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Give Protestors Center Stage at Repub Convention
From NY Daily NewsIf Mike wants W to win, he should unleash the protesters on GOPâs big show The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, came to the Republican Party the same way Madonna has come to mystical Judaism - late in life and with a discernible lack of piety. As a result, some cynics question Bloombergâs party loyalty. He now has a chance to lay those doubts to rest. If the mayor really wants four more years of Dubya, heâll quit playing games with the leaders of United For Peace and Justice and give them a license to commit street politics during the Republican convention in late August. City Hall has handed out permits to other, smaller protests. But United for Peace and Justice intends to be the big show. It plans to rally 250,000 anti-warriors in Central Park and march them past Madison Square Garden. Thatâs about 1700 by logo-centric, chauvinstic, traditional math. Citing concerns about security, traffic and lawn care, the mayor is suggesting a different assembly point: a closed-down segment of the West Side Highway. Thatâs as far off Broadway as you can get without falling into the Hudson. Would that be a bad thing? But Bloomberg shouldnât be trying to push the demonstrators into Jersey. On the contrary, he should welcome them to midtown, at prime time. Why? The answer is right there on the United for Peace and Justice Web site, which contains a roster of groups that "share our goals" for the impending demonstrations. These include some well-known pillars of the Democratic progressive establishment - the National Council of Churches, the National Organization for Women, Jesse Jacksonâs Rainbow/PUSH I really likes the way this guy thinks. The lineup includes the Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Connecticut chapter. The Anti-Capitalist Convergence. The Anti-Imperialist News Service. The Communist Party U.S.A. and, separately, the Communist Party branches of New York, Maryland and central Indiana (who knew?).
What? No Cannibals for Freedom of Nutritional Choice? Itâs a moonbat jamboree, a moronic convergence of galactic proportions. You really canât make up stuff like this. Also, Students Against Testing (Iâm not making this up), the Young Communist League U.S.A., Youth Crime Watch of the Gambia and the School of Journalism of the University of Texas. Bats of a feather. Yeah, I know, bats donât have feathers but would these weird-niks know that? The Peace and Justice people swear on a stack of Weathermen pamphlets that they donât intend to reenact Chicago 1968. If they are fibbing, the Democrats are sunk. Americans donât much care for political street violence, and they expect the major parties to control their supporters. When the parties donât, they pay. After the â68 convention riot, law-and-order parties got almost 60% percent of the vote. Chicago â68 has iconic status for the pop-left retro-red fringe culture. From their viewpoint, the riots won concessions from the cowardly party bosses that are perceived as the beginning of the far leftâs legitimacy in the Democratic Party. New Yorkers are not likely to be in any mood to take their shit, however, and something resembling civil war might result, if only briefly. Even if the Texas student journalists, Gambian crime fighters, Connecticut Hamas-niks, Raelians and Young Communists do nothing more than skip merrily down Eighth Avenue calling for the overthrow of American imperialism and the Bush junta, John Kerryâs got a problem. GOP ads are already calling the Democrats "wild-eyed." That perception wonât be lessened by radical street theater, especially if it stars some of the partyâs icons. In fact, this is the stuff of Republican dreams. If Mayor Bloomberg truly wants a Bush victory, heâll welcome the United for Peace and Justice people to the city as if they were Shriners, put them up in Central Park, hand out little bottles of mineral water - and make sure the nationâs TV cameras have easy access to every minute of the Days of Rage, 2004. Lay in lots of popcorn and beer, it should be quite a show. Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-07-05 |
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