Guest Post: Tracing the Origins of the Days of Rage Protest
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Editor’s note: the following is a guest post by Paul Kengor, professor of political science and executive director of the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. This material is excerpted from his latest book Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
Hats off to The Blaze for being one of the few sources to investigate the coming “Day of Rage” planned by the radical left for September 17 (Saturday), where a motley crew of liberals, progressives, socialists, and communists—and it will not be easy to know which is which—hope to siege and “occupy” Wall Street. As The Blaze has noted, ringleaders include SEIU’s Stephen Lerner and ACORN’s Wade Rathke, who happen to be Obama supporters. The Blaze has also keenly noted the historic connection to the 1969 “Days of Rage” in Chicago, where the ringleaders included Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who happen to be Obama supporters.
Alas, there’s much more still to these connections. Specifically, the literal communists who organized the original 1969 Days of Rage magically reappeared in 2008 to organize the group Progressives for Obama. Suddenly, they were “progressives” stumping for the presidential bid of Barack Obama. They include a bunch of names we should be remembering. That list of names is so vast that it can be overwhelming and bewildering, requiring a book to fully flesh out, but here I’ll focus on just a few who are key to understanding the rotten historical roots at play.
Adherents are saluted by Michael Klonsky, national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society in Chicago on May 12, 1969, after he posted bond of $1,500 for a June 6 appearance. Klonsky and four other leaders of the controversial SDS were charged with interfering with Chicago police and firemen summoned to SDS national headquarters by false reports of fights and fires. (AP Photo/Charles E. Knoblock)
SDS
Behind the original “Days of Rage” in Chicago in 1969 was a major switch for ‘60s radicals. It was a switch in philosophy and tactics, from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to the Weathermen. Key players included not merely Ayers and Dohrn, but Mark Rudd, Tom Hayden, Jeff Jones, Michael Klonsky, Carl Davidson, John Jacobs, David Gilbert, and Kathy Boudin, among many others.
Especially influential was Mark Rudd. By 1969, Rudd had established himself as a household name. The SDS leader at Columbia University, Rudd led the riots on the campus in 1968, bull-horning the administration with vulgar obscenities, stomping, carrying signs, smashing windows and breaking down doors, pillaging and seizing the offices of the president and shutting down the entire campus. As a Newsweek cover attested, Rudd and the children were in charge. Student strikes ensued, and a general rage enveloped Columbia for weeks. It was sheer madness—what Rudd himself dubbed “total war” on campus. It had been orchestrated, from the top, by communists—American communists.
At long last at Columbia, it was October 1917; the revolution had finally commenced. As Rudd wrote in his SDS pamphlet, titled simply, “Columbia,” “It was no accident that we hung up pictures of Karl Marx and Malcolm X and Che Guevara and flew red flags from the tops of two buildings.”
And it was, SDS’s communists nationwide hoped, just the start. If only Columbia could be replicated upon the rest of America! Indeed, that became the goal: In Ramparts magazine, edited by young communists David Horowitz and Peter Collier, who today are prominent anti-communist conservatives, Tom Hayden wrote an article where he employed a new battle cry, a paraphrase of Saint Che’s mantra for Vietnam: “Create two, three, many Columbias!”
Hayden had been the most important initial player in the early SDS. He served as SDS president in 1962 and 1963, drafting its manifesto, the Port Huron Statement. Hayden’s fame and impact would spike up in 1968. He was arrested at the Democratic convention that year, becoming one of the “Chicago Seven,” along with Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, the latter of whom threatened to dump LSD in the city’s water supply.
That same year Hayden and an SDS delegation travelled to the Communist Bloc, where, according to observer Sol Stern, who was there as a privileged correspondent for the radical Ramparts, “The SDSers held a seminar with the communists on how to conduct their psychological warfare campaign against the United States.”
As for Hayden, Congress later published a June 4, 1968 letter he wrote to a Vietnamese colonel, wishing him and the Vietcong “Good fortune! Victory!”
Hayden’s notoriety surged when he took one of his controversial troops to Cambodia and Vietnam with the young actress Jane Fonda.
