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Hippies still trying to ruin the country
Lexington Herald-Leader ^ | 11-15-06 | Jenean Mcbrearty

Posted on 11/15/2006 11:58:58 AM PST by atomic conspiracy

Hippies still trying to ruin the country By Jenean Mcbrearty CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST America won't win another war until the 1960s flower children are pushing up petunias.

Radicalized, the flower children morphed into lefty loonies who now masquerade as social progressives. No matter what they rename themselves, however, their agenda hasn't changed.

They still want utopia, and it wouldn't be worth mentioning except that their naivetŽ has aged into a persistent denial of reality that may have devastating consequences.

For example, consider their continued belief that America's armed forces are neo-Nazi stormtroopers who delight in burning babies to further the aims of imperialistic corporations.

Such nonsense, now treated as legitimate by the left-leaning media, denigrates the patriotic values and sincerity of half the nation. It undermines the war effort, insults the dead and the survivors of battle and their families, and supports the aims of the enemy. Translated into immigration or national defense policy, it is an invitation to the world to destroy our country.

Yet, this Vietnam-era idŽe fixe about the military, despite 40-plus years of proof to the contrary, is understandable when analyzed in the context of the flower children's religious zealotry.

To renounce their military fictions would mean facing bigger, more important truths: Marxism doesn't work. Love is not all you need. Western culture is worth defending because it protects freedom, tolerance and the greatest material good for the greatest number. Government can't solve every problem. The American taxpayer has no obligation to support the rest of the world's exploding population.

Without the military-industrial complex to blame for humanity's ills, the lefty loonies lose their basis for faith in a socialist utopia. Terrorism is tortuous for them only because it forces them to pursue the political goals that will allow them to redistribute America's wealth by pulling the nation together and relying on the hated military for protection.

Oh, the unfairness of irony.

Thus, lefty loonies deny that terrorists have declared war on America, while insisting that we can win the war through negotiation. They seem to believe the terrorists will spare them because they are nice.

The truth is that there is no way out of our modern warfare dilemmas.

Is it possible to protect non-combatants, given modern weaponry in total war?

Are people who make weapons innocent citizens of their warring governments, or integral non-uniformed soldiers and legitimate targets?

Must we surrender our country to our enemies because our weapons are too terrible to use?

Whose life is more important: the 12-year-old Iraqi firing an Uzi or a soldier from Kentucky?

Which is more sacred: a mosque hiding a weapons cache or a plane of tourists?

Do we want a military strong enough to protect our homeland? Are we willing to pay the price of survival?

It's crucial that we come to terms with war questions because we will have war with Iran and North Korea. It will come down to their children or ours, their soldiers or ours, their countries or ours.

For aging hippies, it's easier to keep blaming old enemies than to confront new ones, especially the young and ruthless. Hating a military-industrial complex is safer and less tiring. It's less complicated -- and less dangerous.

Abstract institutions neither bleed nor shoot back. Demonstrations, marches and sign-carrying don't accomplish much these days, but they are a lot more fun and allow the fiction of activist moral superiority to persist.

Their BAWL (Buddha-Allah-Wicca-Lenin) is better than some old Judeo-Christian God.

In their heart of hearts, lefty loonies do want America to lose in Iraq and every military theater. They want outside enemies to accomplish quickly the demolition of American capitalism, using the violence the lefty loonies are too old, too scared and too well-invested to use.

After all, lefty loonies want their social justice and their pensions, too.

Luckily, no one lives forever. Luckily, there is Generation Jones to take up their slack. America is too great to go down without a fight.

Yet, please be compassionate toward aging, albeit dangerous, erstwhile flower folks. Understand their pain when communism failed. Understand their desire to enforce perfect harmony. Understand their insistence that we love humanity except those in uniforms.

Just don't vote for them in 2008.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: culturewar; genx; grass; kumbaya; woodstock
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Wow, I cannot believe the Lexington Herald-Liberal actually printed this!

Wednesday is the one day per week they allow a bit of Conservatism in their pages. They're fair and balanced, don'cha know?
41 posted on 11/15/2006 1:18:25 PM PST by Famishus (I wish my grass was emo so it would cut itself.)
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To: Volunteer

Great tag line.


42 posted on 11/15/2006 1:19:57 PM PST by Thomas Newton (Conservative Poet)
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To: atomic conspiracy
Hippies still trying to ruin the country

Rove totally "screwed the pooch" on this election.

He failed to make it clear that putting the children (Democrats)
in charge of the House and/or Senate was basically handing
over power to "The Class of 1968", i.e., how Sixties Radicals are
termed in France.

