Were We Traitors?
The antiwar movement seemed to me to be a long overdue questioning of the
U.S.'s myths about itself. I was happy to join the movement
(specifically, to work in the McCarthy campaign) when I returned to the
U.S. But I was not an advocate of 'overthrowing' the U.S. Government or
of any sort of violent revolution. The history of violent revolutions is
not an encouraging one. (The "American Revolution" was not a revolution
at all. It was an anti-colonial war.) I do not choose to speculate in
tumbrils. But I hoped the U.S. public would finally learn what its
government has done and was doing in their name, and that they would rise
up and stop it. The history of the last three decades has shown that
that hope was, at best, premature.
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I
think you've got a good idea, especially in light of the political
climate the last 14 years or so. Jerry and Abby, for however they turned
out, did this country far more good than harm. But it's not surprising
their contributions (as well as those of the rest of the movement) are
used as cannon fodder by such enlightened beings as Gingrich, Helms,
North, and even Clinton. Newt the Doper -- the Squeaker of the House is
an admitted felon. Two more strikes and we can lock him up for good. ;)
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