What Happened to Hell No We Won't Go?
What happened to Hell no We Won’t Go? How did the epicenter of the No More War movement become the headquarters for Kill All The Ruskies?
In Berkeley, protesting against war was once a rite of passage. I’m not sure when that changed, but it has.
I vividly recall my first demonstration against the conflict in Viet Nam. After the bell rang at 3:00pm, a large group of students from my Junior High marched to the corner gas station, hand scrawled placards raised above our heads: End the War, Stop the Draft, US out of Viet Nam.
The Gulf War, in 1990, became the next large operation that got the No More War crowd doing their thing. Bumper stickers with No Blood for Oil appeared on cars throughout the Bay Area.
Then in 2003 the Military Industrial Complex decided that a contained Saddam Hussian simply did not generate enough cash flow, so initiated the Iraq War. It did not matter how many spoke out about the obviously weak Weapons of Mass Destruction rationale.
Afghanistan might have raised a few eyebrows twenty years, ago, but as it wore on, it seemed most had forgotten about it and never questioned why it continued.
But by and large, in all previous major conflicts, the denizens of Berkeley area agreed with me that the US had no business going to war in foreign lands for very dubious reasons.
Which is why I find it so frustrating and agonizing that the US is now involved in a proxy war with Russia and has been for over a year.
In March of 2022 I posted my thoughts on the matter. The last paragraph:
With all the advances in technology and availability of information, one would think that people would do the simplest of research to better understand the current geopolitical situation, the military industrial complex, and the real reasons for seemingly the entire US government going down a hot road to a hot hell.
It took about another month for me to reach the conclusion that there was no hope in preventing the destruction to come. I told myself to accept that Ukraine would be destroyed and will not recover in my lifetime. As horrible a thought as it was, recognizing the truth made it easier to sleep at night.
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In Berkeley, protesting against war was once a rite of passage. I’m not sure when that changed, but it has.
I vividly recall my first demonstration against the conflict in Viet Nam. After the bell rang at 3:00pm, a large group of students from my Junior High marched to the corner gas station, hand scrawled placards raised above our heads: End the War, Stop the Draft, US out of Viet Nam.
The Gulf War, in 1990, became the next large operation that got the No More War crowd doing their thing. Bumper stickers with No Blood for Oil appeared on cars throughout the Bay Area.
Then in 2003 the Military Industrial Complex decided that a contained Saddam Hussian simply did not generate enough cash flow, so initiated the Iraq War. It did not matter how many spoke out about the obviously weak Weapons of Mass Destruction rationale.
Afghanistan might have raised a few eyebrows twenty years, ago, but as it wore on, it seemed most had forgotten about it and never questioned why it continued.
But by and large, in all previous major conflicts, the denizens of Berkeley area agreed with me that the US had no business going to war in foreign lands for very dubious reasons.
Which is why I find it so frustrating and agonizing that the US is now involved in a proxy war with Russia and has been for over a year.
In March of 2022 I posted my thoughts on the matter. The last paragraph:
With all the advances in technology and availability of information, one would think that people would do the simplest of research to better understand the current geopolitical situation, the military industrial complex, and the real reasons for seemingly the entire US government going down a hot road to a hot hell.
It took about another month for me to reach the conclusion that there was no hope in preventing the destruction to come. I told myself to accept that Ukraine would be destroyed and will not recover in my lifetime. As horrible a thought as it was, recognizing the truth made it easier to sleep at night.
READ FULL SUBSTACK POST HERE
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