Denver won't 'cage protesters' at DNC (Recreate '68 plans to ignore permit process for DNC)

Denver Post ^ | 4/17/08 | Chuck Plunkett

[Libloather]

Link only --> Protest group plans to ignore permit process for DNC

[Abathar]

I will see your "recreate '68" and raise you a 2008...

[benjamin032]

Don’t worry about inviting violence, it’ll show up anyway. Who invites violence? What an asinine comment. Those anarchists will throw a brick through a Salvation Army window, they’ll attack anyone and anything they feel like, and you show up to the workshop that they used to organize it.

[DogBarkTree]

If the DNC wants to be true to their “liberal” policies they should let all the protesters into the convention hall.

[Yankee]

"We don't want to provoke violence," Brown said.

Brown said he talked with Mayor John Hickenlooper on Wednesday and that the two discussed "trying to get away from having lines of police officers."

Brown later asserted: "We aren't going to cage protesters."

Typical pantywaist liberal thinking.

Maintaining civil order = provoking violence.

Pass the popcorn.

[johnny7]

"We don't want to provoke violence," (Charlie)Brown said.

How do you provoke... what's already the stated agenda of 'Recreate 68' ?????

My advice to the triage centers in Denver... STOCK UP ON BODY-BAGS!

[JimRed]

..."trying to get away from having lines of police officers."

Green light, R-'68; time to trash Denver!

[ClearCase_guy]

I'm just amazed that activists on the Left are 100% sure that they need to stage violent protests at the Democrat Convention. They don't know how the convention will treat Obama. They don't know how the convention will treat Clinton. All they know is that they need to rampage against the unfairness of it all.

"Tantrums by children" are similarly illogical.

[Bulldawg Fan]

“We don’t want to provoke violence,” Brown said”

Great idea here: just give the police the week off, let them have some family time, relax with a brew and a ball game and the protesters will surely not be provoked. And if they are, peace and reason will regain the upper hand and there will be utopia in Denver.

[King_Corey]

Oh no no no no, this is a really bad idea. The nutcases on the left will run wild in the streets. I assure you. I need no crystal ball to see what will happen.

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[NonValueAdded]

Protesters = Lucy, Charlie. Rots o’ ruck with your strategy.

[A.A. Cunningham]

But he also has said that his group is nonviolent, and he repeated that claim several times today.

Anybody who has seen Spagnuolo and his comrades in action at the Columbus Day Parade knows that he is a liar.

[6SJ7]

Avoid the Summer rush,
buy your popcorn supplies now!

[MizSterious]

Makes me really glad I don’t live in Denver, and won’t need to visit there during this fiasco. Prayers up for the good people in Denver who will get caught up in this mess.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

If I were a Denver business owner, I’d be closing down my shop and moving out of the city permanently before the nutjobs trash the commerce district during the convention.

[PGR88]

I say issue every left-wing group a 2x4 upon arrival, and let them go at it.....

[Clioman]

I had an idea earlier for setting up a kiosk near the Convention Center and selling rocks to anarchists. I’d call them “Weapons of Modest Destruction” and price them at $1 each. Could also sell sheets of plywood to first floor merchants — “Missile Defense Shields.” That idea sounds more and more profit-making as time goes on.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I’m going. I am selling, “My lefty parents got beaten up at Recreate-68 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” shirts.

[VeniVidiVici]

We don't want to provoke violence," Brown said

Man, this going to be such fun to watch.

[VanShuyten]

Yup. I just can’t decide whether I want a large police presence or none. Businesses should have some protection, of course, but replacing those riot shields and helmets after extended use might be pretty pricey.