~PEACE~ just imagine

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...fake liberals who pretend to be progressive while supporting war and it's profiteers. That goes for wars waged on us here at home too. I imagine a DU without NSA apologists, Neoconning neoliberals, centrist disrupters, chicken little terrified terror-time stenographers, sky is falling Israel aggression activists or contracted sock-puppet profiles.
The first casualty of war is Truth. Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity. It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Second to the last sentence wonderful.

Then come to your own conclusion as to whether you want to pay any attention to what this person has to say about liberals or war.

I don't like to stifle debate so I don't point them out, censor or flag them. A bunch must be infil-traitors but if I can't prove it oh we'll. They are easy to spot when spending all their energy defending NSA spying or military contractor approved endeavors.

Unless of course we blindly follow our unrepresentative leaders. Democrats used to be racist in the South but that also changed.

Isn't that from a Dylan song? I know I've heard/seen this before, just can't remember where.

BTW - I totally agree with everything you wrote.

Confirmed anti-war, tree-hugging hippe peace freak here.

Subterranean Homesick Blues

But I should've quoted Masters Of War

Hold me, I'm scared!

If we can not even get DU to voice good over bad and justice over injustice, how can we ever expect change in the nation or world.

....but i agree fully and must add that i feel we have incurred a debt to both Iraq and Afghanistan that should be repaid. Furthermore We The People owe it to both of those countries a full trial of the perpetrators. I said it then and i still say it: The war crimes committed by our government are on us so as long as We The People chose to not bring the actual war criminals to trial. For me, the impeachment of the BFEE has never been 'off the table'.

Long time hippie here also. Still have the long hair and long beard, even after these many years.

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No matter who attacks me for it.

I was a hippie sympathizer, LOL.

anti-spying DUers who have posted here for years are painted as the "rat fuckers" by the very loud here is astonishing. Uff da.

is a threat to the plans of the Powerful who have no consciences. In fact they have to PROVE how 'tough' they are in order to become part of that despicable 'club' they want to belong to. To prove it, they have to be willing to drop bombs on innocent people.

And those who oppose them are nuisance, and I like being that nuisance, the ones who remind them what despicable, corrupt individuals they really are. They prefer the pats on the back they get from their powerful, wealthy buddies.

half the posts in a thread disappear when you sign in and look at the same thread again. There's really not many of them but they spam threads relentlessly.

edit to add a cover version of Imagine:

The present simply proves that they were right.

and if I may, I'd like to add this song to your thread:

Heard it a million times.

I wasn't physically at Woodstock, but we were all there in our hearts and minds.

Ev'rybody's talking about Ministers,
Sinisters, Banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Pop eyes,
And bye bye, bye byes.

All we are saying is give peace a chance

From a long time hippie!

But otherwise, I proudly admit to being a bleeding-heart, peace-and-love, campfire, Kum-Bah-Yah kind of guy.

And I love this song.

When I visited the Beatles Museum in Liverpool a number of years ago, I saw the piano he composed Imagine on.

Peace, love and rock and roll!

I just wish the world would listen, fuck the corporations!

i give out.

yup it is. a long strange trip indeed.
thought i would be home by now, tho.

current fave song

as I could get and still take care of my babes. I still feel the same today.

back at you Marrah_G.

I love this song. Still speaks to me. Loudly.

. . I was in the thick of it.


still am


always will be

And the most important song I have ever heard.

called a hippie so often mostly by Right Wingers, and a few claiming to be Democrats, I decided that I AM a hippie, and proud of it.

a love-in with me any day!

They were trying to figure out whether to classify me as one of the last beatniks or one of the first hippies.

I don't remember what they concluded.

In fact, whenever people ask me if I remember the 60's, I answer, ""Some parts."

She has been working hard as a volunteer for the Wendy Davis campaign. And she just got a job "running the ground game for planned parenthood in Texas."
She rocks.

I love you, too!

Love, Peace and Shelter.

