The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury. Summer Taylor, protester killed in Seattle, honored Madvillain Remixes | Abstract Orchestra Repairs to this Blue Ridge Parkway section south of Roanoke, caused by a weather-related washout in 2020, will not be completed until the summer, it was [56] pic.twitter.com/12qT7psBQQ, Seattle Police Dept. Two white Black Lives Matter protesters were hit and killed when Durkan let protesters flood the freeway. Notice how they always say an assault on our democracy. Lets get rid of cops, defund them, at least make them less active, deplete their ranks and agree they suffer from systemic racism bred into their modes of behavior, always acting as if to be Black is to be guilty. (None). Beautiful scenery, solid plot even though the alternation between past and present dulls the climax. They kill people and blow up sky scrapers to destroy Western societies. The event was announced by the Haight-Ashbury's hippie newspaper, the San Francisco Oracle: A new concept of celebrations beneath the human underground must emerge, become conscious, and be shared, so a revolution can be formed with a renaissance of compassion, awareness, and love, and the revelation of unity for all mankind. Police on Wednesday re-took the East Precinct stationhouse after clearing out the area, making more than 20 arrests, reports said. 2020 Trump mocks Seattle mayors summer of love comment: These Townhall.com is the leading source for conservative news and political commentary and analysis. If the officer isnt injured, its only a misdemeanor, per The Daily Wire (8/28/20). Police data compiledby The Oregonian found that 15 people had been killed in Portland in July, with a total of 24 people killed since the demonstrations kicked off in the city in late May and early June. Summer of '85 The life and death of summer love - strand Lost your password? On March 17, 1967, Time magazine printed an article "Love on Haight". 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By clicking Sign Up, I confirmthat I have read and agreeto the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. [30], Musician John Phillips of the band The Mamas & the Papas wrote the song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" for his friend Scott McKenzie. Which is, of course, not to say the riotous aspects of the January 6th protest were good or should be played down. Love also said: My [Facebook][ is filled with death threats, that and only being able to use one hand has me going slow. https://www.wsj.com/articles/goodbye-summer-of-love-11607898398. [14], The term "Summer of Love" originated with the formation of the Council for the Summer of Love during the spring of 1967 as a response to the convergence of young people on the Haight-Ashbury district. The Marxists in the streets have turned some parts of America into the wild, wild West. She infamously stood down the police, which led to her police chief resigning. Not terrorism:* carrying around Nancys podium. 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MOVE FAST! google_ad_slot = "3278653491"; To cure the supposed police evil, heres a progressive experiment we saw: going along with protestors to keep police out of a six-block area of Seattles Capitol Hill neighborhood. He has written/co-written 31 books, e.g., The Unstoppable Jesus Christ, American Amnesia: Is American Paying the Price for Forgetting God?, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? Oh sure, the President isnt everything and there is plenty that the Congress is responsible for as well. This shows that the president has power but limited power. It is true at the same time that police unions have wrapped some police with protections that thwart wise administration and, in some instances, leave bad cops on the payroll. Durkan infamously announced last summer that the takeover of part of Seattle by antifa and Black Lives Matter radicals was really a good thing. It is truthful about the pains of adolescence, but lacks the extra mile that makes Wes Andersons idea of childhood love in ', What Franois Ozon is incredibly talented at addressing however is grief, and the ways in which one deals with it. A new election could also bring out old candidates. /* 300x250, created 7/16/10 */ He is planning to reduce the budget of what likely is the country's best big-city police force by $1 billion as he takes 600 plainclothes cops off the streets. After all, Trump ran on building the wall and then Speaker Ryan squashed that with Leader McConnells help. Two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for dinner. ', Adapted from Aidan Chambers young adult novel, What also lacks is a complicity between the characters, a common thread that ties them indefinitely and in turn bounds them to the viewer. Prosecutors have dropped (only) a single Capitol riot case. (None) How much immigration reform, border security, etc.? Copyright 2023 Silent Cal Productions, LLC. American Communist Angela Davis, who spent time in jail for violent revolutionary activities, once said, Demonstrations are rehearsals for revolution.. (w/ D. James Kennedy) & the bestseller, George Washington's Sacred Fire (w/ Peter Lillback) djkm.org @newcombejerry www.jerrynewcombe.com. [29] Additionally, media coverage of the Monterey Pop Festival facilitated the Summer of Love as large numbers of hippies traveled to California to hear favorite bands such as The Who, Grateful Dead, the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, The Byrds, and Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin. 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Seattle can and should peacefully demonstrate but should not put families and children at risk., As of 7:45 AM, officers have made 23 arrests in the #CHOP zone for failure to disperse, obstruction, resisting arrest, and assault. She famously went on CNN to herald the event as a summer of love. Occupiers took over a police precinct inside the zone but Ms. Durkan did nothing. [15] Psychedelic poster artist Bob Schnepf was commissioned by Chet Helms to create the official Summer of Love poster, which became a lasting icon of the era. Many were suspicious of the government, rejected consumerist values, and generally opposed the Vietnam War. They didnt, and so the mayor signed an order telling police to evict them and recover the police headquarters. In 2017, Mayor Ed Murray resigned in disgrace when a fifth allegation of child molestation/abuse was made against him. During [26] This post was promoted to the Main Feed by a Ricochet Editor at the. 