Or because they are dirty granola-eating hippies that want to save the earth by self-generating from solar, wind, wood, etc..
The former was also about dead Confederate soldiers tormenting a bunch of dirty hippies in a Winnebago.
All the predictable and automatic canards are out: "dirty hippies," "loose cannons," and--tellingly--"Longshore thugs."
According to Mike Germinaro, in its earliest days, the band would always get trouble for " looking like dirty hippies and playing what was considered pop-punk."
He referred to festival-goers as dirty hippies on drugs.
Dirty, dirty hippies.
Not bad for "a bunch of dirty hippies and jobless scum" (not my words I might add)
In another, his clothing was described as "hippie, dirty and stinking."
Apparently "dirty hippy" and "ACORN" isn't standing up after Oakland and poor Scott Olsen.
Here, right here in the lobby downstairs, somebody came up to me yesterday and called me a dirty hippie.