CHICAGO 10 - Take The Hill!

[PiTaBoI94]

I don't really agree with yippies or any extremists for that matter... But that was a badass clip

[falstaffswims]

The lesson we learned from Vietnam: don't pick on the quiet little Asian kid, because he just might beat the holy living shit out of you.

[exrock712]

The zenith of Frankfurt School New Left public militancy. Having been rejected by the majority of Americans, they have now gone stealth, doing their work behind the protection of tenure and indoctrinating our children from the earliest age in such concepts of relativism, wherein no one is right because no one is wrong.  It is the intellectual neutering of the masses, making it unable to recognize the profound changes before it is too late. Just remember, people aren't swimming to Cuba.

[WCAS14]

lol hippies. 

[nerfballs2000]

Wow, you think the 1968 Democratic Convention is something? Just wait for what CPD will have to do when the Cubs finally win a world series. Might be the The Great Chicago Fire part 2.

[lyeball]

back when cops knew how to handle leftist clowns

[grang710]

You're the clown

[gojibebe]

police state then, police state still

[ChubbFidgets]

I wish environmental terrorists or those anti-globalization puke protestors could get tear gassed once in a while... when is the next G-8Summit happening? That is one of my favorite sitcoms.

[smkymcnugget420]

TAKE THE HILL!!!

[trooperchicago]

The Police kept order in the only way that had to be done. They all got a good Ass Beating. Now these dickheads drive beamers and drink 5.00 cups of coffee. Bunch of f*cking losers.

[smkymcnugget420]

yes exactly.. ..thats exactly how you deal with peaceful protesters in a democratic nation: martial law

[ChubbFidgets]

Funny thing is, I always route for the cops when I see footage of the Chicago '68. Hippie scum with North Vietnamese flags...makes me want to vomit.

[smkymcnugget420]

hope you dont feel the same way when it happens again you Nazi fascist faggot! scumbags like you are the ppl who are underminding the Constitution

[ChubbFidgets]

Oops, I meant root for the cops, not route...silly me, what was I thinking? Original statement still dead on.

[elwhyefefef]

chicago > new york

[aNewYorker90]

New York > chicago

[twolaneblacktop70]

these are the same hippies who drive hummers and take viagra now, i don't blame the cops for clubbing the fuckers. hippies ultimately are the biggest sellouts in history.

[smkymcnugget420]

no they did what they needed to do... its the generation that came after them that dropped the ball.. its said in the film "we are the one who will take their athority, its up to the next generation to take their power"

[warmunger911]

its a good way to get you ass beat.

[shikevt]

WOW. That was powerful editing. Great sound design when the cops wade in...Awesome.

[madtal]

I used to know a guy (about 8 years later) who was on that statue. When the police pulled him off his arm got caught in the stirrup & broke. I've seen it on other tapes (though not on youtube), but I'm sort of glad it wasn't on this one. Too painful to watch.

[Emiel11111]

yay Beastie Boys

[Branko37]

Liberals tried taking Chicago once. Once. Old man Daley stopped this, even though he was a "Democrat".

Do not try it ever again.

This is a blue-collar, god-fearing city. It must stay that way.

[HK83IE]

ive been to chicago, i know chicago, and i've study the mind of chicage. And like you mr branko37, frankly there's not much there.

[ogul84]

Wait a second. Chicago is the hub city for fresh entertainment. There is definitely something to this city. However it may favor to disregard what this idiot is saying. We are not a city of blue collar, god-fearing citizens. Making us sound like some narrow-minded country folk.

[frankiepop]

oh...another la grange resident ... ughhh...they leave in some fantasy....the know-nothing party lives!

[kermitband]

If the current election is not decided correctly it should happen again.

[acidhippy1990]

We need another fucking revolution. Power to the People! Not to the biased government that has been sending our people into another Unpopular war! End the oppression!

[smkymcnugget420]

soon enough my friend, soon enough.. this time i fear it will not be so "peaceful"

[HorstQueck]

"All men are created equal; they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

-- Ho Chi Minh, 1945

[TheBudderDog]

DUH!

This a quote from the constitution.

Read the fuck up!

[madtal]

It's not from the Constitution. It's from the Declaration of Independence. (I heard somewhere that Ho Chi Minh & the Viet Minh borrowed the language when they were trying to boot out the French)

[trooperchicago]

My Uncles wore Blue in those days. It's a shame that the ass clowns like Abbie Hoffman thought they were doing good, when, they were just another example of suburban white american trash that had nothing better to do. They cold give a shit about the war, they just wanted to create violence...I guess that's why he slit his wrists HA HA Abbie. The joke was always on you.

[TheBudderDog]

We need more cop killers in this country.

The true threat to personal freedom.

They are people so sad and talentless that they must attach to a blind tyrannic host.

Your uncles must have been the same scum that killed innocent kids at kent state.

This country is fucking sad!

[xsella]

Agreed. We have too many police in this country. Policemen are like lawyers with guns.

[TheBudderDog]

exactly friend

[harviskarvis]

thats the stupidest thing i've ever heard

[TheBudderDog]

You are fucking worthless.

You wear a sad uniform.

I hope some gang banger in chicago gets your ass.

[Creep5]

These assholes were carrying Viet Cong flags. Our guys were in Vietnam being killed by the Viet Cong. Is it any wonder the CPD beat the shit out of so many of these worthless punks?

[RevGNR]

We had no business being in Nam in the first place.

