Demonization of Hippies

ncmentor
Sat, 16 May 2009 23:28:02 +0000

Hippies were always an outside group and outside groups don’t write the textbooks.

So few of this generation were taught anything other than Hippies = dirty, disrespectful, sex and drugs.

I’m quite sure that Abbie Hoffman Is a true American hero. But most older people and members of the military in the 60’s and 70’s were told that anti war was anti American. He certainly was not right about everything (including drugs) but much of what he was prosecuted for amounted to standing up and telling the truth.

Two interesting facts - He had a daughter that he named “America”
When he was in hiding he used the name “William Barry Freed” (Will B Freed).

Not all Hippies are hero’s or even reasonably nice people but some were…