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By the law in the Old and New Testament it has none; by the law of nature and nations it has none; by the common law of England it has none; by statute law it has none; the Declaratory Act of 1766 was made without our consent by a Parliament which had no authority beyond the four seas., Adams went on to say, The two characteristics of this people, religion and humanity, are strongly marked in all their proceedings. Sometimes one has to look at the GOP as ask what their goals are, because they arent necessarily conservatives goals. (6) 5.4 1 h 35 min 2001 16+. Whatever happened in Minneapolis regarding George Floyds death three months ago bears no conceivable connection to 90 days of rioting in Portland, radicals chanting, Death to America, and burning Bibles and American flags in the streets (End of the Day Report, 8/27/20). How much did Federal spending decrease under any of those 4 GOP presidents? Her infamous indulgence of the lawlessness was enough to sour even Lefty Seattleites on the job she has done as mayor. It is the way the boys faces contort in the wind as they speed along a country road, or the way they tenderly wipe blood off the corner of each others mouths, possibly the most erotic sequence of the film. Or sign in if you're already a member. [16], College students, high school students, and runaways began streaming into the Haight during the spring break of 1967, John F. Shelley the then-Mayor of San Francisco and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,[3] determined to stop the influx of young people once schools ended for the summer, unwittingly brought additional attention to the scene, and a series of articles in the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle alerted the national media to the hippies' growing numbers. Surge Summary: 2020s violent, destructive Summer of Love is coming to an end and it had little to do with the kind of revolution staged by Americas founders over two centuries ago. Goodbye, Summer of Love. A Look Back at the Summer of Love - AARP In one of them, a 19-year-old kid who was trying to get other protesters to stop setting off dangerous fireworks was shot and killed. The so-called summer of love has brought nothing but looting, violence, destruction, and even death. On Sunday, protesters surrounded Durkans home after hearing she planned to dismantle CHOP. At present, it is difficult for people to get enough moving trucks in New York City to get out of there fast enough. After losing his untenured position as an instructor on the Psychology faculty at Harvard University, Timothy Leary became a major advocate for the recreational use of psychedelic drugs. 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The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 23 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 1,300 times more Whatever you sow, that shall you reap. In this case, there issome indicationthat the shooting may have been done by CHOP security after they had been alerted that the Jeep the victims were driving was stolen. The data of two exhaustive studies, for instance, indicate police shootings are mostly the consequence of real endangerment with no evidence of racism. That is ghastly. The GOP is happy to have any grass roots conservative movement vote for them, but only as long as they know their place (in the back with their mouths shut). It is truthful about the pains of adolescence, but lacks the extra mile that makes Wes Andersons idea of childhood love in 'Moonrise Kingdom' so eccentric, or Luca Guadagninos vision of summer love with a soul mate in 'Call Me By Your Name' so hopeful, so beautiful and exciting, and yet so useless and excruciating. There are reported to be at least 30 dead in violence14 of them cops. Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information. Prosecutors have dropped (only) a single Capitol riot case. Heres How Democrats And The Media Have Responded To The There was only one right choice for the city: doing the job. The art had a generally psychedelic emotion reminiscent of the 1960s. Section of Blue Ridge Parkway damaged by 2020 landslide remains After the mayor issued an executive order declaring the autonomous zone an unlawful assembly, Seattle police on Wednesday morning moved in and the new nation was disbanded. Police are utilizing this equipment because individuals associated w/the CHOP are known to be armed and dangerous/may be associated with shootings, homicides, robberies, assaults & other violent crimes., Seattle police also revealed that city workers had recovered makeshift spike strips designed to puncture vehicle tires in the area of the CHOP., Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best told reporters: Our job is to support peaceful demonstration but what has happened on these streets over the last few weeks is lawless and its brutal and bottom line it is simply unacceptable., Durkans executive order to clear out the autonomous zone cited several gun violence incidents two of which resulted in the loss of life hostile crowds, the inability of emergency personnel to move quickly and efficiently in the area due to the barriers, narcotics use and violent crime including rape, robbery, and assault increased gang activity, business harassment, noise disturbances, property damage, open fires, and ongoing violations of the Seattle Parks and Recreations Code of Conduct.. In the summer 2020 riots, the vast majority of charges were dismissed, as they were in the Inauguration 2017 unrest. By confronting the excesses of the Summer of Love before anyone else has a chance, Democrats can control the narrative. In fact the song became a Summer of Love anthem, reaching number four in the US charts but number one in Britain. 