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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (283580)	8/4/2002 2:48:07 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

haqihana, Re: The youth of America felt that the world was on the brink of destruction because of the cold war that could have set of a nuclear war. They were a bit lost in a sea of insecurity, and had no where to turn for an answer they could understand. I have no idea how old you are, but your comments seem to be from someone who is young, and didn't live through the 1960's as I did. I can assure you, you are totally wrong about what the primary battle of the Civil Rights, Anti-War and New Left Movements were all about. They were most certainly not linked to some vague sense of threat. They were laser-honed to specific issues. Voters Rights in the South. The complete revulsion that many of us felt to the lies of the Johnson and Nixon Administration about our evil, immoral and illegal war in Viet Nam. We weren't cowed in corners by the lies of that age about the threat of nuclear annihilation. We had very specific goals and agendas we were working on. Just as it is today, that there are some who labor mightily for the environment, for women's rights, or in the case of people like me, a total hatred of the militarization of our society for the sake of a handful of criminal profiteers. We are very specific in our goals. And have been for many decades. As far as where we turned for information back in the 1960's, we had many sources. Ramparts Magazine, I.F. Stone's Weekly and the New Republic, campus publications among several others were important voices in that age. The corporate press was just as much of a propaganda tool then as it is today. Just as useless as a means of learning anything about what is really going on. The folks at Media Whores Online: mediawhoresonline.com could have been just as dismissive of the chicanery of the 1960's as they are of the prostitution of the press today. You also mischaracterize us saying that we "didn't seem to care about anything, including their own health, and lives" We cared deeply about our futures, and about the nation that we were brought up to respect as a lawful entity that seemed to be becoming a rogue state and a ruthless viper. We cared deeply about the horrifying future that lay ahead with the ascendancy of some jar-headed militarists taking over the country. We feared that all that we had come to cherish in this great nation was going to be stolen from us by a brutish band of police state thugs. We cared deeply about our lives and those of our children. That's why we fought then. That's why we fight today, for justice, truth, honesty and the end of Bush's mad greed. -Ray

To: haqihana who wrote (283580)	8/4/2002 10:23:03 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, I never thought the world was on the verge of destruction. It was a great decade for me. And none of my friends thought the world was on the verge of destruction. I say this was the first generation of teens thru college folks to have been brought up on TV. The TV of the 50th's and Sixties portrayed life in more positives and never any negatives. Those who did not get that TV was only make believe were likely to become cynical and alienated. A small, visable and vocal group did. I call the sixties the decade when losers became more vocal. This group also searched for their happy state with drugs and sex. The losers simply missed the fact that the world is a place of beauty with good folks.