Send in the clowns: 2008 Green Party Convention coming to Chicago
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year.
Send in The Clowns, lyrics by Steven Sondheim as sung by Judy Collins.
Chicago will be home to a national political convention next year--that of the Green Party.
Until a few days ago, I thought such a gathering would be peaceful shindig of Dennis Kucinich vegan-types.
Perceptions and stereotypes can be wrong sometimes, as I blogged here last week.
But not always, as AP reports:
To Green Party members, bringing the convention to Chicago is significant for another reason: Next year is the 40th anniversary of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago that saw clashes between police and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators outside.
This time, (Green Party spokesman Patrick) Kelly said the anti-war protesters will be inside a political convention nominating the Green Party's candidate.
Sheesh, can't the Left get over the 1960s? Even Barack Obama, who was born the same year I was, 1961, gets mired in that decade, based on some passages of his Audacity of Hope.
Folks: The 1960s ended 37 years ago.
But some Greenies want to bring the country back to the early 1860s. Commenter Michael Pugliese directed me to a Joshua Frank article in the Atlantic Free Press. It's not just bicycle riding Vegans, or as Solomonia discovered, Islamists and anti-semites who've infiltrated the Green Party with a "the clap," but crazies on the from the extreme-right as well.
From Frank's article:
Green delegates from Tennessee have recently advanced a proposal which they call "Moving the Money from Wall Street to Main Street." Certainly sounds innocuous enough. Tragically the delegates from Tennessee based their proposal on a presentation made to the Green Party delegates at their convention by a woman named Catherine Austin Fitts.
Ms. Fitts, a Republican, was Assistant Secretary of Housing in the administration of George Bush Sr. and now supports libertarian causes. Why was Fitts invited to talk to the Green Party about banking issues? Nobody really knows. Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the associates of Catherine Austin Fitts is Franklin Sanders, a leading thinker in the extreme right-wing Constitution Party. Sanders is also chairman of the Tennessee chapter of "The League of the South", yes, from the same state of the Green Party delegates who offered the proposal in the first place.
The League of the South is quite an outfit. They advocate the ideology of "kinism", and would outlaw racial intermarriage and non-white immigration, expel all "aliens" (including Jews and Arabs), limit the right to vote to white landowning males over the age of twenty-one, and re-institute black slavery. The Green Party is about to adopt a proposal based on the philosophy of people like Fitts and Sanders. One has to wonder who would influence these guys if they were savvy enough to win elections.
Man oh man, the Green Party's slogan should be, "If you're nuts, your one of us." And this Clown-a-palooza is coming to Chicago.
Related Marathon Pundit post: Illinois gov race--Rich Whitney: What is Green once was Red
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