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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (64810)	6/9/2005 8:24:41 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

Joe S Pack Re: "extreme social upheaval" I will grant you that the public had an exaggerated view of the crime and civil unrest during the Nixon years and before. The media, which was very opposed to the Vietnam War was anxious to show every single protest or demonstration against the war they could film. Any time two hippies decided to burn their draft cards the network news would be there cameras rolling. And there was most every day real civil disorder somewhere in the country and you could be sure that it would make the evening news. And there were serious civil disturbances all around the country with considerable property destruction and even loss of life. By the time Nixon was running for his second term in 1972 this sort of thing had been going on for many years and the public wanted an end to it. Nixon won that election in one of the biggest landslides ever and he won it on the single issue of law and order. Nixon's generation had worked themselves into a fit of desperation by 1972 over the state of the nation. Having come of age during or even before the depression this deeply conservative and serious minded group were deeply offended by each and every aspect of the behavior of a large part of their own children's generation. The long hair, the drugs, the rebellion was beyond their understanding. Even though there weren't riots everywhere there were rebellious, drug addicted children everywhere and in large numbers. After all, this was the "baby boom" generation. So we have come full circle. The various innovations of the Frankfurter or Warren Courts have been totally nullified and today, just like in 1920, if a person goes out and creates some sort of public disturbance he will pay the price. In 1920 the price paid might be life itself or at least some lumps or maybe broken bones. Today the price will be forfeiture of all assets and lifelong servitude to repay any losses to the public if not lifelong imprisonment and parole, the latter for sure if any personal injury results. That staple of the 1960's, "peaceful nonviolence" has been made useless forever. Slagle