What if they held a riot and no one came?
My second syndicated column of the week sums up the Recreate ‘68 flameout. We’ve been having fun mocking the motley assortment of clowns and cads here in Denver for the week, but I’ll add this caveat: Law enforcement in the Twin Cities should remain on guard. A lot of these malefactors are headed down there to join Leftists who have caused serious trouble there. Don’t forget the havoc they have wrought attacking ROTC offices on campuses and recruitment centers across the country. As I got to see up close the other day, many of these grievance-mongers are swelling with unhinged anger. The lesson of the Seattle WTO riots was “Be prepared.” Still operative.
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What I saw at the discombobulation
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
DENVER — Never was so much hype created by so few to simulate the appearance of so many.
The hard-core Left vowed to turn out 50,000 protesters for the Democratic National Convention this week. They pledged to “Recreate ‘68″ and cause the kind of tear-gas-infused revolutionary havoc that marked the DNC in Chicago four decades ago. Police prepared for the worst riots. Media from around the world anticipated the best pictures.
But when rhetorical push came to real-life shove, the nostalgic, Marx-adoring organizers of Recreate ‘68 seem to have mustered no more than, oh, 68 bodies. Their presence here is dwarfed by the massive show of police, press, and camera-toting looky-loos. You can’t take a picture without someone else taking pictures of everyone else taking pictures of not much else getting in your frame.
The chaos-inducers’ mouths were a mile wide. Their crowds have been an inch deep. What’s left of the leftover ’60s movement is all sizzle and no steak. Or veggie burger. Deep-fried tofu. Whatever.
At an abortion protest/counter-protest on Saturday in front of a Planned Parenthood mega-facility, I counted less than a dozen pro-abortion activists milling about with three times as many media. The majority of demonstrators were more exercised about the war in Iraq than about the vaunted woman’s right to choose death for her unborn child — the stated focus of the demonstration.
And while Democrat Party chair Howard Dean excoriates the Republican Party as the “white” party, I saw only one-non-white agitator among the pro-abortion gaggle. (This goes for the rest of the Recreate ‘68 populace, too. It’s as pale and colorless as a Colorado snowfall.) Across the street from the Planned Parenthood event, however, were many incensed black- and brown-skinned moms. Incensed, that is, that an abortion mill had been built right across from the park where their children practice football and swing on the playground set.
One of the moms, Priscilla said bluntly: “I don’t want a f**king abortion clinic in my neighborhood!” A Hispanic mother added: “It’s against the Catholic Church.” (Are you listening, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi?) When asked about her views on abortion, another black mother of three I spoke to while sitting in her minivan told me simply: “I don’t believe in it.”
Speaking of disbelief, behold the dregs of the self-pitying anti-war movement. The white flag crowd had so much trouble getting coverage of its worn-out, giant puppet-toting, drum-beating, ratty lingerie-flashing Bush-cursing antics on Sunday that a sympathizer at the Associated Press devoted an entire sob story to the apathy. “CodePink faces tough odds for public’s attention,” the AP’s Christine Simmons mourned. Perhaps if more than 10 of them actually showed up at one time to do something other than scream about BusHitler or bawl about detained Gitmo jihadists, they’d have better luck.
At Denver’s City Center on Monday night, law enforcement authorities encountered about 100 aimless grievance-mongers — self-described as “anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-war”– who finally fixed on something concrete to protest when their friends were arrested for refusing to disperse. “My freedom of speech was suppressed,” one protester complained as she spoke freely to the media and acknowledged that she hadn’t been arrested or asked to show identification.
In the melee, a few responsible adults were accidentally hit with pepper spray. Otherwise, Denver blogger Charlie Martin, who was covering the scene for Pajamas Media, quipped: “It was the world’s most boring riot.”
Finally, in a sorry attempt to recreate Abbie Hoffman’s satirical stunt aimed at levitating the Pentagon, a dozen Recreate ‘68 stragglers dressed up like the cast of Harry Potter, wielded magic wands, and joined hands to float the Denver Mint. The Mint stayed firmly on the ground. To salvage the abysmal turnout, an unhinged contingent of 9/11 conspiracy theories started barking at me. One buffoon shouted “Kill Michelle Malkin” while the levitation experts chanted “Peace and Justice!” and a wizard paraded around in his “Arrest Bush” t-shirt with Che Guevara-promoters tossing fake quarters in the air.
