Tom Hayden and his ex-wife, Jane, sold out. So did Abie Hoffman. So did a whole bunch of others.

So did Robert Southey and William Wordsworth.

...We are bought, we are sold for English gold/Such a parcel of rogues in a nation.

GUEST, when you can no longer act nationally you can act locally. I happen to know that Bobert is. Brucie is. Dianavan is. Ellenpoly is. Others are, and I try to.

GUEST, in 1971 I was living in Ohio, literally minutes from Kent State University. An acquaintance, who was at KSU at the time the Ohio Guard collapsed, showed me pictures he'd taken that day of the incident. Pictures that were taken from him (and later returned) by the FBI (he still had the negatives). He wasn't a professional photog, so I doubt that you've ever seen them (and I've lost track of him). But I can tell you: such protests as had gone before died on May 4, 1970, in a barrage of .30 caliber and .45 caliber bullets.

So some truly went underground and kept the dream, but the vast majority gave up on it and now drive beemers or worse.

You'll excuse me from joining you on the picket line (although I would join Bobert or Brucie or Dianavan or others). You can call me a coward, but unless you truly know what massed unit fire (as it's called) can do, and know it from your own experience, I'll continue to work for change as I have been. You do it your way, and I'll do it mine.

And I also think that you'd better differentiate between the "hippies" and the actual protestors. They were NOT necessarily the same.