Of course, Jane herself is a huge story. The wealthy young actress was a go-go girl for communism, regularly telling student audiences: “[I]f you would understand what communism was, you would pray on your knees that we would someday be communist.” Once arriving in Hanoi, Jane became a cheerleader and glamour girl for the Vietcong. The trip was arranged (in part) by Wilfred Burchett (later identified as a Soviet agent), who also reportedly helped script Fonda’s talks. There, Jane became the literal toast of the communist world for her “heroics” on behalf of “anti-imperialism” and anti-Americanism. Her face was splashed across media everywhere—especially by an ecstatic communist press. As Jane grinned aboard and aside Vietcong weaponry, the Soviets and North Vietnamese were smitten.
And so was Tom Hayden. Shortly after Jane’s theatrics, Hayden married Fonda, his second wife.
Bernardine Dohrn, former leader of the radical, anti-war movement Weather Underground, and her companion Bill Ayers are escorted by federal authorities after surrendering at Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 3, 1989. (AP Photo)
From SDS to the Weathermen
By that point, SDS was finished as well. It was splintering into rival factions, the most infamous being a domestic communist-terrorist group called the Weathermen.
By Mark Rudd’s testimony, the political harlot that was Columbia University birthed the wretched child that was the Weathermen. In his own words, “Columbia would give birth to the ‘revolutionary’ faction known as Weatherman.”
And it was Rudd, more than any other figure, who helped sow SDS’s implosion during its irredeemably rotten transition to the Weather Underground. He and his cadre came together in the summer of ‘69 to form the Weathermen (also known as “Weatherman”).
Rudd later succinctly summed up the creation and the objective: “My friends and I formed an underground revolutionary guerrilla band called Weatherman which had as its goal the violent overthrow of the United States government.”
That was the stated intention of the Weathermen: the violent overthrow of the United States government.
The shift toward the Weathermen was the culmination of a deeper split within SDS. SDS had soured into an unpalatable witches’ brew of sincere anti-war liberals and hardcore Marxists, with the latter balkanizing into different factions, from Maoists to followers of Che and Fidel to even the occasional Stalinist, from the Progressive Labor wing to the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) to the Weathermen.
It may seem unbelievable to imagine that there were Stalinists among them, but there were. According to Rudd, the Stalinists included Mike Klonsky. Klonsky was the SDS national secretary, based in Chicago, and was actually to the left of Mark Rudd. Rudd recalls a meeting in 1969 when Klonsky “several times” told Rudd and Howard Machtinger that “Stalin is the cutting edge.” This “adulation of Joseph Stalin” (Rudd’s description) made no sense to Rudd and Machtinger. It was such internal differences that created further instability among SDS principals, further driving a wedge that spawned the Weathermen.
Another critical area of separation, mercifully creating a much-needed wake-up call among the duped non-communist liberals in SDS, was the divergent feelings about violence. The typical rank-and-file SDS-er was an anti-war, pro-peace, non-violence liberal, whereas the members of the Weathermen ranged in their commitment to violence—to the point that the more violent went “underground” and formed the Weather Underground. Inside the Weather Underground, public expressions of aggression ranged from Mark Rudd’s initial open endorsements, which he would seem to privately regret and later repudiate, to the bomb-setting fanaticism of the likes of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.
Violence was not the only reason to go underground: Many of the comrades were inspired by or interacting with foreign adversaries of the United States—a topic I’ll leave for another day.
John Jacobs (l) and Terry Robbins (r) at the Days of Rage, Chicago, October 1969.
Chicago, 1969: Days of Rage
In short, with all of those forces set in motion, the contours of the Weathermen began to emerge, which brings me to the Days of Rage. Two events in Chicago from June-October 1969 were precipitous: First, there was the final SDS National Convention. It opened June 18, 1969 at the Chicago Coliseum on South Wabash, just down the street from the Chicago police headquarters, home of the so-called “pigs” with who the Weathermen prepared for literal war. With America and its policemen and servicemen as the identified enemy, Che’s partisans were ready for action.
Next, with Rudd, Ayers, Dohrn, John Jacobs, and Jeff Jones taking the lead, the cadre came together in the “National Action,” held in Chicago from October 8-11, 1969, under the banner, “BRING THE WAR HOME!”—John Jacobs is credited as the author of that slogan—and with battle cries like, “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, NLF is going to win!”
The National Action had been planned a year earlier in Boulder, Colorado, where Jacobs had drafted the resolution. The title of the resolution was called, “The Elections Don’t Mean Sh-t—Vote Where the Power Is—Our Power Is In The Street.” Jacobs declared an “all-out civil war over Vietnam” and against “fascist U.S. imperialism.”
Rudd affirmed the cornerstone of the plan of action: “In Chicago the pigs have to be wiped out. We’re going to fight with violence and wipe out Chicago.” SDS planned to have 15,000 student demonstrators on hand in the city that October. The stated reason was to protest the trial of the Chicago Eight. But the trial was a mere pretense.
Joining Rudd and Jacobs for the festivities were Ayers, Dohrn, Hayden—on hand for an inspiring pep talk—Klonsky, David Gilbert, Kathy Boudin, and the other usual suspects. What ensued was an organized riot, commenced on October 5, 1969 when the “flower children” dynamited the statue commemorating the Chicago police who had been killed in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. As far as the “students” were concerned, these men were not Chicago’s finest, not veterans of the police force and (in many cases) World War II, but jackbooted swine. The smashed glass and damage caused by the explosion was a fitting initiation to the tirade that followed, eventually ending in violent clashes with over 1,000 policemen.
The day after the initial rampage, the student Reds were licking their wounds. Many were bruised and cut and beaten, or had spent a night in jail. They needed a pick-me-up. There to buck up the boys and girls the next day at a rally in Grant Park was Bernardine Dohrn. The former Milwaukee cheerleader was anointed the commissar to spearhead the “Women’s Militia.”
Mayor Daley’s police won the battle, but it was not a total loss for the student revolutionaries. Roughly 30 “pigs” were injured and a city official was paralyzed.
The National Action had become the Days of Rage. It was one of the ugliest nights in the history of Chicago.
And although no one noticed at the time, or has remarked since, that fall of 1969 had coincidentally marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Communist Party in that same city. How fitting it was.
December 26, 1969: Flint War Council
There is much madness that flowed from this unholy event, which, again, requires a book to adequately flesh out, but here’s just one instance worth remembering:
As so often happens with extremist movements, the increasing violence among the revolutionaries was descending into a bloodlust.
To that end, the most infamous moment of the newly launched Weathermen was the appropriately titled “War Council” held in Flint, Michigan on December 27, 1969, attended by some 400 student troops. In the pamphlets, the jocular activists sweetly called the gathering a “Wargasm.”
Among the ringleaders, John Jacobs, with his knack for bombast, conjured up another fitting slogan. “We’re against everything that’s good and decent,” explained Jacobs.
That vulgar certainty was quickly made manifest when an indecent Bernardine Dohrn grabbed the microphone and went on a scorching rant. She described the group’s mission thusly: “We’re about being crazy motherf—ers and scaring the sh-t out of honky America!”
Like a radical revival meeting, Mark Rudd got caught up in the fervor, and found himself uttering words he later regretted: “It’s a wonderful feeling to hit a pig. It must be a really wonderful feeling to kill a pig or blow up something.”
Likewise moved by the spirit, Kathy Boudin declared all mothers of white children to be “pig mothers.” Invoking the unity of the Christmas season, she led the faithful in a new rendition of Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas:” “I’m Dreaming of a White Riot….,” she sang. Kathy then shouted about “doing some sh-t like political assassinations.”
Those sentiments were just the tip of the iceberg, especially in terms of what Bernardine was thinking. Much like Vladimir Lenin’s ever-widening category of people considered “harmful insects,” destined for death or the gulag, Bernardine’s category of “pigs” was rapidly expanding. In the very recent past, the pigs had been America’s police and boys in Vietnam. Now, Bernardine was about to enrich the brethren at the War Council with her thoughts on the vicious Tate-LaBianca murders executed by the satanic Charles Manson “family.” The victims would get no sympathy from the future childcare advocate, who, here in Flint, was hell-bent on herding their mutilated bodies into her widening “pigs” category.
The girl from the Midwest flew off the hinges, waxing lustfully over the demonic spectacle of the criminally insane mutilation of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and her friends by the swastika-tattooed Manson brood. The crime done by the Manson clan is too mortifying to describe here, particularly the ripping open of Tate’s belly, but it wasn’t to Bernardine Dohrn. The future professor of child education at Northwestern saw a kind of deliciousness in these true Manson “revolutionaries.” She imbibed at the image of the cabal’s dehumanization of Tate, gleefully sharing her feelings with the assembled. Dohrn thrilled:
Dig it! First they killed those pigs. Then they ate dinner in the same room with them. Then they even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!
It was two days after Christmas, when America was still celebrating the image of the birth of the Christ child. Bernardine, however, was celebrating the image of the slaughter of the Tate child.
One would like to say that this moment of gore shocked even the hardcore in that room, but that would not be accurate. The faithful, from
Bill Ayers's Mugshot.
Bernadine’s sweetheart, Bill Ayers, to everyone else in the hall, knew that Bernardine was serious—and they dug it. As Mark Rudd reported, the assembled “instantly adopted as Weather’s salute four fingers held up in the air, invoking the fork left in Sharon Tate’s belly.”
Rudd translated this message for the wider world: “The message was that we sh-t on all your conventional values, you murderers of black revolutionaries and Vietnamese babies. There were no limits to our politics of transgression.”
No, there were not. And this is not quite the flowery image of the children dancing with daisies captured by liberal documentarians. Today, there is no Kodak moment of the four-finger salute thumb-tacked on the bulletin boards outside the office doors of the tenured radicals in their Ivy Towers, where idealistic education majors can take notes.
And now, a line had been crossed—the first steps into a dark world. Like the Jacobins after the first drop of the guillotine, the blood began to flow, rushing from the altar where Bishop Dohrn saluted and exhorted the faithful. Domestic terror cells, gunpowder, bomb-making units. A “new decade now dawned,” judged Rudd, as “the New Red Army marched out from Flint, exhilarated and terrified.”
And exhilarated to commit terror. The Weather Underground, and its blood orgy, was in full rot.
Jennifer Dohrn addresses a rally in Chicago's Lincoln Park, April 11, 1969. Jennifer's sister, Bernardine, is among the FBI's most-wanted for her part in the SDS "Days of Rage," in Chicago, Oct., 1969. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell)
Progressives for Obama
And so where is this lovely crew now? That brings me to Progressives for Obama. The radicals reunited with renewed vigor in 2008, forming a group called Progressives for Obama, which was a Who’s Who—a reunion—of the 1960s SDS crowd. Whereas Bill Ayers was thrust into the national spotlight by conservative commentators, Progressives for Obama flew under the radar, largely unnoticed even by conservatives, and predictably ignored by the mainstream media which essentially served as an unofficial extension of the Obama presidential campaign.
Appropriately, spearheading Progressives for Obama was the man who had spearheaded SDS: Tom Hayden. Hayden was one of the four “initiators” of Progressives for Obama, along with Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Danny Glover. Amazingly, Hayden, who wrote the founding Port Huron manifesto for SDS, also penned the founding manifesto for Progressives for Obama.
Yes, Tom Hayden was the spearhead for both.
Beyond its initiators, Progressives for Obama featured a list of 94 formal “signers,” including Hayden’s ex-wife, Jane Fonda, and Mark Rudd, Carl Davidson, Thorne Dreyer, Daniel Ellsberg, Richard Flacks, John McAuliff, Jay Schaffner, and more. Columbia University was certainly represented, if not through the likes of Rudd, who once shut down the campus, then specifically through current faculty such as Todd Gitlin, a former SDS president who today is professor of journalism, sociology, and chair of Columbia’s doctoral program in communications.
It is no exaggeration to say that the list of Progressives for Obama resembled the roster of SDS-ers called to testify for their subversive activities in the 1960s, literally appearing throughout the index of the transcripts from Congress’ December 1969 investigation of SDS. Aside from the likes of Hayden, Rudd, and Davidson, other SDS-ers among Progressives for Obama are Bob Pardun, who was SDS education secretary from 1966-67, and Paul Buhle, a professor who has recently sought to revive SDS. And still yet more SDS-ers, some who became Weathermen, were not formal signers for Progressives for Obama but signed online petitions backing Obama’s candidacy. Petition signers from the old guard included Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, and Steve Tappis, among others. Others who testified in the 1960s, like Michael Klonsky, were represented in the 2008 list of Progressives for Obama by their relations, Anne Lowry Klonsky and Fred Klonsky, all now pervading the field of public education.
Again, much, much more could be said. Please believe me when I tell you that this is a tiny snapshot, a mere ice-cube from an iceberg.
