A day that lives in infamy

[Ian Livingston]

I was quite young at the time, it was just prior to my 18th birthday, and I
recall the glee and relief around Minneapolis, where I was living at the
time. People among my group of counter-culture drop-out types were mighty
happy, we began to dream that the politicians had been served notice, that
they would now recognize that they were the servants of the people. Nobody
really knew what it was all about, only that "we" had taken down the
President of the United States. While it's true that had it not been for
the popular groundswell the investigation might have turned out quite
differently, the delusion remained until September 8, 1974, which I count
as the day the government officially announced its status as an agency
independent of the will of the people, and the beginning of all that
happened after. But for this one month we had our little dream, the people
had the power, as Patti Smith later said, to redeem the work of fools.


On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 6:27 AM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com>wrote:

> You can't be serious. Nixon obstructed justice after the Burglary. The
> burglary was a far more serious crime than anything Obama has been accused
> of, and the cover up, which some place higher than the burglary, though
> doing so  is questionable, caused the president to resign because he, as
> president, tried to subvert the constitution, to undermine the essence of
> our democratic system. He did not only engage in crimes of political
> espionage, spy on the competition, he engaged in crimes of sabotage.
> Remember too, that many o the people, groups of people he, through abuse of
> power, damaged, were "competition" only in his paranoid mind. Nixon's
> competition, those who suffered from his crimes, include, anyone who
> opposed his filthy wars, the free press, our system of election, our system
> of justice. Not to mention our History. Your quip here seems to side with
> Nixon on the last of these.
>
> The paranoid man in the theatre / theater can't here the rocket. What?
> It's important to keep things in perspective: Obama is not the new Nixon.
> The world is changed, for he better, despite the sufferings from h excesses
> of global capital. We ain't livin in no Nixon Land no mo.
>
>
> On Friday, August 9, 2013, wrote:
>
>> In light of the present-day levels of surveillance, his actions seem
>> almost lovably benign and even comical. Ooh, he spied on the competition -
>> horrors!
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Livingston **
>> Sent: Aug 8, 2013 11:31 PM
>> To: pynchon -l **
>> Subject: A day that lives in infamy
>>
>>
>> http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/aug/08/photography-president-nixon
>>  ****
>>
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