I think the agitators are among the same group of people who show up at the World Trade Organization or G8 meetings. News reports were calling them anarchists. I've seen one or two of them here and there. I think they are out to create mayhem. Fortunately they are few in number. I think had Bush arrived it would have been ratched up much more.
Originally there were estimates that there might 100,000 of them. I think the police response is just more evidence of the paranoid culture that's been created post 9/11. I counted 5 SUV squad cars parked a place where you take the road to the airport when I was coming to work today, about two to three officers per car. Absolutely no one who even looked like a protestor or agitator in sight. I'll be glad when the convention is over.
The last time Bush was in town. The road I take to go to Mpls. was the one he took to downtown St. Paul. The police had completed blocked it off where I live (about 5 miles from dwntwn St. Paul). Because I was going the other way, I was let through. Everyone else had to turn around.
I don't recall it being that bad in Philadelphia when Clinton was staying in the same hotel as I was. I did have the misfortune of getting locked in because he stopped to rest or to use the exercise room the same time I was there. For a couple hours I had to stay in my room. But I got to study the presidential entourage, which was interesting. I never saw the prez except at his speech to the meeting I was also attending.
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Date: 2008-09-05 12:15 am (UTC)Originally there were estimates that there might 100,000 of them. I think the police response is just more evidence of the paranoid culture that's been created post 9/11. I counted 5 SUV squad cars parked a place where you take the road to the airport when I was coming to work today, about two to three officers per car. Absolutely no one who even looked like a protestor or agitator in sight. I'll be glad when the convention is over.
The last time Bush was in town. The road I take to go to Mpls. was the one he took to downtown St. Paul. The police had completed blocked it off where I live (about 5 miles from dwntwn St. Paul). Because I was going the other way, I was let through. Everyone else had to turn around.
I don't recall it being that bad in Philadelphia when Clinton was staying in the same hotel as I was. I did have the misfortune of getting locked in because he stopped to rest or to use the exercise room the same time I was there. For a couple hours I had to stay in my room. But I got to study the presidential entourage, which was interesting. I never saw the prez except at his speech to the meeting I was also attending.