Sunday, August 22, 2004

Who Really Learned the Most Valuable Lessons from the 1960s?

By Mickey Z.

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  1. Had our ancestors taken on the Original Peoples’ Way/Belief systems, we would not be in the mess we are today. It is not too late (yet) to change our way of living/being. We MUST turn away from the system that is in place and turn to a new way. One that is Nature-Spirit based. It may not be easy but it must AT LEAST BEGIN to happen in our Time. Lest there be no Time beyond this one. The white society can no longer be in controll if we are to survive. Checking out the Hopi Prophecies regarding the end times, may be of help. We have two choices....Life or death. It’s up to us which way we choose. That’s just my take on things. Either way...we must be ready. A very Timely article Mick.. Thanks. In Peace & Solidarity, Collette

    Posted by Collette from  on  08/22  at  02:09 PM

  2. Mickey in top form! For Collette and Mick and others: Question #9 might be “How far will the violence we witness be from, say, the Mau-Mau slitting of throats?” I pose this because citizens seem to be out of touch with what is imminent...as per my article on O’Connor/Violence.  I touch upon the “Kenyans” here as they provide the kind of color focused on in my “Plantation to Penitentiary” piece...people who will NOT tolerate the status quo as long as Chomsky and Company are willing to wait.  In fact, Question #10 might very well be..."Do we see the violence as having already started from below?” Surely it’s increasing from the top down.  “Been down so long looks like UP to me,” (as per Pynchon’s friend), Ox PS THANKS MICK! Merci, Collette.

    Posted by Interrogative Ox from  on  08/22  at  02:38 PM

  3. I’m old enough to remember Chicago, 1968. It served, in part, as my political awakening. We are a long way from Chicago, 1968, these days, although the “Miami Model,” essentially based on the police violence of 1968, is alive and well now. I find it difficult to believe we have made essentially no progress (or most progress hacked to bits) in the last 35 or so years. I keep reading Zinn’s history book, looking for solace and inspiration, but we are on a big wheel going backwards, back to the past, not the future. Most people, remarkably, do not find it alarming that a guy like Bush can not only become president (CEO of America), but that he can steal elections, eviscerate the Constitution, and generally act like a fascist. Truly, in large part, we are a braindead nation of TV watchers and XBox zombies, buying whatever crap they sell us. Bush will be sold as a “compassionate conservative,” again, and a whole lot of people will buy into it, no questions asked. One beam of small light, though, was the woman, 50-something like me, standing out in the hot sun yesterday with a petition to get Nader on the ballot. I signed, of course, while tomorrow’s bullet stoppers, 20-somethings, walked past, uninterested. It’s their future, not ours, or not much of it is, anyway. When you think about it, the whole future of the country is up to those 20-somethings. It may take another decade of resistance to the draft before anything begins to happen. This time around, though, it will be more difficult. Let’s hope they don’t blow it like my generation did.

    Posted by Kurt Nimmo from  on  08/22  at  03:08 PM

  4. There will be no “decade” for Resistance.  Like --with the Union newspapers-- which disappeared...slowly till we have what we have today.  Like --with Afro-Americans-- with the “genocide” proceeding...till we have what we have today.  Like with the media....  You see, the only time for “resistance” is NOW.  There is unlikely to be, I strongly believe, windows of opportunity...much longer.  Ten years?  Before that...if I live long enough...I will help to open up the dikes.  Following my passing...it will not be the current brain-dead 20s generation --after all, brain dead is “brain dead” forever-- who will open up the dikes, but, rather, possibly, my son Marcel.  He will be Joan of Arc’s “age” by the time I’m “scheduled” to pass on; but...I think it’ll help if we start being very careful about projecting into the future more than, say, a few months...or a year at most.  To set the tone attitudinally.  With the deepest, deepest respect for Kurt Nimmo, Richard M. Oxman (thinking of changing my middle name from Martin to Mimmo) ps excellent contribution to an excellent point in the piece, Kurt!

    Posted by Kurtistanned Ox from  on  08/22  at  03:42 PM

  5. Question :: How is it that we are already talking about minimal violence in NYC (which hasn’t even happened yet, even if it does) instead of the ultraviolence being vented right now on the people of Iraq?

    Question :: Hasn’t the opposition already been somewhat successful by having moved the goalposts of popular discussion from an active war to hypothetical unruliness? (Just a reminder to keep focused on the real messages.)

    Posted by anon from  on  08/22  at  06:01 PM

  6. In the evening, I went up to the U. to check out a strategy meeting. A kid was giving a report on the SDS [Students for a Democratic Society] convention. He said that at the convention, men from Business International Round Tables, the meeting sponsored by Business International for their client groups and heads of government, tried to buy up a few radicals.

    These men are the world’s leading industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go. These are the guys who wrote the Alliance for Progress. They are the left wing of the ruling class.

    They offered to finance our demonstrations in Chicago. We were also offered ESSO (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in the center as they move to the left.

    ---- James Kunen, The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary, pg. 116

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    Young people have no conception of the conspiracy’s strategy of pressure from above and pressure from below.... They have no idea that they are playing into the hands of the Establishment they claim to hate. The radicals think they’re fighting the forces of the super rich, like Rockefeller and Ford, and they don’t realize that it is precisely such forces which are behind their own revolution, financing it, and using it for their own purposes…

    ---- Jerry Kirk, former Black Revolutionary in 1970 testifying before the House and Senate Internal Security panel.
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    “Tom Hayden, who by 1986 was defending his state assembly seat against those trying to oust him because of his anti-war record, was quoted as saying that while he was protesting against the Vietnam War, he was also cooperating with U.S. intelligence agents”

    --- AP in San Francisco Examiner, June 21, 1986.
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    Posted by sweejak from  on  08/22  at  10:52 PM
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