Manny with all due respect, let me relate a short story to you, one that I was involved in. Back in the '60s I lived in Beverly Hills and went to Beverly High with the cream of the cream of Americas elite.
At that time I helped organize the 20,000 people protest at Century City against LBJ and his war. The LA police turned this into a riot and started clubbing all these people. Many students from 90210 were also there. Parents watching this violence on TV started calling the BH police dept worried about their kids. As the LA police chased the crowd down Olympic Blvd (I was running also) east toward Beverly Hills we saw a line of BH police right on the boundary. We thought that we were now in real trouble sandwiched between two different police forces. Amazingly the BH police waved us through and physically prevented the LA police from pursuing us. I never saw anything like that before....two police forces opposing each other.
The interesting thing about the outcome of this was that LBJ, even though he came to the Century Plaza Hotel to raise funds to run again for president, soon announced that he would not seek a second term. Apparently the LA police screwed this up big time and many parents (very rich and influential) did not appreciate their kids being assaulted by the police for expressing their opposition to the war in the streets which is an American tradition and a perfectly acceptable form of dissent. So LBJ was unable to depend on the support of some of Americas richest and influential people. He was toast that night and that was the turning point in the war and where America lost the war on Vietnam.
progressivela.org
"The powerful mood of the times influenced other communities and constituencies. Protests around the Vietnam War, for example, heightened the urgency for change. Students at the college campuses and the high schools began to mobilize around these issues, not only in places like UCLA, but also at the California State University campuses and at junior colleges like Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley. In the summer of 1967, student activists gathered at an old brownstone in Echo Park to establish the Students for a Democratic Society summer school, as this and other LA-based organizations joined with the growing youth and anti-war movements around the country. That summer, Los Angeles witnessed its largest anti-war gathering at Century City where President Lyndon Johnson camped out at the Century Plaza Hotel. A police riot broke up the demonstration, with scores of protesters beaten and injured, while LBJ watched from his hotel room."
Elections as everyone knows are rigged and in my opinion there is no better way to get the message across than to get out of the house, away from TV, and participate in the American way....PROTEST.
Of course you might say that we should have VOTED the British out of Boston Harbor LOL
Well in my opinion this administration must be overturned.
"Hey, Hey! LBJ! How many kids you kill today?" |
