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The true meaning of Recreate 68?
Posted by Kim on September 2nd, 2007
Why do some far leftards insist they are progressive, when all they promote are ideals from the past?
Sometimes we need to look back to move forward. In 1968 there existed a spirit of change, the Paris Rebellion, Prague, Chicago, Vietnam, etc. People believed, around the world, that they were capable of taking over the institutions that controlled their lives. The smell of revolution was in the air. Over 1 million college students openly identified as revolutionist. People believed that through mass participation in the movement, it was possible to wrestle control from the elite power-holders. They were not willing to accept the loss of their human and civil rights.
Recreate 68 is not a throwback group trying to relieve some vision of glory days long gone. We are predominantly a youthful group who has realized that 40 years later, we have only produced apathy in our communities towards making effective and lasting change. We intend to recreate that need for change and mass participation in the events that shape and control our lives. We intend to recreate that revolutionary feeling and pick-up where our predecessors left off. It is time to reclaim the ideals that we have forgotten and leap forward by stepping back and using that voice inside of us that has been telling us something is seriously wrong, a voice that is shouting for change, a voice that has realized we live in a police state and we have stopped moving forward 40 years ago. When we recreate positives and discard negatives from our collective memories of the past and realize the true power that the people possess, we will have the ability to make 2008 a very special year. This is the true meaning of Recreate 68.
Oh OKEEDOKEE. We need to go back in order to inspire us to go forward. We could just read history books to learn the lessons…Democrats have managed to change true history so maybe thats not an option? The modern day lefties haven’t read the true facts and therefore cannot conclude the true outcomes of the past.
In Denver CO, the Democrats will be hosting their National Convention in 2008. This group, Re Create 68, was going to crash the party and cause small scale riots and other damaging antics. Not anymore:
Thank you, Charlie Brown! As a rare Republican on the overwhelmingly liberal Denver City Council, Brown had the good sense and guts to pull the welcome mat out from under a bunch of disruptive radicals who hoped to have a protest fest in Denver during the Democratic National Convention in August 2008.
The Recreate 68 Alliance is a collection of “progressives” (that’s a leftist euphemism for ultra-liberal, connoting “progress” on the road to socialism) on whose Web site you’ll find a clenched fist logo and all the standard Marxist cliches attacking American capitalism, materialism, imperialism and racism.
Recreate 68 is so far left they’re even critical of Democrats! The 68 they plan to “recreate” in Denver in 2008 is the violent Vietnam War-era 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention.
More:
To pave the way, they spoon-fed a proclamation to a couple of sympathetic, gullible Democrats on the Denver City Council that would have given protesters the run of the city while hamstringing Denver police.
Sympathetic Democrats? I highly doubt it was so simple as this. But who am I to second guess the motives here?
One of the protesters and organizers of Recreate 68 is Glenn Spagnuolo of Longmont. That name might be familiar. He’s turned radical protesting into a career. A cheerleader for Ward Churchill, he’s also a regular at anti-Columbus Day demonstrations, arrested in 2004 for blocking the parade route.
Spagnuolo complains that demonstrators at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston (he was there, too) were confined to a restricted area where they couldn’t sufficiently harass delegates. Good. Let’s do that in Denver, too. He also claims that the 1968 Chicago convention only turned violent after the police attacked demonstrators. Baloney. Spagnuolo is still wet behind the ears. He wasn’t even born in 1968. Yes, the police may have overreacted, but those radical demonstrators were hellbent on violence and did everything they could to provoke the cops, whom they routinely called “pigs” in those days.
The nitty gritty details come out…
The past, our history, is full of bad times and lessons. Yet these hippie-want-a-be’s seek to bring us back, while calling it all progressive.
This was the era of the “Days of Rage,” the Yippies, the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) and the Weathermen. Turmoil, anarchy and riots were all part of their game plan. We’ve seen similar behavior at G-8 and World Trade Organization conferences in cities all over the world. Spagnuolo and his ilk are professional agitators. The last thing I want to do is give them the keys to our fair city.
The mentality of these people is a case study in anti-social narcissism. Who do they think cares about their antics? Who do they hope to persuade with catcalls, chants, T-shirts and simplistic placards? This is all self-indulgence. It’s what they do for fun. It makes them feel like they make a difference. Except for their one vote – which they’ll likely waste on a quixotic fringe candidate – they don’t. The 2008 convention delegates they seek to hector here will mostly be concerned about getting Democrats elected in November. You don’t do that by moving to re-create ’68’s radical fringe.
