Sunday,
January 10, 2021
Abbie
Hoffman has to be rolling over in his grave or laughing at how over reactive
the world is to what amounts to political theater
But then this is a whole different generation of pathetic human beings who do not get the point of civil liberty or civil action and while my Governor send Stormtroopers down to suppress what amounts to a movement of free speech
I can’t wait for Neil Young to come out with the song about Five dead on Capitol Hill – as if the protestors did the killing, the way the National Guard did at Kent State.
Four of the deaths are tragic, but not criminal. Let’s put this in perspective. In the 1968 protest of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, 11 people died, 500 people were injured, and more than 2,000 people were arrested, including my friends Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin (Rubin went on to work on Wall Street).
Even the president-elect misses the point screaming about how this was some kind of major offense when it was political theater.
Biden is either that stupid or that complicit with the desperate attempt by the Democrats to utterly discredit Trump. Even some Republicans are buying into this bullshit.
This is the brain trust into which we have trusted our nation, people who are too stupid to understand what free speech is about
Taking over the Capitol building was brilliant despite the fact that some people were injured and even died
That's tragic but it's a reality; people have died in other protests such as Kent State.
It is the symbolic message that these people who rule our nation are not invulnerable and should not be isolated from the protest the way that they have been in places like Portland in Seattle.
The fact is Biden and other people did likely get the message and it is scaring the crap out of them.
So, they have to divert attention from the fact that they have failed to do their jobs as legislators and are looking for a scapegoat.
So, we go into another staged impeachment hearing.
This is silliness with a sting and stupidity with an exclamation point.
Naturally media has seized on to this as the crime of the century and back a capital (Capitol) crime in which they expect someone to pay dearly.
For what?
For sitting smugly behind smug Pelosi’s desk the way my friend did smoking a cigar at Columbia University in 1968 or sitting in the high chair of the Senate making mockery of the position because the people currently occupied those seats make a mockery of their own office.
Get real this was hardly the crime of the century and hardly a crime at all but then in are exaggerated media environment anything can be made into a crime.
The invasion of the Capitol building was brilliant political theater but people are too stupid to get that these day we have been doing this for decades but of course we have a new media that needs to make a federal case out of it
The fact that the people who occupied Pelosi's office and the Senate President seat will probably more qualified than the people who got elected to take that seat.
And that was the point of the protest
All these people who are screaming about how bad a crime this is are either morons or opportunist seeking to use this as yet one more excuse to kick Trump out the door.
The massive hyperbole by media and politicians rivals one of the most over-reaction in American history.
While it is tragic that the police officer and others died because they could not get medical attention, it is a tragedy not a crime, It certainly is not murder. Of course, the shooting of a protester who was simply exercising a right to occupy a publicly owned building is a crime
And it should investigated with the same vigilance as the slaughter at Kent State.
Biden silliness and remarking that the protesters in Washington were treated less severely then those in Portland ignores the fact that Portland protesters were burning down the city and throwing their bodies against Federal offices in an all-out assault when all that was happening in Capitol Hill is that protesters were occupying it the way Occupy Wall Street and other movements have in the past.
All of those guns drawn to protect the lives of our legislators showed just how off kilter we have become.
This was not the crime of the century!
It may not have been a crime at all any more than the takeover of the Columbia University in 1968 was which this strongly resembles
Since so many of my friends were involved with that protest it seems ludicrous that 50 years later we have drawn guns ready to shoot people as they exercise free speech
This is very much like the protests that we saw pre American Revolution when people threw tea in Boston harbor to send a message to the British
Sitting in the high seat of the Senate should not be considered as bad as shooting a Trump supporter in Portland or in Minneapolis or any other place
Yet to hear the rhetoric even coming from Republicans is like hearing a broken record of full of scratches and misinformation.
And the more exaggerating rhetoric we hear the more ridiculous it sounds, just a pack of wailing wolves looking to collect blood
This is not a crime of the century; this is not an impeachable offense; this is free speech and the right of people to protest.
This was a message to all of those amazing, isolated idiots who run the country that they are not running the country right and they should get out of those seats and put people in there that can do the job.
But to hear Biden rant, the shooting of a protestor was less severe than the admirable restraint federal officers displayed holding back the hordes in Portland.
This is the man who was elected president who is going to help heal the wounds of the nation, who is saying that the protesters life meant nothing and that the restraint of federal troops in Portland should not be admired.