And the most amazing and depressing thing is that all of this—as crazy and conspiratorial as it may sound—is true. You can’t make it up. It’s like America is suddenly reliving its 1960s nightmares, from the Days of Rage to the Day of Rage, from SDS to the Weathermen to Progressives for Obama. These folks never go away; they simply reappear, changing their names but not their ultimate intentions. It’s our goal to not be ignorant, to be informed of the crucial history and the crucial machinations at work right now.
When the comrades and their fellow travelers lay siege to Wall Street on September 17, it will be nothing new. Sadly, nothing new at all. America, wake up.
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Comments (97)
SageInWaiting
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:53pmI was in junior high when all this was going on. I vaguely remember the images on the nightly news and the unease the violence brought to my soul. So many gullible young people weren’t even alive at this time and I doubt that if mentioned in school, it’s not presented in its true light. The wheel has spun around… will we be as lucky THIS time? There were few sympathizers in government then; seems it’s being run from the higtest halls now. God have mercy.
Report Post »Vital
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:48pmOLD HIPPIES wanna make a final good-bye…they don’t have much time left
Report Post »Steve
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 4:32am‘where a motley crew of liberals, progressives, socialists, and communists—and it will not be easy to know which is which’
The line in the sand has been drawn.
Which side do you stand on?
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 11:34amWhen I went to college, these same types sat around protesting everything, smoking pot and cigarettes all the while dressing in the most outrageous costumes of the time. When I say they protested everything they did, from Ronald Reagan, to bacon in the cafeteria, to higher pressure shower heads. These bums never got a job, never took a hard class, just sat around protesting and they still do it today. I see these same people who protested in college, organizing unions and still do not do work, just sit around and complain. When it comes down to it, these people are just lazy s o b s. I remember the story taught once in grade school of the grasshopper and the ant; they once said we should work like the ant, save and prepare. Now the schools teach kids to be the grasshopper.
Report Post »J4Y
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 2:59pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpF0akJHTJ0
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:46pmThank you for teaching us more about who is behind the day of rage.
Report Post »When you describe the reaction some of these people had to the Sharon Tate murders, it is worse than any horror movie. And that is because these are real life monsters.
The only question I have after reading this is, why are these people free to walk the streets, let alone stage riots in them?
God bless the police, I pray for their safety.
The10thAmendment
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 2:52pmThis is a magnificent post Carol. The Police had a very tough, dangerous and deadly job to do, and they deserve our respect, admiration and support. When I was young and stupid I did things that weren’t respectful, but I can’t imagine being so hate filled that celebrating butchery, and the ugliness of the mass murder by communism, was something that was cool, or even worth thinking about as plausible. The Police have my support for whatever comes.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:39pmblack and progressives, talk about useful idiots. progressives true progressives think blacks are sub human. research early 20th century progressives. h. clinton called herself an early 20th century progressive, black people get a clue on who your in bed with.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:33pmExcellent article! More like this!!! I am too young to remember the “Days of Rage” in Chicago, but it explains why my parents always “disliked” hippies. The MSM is a joke. This is something that should have been, but never was pointed out the last time around, along with Obama’s connections to the New Party in Chicago.
Report Post »NO YOU CANT
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:35pmSuddenly the doomsday croud are not sounding so crazy.
Report Post »None of this is coincidental. Obama is trying to collapse the dollar. When inflation hits and they devalue the dollar, because we are no longer the worlds reserve currency, they will have confiscated ALL the wealth without raising a single tax.
NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 7:22pm“By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.”
John Maynard Keynes
………..like the George Soros’ of the world no doubt as well as his political cronies, namely Obamao et al.
