Jerry Rubin: In Retro

Jerry Rubin, 1960's radical who used to preach" not to trust anyone over 30" is the subject of this new blog entry.I figure if I can teach yuppies about the greed they foster and the negative value it places on the country , they can remember what the yuppie is really about through the life Jerry Rubin and that maybe will help them get off the Prozac, pass on the good word, and maybe reform before ending up a suicide up like Abbie Hoffman did.



Rubin was also accused of "Selling out" by Abbie Hoffman during the 1980's debates named "Yippie versus Yuppie."

Rubin and Hoffman who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") were the biggest and best known names to students at that time. although many colleges and organizations had there own activists and organizers which were more powerful during the earlier years of counter culture protesting and demonstations. Many used drugs, sex, and Rock and Roll as a lure to the young to join up.




Rubin's argument in the debates was that activism was hard work, that abuse of drugs, sex and private property had made the counter-culture "a scary society in itself," and that "wealth creation is the real American revolution and what we need is an infusion of capital into the depressed areas of our country."

After the Vietnam War ended, Rubin became an entrepreneur and businessman. He was an early investor in Apple Computer and a pioneer in social networking.


A political cartoon of the time showed two sketches of Rubin—first as a hippie, wearing a button that said "Chicago 7" and then as a businessman in a suit, wearing a button that said "S&P 500

Rubin was probably aware of the beatings the activists were getting by police. as well as well as the ones that were killed in Ohio. there was also Abby Hoffman whose rants like at Woodstock hurt more than helped the cause.

At Woodstock in 1969, Hoffman interrupted The Who's performance to attempt a protest speech against the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. He grabbed a microphone and yelled, "I think this is a pile of shit! While John Sinclair rots in prison. . ." The Who's guitarist, Pete Townshend, unhappy with the interruption, cut Hoffman off mid-sentence, shouting, "Fuck off! Fuck off my fucking stage!" He then struck Hoffman with his guitar, sending the him tumbling offstage, to the approving roar of the crowd. Townshend later said that while he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's imprisonment, he would have knocked him offstage regardless of the content of his message, given that Hoffman had violated the "sanctity of the stage," i.e., the right of the band to perform uninterrupted by distractions not relevant to the actual show. The incident happened during a camera change and was not captured on film. However, the audio of this event can be heard on the The Who's box set, Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Disc 2, Track 20, "Abbie Hoffman Incident").

The politcal activist life was wearing on Rubin, who started his counter-culture life after dropping out of school at Berkeley. Jerry's first protest was in Berkeley, protesting the refusal of a local grocer to hire African Americans. (BTW, I will be soon pay attention to white people who have been beaten tortured or killed trying to bring equlity to minorities. since yuppie professors refuse to. I got a comment on my Pilar O' Leary blog acusing me of being KKK promting me to educate and not reverse the racial slurs like what is going on on school campuses today. Students seem to enjoy calling each other whitey or nigga or make up some new ones ( see comments on my Pilar O'Leary blog.)

But back to the subject of heart: Jerry Rubin, who was probably the ultimate yuppie, wasn't really a bad guy and being a yuppie to him was to get upper mobility in society to help society not just to madly accumate self weath, which is not healthy or helpful to us in this country especially with today's money problems. Yuppies of both political parties plus international ones of all races and religions are gutting America for their personal gain and nobody is tapping these crooks to pay back. There is no outrage, and no one admits they are getting fat on America!
If it was up to me I would have a huge trial where these yuppie fanatics are all exposed then hang them by their business ties in a kinda retro Spartacus scene. with a road lined with
hung yuppie oil execs, food inspectors, wall street traders, etc. Either they must be stopped or we will continue to become a weak nation.

Even Jerry Rubin wouldn't like that. One of his many quotes reads like this:
"I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes', I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries and a coke."