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Thread #95682   Message #1864480
Posted By: Don Firth
20-Oct-06 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: WSJ Poll: Congress: 16%
Subject: RE: BS: WSJ Poll: Congress: 16%
During the Sixties, with the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War paramount concerns, there were people who were working hard to bring about changes through legal and political means. They were eventually successful.

But while all this was going on, there were the angry radicals who wanted everything right now, and attacked those who were working within the system and whom they felt were not acting fast enough—even though the people they were angry at were actually making progress. These people could get pretty irrational sometimes, and actually retarded the progress that was being made because of their actions.

I knew on guy whose solution to all the country's problems was draw attention to the cause by bombing government buildings (!!?). Most people—save for a few like-minded people who were driven more by their spleens than their brains—regarded him as a nut-ball. One day he dashed up to Seattle's University District post office—a government building—and tossed a bomb through the door. There were a lot of innocent people in there, posting letters, buying stamps, checking their mailboxes. Fortunately, he was a lousy bomb-maker, and in addition to this, he was in such a hurry that he tossed the bomb into the foyer (a short hallway) and ran. The bomb went off, broke a few windows, and scorched the walls of the foyer, but no one was injured. He got grabbed about fifty feet from the building by the local beat cop.

Those who were opposed to the anti-Vietnam War movement had a field day. "See! That's what these people are like!" He really helped a lot. Brainless twit!!

GUEST, your attitude reminds me a lot of that guy who thought direct action was the only way. Learn some political realities, try to figure out who's really on your side, and try to stop having temper tantrums.

Don Firth