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victoryparty Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 04:33 PM
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"Scrap Paper Philosopher" makes economic views known in Berkeley
Is this person onto something, or just bitter over the economic downturn?

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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-09-09 07:45 PM
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1. Happy to see Berkeley is still Berkeley.
Does anyone remember Ex-Swami-X from Sproul Plaza in the mid 1970's?


mark (Who really feels old now.)
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victoryparty Donating Member (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 05:31 PM
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2. No, but I wish I did ;-)
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 06:42 PM
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3. He was a street performer/political comedian who did a thing on the
plaza every day for passing the hat money. He was great on politics and religion, and he once stood Jim Jones down, called him a crazy Son of a bitch when the SF area politicos were kissing Jones's ass and having their photos taken with him...This was in 1975.
FWIW, I was a few feet from Jones, and I could feel the hate and craziness coming off him. I had forgotten about him till I saw the massacre on TV years later.
"I used to be Swami Ex, but I gave it up, so now I'm Ex Swami X."

He was great.

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