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In Reply to: Re: Funny you look down so condescendingly on a group posted by jamesgarvin on April 28, 2006 at 07:54:18:
very different perspective... the "future."
The robberies, the bombing of the Defense Department supported research university targets... this made sense at the time, both strategically and psycholgically.
Don't forget that the assassinations of two Kennedys and Martin Luther King were very fresh and the feeling that some unknown, hidden forces were controlling the country was not uncommon. Add to that the fact that an unjust and illegal war was claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions (eventually), of Vietnamese and Cambodians and you have the stuff of revolution.
Yes, so easy now to look back and criticize.
Meanwhile, the political direct descendants of those war mongerers have led us into another killing field, this time in Iraq.
How naive were those guys, anyhow?
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Consider the scene in the film in which, shortly after taking over S.D.S., they planned a riot of students in Chicago in which they would run down the street, destroying business property. They claimed at the time that over one thousand students would show up to partake. About one hundred actually showed up. That should have been their first clue that despite strong rhetoric, when the rubber hits the road, most students were not willing to put life and limb in jeopardy. They then somehow believed that if they upped the ante, those same people who would not break some windows would hop on board and partake in an armed revolution which was necessary to topple the government? Seems pretty naive to me. At the time.
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