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Summary: Bunch of grey-haired, pony-tailed, smelly old hippies trying to recapture their "glory" days of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Losers.
If you can get over the hairy legs and BO, hippy chicks are easy.
During the 60s, hippies helped defeat America in a war. Now they're working to condemn a new generation of Americans to defeat. Only, if they succeed this time, it will be much much worse.
The hippies at Woodstock weren't "peace and love" either. Generations X and Y got a bad rap at the 1999 Woodstock event.
The hippies burned down the food booth in 1969 too (and you can hear "Wavy Gravy" mention of it "if there's some of you who still think capitalism is a good idea you might want to help him out..." (paraphrased).
And Abbie Hoffman and the Black Panthers blackmailed the promoters to give them $10,000 and booth space at the original event or else face untold problems "from the underground community".
Peace and love my ass. just a bunch of stinkin' commies.
Ok, this is probably the kick-me-off FR post here, but I really don't see why conservatives think that we hate this country. We love this country - we're half of this country. Almost everything important that the world has done for the last half century has come out of this country. I think that the reason why FReepers and others think that we hate this country is that we acknowledge that much of what is wrong with the world has come out of this country, and Russia/China, within the last half century.
But we love what this country could be. I am an Eagle Scout. I love the flag - I have put many old flags to rest, including, one one amazing occasion, a 50x75' flag. I love the history of this country - democracy/republicanism is the default system of government due almost solely to us.
I'm involved in research at one of the ten best hospitals/biomedical research centers in the country. We're actually the top center in the country, in the world, for fetal surgery. And we're in San Francisco. Pretty much everybody here is pro-choice, pro-ES research, anti-war, well, anyway, typical Democrats.
But we're all doing it because we don't want people to die. Ever. If this war would save lives in the long run, we'd be for it. But it won't. Maybe one of the primary differences between the two camps is that we think that Iraqi civilians have just as much of a right to live as do US civilians. I actually saw somebody say, on FR, that we should have killed on the order of 600,000 Iraqi civilians - and he got nothing but positive replies in return. Why? Did the owner of a bodega in Baghdad deserve to die more than one on Church St in Manhattan on 9/11? Is there really any difference between an American and an Iraqi 5-year-old girl?
4 years of an obviously failed strategy is too much. Change tactics radically, or stop. Those are the only realistic choices.
All we have ever wanted is to let people live their lives in peace. And that includes God-fearing American Christians. We don't hate heterosexuals. We don't hate religion.
This has been your friendly 24 year old hippy with hair down to his middle back, who lives 5 minutes away from Haight-Ashbury,
I think you think you were thinking thank but typed "think" instead.
At least they won't have to worry about senility. Their minds were gone a long time ago.
Figured this was a thread about Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign.
Yes, that really is his banner.
An interesting perspective on the history of hippies at
http://members.aol.com/Fredwaite/hippies.html
Whenever I think of hippies I thank God for making it so that everyone eventually dies.
yes, i know this type all too well. im your age and had two hippie parents with pathetic hippie friends. they are without a doubt the worst generation in american history.
We are the same age and I agree. We grew up with so many friends that had children for parents. So many in our generation only had their grandparents to look up to. It is amazing we survived.
If you were on some blotter, things would have been more mellow. Peace.
The actual percentage of people who looked like the hippies you described in your post was under five percent in my part of the country. Probably most of the midwest outside of the college towns. The weird kid who dressed like a stereotyped hippie was often pointed out and laughed at. Even when I went to college in those years most young people didn't resemble those types of hippies. I guess a lot of people in those days smoked maryjane or at least sampled it. I never even sampled it. And I've talked to many others of my age who never even sampled it. In the midwest, beer is still king.
Incredible, horrendous, irreparable damage. Damage which will ultimately cause the demise of this great nation.
The only good thing to come out of the Sixties was the Civil Rights Movement which eliminated segregation and Jim Crow laws. Other than that, it was an unmitigated disaster for America.