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Nobody Listening

During the Strike a few people
could quote from the Final
Declaration, or tell you about
Thich Tri Quang, or John Foster
Dulles in Paris, or Wesley Fishel, or
Law 10/59... but nobody was
listening. Over these years it's
become a point of honor to ignore
these people-they are permitted to
lead cheers at rallies since nobody
else will, but they are not permitted
to influence our 'thinking', (to
employ euphemism).

So the war goes on, and the Big
Croakies fill Washington with hot
air and Vietnam with lead, and the
campuses, those repositories of
reason, stumble in yesterday's
cliches and wonder why they are
ignored and hope Bruce Wine will
do something with all that money
before our numbers come up.