Thank you, Marrah_G!

peace

....as long as there are people who want power over the lives and property of other people, we are going to have wars.
Sadly, people who are attracted to politics are the type of people who crave power, and even in a society like ours,
the electorate give power to people who have their own, personal interests as their primary goal. Until people place
altruistic people in positions of authority, we should expect wars to be a part of life.

I was just thinking about the "hain" folks who only buy into no Hell...no responsibility or accountability for wrecking the econ lives of tens of millions alone...

What a long, strange trip it's been.
Fought outside the "establishment", fought inside as a C.O. when drafted.
Never lost the hippie ways, still a dirty, fucking hippie.

Peace!

I was only fourteen and my better judgement (somehow) prevailed, but I remember wanting to be a part of it so badly.

It means as much to me today as it did a zillion years ago.

~PEACE~

One fine thought, Marrah. And we have that place within us.

And I'm no tree hugger.

But I am a humanist. And I thank you for this today. And for supporting me on another thread.

Thanks for posting that wonderful video.

I had some of the most amazing times of my life back when.

Why would any sane person go straight?

Now it seems nothing is.

I'm not very political any more. I guess you could say that I am politically depressed. I feel like if I see Sara Palin's face one more time I'm going to just lose it at the library where I use the computer.

And people are being so horrible to each other. On both sides. I just don't want any part of that.

There are so many days I am disheartened in the state of this country and the shear meanness, I have to step away.
Thanks for reminding me I am not alone in my dismay.

One of my favorites sorry no vid just sound.

Most people don't seem to respond to what I post. Getting a reply is a treat. Thanks

Oh and BTW Eric Burdon my first rock crush.

As I was going through this thread I was thinking, "I wonder if someone will post the song "War - What is it Good For" and you did! I love that song - it speaks volumes about how us hippies and hippy wannabees felt back then.

I couldn't be an actual hippie because I was 17, poor and self-supporting, but I sure was a hippie wannabee with flower decals on my VW bug, long, straight hair and short, short skirts. I attended my share of pot and brownies parties too

I think if you were 17 and had a VW bug and everything you described. You were every bit a real hippy. You didn't have to live in SF or take mass quaintness of psychedelics be a hippie.

I was 16 the summer of 68, I was a hippie and as far as I can tell retained the mind set all through my life.

this comes from Eric Burdon and War. Thanks

Eric Burdon's band was called Eric Burdon and War. They never sang a song called "War."
Edwin Starr's hit was called "War."
That's really the only thing they had in common.
The YouTube label is incorrect.

my bad

" Imagine there's no music, imagine there are no songs
Imagine that John Lennon wasn't shot in front of his apartment
Now imagine if John Lennon had composed "imagine" for the ukulele
Maybe people would have truly got the message

You may think my approach is simple-minded and naïve
Like if you want to change the world then why not quit and feed the hungry
But people for millennia have needed music to survive
And that is why I promised John that I will not feel guilty

So play your favorite Beatles song
And make the subway fall in love
They're only $19.95, that isn't lots of money
Play until the sun comes up
And play until your fingers suffer
Play LCD soundsystem songs on your ukulele"

And proud of it! Thanks for the post.

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[center]

Keep going...What a different world this will be.

Always.

no name calling, no trolls....

Fucking hippies.

If only the the Peacenik, Hippie, Tree-Hugging, Anti-War folks were more politically effective.

Far too many of us go to a demo and chant things like, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, (something, something)'s gotta go!", then go home so satisfied with ourselves. But nothing changes...

What can we do to be more effective in our opposition?

~PEACE~

The Native American right, nobody owns the Earth.
War! Humph. What is it good for?
All the land east of the Rockies used to be forest.
How could Columbus discover the new world when were here already

Imagine a world without Republicans
Conservatism is regressivism

need

"...and the world will live as one"

are you aware it raises the hackles on christians? it was the nominated theme song for a cohort of grassroots leaders - until the christians in the group objected. but, since they believed in the democratic process, they took a vote by ballot - and "imagine" won.

it may be implied but can never be stated too often.

Seeing the responses makes my heart sing and renew my faith in DU