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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-31-07 09:15 PM
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12. Oh, I'm pretty sure they have been watching me a LONG time.
Back in 72, on a very obscure small college campus, I noticed whenever ANYONE came to speak for McGovern, there were LOTS of suits around, guys all in the same sunglasses, bulging at the shoulder holsters, taking notes, communicating via little radios and hand signs....

They paid a lot of special attention to any rally attendees in brown berets or black berets. Well, now, I had a really cool RED beret my mom brought back from a seminar trip to NOLA.
:evilgrin:

It was back in the day of Hot Pants. I was young, winsome, busty, and leggy back then... Knowing that the very dangerous liberal actor, Dennis Weaver would be on campus for Senator McGovern on a particular day, I donned my navy blue hot pants, a tight white knit top and my red beret. I strutted back and forth in front of that distinguished panel of spooks in suits for about 20 minutes while Chester, of Gunsmoke fame, spoke to a pretty small, inattentive bunch of kids on the quad.

Those suits were going nuts, signaling and radioing back and forth trying to figure what dangerous threat to the nation my red beret signified. The fucking twit never did get the joke of a tall blond in red, white, and blue sending them into a Nixonian paranoid frenzy.

Yeah, figured my file got started THAT day. Between that and the old OSS teacher I had....
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