As a kid near Ft. Benning who would go up to Atlanta every weekend to buy a couple of hundred hits

[Dawggie]

of acid to sell on base and the strip (with several friends). But I got to see Janis and Jimmy, Allman Bros free in Piedmont Park...Spirit and Dylan. Great bonuses. At that time you could actually pick juvie marijuana plants in the Chastain and Piedmant Parks.

Then one evening I got a call that the CIA (not FBI) had stopped a group of friends leaving my house for a search and news they were headed my way. My visitors had driven to a grocery store and had given us a three minute warning. I ate 20 hits of Purple Haze that evening and was thankful for low quality. I shit aluminum foil for three days later.

In later years, thanks to TFOA, I found out that I had made Nixon's list. Probably something to do with some in the face protesting here in the SE.

I had protested Lt. Calley's actions in Mai Lai, I successfully dodged the draft... I had long hair and a VW microbus painted like an American flag. Guess they saw me as a redneck terrorist. Actually most of our group were from all over the country and several democratic nations.

Those were fun and frightening years. I spent more han a few nights in jail, was beaten and had my head shaved by a warden or two.


Those years are back. McGovern isn't running.

The Kennedys are still dead. So is Martin.

We need new heroes and none will be without fault.

We need new leaders, and none of them will be without fault.

We need unity and humility to address the greatest good. And that can be without fault.


We may not get our choice of candidate this time or we might. Either way, they will be with fault. We need to vocalize, be louder than the neocons and the evangelicals. We need to let them know we are here, watching and that we care and expct accountability.

There is a very important 12 months ahead and we need to link arms and claim solidarity. There will be no candidates running that we can back 100% but we must choose the closest we can and carry them into office.

We need to win the presidency more now than we have in the last 100 years. It's up to you.

Peace and solidarity. The fate of the whole fucking world may depend on it.


We truly are on a precipice the likes of which as not been seen since the 19th Century.


Dawggie says it so it must be so! :)

(edited for some crappy typos)

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Wow!

And now you're into gardening.

[Dawggie]

3. I do love my roses.

[Dawggie]

5. But then again I always was...

:)

[Catherine Vincent]

21. LOL.

:evilgrin:

[RoyGBiv]

2. Okay, now that was a good post ...

Thank you. Just ... thank you.

[Dawggie]

4. Thanks, Roy.

It was fun to remember.

[orleans]

6. eating 20 hits of purple haze was "fun" to remember? damn! n/t

[Lochloosa]

8. I think it would be fun....

but that just me. :evilgrin:

[Dawggie]

17. Luckily for me, it was cheap shit and was wrapped well

and went through me rather than in me.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Awesome...needed to be said.....Imagine World Peace..so much fun, war... so much death/misery

[progressoid]

9. Dawggie says it so it must be so!

And it's on the internet!

I'll K&R any thread that encourages us to bury the hatchet and come together.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. The next President will have an opportunity for greatness...

...but only IF they do the right thing (the right thing would be acting on behalf of ALL Americans, NOT just the Americans who have donated more than $1000 to their campaign) once they're in.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. An excellent post, Mr. Dawggie

One deserving of serious consideration.

One that should serve to underscore one more time how very damned important unity is this go-round.

I would add that we are on the very precipice of fascism. Now more than ever, we need to apply a fair dose of unity.

[lumberjack_jeff]

14. The question is *unity where*

The issues people have with their non-preferred candidates are mostly issues of substance.

One candidate believes, now that america has shifted to the right to an unprecedented degree and people are beginning to notice it, what we really need is a commitment to bipartisanship and linking arms with our fascist brothers.

One candidate believes that "lobbyists are people too" and cack... err laughs at the suggestion that the money that those people bring to the table have corrupted our system.

The voting record of another candidate is not entirely consistent with the promises that he's making now.

There are lines that the candidates should not cross in their primary campaigns. I don't believe that any of them have crossed it yet - (although musing about selecting one of the crazies as your VP comes pretty close)

At which point on the political spectrum are democrats supposed to unify? When we get to the general election, I'll rally round the nominee, but until then I'm going to do my insignificant part to push the candidates to the positions I hold and support (meaning helping to convince others to agree with me) the one who gets there first.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. You sum it up and answer your own question very well .......

"When we get to the general election, I'll rally round the nominee, but until then I'm going to do my insignificant part to push the candidates to the positions I hold and support (meaning helping to convince others to agree with me) the one who gets there first."

That pretty much sums up where I am, too. :thumbsup:

[Toots]

12. Did you make it to the Byron Folk Festival?

They called it the Atlanta Folk Festival but it was actually in Byron. Larger than Woodstock people wise...

[cap]

13. we are the heroes...

we are the leaders... if we mobilize and demand that our leaders be at least as good as ourselves, the world will change.

[Dawggie]

19. Let us only hope.

[DemoTex]

16. For Atlanta hippie history check out The Peachtree Strip Project .

http://www.thestripproject.com/Welcome.html

[Dawggie]

18. OMG! Alex Cooley!

I haven't thought of him in years. Got to meet him a few times. I worked a lot of concerts back then.

[AlCzervik]

20. your writing style reminds me of someone.

[Dawggie]

22. And who might that be?

Should I be ashamed or flattered? :)

[AlCzervik]

23. it'll come to me.

[Javaman]

24. There are no more heros...

they are promptly tared and feathered by the press as fringe nuts. More importantly, anyone that actually stands up and speaks gets little to no press coverage on purpose.

The right wing learned a lot of lessons from the 60's and how to stunt a movement before it gets power.

This era will eventually pass, but not without pain.

[Usrename]

25. Mai Lai protest in a VW microbus painted like a flag - you were on the list.

You must remember the Great Speckled Bird and the Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.

That's going way back to some strange times. I remember when that huge Mai Lai poster was circulating on the underground.

[Dawggie]

26. Gawd, yeah. We staged an "Anti-Calley Ralley" on the same day

that what are now called Freepers were calling for a Calley rally. No violence but it sure got close.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

27. I'm with you Dawggie

The next year will determine the fate of this country, and more than likely... the future direction of humankind and the planet.

[kohodog]

28. "Those were fun and frightening years" Well put

Don't know how I'd sum up the last eight years, maybe "horrible and terrifying years?"

And it's been a long time since I had bad acid.

I think it should be required that world leaders be experienced. None in this crowd though.

[zanne]

29. You go, Dawggie!

I remember Nixon's list. (I remember wishing that I'd at least get an honorable mention). I'm glad you haven't given up hoping and working for a better world. I haven't either. We still have alot of life in us before we pass the torch; lets' make it worthwhile! Excellent post.