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Especially odd as we are three hours apart time-wise.
Not stalking, just scanning for new favorites.
Speaking of the Sixties counterculture: oddly enough, I had a childhood friend whose dad worked with Linnet Fromme's father, and a classmate ran nose-to-nose (unwittingly) with part of the Manson Family just before they broke into the surplus store she was closing up, and were caught by the Hawthorne police.
Odder still, that same store was the site the SLA member was caught trying to steal socks;, whic led the police to them. After being chased out and all was settled, the place mysteriously burned to the ground.
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majroj
on September 2, 2003 at 11:00 PM
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MajRoj - Mike and Ike we think alike...or something like that...
Am I stalking you? or are you stalking me? We posted one minute a part.
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Cynthia
on September 2, 2003 at 9:57 PM
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Ah, all sides learned.
Our body count now is a steady drip, drip. NPR tells you how many have died, but our conglomerated, government-cozy large private media are laying back because they don't have the FCC deals quite sewn up. News is entertainment, there is no honor in commercial media reaporting anymore. E.R Murrow would give up smoking if he were here.
The American home-grown bombadiers were by and large small groups of middle to upper middle class-bred people ("petit bourgoise" ?) with tiny cores surrounded by swirling eddies of fellow travelers.
There IS a parallel there, but a tenuous one. The wahabi Islamic fighters are, by and large, people from families of means, or have garnered their support; Osama binh Ladin is a prime example, and the 9-11 alQaeda flight teams were as well. BUT, the conditioning and the religious support are light years away from our "kids" throwing trash cans through bank windows and stupidly killing janitors with bombs. A large part of the American experience involved drugs and sex, but the Islamic one comes from a background of asceticism and self-denial. They have, or feel they have, no where else to go.
The government in VietNam probably fell into it bass-ackwards, but the current conflicts (Afghanistan isn't over, and we have sent troops to the Phillipines and the Malay Archipeligo) have been entered into with the benefit of lessons learned from VietNam, Korea, and many smaller conflicts and armed showdowns (remember the Mayaguez?). This is cold-blooded Amero-centric (coined another one!) geopolitics.
PS: look into Kent State's web material on the shootings. I corresponded with a professor there who was witness to the tragedy; it is another case of everyone not getting it entirely correct, and not reporting on it long enough.
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majroj
on September 2, 2003 at 9:32 PM
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