I see a parallel with the VietNam war protesters of yesterday and us today

madokie

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:08 PM
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I see a parallel with the VietNam war protesters of yesterday and us today

in opposition to this immoral and illegal war. You have to fight with the tools you have in hand

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genie_weenie

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:09 PM
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1. What are you advocating?

Use roundabout speech if you're feeling :tinfoilhat:ish.

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madokie

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:13 PM
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2. nothing really, we have the internet and we are using it.

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blm

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:50 PM
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9. Because we have the internet we don't vent in front of the White House

and maybe that IS the problem. We need a solid week of a growing protest to shut down DC.

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zippy890

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:15 PM
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3. I think some of us are those very same protesters

I am.
Older of course, but I still go
out to vigils and protests when i can.

:hippie:

Your right, we fight the way we can.

and we'll keep on fighting till we get
this country on a better path.

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madokie

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:18 PM
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4. in the vietnam fight we had youth, today we have the internet

and a heart just as strong as it was then. I am proud to be part of both

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spag68

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:22 PM
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5. protests

I am that age also. My question is, where are all the street protests? I hope when school is out the students will help us as they did in the sixtys.

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proud2BlibKansan

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:23 PM
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6. I was interviewed on the radio not long ago

about our local peace movement. During the Vietnam War, we protested at a park on the same street where we protest now, about 4 blocks east of our current spot. So when the woman interviewing me asked what has changed in the peace movement locally since the Vietnam War, I said "We moved west about 4 blocks".

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madokie

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:32 PM
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7. and we got older

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EST

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:50 PM
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10. Amazing how closely mature wisdom resembles

being too tired.

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EST

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:48 PM
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8. The fight is never over.

We have taken a thirty year breather; at least some of us have. We thought we would live forever and that there was no way that the the world could stand up to an entire generation with such a high sense of purpose and clarity of vision.
The seeds of our present dilemma were there, sown among the glittering accomplishments: the same anger and resentment that motivated the stereotypical hippie-thumping construction workers of that time.

Those hates are still there, dressed up as faux cowboys and "proud" rednecks, proud of narrow minded disdain and narcissism, mislabeled as religious enchantment.

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acmejack

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Fri Jun-09-06 03:57 PM
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11. The fight won't even begin until conscription starts!

That will awaken the youth, who are totally unaware at the present. The young not being involved (and angry)is the difference.

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