k wrote:
] New York's Central Park has long been the logical place for
] mass gatherings, with its sprawling Great Lawn and, well,
] central location. In 1991, singer Paul Simon drew 750,000
] there. In 1995, Pope John Paul II celebrated a mass that drew
] more than 130,000. And in 1997, country singer Garth Brooks
] played to a crowd of 250,000.
]
] But political assemblies on the eve of the Republican National
] Convention appear to be taboo. This week, city officials
] persuaded a federal judge to keep the park off limits Saturday
] to a protest rally by 75,000 people jointly sponsored by an
] Arab-American coalition and an anti-war group.
]
] [ It's a bs excuse and no one's even bothering to hide it.
] They don't want protests and they'll use whatever stupid crap
] they can find that'll achieve the end result.

I don't suppose you realize that permits for protests WERE approved in places CLOSER to the convention. Far more protests were approved for this convention than were done in boston. So your theory is off.

It's either a
] public place or it's not, and as I said in an earlier related
] topic, in any case where there's not a clear and obvious
] danger to public safety, people have the right to assemble,
] and that' pretty much it, as far as i'm concerned. -k]

That is so simplistic that it makes me want to puke. You are an idealist, apparently and you do not like to examine issues. Please inform yourself properly. I am glad that the great lawn will not be trampled upon by hatemongering morons. This is a triumph for NYC. You will recall that some folks in the city lost loved ones in an attack that was NOT Bush's fault, but rather it was the very arabs that are organizing this march. Islam, Allah, Mohammad and the hate that they represent should not be trampling over the last refuge of nature in NYC, but rather wasting away in Guantanamo Bay

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