Give it a rest. You all missed out on the 60's, and your chance to be a hippie has ended and you really need to get over it.
Posted by liberalismisamentaldisorder at March 20, 2008 06:17 AMI am USN campaign veteran of the first Iraq war.
I'm 6'1", 196 lbs., 18% body fat. I work on websites all day long and make damn good money.
All hail the New Hippie.
Posted by paradox at March 20, 2008 06:32 AMIf only the Democrats had a candidate who was on the Armed Services Committee, who could use the bully pulpit -- or even hold hearings -- to shine a light on the abuses, corruption, and criminality.
Posted by space at March 20, 2008 06:48 AMThe poster claiming the name of 'liberalismisamentaldisorder' gives quite a compliment to 'da hippies.'
We drove through Haight-Ashbury at the height of the hippie era. The sidewalks were literally packed with humanity, mostly on the young side. The traffic moved very slowly. But there was no hostility, no threats, no verbal abuse, not visible police, no police cordons, no riot gear, no free speech cages.
Where can one find such a peaceful mass of humanity in this country today that isn't being intimidated by local and/or federal authorities and other hoodlums?
Posted by gail at March 20, 2008 06:57 AMno hostility, no threats, no verbal abuse, not visible police, no police cordons, no riot gear, no free speech cages....and no brains, no morals, no responsibilties, no contributios to society, except the remnants we have now.
No thanks
Posted by jj at March 20, 2008 07:31 AMSurely we have grown up enough to learn never to generalize people.
Hippies were not moral degenerates, jj, they simply were not. I don't dare know enough to describe them, I was just a boy, but even now anyone can plainly see they did no harm.
I'll take it.
Posted by paradox at March 20, 2008 07:36 AMmy 80 year old dad, who is a rock-ribbed conservative, said the other day about Vietnam "we went in there and destroyed their country for no reason."
got me thinking that that's about the same thing we did to Iraq.
....and no brains, no morals, no responsibilties, no contributios to society, except the remnants we have now.
Sounds like the neo-cons of the 21st century. And the "remants" are the ruin we face as a "society".
Wonderful post paradox.
Posted by Seven of Six at March 20, 2008 08:05 AMI would only add that in Vietnam we took the same course of accountability we are taking now.
Be assured the conservative killers will inevitably be back, and we will go through this again, if we survive it. That's what happens when a people refuses to honestly learn or adhere to principle.
Posted by paradox at March 20, 2008 08:18 AMWhere's Justice Robert Jackson now that we really need him?
Meanwhile, throw pennies at them. They hate that. It worked in Argentina.
Shoes, too, especially old, beat up ones. Try not to hit them in the head.
Well, it's hard to imagine that our country would EVER hold either itself or its "leaders" accountable for the massive damage and death that our military inflicts anywhere, least of all Iraq. Our "moral" arteries long ago were clogged with the the cholesterol of "American exceptionalism", which apparently excuses all of our aggressive "pre-emptive" military strikes.
We're always told we kill for the good of the victims and we always happily believe it.
It certainly will be no different with Iraq (or Iran), indeed the country refuses even to consider the actual reason Iraq was invaded and occupied---its undeveloped oil fields, the second largest reserves on earth. We have no political "leader" anywhere who will even publically tell the truth of this resource invasion. So "accountability" for the crime is quite a ways off, ha-ha.
When the strong have no sense of justice, endless conflict and death result. As a nation, we are moral pigs, rooting around in a vast garbage dump.
Posted by euzoius at March 20, 2008 09:06 AMPowerful statements, euzoius....and dripping with truth.
Posted by brisa at March 20, 2008 11:52 AMJeezus euzoius, you're consistantly the most powerful commentator here at TLC.
Maybe someday...
Posted by Seven of Six at March 20, 2008 12:44 PM