[Novalug] Groklaw shutting down over privacy concerns
Bonnie Dalzell
bdalzell@qis.net
Fri Aug 23 18:24:54 EDT 2013
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, William Sutton wrote:
> I have some objections (practical, not theoretical) to this:
>
> 4. The last issue some states threatened to revolt over didn't actually turn
> into a revolt--just into passive acceptance with some muttering about a
> recall vote (that never materialized and probably won't), and a decision to
> let the Feds handle the implementation. I'm talking about Obamacare.
> Remember the rhetoric from Virginia, Texas, etc., about ignoring the law,
> appealing to the Supreme Court, etc.? They've all decided to let the Feds
> implement the health care exchanges and go on with life.
It is my memory from my college days that there was a lot of protest,
triggering national guard action when the Civil Rights act was passed in
1964. There was considerably more public violence associated with that
time of social upheaval and there is still a segment of the population
that is at odds with that legislation although no direct move has even
been made to repeal it.
The social reaction was far more intense than what we are seeing about
the health care controversy.
This restlessness was also tied in with civil reaction to the war in
Viet Nam since we also had the universal draft at that time.
One of my accomplishments in college was selling a picture to Life
magazine of a bunch of students being tear gassed during a rally
that I took from above the helicopter. This was my brief career as a
photo journalist in which I learned that it is impossible to change
film in a camera when you are being tear gassed.
This was the issue my photo was in. It was used with an article called
"Nobody here but us dead sheep". which was about a flock of sheep
that had been killed when a secret US army nerve gas experiment in the
Utah desert went awry.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Magazine-August-22-1969/dp/B002I7KID2
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Greg Bledsoe wrote:
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