Recreate 1968......why would ANYBODY want to do that?
Recreate 1968……why would anybody want to do that?
by Daniel Hunter
Now, I wasn’t around for 1968 (I’m a young buck of 22 years), but I can imagine that it totally SUCKED from what I’ve been reading, and guess what? A group of left wing radical nuts plans on recreating one of America’s lowest points in history. They are a group called the Recreate 68’ Alliance. According to their website, www.recreate68.org, they are a branch of a group called the All Nations Alliance. From what I could gather on their site, they actually sound like a very concerned group of “grassroots” activists. I, myself, am a grassroots Constitutionalist. They seemed pretty cool, but I looked into the group a bit more; mainly because I saw the words “racism” and “imperialism” in their “about us” section on the site. These are two words only leftists use.
On their site, www.recreate68.org, the Recreate 68’ Alliance states, “In 1968 there existed a spirit of change, the Paris Rebellion, Prague, Chicago, Vietnam, etc. People believed, around the world, that they were capable of taking over the institutions that controlled their lives. The smell of revolution was in the air. Over 1 million college students openly identified as revolutionist. People believed that through mass participation in the movement, it was possible to wrest control from the elite power-holders. They were not willing to accept the loss of their human and civil rights.” They make what has been called the Chicago “police riots” of 1968 sound like a GREAT THING! For those of you who don’t remember, or those who weren’t alive for the time and haven’t looked into it, the 1968 Chicago “police riots” were terrible. According to http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/convention68.html a few thousand descended on Chicago to protest the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention. A much bigger protest was planned, but, obviously, many of the would be participants flaked out. Many of these protesters were pro-communist, Che Guevara loving hippies. On a little side note: I think it’s funny that hippies, who were all about sex, love, and rock n’ roll, LOVED Che Guevara. Guevara was notorious for executing people for simply growing their hair out long and listening to evil American rock n’ roll. So, many of the people in America that supported, and, sadly enough, STILL support Guevara would have been put to death, execution style, buy Guevara himself. Good thing Guevara was put to death by his idol, Fidel Castro. Anyway, many of the protesters massed in Lincoln Park. Police and National Guardsmen routed the protesters. There were 589 arrests and many injuries. http://www.jofreeman.com/photos/convention68.html reports a teenager being relentlessly clubbed by police after he tried to lower an American flag. Many of the protesters ran to his aid and were clubbed relentlessly as well. All in all, the protesters lost, the police won, and the demonstrations killed the Democrats chances of winning the 1968 Presidential Election. It sounds like a good time was had by all at the 1968 Chicago police riots (I can’t help myself. I’m just a sarcastic guy.)!
The name of the Recreate 68’ Alliance tells all. They want to recreate the Chicago police riots of 1968 with one little change: They want to win the confrontation. Their plan is, according to http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/21/recreate-68-threatens-democrat-convention-in-denver/, to hold a protest outside of this year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado taking place on August 24th, through 28th. The Recreate 68’ Alliance applied for a permit to do so, but lost the permit “lottery” to Jenny Anderson, event planner for the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee. After losing the permit lottery, an organizer for the Recreate 68’ Alliance, Glenn Spagnuolo, accused the Convention Host Committee of creating a “very serious, dangerous situation . . . for everybody.” That doesn’t sound like a threat at all, right? He also said, “When things blow up because the police have to enforce a permit that the Democrats got, don’t blame us for that. Blame the Democrats for trying to silence dissent in the city of Denver.” Why, these aren’t militant leftist at all. No, they’re just concerned citizens. Clearly, the Recreate 68’ Alliance is showing its true colors and intentions. According to the Denver post (The article is posted on http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/21/recreate-68-threatens-democrat-convention-in-denver/) Spegnuolo said, “We’re having our protest at Civic Center. We’re not going to give up Civic Center Park to the Democrats. . . . They are creating a very dangerous situation.” The Article went on to say, “He (Spengnuolo) said Thursday that he would not respect the host committee’s permit and would occupy the park, even if it forced police to intervene.” According to Spegnuolo, the Recreate 68’ Alliance has 50,000 ready and willing protesters that plan on marching from Civic Center Park to the Pepsi Center on August 24th.
The Recreate 68’ Alliance is dangerous, plain and simple. These radical leftist (who probably are Communist, but don’t have the guts to out right say it.) are planning a demonstration they KNOW is going to get violent, and they’re doing it on purpose. I have a theory, or a hypothesis, if you will. The Recreate 68’ Alliance wants to get the beat down from the police. They want things to get ugly. They know if they start a big enough ruckus they’ll get national media attention. This gives them both, the sympathy factor, and a venue to spout their rhetoric. And, of course, all they have to do is blame it on “imperialism”, “racism”, and an unfair, unjust, insensitive government. Let’s be real though. Every time there is a BIG civil upheaval it’s always followed by the Federal Government levying more control over the people. If the Recreate 68’ Alliance goes through with this demonstration it’s going to result in a couple of things. Thing #1: It’s going to make the Democratic Party look VERY bad (not that it’s very hard to make the Democrats look bad). The Democratic Party will be dropping some heavy hammers on their radical left base. Thing #2: It’s going to give the Federal Government yet another excuse to levy heavier controls on the people. I’m pretty sure new laws will be promptly passed restricting the right to peaceful assembly if this Recreate 68’ demonstration happens. Mark my words: This Recreate 68’ demonstration is only going to hurt America over all. It’s not going to open the eyes of our leaders. It’s not going to compel our Government to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, which is the point of the demonstration, and, of course, the destruction of the political party system. I can’t really say that I can argue with the destruction of the political party system, but these people want to replace it with some nutty socialist system. What everybody reading this blog should do is contact the Recreate 68’ Alliance at www.recreate68.org and urge them to cancel the demonstration. I doubt they’ll listen, but, in the end, they can’t say they weren’t warned. It’s the only thing I can think to do. Maybe if enough people contact them, they’ll change their plan of action to something a bit less CRAZY. We can’t control the actions of other people, but we can call them out for doing, or wanting to do, stupid things!
Daniel Hunter
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