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
Woodward in march this was terribly deadly and contagious at the same time he was saying to the rest of us do not worry so much. Jeanne this is not the conversation the president wants to be having. Any top of the pandemic does not work for him politically. This is not what the campaign wants to be talking about. More importantly, we have a president on the record admitting he knows how devastating and deadly this is, and many months later you have 190,000 americans dead, many of whom have been sick and ill as a result of this, and you had the president , months after he told bob woodward how bad this was inviting people to places like tulsa and saying you do not have to worry about safety protocol, you do not have to worry about masking, you do not have to worry about social distancing. This is being drummed up by people who want to get me. When he is on the record with bob woodward he is saying the opposite. The president and his team have to explain why he is saying one thing privat
Intelligence project that would make life or death decisions on the battlefield. You can check out our web site for any of this hours headlines coming up next though its. All of a stone as the guest. Sputnik is coming up and kevin and will be here in an hours time to bring you the latest world news updates well see about that. After a time to you know what youre going on the ground the team and i will be back with a brand new season starting september the 5th but until then well be showing you some of your favorite shows of this past season stay safe coming up in this episode. On todays show all of us started one of the greatest filmmakers of all time all over. Thanks so much for coming on youre coming on a stand simply for chasing the light to your new memoir tell me 1st of all why that phrase chasing the light m. P. s that means so much in so many different ways so important to your life its good to be back and sure its been a while. I dont know why you said in a sense of we did i ho
Attention was paid to the to the problems of adolescence they continue to this day in america we have a record suicide rate per young people of 1920. Record and may countries i gather that this is a growing problem because theres a lack of Spiritual Life thats what took me to this place of fatalism and i said i want to go to war i want to see what its like at the bottom i dont want any favors and if the gods my destiny. Were intended for me to take me they would take me i would test myself against them and i did i didnt complain when i was there i got wounded twice and i did a lot of fighting i saw a lot of combat. But i i brought it on myself i wasnt whining about it but i felt like i was lucky i survived and if you saw platoon you remember the end of it i found a meaning to my life in that war which is to say i really go on and teach what i know to others good teach goodness and teach experience teach the good things of life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive don