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<p>Created page with &quot;{{pubdate|{{subst:CURRENTDAY}}|{{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}}|{{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} One of the most shocking movie scenes that burnt into my mind was in the opening credits of...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{pubdate|14|June|2026}}<br /> <br /> One of the most shocking movie scenes that burnt into my mind was in the opening credits of the 2009 Watchmen movie, directed by Zack Snyder. 50,000 protesters took part in the March on the Pentagon in 1967. A row of military police was pointing their rifles at the protesters. A flower power protester puts a flower into the barrel of one of the rifles. In the movie, Bob Dylan's The Times They are A-Changing is playing over the scene, recreating an iconic photograph from 1967. (link in comment)<br /> <br /> But in the alternative reality of the movie, the police fires at the protesters.<br /> <br /> I remember seeing that scene in the movie theater, and I found that image absolutely distressing, thinking about the terrible alternate reality that would have been. How many people would have died, how different the United States would be today... and being glad that reality took a different turn.<br /> <br /> ... but did it?<br /> <br /> Today I learned about the 1967 Detroit riots. More than 7000 people arrested, 43 people killed, of which 30 were killed by the authorities and another six by store owners or security guards. It was in the same year. And the authorities were shooting and killing the people, mostly black people. But that seems a lot like the terrible &quot;alternative reality&quot; Snyder's movie was drawing. But it was not an alternate reality. It was just not the story of mostly white hippies on the coasts, but of mostly black people in Detroit.<br /> <br /> I am ashamed it took me until today to have learned about these events. But one thing I can do is reading more about the events and maybe reach others who might not have known.<br /> <br /> * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Power_(photograph) Flower Power photograph - Wikipedia]<br /> * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_March_on_the_Pentagon 1967 March on the Pentagon - Wikipedia]<br /> * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3t5zxrBOo0 Intro scene from Watchmen]<br /> * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot 1967 Detroit riot]<br /> <br /> {{tag|Simia}}<br /> &lt;noinclude&gt;{{simiapost|english}}&lt;/noinclude&gt;</div>

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