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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: New Question (Armed R. Unit)
Message-ID: <381@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 20:00:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  9 20:00:38 1983
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Good lord, someone mentions "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS) as if
it were some bizarre, antedeluvian cult.  I must be getting old.  I was in
SDS is the 60's.  There was no formal "membership," since that sort of thing
was considered bourgeois.  And we were paranoid of infiltration by the govt,
so no one wanted any official record.  In Ann Arbor and Madison, where I
was, guess what?  We WERE infiltrated by govt. red squads.  This all came
out in Freedom of Info. Act documents in the 70's.  But I digress.  SDS was
not into any organized violence--no bombs, guns or the like--in my
experience.  The Weather Underground ultimately split off on this issue,
while another splinter, the Progressive Labor Party, embraced Marx and went
to organize the workers, and the Yippies, another splinter, turned their
heads into swiss steak with drugs.  SDS rise again?  Hah!  We all either
got drafted, went crazy, or sold out.  Or some combination thereof.  Ah,
that it weren't so.  Ou sont les neiges d'antans?
-- 

ken perlow
..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken
bell labs @ naperville, IL