Vineland & Reagan

[Bekah]

>From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan#Governor_of_California. 
2C_1967.E2.80.931975

Reagan was involved in high-profile conflicts with the protest  
movements of the era. On May 15, 1969, during the People's Park  
protests at UC Berkeley, Reagan sent the California Highway Patrol  
and other officers to quell the protests, in an incident that became  
known as "Bloody Thursday."[55][56] Reagan then called out 2,200  
state National Guard troops to occupy the city of Berkeley for two  
weeks in order to crack down on the protesters.[55] When the  
Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley and  
demanded the distribution of food to the poor, Reagan joked, "It's  
just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism."[57]

Not a nice guy.

Bekah
who was here then, too.


On Feb 28, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> A kind of D'Uh moment for me, not young enouhg to have an excuse,
>
> But, OBA wrote a famous piece about the Watts "riots' of 1965,  
> correct?
>
> Those events led to Governor Pat Brown losing the gubernatorial race
> to that reactionary Ron Reagan within a year, a book tells me.
>
> Vineland, set in Caifornia,  is about President Ronald Reagan's  
> America of the 80s.
>
> I knew TRP had been following America like an artist all his life,  
> but belatedly I see he had
> an insider's perspective, so to spaek, on Reagan's America and the  
> "dark joys of social control" in California
> from almost 15 years earlier.
>
> D"Oh
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