Posted on 08/16/2004 2:40:50 AM PDT by fuzzy122
Tom Hayden, one of the central organizers of sometimes violent, civil disobedience protests at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, is pledging to disrupt this month's Republican convention with demonstrations "1,000 times bigger than Chicago," according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, WND's premium, weekly, online intelligence newsletter.
Hayden, the co-founder of Students for Democratic Society, a left-wing group that splintered in the late '60s and early '70s, with one faction resorting to terrorism, is predicting between 100,000 and 1 million protesters will be in New York for the convention beginning Aug. 30.
Hayden said there were at most 6,000 on hand in Chicago in 1968.
This time, he predicted, it will be "bigger by a thousand fold," he told a foreign journalist.
He said many demonstrators were scared off by tough-talking Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. The bigger protest in New York, he said, "influences the character of everything, including the strategy of the Department of Homeland Security."
No permits have yet been issued for any planned demonstrations.
"I think people are entitled to march without a permit," said Hayden, at one time the husband of Jane Fonda and the man who orchestrated her infamous visits to North Vietnam. "When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. Nevertheless, the good people seeking permits have to continue doing that because it might happen and they need to lay the legal foundation for a later lawsuit."
Hayden has issued what some interpret as veiled threats if New York does not accommodate the demonstrators.
"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards," he said. "The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
While at the Democratic convention in Boston this summer, Hayden was overheard by two other sources saying he would use Vietnam War-era anti-war tactics to protest Iraq and Afghanistan during the GOP convention.
A Maryland man, meanwhile, is attempting to organize counter-demonstrators to shadow Hayden's protests.
"Tom Hayden's activities (in the 1960s and 1970s) went further then demonstrations to subversive activities corrupting people on active duty, visiting Vietnam," said Roger Hall. "His activities were used to confront POWs with his claims of being war criminals. Some POWs were beaten. His wife Jane Fonda went to Vietnam on his direction, where American servicemen were falsely charged as criminals. He gave aid and comfort to the enemy. Stop evil where ever you can, this guy is evil."
Recently, Hayden served several terms in the California Legislature representing the beach town of Santa Monica.
As WND reported previously, some of the groups organizing protests at this summer's Republican convention – including an anarchist outfit planning disruptions – get funding from a foundation chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of the Democratic Party presidential nominee.
Heinz Kerry, worth as much as $1 billion according to some estimates, has directed donations in the millions to the Tides Foundation, a 28-year-old grant-making institution that funds some of the principal groups organizing demonstrations and disruptions of the GOP convention.
The umbrella coalition organizing the protests is called United for Peace and Justice – strongly critical of the war in Iraq. The coalition was sponsored by Ramsey Clark's International Action Center, which was funded by the Tides Center's Iraq Peace Fund and Peace Studies Fund. Clark's group also sponsored International ANSWER. Both groups are run by long-time communist revolutionaries.
Teresa Heinz Kerry's favorite charity has also funded The Ruckus Society, an anarchist group known for disrupting the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999 and planning similar disruptions for the New York convention. The group has been training protesters for the GOP convention in the art of sit-ins and blockades.
Mrs. Kerry, working through the Howard Heinz Endowment, oversaw the donation of more than $4 million to the Tides Foundation between 1995 and 2001.
Other groups in the United for Peace and Justice Coalition funded by Tides include the American Friends Service Committee, MADRE, the Institute for Policy Studies, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild.
Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice national coordinator, a long-time communist revolutionary, also runs International ANSWER, dominated by the Communist Workers World Party. The Communist Party USA is also one of the affiliated groups under the United for Peace and Justice coalition.
There were reports last week that some of the groups headed for New York have more in mind than waving placards, marching and listening to speakers denounce President Bush.
According to the New York Daily News, fringe elements are hoping to spark major disruptions "with a series of sneaky tricks – including fooling bomb-sniffing dogs on trains bound for Penn Station."
"Internet-using anarchists are telling would-be troublemakers to decoy specially trained Labrador retrievers with gunpowder or ammonium nitrate-laced tablets in a bid to halt trains or even spur the evacuation of Madison Square Garden," the paper reported.
The Republican convention will be held at Madison Square Garden Aug. 30 through Sept. 2.
New York City police have expressed concern about the way some of these groups have used the Internet to disseminate plans for disruption. Among those messages cited:
"Go to a rifle, pistol or skeet shooting range, spend an hour shooting to saturate clothing with smell of gunpowder, go directly to a New Jersey Transit, LIRR or subway train headed for Penn Station.
