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host, you're seriously going to try to make the case that the autrocity of the '68 Democratic Convention was somehow worse than foraging/killing/raping/property seizures of every single Union army within the borders of the CSA? The Federal government's stance during the entire conflict was that the South remained a part of the USA, which means that noncombatants remained residents of the latter, albeit lawbreakers.
So, beyond some hippie citizens getting whomped by the police (and I'll immediately grant that it was a horrible day in American history and that the Chicago police were in the wrong), how does that compare with gang rapes, stolen property and murders? You don't exactly seem to be sitting on a trump card here. If you are, now's the time to play it.
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