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Date Posted: 16:22:44 02/19/03 Wed
Author: Herb
Author Host/IP: user-v7kah89.dialup.mindspring.com / 207.69.69.9
Subject: Route 66 Revisited

Alan Ginzberg (an ultra-liberal poet - last century,
now deceased) wrote something that always stuck with me:

"I have seen the best minds of my generation running
mad, starving, hysterical, naked, through the negro
streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." (etc.)

Boy, he stirred up a hornet's nest with that one. Kids
took this screed home on break and their parents' said,
"Is this why I spend good money to send you to college?"
I think Route 66 Revisited was published by a liberal
house in San Francisco in the late '50s - I read it
in '62, in college, and it blew my mind!

Then I started thinking - about how similar the text was
to what's going on now. Last weekend was damned remine-
scent of the hippie, make love, not war; generation when
long haired freaks wandered around with absolutely no
sense of purpose. Plus, they had terrible body odor,
just get within shouting distance of one and nearly gag.

Question: what is the agenda of the 100,000 plus people
who marched through the world's cities, carrying signs
and chanting nonsense? Did these people really think
they could change President Bush and Tony Blair's mind?
Did they have a -real- alternative plan as to how to
deal with the Butcher of Baghdad? I never saw anything
presented other than emotional, nonsensical horseshit.
Prehaps the American faction of this rhetorical spew
had forgotten about September 9, 2001, although I have
no idea how, since those images are permanently etched
in the mind's of logical thinking people.

Don't logical thinking people realize that George Bush
doesn't want to kill people any more than anyone else.
Hell, the man has given Saddam extension after extension
on destroying his war arsenal.

Think about one thing: the Port of New York, or any other
port on the Eastern Seaboard for that matter. Hussein or
bin Laden could easily float in a nuclear device in a
cargo container, dock the ship, set a timer on the device
and, at a predetermined time, New York and most of the East
coast is wiped clean. Hussein and bin laden wouldn't
hesitate to do it. That, dear people, is what the
President is trying to avoid. Think about it.

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Herb's post is why this forum exists -- Lafcadio T. Lion, validated, 16:02:12 02/26/03 Wed