In Reply to: First UCLA-UCSB lacrosse games & Isla Vista riots posted by guambruin on April 20, 2012 at 17:41:45
... especially the news that a student who tried to act as a peacemaker had been killed.
This is what I wrote at the time:
ISLA VISTA
So this is the land I have loved
This rising of passions now hot
With hatred reduced to blind rage
And ashes of silence had brought
The sunrise of morning in smoke
When blood stains will not disappear
And shadows still cast by strewn rocks
Awaiting the night too soon here
This night of the guns that must come
Was stilled by an agonized cry
I saw from the light of the fire
The righteous had come here to die
No, my politics had not changed since then. It had essentially been the same since my teens.