Last Sunday, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece by Paul Krassner about his involvement in Chicago 10, a documentary about the 1968 police riots during the Democratic convention.
Krassner’s article was cut for space reasons, but he sent the unedited draft to BoingBoing‘s Mark Frauenfelder. Who, of course, immediately published it. Like the Chicago 10 neodocumentary, which was the opening film at the Sundance Film Festival, the unedited article is vintage Krassner, updated for a new generation.
“2. ‘Got Permit?’: We meet with Chicago deputy mayor David Stahl, attempting to get a permit for the revolution… oops, I mean permits to sleep in the park, set up a sound system and march to the convention center. Excerpt: ‘STAHL: C’mon, tell me, what do you guys REALLY plan to do in Chicago? PAUL: Did you ever see that movie, Wild in the Streets? [A thought balloon shows the image of a group of teenagers dumping LSD into the water supply.] STAHL: Wild in the Streets? We’ve seen Battle of Algiers. [A thought balloon shows the image of a guerrilla woman, fully covered except for her eyes, planting a bomb in a cafe.]’ What would occur in Chicago that summer, then, is a clash between our mythology and their mythology.”
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