Posted on 03/17/2016 3:08:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
Proving once again that for liberals history begins the day they are born.
The key difference between 1968 and 2016 is that in 1968, Mayor Daley gave Chief Conlisk the green light to bash heads and kick ass. In 2016, Mayor Emmanuel told the police not to make arrests.
Sorry, HUGE DIFFERENCE. Last Friday (in Chicago) it was an attempt by OPPOSING PARTY DISRUPTERS to shut down the right to speak to supporters (although you may not think they were the opposition party, given the support they got from Cruz and other GOPe) - many of them paid to be there.
Back then it was activists of the SAME PARTY - we’ll get there in Cleveland if the GOPe continues their suicidal march towards denying Trump the nomination.
Emmett Tyrrell is a liberal? Who knew?
Exactly! The 2 events have nothing in common other than the city where they happened and the fact that the violent thugs were leftists in both cases.
So he’s just stupid? The comparison of what happened at the Trump rally to the riots at the ‘68 DemRat convention was even dumber than is his ignorance of history.
History simply repeating itself.
No, he’s not stupid. He’s pretty much on the mark. In Post #3, I identified the key difference.
I hope this is not a rehash of 1968! I remember Bobby Kennedy (who would have been President) very well, the shock and hysteria that followed!
Post #4 was really the key difference.
Don’t see my Post #12
Classic Emmett Tyrrell, I love it!
If they want the return of 1968 maybe the police could thump some libtard heads like they did back in the day.
Post #12 is just the keyhole!
“Barely fazed, the candidate lunged directly toward the source of the trouble.”
Trump wanted a piece of that POS, but the SS tackled him first!
TAS’s Tyrrell? He’s the best thing about TAS.
1968 was much worse. I know. My dad commuted in/out of Chicago everyday and we had curfews going on in the suburbs.
Uh, no, yesterday was not like 1968.
Try radical leftists shooting citizens, bankrobbing to finance their revolution, assassinations, bombings and extremely widespread protests with head bashing, fece flinging and tear gas as the perfume d’jour. Finally, add the fear of Viet Nam which garnered widespread popular support by the middle classes.
The revolution still failed.
Today, as Hillary krinton said - the revolution must come from the top down. And so it is. Corruption is widespread and statesmen are few. The watchdog media has become the lapdog bootlickers and the rabble on the street is just that - rabble.
Another difference is that in 1968 the riots didn’t start until the ‘rat convention.
This year it’s starting in March.
I must respectfully disagree.
Those filthy degenerate hippie scum that protested in 1968 are the ones in power now.
Their politics haven't even changed.
Kookball leftists are MAINSTREAM democrats in 2016.
They were protesting people like Humphrey. An anti-communist democrat who would be considered a "right-winger" today.
FGS, there are two full-blown commies running for the democratic nomination.
And they aren't even ashamed to admit it.
In 1968, a commie running for president would have been run out of town on a rail... by the DEMOCRATS.
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