Reply #183: Thank You for Bringing Home a bit of Historical Reality here.

[radio4progressives]

a very important piece of history is being REPEATED all over again, from the very beginning of this fiasco that is costing not only our own in life, limb and treasure, but of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, and beyond. From the urban streets of Bhagdad to the secret gulags in Eastern Europe and Guantanomo.

It is absolute madness for any political leader to wear blinders on this matter who have not experienced Viet Nam, but it is absolutely diabolical for someone who knows first hand our history during Viet Nam.

That's the why the level of animous towards both Kerry and the Clintons and their absolute failure to deal with this issue righteously, is on a level that is expressed here and at that protest today. They'll be more of those. many more.

And one more note on that Convention in 1968. It was the Democratic Party leadership that called out the state police and national guard in advance of the planned demonstration - the police and guard outnumbered the demonstrators by a ratio that was so over the top, i can't recall the percentage at the moment, they were given orders to beat, maim and gas the demonstrators, whatever it takes to disperse them from outside of the convention. They didn't want to hear what America was saying about the war in Viet Nam. And the National Guard turned not only the demonstrators, but journalists and media as well.

That convention was the last convention where the party voted in the candidate.

And they call ours a "democracy".

what a freaking joke.