Posted on 02/24/2007 9:52:29 PM PST by An American in Turkiye
I was in noway involved in any antiwar movement. I was too young and my family lost members in that war. Not everyone was protesting the war you know. My brother or sister sure weren't. Just because they went to concerts and I hit the tail end of a few by no means made me, or them commies or antiwar protesters......I am sorry you had to be there. But I still won't say all hippies were bad, not then , not now. I don't label people or judge them in the way that this piece was written. I also believe people change and regret what they did when they were young. ~Pandora~
Hey brazzaville (some brasilian connection, there?)
I grew up in Abilene, TX near Dyess Air Force Base, the largest SAC base at the time. My neighbor was a girl. I had GI Joes and she had Barbies. When we played, GI Joe was home on leave from Vietnam and he would beat up draft-dodging Ken.
I went to elementary school with the kids of "Linebackers". The rewriters of history say we lost the Vietnam War as they point to the fall of Saigon ignoring the fact that we had won the war 2 years before the "fall" (thanks to Nixon and Linebacker and Linebacker 2) and that we hadn't been part of the Vietnam war during the 2 years that led up to the "fall" (thanks to Ford and the democrat congress).
Now if only Linebacker had begun in Feb, '69 and continued until we had occupied Hanoi...
Hi Micheal, No I don't feel you attacked me. I was just in general venting.... I don't think everyone who was a hippie was a commie or stayed a hippie. I just don't quite get the hate for them . I didn't see it here in NJ like people did in other states I guess. I saw things too from a child's eyes then too..... Thankfully we have people like you who chose to go and serve their country and we have people who do that now. If I offended you in anyway I surely didn't intend to. I admire soldiers very much, I did then and I do now.... ~Pandora~
The MSM, aka Walter Cronkite in great part, were the ones who sold the leftist hogwash to the masses. If it hadn't been for their intentional misreporting of the facts and outright deceitful editorializing the number of protesters and anti-war sentiment in general would have been far smaller.
It is a shame that so many are now falling for a similar counter-propaganda about "hippies" ending the Vietnam war when it distracts from the fact that the MSM bears the lion's share of the blame. Quite a shame because they're back at it and they've learned from the past.
Even with the huge numbers of street protesters back then (absolutely dwarfing what's occurring now) our government never would have bowed to their wishes. It took a groundswell of sentiment amongst everyday working Americans to effect war policy and cause us to pull out.
Oh dear God - and the next thing youll tell us is that you were/are a HUGE fan of Tolkien and how HE was all about anti-war and not killing people and we should all be like Gandalf - UGH! -
I dont see how you can sit there and say that there's nothing worth dying for. There are men and women who VOLUNTEERED to be in that military fully understanding they will be sent into action because THEY BELIEVE there is somethign worth DYING for in this country...and your soft white ass is one of them. The least you can do is have the balls (or ovum) to accept that sacrifice and support their efforts to make a difference in this world.
And actually read history...but I guess thats too hard...
Thanks ...thats what I was thinking too. I know of guy's with long hair that I admire greatly. I happen to like long hair on men too. I know quite a few guys with long hair....Young & old. My one son has hair down his back. He is no hippie and would look at you like you had two heads if you called him one. I just hate labels. Its not what is on the outside of a person..it is what is on the inside that counts....~P~
LOL!! Thank God for Cartman!
You preach it brother... and preach it loudly...
You're going to be in endless battles if you try to take on every form of ignorance that pops up. Sometimes it's best to be happy that you know the truth and let others work it out for themselves. ; )
TE... as usual you are right! EFG Thanks ~P~
BS
That's why they pay me the big money to sit here and FReep all day. ;^P
No. They are not all commies. Many were/are just druggies but when the communists or other lefties need a crowd it is easy to round up hippies. Many of the more modern "hippies" don't really qualify for the term, anyway. They are highly political anarchists. Most of the apolitical hippies are only apolitical in their own minds because they will attach themselves to any sort of "protest" against society and government that comes along, especially if someone is passing out drugs.
That is sad but all too true. I ask people about why they are protesting against a war that is keeping them FREE from terrorists and they have no real answer. I ask them if they think if we left Iraq we will be any safer from terrorists. Usually the look on their face is all the answer I need. Some people will protest things that if they sat & thought about them wouldn't even protest them. Give them free anything and they will go along for the ride. Those people really pi$$ me off. At least believe in & know what the hell you are protesting about. Personally I hate the Jane Fonda, Cindy Sheehan ,Michael Moore etc people. I will go protest against them anytime I can. I try hard not to bother with hating people... but I do hate them I am sad to say... ~P~
He's dead, too.
"Pretty much everybody here is pro-choice, pro-ES research..."
"But we're all doing it because we don't want people to die. Ever."
Unless they're unborn and can't speak for themselves. Y'all can't call a spade a spade. You're pro-abortion (pronounced baby killers), pro-embryonic harvesting (pronounced baby farming)...and to think that half this country seems to think like you...sheesh!
You are the party of Proverbs 12:15 creating your own new (enlightened?) morality with political correctness and all.
This kind of upsets me.
Let me start out by saying I'm 14 years old and I've never done drugs.
I can tell you what these people were like because I was also at that concert.
For one thing, everyone that I saw seemed to be having a good time. I saw the security guards (politely) ask only two people not to film.
Sure, the message in Country Joe's song is about Vietnam, but as he said before he went into it, "Some things are very different nowadays, while some things are just the same..."
I do realize that some of the audience members didn't truly believe in the message of "peace and love," and were probably only there to hear the music of their youth, and there is anything wrong with that either. On the other hand, I saw countless people who smiled at everyone, made pleasant conversation with strangers, and were obviously having a great time. Does it really matter if they did/do drugs or have forgotten what they believe in? No! Because they're still alive and enjoying themselves.
Though of course you can expect someone so young to focus on something so trivial as the appearance of the audience members, and not on the music that you paid to see...
And about the musicians - wouldn't you be a little cynical too if you were asked to play at a THEME PARK after 40+ years in music?
Lighten up, please.
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