garamps's Blog

Another hippie turned cynic. It's too bad, you could have helped mold this country into one that would have never voted for Bush. Perhaps you should be begging for the loosening of marijuana laws.

I typed in this blog, then logged out until now; I wish that I had read/revised it. It is poorly composed and punctuated. My feelings of this event are not of cynicism, anger, fear, or any emotion other than concern that this event is intended to cause mayhem for the sake of it.
The very slogan 'recreate 68' seems to me a call out for violence and confrontation. That was the result in Chicago, violence, and nothing positive was achieved from it, nothing was made different; the war in Viet Nam continued on for another 7 years or so. Mayor Daly maliciously gave the cops carte blanche and heads were busted, the city was burned and looted and lives were destroyed.
The only point that was proven then was that violence begets more violence. History has proven that anarchy can be productive when the ideoloy necessary to inspire change is cohesively presented to and then agreed on by the masses. This movement does not require the unity it espouses, this is a sham and many ideologues are being duped into believing that they will actually bring about an immediate resolution to their aims. I hope that they are are not harmed.

aksjfd...have a good time in Denver!

AKS..To paraphrase a line out of Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles, "I don't need no stinking souvenier".

Alright, I'll bite! Are you really going to Denver or were you being facetious? If so, which agenda is most motivating you to go?

A nephew is hoping to go there, with college friends, for envirnmental causes; my sister is hoping to persuade him (good luck, eh?) to promote local issues instead of getting mixed up with the Denver crowds. I understand his passion for his cause, he works for the 'Sea Lab' on Dauphin Island, Alabama while attending school. I think part of the draw for him, really, is to be a part of something radical and exciting. I recall the exhilaration of my experiences back in the day and the feeling of empowerment that I shared with other hopeful youths. I would like to think that he will not participate in, or suffer from, any type of physical conflict.

As for your remark, 'Hippie turned Cynic', you have no idea of how corrupt the left has become in the 50 years that I have been aware of the 'Beat Generation'. You want to know where the altruistic people are these days? Go to Iraq and talk to a soldier!

DHW...Ahoy there!
I used up a couple of Bic Pens over the years signing every NORMAL petition I ran across at Airports, Universities, Festivals, and Fairs etc.
Hee, Hee, Peter Tosh for 'Surgeon General'!
I was sorta looking for Clintons Surgeon General, Joycelyn Elders, to approach Marijuana as a medical benefit but the Masturbation issue opened up the 'exit now' door for her when Clinton decided that she was exceeding her area of responsibility to the publics health. Too bad he didn't listen to her, it maight have been helpful for keeping his fly closed around interns! LOL!

Denver is a hot-bed already. The city has been trashed by illegal aliens. Add a swell of hired-hand liberals to folks already hot under the collar! Then add disgruntled Obama disciples learning for the first time that the DNC had no intention of nominating their god after all. No wonder Rush made that comment.

The same people claiming to be pacifists are the ones throwing blood, slashing tires on SUV's, shoving people trying to sign up for the military. These are the same people flying across the globe for photo ops with dictators who shoot and jail their own citizens for speaking out. How's that for hypocritical.

No, not going to CO. Too busy and my vacations no longer revolve around recreational drugs. That's so 1990s...he he.

Doubt a crazy riot will happen as those on pot aren't known for their grumpiness and never started a riot. The riots, from my understanding, were always started by the cops who usually hold the opposite view of the protestors. Cops and military are usually Republican and do what they are told so they don't smoke pot and are a lil high strung watching people go against their leaders they subconsciously must hate. Then, that boils over into them beating someone laying on the ground with their hand covering thier face. Because cops sometimes forget that they aren't there to be the strongest, just the most level headed.

I'll be extremely frank with you. It's really annoying when opinions flow with such volume and definite information in such short supply. You hate this country, but you wouldn't think of going anywhere else. And obviously you don't know the meaning of "hypocracy," but at least you can spell it. Since the post is about violence and the DNC, I'll add one more item to the list of liberal "hypocrisies." People of your persuasion holler day and night about the war in Iraq which has claimed the lives of four thousand adult volunteers who fully assessed the risk they were taking. Yet you defend the fact that two hundred and twenty five times that number of Americans have had their head, arms, legs pulled off their bodies so they can be sucked through a pipette—THIS YEAR! Nobody asked them anything. What about more than twenty thousand people murdered by illegal aliens in the US over the last seven years. Where's the sympathy now! Yea, h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y.

So let me get this straight. The "Left" has no right to protest and should be napalmed? This would be what some of you think by the looks of your posts. It's about time people got off their lazy behinds and took to the streets again. I guess if your organization is against the Patriot Act then you're considered radical. Young and idealistic has become a bad thing now? At least they have the guts to back a cause. It was also mentioned that people were held in a fenced in area of the 2004 convention in Boston, but what was failed to be mentioned was it was only the Democratic side. Republicans were allowed to roam freely. Strange how that wasn't mentioned. I just changed my plans for August. See ya in Denver.

RD & AKS.

Need a place to stay in Denver? Ward Chuchill may have room in his 'Bunker' for you two; y'all might have to share a bed though! Birds of a feather type marraige, nothing permanent! Use protection, don't want to see any Anti-Social diseases spread around when you get back to AZ.

The Napalm comment was spacealiens, not mine. I won't delete that, even though it disturbs me that some are that hateful.

I voiced my interpretation of 'Anarchy' above, in this post. I, in no way, either advocate violence or sitting on my arse. I believe that people will not be heard unless they talk above those that are talking down to them.

This summers protest is, in my opinion, being fomented by the likes of Ward Churchill and other radicals that hate America as it stands for "E Pluribus Unum".

What annoys me, mostly, about those who cry that we are an unfair society is that they themselves are the most bigoted and narrow minded of all. If one believes that past sacrifices are 'passe', or that self preservation is 'selfish' or that the future is of no concern beyond the present, then I say that you are IGNORANT!

And, yes, I do think that there should be "Change" in our countrys' Politically Correct stance; we should not be afraid of offending those who want to take advantage us, we should not be afraid to defend ourselves from those who want to destroy us, we should not be made to explain/excuse ourselves to those who accuse us of being able to do more. Our country is OUR COUNTRY!

Get over it and stop trying to say that we have to give it someone else!

pj: I didn't slam you per-say, I slammed a worthless cause and a hate organization. You're not taking to the streets, you're taking to get signatures in front of somewhere like Wal Mart or wherever they will let you set up a petition table. There's a difference between people going out IN the streets and people sitting on their behinds on the side of the streets.