To paraphrase a favorite left-wing bumper sticker slogan, discombobulation is the highest form of patriotism. Blame bankrupt ideology, not the altitude.
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The libs are conflicted. I think they are coming to realize that Obama’s change may translate into them being kept out of the White House for at least another 4 years….thus the lack of activity
They’d still be wrong.
Thanks for your service to the country Michelle. But please don’t put yourself into such a dangerous position as you did with that mob. Your kids, husband and we need you in one piece. I’ve offered my services as a security professional for you as have others. Please take us seriously.
Obviously it’s cuz the Army and Marines snuck in and arrested them and sent them to those secret prisons the Denver Police built. They’re being water boarded by that Big Foot that was captured a couple of weeks ago. After the Police is finished with them the aliens from Area 51 will take them back to Mars to perform experiments on them.
Goodness, you people are just SO naive you’ll believe ANYTHING the government tells you!
Michelle,
You touched on very intense topic. My worries are if the Obama party loses in November, I feel a nation wide riot would be the case and many law enforcement people will stand by and watch it happen ( i.e., SF USMC recruitment center). After watching the DNC so far I can’t believe the most powerful country in the world still has whining politics for the ticket of the presidency. When are we going to step up and out of this crap. I am ready for a third political party to step up to the plate.
…because they have to live off of the real ones they can scrounge up from time to time.
Barak Obama’s supporters at their finest.
Sorry, anyone of voting age who dresses up like a character from Harry Potter at any other time of the year than Oct 31st doesn’t need to be allowed anywhere near a voting booth.
An endless(not so much)parade(not so much) of human( hmmm, not so much) debris(bingo). we have a winner!
Give the protesters a break they probably…
Forgot their Meds.
Went to Public Schools and Berkeley
Are just having a bad day
Had a lil to much re-creat 68′ pre game acid.
Miss their mommies.
I’m surprised they knew who you were. I don’t think most of them know how to read. Must have caught you on T.V.
Democrat Party = Moral Vacancy.
That was the guy dressed in the jester costume.
Auggie dog, you’re right, steve duecy’s son was interviewing Denver locals and they didnt have a clue who the curent VP is among others such as Pelosi, Reid etc…. I looked for a link but can’t find it yet. It was on Fox and Friends this morning, a real eye opener. clueless morons.
Green shirt/BlackHat guy and the lead dipstick in that dust-up should have been arrested.
Yeah. I think that’s a real possibility.
First, it would only be half the nation. Second, the side the isn’t rioting has larger numbers of NRA members.
seen you on fox this morning your ACES (-; give them hell out there
If that riot consists of as many disaffected voters as the Recreate 68 rallies do… you’ll be safe enough, I’d say. It’s good to be prepared for the actions of the extreme few; but DO remember that they are a fringe on the edge of a minority of the political opposition…
I was watching part of the live feed that one of the networks has going on outside monitoring the ‘Rioters’..
the bullhorn chick was saying, ‘Remember, the cops are human beings too. We have to change the system from the top down’.
I wasn’t around in 68 but I WAS around East Lansing in 98 when THOSE riots occurred..
those are sorry excuse for rioters..
not lamenting the fact, mind you..
There are three reasons that the demonstrations fizzled.
First, there is no hardcore left anymore — despite what you read hear, there are no Marxists, no Anarchists, no socialists or other activists who cannot work through democratic channels. It’s not than nobody came, it’s that EVERYBODY came, who still thinks levitating the mint is the way to bring change.
Second, unlike LBJ’s foreign policy fiasco, Bush’s doesn’t touch many people. No one pays for it, no one goes there unless they volunteer. The apathetic are safe in their apathy.
Third, most important, unlike 1968, in 2008 progressives believe that what’s happening inside the convention center can bring real change, so they don’t have to demonstrate outside.
reality interfered with thier fantacies.
And they are busy aborting themselves out of existence. Leave them be and they may go the way of the do-do bird.
pretty early in the morning for the Kool-aid isn’t it?
First, there is no hardcore left anymore
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Thats complete BS right there.
Second, unlike LBJ’s foreign policy fiasco, Bush’s doesn’t touch many people.
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More BS.
Third, most important, unlike 1968, in 2008 progressives believe that what’s happening inside the convention center can bring real change, so they don’t have to demonstrate outside.
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Actualy what is happening is that the real radicals are runing the DNC convention. Do you know what change they want? Marxism. Stalin would be change, hitler would be change. So be carefull what you ask for, you might get it. Anyway, Obama has peaked and the more people look into him the less they support him.
