Note from Ron York: Most of you are too young to remember the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, but I am not. Chicago was inundated with a mob of pot smoking, maggot invested hippies who staged a riot under the guise of a demonstration. The Chicago Police Department saved the city from being totally sacked. The national press, which had recently been infected with anti-establishmentism, perpetrated one of the biggest lies since the invention of the printing press. They reported the story as police thugs beating innocent children who were peacefully exercising their right of free speech. They even labeled the event as a "Police Riot." The really bad part was that the public bought the lie. Prior to the Vietnam War, the press had been a fair broker of the news. During 1967 and 1968, they morphed into just another advocacy group. If you do not believe me, call Mark Donahue, president of the Chicago FOP. He will bend your ear off. So will all of his predecessors, like Bill Nolan.
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BY MONICA DAVEY
NEW YORK TIMES
A reunion of former police officers featured memories and pizza.
It seemed an unlikely reunion: a gathering, 41 years later, of the police officers who clashed with demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in this city, leaving behind an image Chicago has tried to shed ever since."
The reunion’s invitation itself, penned by the son of a former officer, offered an utterly different view, saying that the officers had been “the only thing that stood between Marxist street thugs and public order,” and adding: “For decades the collective Left has white-washed what really happened during the riots of 1968 and 1969. Chicago Police officers who participated in the riots continue to endure unending criticism — all of which is unwarranted, inaccurate and wrong.”
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