Posted on 03/07/2016 12:29:38 PM PST by Jack Black
A preview of the mayhem that is likely to envelop the 2016 GOP Convention in Cleveland will be seen this Friday when Trump holds a rally in Chicago. The Facebook page soliciting 'non-violent protesters' to attend the rally has over 7000 people promising to attend, and another 7000 are "interested".
The escalation of disruption and the provocation of violence has been on view over the last few weeks, in several Trump rallies. The Black Lives Matter activists have been the most visible disruptors, but there are others as well. The BLM movement was involved in fulminating full on riots (arson, looting) in several cities last summer. This is familiar territory for them.
But they are far from the only group that can be expected to protest at the GOP Convention. The usual Soros funded rent-a-mob types, SEUI members, recycled "Occupy" protesters, angry Sanders supporters and the vanguard of violence among leftists groups, the 'black block' anarchists can all be expected to turn out in force to protest the GOP convention, regardless of who the Convention is set to nominate.
The Cleveland Police are doing their best to prepare for these events as local papers have reported: Cleveland seeking to buy riot gear for Republican National Convention and Cleveland police begin special riot training. These news reports cite the number 2,000 as the number of "riot suits" being bought for the Convention.
To understand what the leftist agitators have in mind one needs to recall the 1968 Democratic convention when the Yippies, a far left group of radicals set out to create complete havoc in the streets of Chicago, to protest the failure of the Democratic Party to nominate an anti-war candidate. This event has an almost spiritual significance to the left, it is remembered as one of their greatest victories, and a high water mark for the anti-war left. This, despite the fact that it virtually assured the election of Richard Nixon in a landslide. No one ever said the Left were concerned with outcomes over feel-good theatrics.
By most accounts the disruption in Chicago was the work of no more than 1000 activists. It seems likely that today's social-media fueled left will easily be able to exceed this number, perhaps by an order of magnitude. And it seems likely that given the recent behavior of the left, both in Ferguson and at Trump events that violent mayhem is almost a certainty.
Mayor Daley, the long time mayor of Chicago was a law-and-order mayor who had a no-nonsense policy towards the protesters. Arrests were made in the days leading up to the larger protests, and those were greeted with riot-troops and tear gas. The riots were portrayed at the time as "police riots", that is the police decided to beat up the hapless hippies for no reason. In fact the opposite is true. The organizers used incredible provocations, such as throwing plastic bags of urine and feces at the police to force their hand.
It's unclear if the Cleveland police are made of stern enough stuff to prevent large scale rioting in their city. According to Wikipedia the force consists of only about 1500 officers. Even assuming they can augment this with suburban forces, it's a far cry from Chicago's 12,000 officers. Even the Ohio State Highway Patrol has only 1,500 additional officers, many of whom have little experience in riots being specialized officers who do truck inspections or motorcycle cops focused on traffic enforcement.
The mayor of Cleveland is Frank G. Jackson, a liberal Democrat whose background includes community organizing. He has worked to address minority complaints with the Cleveland police practices, and his city has been the site of several highly charged shootings of blacks. All of which may not bode well for the police having the required mind set and support to mount an aggressive defense of order in the face of violent rioters.
One wishes it were not so, but it seems inevitable that Cleveland will be the site of serious riots at this summer's GOP convention in Cleveland.
Do you mean this one, “When the music stops: how America’s cities may explode in violence?”
Bring 'em in; Take 'em down. Shake 'em up. You've got the power and 7,000 plus happy warriors standing with you. Like Missouri, this little protest/riot will not turn out well. As they bring down the house make certain their valuables are collected to rebuild and make ready. "It's only fair."
Right now the weather sucks in the mistake by the lake so they should wait for summer so they will get enough people out to start one.
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I think I first saw it from a poster at Sipsey Street Irregulars.
No. Make the meeting in another place and let economics take place.
My father grew up during the race riots in Cleveland.
Let’s just say the Italians did not look too kindly on the rioters. And that was NOT good for the rioters.
But that was in a different day...
My father grew up during the race riots in Cleveland.
Let’s just say the Italians did not look too kindly on the rioters. And that was NOT good for the rioters.
But that was in a different day...
I hope the convention does not devolve into that kind of crap.
You can thank the Establishment for VOIDING the votes of the Republican voters.
It will most likely leave to a Hillary Presidency!
For the record if they do this. I will NEVER vote for a Republican again. I don’t care who it is.
The only answer now is a third party because the Republican party is going to continue their drift to the Left.
Cruz supporters that think Cruz will get in are smoking their own dope.
We are most likely going to see Mitt Romney again.
Have republicans, Christians, or Conservatives ever rioted a democrat convention? I can’t think of any examples.
C’mon man.
Don’t pull the race card on Trump, will ya?
You sound like a flippin’ Dem moonbat.
Speaking of which, BLM showed up at a Sanders rally
so being a moonbat didn’t help him, did it?
Black lives don’t matter to BLM unless taken by cops or whites.
The 90% of murdered blacks killed by blacks don’t matter to them.
Many liberals are nascent fascists and always seek to shut down opposing views. Like W.F. Buckley Jr. said liberals profess to believe in the airing of opposing views and then are shocked to find many people have them.
One difference between Chicago in 1968 and what may happen in Cleveland is that the Johnson administration wasn’t orchestrating the riots. What BLM will do remains to be seen but it will probably be done after consultation with the White House.
The stupider they act, the better off we will be (if it’s a clean convention nominating the choice of voters in the many states’ primaries and caucuses). Neither Chicago ‘68, or the Paul Wellstone pre-election rally, uh, er, funeral, boded well for Dems. They really don’t have the first clue on the perception of their nonsense beyond their own view.
I bought this old helmet on Ebay and used it as a prop. It’s in very good shape still.
In the next couple of weeks I plan to do more along the same lines. I found a couple of old beat up rifle stocks on Ebay and will attach a piece of pipe and get some smoke bombs. I think it will look a lot better.
It was done on the spur of the moment at a farm. I happened to have it on board and found the piece of wood.
You can bet if they were to be the nominee the BLM will be camped at their rallies.
Pray America wakes
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