Two of the groups planning protests during the Democratic National Committee are have split up.

John C. Ensslin reports:

Tent State University, a group that hopes to bring college students from across the country to Denver, said Monday that it has severed ties with Re-create 68.

"Re-create 68 has demonstrated an inability to fulfill the needs of a growing list of individuals and organizations," Tent State organizer Adam Jung said in a prepared statement. "Our ability to effectively present our message to the delegates, the Democratic Party, and the public, is our number one priority."

The statement said that Tent City organizers felt their efforts would be compromised if they tried to maintain a relationship with Re-create 68. The two groups had been sharing the proceeds of concerts held as fundraisers such as one held in Fort Collins, said Tent City spokeswoman Jo Pease. That no longer will happen, she said.

Glen Spagnuola, an organizer with Re-create 68, described the split as a mutual one. Spagnuola said that his group had concerns over the images that the name Tent State seemed to convey, because it suggested Kent State, the university where four students were shot to death by National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest in 1970.

"There's been so much confusion over the last couple of months. People keep insinuating that we're going to be violent when we've been organizing for a nonviolent protest," he said. "We don't want the image of dead students on a lawn being associated with the positive message that we're putting forward."

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No, Matt, none of those hyperbolic examples of empty right-wing rhetoric. I'm talking about how liberalism encourages people to speak up about what's being done in their name, by their government. (The far right, on the other hand, tends to invite American citizens to follow the leader, no matter what.) Giving people a voice means that some people will choose to speak a little more loudly, and go on an ego trip. Again, it happens, and on both sides of the idealogical aisle.

“is that the left tends to want to empower its people.”

By empowering do you mean subjecting 'their people' to unnecessary regulations and extra taxes in the name of the Global Warming hoax? Or Hillary's mandatory national health care? Or the right to own fire arms? Or the right to keep their country instead of being forced to hand over voting power to 20 million illegal aliens and fighting to not require identification from voters? Or empowering them by subjecting them to thought crimes, censorship and racial discrimination thru 'hate crimes', fairness act and affirmative action? Or do you mean empowerment by having the choice to kill our unborn kids?

I think that by empowerment you meant equalizing. Commies, Marxists and Socialists have never been known for ensuring personal freedom.

Good point Jack, can't see what any of that has to do with this blog. Uh, this is about potential protestors at the Democratic Convention. Not border fences, not illegal immigrants, not littering

Is there any reason why you posted that particular random diatribe here, just askin?

Just askin'.

Why to idiot tree huggers scream bloody murder about the border fence displacing indigent species of snakes and bugs and ignore the millions of dollars wasted cleaning up a much larger environmental disaster in the form of garbage deposited by legions of illegal aliens?

Are liberal democrats always this stupid?

Sas and his ilk are the ones who will show up and try to incite a riot and than blame it on dems, and say look this is what the dems offer, just like in 68. Its all so obvious to those who can think for themselves. Just stay away from the convention. I would suggest you email the Recreate68 morons too and tell them what they are doing is stupid and only falls into the repub trap.

"There's been so much confusion over the last couple of months. People keep insinuating that we're going to be violent when we've been organizing for a nonviolent protest."

Thus says the man whose organization's name evokes the "non-violent" 1968 protests.

Don't make too much of this "break-up." It's just two groups ego-tripping, and trying to run the show. One of the inherent weaknesses of the left (and I say this as one among them...) is that the left tends to want to empower its people. And in doing so, sometimes that power goes to some people's heads. It happens.

Sasquatch, I'd love to hear where you're getting your information about calling these groups "insurgents". If you have credible evidence of that, you should contact the authorities immediately. If not, you should stop spreading misinformation. I mean, I can claim that we should all be ready to defend ourselves against the ninjas hiding in our shrubs, but just because I say it doesn't make it true.

No kidding, the loony left seperated on how just insane they want to be, one wants to be crazier then the other, go figure.....Only the loons on the left could screw them self out of this election when it should be winnable.

The Tent and R-68 groups are not protesters. Both are much better and more accurately described as experienced "insurgents" with plans to bring mayhem and violence to the political process if they don't get exactly what they want on their terms.

Even the protestors can't get their act together. This Democratic Convention is going to be a clusterf**k.

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