S036 The Siege of Chicago

street theater

Increase Instability by 1.

Move any number of Police Platoons and Demonstrators from Michigan Avenue to an adjacent area and resolve a CLASH there.

NOTE: as this is a Move action, you must obey movement restrictions such as Barbed Wire for Demonstrators and Barricades for Police.

NORMAN MAILER, ‘MIAMI & THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO’ (12/07/68)

“The military spine of a great liberal party had finally separated from the skin… the power had decided, ‘No, do not let them march another ten blocks and then disperse them on some quiet street, no, let it happen before all the land, let everybody see that their dissent will soon be equal to their own blood; let them realize that the power is implacable, and will beat and crush and imprison and yet kill before it will ever relinquish the power. So let them see before their own eyes what it will cost to continue to mock us, defy us, and resist… There are more cowards alive than the brave. Otherwise we would not be where we are.”