Rookie120 0 #1 August 27, 2008 QuoteDENVER – Defiant activists said they will no longer communicate with police, who dealt a blow to their organization with mass arrests Monday night. "There is no truce with police anymore," said Recreate '68 organizer Glenn Spagnuolo during a news conference in front of police headquarters Tuesday. Spagnuolo, visibly upset over the events of Monday night, said police had broken pledges to cooperate with protest groups to keep things peaceful and calm. "This doesn't mean that we're going to be confrontational," Spagnuolo said. "It just means we can't trust the police anymore." Recreate '68 leaders say police provoked a panic in the crowd gathered in Civic Center Park Monday night by parading officers in full riot gear through people gathered in small groups. Activists say the crowd was not given a chance to disperse before police used pepper spray and made about 100 arrests. Those arrests made a serious dent in the protest groups' strength, estimated at around 1,000 people. Police say they moved in when protesters, some of whom were carrying rocks, refused to disperse. "We can only assume that they are trying to get some people in jail to keep them off the streets for the rest of the week," said Brian Vicente of the People's Law Project, a group offering assistance to those arrested. A plan by the anarchist group Unconventional Denver to put street blockades in the way of convention-going delegates Tuesday was scrapped. An organizer said Monday's arrests took a toll on the group and they were meeting to assess their options for continued protests. There were even protestors holding up signs on Tuesday asking for help with bond money for those who were arrested. Crowds in Civic Center Park were calm and police appeared to have heard protesters requests to have mounted patrols and riot police stationed across from the park rather than inside it. Mark Cohen of Recreate '68 said protesters were illegally detained and may file suit against the city for failing to give them a chance to comply with orders and leave before being arrested. Monday's melee shattered nearly two full days of largely peaceful protests. Up to the minute before the confrontation, both police and protest leaders were remarking on how well the week was progressing. "We were cooperating with them. They were cooperating with us," Cohen said. "What happened to change that situation?" Pressed for specifics on what the "ending of the truce" would mean on the streets for the final days of the DNC, Spagnuolo shrugged. "Whatever happens, happens," Spagnuolo. So he sounds like a lawyer so when people start smashin stuff he can say he didnt promote it. I'm all for a good protest. But when it starts with smashing stores and destroying property they police have the duty to stop the offenders.If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #2 August 27, 2008 so the activists want to "Recreate '68" when the Democrats lost? are they McCain supporters? Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rookie120 0 #3 August 27, 2008 Quoteso the activists want to "Recreate '68" when the Democrats lost? are they McCain supporters? No, they have a web-site. Go read what they claim to be about. Som people have to much time to waste.If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JackC 0 #4 August 27, 2008 Well I read it and I still have no idea who is protesting what and why. So my opinion is the author should be fired. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #5 August 27, 2008 QuoteWell I read it and I still have no idea who is protesting what and why. So my opinion is the author should be fired. Some people like our own Errico Malatesta here in SC... protest just to do so...they hate the system.. and would NEVER be caught dead trying to make a difference from within... We have a whole bunch of these numbnuts here in the Pacific NW.. anarchists... fringe lefters.. Earth First etc. They came out in force durting the WTO riots in Seattle... bottom line.. they got to party like anarchists.. smoke some dope...dab on so Petuli oil ( to cover up their lack of cleanliness)..... get arrested.. and claim to their friends how they TOOK DOWN .... THE MAN. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akarunway 1 #6 August 27, 2008 QuoteQuoteWell I read it and I still have no idea who is protesting what and why. So my opinion is the author should be fired. Some people like our own Errico Malatesta here in SC... protest just to do so...they hate the system.. and would NEVER be caught dead trying to make a difference from within... We have a whole bunch of these numbnuts here in the Pacific NW.. anarchists... fringe lefters.. Earth First etc. They came out in force durting the WTO riots in Seattle... bottom line.. they got to party like anarchists.. smoke some dope...dab on so Petuli oil ( to cover up their lack of cleanliness)..... get arrested.. and claim to their friends how they TOOK DOWN .... THE MAN.Hey. Anarchy can be a good thing. Just have to play the cards right. Not that I would advocate anything like that tho.I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #7 August 27, 2008 QuoteHey. Anarchy can be a good thing. Just have to play the cards right. Not that I would advocate anything like that tho. It boils down to one point for me.. Would you like to live in your own little idealistic world....surrounded by people who are not willing to live by the same rules you abide by and do not live by idealism.. but what they can take from stupid idealists. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
birdlike 0 #8 August 28, 2008 OMG we're seeing eye-to-eye on another issue! Shit IS about to get crazy! Next thing you know, three stars will be in the correct alignment for the Antichrist to be born! (Oh, wait, that happened already. Now he's running for prez on the Dem ticket! ) No, but seriously, anyone who actually thinks to call himself an "anarchist" has got to be fuckin' retarded. An anarchist would not recognize any system of authority, right? So if they reject anyone's authority, why would they plead, when arrested for rioting and torching cars and shops, for the system they claim has no authority to provide them due process, and lawyers, and junk??! They always turn into such "I-want-my-lawyer-and-my-mommy" PUSSIES when they get caught being, well, anarchic. And that's how it ought to be. The planet earth simply cannot sustain a human civilization that is anarchic. There will be order, or there will be complete destructive chaos. Spirits fly on dangerous missions Imaginations on fire Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
