Organization anarchists

In Human Events, the Independence Institute's Jessica Peck Corry on Re!create68's unofficial home office in Denver's Capitol Hill:

R-68 organizers, representing several different grassroots groups, meet weekly at the Gypsy House Café, a family-owned coffee shop located four blocks from my house in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The place overflows with self-denying capitalists eager to make a quick buck. A dread-locked man named Nottidreads will provide you your "short numerology chart analysis" for only $10.

According to Nottidreads, who completed Barack Obama's chart, the Democratic presidential candidate "secretly dreams of having a big impact on the world. . . .It is the paradox of [his] Heart's Desire that [he] receives by giving. Both [his] material success and spiritual satisfaction are made possible through service and sacrifice to others." Wow, that's deep.

Yes, it is. Corry, by the way, doesn't think an over-organized R!68 ("Hippies, Inc.") or its camera-eager leader Glenn Spagnuolo will cause violence:

[W]hile the prospects of 50,000 radicals coming together in Denver was enough to make radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh sing with glee on his radio show late last month, the fact of the matter is that whatever happens in Denver this August will likely disappoint those eager for a Democratic convention meltdown.

The main reason: The anarchist-hippies in charge are downright organized, committed to an institutional structure that would be the envy of most corporations. As a disclaimer on the R-68 Web site proclaims, "Recreate 68 is not a throwback group trying to relive some vision of glory days long gone." This is whole new kind of protesting. . . .

Can't agree, but read whole thing. (Confidential to Human Events: get a copy editor.)