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Anti-war activists hope to seize sentiment of 1968 Democratic National Convention with 50th anniversary protest, march
1 posted on 07/26/2018 6:10:25 AM PDT by Salman
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Reliving their glory days!


2 posted on 07/26/2018 6:12:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600><p>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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But wasn’t Mayor Daley a Democrat?


3 posted on 07/26/2018 6:14:50 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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The left always talks about how conservatives want to go back to the ‘repressive times of the 50’s’. However, they are the ones that want to go back in time. They want to go back and re-live their two big wins, the anti war movement of the 60’s and Watergate.

Maybe they can start singing, ‘Tin Soldiers Nixon coming, four dead in Ohio...’


4 posted on 07/26/2018 6:15:05 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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But Nixon won in 1968.............


5 posted on 07/26/2018 6:18:26 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.a)
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Will these fools admit that the phony, Nobel-Peace Prize Obama cause more wars and misery abroad than any President since LBJ?

Obama was merely a media hologram and product of a media and marketing campaign , meant to fool low-IQ leftists and suburban soccer moms with his candidacy, who turned out to actually be a puppet of the DC Deep State.

Obama was directly responsible for starting the proxy civil war in the Ukraine, assassinating Khaddafy and turning Libya into a failed state, the largest human migration to Europe since WWII, the destructive civil war in Syria, and a host of other conflicts, from Yemen to the Sudan.


6 posted on 07/26/2018 6:19:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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On January 31, 1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit hotel to discuss war crimes they claimed to have participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam. During the next three days, more than 100 Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians gave anguished, emotional testimony describing hundreds of atrocities against innocent civilians in South Vietnam, including rape, arson, torture, murder, and the shelling or napalming of entire villages. The witnesses stated that these acts were being committed casually and routinely, under orders, as a matter of policy.

In April, the VVAW stormed Washington in a week-long protest. At its height, spokesman John Kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to accuse the United States military of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam. The appearance launched Kerry's political career. The charges he made shocked and sickened a nation, changed the course of a war and stained the reputation of the American military for decades.

But the mass murder of civilians was never American policy in Vietnam. War crimes were the exception, not the rule. And the Winter Soldier tribunal itself -- which John Kerry had helped moderate -- turned out to be "packed with pretenders and liars."


- WinterSoldier.com
7 posted on 07/26/2018 6:19:40 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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Hmmmm. Maybe I haven’t been keeping up on current events as well as I thought. Who are we at war with? Where are American servicemen regularly coming home in body bags from?


10 posted on 07/26/2018 6:31:09 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Good!


11 posted on 07/26/2018 6:33:52 AM PDT by ealgeone
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The 1968 rioters were more committed to their cause than today's masked cowards. They were also more photogenic.


12 posted on 07/26/2018 6:40:16 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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I am old enough to remember the 1968 riots. I also remember the 1968 presidential election that followed the riots. I seem to recall that the democrat candidate did not do so well that year.


14 posted on 07/26/2018 6:45:33 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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Anti-war activism in the '60s was fed by the draft.

When Nixon instituted the draft lottery, 2/3 previously subject to the draft were exempt and that took a lot of air out of the movement.

15 posted on 07/26/2018 6:48:10 AM PDT by AU72
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Shouldn’t these idiots be protesting in downtown Damascus ?


20 posted on 07/26/2018 7:04:49 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Good. I wish them the best of luck in their actions to block traffic, harass workers and maybe even break windows. It’s probably too much to hope for riots and looting a few months before the mid-term elections. And Rahm will give them space to burn, I’m sure, if things do go nostalgic.


21 posted on 07/26/2018 7:12:22 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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Yes! Libtard riots on every cel phone and laptop before the election!


24 posted on 07/26/2018 7:40:22 AM PDT by pabianice
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Factual title: Anti-US communist activists hope to seize sentiment of 1968 ...


25 posted on 07/26/2018 11:36:32 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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I hope they seize all the same beat downs the Yippies got then


27 posted on 07/26/2018 5:05:03 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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