ending of the war. And this book is the one
that first really put in my head as a former official. The notion that, as Noam says over and over
again in the logic of withdrawal in this book, at that time, that Americans act as if we had a right
to be doing what we're doing to be invading Vietnam, to be regime change, as it's now a
commonplace in the idea's very definition of imperialism is, yes, we don't like that country's
leaders, let's get rid of it, assassinate or not, is assassination possible.
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