"…like many teenagers tragically lost in the Reagan ‘80s, I had Woodstock dreams, imagining some perfect purple haze of love. By the time I got to college, the cult of latter-day hippies had become a marketing phenomenon: Urban Outfitters was selling tie-dye T-shirts and groups of us made daytrips to Walden Pond to drop acid on Thoreau’s acreage. Undergraduates lived in shanties, built in front of the university president’s office at Harvard Yard, to protest investment in apartheid South Africa; all around the campus, reprints of posters advocating the 1969 student strike were thumb-tacked on kiosks and telephone poles. I was there, one of many, in love with a dream I’d had as a kid.Today, of course, I know what LSD really stands for: let the Sixties die."
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel, in a piece called "Obama's Other Radical Friends", in the Wall Street Journal
One could -- and should -- legitimately ask why we keep the Unabomber in prison for life, while Ayers and Dohrn are free and enjoying respect and prosperity in the country which they so detested and wanted to destroy.
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