Damned Hippies!!!!!!

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Wanting something and actually working to make it reality are two different
things. Hippies = waste of time, just like mostly every person in this
world.

Wow, looking back I was harsh. My apologies. Buuuut
we WERE the generation to cause the biggest changes in history....and only
anyone who lived through the cold war can tell you how close we actully came to
destroying mankind.

According to Bobby Kennedy...about 40 minutes.

But we didn't let you down.

Ok lets see

What DID these
unwashed, miskept, communal refugees from a unattainable utopia give us then if
we think about it?

- I won't EVEN go into the music aspect! THAT speaks
for itself!- The Free Medical clinics and the very fact you can have a legal
abortion is their doing.
- I'd hand them the applause for 25% of the entire
civil rights movement. Not just blacks, that includes women and EVERY minority
in this nation.

Lets see, what else was born out of the hippie
movement??Oh hell how about the very fact that you can openly promote paganism
and not have a lynch mob drag you out of your house and hang or shoot you? Orr
ending the vietnam war and bringing down one of the crookedest presidents yet??
And lets not forget the police and your Miranda Rights!!!!

This is all
off the top of my head BTW so if Im wrong at some point somebody correct me!?
And lastly, if you are between the ages of about 25-34/5 YOU may very well be
the product of two hippies!!!!

I have been on both sides of that fence.
I have been the soldier that held the M-16 and been called a baby killer. Then 1
years later upon arriving home found my best friend died while in the same
service to his nation. I became the name at the peace rallies. The one screaming
for justice and equality against an uncaring government. And by the Gods we were
HEARD!!!Heh, I have been called every name in the book, my very life has been
threatened and more than a double handful of my breathern have died for no other
reason than a label and long hair. Hippies didn't do anything?? Good Gods we
changed the world and made it a safer place to live in.

But I want to
apologise to. The world is in a hell of a mess and it's us at the helm. (shaking
my head) So kids, we took away atomic death but we left you with a "My God is
Bigger than Your God World". I don't know which bomb is more potent. ( a big
reason I went pagan)

My advise - We hippies are less than a generation
on this world and our power is already beginning to wane. Take the gains in
human rights/medicine and knowledge we made and run with them. Theres good stuff
there! ....and if you start now you might be able to fix the problems caused
once all those hippies grew up, got SUVs and became what they hated and
protested the most. "The Establishment and The Man."

Damned "ME Decade"
anyway!!

So in the end friends you see that this is not really a rant.
It is an apology and a message of hope.

Good luck.

Peace to you
all.