And that the "Conservative Democrat" labels were just iron-on appliques.
43 posted on 11/15/2006 1:21:07 PM PST by VOA
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To: atomic conspiracy
For example, consider their continued belief that America's armed forces are neo-Nazi stormtroopers

Sheesh. Everybody knows that the neo-Nazi stormtroopers are assigned to the BATF.

44 posted on 11/15/2006 1:24:17 PM PST by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Has a ring of "generational warfare" to it.


45 posted on 11/15/2006 1:26:14 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Logophile
It wasn't even that common in California. Most people who grew up during that time were not hippies, or even close.

Much of what we see and read about the Sixties is leftist propaganda served up by the mainstream media. ("Fake but accurate"!)

Correct on both points.

The boomers were subjected to a completed tactics change by the communists and anarchists that had been disrupting with terror tactics since the turn of the century. The commies realized that the war on the American economy was failing, as there were too many prosperous individuals to allow recruitment to communism, so they changed tactics, to rot from the inside, by propaganda and social liberalism, using a free society and hiding behind equal rights social issues, they infiltrated government bureaucracy, media, and education accepting lower pay as communist moles to direct propaganda and indoctrination.

The privileged, spoiled children boomers were easy to move away from values to tolerance of evil, and allowing evil in government.

60's hippies won't admit that communists out thought them, so it goes on, America is not allowed to defend her grace and good, a terrorist identical to the communist/anarchist terrorist of the early twentieth century might get killed.

46 posted on 11/15/2006 1:28:09 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Zimbabwe, leftist success story.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
An interesting book about it -- those born between maybe '58 and '64.

That would include me. I may be a boomer from a demography standpoint, but when Woodstock happened, I was 10. I was hardly part of the fray.

I penned an outline of a book last year titled "Ten Years After the Wave", intended as a comedy about a poor soul who is ten years younger than the crest of the baby boomers. Every time he gets to a particular stage in life, he discovers the hippies got there 10 years earlier and have throughly screwed it up. For example, he is laughed at when he is 4 because he can't hoola-hoop, and by the time he masters this art, no one cares.

Just when he is ready to embrace free-love and get into sport fornicating everyone moves to the "new celibacy", etc. etc. etc.

Being caught in the wake of a juggernaut your entire life is no fun.

47 posted on 11/15/2006 1:50:18 PM PST by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: Ouderkirk

same


48 posted on 11/15/2006 1:50:27 PM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: monkapotamus

"Hippies . . . hippies everywhere . . . they say they want to save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad . . ."


49 posted on 11/15/2006 1:52:14 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Xenalyte

That episode was hilarious :-)
50 posted on 11/15/2006 1:55:53 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: lafroste

Welcome to Generation X. Glad to have you.


51 posted on 11/15/2006 1:56:15 PM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: atomic conspiracy

52 posted on 11/15/2006 1:58:45 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: atomic conspiracy

Mr. Wouldnt was just saying this very thing the other day!


53 posted on 11/15/2006 1:59:50 PM PST by wouldntbprudent (If you can: Contribute more (babies) to the next generation of God-fearing American Patriots!)
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To: woofie

I'm with you Woofie. I was a freshman @ U.T. Austin in 1966. I was as radical as they come. Still think the war in Vietnam was total Bullshit. But, I have been voting Repub. since 1976. My core values have always been conservative and are more so today.


54 posted on 11/15/2006 2:05:09 PM PST by MAWG
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To: atomic conspiracy

Far be it from me to even seem to be in the position of defending lefty moonbats, but this op-ed is, er, a bit over the top itself. Which goes to show that moonbatism plays no ideological favorites.


55 posted on 11/15/2006 2:05:55 PM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: Mugwump

Most of us outgrew the nonsense years ago.


56 posted on 11/15/2006 2:12:36 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: Ouderkirk

Did you read the article in the first post?


57 posted on 11/15/2006 2:17:11 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: MAWG

New Tag Line.


58 posted on 11/15/2006 2:24:46 PM PST by MAWG (Hilary and Chuckie Schumer ARE the Butt Sisters)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Bump for Later


59 posted on 11/15/2006 2:37:35 PM PST by jonascord ("Don't shoot 'em! Let 'em burn!...")
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To: GeorgefromGeorgia

Well at the Ivies and major West Coast schools, the Communists ran rampant. Most of the levers of power in both the public and private sector are held by those who went to those schools during the 60s and 70s.


60 posted on 11/15/2006 4:09:29 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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