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D-Day in Denver?
Thursday July 31, 2008
By Ellis Washington
Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained. We will demand change by making the Democrat Convention of 1968 look like a small get together in 2008.~ Recreate '68
During my daily search of interesting news across cyberspace, I came across an item posted on DrudgeReport.com from the Denver Rocky Mountain News, "Mayor says no to Tent State overnight."
As the Democratic Party prepares festivities to present its presidential candidate, Barack Obama in Denver next month, all is not quiet on the Normandy coast (to borrow a World War II metaphor).
In the Battle of Normandy, launched June 6, 1944, we successfully used propaganda and disinformation to fool Hitler into believing that the Allied Powers were not going to attack the French coasts of Normandy, but Norway and France at the Pas de Calais. While "Operation Fortitude" did fool Hitler's generals (to a degree), dug in across the Normandy coast were Hitler's vaunted storm troopers prepared to exact a grim causality count from our valiant Allied forces.
This brings me to my point, with less than 100 days before the 2008 presidential elections and less than one month before the Democrat convention (Aug. 25-28), not all Democrats are in a celebratory mood. Many rank-and-file liberal activists are out for blood from their own party.
There are tens of thousands of shock troops that want to dig in and camp out at the Democrat National Convention in Denver and the Democrat National Committee is doing everything it can to prevent this self-sabotage (again).
These student activists aren't the DNC's only problem. There is even a quasi-terrorist, fascist group calling itself "Recreate '68" promising to spread anarchy and mayhem at the convention.
You will remember that 1968 was the year the Democrat Convention was held in Boss Richard J. Daly's Chicago where a very radical group of protesters called "The Chicago Eight" (later pared down to seven) were charged with conspiracy and incitement in connection with the bloody riot at the convention. Remarkably, all charges were later overturned by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. (You can always count on those liberal activist judges to let the devil himself out of jail).
The eight protesters charged with conspiracy and encitement were the ususal suspects of their day – Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale.
These eight "freedom fighters" and the multitudes of useful idiots (the mob) who took part in Chicago's "police riot" in 1968 successfully sabotaged their own party along with the presidential aspirations of the great Hubert Humphrey and running mate Edmund M. Muskie (who in his own presidential run in 1972 would achieve infamy for crying at a certain spot – "Muskie cried here"), thus paving the way for Richard Nixon to win two terms, both landslide victories.
So it seems inevitable that history will repeat itself 40 years later in 2008 as a motley assortment of progressives, anarchists, students, radicals, demagogues, socialists and leftists of every stripe will all try to have their voices heard at the Democrat Convention. Since the Democrat National Committee is already giving them the middle finger salute, the mob will feel that its only recourse is to lash out in vengeance by sabotaging the Democratic candidate, B. Hussein Obama.
The latest controversy revolves around a college-age group from Tent State University petitioning Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to allow its group (and presumably about 50,000 likeminded student protesters and activists across the country) to camp out overnight at City Park near the sports arena where the convention will be held.
At the time of this writing, the mayor and virtually every Democrat politician in the state of Colorado are in unison in answering the students' inquiry with a resounding NO!
The delicious, irresistible irony here is that for over 100 years, since the advent of the progressive movement that gave birth to modern liberalism, the American public has been relentlessly propagandized with such ideas as socialism, humanism, radical egalitarianism which is the equality of results (rather than access); that the Democratic Party alone is the party that cares for everybody, even "the little guy," that they are the real "big tent party" where "everyone has a voice" and no one is marginalized.
The events developing in Denver would seem to betray that characterization and highlight the utter hypocrisy of liberal Democrats who zealously demand fairness, equality and "social justice" from everyone else, but when it is their turn to show equanimity even to a bunch of non-violent, idealistic students who just want to be "part of history," their compassion turns icy cold. At $500 a night for hotel rooms near the Democrat Convention, "the poor" need not bother to attend.
Speaking of the poor, I heard that the Democrats, the party of the people, by the people and for the people, are strongly urging all of the bums (or homeless for the PC crowd) in Denver during the time of their convention to please go to a movie on their dime. This is an incredible assertion.
Where is all the love and camaraderie Democrats claim to have for all people, races, classes, colors and creeds? This seems to me like liberals are promoting a policy of hiding or segregating the bums from the rest of society. I guess one creed liberals don't like is a vow of poverty, and the only color welcomed at the Denver convention is good ol' American greenbacks.
In the article cited above, Denver resident "Madison" was quoted as saying:
"Right now, we don't even let the Boy Scouts sleep in the parks. It isn't political. It doesn't have anything to do with any message or anybody. It's just that we don't do that," she said."Once you let one group do it, even though (the DNC) is an extraordinary circumstance and all that, I think that it opens up the door to a lot of people just thinking that they should be able to do it, and then if we say no, they can sue us for it," Madison added.
The downside, she said, is that no one knows where the protesters will go at 11 p.m.
Oh, I know where the protesters will go after 11 p.m., the same place where they went 40 years ago in Boss Daly's Chicago – into the streets itching for a fight against the police or anyone who tries to stop these youths from raising hell. And that's how Obama and the Democrats will "Recreate '68" and perhaps lose the presidential election 2008 (again).
Re-create '68 has repeatedly promised to make the bloody 1968 Democratic convention "look like a small get-together."
The mayor of Denver has promised that if the students camp out at City Park as they plan to do that the water sprinklers will be turned on them. Why don't they just throw in some free bars of soap when the sprinklers are turned on those exercising their First Amendment rights, for I'm sure the students will need a good shower by then.
Better yet, forget the sprinklers, Mayor Hickenlooper. Where are the water hoses of Gov. George Wallace, Bull Connor and Boss Richard J. Daly when you really need them?
Will D-Day happen in Denver next month? While I certainly hope that Tent State University will not become Kent State University (where four college war protesters were infamously killed in May 1970), I do love to see liberals being entangled in their own egalitarianism and their irrational PC ideas where everyone has to have an equal voice.
Rev. Jeremiah Wright notwithstanding, it is these chickens (Chicago 1968) coming home to roost 40 years later (Denver 2008) along with the litany of perverse ideas (fascism, egalitarianism, social justice, anarchy) they love to foist upon others. Now they will be forced to contend with themselves.
Ellis Washington, former editor at The Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and Morality:
The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law" (2002), "Beyond the Veil:
Essays in the Dialectical Style of Socrates" and He has just completed the manuscript to his latest book, "The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust" (2007).
Washington's latest book, "The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust," can be pre-ordered by calling 800-462-6420, promotion code "UPREPUB."
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