Posted on 08/26/2014 3:30:05 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
As the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago, thousands of antiwar demonstrators take to Chicago's streets to protest the Vietnam War and its support by the top Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. During the four-day convention, the most violent in U.S. history, police and National Guardsmen clashed with protesters outside the International Amphitheater, and hundreds of people, including innocent bystanders, were beaten by the Chicago police. The violence even spilled into the convention hall, as guards roughed up delegates and members of the press, including CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace, who was punched in the face. On August 29, Humphrey secured the nomination and the convention ended.
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They now occupy high positions in our government or are highly-paid advisers to those who hold those positions.
So it wasn't all bad...
This was one time I agreed with Boss Daley. It was great to see those filthy leftist hippies getting the full-on Bull Connor treatment.
I was 12 at the time. Fond memories of the lefties getting some of their own medicine from Chicago’s finest. Dan Rather got clobbered too. My dad, a Republican (yes there are some in Chicago, akin to the number of Christians in Iraq) went down and got in to the convention with some Democrat credentials.
Despite the mayhem the “peaceniks” gave Chicago, the response by da mayor’s cops was mild in that not a single person was killed. Kudos to the men in blue who I am sure wanted to really kick some ass. Famous line by old man Daley at the press conference, “The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.”
Back in the day when if a Democratic administration was seen to be screwing up the Democrats got it in the neck, now the lefties blame the 1%, the banks, the police, SUV drivers, Big Pharma, oil companies, Fox News, George Bush, pretty much anyone except for the party actually running the country.
LOL and thanks. That quote just adds to the, ahem, legend of Boss Daley.
heh!
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