Not a fed, so I won't ask which protest you were at, but I think I've got an idea given some of the stuff that was going down in 1999.
I wish I'd been politically aware enough back then even to be a shitlib. Unfortunately, I was pretty young, and mostly just kind of slacking. My father did have a bunch of friends who fit the Starbucks-Clinton-Fukayama model of libbiness; he lost some of them when he very vocally argued against NATO intervention in Yugoslavia, and the remainder when he opposed the invasion of Afghanistan. (Which led to one of my favorite quotes from him, said at a dinner gathering: "That collateral damage stuff is just a bunch of bullshit. What we're doing is murder.")
I was a shitty liberal back in 1999 too, but my experience at the time, well, started my journey, that's for sure.
Ever experience tear gas? You don't want to.
Not a fed, so I won't ask which protest you were at, but I think I've got an idea given some of the stuff that was going down in 1999.
I wish I'd been politically aware enough back then even to be a shitlib. Unfortunately, I was pretty young, and mostly just kind of slacking. My father did have a bunch of friends who fit the Starbucks-Clinton-Fukayama model of libbiness; he lost some of them when he very vocally argued against NATO intervention in Yugoslavia, and the remainder when he opposed the invasion of Afghanistan. (Which led to one of my favorite quotes from him, said at a dinner gathering: "That collateral damage stuff is just a bunch of bullshit. What we're doing is murder.")