[robowombat]

A warm memory of how at least once during Viet nam the traitors were routed. As the same types crawl out from under their rocks to try and do another stab in the back one can only hope.

[Pox]

"Stop being juveniles," a Lindsay aide, Donald Evans, admonished a construction worker. "What do you mean, being a juvenile?" he replied, punching Mr. Evans on the chin.

That should be the standard riposte to the vocal yet clueless far-left elitists, IMO.

[Blood of Tyrants]

large welt on his head and five bootmarks on his back.

Ahhhh, the good old days.....

[motzman]

"Stop being juveniles," a Lindsay aide, Donald Evans, admonished a construction worker. "What do you mean, being a juvenile?" he replied, punching Mr. Evans on the chin.

Great!!

[Unam Sanctam]

I don't think violently breaking up a peaceful demonstration, no matter how nefarious, is something to look back proudly upon.

[joesnuffy]

Those guys were allright...those Teamsters were the real Americans back then....
And when Lt Calley was being charged with My Lai...They called it all a left wing commie crock of shiite....
My how things have changed....

[A Jovial Cad]

You got that right. Ironic that a lot of the construction workers where in Manhattan to build the WTC towers. The anti-American hippies they mixed it up with during those days are probably all graying keyboard warriors doing the cave-dwelling "underground" thing over at DUmmies 'R Us about right now.

[OldFriend]

My husband who is as committed to conservative republicans as any of us.....was there when the hardhats attacked and he says it was the most frightening thing he ever saw. He did not think it was the right thing to do at all. In his words, a mob is a mob is a mob and the hardhats were a mob.

[genefromjersey]

Gee ! All the demonstrators wanted to do was (gasp ! snort ! chuckle !) express solidarity with the workers.

[Skooz]

I was 10 or 11 at the time, but I remember this event being chronicled in Mad Magazine complete with a song (to the tune of the US Air Force theme):

"Off we go into the peace group yonder....
(words, words, words, words)
Those filthy reds, we'll break their heads,
nothing can stop the hard hats today!"


That's all I remember after all these years.

[NYC GOP Chick]

The scuffle over the flag at City Hall was accompanied by chants of "Lindsay's a Red."

Say what you will about the rest of the counterprotest/riot, but how can anyone disagree with this part of it?

That said, I didn't live down here in this neighborhood back then and I was very young when it happened, but I do have vague recollections of it.

You might remember that more recently, a little over a year ago, construction workers held a Support the Troops rally around the WTC site: Pro-USA Rally

[wardaddy]

Man I wish. I was surrounded by stinky watermelons at Wild Oats market tonight buying sushi.....I coulda slugged one dreadhead with an Anyone But Bush shirt.

and the 500K babykiller march over the weekend....lord don't get me started.

it would be great to vent...lol....talk is cheap.