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Protesters: Taking umbrage ( 2008 Democratic National Convention )
Denver Post ^ | 06/12/2007 | Chuck Plunkett

Posted on 06/13/2007 9:13:15 PM PDT by george76

Activists chastised Denver's City Council on Monday for dropping a proclamation that would have reaffirmed First Amendment rights and limited police response during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

"Who do members of the City Council represent?" asked Re-create 68 official Mark Cohen outside council chambers. "The people of Denver, or the fat cats who are paying for the big party called the Democratic National Convention?"

Cohen made his remarks to camera crews and reporters, who outnumbered the group of 10 protesters. The proclamation in question was one Cohen helped craft, and the outcome of Re-create 68's attempt to pass it through the council generated controversy last week.

City Council President Mi chael Hancock spiked the proclamation Wednesday, citing a lack of council support and concerns from civic and business leaders who balked at the notion that members of Re-create 68 helped craft the proclamation.

Protesters said both national conventions in 2004 excluded demonstrators by keeping them behind barbed-wire-topped fences, out of sight and sound of delegates. They want better access in Denver.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2008dnc; dnc
camera crews and reporters outnumbered the group of 10 protesters...

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1 posted on 06/13/2007 9:13:17 PM PDT by george76
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To: SandRat

http://www.recreate68.org/


2 posted on 06/13/2007 9:17:48 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

I’m all for re-creating 68. Maybe I’m hazy been didn’t the Democrats lose?


3 posted on 06/13/2007 9:22:07 PM PDT by tdewey10 (Can we please take out iran's nuclear capability before they start using it?)
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I’m all for re-creating 68. Maybe I’m hazy been didn’t the Democrats lose?

Good point. I also think the Dems will be all butt-hurt to find loonies to the left of themselves; none of them would have dreamed that possible. Great disillusionment in store.

4 posted on 06/13/2007 9:32:06 PM PDT by Migraine (...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
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To: tdewey10
The wannabee protest nimrods don't seem to understand that 1) incitement to riot is a felony, 2) conspiracy to incite to riot is a felony (and might well be a Federal crime also, depending on where the acts of conspiracy took place), 3) there is no Constitutional guarantee whatever to the 'right' to destroy private property, and 4) the First Amendment affirms the right to peaceful assembly to redress grievances against the government, not violent assembly against a voluntarily-gathered group of private citizens.

These dorkasauruses lose on all four of these grounds, at minimum. Give 'em one, count it, ONE warning, then throw away the key when they ignore the warning. No bail, no ror, and the speediest damned trial the state of Colorado has ever seen, followed by 10 years apiece, full clock, in one or another of Colorado's fine graybar hotels.

5 posted on 06/13/2007 9:35:41 PM PDT by SAJ (debunking myths about markets and prices on FR since 2001)
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To: tdewey10
I’m all for re-creating 68. Maybe I’m hazy been didn’t the Democrats lose?

Yep. It was definitely no landslide in the popular vote, but Nixon won decisively in the Electoral College with 301 electoral votes to Humphrey's 191. Third party Democrat-Racist (pardon the redundancy) George Wallace got 46 electoral votes.

Popular vote: Nixon 43.2%, Humphrey 42.6% (separated by a little less than 1 million votes out of 73 million cast), Wallace 12.9%, Other 1.3%.

Bear in mind this followed a Democrat landslide for LBJ in '64. So even though Nixon's win was not huge, it was a huge turn around.

6 posted on 06/13/2007 9:50:39 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: george76
"Who do members of the City Council represent?" asked Re-create 68 official Mark Cohen outside council chambers. "The people of Denver, or the fat cats who are paying for the big party called the Democratic National Convention?"

Gee as a citizen of Denver, I think they are representing me in stemming riots in the streets. What do you think Mr. Cohen, that they represent you and your hooligans? Take your nonsense somewhere else, like San Francisco. Those folks might even pay you to protest there.
7 posted on 06/13/2007 9:52:47 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: george76; All

This “1968” echo has been bandied around alot this week, particularly by the left. I see many more parallels to 1975 OR 1979, hope it’s more the latter.


8 posted on 06/13/2007 9:54:41 PM PDT by Baladas
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It’s no surprise these leftists want to terrorize the Democrats. That’s the terrorist method, attack those who show weakness.
9 posted on 06/13/2007 10:23:16 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (...."We're the govt, and we're here to hurt."....)
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To: george76

Impressive website. I wish them well. Yeah, disrupt the Dem Convention.


10 posted on 06/13/2007 10:26:53 PM PDT by no dems (FOX News: Drop that toe-sucking Dick Morris!!! His prediction track record is abysmal.)
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To: Stultis

Let’s all support them with moral support if not financial support. I’d love to see the Looney-Left Libs disrupt the Dems Convention and Coronation of Hillary and Osama.


11 posted on 06/13/2007 10:30:28 PM PDT by no dems (FOX News: Drop that toe-sucking Dick Morris!!! His prediction track record is abysmal.)
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To: george76
Re-create 68

The crazy Dems have been trying to do this since 2003. Their anti-war schtick is almost all nostalgia on the part of the old hippies, and "wished I coulda been there" on the part of their new acolytes.

12 posted on 06/13/2007 10:31:50 PM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
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To: george76

Not to worry. This is profitable stuff. I read recently that the nimrods that destroyed half of Seattle during the WTO meeting just got compensated handsomely for the indignity of having been arrested. They sued the city and won. (They came here from all over the country. Now they can afford to travel to Denver in style.)


13 posted on 06/13/2007 10:33:31 PM PDT by holyscroller (A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left)
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To: george76
I found this interesting picture supposedly from the '68 dem convention:

Ancestors of FReepers or Protestwarriors?

14 posted on 06/13/2007 10:46:36 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (You are my tagline, my only tagline, you make me happy when skies are gray...)
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To: george76

Interesting website. It’s amazing that just when our Republican/conservative side is all embroiled in some issue, along comes the looney left to make us look like normal, rational folks who’re just having a discussion.


15 posted on 06/13/2007 11:51:15 PM PDT by hsalaw
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Oh Wow. Thanks for the link. I had been considering protesting the convention but I think I’ll stay as far away as possible and let these morons do their worst.


16 posted on 06/14/2007 10:47:06 AM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: hsalaw; Grampa Dave; M. Espinola

It is amazing :

the looney left to make us look like normal, rational folks who’re just having a discussion.


17 posted on 06/14/2007 12:41:18 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: mollynme

That site is funny.

They will hang themselves ?


18 posted on 06/14/2007 12:43:16 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: tdewey10
I’m all for re-creating 68. Maybe I’m hazy been didn’t the Democrats lose?

Shhhhhh don't tell them.

19 posted on 06/14/2007 12:46:30 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (http://dumplindseygraham.blogspot.com)
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