Tactics of Protesting
GPS is part of most cars, phones, and anything you say, write, read, where you go, and anyone you associate with is now easily accessible with technology. The modern protester may have to give up his/her family, friends, cellphone, computer, own car, home, job, and the standard way of life, just to make a political point. Most don't know the true costs of free speech ... until "the man" comes up and bites them in the ass ...
The "Yippies" of the sixties look rather comical now. They were easily identifiable. A housewife with 4 kids could be a likely modern protester, along with any other pissed off American of any age, race, sex, background, or occupation ...
Abbie Hoffman on Yippie Tactics - 1968
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Abbie Hoffman discusses Yippie guerilla theater tactics in advance of the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Abbie Hoffman in Memoriam
Abbie Hoffman-John Lennon story
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1980 interview with Abbie.
This blogger laughed his ass off watching this:
Yippies For Nixon
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Phil Donahue, ironically plays the Bill O'Reilly role in 1970, admonishes Yippy leader, Jerry Rubin, that his radical antics only serve to help President Nixon.
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This blogger, Steven G. Erickson's, brush with Phil Donahue:
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I ask him a question about 20 seconds in.
The topics of discussion are Phil Donahue's Documentary, "Body of War":
http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com...
Should Bush be arrested for being a war criminal and crimes against humanity?
What about Free Speech, a Free Press, the economy, and our youth not be unnecessarily harmed and killed?
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Things are so much more complicated now:
http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2010/07/us-financial-terrorists-and-top-secret.html
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