Reply #138: Great pictures...

[ljm2002]

...brings back memories.

I was there for the second shot and I do remember tanks in the streets and in particular I remember asking a National Guardsman if he really would shoot me with that rifle (with bayonet) he was holding. "Yes", he replied, without hesitation.

I remember being teargassed at lower Sproul Plaza -- the police told us all to disperse, then left us with only one route to take, and then the helicopters came over that line of people with nowhere else to go and teargassed the sh*t out of us.

Remember folks: tanks in the f*ckin' streets of an American city, under "Saint Ronny". I never forgot and I am beyond pissed that Obama would dare to talk about "Tom Hayden vs Scoop Jackson" Democrats AS IF each were equally legitimate. For the record, Barack: on the issues where they disagreed, Tom Hayden was right and Scoop Jackson was wrong, wrong, wrong. You might want to leave those conflicts behind, but they are still with us, and it is the Republics and neocons who have made sure of it. For the record, Barack: there isn't a chance in hell you would be running for President right now if it were not for the likes of Tom Hayden and their willingness to stand up and fight the battles that needed to be fought.

My goal is to see the rabid right wing ground into dust and dispersed to the four winds, politically speaking. If that means we keep fighting the same battles, so be it. Remember, it was our refusal to fight those battles to the bitter end that has been our undoing. In the Watergate situation, we avoided impeaching Nixon and really holding him and his cronies to account -- and they popped up later, causing untold mischief at home and around the world (Iran-Contra being just one example). They continued their dirty work with Reagan, with Bush I and with our current sorry excuse for a president -- the very same individuals who worked for a disgraced Nixon are now at the highest levels of government and calling the shots.

The last thing we need is someone in our own party telling us we need to "reach across the aisle" to these fascist f*cks. You don't win over evil by finding common ground. You win by fighting it.