Posted on 04/15/2008 1:18:01 PM PDT by mdittmar
This week, groups planning to protest during the Democratic National Convention in Denver are getting some training.
A group known as "Recreate 68" is planning several demonstrations while the convention is in Denver in August.
National experts are in town teaching protestors how to assert their rights and how to act during police encounters.
The training will focus on first amendment rights, police questioning and police searches.
More Information: DNC People's Law Project
I vaguely remember the 68 one, but I clearly remember one Chicago cop quoting the hippies as calling the Police a bunch “ of mother hunchin pigs”...
“Dad, what’s a mother huncher?”
If it is coed I suggest the "pigs" be invited also, they can sharpen up their tasering skills.
Recreate 1968? Does this mean that they will announce a street concert by the Rolling Stones and The Beatles and deliver the MC5 instead and no planned power supply?
“recreate ‘68”?
OMG, these folks are truly batty.
Tasers....yeah, they didn’t have those in ‘68 did they? Heh.
They're Democrats.
DNC People’s Law Project
Brian Vicente, Director
Brian Vicente, Esq. is the Executive Director of Sensible Colorado, a non-profit working for effective and humane drug policy in Colorado.
The DNC People’s Law Project was formed by the Colorado National Lawyers Guild to ensure those voices are heard. We are a legal collective of lawyers, legal workers, and law students united for the purpose of defending the rights of demonstrators who bring a message of social justice to the 2008 DNC in Denver.
Staff:
Sean McAllister
Attorney at Law and Sensible Colorado Board Member
Hans Meyer, Esq.
Office of the Colorado State Public Defender
Interns:
Heather Skrypek
Nuri Heckler
DNC Disruption 08’
www.dncdisruption08.org
*All events are free and open to the public. The lectures will take place at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2255 E. Evans Ave, Denver, CO 80208. For directions, please visit
http://www.du.edu/maps/main_nw.html.
For more information, contact Heather Skrypek at hskrypek09@law.du.edu.
**For more on the DNC-People’s Law Project visit: www.dnc-plp.org
Question: why does the Left always protest at the Democrat’s convention instead of the Republican one? The Dems are so on the Left’s side now, that it makes no sense to protest them. (Yea, I know: these fools couldn’t use logic if they were locked in a mathematical formula). But I do wonder.
Recreate ‘68, Ruckus, Code Pink, they’re all the same or at least overlapping domestic terrorist groups. Here’s an article from last month, Investors’ Business Daily.
Terrorism’s Left Turn
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Domestic Terrorism: A group burns some new homes it thinks are an affront to nature. A nut riding a bicycle explodes a small bomb at a military recruiting center on Times Square. Any connection? We think so.
Related Topics: Global War On Terror
As for Thursday morning’s bomb, there’s a lot of speculation about who set it off. Islamic extremists? Groups affiliated with Code Pink, Ruckus, Recreate ‘68 and other extreme left-wing groups? All possible, but none proven — yet.
That said, the apocalyptic rhetoric and verbal violence of the far left is starting to be translated into acts of terrorism. Soon, someone’s going to get hurt badly or even killed if we don’t stop it now.
We’ve been here before. The extreme-left anarchists of the late 19th century even had a phrase for it: “The propaganda of the deed.” In modern terms, it means talk is cheap but violence is real.
That seems to be the guiding principle for some of these groups. Yes, the explosion at Times Square killed no one. But maybe the next one will.
Ditto Monday’s home burnings by eco-terrorists in Washington state. Just homes destroyed, no lives. But what next?
Emboldened by their own over-the-top rhetoric and by getting away with their crimes so far, whoever is doing these things will ratchet up the violence. They crave the attention. That’s why they chose the Army recruitment center in Times Square as a target. It’s glitzy, and they knew it would get lots of media.
This is not just any recruitment center. According to the Associated Press, it has been the busiest recruitment center in the U.S. for more than half a century, averaging about 10,000 volunteers a year.
We wish this were an isolated incident, but it isn’t.
As Catherine Moy noted on the MelanieMorgan.com Web site, there’s been a rash of recent attacks on military recruiters across the country — in Washington, D.C.; Berkeley, Calif.; Minneapolis; Milwaukee; Santa Monica, Calif.; Toledo, Ohio; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Pittsburgh; Haverhill, Mass., and now New York.
And this, Moy adds, is only a partial list.
Groups such as Code Pink, Recreate ‘68 and Ruckus have threatened recruiters around the country. Like the spoiled, ignorant children they are, they feel entitled to violently act out their puerile rage against the U.S. for its war against terrorism.
Recreate ‘68, for instance, serves as a kind of umbrella organization for like-minded extremists. At its Web site, it describes what it calls “Direct Action” — a nice, value-neutral phrase for terrorism.
If they don’t get what they want — like a pullout of our troops in Iraq — they threaten to disrupt this summer’s Democratic Convention in Denver. Who knows where this will lead?
Code Pink justifies its antics — like staging protests outside the Reed Army Medical Center, where real American heroes are treated for their wounds — as being “outrageous for peace.” Part of being “outrageous” included sending $600,000 in aid to the families of terrorists in Iraq who were killing our soldiers.
Nor is this just about politics, or the war in Iraq.
The Earth Liberation Front’s burning of three luxury show homes near Seattle is also part of a trend. Green terrorists have caused more than $200 million in damage in recent years, and threaten to do more. They too are a danger.
Again, we don’t know who set off the bombs. But we do know that these groups have contributed to an atmosphere of extreme anger and violent action that makes even more possible.
So saturated in rage are those on the far left, they’ll justify destruction of property or attacks on our democracy as moral necessities. But violent speech to violent acts isn’t much of a leap. Eventually, mark our words, human lives will be taken.
I guess Obama wasn’t cozying up to Bill Ayres and Bernadette Dorn for nothing.
LOL. Selective memory can be a wonderful thing, no?
I recall that Teraysa Heinz Kerry was quite prominent in her contributions and association with Ruckus Society.
Maybe we will get lucky and they will pick someone who did not participate in any primaries like they did in 68 and both Hillary and Obama’s people will be pissed. ;)
“Don’t these people have jobs?”
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No. They are parasites and live off everyone else.
Freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
High-intensity, I hope.
Really? RUCKUS is a really radical group that trains protesters in methods that are aimed at maximum disruption. They were responsible for training the anarchists that protested the World Trade meeting in Seattle under Clinton. They believe that the destruction of personal property is justified if it advances their cause (attracts attention).
The LAwyer’s Guild is a RADICAL COMMUNIST organization...
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