by Sweejak » Sat Sep 02, 2006 12:08 am
The old spitting on vets psy-op.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/30/debunking_a_spitting_image/">www.boston.com/news/globe...ing_image/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Although Nexis overflows with references to protesters gobbing on Vietnam vets, and Bob Greene's 1989 book Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned From Vietnam counts 63 examples of protester spitting, Jerry Lembcke argues that the story is bunk in his 1998 book The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Lembcke uncovered a whole lot of spitting from the war years, but the published accounts always put the antiwar protester on the receiving side of a blast from a pro-Vietnam counterprotester. Surely, he contends, the news pages would have given equal treatment to a story about serviceman getting the treatment.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/1005224/">www.slate.com/id/1005224/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>However personal accounts lead me to believe that it did happen. i don't believe it happened on anywhere near the scale it is reported.<br><br>At the NYC RNC demos, specifically at the Johnny Cash/Sothebys demo there was a small group yelling at the potential bidders.. "Baby Killers!" the crowd tried to shush them up and right on time a camera crew appeared, RNC label on the camera to record the evil "liberals".<br><br>misc pics<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/NYC_PROTESTS/PhotoAlbum57.html">homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/N...bum57.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>