Frenesi

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/4/04 5:11:33 PM, tobylevy at juno.com writes:

<< And I wish to Briefly respond to Bandwraith's comment that "Hippie-dom
would have been equally as  marginalized except for several important
events- the acceleration of the civil rights movement, and, Martin Luther
King's courageous anti-war stand."

As one who lived through those days I can tell you that most of the
hippies had no clue who Martin Luther King was.  All they knew was that
government wanted to draft them and put them in a country where people
wanted to kill them.  It was self defense that built the antiwar movement
and it was the end of widespread hostilities and the scaling down of the
draft that ended the movement >>

Hi Toby-

"As one who lived through those days I can tell you that..."

The standard mainstream media's flip put down has been:
    
    "And you remember it ?"

Unfortunately, in your case, its seems, drugs may not have
been necessary to induce amnesia. Everybody knew who MLK Jr.
was. You must have been hibernating. But the point is, and
perhaps you're the exception that proves the rule, the main-
stream media has focused in on the burnt out stoned hippie freak,
packaged that image according to right wing revisionist standards 
and sold it right along with  Nestles and Fruit Loops for mass 
consumption.

respectfully