And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Buckley and Kerouac (plus a couple of other cats) discuss the question of "what is a hippie."
Ginsburg's right, Kerouac is the perfect foil for all that self-righteous seriousness. Yablonsky comes off as a horse's ass, and Sanders is......Well, who but a kid could be that much of a poser about the sanctity of "peaceful protest?" Buckley comes off like Johnny Carson with a couch full of unruly guests, struggling to maintain his vision of the show.
I'll add something personal. My second wife-to-be was in Lincoln Park the night of the Chicago riots, and got her hard Dutch head conked for her trouble; I know from her as well as other sources I trust that the riots were out-front cooked up by the Leftists to get the Chicago cops to react on national television. The Sainted Jane Fonda's first husband, Tom Hayden, along with Billy Dohrn-Ayers and the rest, were actively going around to the various campfires firing up the crowd into a mob, just exactly like Leftists have done since Diderot and Voltaire sent the mob into the streets of Paris in 1789. "Peaceful protest," my ass.
Disgusting, and infuriating. Being a kid is no excuse.
Louis Ginsberg, Alan's father, was a teacher at my old high school.
ReplyDeleteDid you have him for a class? I'd bet he was solidly middle class, and appalled at Alan's antics.
DeleteGinsburg's right, Kerouac is the perfect foil for all that self-righteous seriousness. Yablonsky comes off as a horse's ass, and Sanders is......Well, who but a kid could be that much of a poser about the sanctity of "peaceful protest?" Buckley comes off like Johnny Carson with a couch full of unruly guests, struggling to maintain his vision of the show.
ReplyDeleteI'll add something personal. My second wife-to-be was in Lincoln Park the night of the Chicago riots, and got her hard Dutch head conked for her trouble; I know from her as well as other sources I trust that the riots were out-front cooked up by the Leftists to get the Chicago cops to react on national television. The Sainted Jane Fonda's first husband, Tom Hayden, along with Billy Dohrn-Ayers and the rest, were actively going around to the various campfires firing up the crowd into a mob, just exactly like Leftists have done since Diderot and Voltaire sent the mob into the streets of Paris in 1789. "Peaceful protest," my ass.
Disgusting, and infuriating. Being a kid is no excuse.