In a weird sort of way, Woodstock probably says more about the positive morals of the hippies' parents than the mud pie crowd would prefer to acknowledge. Having a quarter of a million people without a lot of food and water etc and virtually no police presence, but yet there were no major crimes reported sounds more like kids remembered the Golden Rule vs sex and drugs and rock and roll. In turn, the fires and riots of Woodstock 99 probably says more about the morals of the GenXers parents (many of whom were Boomers...) than the kids themselves.
This was and is the way of the TRUE hippie
Peace and love, man !
The Leftist crowd burned down the burger vendor’s booth in 1969. You can even find reference to the arson in the original movie. “and if you still don’t think that capitalism is just a freaky idea, you may want to go help him out and buy a burger...”
The Black Panthers and Yippies blackmailed the promoters for $25,000 to buy them off from slagging the event in the underground press leading up to Woodstock.
The cash payoff wasn’t enough, they were also given booth space at the event and a printing press they used on site. And STILL Abbie Hoffman tried to take over the microphone during the Who’s set AFTER the band had been spiked with LSD.
The famous Leftist agitators also tried to steel by arme force all of the camera crew’s rented equipment.
“peace and love” was a big fat lie.