I was there. High as a kite, but there!

[graywarrior]

Pics from Dirty Old Boston on fb

[Wait Wut]

1. Pretty sure you weren't alone.

Being 'high as a kite' that is. I know that look. It says, "I really need a burrito".

[graywarrior]

3. Cookie dough was big back then.

[azurnoir]

12. pillsbury chocolate chip?

but I'm told it still is popular these days

[graywarrior]

19. Probably, but who cared?...lol

[EndCorruption]

59. Looking Good!!

We've created a facebook page in efforts to end police corruption. A new Press Release in the local rag is stating Police Chief Scott Burroughs, Port Aransas TX is threatening legal action against admins of anti-police corruption facebook page for exposing his department's illegal behaviors. Please support and "LIKE" our facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/OUT.OF.CONTROL.PAPD

[lpbk2713]

2. Not long after I left.

I left Southie in Sept 69. I remember seeing the coverage on the news.

Ah, for the old days.

[jpak]

4. Did you Bogart?

[graywarrior]

5. Never....my friends were vicious animals.

[Scuba]

6. Thanks for being there.

[graywarrior]

7. We had to be there

[Boomerproud]

8. I echo that sentiment.

Tom Brokaw and the Gen Xer's may dismiss you-but I remember and I chose my username in honor of my generation.

[graywarrior]

20. Welcome to DU!

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Welcome, boomerproud!

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Me too. Nt.

[watch the sky]

10. are you in any of these pictures?

at all? Your thread title is HILARIOUS, btw.

[jtuck004]

14. The one with the long hair. n/t

[trof]

26. I KNEW that was you!

[graywarrior]

21. I don't know. I could be, but more than likely, I was so stoned I wouldn't remember.

[Crabby Appleton]

11. One of the Defense Dept projects MIT was working on at the time

was the creation and development of a packet-switched data network that became known as the Internet. It's a strange world.

[another_liberal]

17. That was one of them, yeah.

One of them.

[jwirr]

13. How I wish we could bring it on again. There was hope alive in those days.

[zeemike]

15. And we thought we could change the world,

and we did somewhat, but grossly underestimated the power of big money to control things...but our generation tried at least.
they wore us down, co opted our movements and set spies and provocateurs in our mist and totally punk'd us...and they do the same today, but even more effective at it.
But they were also good times...where a lot of people became aware...and passing that joint around had it's effect.

[Fuddnik]

18. I was at many similar protests back then.

I'm reading a new book called "Subversives" right now. Very interesting.

Based on thousands of FOIA documents, about how J. Edgar Hoover, Ronald Reagan (then a snitch and Governor), the CIA, HUAC, and a host of others labored to destroy Mario Savio, the Free Speech Movement at Berkley, their President, ruin the lives of innocent professors, and on and on.

Good reading

[zeemike]

27. I have heard of that book but have not read it yet.

but I remember some of it at the time...like there was a group being tried in Florida they called the Tallahassee 7 if I remember right....and they discovered two FBI agents in a closet recording the conversations of the Jury that was trying them...it was in the news in Florida for a day or two, and then it disappeared...never mentioned again.
and when you think about it, here is a case of the most egregious abuse of our rights and nothing came of it....that says a lot to me.

[another_liberal]

16. "One, two, three, four . . ."

". . . We don't want your fuckin' war! Five, six, seven, eight! Organize and smash the State!"

Hey, brother, did you make it to 'Mayday' in 71? That was the effort to close down D.C. for a day. We camped where the F.D.R. monument now stands, at least we did until Nixon's pigs revoked our permit and rousted us at dawn. I've never seen so many cops! And the tear gas . . . jeez!

[graywarrior]

22. No, wasn't there.

I mainly stayed in the Boston area during that time.

[another_liberal]

23. We did not shut down the government . . .

We did not shut down the government. My friends and I just got rounded up while standing in a crosswalk on some big Avenue near the Capitol. They threw us on a bus, took us to a jail cell, and there we stayed until late that night. We were never charged with anything, never even saw a judge.

It was, though, one more nail in the coffin of that stupid, damn war.

