POW's

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yes, and that mass social indiscipline is excoriated and condemned because
it produced the situation Chomsky described on the thirtieth anniversary
of the Kent State and Jackson State killings:

"When we look around and we see the problems and the horrors and the
atrocities and injustice in this country and those much worse ones
elsewhere the privileged people here have a great deal of responsibility
for, it's easy to forget something which is true and important, namely
that it's a much more civilized country than it was 40 years ago."

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Doug Henwood wrote:


> How can you separate all these things? The antiwar movement was
> inseparable from the "counterculture" - which I suppose is suspect by
> hardcore politicos because it involved what Judith Butler calls the
> "merely cultural" - and those were inseparable from the GI's
> rebellion. It was mass social indiscipline and it scared the hell out
> of conservatives, from Spiro Agnew to Irving Howe.
> 
> Doug
>