Posted on 07/18/2016 12:29:12 PM PDT by blam
by Tyler Durden
Jul 18, 2016
Howard Kunstler
I was in the streets of Chicago in 1968 during the Democratic Convention. It was only a few months after Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were shot to death. The “establishment,” as we called it back then, was all set to nominate Vice-president Hubert Humphrey who had started out in Washington as a Midwestern progressive firebrand but was now was broadly perceived by America’s hippie youth as a stooge and a sell-out to the evil forces running the Vietnam War.
I wasn’t exactly a protester, more like a proto-journalist, there to witness an epochal event. It was a wild three days with a lot of moiling in Lincoln Park and Grant Park, and finally out on Michigan Avenue the night of Humphrey’s awful apotheosis, where things got especially ugly and the tear gas canisters flew. But that was about it. Nobody got killed by the police, or vice-versa, and then we all went back to college (my SUNY school cost $500-a-year back then, by the bye). Nixon was the consolation prize.
Back then, it was in style to assassinate political leaders. Today it’s in fashion to assassinate police. It’s hard to imagine easier targets. Where trouble is brewing in the streets nowadays, there they stand: right out in front, easily distinguished in their uniforms. That was exactly the picture on the front page of The New York Times today: the thin blue line in Cleveland, where the Republican convention convenes this week to nominate the golden deus ex machina Donald Trump. There are few things in life one can predict with certainty, but given the grave events of recent weeks, it is hard to see how deadly gunplay might be avoided at the 2016 Republican convention.
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That's WROUGHT!
This race war is brought to you by POTUS and the Just Us Department. When you want to know who to blame... blame Just us.
I made a bet with my wife. How many deaths at the RNC? I said 5, she said 10.
People attending the convention who are alive today will be dead by the end of the convention.
Now if I know that, why aren’t “public servants” taking precautions to avoid it?
So much for Obama ushering in the period of post racialism in America, huh? I can’t imagine that President Al Sharpton would have done a better job of dividing America.
pretty morbid bet, but I’ll guess one will be dead considering they have a lot of security there.
Because any such deaths will be used by the administration and their fellow travelers in the progressive movement - most notably the MSM and the Democrat Party, to blame the rest of America and the truth be damned.
The RNC convention provides a tinderbox for an all out war. To my brothers in Cleveland, watch your backs .
Hasn’t it been obvious what the MSM, Soros—the Nazi Collaborator and the Usurper in the Blight House has been trying to do?
The NBP types say they will be there, armed. I doubt any of them have the balls but if they do I say the death count hits 40 or even 50 with most of the dead theirs. If they are the cowards I suspect they are they will no show.
It’s not a war when only one side is doing all the killing.
Like what? Ordinarily, the thin blue line around the event would suffice. Now it just provides a target rich environment.
Never pick a fight where you’re outnumbered 6:1
A running man can slit a thousand throats in one night.
- Klingon Proverb
Good news, the Trump bikers are in Cleveland .
No it isn’t, ‘cause only one side is fighting.
When the other sides fight back, it might not last very long.
It’s not a race war. It’s one outward manifestation of an ideological movement employing useful idiots to undermine law and order in an attempt to destabilize our society and government.
Since most of the prime actors in this movement hold the highest offices in the land it’s working fairly well. For the moment.
I think this man actually believes Obama didn’t intend to start a race war...
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