Chicago Freepers Unite!

[Dittohead_2]

Tomorrow is being billed as the Largest Anti-War Demonstration in Chicago. Demonstration kicks off at 2PM. We need to bring our Freeper Pro - Peace Posters!

[Dittohead_2]

oops ... at Daley Plaza

[steveegg]

Couldn't they have made it 3 so I could have made a road trip and still catch all of the NASCAR race?

[dighton]

"My kind of town, Chicago is."

Mayor Daley (the real one) is looking down from heaven and smiling on your counter-demo.

[Dittohead_2]

"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder." Mayor Richard J Daley

[Dittohead_2]

I like the cigar in the cops' mouth .... oh .... THOSE were the days

[Chi-townChief]

Sorry, I won't be able to make it; tomorrow is South Side Irish Day with the parade on Western between 103rd and 115th and then many rounds of Guiness at the local pubs afterwards.

[dighton]

I like the cigar in the cops' mouth.

Indeed, it's a great touch.

[Dittohead_2]

Being South Side Irish myself ( St. Laurence H.S.) ... it's a tough call

[Matt Foley]

I am Irish and live in Chicago. I am skipping the parade in order to preserve our country so there may be future parades. I'll get drunk afterwards.

[ppaul]

Sounds like it's time to send in the hardhats, again.....

Chicago, 1968.
Look closely. What flags were the America-haters flying then?

The aftermath of the 1968 Chicago DemocRAT Convention riot...

I remember 1969 in Chicago.
If you're old enough to recall, until then, nobody - except for some hippies and Peter Fonda wannabes - wore American flags on their clothes or hats. That was a no-no. Anyway, at the height of the protests in front of the Federal Courthouse where the trial of the "Chicago 7" (Abbie Hoffman, Renny Davis, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, Lee Weiner, John Froines) was underway, the construction workers downtown - the "hardhats" - had a belly-full of seeing NVA flags carried around and hearing the favorite chant of the protesters, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win!" One day, the "hardhats" put American flag stickers on their hardhats and at noon, thousand upon thousands of union and non-union iron workers, sheet metal workers, carpenters, cement finishers, plumbers, electricians, painters, laborers, etc. all walked off their jobs and confronted the unwashed rabble of anti-American protesters and pounded lumps on them! They routed the scum out of downtown and made sure they didn't come back. Ever since then, wearing the American flag on a hardhat has been de riguer, as the whole country took a shine to wearing the flag. The "hardhats" gained a reputation and during that time were feared by hippie and Yippie scum. The hardhats brought the peace to Chicago. I remember. My dad was one of them.

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[MarMema]

northwest bump to Chicago!

[robertpaulsen]

"Shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters."
--Mayor Richard J. Daley, April, 1968

Those were the days when Mayors had cojones.

[Dittohead_2]

THANKS ...... I'd forgotten about that

[Dittohead_2]

DEMONSTRATION UPDATE! Forget about the speakers, they were all opposed to the War, George W. Bush, Jews, Abortion, Tax Cuts, Republicans/Conservatives/Real Libertarians, Vouchers, God, Privatized Social Security or Medical Accounts and the girl next door (unless she has her own humidor). I had a difficult time getting past the cliches: "Daddy's War; Selected not elected; No Blood for Oil; Saddam is contained-Leave him alone ( WHY aren't the French offering to pick up the tab for keeping Saddam contained?) ... yadda yadda yadda. When I asked about today's Summit in the Azores most were unaware of it. IF this war is quick and the weapons of mass destruction are located, mass graves are unearthed and horror stories of torture are brought to light how will they feel?