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Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)Being 'high as a kite' that is. I know that look. It says, "I really need a burrito".
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)but I'm told it still is popular these days
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)EndCorruption
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lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)I left Southie in Sept 69. I remember seeing the coverage on the news.
Ah, for the old days.
jpak
(41,758 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Boomerproud
(7,954 posts)Tom Brokaw and the Gen Xer's may dismiss you-but I remember and I chose my username in honor of my generation.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)watch the sky
(129 posts)at all? Your thread title is HILARIOUS, btw.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)was the creation and development of a packet-switched data network that became known as the Internet. It's a strange world.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)One of them.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)and we did somewhat, but grossly underestimated the power of big money to control things...but our generation tried at least.
they wore us down, co opted our movements and set spies and provocateurs in our mist and totally punk'd us...and they do the same today, but even more effective at it.
But they were also good times...where a lot of people became aware...and passing that joint around had it's effect.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)I'm reading a new book called "Subversives" right now. Very interesting.
Based on thousands of FOIA documents, about how J. Edgar Hoover, Ronald Reagan (then a snitch and Governor), the CIA, HUAC, and a host of others labored to destroy Mario Savio, the Free Speech Movement at Berkley, their President, ruin the lives of innocent professors, and on and on.
Good reading
zeemike
(18,998 posts)but I remember some of it at the time...like there was a group being tried in Florida they called the Tallahassee 7 if I remember right....and they discovered two FBI agents in a closet recording the conversations of the Jury that was trying them...it was in the news in Florida for a day or two, and then it disappeared...never mentioned again.
and when you think about it, here is a case of the most egregious abuse of our rights and nothing came of it....that says a lot to me.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)". . . We don't want your fuckin' war! Five, six, seven, eight! Organize and smash the State!"
Hey, brother, did you make it to 'Mayday' in 71? That was the effort to close down D.C. for a day. We camped where the F.D.R. monument now stands, at least we did until Nixon's pigs revoked our permit and rousted us at dawn. I've never seen so many cops! And the tear gas . . . jeez!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I mainly stayed in the Boston area during that time.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)We did not shut down the government. My friends and I just got rounded up while standing in a crosswalk on some big Avenue near the Capitol. They threw us on a bus, took us to a jail cell, and there we stayed until late that night. We were never charged with anything, never even saw a judge.
It was, though, one more nail in the coffin of that stupid, damn war.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)He ended up as a VVAW rep attending all of the meetings between police and protesters in advance of the event. In the next few years, he said, he learned that more than half of the reps of the groups involved in the protest were undercover cops from various agencies, from the D.C. Metro Police to the FBI. And those were the protesters' reps.
It's even possible that my friend was turned informant. He was living at VVAW's quarters for the protest at the time and was set up by the cops for a narc bust (he agreed to do a favor for a friend who was "going to be away" and hand over the merchandise when the friend's buyer showed up). He was very open about his war experience and the aftermath (Random House published his memoir), and mentioned the bust--but the one thing he never talked about was how he got out of it...
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)When we got to the street intersection we were assigned to block policemen came boiling out of every building in sight and simply surrounded us. There were at least four times as many of them as there were of us. We had no chance to even escape. One guy tried and was beaten to the pavement by about six cops.
In two minutes police buses started showing up and we were hauled out of there and off to jail. Long live the revolution!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)And we're seeing the same police tactics with the Occupy movement today. With better technology. At OccupyLA protests, we can see the cops videotaping us. I'm far from a big fish in the movement, but I know I'm on record in LAPD's dossiers.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)It is almost a given. LAPD and Homeland Security will have your file.
JackHughes
(166 posts)Gimme an F...
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Just change three words and it's totally up to date.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Meaning what, exactly?
watrwefitinfor
(1,399 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)?
watrwefitinfor
(1,399 posts)Shamelessly bringing attention to my name: watrwefitinfor
Thought I was being so witty and no one seemed to understand. Oh, the humiliation.
