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H:

A Friday night, we'd meet

and if I felt like it was okay for you

to come out, I'd let you follow me home.

If I felt like there was something

about you that I didn't like,

I'd say, "we'll meet again",

and I'd never meet with them again.

"We don't do

this right off the bat. Sorry."

When I met Mr. Hands,

we did talk on the phone a little bit.

And that's when he lived in Seattle.

[ Music plays ]

He was basically curious,

like everybody was curious.

And he had a good personality.

So I invited him out.

Coyote:

I was just astounded at the beauty.

You have that wildness,

but then you have civilization too.

They're just kind of meshed together.

Happy Horseman:

Us humans are so conditioned

from the time we are born

to start categorizing.

And even if they're unconscious,

or even subconscious,

we start categorizing.

Animals just not going to do that.

Flight attendant:

We'll be landing in Seattle in just...

Happy Horseman:

You're either a good person or a bad person.

Woman:
[ On radio ]

...The biggest of all munitions companies,

Lockheed Martin Corporation,

playing an important behind-the-scenes role

in developing support for

Bush's war with Iraq.

Man:
[ On radio ]

Yes, they did.

They played a very influential role in, uh...

In various organizations

that looked like they were simply

public interest,

public education organizations,

but which had long

advocated a war with Iraq

ever since the 1991,

uh, the first war with Iraq.

It's been to their...

That is, war is the business.

What I mean when

I say it's not private enterprise,

is that it's much more like

state socialism.

You have only one customer.

The customer

is not particularly interested

in getting the best

possible use of his money.

He's much more

interested in simply...

Getting the contracts filled.

Moreover, there is

a huge circulation of elites today

in the sense that most

of the operating positions,

appointed positions in the Pentagon today,

are executives

from the military-industrial complex.

Whereas, by contrast,

any number of

the high officials in these companies

are retired high-ranking

American military officers.

Woman:
[ On radio ]

Well, I want to thank you

for being with us, Chalmers Johnson.

His piece appears

in this month's... "Harper's".

It's called "War Business:

Squeezing a Profit from the Wreckage in Iraq",

As well as David Bacon whose piece appears

in "Progressive" magazine.

Chalmers Johnson's

piece ends:
"this is the future

when war becomes the most profitable..."

[ Music plays ]

H:

I'd get about 8 or 10, 15 people at the house.

Big party, watch movies, play games.

Happy Horseman:

Kind of a potluck supper kind of thing.

Some people would

bring over some beans or chips

and a meat entree or something.

And of course, lots of beer.

And once in a while

there was a few mixed drinks.

It was kind of fun, throwing

all kinds of stuff into the blender

and churning out things

that kind of had a slushy flavour to them,

that about six or seven

of them would knock you on your ass.

You can only put so many

bottles of rum in some of this stuff.

There was no special flashy...

Nothing going on

that was all that strange and unusual.

I mean, this goes on in hundreds

and thousands of places all over the country.

Age was never

really all that important.

As long as you

were old enough to drink,

you weren't senile

and could talk coherently,

conversation would always ensue.

Do you wear boxers or a thong?

[ Laughter ]

Happy Horseman:

It was pretty much a classless society

of our own little small world.

No one had any kind of

different statuses

and who was this and who was that.

There was no alphas and omegas and betas

running around anywhere.

[ Music plays ]

Coyote:

Being able to get away,

just let everything hang.

Anything I can bring up

or want to talk about,

it didn't matter what was on my mind,

these were people I could trust.

I could just let my hair down

and not have to

worry about things.

[ Music plays ]

[ Music plays ]

H:

There was things in him

that he really

didn't want people to know.

He wouldn't tell you.

He wouldn't tell you the truth.

[ Music plays ]

It took me a long time

to find out his real name.

And it was about a year before I knew

Mr. Hands' real name.

It was just always Mr. Hands.

"I go by Mr. Hands."

Man:
[ On television ]

Okay, Jim, it was quite a ride,

But we got it done.

Roger. You're five-by, Jim,

and we're sailing free.

Coyote:

The flag and stuff that they put on the moon

and it looks like it's waving in the breeze,

what do you know?

Of course, there's no atmosphere

on the moon at all.

H:

People would come out,

and we'd walk out into the barn

and I'd show them my horses

and I'd show my bulls,

and they'd ask me

different questions about them.

I'd tell them what this

was and what that was.

"How come his legs

look like that?"

"It's because he's resting."

It wasn't the fanciest place

in the world.

It had cows in it,

so there was crap all over the floors.

There was horseshit

all over the floors.

The horses would come in and out,

and the bulls would come in and out.

And it was just, like, "hey, let's go

out to the barn and pester the animals".

"Well, there they are. Go ahead."

"Just be careful, because

if you stand too long in one place,

It's going to happen."

If you just stand there,

they'll walk up behind you

and put their head on your shoulder

and talk to you.

They're going to pick up that pheromone

that your body's putting off,

and they're going to mount you.

If you don't move, you're bred...

[ Chuckling ]

And I mean bred.

There was times that people'd

come over expecting it,

and no, it never happened.

[ Music plays ]

Jenny:

We had one horse that we called Chance

when we brought him in.

He was blind.

And he was in this area where

it was just nothing but blackberry bushes,

so he kept poking himself in the eye.

We ultimately had

to remove both of his eyes,

because he had re-injured himself

so many times trying to forage for food.

I mean, it touched

all of us very deeply.

When we took that horse

to the veterinary hospital,

we were advised to put him down.

But our feeling and

our experience has been

that just because it has

a problem like blindness,

that's not a good enough reason

to just end their life.

[ Airplane roaring ]

Man:
[ On radio ]

One of the things we found fascinating about the story

is that the news media in the Puget Sound

would not reveal the name of the victim.

We believe we have

the name of that man.

We talked to somebody

who worked with this guy.

We talked to someone who got a memo

at work about the death of this guy.

We talked to people

who told us that...

Federal employees

were coming in saying

this name was

never, ever, ever to be given out.

Woman:

My name is Pam Roach,

and I'm the State Senator that covers the

area of Enumclaw

and all the lovely area

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