And they would be well advised to remember that.
I for one am sick to death of the unwashed welfare addicted loonies being stupid in the streets I have paid for by working and earning my keep.
I saw the video, Michelle, of that guy stalking and trying to terrorize you. I’m glad you’re safe.
Just to show how up-to-date and relevant, the protesters and their ideas are, they have to drag out of the closet, dust off and trot out every election cycle the same old tired dog and pony show. Recreate 68…hmmm, 40 years of???????
Once again the Libs Over-Promise and Under-Deliver.
Michelle, Vegas Loves ya and you would be safe here, no moonbat spittle guaranteed
I wanna know what the polls say today after Hillary’s speech.
“the Recreate ‘68 flameout.”
Of course it was a flameout, as the romanticized version 1960s is based on an empty shell. Some believe it was an ideal time where the young witnessed against war and were the bearers of peace.
However, following the fall of Saigon, we saw where these so-called peace activists stood while tens upon tens of thousands of Vietnamese faced oppression. The silence of the peace crowd during the killing fields of Cambodia showed that peace was not a concern for this crowd.
They are really about self-indulgence, and it makes them feel good about themselves to stand up and protest against the US.
Just a bunch of spoiled, simple children with no basis for hanging their hat on.
Sounds suspiciously like the Chancellor Manuscript. Perhaps you need to come in and speak to these gentlemen about what you know, how you know it and when you knew it.
Resistance is futile all your base belonga us
Great coverage MM… “Recreate 68″??? The protester of today would not make a PIMPLE on the FANNY of the 68 CREW… Todays protester is aimless and without leadership… Although I did not agree with their views, the 68 CREW at least had some BALLS… Something lacking in the WUSSES called protesters today…
It just makes you wonder: If a bunch of hippie-libs held a riot, and no media was around to cover it, would it make a sound?
Well they wanted to protest, really they did, but they had to pass the “legalize weed” tent who were giving out free joints and well one thing lead to another and it is such a LONNNGGG walk to the riot site and if you look just right at that tree it looks like a unicorn… Well anyway a box of cheez-its and a pizza later they just didn’t see the point anymore because pepper spray is soooo bogus when you are high…
Ask Alex.
This is what free love and acid gave birth to. Screws up the chromosomes.
Alex is busy blaming the government stooges in the recreate68 crowd and the conintpro agents sent there to provoke the entire thing. Then he rambles on about the puppy issue and fema camps etc etc etc.
Im not kidding, I just read his website. Paranoia doesn’t even begin to describe this guy. Everything is a neocon zionist illuminati cia dia nsa plot. wackado!!!
I forgot the mossad. Apparantly mossad was running the 9/11 operattion. :rolleyes:
todays leftist protesters are building levitating crazies and pansies. bemused lib said they lack the justification of the illegal war and the draft. the u.n. got us into both vietnam and iraq, so it must just be the draft. how many women bomb throwers were in the 68 riots, and none of them were up for the draft. but i loved the man on the street interviews where these morons couldn’t identify harry reid, san fran nanny, howard dean, even vp cheney. you have to love that these morons get to vote.
She was a big help. /sarc
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You can’t be serious: Marx, Stalin and Hitler?
Yeah, I noticed that when Clinton was president, he abolished private property, collectivised the farms and put millions of dissenters into concentration camps.
Oh, right. He didn’t, and you are a certifiable paranoid.
Let them “riot”. No one cares. I live in the SF Bay Area and we have seen this idiocy first-hand for years. Twelve people show up for a “protest” and we hear from the SF Chonicle that this is a “major event”. It is not. The sixties are dead and buried.
Thanks Soap-
The numbers should really tank with 2 more days left for drivvel.
How ironic is this…the Libtards rally cry against McCain is he’s stuck in the past. Obama brings change we can believe in…and they come up with Recreate 68???
There we go. Let’s trot out Clinton again. Yawn.
Head of nail…meet hammer!
Yeah, I noticed that when Clinton was president, he abolished private property, collectivised the farms and put millions of dissenters into concentration camps.
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Clinton isn’t running. At this point I would prefer clinton. Obama is. A follower of a radical black liberation church for 22 years. Black liberation theology is race based marxism. No paranoia there, all facts supported by obamas past. And I was quoting those people as a change from bush which they would be. Again no paranoia. I don’t think Obama would be hitler or stalin or even marx. He would be Obama. A person with a 22 year history of black liberation theology. I am not pretending to know the future, but I have a good idea based on applying history to the current situation.
