Saturday, July 06, 2013

True America: Chicago '68

For you dear reader on this Fourth of July weekend, a patriotic video of unarmed demonstrators in peaceful assembly outside the Democratic Convention in 1968, where the "police state"--a term used by a convention delegate to describe events in Chicago--temporarily lost control. Inside on the convention floor, away from the chaos of "unrestrained police violence", delegates debated the Vietnam War. The whole world was indeed watching and drawing their own conclusions. In comparison to the Democratic Party convention the Repugnant convention appeared on TV screens as a lilly-white tea party of conformists. Americans reacted to the disorder in Chicago by installing seven Repugnant regimes out of the next ten.