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1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Pics

81 by Marsupialized_Archive
John W. wrote:In 1990, one of my jobs in Chicago was working for a jewelry store right off Michigan Ave. I used to throw broken jewelry in a gym bag and ride the El from the Chicago stop down to the Madison stop and drop off $75,000 necklaces, gold rings and stuff to be repaired by people in the jewelers mall on Wabash. The Wabash people would charge just a few bucks for the repairs (I guess there's good money to be made in gold shavings). I'd bring the jewelry back up to the Gold Coast and the owner of the store up there would charge his customers 20 times the price it actually cost for the repair. It sucked -- I worked there for 6 months and made $5 an hour.

Anyway, the owner would pay off cops to watch the store. Hanging out with these guys made me realize how fucked up the culture was in the Chicago Police Dept. I've got a buddy I went to school with that's a cop and he's alright, but as a general rule, Chicago cops aren't cool. Once, hanging out at the store, this one cop told a story about how he and his partner busted through the front door of a house because they heard on the police radio that it was robbed. It was the wrong house. They fucking busted the door down to the wrong house. Know what he said: "I'll just say I wasn't there." Cop was laughing. They also said "Niggers... can't trust 'em." Fuck those guys. Maybe I was hanging out with the wrong cops, but sometimes there'd be close to a dozen of 'em hanging out in the upstairs office of this place and they were all laughing and regularly talking some fucked up, unfair shit.


I refuse to believe that police officers, sworn to protect and serve the citizens of our great city would act in such a way.
I flat out refuse to believe it, cops are good and decent people.
These are heros you are talking about.
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1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Pics

82 by curry pervert_Archive
Marsupialized wrote:If everyone's child had to go, then people would be a lot more careful about where and how we allow these assholes in charge to send them, you dig?


I get your point, but the above statement seems a little idealistic to me. We allow them? Even given everything you've said, if national service was mandatory, d'ya think anyone would have done anything different in the wake of 9/11? 'cos I don't, tbh.

1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Pics

83 by Marsupialized_Archive
curry pervert wrote:
Marsupialized wrote:If everyone's child had to go, then people would be a lot more careful about where and how we allow these assholes in charge to send them, you dig?


I get your point, but the above statement seems a little idealistic to me. We allow them? Even given everything you've said, if national service was mandatory, d'ya think anyone would have done anything different in the wake of 9/11? 'cos I don't, tbh.


What, attack Iraq for no reason? Probably not, no. Or had a better plan on how to do it beforehand, anyway.
There would be a LOT more questions asked by everyone every step of the way if everyone's, even the politician's kids were in the service.
Do you think Bush would have been so quick to attack Iraq if he knew his daughters would have to be on the front lines of the invasion? and the daughters and sons of all his advisors and policy makers?
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1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Pics

84 by Andrew_Archive
zom-zom wrote:
I may be a bit sensitive still regarding comments about my dad since he died just this past April. He was a very interesting man and happened to have a job as a cop for 25 years. He was also a professional wrestler, lumberyard owner, and many other things.

If you want to paint a picture of peaceful, mellow groovy innocent hippies getting beaten up by mean and nasty cops go ahead. There was more to it.


First, I remember a post you made honoring your father that included a picture of him as pro wrestler. It was a great post and I have no doubt he was an interesting fellow.

Second, there were protesters throwing nasty stuff, undoubtedly. The American State, which cops in '68 represented at home, was throwing more than bricks in Vietnam, meanwhile. 373 000 tons of naplam were dropped on Vietnam. At the '68 convention, your dad was a local enforcer of acquiescence to that policy. And that's just a fact. No amount of personal decency, or biographical color, changes that.

1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Pics

88 by Marsupialized_Archive
zom-zom wrote:If you want to paint a picture of peaceful, mellow groovy innocent hippies getting beaten up by mean and nasty cops go ahead. There was more to it.


No there wasn't, mean and nasty cops beating innocent unarmed people is what it was plain and simple.
The Chicago cops hired bikers and criminals from all over the surrounding area to go down and beat the hippies up, these offers started weeks before the event.
I know this because my father was one of the criminals they hired to go down there and cause trouble. Chicago cops paid him money to do this. Undercover cops, actually.
Every one of his criminal friends from the time would tell the same stories. I've heard the story of what went on at the convention hundreds of times from many people who were there. Both my parents were there, all their friends were there. My mom got smacked right in the back of the head by one of the big hero cops. My mom was just trying to run away when the cops started beating people up, she wasn't throwing anything at anyone.

But yeah, as far as the poor cops having things thrown at them,....If some cops start beating innocent men, women and children with clubs in front of me for doing nothing wrong but voicing their opinions loudly in public, I'm gonna look for something to throw at them too.
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