Obamania is doing everything they can to recreate ‘64.
Oops…’63
We must be very careful to have every scrap of evidence that will tie Ayers and Obama together. The MSM will have a field day if this begins to look like McCarthyism witch-hunt.
Opps wrong thread
I watched the video of Michelle getting mauled, I was appaled.
I have an Asian wife who stands at 5′0″ and I just wanted to jump that guy.
Michelle Malkin is a courageous woman.
Obama errs on Ayers
If Obama loses will there be violence and riots? Don’t know, that depends on the lefties. It wouldn’t suprise me. Alot of people on the left are just a little too radical at this point.
The riot would have been better attended had it been held online.
The hippies of 1968 all got haircuts after the Chicago convention and went to work in the schools and government where they have been doing their mischief from the inside ever since. Most of them are ready to retire with the rest of the baby boomers and the rejects in Denver will take the ‘68 generation’s secure place in the beaurocracies and tenured teaching positions to spawn another generation of leftist idiots.
I point to Clinton merely to illustrate the general tendencies of Democratic government. In case you haven’t noticed, the old guard hasn’t exactly been overthrown by the Obama team. One can safely predict a slightly more liberal and –one hopes — forceful liberalism from Obama and his crew.
You were the one who brought Stalin, Marx and Hitler into the conversation, remember?
And what in Barak’s years in the legislature and the senate indicates a tendency towards “black liberation theology?” You know, that church serves much of Chicago’s black elite — and yet Wrigley Field has not yet been sold off to pay for reparations, and the South Side has not declared itself an independent state.
In fact, what is it exactly about black liberation theology that disturbs you, aside from its scary-sounding name?
recreate 68: the only thing they recreated was mary jane clouds of smoke. These tards can’t even compare to the real 1968 mob. At least the mob back in 1968 was unified under one banner. This group of mental marshmallows hate Bush so much didn’t know which protest to pick.
But mchristian, they wouldn’t be able to model their pointy hats and tinfoil capes. That might distress those those poor little despots.
I sugest you lok it up like I did.
Exactly sonofdy.
Obviously, bemused lib doesn’t actually LISTEN to what Obama and Hillary have been saying they will do once in office.
If bemused thinks their words AREN’T Marxist, bemused has no understanding of that philosophy.
I did. I thought this was a nice, brief, summary.
“The Rev. James Cone is the founder of black liberation theology. In an interview with Terry Gross, Cone explains the movement, which has roots in 1960s civil-rights activism and draws inspiration from both the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, as “mainly a theology that sees God as concerned with the poor and the weak….”
Cone explains that at the core of black liberation theology is an effort — in a white-dominated society, in which black has been defined as evil — to make the gospel relevant to the life and struggles of American blacks, and to help black people learn to love themselves. It’s an attempt, he says “to teach people how to be both unapologetically black and Christian at the same time.”
Ooooooh. Scary. I suppose Obama should apologize for being one or the other?
Interestingly, one of the goals of the early BLT movement was to keep African Americans from moving to Islam, a goal I assume you support.
Now post the rest
I guess that would depend on the band and the free beer.
OK: Give me a quote from Marx, and a policy statement from Barry or Hill that proves their deep philosophical connections. Have they called for a dictatorship of the proletariat? Are the atheists? Will either abolish private property or collectivize the farmland? Do they work phrases like “dialectical materialism” or “lumpenproletariat” into their speeches? How medicine? Oh yeah, they forgot to socialize in their platforms (though they do bring the government into the picture). Has there been talk of imprisonment and executions?
Or have you just misplaced your meds?
Black Liberation Theology as Marxist Victimology
Black Liberation Theology actually encourages a victim mentality among blacks. John McWhorters’ book Losing the Race, will be helpful here. Victimology, says McWhorter, is the adoption of victimhood as the core of one’s identity — for example, like one who suffers through living in “a country and who lived in a culture controlled by rich white people.” It is a subconscious, culturally inherited affirmation that life for blacks in America has been in the past and will be in the future a life of being victimized by the oppression of whites. In today’s terms, it is the conviction that, 40 years after the Civil Rights Act, conditions for blacks have not substantially changed. As Wright intimates, for example, scores of black men regularly get passed over by cab drivers.
