Oops, sorry.
I feel like Hyman Kaplan bringing in the word "eumoirous."
Right off the top of my head, I'd suggest that since the WW USA wasn't tied up in 'Nam, they were getting into similar trouble somewhere else -- likely the Middle East or Central America, but maybe a clash with somebody (like WW Japan) who wasn't a problem in our universe.
It might be fun, though, to work out a 'verse in which what they protested at Kent State had nothing to do with war and everything to do with a president trying to increase executive power at the expense of citizens' freedom. Perhaps there was an earlier version of Watergate, and it blew up in their faces even worse than the one we know.
G. Gordon Liddy once admitted in an interview that he would've been willing -- distressed, but still willing -- to murder an innocent bystander (the example was if a beat cop caught him during a break-in) to cover up one of his operations in support of the President. Suppose he did kill a policeman -- and got caught anyway, and somebody like Haldeman or Ehrlichman was stupid enough to demand that charges be dropped in the name of executive privilege, and the local law wasn't willing to play along ("The bastard murdered one of our boys!") and raised a nationwide stink.... There's an irony there, 'cause it raises the image of cops siding with the protesters.
Was the Trickster forced to resign in WW?
I know it doesn't really matter -- I'm looking into this too deeply -- but alternate history is possibly my favorite aspect of science fiction.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
I feel like Hyman Kaplan bringing in the word "eumoirous."
Right off the top of my head, I'd suggest that since the WW USA wasn't tied up in 'Nam, they were getting into similar trouble somewhere else -- likely the Middle East or Central America, but maybe a clash with somebody (like WW Japan) who wasn't a problem in our universe.
It might be fun, though, to work out a 'verse in which what they protested at Kent State had nothing to do with war and everything to do with a president trying to increase executive power at the expense of citizens' freedom. Perhaps there was an earlier version of Watergate, and it blew up in their faces even worse than the one we know.
G. Gordon Liddy once admitted in an interview that he would've been willing -- distressed, but still willing -- to murder an innocent bystander (the example was if a beat cop caught him during a break-in) to cover up one of his operations in support of the President. Suppose he did kill a policeman -- and got caught anyway, and somebody like Haldeman or Ehrlichman was stupid enough to demand that charges be dropped in the name of executive privilege, and the local law wasn't willing to play along ("The bastard murdered one of our boys!") and raised a nationwide stink.... There's an irony there, 'cause it raises the image of cops siding with the protesters.
Was the Trickster forced to resign in WW?
I know it doesn't really matter -- I'm looking into this too deeply -- but alternate history is possibly my favorite aspect of science fiction.
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.