Subject: FW: The late Hunter S. Thompson Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:09:01 -0600 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD02014204F7@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Grossman, Zoltan C." <GROSSMZC@uwec.edu>
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From: Rockrap@aol.com [mailto:Rockrap@aol.com]
Sent: Mon 2/21/2005 1:05 PM
To: tressnot@lucha.net
Subject: In 1972, Hunter S. Thompson predicted our future in the 21st
century
"How many more of these goddam elections are we going to have to write
off
as lame but 'regrettably necessary' holding actions? And how many more
of these
stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we
can get
ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election
that
will give me at the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a
chance
to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old
familiar
choice between the lesser of two evils? I understand, along with a lot
of other
people, that the big thing, this year, is Beating Nixon. But that was
also the
big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 - and as far as I can
tell,
we've gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is
for more
of the same."
--Hunter S. Thompson, 1972