Maybe this is the "two Americas" John Edwards was talking about. These seem to be the ones that would stifle/censor free speech.
From WorldNetDaily.....the Internet site I'm supposed to believe is a rag.....the one that doesn't represent main stream media.
M
Monday, August 16, 2004
FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Will Republican convention
be a Chicago '68 madhouse?
Activist Tom Hayden pledges disruptions 'bigger by a thousand fold' for GOP event
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Tom Hayden, one of the central organizers of sometimes violent, civil disobedience protests at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, is pledging to disrupt this month's Republican convention with demonstrations "1,000 times bigger than Chicago," according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, WND's premium, weekly, online intelligence newsletter.
Hayden, the co-founder of Students for Democratic Society, a left-wing group that splintered in the late '60s and early '70s, with one faction resorting to terrorism, is predicting between 100,000 and 1 million protesters will be in New York for the convention beginning Aug. 30.
Hayden said there were at most 6,000 on hand in Chicago in 1968.
This time, he predicted, it will be "bigger by a thousand fold," he told a foreign journalist.
He said many demonstrators were scared off by tough-talking Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. The bigger protest in New York, he said, "influences the character of everything, including the strategy of the Department of Homeland Security."
No permits have yet been issued for any planned demonstrations.
Tom Hayden
"I think people are entitled to march without a permit," said Hayden, at one time the husband of Jane Fonda and the man who orchestrated her infamous visits to North Vietnam. "When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. Nevertheless, the good people seeking permits have to continue doing that because it might happen and they need to lay the legal foundation for a later lawsuit."
Hayden has issued what some interpret as veiled threats if New York does not accommodate the demonstrators.
"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards," he said. "The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
While at the Democratic convention in Boston this summer, Hayden was overheard by two other sources saying he would use Vietnam War-era anti-war tactics to protest Iraq and Afghanistan during the GOP convention.
A Maryland man, meanwhile, is attempting to organize counter-demonstrators to shadow Hayden's protests.
"Tom Hayden's activities (in the 1960s and 1970s) went further then demonstrations to subversive activities corrupting people on active duty, visiting Vietnam," said Roger Hall. "His activities were used to confront POWs with his claims of being war criminals. Some POWs were beaten. His wife Jane Fonda went to Vietnam on his direction, where American servicemen were falsely charged as criminals. He gave aid and comfort to the enemy. Stop evil where ever you can, this guy is evil."
Recently, Hayden served several terms in the California Legislature representing the beach town of Santa Monica.
As WND reported previously, some of the groups organizing protests at this summer's Republican convention – including an anarchist outfit planning disruptions – get funding from a foundation chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of the Democratic Party presidential nominee.
Heinz Kerry, worth as much as $1 billion according to some estimates, has directed donations in the millions to the Tides Foundation, a 28-year-old grant-making institution that funds some of the principal groups organizing demonstrations and disruptions of the GOP convention.
The umbrella coalition organizing the protests is called United for Peace and Justice – strongly critical of the war in Iraq. The coalition was sponsored by Ramsey Clark's International Action Center, which was funded by the Tides Center's Iraq Peace Fund and Peace Studies Fund. Clark's group also sponsored International ANSWER. Both groups are run by long-time communist revolutionaries.
Teresa Heinz Kerry's favorite charity has also funded The Ruckus Society, an anarchist group known for disrupting the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999 and planning similar disruptions for the New York convention. The group has been training protesters for the GOP convention in the art of sit-ins and blockades.
Mrs. Kerry, working through the Howard Heinz Endowment, oversaw the donation of more than $4 million to the Tides Foundation between 1995 and 2001.
Other groups in the United for Peace and Justice Coalition funded by Tides include the American Friends Service Committee, MADRE, the Institute for Policy Studies, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild.
Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice national coordinator, a long-time communist revolutionary, also runs International ANSWER, dominated by the Communist Workers World Party. The Communist Party USA is also one of the affiliated groups under the United for Peace and Justice coalition.
There were reports last week that some of the groups headed for New York have more in mind than waving placards, marching and listening to speakers denounce President Bush.
According to the New York Daily News, fringe elements are hoping to spark major disruptions "with a series of sneaky tricks – including fooling bomb-sniffing dogs on trains bound for Penn Station."
"Internet-using anarchists are telling would-be troublemakers to decoy specially trained Labrador retrievers with gunpowder or ammonium nitrate-laced tablets in a bid to halt trains or even spur the evacuation of Madison Square Garden," the paper reported.
The Republican convention will be held at Madison Square Garden Aug. 30 through Sept. 2.
New York City police have expressed concern about the way some of these groups have used the Internet to disseminate plans for disruption. Among those messages cited:
"Go to a rifle, pistol or skeet shooting range, spend an hour shooting to saturate clothing with smell of gunpowder, go directly to a New Jersey Transit, LIRR or subway train headed for Penn Station.
"Try to have at least two people on a train in different locations, sit or stand near the doors as the train approaches the station, try to get near police and dogs, loiter as long as possible around the dog, try to pet it if possible.
"If the dog alerts on your scent, do not leave or resist; the situation will cause a major disruption of the train schedule. ... If there is more than one person on the train that causes a dog to alert, you can bet that the train will not be going anywhere for a long time ... neither will any trains behind it.
"It is important that the police call in all possible resources to investigate the situation. ... This will result in the maximum disruption. ... With any luck, Madison Square Garden will be evacuated.
"Rush hours are ideal, the final night of the convention, very good, too."
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