ON 28 AUGUST THIS YEAR, we recall the 1968 Police and National Guard Riot during the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago 45 years ago. I had been to Chicago in August 1967, a year earlier. I did not return to that city until the summer 1999 because I so detested what the mayor of that city did to peaceful people addressing a grievance against the Democratic Party in that city. On 28 August 1968, a young boy lowered the American flag at a legal rally. The police broke into an assembly of about 10,000 participants and began savagely beating that young boy. Later during the night, the police and National Guard continued beating participants of that assembly while delegates to the Democratic Party celebrated the nomination of then Vice-President Hubert Humphrey as their presidential candidate. The nomination of the cowardly little man resulted in the election of Richard M. Nixon as president and the continuation of an aimless, futile, genocidal, and unwinnable war against the people of Viet Nam. I voted for Mr. Nixon that year. Less than two years after the police and National Guard riot in Chicago, undisciplined members of the Ohio National Guard slaughtered four students and injured others at Kent State University after President Nixon expanded the Viet Nam War into another country (with some good reason to do so, by the way). .
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 02:56:13 +0000