Kirkblog: 10/11/2011 - Notes form #Occupy Wall Street - Visit number three under a full moon
If you haven't been to the #Occupywallstreet Occupation - some call it a protest it reminds me of the "Love-ins" and Sit-In's" from the 1960's and 1970s.... As I remember it -- seeing the pictures in Look Magazines and Time and Life magazines which my parents bought I saw several groups of young people -- gathering to protest the Vietnam war - to promote "Free Love..." and something to the effect of: "Turn on - tune in and drop out..." a quote sourced to Timothy Leary who advocated LSD - "Acid Trips..." On college campuses all over the US students would meet en masse and protest the war and promote "Free Love" On May fourth 1970 four Kent State Ohio students who were unarmed were shot dead after the National Guard was dispatched to the college campus... the News reported 67 rounds of bullets were fired in a period of 13 seconds... The American military turned against it's own people -- it caused a...