Report Post »Irenic
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 12:32am@axelphantom
I agree! Excellent article! More like this!!! Please…
Report Post »RA0725
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:31pmAll of the people who take to the streets (if they do) are nothing more than useful idiots for the agenda of Ayers and is ilk. I personally have no doubt that Obama is a part of this. If not directly involved he has knowledge of it and, with his silence, approves.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:52pmWhat amazes me is the lack of jail time (if any) for all these nutjobs and the fact that they are allowed into the universities that received public funds. Why is there nothing that stops this? Our society has allowed them to move forward in the name of free speech when in fact, organizing to overthrow the government is NOT free speech. But as someone else said, let these useful idiots move forward. They are no longer afraid to hide, emboldened by our joke of a president and his injustice department. After all, Obama himself was in an offshoot (and an official) of SDS called the Democratic Socialist of America. He worked furiously (and succeeded for the most part) in getting it scrubbed from the web. I am still shocked at how much he was able to get scrubbed. What is wrong with those people that complied with this? (with the exception of those who are his cheerleaders) Make no mistake, this group of people are violent and do not care, more than ever do they not care because they are certain they will walk free again. Let them show their true colors again. I pray no people on Wall St. are harmed, but I do want these morons to break laws so brazenly that the general public will rise up and ask WHY they are getting away with it.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:28pmI wonder what kind of drugs they were on! I remember as a kid in the late 60′s, my daddy always yelling about hippies and how bad they were. Now I know what he meant. RIP daddy, I love you.
Report Post »cloudsofwar
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:45pmask nancy peeloski what kind of drugs she took, she’s an OLD hippie. drugs explain her. most people don’t realize that hippies were commies. they weren’t all free sex and drugs.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 12:18pmHippies are worse than commies.
Report Post »They’re appeasing dupes.
Dismayed Veteran
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:19pmI suspect that the MSM will be giving positive coverage to the Day of Rage.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 5:43pmNot diminishing the “brains” behind this “days of rage”. They’re dangerous, evil people that must be closely monitored and exposed. But this really only appeals to the far left, the kooky fringe and deluded college students. My prediction is it will be the same images of dreadlocked, birkenstock wearing, drug-addled, hemp clothing attired, bespectacled, smelly, androgynous, faux-hippies we see being carried into police wagons throughout the world. Now…Rathke has wised up to the fact that conservatives have wised up to his kind and it pleading with his minions to not be violent. But let’s be honest..“rage” without violence among a crowd of self-deluded, oderous, hippies-lite is like “Bill without Bernardine”. They just can’t help themselves. I’m expecting a poor turnout, the dinosaur media ignoring it unless it’s too rowdy to ignore, property destroyed, and lots of dissheveled, smelly hippie types being dragged away to police vehicle while chanting some slogan they told to memorize. I’m going to stick my neck out and say..even though socialism/communism/progressivism is taking a beating all over the world, this is the time they’re the most dangerous..they‘re a wounded animal seeing it’s blood run out and their lashing out violently where as once they played from the shadows but they’ll be mostly ignored by the people. There’s no nobility to their cause, only disruption and anger for the sake of it. People have more important concerns than smelly
Report Post »1accord
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:11pmThanks for the history lesson.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:21pmI very much remember all the riots, fights with police, etc. that were instigated by these people. They are CRAZY, homicidal nutjobs, and like others, I wonder why they have been allowed to run loose and spread their instanity the way they have for so long? My hope is, that, just like in the 60s, their blatantly violent and INSANE carryings-on will so appall the average citizen that the sheeple will rise up and repudiate them AND their black Messiah, OBUMMER. If these people have their way, the gulags and gas ovens can’t be far behind! What is truly appalling is that these cockroaches are influential “advisors” to the POTUS and inside our GOVERNMENT. God help us and our country, if these human vermin get the upper hand and win the WAR they are waging upon all of us.
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:11pmThanks for the info Paul.
Why weren‘t these radicals shot for attempting the violent overthrow of the US back in the 60’s. Then we wouldn’t have to deal with them now and Obama may not even exist.
Report Post »NES
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:40pm@Pap Pap
Three questions:
1. Does Soros pay you by the word or by the post?
2. Does pretending to be a Tea Partier and then maligning us by posting violent and racist rhetoric make you feel better about yourself?
3. How long does it take you to clean the Cheetos crumbs out of your keyboard, or does your mom do it for you? (I’m guessing the latter.)
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 8:58pm@pap pap
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:11pm
Thanks for the info Paul.