"Try to have at least two people on a train in different locations, sit or stand near the doors as the train approaches the station, try to get near police and dogs, loiter as long as possible around the dog, try to pet it if possible.
"If the dog alerts on your scent, do not leave or resist; the situation will cause a major disruption of the train schedule. ... If there is more than one person on the train that causes a dog to alert, you can bet that the train will not be going anywhere for a long time ... neither will any trains behind it.
"It is important that the police call in all possible resources to investigate the situation. ... This will result in the maximum disruption. ... With any luck, Madison Square Garden will be evacuated.
"Rush hours are ideal, the final night of the convention, very good, too."
Where are those club swingin LA police when you need them?
1000 times worse...Yeah, OK. And they thought the Dem convention behind cages was bad, wait till they see NYC. They won`t get 10 miles near Madison Square Garden, and if they think they will they`re dreaming. Right now I`m hearing rumors they may close all entry into the city that week, which means the only way these terror supporting a-holes are going to get in is to swim acroos the river and even then they`ll probably get their azzes thrown into the nearest paddy wagon as soon as they touch shore.
these people will be used to give cover to the other terrorists that will probably plant real bombs and kill or mame many americans. these people need to be arrested and sent to jail as trators, because they are enemys of the USA.
No. The GOP is united behind Bush. The same can not be said for the DNC in 68.
you forgot something... One mayor Bloomberg said that no civil disobedience and unsanctioned protests would be tollerated. Furthermore the protest they tried to schedule was derailed completely and if they march without a permit it will be directly to jail do not pass go. New York City ain as liberal as you think. I m a Brooklynite and trust me there are plenty of conservative people here (I m not conservative per se but I will vote for Bush cause of tax cuts).
Some unions said they would march if he didnt give in with union negotiations and bankrupt the city treasury to placate their demands. He said threatning him wont work so it stopped right after that. It doesnt really seem like anything will happen, although I must admit Sharpton might jump out of the shadows and march to jail (again...).
LOL. "When then tip of this baton hits 88 mph, your're gonna see some serious sh**"
So Tom thinks 6,000,000 of these squeegie people are going to show up for this? Dream on, commie scumbag.
Hey any Freepers going to counter protest these mutts? I live in NYC and was wondering. Not that the libs will get anywhere near MSG, but where ever they get to protest, whether it be Queens or New Jersey, I would like to join in and bust some heads (figuratively).
Will it be as bad as Chicago '68? Hey, I hope so. I saw an interview with Allen Ginsberg once, and he was at the convention but was trying to convince everyone to be peaceful, and he thought the goings on at Grant Park, getting everyone whipped into a frenzy, would lead to disaster. He said that he thought the violence was responsible for scaring people and therefore for the election of Nixon. A similar demonstration would send the "straights" right over to the Bush side. Let 'em dig their own grave.
Why didn't he use those tactics at the Dem convention, hmm?
Who will be the 2004 version of MC5?
I would say the last thing John F'ing Kerry would want connected to him in any way would be Hanoi Jane and her radical ideas and wacko former hubby. I say,let 'em do it. Bring it on. '68 was such a disgusting debacle, that ought to sew up the election just fine.
"Who will be the 2004 version of MC5?"
I'm thinking, maybe, Rage Against the Machine. Of course, that would probably end up with Alan Keyes bodysurfing to them again.
Why not cancel, or significantly reduce it to a few main events?
Everyone already knows the outcome: George W. Bush will be nominated.
Why give disruptors a chance to cause trouble, and get more publicity for their pet causes?
Everyone knows the media will give even the tiniest disruption major coverage, while ignoring the convention itself.
The television for this will be grand.
Every image of an angry, obnoxious, nose-ringed mouth-breather howling at Bush pushes thousands of votes into our column. And with Fatso the Filmmaker probably getting the most coverage of anyone (including the Republicans), the gain will be incalculable.
When Fatso appears on TV during convention week: DRINK!
Even posters at DU are afraid that mass demonstrations will be counterproductive to Kerry and the Dems.
Looneys on the Left, demonstrating and taking valuable police resources away from anti-terror activities will turn off voters to their cause.
These people would gladly see the country nuked, the economy destroyed, and then blame Bush. They are almost a bigger obstacle to the WOT than the Islamofascists.
The question of the day....will my g-g-g-generation EVER get over itself?
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