-Caveat Lector-
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 1999
Joseph Farah is editor of WorldNetDaily.com and executive director of
the Western Journalism Center, an independent group of investigative
reporters.
Calling all hippies
"There's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear.
There's a man with a gun over there, a-tellin' me I got to beware."
--Buffalo Springfield, 1966
There was an old pro-police, law-'n'-order slogan in the '60s that went
something like this: "Next time you're in trouble, don't call a cop, call a
hippie."
The idea was to illustrate how absurd the growing anti-cop sentiment of that
era was. After all, who would ever think of calling a hippie when they were
in trouble?
Well, folks. We're in trouble. And I'm calling all hippies.
That's right. I'm looking for a few good hippies. I'm looking and looking,
but I'm not finding any . Where are those hippies when we finally need
them?
That's the trouble with hippies. They're never around when you need one.
You see, I was hoping to enlist the efforts of some left-wing activists,
pacifists and career peacenik-types to take on the latest outrage from the
Pentagon.
The mock invasions of Kingsville, Texas, and surrounding communities by Army
Special Operations Command forces are being called "anti-terrorism drills."
That's how they were described in the Associated Press report that finally
appeared in The New York Times more than a week after the most dramatic and
controversial air raid. Anti-terrorism? I'd say the Army has done a pretty
good job of inflicting terror on the populaces of some small southern Texas
towns. Black helicopters ... live-fire drills ... explosions ... fires in
the town square ... scared civilians. It sounds like the military is
perpetrating terror in the name of anti- terrorism.
Which raises the question of the lack of organized opposition to these
ongoing exercises. Oh, sure, the townspeople are holding meetings, even
threatening lawsuits. But that's not the kind of opposition I'm talking
about. I'm wondering where the usual anti-military suspects are?
Where's Hanoi Jane? Where's Noam Chomsky? Where's Tom Hayden? Where's Ramsey
Clark? Where's Martin Sheen?
I'm waiting for Woody Harrelson, Alec Baldwin and Jackson Browne to place
their bodies on the line and get between the next target and those black
helicopters piloted by Night Stalkers. I want to see the Berrigans and the
Ellsbergs protect Texas civilians from those Delta Force cowboys.
Where are the pacifists when you need them?
I have a feeling I know where they are. They are out on their yachts and
golf courses. They are driving around in their limousines. They are not,
however, storming any barricades, or staging any sit-ins, or carrying any
placards. I wonder why? Could it be that they see this Pentagon and this
politically correct Army as their Army? Could it be that scaring the
knickers off a bunch of rednecks is just OK with them? Could it be that all
you have to do to placate the anti-war crowd is put a draft-dodger in the
White House?
The peace, love and brie crowd doesn't seem to mind that President Clinton
has engaged American troops in more foreign entanglements than any of his
modern predecessors. They don't mind that America's fighting young people
are being placed under foreign command. They don't mind that thousands more
are about to be shipped off to Kosovo.
Evidently, it's time to make war, not love. We've got a president who likes
to do both -- simultaneously. And, thus, the old allegiances, the old
slogans, the old incantations just don't work anymore.
Nobody's attempting to derail troop trains. Nobody's sticking flowers down
the barrels of M-16s.
In fact, there's not so much as a whimper of protest to be heard over the
growing militarization of America -- the arming of more and more federal
police agents and the introduction of more military activity in civilian
life.
I don't get it. What has happened to those values of the '60s? Civil
liberties? Stopping the war machine? The military-industrial complex? Have
all the concerns and ideals of my generation evaporated with the election of
a dope-smoking, character-challenged Baby Boomer to the presidency?
Calling all left-wing radicals! Where art thou? Where have you gone,
Benjamin Spock? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Calling all hippies. ...
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to
educate a menace to society."
--Theodore Roosevelt
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