To: PartyTime who wrote (6924 ) 3/21/2004 3:00:43 AM From: Lazarus_Long Read Replies (1) | Respond to some issues too radical for Kerry were discussed Your criticism might have some value had Kerry continued associating with the organization. He didn't. Message 19938441 And I can speak from this having myself once been affiliated with the VVAW Massachusetts organization. Lazarus, I don't know what you were doing or where you were then, but if your memory is fair you'll recall that those were very, very heavy days for everyone. And many died young because of this! There was a lot of anger back then, and Nixon wasn't helping much. Instead, Nixon sent agitators hoping to hoop up violence at many of the peace demonstrations, some of the ones at Colombia University in New York and other places. Based on my own experience back then, it wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that the conversation centering around killing United States senators could actually have came from Nixon-placed agitators. it was indeed the US government that actually was killing people, and actively trying to destroy the peace movement. But for the most part, planning for political actions was directed at influencing support for peace more than anything else. Hence, civil disobedience of all kinds. The VVAW organization was only concerned with getting the US out of Vietnam; it was concerned only with peace. But as for what you're implying, Laz?