[pinboy3niner]

68. A friend was involved in VVAW's planning for the May Day protest

He ended up as a VVAW rep attending all of the meetings between police and protesters in advance of the event. In the next few years, he said, he learned that more than half of the reps of the groups involved in the protest were undercover cops from various agencies, from the D.C. Metro Police to the FBI. And those were the protesters' reps.

It's even possible that my friend was turned informant. He was living at VVAW's quarters for the protest at the time and was set up by the cops for a narc bust (he agreed to do a favor for a friend who was "going to be away" and hand over the merchandise when the friend's buyer showed up). He was very open about his war experience and the aftermath (Random House published his memoir), and mentioned the bust--but the one thing he never talked about was how he got out of it...

[another_liberal]

72. The cops sure knew what we had planned.

When we got to the street intersection we were assigned to block policemen came boiling out of every building in sight and simply surrounded us. There were at least four times as many of them as there were of us. We had no chance to even escape. One guy tried and was beaten to the pavement by about six cops.

In two minutes police buses started showing up and we were hauled out of there and off to jail. Long live the revolution!

[pinboy3niner]

73. You guys were heavily infiltrated all along

And we're seeing the same police tactics with the Occupy movement today. With better technology. At OccupyLA protests, we can see the cops videotaping us. I'm far from a big fish in the movement, but I know I'm on record in LAPD's dossiers.

[another_liberal]

74. Sadly.

It is almost a given. LAPD and Homeland Security will have your file.

[JackHughes]

24. Fish cheer

Gimme an F...

[another_liberal]

31. Don't tell me, I don't give a damn. Next stop [will be Iran].

Just change three words and it's totally up to date.

[KoKo]

44. We are with the FRENCH in MALI....Google "Africom." African Command...Big and Growing.

[another_liberal]

60. Meaning . . .

Meaning what, exactly?

[watrwefitinfor]

58. I feel compelled to respond to this thread. n/t

[another_liberal]

61. Please do.

?

[watrwefitinfor]

69. I thought I did --->

Shamelessly bringing attention to my name: watrwefitinfor

Thought I was being so witty and no one seemed to understand. Oh, the humiliation.



Wat

[another_liberal]

70. No shame in that.

Just wondering what you meant.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. I was out on the left coast

high as a kite participating in protests, too. I LOVE a good protest.

[Bjorn Against]

28. Awesome, is that Martin Luther King at the podium in the third picture?

It sure looks like him, although I notice the date in the top article suggests the protest happened a year after his death so I am wondering whether the date is a typo or the guy at the podium just happens to look a lot like King.

[watch the sky]

29. that was just the caption for the first pic

http://www.wbur.org/2012/01/16/mlk-boston

Dr. King there indeed.

[Bjorn Against]

30. Awesome, thanks.

[WinkyDink]

33. I protested at another university (still have the armband, BION), and here's the video:

[graywarrior]

35. Bookmarking that one!

I'm amazed at how fearless we were back then.

[Warpy]

34. I was, too

Just another scruffy pain the ass, lost in the big crowd.

[graywarrior]

36. Yeah, but your presence added to the numbers !

[7wo7rees]

37. Great pics!

I wonder if you stumbled onto it, or are these your pics?
I went to Kent State BTW. 20 years later, but still, I was "THERE" too. I feel you.
STOP THE WAR!

[graywarrior]

38. I got them from a facebook page, Dirty Old Boston

Will Pitt posted that page here last week and I'm addicted to it.

And yeah, Kent State infuriated a lot of us.

[7wo7rees]

39. I don't do The Book but I like looking at old photos

Old meaning back when we were young. (so be it)

It's the closest you and I will get to a time machine.

Also, it's fun to remember when our fellow Americans cared about being such.

[graywarrior]

41. And when getting beaten with billy clubs was par for the course.

[gateley]

64. I got a snootful full of tear gas during a Seattle "riot".

[graywarrior]

66. There ain't nothin like a good dose of tear gas

[WillyT]

40. Right On !!! - And Thank You !!!

[In_The_Wind]

42. I'm not at all surprised.

[KoKo]

43. Nice............It was a huge time of unrest....like these days.

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I was with Hillary and Bill when they were at Yale. Didn't know either of them.
we were a few years apart. Graduate Med School they were Law School.

