I pulled these very randomly from Google - this was America back then:
Not this. This was garbage-America:
Posted on 09/18/2007 1:55:10 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
Edited on 09/18/2007 1:58:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Abbie Hoffman incident
Abbie Hoffman interrupted The Who's performance during Woodstock 1969 to attempt a protest speech against the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. He grabbed a microphone and yelled, "I think this is a pile of [edited]! While John Sinclair rots in prison..." The Who's guitarist, Pete Townshend, cut Hoffman off in mid-sentence, saying, "Back off! Back off my [edited] stage!" He then struck Hoffman with his guitar, sending the interloper tumbling offstage, to the roaring approval of the crowd. Townshend later said he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's imprisonment, though he made the point that he would have knocked him offstage regardless of his message.
Much of that period is biblical to the Left. I wouldn’t cite any special passage from their roughly 40-year-old holy text.
Actually, that's the point. Abbie interrupted and was sent flying off the stage. The hippies loved it. So NOW they're offended?
I pulled these very randomly from Google - this was America back then:
Not this. This was garbage-America:
More like the recreate 68 nuts, if you ask me.
This “taze me bro” clown got hauled out of a Kerry rally.
I think they actually tasered him for using the word, “bro”. I know I would have...
Kerry remembers 1968. It was the year that “President Nixon” sent him on a “secret mission” to Cambodia.
It's "seered, seered" in his memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman#Suicide
...At the time of his death, Hoffman... regularly lectured audiences about the CIA’s covert activities, including assassinations disguised as suicides. His Playboy article (October, 1988) outlining the connections that constitute the “October Surprise” brought that alleged conspiracy to the attention of a wide-ranging American readership for the first time... Hoffman was 52 at the time of his death, which was caused by swallowing 150 Phenobarbital pills... Hoffman’s drug infused body had been found in his apartment in a converted turkey coop on Sugan Road in Solebury, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, he was surrounded by about 200 pages of his own handwritten notes, many about his own moods. His death was officially ruled a suicide, but many who knew him refused to believe that he had willingly taken his own life... As reported by The New York Times, “Among the more vocal doubters at the service today was Mr. Dellinger, who said, ‘I don’t believe for one moment the suicide thing.’ He said he had been in fairly frequent touch with Mr. Hoffman, who had ‘numerous plans for the future.’”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rubin#Quotations
“What would happen if the white ideological Left took power? The hippie streets would be the first cleaned up by the ‘socialist’ pigs. We’d be forced to get haircuts and shaves every week. We’d have to bathe every night, and we’d go to jail for saying dirty words. Sex, except to produce children for the revolution, would be illegal. Psychedelic drugs would be capital crimes and beer drinking mandatory. Rock dancing would be taboo, and mini-skirts, Hollywood movies and comic books illegal.”
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