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It was interesting politics and the kids had nothing against the administration pre-say, but rather the means by which admin attempted to a-Judas-us. My class was a stubborn lot. The more mis-meant punishment the madder and more determined they got. A lot of women were involved in this. In fact they may have been the drivers. The men were into just car looks mostly. But they toed the line in the battles with the Administrators. I traced the root cause for all this crime, punishment and revolution, to the riddance of freshmen initiation. That first year of beginning, with a week of nose-pushing pennies, carrying trays and answering dumb senior-high questions - sir, as the root. Or it may just have been a co-incidence, with black jackets and boots, in Black bored Jungle and Rebel Without A Cause, although these movies came three years earlier and I made no connection.

Truckers and golfers. "Keep on Truckin'". It was Checkpoint Charley. Those four year guys ahead of us may have been the transistor generation, between motors and monitors. We were the electrified generation, electric rock and roll. The won't-goers. "Don't even go there", the other side of Checkpoint Charley. So the ViceLords thought let's throw a Vietnam war, the kind of thing we were brought up on. The thing that made them the greatest-generation that they were said to be. 58,209 checked-out in that one. They beat superman. Did you hear that ? They beat superman the sadist Nazi, the they here in America, a bunch of mutt-race no-accounts. They couldn't get in the club. They didn't have the genes. "I dream of Genie." You think they don't have some experience with war ? Take a look at the Civil, the battle of machine over human and horse labor.

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