When I read the following article from The Denver Post, I questioned whether these people really are disgruntled Democrats or Independents.
Those who remember the Vietnam War protests in the 1970s remember the provocatours, Nixon's Plumbers, planted by the Republican Party to split or discredit their opposition.
One who was there wrote "the first thought I had was that it's a Republican plot, much like the planned riots for the 1972 conventions that were planned by the Plumbers.
These planned protests do not have a ring of truth. They sound as though they are designed to make the nation turn against the Democratic Party. If the same protests are planned for the Republican Convention, I may reconsider.
New generation plans dissent
Activists 2.0
By Colleen O'Connor
The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/...
. . . . nude-in with bare bodies arranged to spell "PEACE," traffic- stopping bike blockades, music with a message. Civil disobedience, direct confrontation, radical cheerleading.That funky fusion of protest, performance and pompoms.
The new generation of activists, and the daisy-in-the-rifle protesters who birthed them, is busy with creative ferment, organizing public dissent for the Democratic National Convention here in August. They are motivated by the desire to create social change with people power, not political power, frustrated by a mounting list of problems, from the housing crisis to soaring prices for gas and food.
"There will be a lot of people at this convention who are progressive and who are angry at the Democrats,"
says Virginia Trabulsi, who has worked for years with the anti-war group United for Peace and Justice. "They're saying, 'Why have we not impeached Bush? Why is Homeland Security out of control?' "