From Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House by Ken Goffman, a.k.a. R.U. Sirius: "By the spring of 1969, the majority of Americans opposed the war, but they disliked the freak-left that was starting to dominate leadership of the antiwar movement even more. Meanwhile, the youth, college students particularly-- though they still viewed the hard-core freak-left counterculture and its acid apocalypse rhetoric with a certain trepidation-- were inching further leftward. The conviction of the Chicago Seven ... touched off massive riots on dozens of college campuses. So ... the possibilities for some sort of an effective mass youth political revolt were high. But the very moment they might have mounted sufficient force to bring about social change, the political radicals who had the organizational skills to lead the movement had gone over the edge, hallucinating that they were on the verge of an armed revolution against the most powerful and heavily armed government ...