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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

What would you do with the birthplace of the 1960s hippie movement?

Wed Aug 8, 6:01 PM ET

BETHEL, N.Y. - The famous farm near the alfalfa field that drew 400,000 people to Woodstock for three days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is up for sale.

The asking price: $8 million

Roy Howard, the current owner, is packing it in after years of tangling with local officials over permits for reunion gatherings to mark the 1969, three-day Woodstock music festival that helped ignite a generation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070808/ap_on_en_mu/ya...

Maybe we should buy it and turn it into a nuclear testing site?

Or how about the new HQ for some corporate behemoth, say Wal Mart? Or a new factory for a military defense contractor, wouldn't that be cool?

Or perhaps, we should just build a memorial to all the social destruction wrought by the counterculture - all the drug addicts who's lives were shattered, the current STD epidemic ("free love"), 2 million slaughtered in S.E. Asia, terrible music/fashion, and a legacy of homegrown anti-Americanism that continues to this day intent on undermining the greatest civilization in the history of Earth from within?

Update:

Did i mention that I hate hippies?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    A fitting testament to the now intellectually befuddled, cellularly deteriorated, Trotsky reciting afterbirth of the '60s would be to create a federal facility in order to imprison those convicted of anti-American behavior.

    Erect a ten foot statue of McCarthy in front.

    I too am disgusted by today's neo-hippies. If I could, I'd strike their lineage from our history.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    No. My parents were in their 40s in the 1960's with two teenagers. Neither my brother nor I participated in the Hippy movement.

  • 1 decade ago

    I suppose I would do what the vast majority of ex-hippies did.

    Make some money.

    Just think. Anti-Wal-Mart t-shirts. Al Gore sunglasses. Moveon.com roller-skates. Howard Dean lozenges. Che Guevara t-shirts.

    We could sell Mario Terán and Félix Rodríguez shirts right off the same rack and the clueless Che fans would probably buy all three.

    Counterculture is BIG business. The vast majority of long-haired rich kids who play along are harmless and will grow up soon enough, temporarily delaying their productive lives with a wink and a nod.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Great minds really do think alike.

    But to answer your question I think it would be a good idea if we bought the land demolished it and in it's place built a church instead.

    We could turn something negative into something positive for a change.

    We could help people develop family values and lead the lost towards a life filled with meaning and purpose.

    It's never too late to thwart Satan's plans to destroy mankind with a little turnabout.

    But that's what I would do if I had $8 million dollars.

    I would buy it and build a (non-denominational) church and save as many people as possible.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Well, I can tell you where all those hippies went - straight Washington DC, kinda gives you an idea of whats to come for the wordl wide movement today of those that will not be named (but are gently called terrorist by the media) that want to take over us and do away with our form of government and kill most of us for just the fun of it.

    But. back to our hippies, lets build that compound they'v always wanted to live in and share and share alike. We will use no public monies, all the millionairs and up will build their shinning city on the hill, and they will make their own laws and have their own health care system, driving their own corn cars, with their own windmills to generate electric, smoking their own weed, mainlining their own hashies.....and no one is aloud in or out under any circumstance, there in lies the Utopia of all imagination....of course some must have golden gates , Obama's, Clinton(s), Poliski(sp) Reid, etc etc. Oh, don't forget the old timer wanna be hippies like Kennedy etc.

    OH MY GOSH............I just thought of something...all those lawerys together living, frolkicing in the mud together, sharing and sharing alike...............................HAHAHAHA what fool the Americans people are that follow in lock step with this liberal, wanna be rulers of their "homemade world." You think it is bad now........wait just wait LOL LOL tile you get your WISH! God save us all and for non believers heaven help you.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Build a coal burning electric supply station there. They ought to love that.

    But first you would have to scrape the land to get all the hypodermic needles from all the lefty's drug use from the land.

  • 1 decade ago

    Possibly a special prison for criminals convicted of capatlism. If we load our government with socialists, they will try to morph our country into a single world order (every socialist's wet dream). Declaring capitalism a crime against humanity could happen first (another liberal wet dream).

    People that work hard, study hard at school, build a business, take risks to grow their business, contribute to society instead of take from it- they could be rounded up in a prison, where unemployed, drug addicted, gangsta rap loving socialists could come to spit on them.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Maybe a zoo should be built, people should never forget all them two legged animals that were there, be remembered for exactly what they were, Anti American wild animals.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I would like to build a multi million dollar resort for thr GOP members, to partake of during the congressional vacations. Complete with spa, swimming facilites, golf course, and GOP museum. have a star on me..

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What do flea bag hippies hate most besides gainful employment?

    President Bush

    We could build him a weekend retreat, dig a pond, stock it with fish and donate it.

    We could paint signs that read "Jerrys dead and Im grateful" around the perimeter.

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