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Politics : THE BIN LADEN LOVERS' HALL OF SHAME AKA THE BIN LAUNDRY LIST
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To: E who wrote (168)11/25/2001 9:27:53 PM
From: Patrick Slevin  Read Replies (2) of 383
 
In the 1960s dissent was tolerated; sometimes it got out of hand and riots ensured, but it was tolerated by and large. There was no immediate danger to the country nor the military response then either. Probably 90 percent of the country supported America's posture in VietNam. The Silent Majority stayed silent.

Today, people are less willing to be Silent. The difference today is that although the Minority is still vocal, the Majority has decided to be vocal as well.

The tone of this thread, whether you care for it or not, is the way certain people feel. And just as the dissidents have a right to their opinion, the people here do as well. Maybe it's well that people do voice their opinion in such a fashion. Staying Silent in the 1960s gave rise to a group today that still thinks the US is wrong no matter what happens. The town of Berkley is afraid to put an American Flag on a firetruck because of possible reprisals by the Children of the 60s.

I won't tell you that I think even half the people mentioned here are criminals. Far from it. However, these people have just as much right to vent as the people who get press merely because they are authors, or actors, or some other such media personalities. I doubt that such people care about opinions expressed here, and I for one welcome the opinions here. I don't wish to know what media personalities think; instead I want to know what the person like me thinks.

Barbara Streisand isn't posting here. If I want to know what she thinks I'm sure someone will beat me over the head with it in the New York Times or on the radio or some other such place where opinion is controlled.
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