Reducing black identity to “victimhood” distorts the reality of true progress. For example, was Obama a victim of widespread racial oppression at the hand of “rich white people” before graduating from Columbia University, Harvard Law School magna cum laude, or after he acquired his estimated net worth of $1.3 million? How did “rich white people” keep Obama from succeeding? If Obama is the model of an oppressed black man, I want to be oppressed next! With my graduate school debt my net worth is literally negative $52,659.
The overall result, says McWhorter, is that “the remnants of discrimination hold an obsessive indignant fascination that allows only passing acknowledgement of any signs of progress.” Jeremiah Wright, infused with victimology, wielded self-righteous indignation in the service of exposing the inadequacies Hilary Clinton’s world of “rich white people.” The perpetual creation of a racial identity born out of self-loathing and anxiety often spends more time inventing reasons to cry racism than working toward changing social mores, and often inhibits movement toward reconciliation and positive mobility.
McWhorter articulates three main objections to victimology: First, victimology condones weakness in failure. Victimology tacitly stamps approval on failure, lack of effort, and criminality. Behaviors and patterns that are self-destructive are often approved of as cultural or presented as unpreventable consequences from previous systemic patterns. Black Liberation theologians are clear on this point: “People are poor because they are victims of others,” says Dr. Dwight Hopkins, a Black Liberation theologian teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Second, victimology hampers progress because, from the outset, it focuses attention on obstacles. For example, in Black liberation Theology, the focus is on the impediment of black freedom in light of the Goliath of white racism.
Third, victimology keeps racism alive because many whites are constantly painted as racist with no evidence provided. Racism charges create a context for backlash and resentment fueling new attitudes among whites not previously held or articulated, and creates “separatism” — a suspension of moral judgment in the name of racial solidarity. Does Jeremiah Wright foster separatism or racial unity and reconciliation?
“In fact, what is it exactly about
blackliberationtheologyethnocentism that disturbs you, aside from its scary-sounding name?”This should help.
sorry for the length
sorry. “ethnocentrism”
That sums up what I found on any website that seemed remotely objective. Why don’t you post. And post your source, please.
Nice cherry picking.
…is turned into black poor and weak. What does race have to do with poor and weak?
Who made this definition? Are Je$$ie Jack$son and Al $harpton doing anything to change that image? Is the wrong Rev. Wright who said, and I quote, “Jesus was a po black man”?
Because it was not before? The Gospel is relevant to all peoples regardless of color.
Sounds like a personal problem to me. I see people, like Bill Cosby, who love themselves without BLT.
Ummm, seems a bit racist to me being a “white” Christian. Interestingly, it is still blacks (some) who want America to apologize for slavery and they want to be seen as “unapologetically black”. Sounds conflicted to me.
I guess I see your point. /sarc
love themselves without BLT.
I missed the part where anyone said it was wrong to be unapologetically white. One can certainly apologize for a wrong, and still be proudly and unapologetically oneself. As for apologizing for slavery, I think if, as Americans, we take pride in and credit for the many accomplishments of our nation (as we should) we should be big enough to acknowledge our mistakes as well. I don’t mind if you don’t want to apologize for the massive stain on our national character, just don’t brag about liberating France (unless you’re at leat 80 years old).
McWhorter raises some good points. But, fiorst, I’d suggest that BLTist are hardly the only group playing the victim card today. Why, I’ll bet if I said “straight white males are the only people you can discriminate against today and get away with it,” 80% of the males on this board would agree. Victimology indeed. As for the Marxist bit, that seems a little heavy handed. In fact, churches like Trinity and parishoners like the Obamas are pretty capitalist-focused. Yes, they believe in social programs that help the poor. But they also believe in good old-fashioned capitalist success. So what does Obama’s church mean — that he’s going to seize his own house and give it to the masses? Or does it mean that he and she and the other thousands are growing sufficiently comfortable in their own skin and in their own country (which, in turn, has changed dramatically and for the better in this regard since Wright took the pulpit in 1971) to the benefit of all. I think the latter.
But, regardless, give me the policy details that show how Obama’s BLT (getting hungry) will turn America communist or whatever. And links to the portions of Obama’s website or the current Democratic Party Platform that support your contention.
