American Anarchist Page #2

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was rapidly coming to an end.

Up until this time, there wasn't

a real radical movement.

There was

a movement of the mouth.

I believe that it's now time for new

tactics in the anti-war movement.

Mass demonstrations

are ineffective

because power is so removed

from the people.

People became impatient.

And demonstrators

came to demonstrations

more and more with the intention

of provoking violence.

So you move from protest

to armed conflict.

Those pigs in Washington,

every time they try

to devour one warrior,

we're gonna take our fists

and put it right into

their fat gut.

Washington police used

tear gas to drive them away,

and arrests were made.

Attorney General John Mitchell

characterized this instance

as evidence of

the violent nature

of the Moratorium protest.

"The Village Voice" announced

that there was going to be

a "Yip-in" at

Grand Central Station.

A celebration of life.

It was enormous.

And people were dancing,

and bongo drums,

and singing, and people

were smoking dope openly.

Really in your face

to the establishment.

Something exciting, something

possibly dangerous was happening.

There was a police presence.

Just before midnight,

two young men climbed up

onto the information desk

that's in the middle of

Grand Central Station...

and there's a clock above it...

and they ripped

the hands from the clock.

Why? I don't know.

I suspect that they were stoned.

But that was a signal

for the police to intervene.

They did. And it turned very

bloody very, very quickly.

Police came in swinging batons,

they were

absolutely indiscriminate.

At one point,

I watched a girl

having to run the gauntlet

of police with batons.

I don't remember how many

were arrested,

but it was over 100,

and a lot of people were beaten.

But it was

a classic police riot.

I was sickened by it.

I was angry, I was frightened.

I felt very strongly

that change needed to happen.

I thought the government

was out of control.

I was going to write.

I was going to turn my hand at

writing "The Anarchist Cookbook."

I had become very insular.

It was a project

that I was engaged in

entirely by myself.

I didn't talk about writing

the book with anyone.

Nobody knew.

I started out by locating

the section of the library

that had military manuals.

Army, Marine Corps,

special forces.

The shelf wasn't locked.

I mean, it wasn't

a rare book room

where you had to get

the librarian to unlock it.

They were just there on

the shelf, and I took them down.

The information

about explosives

came primarily from

"Explosives" and "Boobytraps."

One was called

"Escape and Evasion."

Things on sabotage.

The diagrams in the book,

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