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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: elpolvo who wrote (45414)	5/7/2004 4:15:58 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Elfpolvo: some folks give very good speeches. Some deliver them well, too. I didn't hear this one, but I went to a law school graduation, where Tony Serra was the speaker. It felt like a halftime speech; I was ready to crash thru the doors and take on the world, and I wasn't even a lawyer. My "Kent State" story. (Why is there no Jackson State story; a number of kids were killed a few weeks B4 Kent). But, I digress. When KS happened, I was a physiology grad student at USC, mainly hanging at the medical school. Ray Gun was governor at the time, and tried to head things off by closing all the state schools. SC was private, but I think we closed too. Anyway, the response was to form "Medical presence" teams to go to various places where there might be trouble, in order to heal the injured and lame, should events spiral out of control. My team was headed up by Steve Allen, Jr. There was another med student named Sue Bailey; I wonder if the doc on MSNBC be one and the same. The closest we came to trouble was at Cal State Northwood. The kids had a peaceful demo going, but the Minute Men, a bunch of sexually inadequate far-right to -the-right-of the-John-Birch-Society right were there, taking photos of license plates and kids, and giving the cops an ultimatum of "Get them out of here by 10PM, or we will". The kids responded by getting fire axes and lances out of the drama dept. The cops handled it well; nobody got hurt. Later, we ended up picketing with the Teamsters, at one of the freight companies. I'm not sure why. I think they were hoping to get a student-worker anti-war alliance going. Anyway, it was ok, because I was about to begin my 5th summer working in a cannery represented by the Teamsters. Rat