Has the USA always been this insane?

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by Don

In 1967 I helped organize a rally to support our men in Viet Nam. The one cop who was assigned to keep order, stood under a shade tree with folded arms looking at his watch as he waited to go home. A couple of anti-war people showed up, but they were polite and friendly and did not try to break up our gathering. Today you couldn't have a small rally of a few hundred people like that without a small army of cops to protect you from the Left or the Mexicans. .

You obviously weren't in the red zones of the anti-war movement, although '67 might have been a bit before the momentum. Any real opposition to the war was often met with force, and it wasn't always the anti-war people that touched of a skirmish...or riot as they were often referred to. Expressing your opinion back then sometimes got you hurt....by the cops...not any ethnic or pro-war groups. In that regard, we have it way better during our protest of illegal immigration. The tear gas ain't flyin' and you ain't getting billy clubbed or kicked by uniforms. Many of us were arrested for minor stuff for just being in the vicinity, but not necessarily attacking the cops.