Friday, May 11, 2012

I don't think I'd heard of the Hard Hat Riot before,

but I should have.
“On this date in 1970, Marxist led anti-war agitators set-up base camp at the George Washington statue on Wall Street, all the while waving Viet Cong and North Vietnamese battle flags while they burned and urinated on the American flag.

“Hundreds of New York city construction workers [from the nearby World Trade Center site] had decided they’d had enough. They proceeded to charge the makeshift camp and forcibly replaced the Communist banners with the Stars and Stripes.

“What happened next, no one foresaw… the construction workers were unexpectedly joined by white collar office workers from the New York Stock Exchange.

“The NYSE literally emptied as stock brokers, traders and other assorted office workers fought shoulder to shoulder along side the Hard Hats….”
So a bunch of 99% people took umbrage at the commies; must've been a mess.

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