The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88012   Message #1649225
Posted By: Bobert
15-Jan-06 - 09:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Alito brings real balance
Subject: RE: BS: Alito brings real balance
Yo, OLd Guy,

Yeah, I mighta been stoned in the 60's but I don't mean I weren't there...

The 1960 campaign was the first I had ever worked... I was 14 years old and my mom was involved with the Kennedy campaign so I knocked on a lot of doors...

In '65 I was an organizer of the first progressive student organization at Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University) and over the next 5 years when I got my Bachelor's degree from VCU, I was involved in not only anit-war organizing, but also managed to work for 1 year in the local CAP program as well as working for Bobby Kennedy in the '68 campaign as a paid orgainizer...

So lets not get "getting stoned" meaning "dropped out"... One thing about me is that I have always been involved with community oraganizing and alsways been in the game... Still am... I'm what they call an "activist"... Heck, I've allready given references to newpapers articles that have been written recently about what I'm into now but its the same old me... Trying to make my community better....

But this ain't got much to do with Alito...

All I can say, and I hope I'm wrong, is that I fear this guy is going to be jsut another corporate puppet on a court that is packed with folks who think the corporation is GOD... Yeah, that scares the heck outta me... The corporations allready have a stranglehold over our lives....

Bobert