No worries Fractal, google video search is our friend
Shoe & Coatl- watch the film, and there's a Wikipedia page on him too. He was a founder of The Yippies, who were New Left hippy activists. He fought for freedom in America- freedom for black people, freedom for women, freedom to take drugs, freedom from the draft to Vietnam. He used wonderful theatrical stunts like surrounding the pentagon and trying to levitate it through psychic power so it would turn orange and be exorcised of the demons inside! And throwing money into the Wall Street trading pit to disrupt the stock exchange as the greedy traders stopped work to scramble for the dollar bills instead. Amazing stunts. The FBI under orders of the president broke the law trying to destroy him, so he went into hiding for 6 years, until turning himself in once he had evidence of their illegal activities to protect himself and strike a deal with his hunters. He quoted The Founding Fathers in court, amazing. He helped change the world for the better, that's for sure.
BUT, the film inspired me to read "Steal this Book", and I am no longer such a fan. Being a 'revolutionary' is not an excuse to steal off everyone you do not consider a 'revolutionary'. That's parisitic. What's the point in fighting for values, if you abandon those values in the fighting for? Hmm maybe his point was that we should all be sharing anyway, but I dunno, surely then it would be ok to steal off 'revolutionaries' too? There's a link to his book on the Wiki page.
It reminds me of that film (can't remember which) when the revolutionaries pass through a village, stealing the peasant's chickens as they go and justifying that it's "for the revolution". A poor old man cries, "The government steals my cickens. The revolutionaries steal my chickens. What does it matter who is in power, they all steal my chickens!"
Everything I write is fictional roleplay. Obviously! End tribal genocide: www.survival-international.org Quick petitions for meaningful change: www.avaaz.org/en/
End prohibition: www.leap.cc www.tdpf.org.uk And "Feeling Good" by David D.Burns MD is a very useful book.