Circling the wagons

[frogcycle]

For all you young whippersnappers out there:

I worked in DC during VN/Watergate.

I attended a march on the Pentagon and got a whiff of teargas.

I worked two blocks from the WH, used to go to Lafayette Square at lunchtime to watch the demonstrators, read the signs, etc.


Here are two images that stand out in my mind:

On the day of a mass demonstration to "shut down the Capital" there was a ring of old DC Transit buses parked bumper-to-bumper around the entire White House/Executive Office Building complex! Right out of an old cowboys-and-Indians movie.

The other image is of a "flower child" in a peasant dress putting long-stemmed roses in the rifle barrels of the troops ringing the pentagon shoulder-to-shoulder with fixed bayonets. (that one got interrupted by the tear gas)



Let's keep up the pressure. Write your senators and congresscritters and encourage. Pressure, pressure, pressure. This house of cards can come down, one way or the other. And as long as they are on defense, they have less time for offense.

Bush won't "do the right thing" like Nixon, but something will snap.

[JohnnyLib2]

1. I'm trying to control my Watergate fever and you are no help!

But you are right---it sure feels and smells the same this summer.

[frogcycle]

2. the big difference

is technology

now it is bloggers and u-tubers and such; then it was (metaphorically) mobs with pitchforks

I think we need more of the old school, but basically as long as the congressdritters "get it" that the people are up in arms, it doesn't matter whether it's physical or virtual


Maybe part of the problem is it took the grey-hairs a while to realize that just because they couldn't see us that did not mean we didn't care


That u-tube "debate" may do more to awaken some of those who aren't candidates than it does as an actual debate

so stay vocal - whther physical or virtual - just keep up the sizzle !!