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SeattleVet

(5,480 posts) Mon Jun 18, 2018, 04:26 PM Jun 2018

50 years ago this summer...

there were thousands of people marching in the streets, chanting, "The whole world is watching" as police rioted and beat the people who were pointing out some of the bad things that the government was doing.

With today's instant media and worldwide access, we need to revive that chant again, get back into the streets, and remind tRump that the whole world is, indeed, watching and also judging him to be an absolute asshole and abysmal failure as a leader. Remind him loudly and forcefully how small he appears on the world stage when he endorses these execrable actions.

This will not stand. The American public has had enough of this crap, and are beginning to channel the outrage into productive actions.

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50 years ago this summer... (Original Post) SeattleVet Jun 2018 OP

Ya, 1968. RJinVegas Jun 2018 #1

Welcome to DU! panader0 Jun 2018 #3

Well said. I am old enough to remember, and I hope you are correct in the channeling of c-rational Jun 2018 #2

I was in Vietnam. heaven05 Jun 2018 #4

The Police weren't there to create disorder; Martin Eden Jun 2018 #5

RJinVegas

(8 posts)

1. Ya, 1968.

Reply to SeattleVet (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 04:35 PM

Jun 2018

I was 20 years old.

Those days are long gone.

panader0

(25,816 posts)

3. Welcome to DU!

Reply to RJinVegas (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 04:43 PM

Jun 2018

c-rational

(2,596 posts)

2. Well said. I am old enough to remember, and I hope you are correct in the channeling of

Reply to SeattleVet (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 04:42 PM

Jun 2018

outrage. I have noted how much more divided we are, even within families (mine to be specific) and am saddened. Yet we have heard nothing from MSM, and my better half says what MSM, they are a big part of this. i am reminded that 50 years ago we had Walter Cronkite.

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

4. I was in Vietnam.

Reply to SeattleVet (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:02 PM

Jun 2018

but I had knowledge of demonstrations against this government, same as this government today. Johnson and the upcoming nixon and atwater were not even close to this POS we have as a potus today. Don't get me wrong. The 'southern strategy was the immediate backlash of white people to the Voting and Civil Rights Act just recently passed in 64-65. And it was racist and hatefully devised. Same as this POS potus calling for the police to get meaner with minorities even to the point of killing unarmed men, women and children. This latest abominable example of his evil being and administration just cinched it. THIS MAN/CHILD potus REALLY WANTS TO BE our LAST potus. After that, we are all FUBAR.

Martin Eden

(12,878 posts)

5. The Police weren't there to create disorder;

Reply to SeattleVet (Original post)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 05:17 PM

Jun 2018

The Police were there to preserve disorder.
-- Mayor Daley

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