My source
bemusedlib, are you really going to believe what he says to get elected??? REALLY??? I don’t even believe McCain for that
Well, we do have that separation of powers thing. Just in case.:lol:
I am getting hungry too! I do not think people believe that at all. Interestingly, Obama threw BLT under the bus with his pastor. That being said, I do not think Obama has anything aginst bacon either (if he is indeed a closet Muslim).
we solved the racism question yesterday bemused. now we are on the question of will there be riots in the street when obumbo loses. my bet is yes, based upon loses in sporting events in black dominated cities (detroit). but burning down and trashing their areas every now and again is simply urban renewal in the democrat party. we spent a fortune rebuilding and relocating katrinaville, and it looks like we will begin again next week. all you white racist conservatives better contact your flood insurance agent today. all you nonracist blacks contact reverand al and jessee to get your black power protest signs about hurricane gustav is bush’s fault too!
#59 bemused lib said:
I’m not disturbed by the name, I’m just opposed to a racist, political movement disguising itself as Christianity.
According to “Black Liberation Theology:”
I don’t have a problem with a select group of people identifying themselves on racial terms for the intended purpose of identifying and seeking remedy for select racial grievances…just don’t call it Christianity.
The New Testament is complete with instances of Pharisees, and others, who constantly bumped heads with Christ on a host of social and political matters. In all accounts, Christ’s message was clear – an individual’s freedom from the sinful nature and acts of this world, coupled with a contrite heart, is the path towards heavenly reward and eternal salvation.
For black liberation theology to downplay heavenly reward as a “white” concept and redefine salvation as racial liberation in this world is a complete misunderstanding and bastardization of Christ’s teaching.
sonofdy,
Well said!!!
BemusedLib said: “That sums up what I found on any website that seemed remotely objective….”
Hilarious – for reasons that are clear to everyone but you!
Not right now. You have radical leftists in charge of both houses of congress and if obama gets in, the whitehouse abd probably the supreme court in a few years. The exact situation the seperation of powers is meant to prevent.
someone send me spell check, sigh… abd = and
So far the plan to recreate68 has been mostly met with a resounding YAWNN!!!!
If they’ve outdone Ron Paul supporters that’s saying a lot!
Well, you’ve still got the filibuster (unless we do really well)which you wield too damned effectively imho, and all the old Supreme Court justices are libs, so we’re not going to have five pinkos in black robes (think I’ll trademark that one) for decades.
BrianNY: a lot of different descriptions of BLT on the web. I think it’s clear though, that it is not anti-white, but anti-white racist (Wright’s church was noted for it’s outreach and cooperation with majority white congregations).
And, why is anyone surprised that a theological movement that was born the year King was murdered, after the racist brutality of the Civil Rights era, pushes back? But, as in every church, every movement, every philosophy, there are variations. Heck, there are some Baptist Churches that would probably burn me at the stake. But I don’t see Trinity churning out black separatists or armed communists. Surely LGF would have identified one by now.
And why have you so little faith in the power of America, our ideals and our people, that you jump at every shadow. We thrive on the clash of ideas. Buck up, dude.
And, as for everyone preparing for an armed insurrection: did you have a basement full of canned goods, distilled water, gold and shotgun shells ready for Y2K, too? The people who riot after basketball games care about basketball, not politics, and besides, they use the cover of the tens of thousands of normal drunken idiots who take the streets as cover.
The problem with the Recreate Fecalate Loons is that they are all a bunch of pot smoking slackers, living in their parents basements, sponging off of them for dough, playing video games instead of acquiring a real education or gainful employment, hanging out at the coffee house playing hacky sack or mock sword fights, or being indoctrinated by the Marxists Residue of the 60’s Generation.
[NOTE: The Marxist Residue of the 60's Generation typically have jobs, pay taxes, drive environmentally friendly vehicles that seat four and have enough cupholders for all that chai]
So the slackers love to hear about how it was done back in the heyday. “Man, it was like, you know, we were ready to change the world“. And now these dinosaurs thought they could pass the torch to the failed generation they created. These people are dumber than I previously thought.
Time to clean house!
I guess I’ll have to change my motto of “Less Hippies – More Stick-Time” to “More Hippies – More Stick-Time”…
Last night I was serenaded on the 16th Street Mall by a group of people singing anti-Bush slogans and mourning their lost free speech rights. The irony was delicious.
MM, If I had known you might be physically accosted, I would have volunteered to be your bodyguard in Denver. I’m 6′-3″ and a solid 285 lbs. I doubt whether many of those limp-wristed sissies would have given me too much lip. At least not after I sent the first one to night-night land.
tripe
The protesters’ pathetic display was almost enough to get William Ayres mad enough to call his Weathermen out of retirement.