Why weren‘t these radicals shot for attempting the violent overthrow of the US back in the 60’s. Then we wouldn’t have to deal with them now and Obama may not even exist
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My brother was army, called to riot duty, they were considered “children” the soldiers were only allowed bullets in every so many rifles, then they were “rubber” bullets, even then they could only shoot if attacked with deadly force first. Many of the rioters had Real bullets in Real guns (Russia was arming them through Cuba). All the soldiers testified the first shots fired at Kent State came from behind the line of soldiers, off the grassy knoll. Only then did the officers give the command to shoot to protect themselves, the protesters had burnt down the city of Kent, and had hand gernades and molotov cocktails. The city fathers did a deal with the students to stop the rioting if they ignored the truth and honored the fallen. Most students were simply misguided kids, who got caught up in the emotion? Thus the re-write of history began. To stop the riots, America signed it’s death warrent under a “Long term (I don’t) care” policy
TomFerrari
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:09pmFire trucks and fire hoses – LOTS and LOTS of fire hoses !
PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY for PEACE !
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cloudsofwar
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:33pmfire trucks and hoses? how about rifles and bayonets, pointed at them. day of rage, over.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:57pmOf course these people are enraged. The productive class is getting tired of paying to support the existence of these parasites and is balking at the expansion of government to pay for evern more of these loosers.
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mr.goodvibe
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:49pmCommunism is evil. Nuff said.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 4:24pmThat’s some scary stuff! if it’s the tip of the iceburg, like the author says, I’d hate to read the rest! As for Danny Glover…. I don’t think I will watchnig anymore of his movies.. but I should‘ve figured he’s be a prog, but I didn‘t realize he’s rubbing elbows with the commies.. geeez
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:32pm“It’s like America is suddenly reliving its 1960s nightmares, from the Days of Rage to the Day of Rage, from SDS to the Weathermen to Progressives for Obama.”
Barack Obama has demanded Israel go back to pre-1967 borders!!! Do any of you believe it is only coincidence that America is being returned to our 1960′s problems??????
You reap what you sow, more than you sow, later than you sow. Lets see how we handle the problems this time!!
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Posted on September 17, 2011 at 9:14pmre : You reap what you sow, more than you sow, later than you sow. Lets see how we handle the problems this time!!
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With prayer for guidance. “The battle is the Lord’s”!
jessieH
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:28pmThis has been planned, but there is more to it than meets the eye. If they can cause chaos, everywhere, it gives Obama exactly what he has been wanting. A reason to declare martial law and finish the job of destroying this Nation. It’s up to us, the American Citizens to put a stop to the coming carnage. Protect yourselves.
Report Post »constitutionaldirective
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:24pmI am praying for the NYPD for their safety, patience and strength…
..as well I pray for the Useful Idiots, Mr. Learner and Co.. it’s tough, but I’m doing it!
I have no expectation that the media will stand on the side of American principles, but I also pray they will, maybe God will bless them with some temporary sanity…. ;)
I trust in God, but I dread our due for the folly of men like Learner.
Report Post »oitsugina
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:31pmI will pray along with you and hope that ten people show up.
Report Post »blackdanger10
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:56pmThe best thing we can do about this is pray. We need to combat evil with good. And there is no better good than God. May lives be spared and tragedy prevented.
Report Post »Vyctoria
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 11:24amI will pray, Let God shine light on ALL the darkness. Love & Light dissipates this evil.
Report Post »bhelmet
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:23pmAfter reading this again – I am truly sickened. This is the Darkness of US History – not the Founding. I am peaved that the garbage of this time is the educator of our youth today – especially at the collegiate level. ENOUGH!!!!!!!!
Report Post »eaglenva
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:22pmI do hope that we have a number of our “true” reporters posted at each and every site. I know these folks a stupid and brain washed but I pray that the violence we all know is to going happen will not cause untold collateral consequences.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:20pmFantastic article and history of the radicals. Thank you Paul Kengor and the Blaze and everyone involved in bringing this educational historical summary to light.
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bhelmet
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:17pmTHIS is the SAD History of America that SHOULD be taught in school. We are taught our Founders were killers and slave owners. Our Founders RESPECTED life and Liberty. These “pigs” demean life and would allow NONE outside themselves Liberty. The TRUTH must be taught and must be known by the generations behind us. I will start with my child and her friends – we MUST pledge the same amongst ourselves. Let’s BLIND the Darkness.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:24pmRead Ann Coulter’s DEMONIC.
Fear The Legion….or at least take them very seriously.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 9:25pm@bhelmet
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THIS is the SAD History of America that SHOULD be taught in school. We are taught our Founders were killers and slave owners. Our Founders RESPECTED life and Liberty. These “pigs” demean life and would allow NONE outside themselves Liberty. The TRUTH must be taught and must be known by the generations behind us. I will start with my child and her friends – we MUST pledge the same amongst ourselves. Let’s BLIND the Darkness.
