Shameless threats from Re-create 68

[ben_meyers]

I know all the arguments...It was Daley's police that caused the riot, it was only a few disrupters or it was infiltrators from the feds. What the general public saw on television those days was a convention in disarray and violence in the streets. The images of the speakers inside the convention hall, calling for calm, and the images of those in the streets ignoring them, were burned into the minds of the American people.

And 1968 gave us Nixon.

This outfit seems to be attempting the same thing, and it only takes a few.

editorial
Shameless threats from Re-create 68

By The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 03/21/2008 09:34:48 PM MDT
It probably shouldn't be a surprise that the self-described peaceful protesters of Re-create 68 don't seem so peaceful anymore.
Frankly, we had hoped for better from them.
After losing their bid for coveted Civic Center park space in a lottery process Thursday, one of the group's lead organizers vowed to gather there anyway on the night before the Democratic National Convention and wreak havoc in the process.
The group spent a year making nice with city officials and asking to be dealt with in a civil fashion. Then they treated the entire process with a disturbing lack of respect.
It's a shame that the group has come to embody the hypocrisy it has so vitriolically attacked.Re-create 68 has spent considerable time trying to dissuade people that the group is not trying to recreate the bloody violence of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Yet Spagnuolo offered this up when the lottery was finished: "They're creating a very dangerous situation. They should be ashamed of themselves."

No, Mr. Spagnuolo, you should be ashamed of yourself and the dangerous situation you are creating by refusing to accept that others were awarded access to that park. Their voices are important, too.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_8654497
http://recreate68.org/