{"id":2081,"date":"2008-07-17T14:52:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2008-07-17T17:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T21:31:44","slug":"attention-whores-at-recreate-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Attention whores at “Recreate 68”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rurik sends me this link from a Colorado Fox affiliate<\/a>. The “Recreate 68” crowd thinks that their little drama play in Denver is so important that local police are threatening them to stop it;<\/p>\n

Members of “Denver CopWatch” and several other activists say they received an email threatening a police riot during the convention.<\/p>\n

The top of the email message says “We beat you then, we’ll beat you again,” apparently referencing what is called a \u201cpolice riot\u201d during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Part of the email text reads: \u201cThink your tough hippy? Get ready to get down!! We’re celebrating 40 years of beat-down!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Denver CopWatch tells us the email came from a Hotmail account and was written by a rank-and-file police officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I don’t know how they figure it’s a “rank-and-file police officer” because later in the article;<\/p>\n

Some of the people who received the threatening message plan to take the email to the office of the Independent Monitor and they will also ask for an investigation to determine who sent the threatening message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the email was sent through a Hotmail account, and no one really knows who sent it…so it must be a cop. First of all, I don’t think a cop even cares about these aged hippies, or when they protest – the Denver police are probably looking forward to the overtime pay. And if they were indeed going to cause trouble, they wouldn’t telegraph ahead. The only people living in 1968 are the folks trying to “recreate” it.<\/p>\n

It sounds to me like a publicity stunt to get the media to pay attention to them for a minute or two. I doubt it’ll work. Just like the IVAW, Code Pink and all the rest, they’re old moldy news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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