If
a person google searches Helicopter footage from the 1960s, they will
get page after page of military footage. There is even an entry for
helicopters spraying protesters. There is nothing talking about the
helicopters at Woodstock.
The juxtaposition of the helicopters at Woodstock is an interesting phenomenon. One should stop and think about how people in this time period were used to seeing helicopters. They were used to seeing them in Vietnam. Seeing them bring in the dead. Seeing them dropping all their young men to their death. Seeing them bringing in the national guard to “control” a protest.
This was not the case. These helicopters were bringing in the revolution. They were transporting Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, Crosby Stills and Nash, Joan Biaz. They were flying overhead and not dropping pesticides or bombs. They were dropping dry clothes and flowers.
Was this the universe trying to right its wrongs. Trying to make up for the atrocities committed? Or did these people actually make it happen....
When the counter-culture stops being the counter-culture and becomes the culture, the MSM continues to call them the counter-culture. I hope that the people of OWS remember this. I hope that they remember how long this went on. Remember that the helicopters at Woodstock didn’t happen until 1969. We have a long way to go, but we will get there.
The juxtaposition of the helicopters at Woodstock is an interesting phenomenon. One should stop and think about how people in this time period were used to seeing helicopters. They were used to seeing them in Vietnam. Seeing them bring in the dead. Seeing them dropping all their young men to their death. Seeing them bringing in the national guard to “control” a protest.
This was not the case. These helicopters were bringing in the revolution. They were transporting Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Arlo Guthrie, Crosby Stills and Nash, Joan Biaz. They were flying overhead and not dropping pesticides or bombs. They were dropping dry clothes and flowers.
Was this the universe trying to right its wrongs. Trying to make up for the atrocities committed? Or did these people actually make it happen....
When the counter-culture stops being the counter-culture and becomes the culture, the MSM continues to call them the counter-culture. I hope that the people of OWS remember this. I hope that they remember how long this went on. Remember that the helicopters at Woodstock didn’t happen until 1969. We have a long way to go, but we will get there.
