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• Monday, November 17, 2008 05:47 PM

  "Daley's thugs."

  elephant my friend

  to borrow a mccainism, many of us were beaten bloody...do you really think daley's thugs would let us get mug shot in that condition?

  -- patg

  We may have to revive that phrase, "Daley's thugs." Bill Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett, Axelrod, Plouffe, Michelle Obama. All graduates of the new Daley machine.

  But back to your point -- what is your point? That Ayers was indeed "beaten bloody" but had been somehow cleaned up for a mug shot? Or that many people were "beaten bloody" and so Ayers' reference is only that he was part of a "beaten bloody" group -- that he was only figuratively "beaten bloody"? I don't see it, in any event. There's not a mark on him in his mug shot.

  I sort of wondered if Ayers was mixing his own metaphors, dates, and places. That he may have been arrested, and not beaten at all (as the picture seems to indicate) in August of '68, but that he might have been beaten in the 1969 Days of Rage which was really nothing but a riot (the main, organizing principle of the Days of Rage was to disrupt the city, break a bunch of shit, and fight with cops or anybody who acted like cops), and hardly a political protest of any kind, and, if I am not mistaken, took place not in Grant Park but in Lincoln Park and downtown/near North streets (Division and State Streets). If Ayers was indeed beaten in 1969 (differing from his recent quote), it is too bad that someone didn't hit him just a little bit harder...

  —Elephantman Read Elephantman's other letters
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