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Thread #57062 Message #895843
Posted By: fiddler
22-Feb-03 - 11:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: Back in the sixties
Subject: BS: Back in the sixties
I think we all thought (naievely) that by smoking interesting tobacco, being peaceful and TALKING (& all sorts of other things too)- free love is all the world care to remember or think about now! - we could make a difference.
Everyone really did think that the common man and woman could make a difference. We dreamed the world would all agree to put an end to war - remember that one.
What have they done - and look at us now - look what they've done to my song ma - trite maybee but the people around then some involved in the movements of the time are involved or compromised in the warmongering now!
How do we stop them! Half a million in Hyde park last weekend - other demos - hmm.....
Politicians use wars to bolster economies and political careers - Mrs Thatcher & The Falklands to name an obvious one. Look at who is suppling heaps of hardware and creating heaps of jobs making new when it all gets left behind as too expensive to bring back! All they have to do is get the political spin right to sway the fickle public.
It's got nowt to do with Iraq It's all to do with economies - Look at Paris this week there are equally as bad and much worse potential there - Korea - India v Pakistan and I don't mean Cricket - how can we get one voice without Anarchy. Then there is oil!!!!
It looks like form what we are told that the main man in the middle east is not very nice to know. But do we know the truth???
The only hope in the midst of it all is Nelson Mandela did it in South Africa - Its not finished yet but he is winning - Sadly he missed most of his chances when they kept him locked up for 25 years.