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Thread #111107   Message #2337688
Posted By: Rapparee
11-May-08 - 11:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Opposing war vs stopping & ending it
Subject: RE: BS: Opposing war vs stopping & ending it
When I was in college it was "Peace and Freedom." The P&F folks had about as much effect as the "Peace and Justice" people are having now. Until May 4, 1970. Then they learned that the cops and the National Guard actually have REAL bullets and REAL guns and will use them. After that the P&F movement sort of sputtered along, the SLA taking Patty Hearst hostage and all that, and finally petered out because the former members became executives, too busy to recall the days of righting what was wrong, the days of writing on the wall.

Except for a few, who sort of went to ground. A few who decided to work to upset the system in other ways. Unfortunately, folks like Karl Rove had learned from the P&F people how to manipulate the media and so little by little we landed in the mess we're in.

And it will little by little that we'll get out of it.

Or are you proposing a dictatorship, Fanny? Throwing out the Constitution to put yourself or your friends in power? Because if you are I'll fight you just as hard as I'd fight anyone with that agenda. Unlike some, I try to keep my word and I promised to support the Constitution and if that means going to live in the hills and shooting folks, so be it.