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Thread #50135   Message #761022
Posted By: Bobert
06-Aug-02 - 07:59 PM
Thread Name: Join The Current Anti-War Movement:!!!!
Subject: RE: Join The Current Anti-War Movement:!!!!
GUEST: You can post a thousand sites for us to read but it is apparent that you weren't there, my friend. I was. I was a reporter for the Richmond Chronicle, Richmond's underground newspaper and covered and participated in lots of anti-war demonstartions both in Richmond and D.C. Yeah, they were loud and we were in the street and we were confrontational and sometimes we had got hurt. That's okay.

The fringe anti-war folks did *nothing* but setback our efforts so when you say it was the anarchists and Yippies that brought an end to the war you are revising history. The Moritorium was the single biggest and most powerful day in the history of the Vietnam Anti-war movement and the reason for this is because it was inclusive and scared the Hell out of the Establishment. Yaeh, when they saw mother and fathers pushing strollers and old people they knew that our side had won. You weren't there or you would have known that, GUEST. Yeah, I spent a good part of the 60's talking with my parents about the war and both marched. And my dad was a Nixon Republican.

So, get real. You're beliefs are not founded on fact but more fixtion. Yeah, sure, you can continue to put up on site after another of folks who either weren't there or have for their own reasons unbeknownst to anyone, will jump up and down sayin' that the fringe radicals deserve the credit. That is pure bull.

So if you're and your cohorts are gonna plan on blemishin' a non-violent movement against the military industrial complex that involves creativity, confrontation and civil disobedience when required but does not give the other side a media victory for crushing the movement, then you'll have to live with yourself if you and your buddies become the puppets of Tom Rich and John Ashcroft.

Anarchy is not the answer, my friend.

Bobert