[2ndDivisionVet]

Bozell nails it, again.

[JennysCool]

The past few years have really been nothing but the hippies’ second childhood, aided and abetted by their contemporaries in the media. I’ve seen a lot of indications lately that the country at large has grown tired of humoring them.

[goldstategop]

The anti-American movement lost much of its momentum when it appeared America turned a corner in Iraq. There's not much of a constituency for defeat in this country. The Democrats political problems stem from the fact they're in thrall to their fringe kooks instead of listening to the American people.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Theresawithanh]

Indeed he does nail it. I listened to these guys a lot in my ‘yout’, Crosby and Nash, but they’re just doddering old fools now.

I only read about the protests to look at the pictures and laugh at the stupidity.

[truemiester]

Crosby? Nash?
Heres the deal. Free Depends if you just shut up.

(BTW, Isn’t one of them Canadain?)

[Mr Inviso]

What if they gave a protest and no-one came?

[atomic conspiracy]

“The peace movement is objectively pro-fascist”
-George Orwell, 1942

[raccoonradio]

>>If Americans are sick of the war, they’re also sick of the “antiwar.”

I read a couple letters to the editor in the Boston Globe which complained about the lack of coverage of
the anti-war rallies. They also published the following letter, which I was amused to see in a left-leaning paper:

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I WAS coming home on the Red Line on Saturday afternoon after attending the antiwar rally on Boston Common.

I was holding a poster that someone had handed me at the rally. It said “No War in Iran,” and I was thinking I might post it in my front window.

A young woman in her 20s sat down beside me on the train and quietly asked if she could ask me a question: “Why are you against a war with Iran?”

My response referred to the disasters of our current administration, its misguided goals and failures, etc.

She replied, “I am Iranian, my family is Baha’i, and currently there is a holocaust going on in Iran against the Baha’i and against Christians and nobody hears about this. Eighty percent of the population in Iran is praying for a war to bring down the government.”

She got up to get off at her stop, and I thanked her for speaking to me.

The poster is sitting on my kitchen counter.

DEBORAH SILVERSTEIN
Cambridge
(Apparently she now sees another side of the issue!
There’s hope!)

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The following letter was a bit more of the expected:

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I TAKE issue with the Globe for burying its article about the antiwar rally on page 6 of City & Region (”10,000 in Boston rally against war,” Oct. 28). This was a nationwide event with regional demonstrations in 11 cities. It reflects public sentiment against the war in Iraq and it warned against the drumbeats for war against Iran. There is a lot of talk about whether newspapers will survive as circulation falls. When the populace is against a war waged by its government, and the papers bury news of protest, who is it that these papers represent? You printed the story with one photo that showed exactly four people. People were on the Common from all over New England.

The people are speaking out. Is anyone in power listening? Will they bother to dig to the inner pages of a newspaper to read about what we want?

PEGGY B. ANDERSON
Granby

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Nash is English, BTW - former member of the Hollies. A much better band than Crosby Steals the Cash!

[Blind Eye Jones]

Hippies, yeah gotta love them... or they cry’ll and call you a fascist. Some are probably already thinking about the “sit-ins” they’ll be doing in heaven if God doesn’t listen to them. There is no turning any corner for most of these types who see the world in fairytale terms. It’s just too easy for them to complain and hold on to the distant past, mostly because it generates the euphoric feeling of being moral — and, for the more idiotic ones, the past keeps them perpetually young so they will never die, so they feel. They’ll take these two things to the grave.

I’m sure once they talk to God — for those hippies going to heaven and not some communist hell — He will not be the same one who they believed they talked to under acid. They will question him about the flowers and peace and love and smoking pot and why Bush is an idiot and he will laugh and say, “Ah, children, Bush & Cheney were right. We’ll have to get you a nanny.”