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If God’s mercy permits us the 2012 elections and a new POTUS who does do away with the Dept of Education, perhaps we need to start New Schools to educate in truth. Don’t know what I can accomplish, but I’d like to try.
UlyssesP
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:15pmHow horrible to live a life like that, believing you’re a victim of some soulless giant capitalist machine that will consume you, all the while depending on that very capitalist system and its structures for everything from the computers you blog with to the sneakers you wear when you march your protests to the music you listen to when you make love and the drugs you buy from your dealers….
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docvet
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:43pmi’ve never heard anyone say it better. A hearty thank you for seeing the situation so clearly. I have often thought that these people have no idea what the reality is that they are promoting. If true Communism came about, they would be the first to go since they are: 1) Trouble-makers and malcontents, 2) know too much about how to stir up the population and 3) too independent thinkers. All of which is forbidden to a true sheeple, the mainstay of the population in a true Communist state.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:46pmGreat description – wish I had written it!
OMG – Psalm 109:8
Report Post »ares338
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:12pmIn every society there are always those that are disenfranchised, unhappy or just plain pissy. This could be the most perfect society you could ever imagine and someone would protest. It’s just the way humans are. Go ahead have your rage, get arrested and go home.
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:17pmthey want be prosecuted,because obama and eric holder will not allow it to happen, because they are allowing them to do it.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:05pmWell the good thing about this is you know where all the loser’s, who could not hold down a real job are located and you can take pictures to know who are the traitors of this country. Yes, they have a right to protest, I am not denying that, but they usually take it to one step further and actually become violent. This is not okay, and they should be squelched for that alone.
I am sure they will be like the peace loving Muslims that Rosie so fondly describes as freedom fighters. NOT!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:03pmI really hope they shut down the street and have thousands of protesters there camping out and having a sit-in…because these 200 one gallon jugs of goat piss I’ve been hauling up to the roof tops the last 2 weeks have caused me some awful back pain.
Report Post »travlman77
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:21pmWow you must have alot of goats!
LMAO thanks for the mental picture!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:49pmGreat idea – you got me laughing just visualizing.
OBG – Psalm 109:8
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 6:53pmthey are going to be surprised if they do attempt an uprising – outside the ghetto America is a nation of hunters/shooters/gun owners. Many of us live in concealed carry states and carry.
OMG – Psalm 108:9
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on September 17, 2011 at 9:36pm@The_Almighty_Creestof
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I really hope they shut down the street and have thousands of protesters there camping out and having a sit-in…because these 200 one gallon jugs of goat piss I’ve been hauling up to the roof tops the last 2 weeks have caused me some awful back pain
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lol. Don’t know whether to say “Let ‘er blow”! or “Fire-in-the-Hole”!
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:03pmIndeed, tomorrow is the day of rage, and the media darlings of the liberal left and socialists will be out in force to catch each and every violation of these idiots and madmen rights by “violent and abusive authoritarian figures of the police harming innocent protesters.”
I expect this matter will turn bloody.
Anyone wishing to see some commentary on the subject as well, go to this link on Glenn Beck.com
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/09/14/what-happens-on-september-17th/
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:15pm@snow, the match has been lit for a while,now they are about to throw the gas to it, this where we all knew we we’re headed, we can only hope that media covers the story and they cover it right,{ THE TRUTH } just maybe,many who are still on the fence about the way our country is headed,will be knocked off of it, when they see how the communist and unions and all of the obama supporters will do whatever it takes to destroy our great country, i just pray that no one gets hurt.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:38pm@CommonSenseGuy:
Indeed I hope people will wake up and get off of the fence, also with no one getting hurt. I have been warning people of so many things coming, and they are here and now. This is one part of the storm that has been buidling since Obama came into office; they know in the 2012 elections the window of opportunity will close for at least a generation, and they need to act now.
So we need to act as well, and stand firm against the night and the evil encroaching upon the last bastions of the light. God help us and strengthen us in the time ahead.
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 3:02pmThe day will come when this chazari will get up the balls to start a shooting war. When they do that, they will come up against what Yamamoto feared, if he had invaded our country – a gun behind every blade of grass.
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