Posted on 06/09/2024 8:42:14 AM PDT by Salman
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To be sure, the landscape is vastly different than it was in the late 1960s, even amid resurgent political violence driven predominantly by the far right. Nevertheless, the influx of potentially tens of thousands of protesters into Chicago during the Aug. 19-22 convention, some of whom have vowed to take to the streets without city permits, raises questions about how prepared Chicago police are for any ensuing unrest.
While similar concerns arose ahead of the last Chicago DNC in 1996, as well as the NATO summit in 2012, divisions among the Democratic coalition are deeper this year, with progressives upset over Biden’s ongoing support for Israel in its war against Hamas as well as his recent order clamping down on migrant crossings at the southern border.
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“This will not be 1968,” said Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling while acknowledging he understands the comparison given national protests of the Israel-Hamas war. “Our response as a Chicago Police Department will be a lot more deliberate … a lot more controlled because our officers are being trained in the best way possible to respond to any level of civil unrest.”
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My Father was an old-school, Calvin Coolidge style Republican, who couldn’t understand the “hippies and long-hairs” who emerged in the late 1960s Democrat Party.
Now the American Left has gone parabolic with the number and types of outcasts, mutants and freaks it cultivates and puts on display.
I’m glad Dad isn’t around to see it. He’d wouldn’t be able to make heads or tails of it, and would have thought he died and went to hell.
“....even amid resurgent political violence driven predominantly by the far right.”
Stopped reading right there.
I can visualize that happening without any such machinations. Lots of people (with money) from out town wandering around. Some of them will want illicit drugs. Rival gangs will claim that new (but temporary) customer base.
They just join them. Then all the damage afterwards is covered up by the media.
Personally I hope they burn half the city to the ground. Not the half with the good people in it.
I do find it interesting that whenever leftist engage in significant group, public violence that none of the perps end up in gulags like people who stand on the grounds of the capital on January 6th. Watch and see what happens to all these people that created a scene around the White House in their so-called Palestinian protest. None of them are going to be hounded for the next four years and then put in a gulag for another four.
Usually the fate of potential problems with events like this rests w/ leadership.
In other words, they are effed.
Best think the police could do is stand back and open the “borders” and let them all in about half way through the Dims sht convention...
At least at the '68 convention the cops were an entirely different, unfettered, old school breed of cat, with full support of a strong mayor and public. None of the chicken shit "rules of engagement" we have now... and they had billy clubs!😎
MarQ
They will have the convention via zoom that way there wont be an actual convention, just zoomed like during corona..did you see those hamas lovers yesterday carrying the decapitated head of Joe Biden, honestly I think that head has more intelligence than the dementia riddled buffoon currently in the white house but I digress, they dont want those terrorists showing up and that is what they are, terrorists, ruining their lil convention
The same type of eff-nuts tried to do this in Denver 2008. The DPD with a lot of local help, MIL support and federal partners stopped them. There were some protests but it was “mostly” peaceful.
DPD and other city workers scoured the city for riot preparations. They found bricks glued and taped to walls. Rebar with taped handles and wood sticks shoved in empty pipes. Someone knocked over an old brick wall and the city workers had the wall cleaned up in hours to remove the possible use of the brick for street actions. The Cleanest the city was in years but it limited what was available for the black bloc merte from causing trouble.
yeah cause of course those pro hamas lovers yesterday cheering on hamas and circling around the white house all had maga hats on, that is why NO media covered it, NONE
...even amid resurgent political violence driven predominantly by the far right.
Sounds like this cretin is hoping to again set Trump up for the expected insurrection.
FTA:... amid resurgent political violence driven predominantly by the far right...
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Like klAntifa and BLM?
“In the business this is known as foreshadowing”. I’m not sure that much popcorn is good for you.
If it is would we know?
Yesterday, in DC and surrounding the White House, there was a large pro-Islam protest at which the rioters defaced statues and monuments. The cops had to back away from Layfette Park as they were overwhelmed by the protesters. There has been little to no reporting by legacy media. There were no live-streaming Youtube videos that I could find anywhere (Youtube suppresses videos such as that now).
If the media doesn’t report it does it really happen?
“....even amid resurgent political violence driven predominantly by the far right”
Examples please. And no, Jan 6, 2021 doesn’t count. Any violence there was driven by the left.
They can’t keep the streets of Chicago safe on any ordinary day, but the DNC? No sweat. We shall see.
What was it that Mayor Daily said?
“The police are not here to cause disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder.”
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