Tonight we, the women of the Proud Eagle Tribe, have bombed the office of William Putnam Bundy, one of the architects of the air war in Vietnam. A year ago the Proud Eagle Tribe bombed the Center-for International Affairs at Harvard because "The Center figures out new ways for Pig Nixon to try to destroy people’s wars in Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and grooms toads like Henry Kissinger, who left the Center to join Nixon’s death machine. It was at the Center that the ’strategic hamlet program’ was created."
William P. Bundy, our target for tonight, who’ said of the 9uerrila war in Vietnam, "White men can’t win this kind of fight," was a principle architect of the air war in Vietnam. His-scenario for escalation culminated in the bombing of North Vietnam’ in 1965. With an arrogance that the white male establishment has in abundance, he sat in an office far remove from the area conflict, (the better to preserve his objectivity !!), totally ignored intelligence reports, and cold-bloodly both « torpedoed » any steps toward realistic peace talks, and planned the air war. To round out his accompishments he devised the manner of presenting a fait accompli in an acceptable way to both international groups (special treatment for « friendly » governments, less figuring out how to tell American citizens that they were now engaged in a sharply-escalated war with a long-range forecast. Added to the fact that the planners of the war themselves were doubtful of victory. (The number of lives lost in a futile effort was of no concern)
After reading the Pentagon papers we realized two things. One, that the system is composed of people with names and faces, people with office, who are responsable for their actions. The men named in the Pentagon papers are still being used ** advisors ; universities vie to have these murderers as professors, magazines are proud to have them as editors, their lives are undisturbed. News faces and name have now replaced them in the Nixon administration. The same planning continues
The second thing is that we women of the Proud Eagle Tribe reacted subjectively. We felt a burning anger that these arrogant white men like the Bundy brothers, Rusk, Lodge, McNaughton, Clifford, Taylor, Westmoreland, Wheeler, Kissinger, Rostow and McNamara, to mention a few, lead safe, quiet lives. They are our enemy. They are vulnerable. There are many creative way to harass them : perhaps your professor or the man next door does a little counter-insurgency research on the side. Perhaps you walk by this office every day. We have chosen William Bundy as our target for one thing because we totally agree with him when he says "White men can’t win this kind of fight." Sisters, he said a mouthful !.
Tonight is also the occasion that some fools chose to give Rockefeller a "Humanitarian Award." A man who also sat peacefully in his office only he planned the murder of the 32 brothers at Attica. A man who is hated by the third world internationally ; an enemy of the people. Some day. he will receive from the people what he so justIv deserves. i
We dedicate this action to our beautiful Vietnamese sisters whose inspiration strengthens us. Especially to Pham Thi Quyen whose heroic husband Nguyen Van Troi was executed five years ago today for- attempting to assassinate McNamara. Pham Thi Quyen and her sisters in, the Saigon underground continue fighting for their people’s victory. We join them in the struggle.
Bubble, bubble, war and rubble
When you mess with women, you’ll be in trouble
We curse your empire to make it fall
When you take on one of us, you take on us all !