Posted on 07/01/2004 8:34:16 AM PDT by qam1
I’m a baby boomer and that’s a curse. You see I’m stuck with the idiots from the sixties till my dying day as they whine and moan about injustice and mentally dwell forever in the days of tie-die shirts, incense, and free love.
The news media, now controlled by baby boomers, keep the myth alive that everyone from that era got high and protested in the streets disgorging their revolution to enforce a “new America.” They were revolting all right. The very sight of them turned my stomach.
The truth is that those who perpetrated the anti-war protests didn’t really care about the Vietnam War except for how it affected their draft status. They had no compassion for the pro-freedom forces in South Vietnam who were sacrificing everything to try and stop the takeover of their part of that country by a very brutal communist regime. As the protesters carried their Mao signs and chanted “Che, Che,” their purpose was to rip apart traditional America and rebuild it on the ideals of Mao and Che. What ideal was that? Communism.
The tragedy of the sixties was that so many young people simply didn’t understand that their chants and posters and the promised “new vision” were really in support of a communist America. Nor did they understand that their actions were helping the communists to sentence millions in Southeast Asia to the gulag. Worse, those baby boomers had no sense of the brutal reality of life under communism. Most still don’t.
Case in point is Country Joe McDonald. He and his group, “The Fish”, performed the song that became one of the anthems of the Woodstock Generation. It was called, “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag.” Usually, Country Joe would start the song by shouting to the crowd, “Give me an F!” The other three letters of the cheer would follow as Country Joe would ask, “What’s that spell?” The crowd would respond by shouting the well-known profanity. Country Joe would then begin the catchy rag which asked “One, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn. Next stop is Vietnam.” It was all so, well, revolutionary.
Country Joe became a major voice in the “revolution.” So what was Joe fighting for? He did help force America to abandon an anticommunist ally; resulting in its becoming an enslaved nation. Is that what he wanted? Is that what he hoped would happen? Is he happy now? Apparently Country Joe doesn’t have a clue.
Recently he was invited to Hanoi to receive a World Peace Music Award. However, Country Joe says he won’t go because “as a hippie protest songwriter I could not exist in Vietnam.” Why on earth not? Isn’t Vietnam now exactly the communist paradise he and his buddy protesters wanted it to be? Apparently Joe misunderstood back in the sixties.
“Communism tends to be totalitarian, and I am not for that,” says the self-proclaimed revolutionary. Even worse, his complete ignorance of communism’s principles is shocking. “My parents were American Communists for some time, but they left the Party because of a lack of democratic positions by the Party,” he naïvely admitted.
Like a lot of the baby boomer generation, it seems that Country Joe McDonald just got a thrill from protesting. He had no idea what he was against or for. It was just a social event to go down to the local protest, carry a sign, and meet some “groovy chicks.”
The consequences of his actions? His nation suffered worldwide disgrace and millions of innocent Vietnamese remain enslaved to this day. Oh well, it was “kool.” The whole pathetic lot of ‘em make me want to barf!
Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report and president of the American Policy Center. The center maintains a website at www.americanpolicy.org.
Hint - don't adopt liberal ideological guilt trips IF your are NOT guilty!
In addition to using the semaphoric signald for N and D for "Nuclear Disarmament" it also represents and anti-Christian upside-down cross or Satan's pitchfork.
Cheer up, Eggs. Most sources show the boomers as being born beween 1946 and 1964. Us '45ers can rest easy. ;^)
"...mentally dwell forever in the days of tie-die shirts..."
Perhaps the above was a Freudian slip and the author secretly wishes that those folks actually would've tie-died in those shirts.
BTTT
Many recognisable symbols have different meanings...I think the context it is used in, matters most.
I have a leak in my roof. I believe I will cut around the leak in order to repair it. Thanks for the idea.
Outstanding screen name there, Flatus! Get many comments on it?
I should add that until my late 20's, I thought being a liberal meant you stood for smoking a lot of weed and getting laid which was alright with me...
if you mean the symbol, not the hand-signal, then you may have heard it referred to as "the footprint of the American chicken"
Not at all!!!
In fact the opposite. See It’s Morning After in America
This article nails it! I am sick of the leftist pukes.
Well, I can only report what I see with my own eyes. While my son is not too bad, his peers are card carrying Moore desciples, by and large. This is in Southern Ca.
Try going to a teen blog site like Livejournal.com and randomly sample some postings and you'll see what I mean.
i know how you feel as a patriotic baby boomer
The damn liberal hippies killed off most of my generation.
I know I am pissed about it.
We have the public schools to thank for the overthrow of
justice, common sense and decency in America.
"...could not comprehend how 'educated' people could so childishly permit themselves to be so badly used..."
You said it yourself, didn't you?
"...numbskulls like themselves..."
Sorry -- didn't mean to suggest that. What I meant to say, and failed to clearly state, was my contempt for the elists who then felt above any need to serve their country, and who now use their positions in academe, politics, and the professions to continue to undermine legitimate American interests.
I was shown a pamphlet one time that the peace symbol (chicken foot) was really the broken Cross of Jesus Christ. I don't know if this is true or not...just my 2 cents worth. I have never liked the peace symbol.
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