Shit like this is why I'm always sus about the hippies. From what I've read and seen they were no where near as radical and militant as say the panthers were. I guess there's something to be said about them wanting to throw off the yoke of traditionalism but it seems like it was mostly because they wanted to party, versus the panthers who wanted to liberate oppressed people. Not to mention that the hippies grew up to become the reactionary boomers we got today.
Technically they were pointing guns at them to make sure they didn't levitate and walk away with the Pentagon
Isn't this from the Portuguese Carnation revolution? The message with the flowers was not liberal "war is bad"-handwringing. The message was more "Were not your enemies, you hate the fascists just as much as we do. Join us."
https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/hippies-tried-to-levitate-pentagon/
Hoffman and the Yippies began to call for the Pentagon to levitate, using psychic energy to lift the building 300 feet into the air and to end the war. They even got a permit for it from the General Services Administration, but the permit only allowed them to levitate the building 10 feet.
Clearly demonstrating the limits of trying to work within the bourgeois system.
