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Woodstock

"Woodstock" (live) by Joni Mitchell.

Genuine Hippie Sez:

Hippie Values

The most blatant example of censorship in my lifetime was probably the firing of Phil Donahue. He had the most popular talk show on the teevee (that's important!), but he was canned for opposing the invasion and occupation by the U.S. of Iraq in 2003. Boom!, gone. (And his hair wasn't even very long, though maybe it covered his ears.)

It was creepy. Oh, and the teevee all but ignored the biggest protests in U.S. history during the period leading up to the invasion.

You younger Hippies will be forgiven if you didn't know this.

The point is that the majority of the population is decidedly hippie: against the wars. But the media and the establishment won't allow that opinion to be aired. Even now. We're winning, but the revolution has so far not been televised.