Is Weintrob going to cover the DNC in Denver '08?

It'd be nice if Weintrob made another documentary to cover the fun and games promised by the protesters (also off-the-scale left wing extremists) for the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August.

Glenn Spagnuolo is the driving force of Re-create'68, a "grassroots" organization dedicated to giving us the same violence and blood displayed during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Spagnuolo is a 37-year old guy who lives out in Highlands Ranch (one of the rich 'burbs of Denver), from which he ventures with his little elves to deny participants in Denver's Columbus Day parades (a bunch of old
guys from the VFW and Knights of Columbus) THEIR right to free speech
and self-expression every year. Since the Denver PD doesn't just loll on the sidelines and let Spag and his leftist buddies intimidate the old people who just want to celebrate Columbus Day out of their day in the sun, he claims to be the "victim" of "police repression."

He's the same guy who promises that this year's festivities will make the
riots for the Chicago Democratic National Convention in 1968 "look
like a small get-together." After he said that, Code Pink and most of the other major anti-war organizations which had been brainstorming with Re-create '68 pulled out of the planning for the Denver DNC convention; then issued caveats that maybe they'd get back together after all.

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_9719912

To give you a peek inside of the skulls of these people, I give you:

"Ten Mutual Assurances Between Groups And Organizations Planning DNC Related Activities" (as quoted by the Denver Post):

1. To publicly support rights of free speech, the right to organize, and the right to dissent for all.

(Except, going from Glenn Spagnuolo's history, for the people who disagree
with him. They don't get rights to free speech. He and Jed Weintrob should get along just fine.)

2. To maintain solidarity with, and respect the guidelines of, all permitted activities, recognizing that there are many individuals who seek a safe and peaceful protest.

(Which is why his people are stocking up on Kevlar vests and gas masks.)

3. To support and participate in efforts to assure civil liberties for everyone in Denver, including the right to organize civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action without that organizing being criminalized or disrupted.

(If this works as well during the Convention as it does on Columbus Day in Denver every year (see below), it's an ominous pronouncement.)

4. To speak out against any preemptive arrests, raids on activists spaces, or attacks on independent journalists and other media.

(This is just not something that happens in Denver. Our mayor is not Richard Daley, Sr, but Denver bar owner John Hickenlooper (who has become one of the DNC's busiest unpaid volunteers as he tries - and fails, so far - to raise all the money needed to even hold the convention in Denver this year. He's also one of the largest absentee employees on the City of Denver's payroll, perforce. The chances of Hickenlooper unleashing our city's vastly outnumbered SWAT team on the sea of protesters promised to converge here in August are slim.

One of the most widely distributed periodicals here in Denver is WestWord, an "alternative weekly" which caters to the folks who don't mind a weekly paper with thirty pages of ads for hookers, strip joints and head shops in its
classified section. Chicago in 1968, we're not.)

5. To be conscious of and speak out against police targeting and differential treatment of people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, accent, or appearance.

(Generally, the cops here aren't bad about that, either. Denver is a "Sanctuary City," which means the police can get fired for just asking about the citizenship status of detainees, much less enforcing Federal law on the subject.)

6. Not to turn people over to the police, or share information with the police about other groups.

(Even if they happen to hurt somebody.)

7. Not to publicly criticize the tactics used by other parts of our movement or cooperate with media efforts to be divisive or portray good protester/bad protester.

(Even if they happen to hurt somebody. And so much for self-criticism and all those other famous liberal virtues, eh? If these folks anticipate that even the "mainstream" media will be disgusted by what's being planned, it's got to be extra-violent.)

8. To publicly condemn police repression and brutality.

(Even if there isn't any, or if the police act to prevent violations of other citizens' rights to freedom of assembly, to be secure in their property and their lives, and their freedom to speak by the protesters.)

9. To be conscious that if violence or property destruction does occur, we will do what we can to help prevent it from being blown out of proportion and dominating the media coverage.

(I can hardly wait for the way in which they plan to "help" sanitize the news to prevent Spagnuolo and his people from being seen as the neo-fascist brownshirts they really are.)

10. To remember that, when all is said and done, our greatest victory will be an activist community with a renewed sense of strength and unity.

(It's interesting that this rant, while labeled as "A Statement of Non-Violence," seems to assume that there WILL be violence and that there will be property destruction and violence of which (under section 9 above), reports of which must be managed to prevent them from "being blown out of proportion." Just how do you blow a police report of a mugging, vandalism or incitement to riot out of proportion, anyway? It either happened or it didn't.)

If the City of Denver Department of Public Safety had issued a statement
incorporating these ten principles, the resolve (in principle #9) not to let reports of property destruction and violence "be blown out of proportion" would almost certainly have been heralded in the press as a threat to impose censorship of the news.

It's difficult to read any of Spagnuolo's missives without seeing him and his friends issuing forth from a certain beer hall in Munich with weapons in their hands (at least in the mind's eye).

If Weintrob really wants to improve on "Triumph of the Will," here's his big chance.