CHICAGO: “Get the thing straight once and for all: The policeman isn’t there to create disorder,” said the late Mayor Richard J. Daley in explaining the riots in the streets of his city in the summer 1968. In clashes played out across the country on television, Chicago’s police clubbed and arrested youthful demonstrators gathered to oppose the Vietnam War. The phrase “fake news” would have resonated with Mayor Daley who said as much without using the words. Democratic party leaders, despite primaries showing strong support for the antiwar candidacies of Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene J. McCarthy, instead nominated Hubert Humphrey. We have worked hard to preserve the disorders of 1968.

Source: Manila Times August 30, 2018 16:18 UTC