Further to my last post on 'Phil' I have discovered in the album sleeve (Interviews with Phil Ochs), a copy of 'Broadside' specially reproduced for this album. It is the entire transcript of an interview between Phil and Israel "Izzy" Young. The interview was conducted on September 6th 1968. It seems that Phil had just returned from the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which had been held in Chicago. Phil was not in the least bit impressed with certain things that happened there.
However there is one part of the interview that caught my 'grey matter'. I will reproduce the part here. During the interview a situation which had occured in Czechoslovakia In the then recent past, was being discussed.
IZZY: So Dubcek didn't have a chance from the start then?
PHIL: He had much less of a chance with a crazy America running around. You Know, from the Russian point of view, America is a mad dog loose around the world. What it will lead to is lots more assassination; terror will start in Europe against American business. I mean America is buying Europe. Economic brutality, you know, comes before police brutality.
IZZY: I agree with you completely on that. I've been saying for two years-- my friends say I'm crazy--- that America is going to be destroyed from the outside, not from the inside.
PHIL: From both. End of quote.
Food for thought.
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