[Marxism] Jerry Rubin on the Sears Tower conspiracy

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry finally sums up this spying bodyguard episode in the end of the  
chapter: “An undercover cop is some trip! To glorify his own fantasy,  
he glorifies the people he spies on and makes us 1,000 feet tall.  
Pierson turned us all into Superfreeks.” Rubin says Bob exaggerated  
the yippies’ powers, saying they were capable of doing grander crimes  
than all of the “regular freeks” put together. Much as today, the  
crazy stories of conspiracy the FBI are making, using words like  
“calls” to describe friends, “aliases” to describe pen names, and  
“eco-terrorism” to describe nonviolent civil disobedience where no  
one is killed, is very similar to the mind set we see in Bob Pierson  
35 years prior. Rubin ends the chapter with: “If there is ever a  
Hollywood movie about the yippies, Bob Pierson should write the  
screenplay. Big Bob is a yippie. He takes his fantasies for reality.”



kirstena on Jerry Rubin and Bob Pierson, Rubin's 1968 Chicago cop  
spy, provocateur bodyguard

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http://mostlywater.org/node/3838




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