Many of the people on FUBAR are much too young to remember the seventies in any great detail. Those of us who can, depending on where we were raised might prefer to forget them all together.
However, being an independent thinker at a very early age, (something that got me a lot of grief from my father) I actually read the newspaper and watched the news.
I informed my father that the war in Vietnam was a useless politically motivated operation that has no chance of being successful. (Dad was Air Force)
When the members of AIM occupied Alcatraz, I made my own AIM t-shirt to show my support.... which got me sent home from school. When AIM occupied Wounded Knee, I once more showed my support, which in the ultra conservative town of Abilene TX was a definite wrong thing. (Abilene is the home of Dyess Air Force Base, number 5 on the former Soviet Union's hit list due to the fact it is the home to a bomber wing)
Perhaps I should mention that I had been tested at an early age for a learning disability, in turned out that I was bored in school, my IQ was in the low genius range.
Now, there was this little incident on the Pine Ridge Souix Reservation in South Dakota. Two FBI agents were killed. Three men were arrested, one, Leonard Peltier is still in federal prison, convicted of a crime the Federal Prosecutor openly admitted that he could not prove.
Meanwhile, traditionalist Souix were being beaten, murdered and no one was arrested for the crimes. One woman, the FBI declared had died of exposure... completely ignoring the fact there was a bullet wound in the back of her head that had pretty much destroyed her brain.
The FBI supported the non traditional Souix leaders and openly harassed the traditionalists.
Now the reason that I even brought the seventies up is simple.
Today, we are faced with a similar crisis. The Federal government is making moves that make the bill of rights null and void. If, we the people, continue to allow this to happen, we will soon find ourselves in a country that more closely resembles Nazi Germany than what we have had.