Go check out Re-Create’s web site. Look through THE STREET TACTICS (pdf) Manuals. Hopefully this group has been nulled and voided, but somehow I think they will show up in Denver. I would like to see if any Democrat candidates have the nerve to stand up to these people.
September 2nd, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Yeah, let’s go back to 1960’s liberalism because that worked so well in eradicating poverty, teen-age pregnancy, fatherless families, crime, drug abuse, sexual freedom (resulting in a pandemic of sexual diseases) anti-capitalism and bad druggy music.
While we’re at it, let’s again surrender America’s moral authority and the fact that democracy IS the only government that will lead to peace in the troubled countries in the world, and that we should work constantly to promote it everywhere.
Liberals did believe that once, back around the time of FDR, Truman and even Kennedy, but they’ve long since forgotten it.
September 2nd, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Right on dw- all we can thank Democrats for. They are the reason we have so much rot in our culture.
All in the name of freedom of course.
Its been said before: JFK must be rolling in his grave now.
September 2nd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Hard to believe it was a Democrat who said:
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
I’d like to see a moderator in a presidential debate ask any of the current crop of Dem candidates if they still believe that statement to be true, and would it be the policy of their administration were they elected.
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
They would insist they stand by these words; however they would add every nation to the list as well, even our enemies. Democrats cannot differentiate (sp?) friend from foe- and they don’t care. Their idea is to serve up cookies and milk and offer incentives, AKA bribes, to keep peace. They don’t learn from history. Again it’s because they have altered how history is passed on.
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:58 am
8)You all are really funny. To bad the proclamation was intended to stop the Police from rioting like they did in 1968(this is according to a commission put together by your righty hero Nixon to investigate the issue). The best thing is, due to all the publicity little fascist like Charlie Brown gave us, we have been growing nation wide and firmly believe the numbers coming to Denver for one big ass street party will be in the tens of thousands. You all keep up the rhetoric, you are our best organizers. Hopefully we will see you in Denver for an event you are incapable of stopping!!!
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Oh looky who we have here: The self proclaimed Ward Churchill Want-A-Be. He who thinks he has special powers to recreate the past. What’s the name of the time machine you’re riding there, Glenn?
Tens of thousands? Just like all the other protests of recent years, where the HUNDREDS of thousands turned out to be a few?
Grow up. Get with the current decade. Progress. Stop regress.
September 3rd, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Heh, “peace” protests have been a resounding failure throughout this war.
I’m willing to bet right now that there will be less than a THOUSAND protesters at that rally. If I’m wrong I’ll never blog about “peace” protesters (I use the scare quotes because these protesters usually are all about using violence to protest for peace) again. If I’m right, I just laugh and laugh and laugh. You don’t have to do anything but stand there and look stupid, Glenn.
You “peacenik” guys remind me of the old Jack Handy formulation:
“If anyone ever says that they hate war more than I do, they better have a knife.”
September 4th, 2007 at 2:04 am
As I commented at GM’s: the language hasn’t changed – but the world has, big time. Not to mention that most former self-proclaimed opponents of capitalism in China, the former USSR and elsewhere have gone crony capitalists. Nor do I see reincarnations of mass student protests of 1968 shutting down universities.
And if these guys actually managed to bring down Western capitalism, they wouldn’t stand up for more than a few minutes to the true anti-capitalists of the 21st century – Islamist jihadists. Somehow, I don’t think the “Recreate 1968″ partisans would like to live in the rerun of 8th century Arabia. Then again, maybe their authoritarian and Puritanical instincts might actually secretly prefer such a society to the scary freedoms of Western civilization.
Recreate 1968 sounds like a good candidate for a group Darwin Award
September 4th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Civil Truth love the Darwin’ward.
I did a Google search on Glenn and he pops up all over the Internet. He’s been in trouble with the law; he’s been at every major (i.e. minor) protest in recent years…they must energize him to no end.
I refuse to link to it, but he has a You Tube video on the Columbus Day Protest that turned out to be a big, well, low turnout event.
And you’re right about capitalism being alive and breathing more air than ever before.
These people need to join the current decade.