The inclusion of the murders at Kent State makes me wonder how much stomach Americans may have for large-scale street protests if they think there's a finite chance that they might be assassinated while participating in such protests. I participated in several of the large-scale protests against the Vietnam War in Washington. At the 1967 march at which Abbie Hoffman had called for surrounding the Pentagon and levitating it, thousands of us got quite close to the Pentagon before a line of U.S. Army troops, the 82nd Airborne, bore down on us in close formation with fixed bayonets. People were arrested, but no one was stabbed or shot. If I am not mistaken, there were no more such large-scale anti-war demonstrations after Kent State. Trump has made it quite clear that he is willing to order the military to shoot "protestors," or whatever he decides to call his opponents. So we've descended to the true banana-republic level of whether the troops will "stay in the barracks" when they receive orders that they know violate their oath to defend the Constitution.
Jared is correct. Abbie Hoffman was a genius at coming up with such "spiritual exercises." I'm pretty sure that almost no one took the proposed "levitation" as something that was possible. But the idea of surrounding the Pentagon, which long billed itself as "the world's biggest office building," with a circle of protestors was still a very powerful and inspiring image.
As I recall, the protest march was permitted to cross the Arlington bridge, where it was supposed to end. I was towards the front of the march, and when we got to the Virginia side of the bridge, and saw that there were no government forces blocking the way to the Pentagon, people began to run, laughing that we might actually make it all the way to the Pentagon, and fulfill Hoffman's hope of encircling the place. There were not enough people, in the end, to encircle the building. (And a little note on the building of the Pentagon: Then Colonel Leslie Groves was in charge of the construction for the Army Corps of Engineers, the same Leslie Groves who went on to manage the Manhattan Project and the creation of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)
Millions and millions of citizens MUST take to the streets to stop this assault on America. No less. It will take a movement of huge proportions to stop them from turning this country into a Russia.
We Americans are fat and comfortable. It will take full hearts and clear heads for the hoped-for masses to rise up, and I worry that a fat and comfortable people don't have the strength (moral, spiritual, etc.) to do that. Seventy-three percent of white protestant evangelicals find L'Orange a "strong leader." How do you resist a different reality? IDK, so I take it to the streets and hope for the best.
The timing of the EO on expanding military and law enforcement powers, granting them immunity and promising participating officers pro bono legal services courtesy of the capitulating law firms, is a warning for the May 1st protesters and beyond.
This red line in the sand, if left unchallenged will determine the fate of America. If the Trump regime succeeds in its quest for totalitarian rule in the U.S., it won't stop until all of North America is conquered. Both Russia and China will be emboldened to pursue their own aggressions against Europe and Taiwan. If American citizens rise to the daunting challenge of halting the march towards tyranny, they may be saving the free world at the same time.
Millions and millions of citizens MUST take to the streets to stop this assault on America. No less. It will take a movement of huge proportions to stop them from turning this country into a Russia.
The inclusion of the murders at Kent State makes me wonder how much stomach Americans may have for large-scale street protests if they think there's a finite chance that they might be assassinated while participating in such protests. I participated in several of the large-scale protests against the Vietnam War in Washington. At the 1967 march at which Abbie Hoffman had called for surrounding the Pentagon and levitating it, thousands of us got quite close to the Pentagon before a line of U.S. Army troops, the 82nd Airborne, bore down on us in close formation with fixed bayonets. People were arrested, but no one was stabbed or shot. If I am not mistaken, there were no more such large-scale anti-war demonstrations after Kent State. Trump has made it quite clear that he is willing to order the military to shoot "protestors," or whatever he decides to call his opponents. So we've descended to the true banana-republic level of whether the troops will "stay in the barracks" when they receive orders that they know violate their oath to defend the Constitution.
Levitate it?
It was a spectacle protest where Yippies gathered around the Pentagon and attempted to levitate it, almost as a spiritual exercise.
Jared is correct. Abbie Hoffman was a genius at coming up with such "spiritual exercises." I'm pretty sure that almost no one took the proposed "levitation" as something that was possible. But the idea of surrounding the Pentagon, which long billed itself as "the world's biggest office building," with a circle of protestors was still a very powerful and inspiring image.
As I recall, the protest march was permitted to cross the Arlington bridge, where it was supposed to end. I was towards the front of the march, and when we got to the Virginia side of the bridge, and saw that there were no government forces blocking the way to the Pentagon, people began to run, laughing that we might actually make it all the way to the Pentagon, and fulfill Hoffman's hope of encircling the place. There were not enough people, in the end, to encircle the building. (And a little note on the building of the Pentagon: Then Colonel Leslie Groves was in charge of the construction for the Army Corps of Engineers, the same Leslie Groves who went on to manage the Manhattan Project and the creation of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)
Millions and millions of citizens MUST take to the streets to stop this assault on America. No less. It will take a movement of huge proportions to stop them from turning this country into a Russia.
We Americans are fat and comfortable. It will take full hearts and clear heads for the hoped-for masses to rise up, and I worry that a fat and comfortable people don't have the strength (moral, spiritual, etc.) to do that. Seventy-three percent of white protestant evangelicals find L'Orange a "strong leader." How do you resist a different reality? IDK, so I take it to the streets and hope for the best.
The timing of the EO on expanding military and law enforcement powers, granting them immunity and promising participating officers pro bono legal services courtesy of the capitulating law firms, is a warning for the May 1st protesters and beyond.
This red line in the sand, if left unchallenged will determine the fate of America. If the Trump regime succeeds in its quest for totalitarian rule in the U.S., it won't stop until all of North America is conquered. Both Russia and China will be emboldened to pursue their own aggressions against Europe and Taiwan. If American citizens rise to the daunting challenge of halting the march towards tyranny, they may be saving the free world at the same time.
I expect escalation. Especially as he gets more pissed off.
Millions and millions of citizens MUST take to the streets to stop this assault on America. No less. It will take a movement of huge proportions to stop them from turning this country into a Russia.
Thank you