If only we had known we walked that "Hallow Ground" with them...at the time.

We were in separate worlds at that time...separated by "Schools of Interest" though.

I was working to get Yale Grad Students Wives FAIR PAY....working in Epidemiology...publishing...partner was in Med.

Ahhh those times...they were incredible in memory.

[graywarrior]

45. I remember getting gassed in Harvard Square during an anti-war march

I left work at MGH to go to Cambridge by myself. Most of us in the march were strangers to one another. Once the gas hit, we were all best friends.


Found this on the internets. Gawddamn hippies!

[KoKo]

46. Yale was much tamer...no one gassed. Just FOCUS GROUPS on Human Rights, BUT.. Anti-War Marches

and the SDS...who were active and growing in interest at that time.. Would you believe that Joe Lieberman was involved with them at that point?

Who coulda KNOWN what a POS he turned out to be. Either he was an early infiltrator grifting himself in with SDS and knew he'd use them for CREDS for his career later...or he was sincere and turned later towards the Repugs under the "cloak" of his early activism which he used.

I go with my first assessment. He was a "grifter/infiltrator" who used us...as an Opportunist would CERTAINLY DO!

Whatever. Those times are past. Still...thanks for your post of your Harvard experience!

[graywarrior]

47. Wow, didn't realize that about Joe!

Thanks for that, fellow hippy.

[KoKo]

48. BTW..good friend in SDS...used to run around talking that FBI had him on their

watch list thought his phone was monitored, etc.. He was a cool dude ...but bit of a "Pot Head" (as we used to say) and he was very active so we did respect him. It wasn't until years later we realized...HE REALLY WAS on the FBI LIST...when we found out they were watching all activists later when the Hoover stuff got released. He ended up practicing medicine in Mexico... I realized why he left when the Hoover stuff got released and many of the graduates Med School Classes of that time did leave the country who were involved in SDS. The rest of us tried to do what we could to what we thought was "better the world" in staying here. Many were there because of low draft numbers or Med School Deferments...but others had to serve for deferments and others were married with children so they got deferments for that.

What a time that was! When there was the DRAFT..

[mitchtv]

49. I was holding down the fort in SF

countless demonstrations , like free huey, peoples' park and a host of Gay lib smaller actions, stoned whenever possible

[graywarrior]

50. That's where I wanted to be.

Too much acid & luuds to go anywhere

[KoKo]

51. For YOU! "If You're Going to San Francisco"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OdvCqUguIh8#t=15s

Friend of mine went out there during that time. She ended up badly...but so many didn't that it made it worth it.

[graywarrior]

52. I loved Scott

May he rest in peace and happiness with a joint and a beer.

[KoKo]

53. Yep...n/t

[Octafish]

54. Right on!

I was in junior high and I well remember the attitudes of the big brothers and sisters of my friends, some of whom died in Vietnam.

Those same killers are in charge, since Nov. 22, 1963.

[graywarrior]

55. They never lost their power

[Writely Wrong]

56. I love the smell of tear gas in the morning

I remember sitting on the main green at Ohio Univ, passing a doobie around when word started filtering through about what happen at Kent State. Kids our age in the National Guard, trying not to go to 'Nam, shooting other kids against 'Nam.

"And it's five six seven, open up the pearly gate."

It was not pleasant having "Captain Corky," in an unmarked car, pull up next to me in a dark alley, roll down his window, stick his head and a riot gun out the window and ask, "Watcha ya doin', kid!"

[graywarrior]

57. Yeah, I remember being paranoid all the time

If you wore an army jacket with a peace sign on it, you always got pulled over or jacked up against a wall.

[gateley]

62. You were part of history, graywarrior!

And you couldn't have been TOO high -- you remember the protest!

[graywarrior]

63. Who can forget getting tear gassed? lol

[gateley]

65. Haha! I just posted about getting gassed!

[graywarrior]

67. I saw that!

First time it happened, I freaked coz I didn't know enough to get away from it. I became a pro after that.

[MrMickeysMom]

71. I salute you THEN, and NOW, gray warrior!

Then, I was just getting high!