A letter to Gregory Corso by Allen Ginsberg.

Dear Gregory:
1.  Immigration law bars all foreigners of differing opinion 
    from the country
2.  Dropped the atom bomb when we didn't need to and everybody
    applauded or sat on the hands
3.  Run South american governments for 50 years.
4.  Fought communism from the start of Russia
5.  Executed the Rosemberg when there was no need for blood
6.  Executed Chessman which was indecent under circumstances
7.  Elect hypostite dumbells president
8.  Stopped democratic govt in Guatemala
9.  Support Franco in Spain
10. Destroyed radical opposition in america
11. Started worldwide hysteria against benevolent Narcotics
12. Supported Rhee govt in Korea
13. Support Chiang Kai Shek dictatorship in Formosa
14. Finance France's war in algeria
15. Bar recogniton of China & admittance in UN
16. Destroy mail coming from communist countries
17. Prevent free change of travel to China
18. Ban free expression of dissident opinion thru mass media
19. Present distorted information on the world events thru mass media
20. Overproduced luxury amusements while 1/3 world is underfed
21. Attacked Cuban revolution
22. Refused to support non-capitalist economic development in
    Latin America
23. Used economic aid primarly as adjunct to military cold war
24. Been neglegent & stingy with purely altruistic foreign aid
25. Allowed censorship on important literature thru obscenity
    laws -- Burroughs, Miller, Genet, Lawrence, De Sade
26. Eliminated controversial figures from government, teaching,
    & all key posts -- homos & reds
27. Overrun by moneymaking status as personal ideals & so forgotten
    democratic comradeship, thus making above mistakes possible
28.

Sept 13, 1960
170 E 2 Street
NYC 9, NY

--Allen Ginsberg






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