What fascinates/horrifies me is that “bring the war home!” was also a rallying cry for Weatherman (and some similar and offshoot anti-imperialist groups) who were in favor of overthrowing the government (via symbolic acts of violence) and turning power over to third world people.
They were, of course, people who did not fight in Vietnam but rather fought against it, in increasingly desperate and ineffective ways (at least, of all the things that possibly ended the Vietnam War, I don’t think anyone thinks the placement of pipe bombs in induction centers and assorted government buildings by an underground organization of a handful of people who were convinced that doing so would cause a spontaneous uprising by marginalized blue collar workers and black Americans, who would come together to hand power to the NLF et al. was one of them). (Probably trying to levitate the Pentagon didn’t do much, either, but I love that people tried to levitate the Pentagon.)
Anyway, before I get completely lost in parentheticals, it’s bizarre that the folks who ended up doing an armed robbery of a Brinks truck ended up in the same place as the white power people.
What fascinates/horrifies me is that “bring the war home!” was also a rallying cry for Weatherman (and some similar and offshoot anti-imperialist groups) who were in favor of overthrowing the government (via symbolic acts of violence) and turning power over to third world people.
They were, of course, people who did not fight in Vietnam but rather fought against it, in increasingly desperate and ineffective ways (at least, of all the things that possibly ended the Vietnam War, I don’t think anyone thinks the placement of pipe bombs in induction centers and assorted government buildings by an underground organization of a handful of people who were convinced that doing so would cause a spontaneous uprising by marginalized blue collar workers and black Americans, who would come together to hand power to the NLF et al. was one of them). (Probably trying to levitate the Pentagon didn’t do much, either, but I love that people tried to levitate the Pentagon.)
Anyway, before I get completely lost in parentheticals, it’s bizarre that the folks who ended up doing an armed robbery of a Brinks truck ended up in the same place as the white power people.