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Zorra

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47. Yep. May Day, 1970, on the Green. Jerry, Dave, Kunst, and me took some Owsley
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 04:59 PM
Apr 2016

that Abbie brought up from Cambridge for "guidance" the night before. Abbie said the fuckin' fascist pigs had tanks by the side if the road on the way in. Allen was straight, and reciting poetry and doing Omms. Suddenly all hell broke loose when Nixon's agents provocateurs let loose with some rocks and bottles at the pigs. I remember Jerry grabbing the mike on the Podium, shouting something like "Don't go down there, this is total shit!" before the pigs hit us with the tear gas. National Guard was all over the place...a band was rockin' the Green...and then, the girl, surrounded by a strange white light, (it could have been Hillary), appeared out of nowhere and flashed the peace sign from the podium. The band stopped playing in this surreal moment when time stopped - and that's exactly when Ingall's blew (Nixon's people again), glass and concrete flyin' everywhere.

The mystery girl in the white light disappeared into the screams and thick smoke. I looked for her later, to no avail. No one knew who she was.

Was it her? Or was it just the Owsley playing tricks with my head?

I guess we'll never really know.

As a "Goldwater Girl" she protested AGAINST civil rights for black people. arcane1 Apr 2016 #1
+1 daleanime Apr 2016 #3
+2 840high Apr 2016 #71
+3 rachacha Apr 2016 #72
+4 Octafish Apr 2016 #80
+5 Autumn Colors Apr 2016 #83
+6 pdsimdars Apr 2016 #84
I came to write the same thing, she protested against civil rights. morningfog Apr 2016 #4
Didn't she canvass for Nixon? Rosa Luxemburg Apr 2016 #54
Before working to get him impeached? scscholar Apr 2016 #57
Exactly.... peacebird Apr 2016 #26
yep - again! Ferd Berfel Apr 2016 #27
Hillary protesting against civil rights FreakinDJ Apr 2016 #34
So she can accurately brag about her activist creds. n/t lumberjack_jeff Apr 2016 #35
ouch! dana_b Apr 2016 #37
She was in high school during her Goldwater period WhiteTara Apr 2016 #44
I wonder how she became the President of the Republican group in college then. pdsimdars Apr 2016 #85
And apparently it was 'fun' and 'exciting'. /nt Marr Apr 2016 #52
^ THIS. AzDar Apr 2016 #53
Protesting black lives don't matter. Shame Hillary! azmom Apr 2016 #66
She went to Wellesley in the 60s. She might very well have done some protesting gollygee Apr 2016 #69
+ infinity. Phlem Apr 2016 #76
But that was her TEENS, her teens! She wasn't a fully formed human then. JimDandy Apr 2016 #77
She called blastocysts, embryos and fetuses unborn people the other day elljay Apr 2016 #79
The rightward pivot. It's a Clinton dance step... n/t JimDandy Apr 2016 #81
Another sniper story fabrication. Nt HooptieWagon Apr 2016 #2
I saw the picture. Turns out it wasn't Hillary afterall, it was NorthCarolina Apr 2016 #5
Congrats SheenaR Apr 2016 #17
DUzy! arcane1 Apr 2016 #28
I heard Capehart say it this morning Politicalboi Apr 2016 #42
Not sure angrychair Apr 2016 #6
More like a counter-protestor Sanity Claws Apr 2016 #7
I was an activist back then and have never seen ANY evidence that Hillary protested anywhere! Kip Humphrey Apr 2016 #8
She was careful to confine it to her 20's because everybody knows she was a Goldwater Girl BernieforPres2016 Apr 2016 #9
Wonder if she inhaled? KPN Apr 2016 #10
I think she did - as almost anyone in college those years did karynnj Apr 2016 #11
We don't have any information yet on any protests that she allegedly participated in. Nothing. imagine2015 Apr 2016 #13
I am not a Hillary supporter, but I would suggest that throwing away the typical college speech karynnj Apr 2016 #20
Someone should ask her! When, where and what. imagine2015 Apr 2016 #33
That could be risky Fritz Walter Apr 2016 #75
Didn't she also claim she tried to enlist in the Marines during that time? arcane1 Apr 2016 #39
That was a month or so before marrying Bill Clinton karynnj Apr 2016 #41
Maybe, like Bernie, she would like to show us some photos of her being arrested. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2016 #12
She protestd civil rights onecaliberal Apr 2016 #14
Really? I've read nothing indicating she joined any of the protests and civil rights groups. imagine2015 Apr 2016 #36
Post removed Post removed Apr 2016 #15
I heard she got arrested in Bosnia once... cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #16
I heard that she was arrested on Mt Everest CoffeeCat Apr 2016 #51
Are you sure it wasn't "This spot was named after Hillary"? nt cherokeeprogressive Apr 2016 #55
I never saw her,I did see Bernie though. wendylaroux Apr 2016 #18
Quick - get Jonathan Capehart on this STAT! Nanjeanne Apr 2016 #19
She is delusional. nt silvershadow Apr 2016 #21
... KMOD Apr 2016 #22
Whoops, guess I have to delete until I can verify. Damn. dinkytron Apr 2016 #23
Clinton in the Civil Rights Era factfinder_77 Apr 2016 #24
Do you have any news links, photos, articles, etc., from that period? Anything at all .... imagine2015 Apr 2016 #43
Why dont you teleport iphones to the 60s factfinder_77 Apr 2016 #50
We have photographic evidence TM99 Apr 2016 #56
So really there is no proof then. TM99 Apr 2016 #59
She denigrates both protesting and the young at the same time. Her supercilious CharlotteVale Apr 2016 #25
She was involved in some campus protests, I think mainly Blue Meany Apr 2016 #29
She has a real problem with the truth Press Virginia Apr 2016 #30
Actually she attached Edmund Brooke over Vietnam to his face and made the cover of Life dsc Apr 2016 #31
Protest and activism are one thing. TM99 Apr 2016 #61
Her status allows her artistic license... dchill Apr 2016 #32
My brothers went to the million man march... one_voice Apr 2016 #38
Well Clinton supporters here TM99 Apr 2016 #60
Who is 'y'all'? one_voice Apr 2016 #64
So many Clinton supporters did here TM99 Apr 2016 #65
I support both our one_voice Apr 2016 #68
Well you are certainly a rare exceptions. TM99 Apr 2016 #70
It was New Haven, 1970. Allen Ginsberg was chanting Warren Stupidity Apr 2016 #40
Yep. May Day, 1970, on the Green. Jerry, Dave, Kunst, and me took some Owsley Zorra Apr 2016 #47
Hillary was the one who put the flower in the rifle of the National Guardsman. Arugula Latte Apr 2016 #67
John Lewis was in the delivery room when she was born Bad Thoughts Apr 2016 #45
I heard he delivered her actually. nt Logical Apr 2016 #74
Yikes - back to the old honesty problem again? That's a rough one! Peregrine Took Apr 2016 #46
She used the words "in effect". Avalux Apr 2016 #48
'In effect' means TM99 Apr 2016 #63
Yes, she protested Civil Rights. She worked for the Goldwater campaign. 'Nuff said. jillan Apr 2016 #49
Hillary Clinton now claims she, too, lived on a Stalinist kibbutz in the 60s tralala Apr 2016 #58
I guess she protested civil rights by supporting Goldwater jfern Apr 2016 #62
You haven't heard? She's EVERY woman, we just won't know #WhichHillary? nt nc4bo Apr 2016 #73
Wasn't she a republican then? tymorial Apr 2016 #78
Well, she would have...but she heard there were snipers at Kent State and mean cops in Birmingham. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2016 #82
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