'Summer of 85' is certainly an homage, but it sometimes also comes across as an imitation, relatively lazy in its ability to allude to past, beautiful moments without wholly displaying them. So much for addressing the problems of police brutality and excessive use of force. President Trump on Friday mocked the claim by Seattles mayor that a takeover of parts of the city could lead to a new "summer of love" there -- even after police Its never an assault on our constitution. Spending helped make the police force what it is, but first and foremost, New York police have used computer data to send police where the crime is. He has written/co-written 32 books, e.g., The Unstoppable Jesus Christ, American Amnesia: Is American Paying the Price for Forgetting God?, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? Go back to Reagan and look at every GOP President (Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump) and tell me which ones said that they were Pro-Life? print. But this vexed the Americans, who as British citizens expected to enjoy their God-given liberties---although on a different continent. By the week ending July 1, 1967, it reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, where it remained for four consecutive weeks. The Summer of Love, Tracinski wrote, turned murderous about a week ago with two shootings in 48 hours. The council was also contacted by many bands and musicians who wanted to be part of this historic event, all were waiting for the date to be determined before a final commitment. The rise and fall of the CHOP empire, Summer of Love turned murderous: The rise and fall of CHOP nation, U.S. financial concessions to Iran? Many of these stores have closed their doors for good. Some people like to compare todays revolutionary movement of anarchy to the American Revolution, more properly called The War for Independence. Officers enforcing todays order are wearing a higher-level of protective gear, police said. Early in the summer, a group of Marxists seized a few city blocks of Seattle and turned it into a supposedly different country than America, which they called CHAZCapitol Hill Autonomy Zone, then later CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest). But 'Summer of 85' is, after all, an ode to the 80s, to sexual freedom; to The Cure (for which the title was changed from 84 to 85, as the films theme, Inbetween Days, wasnt released until the latter year); to dancing and to flannel shirts; movie poster ridden bedroom walls and to the classic 80s film 'La Boum', about teenager Vic (Sophie Marceau) whose Saturday nights revolve around parties, or boums, and who discovers first love amidst exams and her parents imminent divorce. The idea was for the protestors to pretty much run the place on their own and enjoy a summer of love, a phrase that came from Seattles Mayor Jenny Durkan. Listen to her twice weekly Adult in the Room Podcast. Find her at VictoriaTaft.com Parler, MeWe, Minds,Locals, Twitter & Facebook. Seattles mayor says in a video that she had to choose between spending the next year campaigning to keep this job or focusing all my energy on doing the job. More likely, Ms. Durkan realized that if she ran, shed probably lose. Father sues Seattle over son's 2020 death inside 'CHOP' protest zone: It was not a 'summer of love' Antonio Mays, Jr. was shot and killed inside Seattle's CHOP zone in 2020. At Monterey, approximately 30,000 people gathered for the first day of the music festival, with the number increasing to 60,000 on the final day. As Summer of 85 opens, our narrator, 16-year-old Alex ( Flix Lefebvre) expresses an interest in death with a capital D.. The event was also reported by the counterculture's own media, particularly the San Francisco Oracle, the pass-around readership of which is thought to have exceeded a half-million people that summer,[28] and the Berkeley Barb. In Liverpool, the city has staged a 50 Summers of Love festival based on the 50th anniversary of the June 1, 1967, release of the album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, by The Beatles.[57]. We need to pray for America, lest the riots in the streets become the new normal. George Floyd's killer had a terrible record, for instance, but he hung around long enough to make Hitlerian history. [4][34], Double in size of the Tompkins Square Park concert, as many as 100,000 young people from around the world, flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, as well as to nearby Berkeley and to other San Francisco Bay Area cities, to join in a popularized version of the hippie culture. Raid (Ghostlife Remix) 2. Copyright 2023 PJMedia.com/Salem Media. Figaro (Ghostlife Remix) 10. 2020 There are some parts of this country that I dont even recognize anymorethat changed this summer. By the end of summer, many participants had left the scene to join the back-to-the-land movement of the late 1960s, to resume school studies, or simply to "get a job". Yes but the damage and destruction of the Summer of 2020 protests only happened to the little people. Once considered a forgone conclusion,Durkan danced around questions in recent months about whether she would run again in 2021. But this year I am glad to see summer is over. [26] Thanks from World Tribune correspondents and staff! Sign up for our free email newsletter, and we'll make sure to keep you in the loop. This is why whenever someone says, vote for someone Trump-like but just not Trump I think, sure, but who else is there? Durkans office issued a statement, saying Sawant joined the protests without regard for the safety of the mayor and her family., Mayor Durkan and her family are in the state program to keep their address confidential because of the death threats mostly related to her work as Seattles U.S. Attorney under President Obama, a statement from the mayors office issued Sunday read. The cities with the worst crime are the liberal cities that want to handcuff the police. Young love, romance and tragedy portrayed with sheer sincerity by the wonderful cast. True democracies have a horrible historical track record. The narrative is layered with flashbacks, told from Alexis point of view as he waits at a police station, pale and grievously uncaring, sporting the famously unfashionable double denim. Trump wasnt that, but the GOP knew it had to work with him if they wanted any power at allbut the first chance they got to cut ties they took it. [4] A debate about the "threat of the hippie" ensued between Mayor John Lindsay and Police Commissioner Howard R.