Wat
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)Just wondering what you meant.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)high as a kite participating in protests, too. I LOVE a good protest.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)It sure looks like him, although I notice the date in the top article suggests the protest happened a year after his death so I am wondering whether the date is a typo or the guy at the podium just happens to look a lot like King.
watch the sky
(129 posts)Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I'm amazed at how fearless we were back then.
Warpy
(111,267 posts)Just another scruffy pain the ass, lost in the big crowd.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)I wonder if you stumbled onto it, or are these your pics?
I went to Kent State BTW. 20 years later, but still, I was "THERE" too. I feel you.
STOP THE WAR!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Will Pitt posted that page here last week and I'm addicted to it.
And yeah, Kent State infuriated a lot of us.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)Old meaning back when we were young. (so be it)
It's the closest you and I will get to a time machine.
Also, it's fun to remember when our fellow Americans cared about being such.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)Last edited Wed Jan 16, 2013, 09:23 AM - Edit history (1)
I was with Hillary and Bill when they were at Yale. Didn't know either of them.
we were a few years apart. Graduate Med School they were Law School.
If only we had known we walked that "Hallow Ground" with them...at the time.
We were in separate worlds at that time...separated by "Schools of Interest" though.
I was working to get Yale Grad Students Wives FAIR PAY....working in Epidemiology...publishing...partner was in Med.
Ahhh those times...they were incredible in memory.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)I left work at MGH to go to Cambridge by myself. Most of us in the march were strangers to one another. Once the gas hit, we were all best friends.
Found this on the internets. Gawddamn hippies!
KoKo
(84,711 posts)and the SDS...who were active and growing in interest at that time.. Would you believe that Joe Lieberman was involved with them at that point?
Who coulda KNOWN what a POS he turned out to be. Either he was an early infiltrator grifting himself in with SDS and knew he'd use them for CREDS for his career later...or he was sincere and turned later towards the Repugs under the "cloak" of his early activism which he used.
I go with my first assessment. He was a "grifter/infiltrator" who used us...as an Opportunist would CERTAINLY DO!
Whatever. Those times are past. Still...thanks for your post of your Harvard experience!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Thanks for that, fellow hippy.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)watch list thought his phone was monitored, etc.. He was a cool dude ...but bit of a "Pot Head" (as we used to say) and he was very active so we did respect him. It wasn't until years later we realized...HE REALLY WAS on the FBI LIST...when we found out they were watching all activists later when the Hoover stuff got released. He ended up practicing medicine in Mexico... I realized why he left when the Hoover stuff got released and many of the graduates Med School Classes of that time did leave the country who were involved in SDS. The rest of us tried to do what we could to what we thought was "better the world" in staying here. Many were there because of low draft numbers or Med School Deferments...but others had to serve for deferments and others were married with children so they got deferments for that.
What a time that was! When there was the DRAFT..
mitchtv
(17,718 posts)countless demonstrations , like free huey, peoples' park and a host of Gay lib smaller actions, stoned whenever possible
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Too much acid & luuds to go anywhere
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Friend of mine went out there during that time. She ended up badly...but so many didn't that it made it worth it.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)May he rest in peace and happiness with a joint and a beer.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)I was in junior high and I well remember the attitudes of the big brothers and sisters of my friends, some of whom died in Vietnam.
Those same killers are in charge, since Nov. 22, 1963.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Writely Wrong
(22 posts)I remember sitting on the main green at Ohio Univ, passing a doobie around when word started filtering through about what happen at Kent State. Kids our age in the National Guard, trying not to go to 'Nam, shooting other kids against 'Nam.
"And it's five six seven, open up the pearly gate."
It was not pleasant having "Captain Corky," in an unmarked car, pull up next to me in a dark alley, roll down his window, stick his head and a riot gun out the window and ask, "Watcha ya doin', kid!"
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)If you wore an army jacket with a peace sign on it, you always got pulled over or jacked up against a wall.
gateley
(62,683 posts)And you couldn't have been TOO high -- you remember the protest!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)First time it happened, I freaked coz I didn't know enough to get away from it. I became a pro after that.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Then, I was just getting high!