[Creep5]

As if that makes it ok to advocate the killing of US troops there, who in many cases were drafted and may have shared your opinion. Those nuns working for human rights in Central America who were murdered in the 80s? They had no business being there either, did they? Schwerner and Goodman in Mississippi in 1964? No business being there, right? Just following your line of thinking.Anyone carrying the flag of people who are killing our guys is a TRAITOR and should have been treated as such.

[RevGNR]

It wasn't the protestors who betrayed our soldiers, it was our country. It was our government that sent them over there and kept them over there. Hell after 1968, they weren't even trying to win, they were just trying to save face. Apparantly Nixon's legacy was more important than 20,000 American boys, not to mention over a million Vietnamese. The VC were fighting against foreign incursion and occupation, what were we fighting for?

[eiwaz]

I was there. The constitution guarantees the right to protest. Agents provocateurs turned it from a protest to a riot. Do you understand? The police were guilty of instigating a riot so they could get their sadistic rocks off by busting heads. The State violated our basic civil rights. The State committed a hate crime. The State is hate.

[RevGNR]

Eiwaz is right. Those cops were acting more like the Gestapo

[connorddg]

fuck you. stick it to the fucking man man!!!!!!!!!

[bullsfan5719400]

I am proud of my grandfather and his fellow CPD officers for pulling those fucking hippies off that damn statue.

[468311]

you f*****g hippie s***t b**ls. your waving a VC FLAG!!!!! 18 year old boys were GETTING KILLED, in vietnam and your worried about GETTING BEAT UP!!!!IN GRANT PARK, FROM A POLICE MAN AT A RIOT YOU CAUSED!!YOU HIPPIE P***Y.i was born and raised in chicago and the police never took any s**t from any one and never will.YOU CAUSE A RIOT YOUR GETTING YOUR A** KICKED

[skaterdude6455]

haha all you guys bitch so much on youtube just because you know that there is no physical consequence...keep your idiotic statements to yourself because know one truly gives a flying fuck about your dumb opinions.

[zachsanarchy]

i agree shut the fuck up dickface.

[fallstaffswims]

Damn, 468311, you're such a badass. You actually call people pussies right to their faces... online. Most of us are just too afraid of getting our virtual asses electronically kicked on youtube, but not you. Because you're so f'cking cool. Jesus, you're a badass.

[fallstaffswims]

You know what? I think you're actually f'cking stupid enough not to pick up on the sarcasm in that post, 468311. So I'll make it clear, and I mean this sincerely: you're a d'cksucker, 468311. Okay? Take care, little man, and don't deal out too much physical pain (the make-believe electronic kind you specialize in, right here on youtube). You badass. (That last one was sarcasm again, stupid.)

[bullsfan5719400]

Damn straight.

[kellyandscot]

'Gestapo'--that's how Mayor Daley referred to the police presence outside during his speech. I saw that part of the speech on the History channel's show rockin 60's(or something like that)..

[bigdaddy001952]

I was there, we didn't do anything wrong.

We just wanted to be heard. I still have nightmares. Now were in the same mess as before(Iraq). We should be protecting are own boarders. We are not the world police.

[a1cjlock]

You cannot even compare Iraq to Vietnam! Yes, we have no reason being there, but be lucky we're not being drafted today otherwise you'd have Saddam Hussein pictures and Iraqi flags flown on that pole.

[lysolbombs470]

The police were the disgrace. Has anyone seen the police (in other areas of the Convention in '68) storm the grounds and beat the shit out of the people saying "Peace Now!" Something was, and is, seriously wrong with the justice of America.

[taxism1]

american tradjedy & disgrace

[fallstaffswims]

You mean the Vietnam War, I hope.

[VCS3DOCO]

the film you are talking about was made by the famous cameraman Haskel Wexler...

[randomnumbers2697]

Does anyone know the name of a movie that took place during the 1968 Democratic Convention? It showed many scenes of the riot in Grant Park, one of the actors in the movie was caught up in the action.

[ki4hw]

Movie was called Medium Cool

[empower]

After taking the hill, I saw no real point in people allowing the police to issue beat downs, if the people wanted to get arrested, ok, just lay still, however if they didn't want to get arrested -- run away from the hill. On another hand: what was so important about the hill and the statue that they police found it necessary to beat people? Interesting how police will beat people down for just about anything. Clearly, stupidity abounds on both sides.

[RevGNR]

I hate those Chicago cops like poison. Bunch of mother fuckin Gestapo Pigs!!! Long live peace, long live the hippie spirit!!!!

[mlex169]

Long live Chicago PD, those hippies were beaten to the ground forever! BEAT UP HIPPIES!

[pylgrym]

I came here from the yahoo! group, "Chicago1968revisited" - was a freshman at Northwestern, Evanston that fall... radicalized!

[empower]

share more of your experience please ...

[neibotlai]

to practice peace does not mean to practice non action.

yippie for president

[parssa]

this movie has been picked up by Roadside Attractions and is set to be slightly re-edited with a wide release in early 2008.

according to an article at variety dot com atleast.

[EricIndiana]

Right on. Hopefully they dont re-edit it too much, these 3 clips I have seen look pretty tight.

[TomSkillingJr]

rad

[play88keys]

They were the flags of North Vietnam.

[andrelebaron]

the red and blue one was the Viet Cong flag not the north vietnamese flag. Officially, the NLF was separate from North Vietnam and that was who was fighting the war (at the time). Of course, they were pushed out of the way pretty quick after the North took Saigon

[evilfreddy2006]

What did those flags mean?

[ucbooks]

Red and blue with the star in the center is the National Liberation Front flag (the Vietcong). Solid red is the flag of revolution. Solid black is flag of anarchy. Patch on the policeman's shirt? The Chicago flag.