I'm sorry Biden, this is pathetic but then we knew that already.
But then this is a whole different generation of pathetic human beings who do not get the point of civil liberty or civil action and while my Governor send Stormtroopers down to suppress what amounts to a movement of free speech
I can’t wait for Neil Young to come out with the song about Five dead on Capitol Hill – as if the protestors did the killing, the way the National Guard did at Kent State.
Four of the deaths are tragic, but not criminal. Let’s put this in perspective. In the 1968 protest of the Democratic Convention in Chicago, 11 people died, 500 people were injured, and more than 2,000 people were arrested, including my friends Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin (Rubin went on to work on Wall Street).
Even the president-elect misses the point screaming about how this was some kind of major offense when it was political theater.
Biden is either that stupid or that complicit with the desperate attempt by the Democrats to utterly discredit Trump. Even some Republicans are buying into this bullshit.
This is the brain trust into which we have trusted our nation, people who are too stupid to understand what free speech is about
Taking over the Capitol building was brilliant despite the fact that some people were injured and even died
That's tragic but it's a reality; people have died in other protests such as Kent State.
It is the symbolic message that these people who rule our nation are not invulnerable and should not be isolated from the protest the way that they have been in places like Portland in Seattle.
The fact is Biden and other people did likely get the message and it is scaring the crap out of them.
So, they have to divert attention from the fact that they have failed to do their jobs as legislators and are looking for a scapegoat.
So, we go into another staged impeachment hearing.
This is silliness with a sting and stupidity with an exclamation point.
Naturally media has seized on to this as the crime of the century and back a capital (Capitol) crime in which they expect someone to pay dearly.
For what?
For sitting smugly behind smug Pelosi’s desk the way my friend did smoking a cigar at Columbia University in 1968 or sitting in the high chair of the Senate making mockery of the position because the people currently occupied those seats make a mockery of their own office.
Get real this was hardly the crime of the century and hardly a crime at all but then in are exaggerated media environment anything can be made into a crime.
The invasion of the Capitol building was brilliant political theater but people are too stupid to get that these day we have been doing this for decades but of course we have a new media that needs to make a federal case out of it
The fact that the people who occupied Pelosi's office and the Senate President seat will probably more qualified than the people who got elected to take that seat.
And that was the point of the protest
All these people who are screaming about how bad a crime this is are either morons or opportunist seeking to use this as yet one more excuse to kick Trump out the door.
The massive hyperbole by media and politicians rivals one of the most over-reaction in American history.
While it is tragic that the police officer and others died because they could not get medical attention, it is a tragedy not a crime, It certainly is not murder. Of course, the shooting of a protester who was simply exercising a right to occupy a publicly owned building is a crime
And it should investigated with the same vigilance as the slaughter at Kent State.
Biden silliness and remarking that the protesters in Washington were treated less severely then those in Portland ignores the fact that Portland protesters were burning down the city and throwing their bodies against Federal offices in an all-out assault when all that was happening in Capitol Hill is that protesters were occupying it the way Occupy Wall Street and other movements have in the past.
All of those guns drawn to protect the lives of our legislators showed just how off kilter we have become.
This was not the crime of the century!
It may not have been a crime at all any more than the takeover of the Columbia University in 1968 was which this strongly resembles
Since so many of my friends were involved with that protest it seems ludicrous that 50 years later we have drawn guns ready to shoot people as they exercise free speech
This is very much like the protests that we saw pre American Revolution when people threw tea in Boston harbor to send a message to the British
Sitting in the high seat of the Senate should not be considered as bad as shooting a Trump supporter in Portland or in Minneapolis or any other place
Yet to hear the rhetoric even coming from Republicans is like hearing a broken record of full of scratches and misinformation.
And the more exaggerating rhetoric we hear the more ridiculous it sounds, just a pack of wailing wolves looking to collect blood
This is not a crime of the century; this is not an impeachable offense; this is free speech and the right of people to protest.
This was a message to all of those amazing, isolated idiots who run the country that they are not running the country right and they should get out of those seats and put people in there that can do the job.
But to hear Biden rant, the shooting of a protestor was less severe than the admirable restraint federal officers displayed holding back the hordes in Portland.
This is the man who was elected president who is going to help heal the wounds of the nation, who is saying that the protesters life meant nothing and that the restraint of federal troops in Portland should not be admired.
I'm sorry Biden, this is pathetic but then we knew that already.
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