i used to live in Bayou Village on 27th and Coconut, all gone now...
Posted on 05/18/2016 3:52:01 PM PDT by GilGil
1968 democratic convention
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Ping. What’s in store for this one, I wonder?
I wasn’t even alive then and I want to flay all those people alive.
According to Gingrich this year’s democrat convention is going to be like 1968. It’s towards the end of the video.
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I was about 10 years old. Even that young I remember the riots vividly.
Hmmmm. ‘68? I think I was a tad busy bobbing around the ocean so those asshats (ungrateful snots) could riot and cause mayhem. And look what it got us.
Ah, the good old days of police work. Wood shampoo’s for e’rybody.
That's right EVERYBODY.....
I was there.
I lived in Chicago then and went down just to look around and what I saw was disgusting. The police were out of control, broken cameras and film covered the streets. I saw a guy take a photo and Bamo, 10 cops were beating him...for taking a picture.
Anyone within reach of the cops got beaten and the tear gas wafted up to the floors of the Hilton hotel that housed candidates and delegates. Most of the cops removed their badges and name tags so you couldn't identify them later either.
It was so bad LBJ (Dem) commissioned Chicago lawyer, Daniel Walker, to head a team of over 200 people, who interviewed more than 1,400 witnesses to the events and studied FBI reports and film of the confrontations.
The report released on December 1, 1968, characterized the convention violence as a “police riot”
And remember, that's a Dem President investigating the police of a Dem Mayor.
Walker went on to run for Gov of IL as an independent and win. Walker also eventually went to prison but not as Governor.
i used to live in Bayou Village on 27th and Coconut, all gone now...
I'm kinda hoping it will be a fiasco. The fraud involved in the democrat nominating process is nauseating. Commie Bernie is winning, but that criminal harpy shrew is being given the delegates. It's disgusting.
I keep saying that there is NO WAY Hillary Clinton can truly "win" the presidency without MASSIVE election fraud, including widespread computer voting machine hacks. I don't believe any of these leftist media polls that have her neck and neck with Donald Trump. They're just preemptively covering for the banana republic election fraud that will occur here.
Helter Skelter. Do something Witchy Bernieist.
I saw this on TV, and there was some anti-war protesting going on in Boston at the time, but nothing like Chicago
I didn't really wake up until I met Jesus in '81
Are there any Illinois governors that ultimately didn't wind up in prison?
I was on leave that very week, and living a couple miles from Grant Park, me and a couple buddies went down there and got arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Got shoved into a paddy-wagon, and when we got to the station, I guess the cops saw my uniform and c*nt cap, he asked what I was doing there, I explained we were watching the stinking hippies (and there were several of them in the paddy wagon with us), he chuckled and told me to beat it. I said “those two other guys are my buddies”, and he sent us all on our way.
And, just like today, this was a dem on dem battle. My family were blue collar dems (the Archie Bunker type), and the hippies were just... well... from outer space. It was a big rift in the party, much like it is now.
A week later, I was on Pan Am over the Pacific heading back to Tan Sun.
After watching the hippies all week on TV, it was a blast watching the Chicago cops bust out the billy clubs on ‘em. While everyone else on my flight going back had that somber look on their face, I kept thinking about that evening at home, and the folks around me must have wondered “what’s that guy smiling about?”
When I got back, I reported to work right away (the very next morning), and I remember we were setting up for a run to put up a floatation dock, going into a pretty shitty area, but all the crew and our escort infantry kept asking about was the riots in Chicago. Funny, in the middle of a crap-fest, and the folks around you are asking about the Dem Convention :)
LOL. I think it's getting better, only 2 out of the last 3 were or are in the bighouse.
That was interesting to watch. Thanks
Well, I hope it is “fix bayonets” but Obamalamadingdong would never allow his cross-gendered trans-sexual Army to do that, not without them wearing pink tights and a flower in their hair.
I hate that bastard.
Those were equal opportunity beat downs. Chicago PD started political correctness.
Me, too, Chuck.
I was and I remember it well.
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